Jeremy Sams News

The complete teenage cast and teenage band was announced today for 13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years).

Simon MacCorkindale will star as 'Captain Von Trapp' opposite Summer Strallen playing 'Maria' in the smash hit West End musical 'THE SOUND OF MUSIC' at the London Palladium from Monday 25 August.

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, will begin previews on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 and officially open at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street) on Sunday, October 5, 2008.

Goodspeed Musicals', the only two-time Tony Award winning theatre in the country, latest production, 13, a new musical comedy about coming of age, teen traumas and high school survival, will hit the stage at The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut, May 9 - June 8. 13 is sponsored by Essex Savings Bank.

From February 26, the worlds of theatre and television collide in a unique life imitating art event as Summer Strallen, from Channel 4's hit soap Hollyoaks, takes over as Maria in The Sound of Music at the London Palladium.

Canada is to be the next nation to answer the question 'How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?'

Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Ian's smash-hit new London production of The Sound of Music will make its North American premiere beginning September 2008 at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Role of 'Maria' to be cast by Canadian TV public audiences.

Beginning September 24, the smash hit new production of the legendary Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music at the London Palladium, introduces four new cast members to the company. Fiona Sinnott will play The Baroness, Paul Grunert assumes the role of Max, Amy Lennox will portray Liesl and Luke Fredericks as Rolf.

Simon Burke will star as 'Captain Von Trapp' in The Sound of Music at the London Palladium from 24 September, joining Connie Fisher, who stars as 'Maria' for six performances a week, with Aoife Mulholland playing the role on Monday evenings and Wednesday matinees

Susie Blake will star as Madame Morrible in the hit musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre from Monday, April 2, 2007.

Hartford Stage's upcoming spring 2008 production of the seldom-performed Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore will star Olympia Dukakis.

According to the Really Useful Group's website, Connie Fisher will be out of the London revival of The Sound of Music for the next two weeks due to a vocal injury.

According to the Really Useful Group's website, Connie Fisher is out of the London revival of The Sound of Music this week and producers are offering to exchange tickets.

Susie Blake will star as Madame Morrible in the hit musical Wicked at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre from Monday, April 2 2007.

Connie Fisher has extended her run as plucky governess Maria in the hit London revival of The Sound of Music through February of 2008

Another year draws to a close and a new year beckons. Almost as the clock turns between the years we say adieu to Idina and say hello to Kerry, wave a fond goodbye to Caroline or Change and The Producers and welcome the brief return of The Rocky Horror Show and The History Boys. As we sing Auld Lang's Syne, it gives cause to look back on and look forward to the respective years in London theatre.

On December 27th at 6:30 PM, the UK's BBC 1 will air a profile of The Sound of Music star Connie Fisher

The Really Useful Group's website reports that the new London cast recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music will be released in UK stores on December 11th

The highly anticipated West End revival of The Sound of Music, after two preview performances, has lost its leading man

Daniel Radcliffe's nude debut announces dates, Wicked breaks records, Connie climbs hills, Drowsy Chaperone eyes a West End transfer and Billy Zane gives Dance Lessons