Jerry Orbach News

Billy is back! Just in time for Christmas in July, Right Angle Entertainment, producer of the smash hits The Office! A Musical Parody and Friends! The Musical Parodytoday announced that tickets are now on sale for Love Actually? The Unauthorized Musical Parody, a holiday season sendup of the iconic romantic comedy and Christmas movie Love Actually.

Theater Latte Da today announced casting for CHICAGO, Broadway's longest-running American musical. Winner of 7 Tony awards including Best Musical Revival, CHICAGO features a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The musical, based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins, is directed by Theater Latte Da Artistic Director Peter Rothstein with Music Direction by Denise Prosek and choreography by Kelli Foster Warder.

Dunder Mifflin is opening an office near you! Producers of the sold-out, unauthorized Off-Broadway sensation The Office! A Musical Parody are thrilled to announce that the North American tour will make a stop in Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center's intimate Jarson-Kaplan Theater on Saturday, February 15 at 1:30 PM & 7:30 PM, and Sunday, February 16 at 1:30 PM.

Due to technical issues (or spy interference) the Off Broadway premiere of I Spy A Spy, a new (declassified) musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Jamie Jackson and book & music by SoHee Youn, directed and choreographed by Bill Castellino (Cagney, Desperate Measures) with musical direction by Dan Pardo (Amazing Grace) will now begin its limited engagement (through September 21) at The Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues) on Saturday, July 6th at 8pm. The show will have its official opening on Thursday, July 18th at 7pm.

The producers of MILF - THE MUSICAL, a new musical about a modern housewife and mother whose virtual life and real life collide when she discovers (via FacePage) that her husband is having an affair, have announced the cast that will be featured at a Thursday, June 20 industry reading  at 3PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater. The cast features Matt Caccamo, Paul Caliendo, Gabriel Garcia, Michael Meunchow, Gabe Wrobel, and Lindsey Zelli.

The Montgomery Theater and Right Angle Entertainment are delighted to announce tickets for FRIENDS! The Musical Parody are on sale now!  FRIENDS! The Musical Parody, the Off-Broadway hit, will play at the Montgomery Theater August 13, 14, 15, 16. The Montgomery Theater is located at 271 South Market Street in San Jose 95113.

Katie Linendoll, the Emmy Award-winning TV personality, writer, and technology expert will make her Off-Broadway debut as a host for the hit improv show, BROADWAY'S NEXT HIT MUSICAL, (www.broadwaysnexthitmusical.com) at The Jerry Orbach Theater (1627 Broadway at 50th Street) for two performance only on Thursday, June 13 and Thursday, June 20 at 7:30pm.  

The producers of MILF - THE MUSICAL, a new musical about a modern housewife and mother whose virtual life and real life collide when she discovers (via FacePage) that her husband is having an affair, will be presenting an industry reading on Thursday, June 20 at 3PM at the Jerry Orbach Theater.  MILF features book, lyrics and music by Sally Knight. Produced by Jennifer Francis and Blaine Hopkins, the reading will be directed by Tony Speciale. www.MILFtheMusical.com  

Self-proclaimed "world's best boss," Michael, and the staff at Dunder Mifflin will keep audiences laughing into the fall as their hit Off-Broadway run of The Office! A Musical Parody is being extended at The Jerry Orbach Theater

FX has released first look images from this week's episode of Fosse/Verdon, titled 'Nowadays.' In the episode, Norbert Leo Butz guest stars as Paddy Chayefsky, Nate Corddry plays Neil Simon, Aya Cash plays Joan Simon, and Tyler Hanes is Jerry Orbach.

Following the critically acclaimed 'Lost West End' album series, Stage Door Records present the launch of 'Lost Broadway', a new series of albums that will focus on celebrating Broadway's forgotten and obscure musicals. With each album dedicated to specific years in Broadway history, the 'Lost Broadway' series launches with 'Lost Broadway 1961', a particularly abundant year in the Broadway calendar for musicals whose residencies were short lived but deserve not to be forgotten.

Right Angle Entertainment is announcing tickets for FRIENDS! The Musical Parodyare NOW ON SALE. The Off-Broadway hit will have its Los Angeles Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (9820 Washington Blvd.) in Culver City from July 16 - August 4, 2019, with the official press opening on Wednesday, July 17. FRIENDS! The Musical Parody is a Guest Production at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. 

Ghostlight Productions, kicks off its inaugural season with a new production of the world's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, a captivating romantic comedy about a boy, a girl, two fathers, and a wall, with performances April 25 -28 at Richmond Town's County Courthouse.

Just in time for TONY Awards season,BROADWAY'S NEXT HIT MUSICAL (www.broadwaysnexthitmusical.com) will start performances at The Jerry Orbach Theater (1627 Broadway at 50th Street) on May 29. The hilarious BROADWAY'S NEXT HIT MUSICAL is the only unscripted, theatrical awards show where master improvisers gather hit song suggestions from the audience and create a spontaneous evening of music, humor, and laughter. Tickets to five exclusive TONY Awards season performances are on sale now.

'Strikingly beautiful,' 'ghost-like,' are just two adjectives that make up the mood in which Agatha Christie's Mousetrap, leaves on it's audiences which can witness this 'who-dunnit' now on-stage at Stageworks Theatre in the heart of downtown Tampa. At least that was the first and lasting impression I received upon entering the space Saturday night for a mere sold out performance, that was so stunning I still think about it days later. After all as one character proclaims, 'First impressions are so important,' and this bone chilling first impression still has me gasping for air.

The Office! A Musical Parody will extend its record breaking run at The Jerry Orbach Theater (1627 Broadway at 50th Street) through July 7, 2019. Now one of the most successful off-Broadway shows in history, The Office! A Musical Parody will perform Mondays at 7p, select Thursdays at 7p, Fridays at 7:30p, Saturdays at 2p and 8p and Sundays at 2p and 7p.

Annette Warren, the "secret" singing voice of Ava Gardner and Lucille Ball in such films as the MGM classic "Show Boat," and a nightclub, TV and recording star whose career spans the past 70 years, will return to the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood on Tuesday, Feb. 19 with a the premiere performance of her new show, Professor Bob and the Old Broad, joined by accompanist Bob Remstein. 

From Irving Berlin to Leonard Bernstein, and from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Stephen Sondheim, not to mention Fanny Brice, Zero Mostel, Jerry Orbach, and Barbra Streisand, Jewish composers and artists have contributed tremendously to Broadway.   Black Box Booking and Hy Juter will present To Life: Stories & Music Celebrating the Contributions of Jewish Composers to The Golden Age of Broadway at the Willow Theatre in Sugar Sand Park from January 18th through February 3rd.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces Miracolo by Jarlath Barsanti-Jacobs and Emilio Solla as part of the 2019 TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series on Monday evening January 14, 2019 at 7pm at the Actors Temple, 339 West 47th Street, New York, NY. The reading is produced by Harold Heno in association with R.K. Greene, and will be directed by Fred Mann III. It is free but reservations are required: please email name and number of tickets requested to TRUVoicesSeries@gmail.com, or use the bright red ticketing box at https://truonline.org/events/miracolo/.