The Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre, nationally known for its interpretation of Stephen Sondheim musicals, celebrates its 20th anniversary season by presenting Sondheim's most popular musical SWEENEY TODD, directed by Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer. The new production runs in the 276-seat MAX Theater, February 9 through April 4, 2010.
Théâtre du Châtelet's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will broadcast the recording of the show made in February on Radio France on March 24th at 8:00pm. The concert was recorded February 15th, with the cast featuring David Curry, Rebecca Bottone, Francesca Jackson, and Greta Scacchi.
All the news from the Grosvenor as UK theatre's most prestigious gongs are given out...Mark Rylance and Rachel Weisz win actor/actress, Iwan Rheon, Samantha Spiro and Aneurin Barnard win the musical awards, with Wicked picking up the brand-new audience award and Spring Awakening getting the nod for best new musical
Angela Lansbury tells the NY Post's Cindy Adams that 'One role I always wanted to play was Norma Desmond in 'Sunset Boulevard.' I even went to Andrew Lloyd Webber's house in London to lobby for it.'
Preview performances of Cygnet Theatre's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street begin this Thursday, March 18th at 7:30pm. The beloved murderous musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, joins the list of other Sondheim works already produced or produced in staged-readings on Cygnet's stages. Co-Directed by Cygnet Artistic Director Sean Murray and Resident Artist James Vasquez, Sweeney Todd runs March 18th through April 25th, 2010 at Cygnet's Old Town Theatre. Press Opening is March 27th at 8pm.
Rehearsals are now underway for Cygnet Theatre's upcoming production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.
As previously reported, PS Classics and Nonesuch have partnered up to release the new Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. The cast, led by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, headed into the studio January 4. The official album release date will be April 6, 2010. Today, samples of all of the tracks have been made available online via Nonesuch! Click here to listen!
In a recent interview with WENN, Catherine Zeta-Jones stated that for her next film with husband Michael Douglas, she would like to do a remake of his 1989 film War of the Roses. The original film starred Douglas alongside Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito.
Théâtre du Châtelet's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will broadcast the recording of the show made in February on Radio France on March 24th at 8:00pm. The concert was recorded February 15th, with the cast featuring David Curry, Rebecca Bottone, Francesca Jackson, and Greta Scacchi.
The 2010 Olivier Awards will take place on 21 March 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, with Spring Awakening, Enron, Jerusalem and A Little Night Music among the standouts of the season with the most nominations. The Laurence Olivier Awards were established in 1976 as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, and Lord Olivier agreed to have his name associated with them in 1984. The Awards are run by The Society of London Theatre but are adjudicated by panels that are equally made up of members of the theatregoing public and experts chosen for their knowledge and professional experience. For more information and updates, visit www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards.
PS Classics and Nonesuch will partner is set to release the new Broadway cast album of Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. The cast, led by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, will head into the studio January 4. No release date for the disc has been announced.
In a story in the Toronto Star, Catherine Zeta-Jones talks about her experience of being back on the stage, a failed audition for 'Aspects of Love', and shares how she was first offered the opportunity to play Desiree in the current Broadway production of 'A Little Night Music'.
It is not often that a production of a vintage piece of musical theatre overshadows the original production but that is precisely what happened during a magical new staging of the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris last week. The musical was originally directed on Broadway in 1973 by the legendary Hal Prince and has been frequently staged at venues all over the world since then (most recently at the Menier Chocolate Factory, the Garrick Theatre on now on Broadway, directed by Trevor Nunn). But this incarnation, directed by Lee Blakely, is the most beautiful and stunning version of the show I have ever seen.
Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Producing Director Richard M. Parison, Jr., announces that Tony Award winner Harriet Harris will co-star opposite Jeff McCarthy in its summer production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, playing June 17 through July 17 at BSC's Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. Directed by Julianne Boyd, the press opening is Wednesday, June 23 at 7pm.
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Greta Scacchi and Leslie Caron lead the cast of the Théâtre du Châtele's production of Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim's A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC in Paris, which opened last night, February 15. Scacchi plays prominent actress Desiree Armfeldt and Caron stars as Madame Armfeldt.