Jeremy Sams News

The Oratorio Society of New York opens its 2015-16 season and Carnegie Hall subscription series on Monday, November 2, 2015, with a work that has become closely identified with its music director.  Kent Tritle led the U.S. premiere of Juraj Filas' Requiem, Oratio Spei (Prayer of Hope), at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in 2011 (with a choir of 60 singers), and he conducted the work's debut recording, a project of the New York-based Harmony Foundation, in Prague with the Prague Symphony and Kuhn Mixed Choir in 2013.  On November 2, he leads the Oratorio Society in a performance of the work with soloists Susanna Phillips, soprano; Matthew Plenk, tenor; and John Moore, baritone.

The Ustinov Studio, Bath presents the first production in its autumn 2015 season, Eugene Marin Labiche's MONSIEUR POPULAR, directed by Jeremy Sams.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's everybody's 'fine four fendered friend' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, coming to the Theater at the Children's Creativity Museum, 221 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, on Saturday, October 10, in a new stage version for young audiences adapted from the hit musical film about a brother, a sister, their eccentric family, and their miraculous car.

Casting has been announced for the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Music & Lyrics Limited production of the much-loved Sherman Brothers musical CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, opening at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds on 2 December, with a national press night on Thursday 10 December, for a nine-week season finishing on 30 January 2016. 

Casting has been announced for the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Music & Lyrics Limited production of the much-loved Sherman Brothers musical CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, opening at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds on 2 December, with a national press night on Thursday 10 December, for a nine-week season finishing on 30 January 2016. 

Children's Playhouse of Maryland, in residence at Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, kicks off its 2015-2016 season with a bang -- Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" to be exact!  The production will run weekends at 1 p.m. on Sept. 19, 20, 26, 27, and Oct. 3, 4 with an additional performance at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. All Performances will be held in the Administration Building Lecture Hall, 7201 Rossville Blvd. The Sunday, Oct. 4, performance will be sign-language interpreted by students in the American Sign Language Certificate Program at CCBC Catonsville.  Tickets are $10 each and  can be purchased online at www.cpmarts.org or from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS (2787) from Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Based on availability, tickets may be purchased at the door.

The Ustinov Studio, Bath is delighted to announce the cast for the first production in its autumn 2015 season, Eugene Marin Labiche's MONSIEUR POPULAR, directed by Jeremy Sams.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD will screen an encore of Susan Stroman's production of THE MERRY WIDOW by Franz Lehar (originally transmitted January 17, 2015), hosted by Joyce DiDonato, today, July 22nd.

THE MET: LIVE IN HD will screen an encore of Susan Stroman's production of THE MERRY WIDOW by Franz Lehar (originally transmitted January 17, 2015), hosted by Joyce DiDonato, on July 22nd.

Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy for You, Contact, and The Producers, makes her Met debut with a lavish new staging of Lehar's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow

The Ustinov Studio, Bath is delighted to announce its autumn 2015 season, which features two rarely-performed French masterpieces of farce, Eugene Marin Labiche's MONSIEUR POPULAR directed by Jeremy Sams and Georges Feydeau's THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY directed by Laurence Boswell.

The Royal Academy of Music Musical Theatre Company is delighted to present "AMOUR" with performances on Tuesday 23 June at 7.30pm, Friday 26 June at 7.30pm, Saturday 27 June at 2.00pm and Sunday 28 June at 7.30pm. Michel Legrand will be attending the opening performance on Tuesday 23rd June, 7.30pm at the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, Royal Academy of Music.

MADE IN DAGENHAM's Isla Blair will play 'Lady Caroline Byng' in A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS at the Chichester Festival Theatre, running tonight, May 30 - June 27, 2015.

CYT-North Idaho is in final preparations for it's spring production, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, opening at the S.A. Kroc Community Theater (1765 W. Golf Course Road in Coeur d'Alene) tonight, May 15. The full scale musical runs May 15 - 24. Adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams, based on the MGM Motion picture with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, licensed script adaption by Ray Roderick.

Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy for You, Contact, and The Producers, makes her Met debut with a lavish new staging of Lehár's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow. Star soprano Renée Flemingadds a beguiling new character to her wide-ranging Met repertory as Hanna, the widowed Pontevedrian millionairess.

Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning musicals Crazy for You, Contact, and The Producers, makes her Met debut with a lavish new staging of Lehr's effervescent operetta The Merry Widow.

CYT-North Idaho is in final preparations for it's spring production, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, opening at the S.A. Kroc Community Theater (1765 W. Golf Course Road in Coeur d'Alene) on May 15. The full scale musical runs May 15 - 24. Adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams, based on the MGM Motion picture with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, licensed script adaption by Ray Roderick.

The Daily Mail writes that GYPSY's Stephen Mear has joined the new production of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG as choreographer.

There is just so much to like about this production and, even if you don't have children to take, get yourselves some tickets.

Broadway at the National announces its 2015-16 season, featuring the Washington premieres of Motown The Musical, the story of Berry Gordy's journey from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul, the Tony® Award-winning Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, with its fresh new take on the beloved tale, and the reconceived adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, featuring additional new songs by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The full subscription series also includes the highly anticipated return of Jersey Boys, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, as well as everyone's favorite orphan, Annie.