New York City Center's 2006 Encores! Season will open on February 9 with the six-time Tony Award-winning Kismet, starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.
The public is invited on a first come, first served basis to attend the rededication ceremony of the August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, October 16, 2005 at 8:00 p.m.
New York City Center will present the 13th season of New York City Center Encores! Great American Musicals In Concert®, opening February 9 with Kismet starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, followed by the Kander and Ebb musical 70, Girls, 70. George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing will end the season, playing May 11 - 14.
New York City Center Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel and Music
Director Rob Fisher have announced that Tony® Award nominee Malcolm Gets and
Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will join the previously announced Tony
Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree, the final Encores!
presentation of the 2004-5 Season.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival, recipient of the prestigious Jujamcyn Theater Award, has announced jury members to oversee selections for the 2005 Festival running September 12 - October 2, 2005 in Midtown Manhattan.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), a three-week celebration highlighting the next generation of musicals and the vibrant community of writers and artists working in musical theater today, will begin accepting submissions for its 2005 season on January 10. This year's festival will run from September 12 through October 2, 2005.
Some of Broadway's Top Talent Will Perform Songs by
Harold Arlen, Marc Blitzstein, Dorothy Fields,
Frederick Loewe and Jule Styne in Celebration Of
The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of These Immortal American Songwriters
