Celebrity Attractions in partnership with the Tulsa Performing Arts Center is excited to present The Discovery Awards. In its inaugural year, this special regional program highlights and awards excellence in Eastern Oklahoma high school musical theatre and will conclude with a one night only special showcase event Friday, May 24 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center. The best female performer selected and the best male performer selected will represent Oklahoma in New York City at the Jimmy Awards, otherwise known as The National High School Musical Theatre Awards in June 2019. Tickets to The Discovery Awards are $25 each and are on sale now.
Tickets are now on sale for the Kravis Center Dream Awards: Celebrating High School Musical Theater Excellence. This showcase performance event will be held at 7 pm on Sunday, May 12, at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts' Dreyfoos Hall and will feature student performers from 14 local high schools - four more than last season. Ticket prices start at $15 and featured musicals will include The Addams Family, Amelie, Chicago the Musical and Miss Saigon, among other favorites.
Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to Once Upon a One More Time, a fairy tale fueled by the hit songs of Britney Spears according to Deadline. Sony won an auction for stage version, which makes its world premieres this fall at the James M. Nederlander Theatre in Chicago, before heading to Broadway next year.
Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce there will be a digital lottery and rush tickets for ROCK OF AGES, which will play for a limited one-week engagement at Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 W. Randolph) from April 23-28, 2019.
THE JIMMY AWARDS announces the 2019 INSPIRING TEACHER AWARD will be given to Matthew Hinson, Northwest School of the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina and Tasha Partee, Lawrence Woodmere Academy, Woodmere, New York for the encouragement and inspiration that led their students to win the coveted Jimmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress and Best Performance by an Actor.
Today, the Nederlander Organization and Hollywood Pantages Theatre announced the nominees for THE 8TH ANNUAL JERRY HERMAN AWARDS, a celebration of the achievement and excellence in high school musical theatre in Los Angeles.
Tony Award-Winner BEN PLATT will host the eleventh annual JIMMY AWARDS ceremony on Monday, June 24th at 7:30PM at the Minskoff Theatre, 200 West 45th Street in Manhattan. This marks his second time in the role. He first hosted the ceremony in 2017, the same year that he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his performance in Dear Evan Hansen.
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Once Upon a One More Time, a new Broadway-bound musical comedy set to the smash hit music of Grammy Award-winning superstar Britney Spears, will have its world premiere this fall at Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 W. Randolph Street). Previews begin Tuesday, October 29, 2019, with an opening night of November 13, 2019, for its limited engagement through December 1, 2019, before heading to Broadway.
Multi-talented young theater artists and technicians from 28 Tennessee high schools will put their skills on display this year in hopes of claiming their place in the spotlight as the sixth annual Nashville High School Musical Theatre Awards – aka The Spotlight Awards – are presented in Nashville on May 11.
Broadway In Chicago announces there will be a digital lottery for ANASTASIA, which will play for a limited two-week engagement at Broadway In Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre (24 W. Randolph) from March 26 through April 7, 2019.
Oh, baby baby! As BroadwayWorld recently reported, a new musical centered around the music of Britney Spears called Once Upon a One More Time is going to have a pre-Broadway tryout at Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre this fall! With this news, we wanted to hear from you about which of the iconic songs from the pop star's library you most want to see put on stage! Let your voice be heard by voting in our poll below!
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce its next season will feature the Pre-Broadway world premiere ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME, OSLO, MEAN GIRLS, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL and Disney's FROZEN.
The off-season specials will include: AN EVENING WITH C.S. LEWIS STARRING DAVID PAYNE, IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
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Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce that the eighth annual Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards (IHSMTA) will be held at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut) on Monday, May 6, 2019, hosted by NBC 5's entertainment reporter LeeAnn Trotter and sponsored by CHICAGO THE MUSICAL (which will play at the Cadillac Palace Theatre from May 7-12). The Illinois chapter of The Jimmy Awards (National High School Musical Theatre Awards) one of the largest programs in the country serves as an annual national celebration of outstanding achievement in musical theater performance by high school students.
High school students, teachers, and parents across Houston are celebrating the nominations for the 17th Annual Tommy Tune Awards! Dan Knechtges, Artistic Director at Theatre Under The Stars, announced the nominees for Best Musical via video on the Tommy Tune Awards Facebook page.
It's in the moments of high energy and pure entertainment that A BRONX TALE succeeds the most, and the company finds all the joy in Alan Menken's reliably tuneful score.
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