Jeff McCarthy News

Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's Side Show will return to New York in a new Off-Broadway production at the American Theatre of Actors from August 31 to September 3

Cast members and creative team of The Pirate Queen, which opens in Chicago in October prior to moving to Broadway in late winter, recently gathered for a press meet and greet, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, will drop anchor at the Hilton Theatre for preview performances beginning February 23rd, 2007 and an opening night on March 22nd

The New York Post's Michael Riedel has reported that the Kennedy Center's hit production of Mame, starring Christine Baranski, may settle for a Broadway run at the Palace for a limited run beginning in July--if the show isn't curtailed by production expenses

Mame, starring Christine Baranski as the glamorous aunt of the title, opened at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre on June 1st after beginning previews on May 27th

In the famous Act One finale of Mame, the musical's irresistible title character single-handedly revives the drowsy South, sending its courtly gentlemen and Georgia peaches into an ecstatic serenade of acceptance and very high octaves. It's a rousing number in the Kennedy Center's gorgeously-mounted production, but it's hard to find the same kind of enthusiasm with Christine Baranski filling Mame's jodhpurs

Mame, starring Christine Baranski as the glamorous aunt of the title, will begin previews at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre on May 27th, open officially on June 1st and run through July 2nd

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Complete casting is now set for the upcoming Kennedy Center production of Mame, which will open at the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on June 1st after beginning previews on May 27th; the show, starring Christine Baranski, will run through July 2nd

PS Classics, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of American musical theatre, will release the world premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau's Dream True on May 23

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The Douglas J. Cohen musical The Opposite of Sex--previously seen in San Francisco--will be one of the shows presented as part of this summer's Williamstown Theatre Festival

Jeff McCarthy will play Beauregard Burnside in the Kennedy Center's starry summer production of Mame

Jeff McCarthy will star in The Front Page, presented by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, in April

A March 14th concert at Weill Recital Hall will feature songs by Ricky Ian Gordon and Jake Heggie

This April, Ghostlight Records will record Ricky Ian Gordon's song cycle Orpheus and Euridice

BroadwayWorld.com, the Premiere Theatre Site on the Net, Boasts Over 175 Stars and Pros - Choosing their Most Memorable or Favorite Romantic Love Songs from a Broadway Show...in An Expanded and Updated Version of Last Year's Top-Rated Feature.

Tony award winners Karen Ziemba and Donna McKechnie, Urinetown's Jeff McCarthy, City of Angels's Leslie Denniston, and Tony-nominated Lara Teeter will star in Barrington Stage Company's production of James Goldman's and Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Follies. Broadway veteran Marni Nixon will also be featured. Artistic Director Julianne Boyd will direct and Lara Teeter will choreograph. Follies, presented in celebration of Sondheim's 75th birthday, will run from June 23 through July 16 at the Consolati Performing Arts Center, Sheffield, MA.

Donna McKechnie and Karen Ziemba will headline Folles at the Barrington Stage Company from June 23rd-July 16th

Rising stars shared the stage with legends at Monday's concert honoring the best in New York's Nightlife.