Jesse Vargas News

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), now in its fourth year, is a three-week event in NYC that has premiered over 90 musicals in its first three years, becoming the largest musical theatre event in America. Tickets for NYMF productions are available at www.nymf.org or by calling 212-352-3101. This year's Festival will run from September 17 through October 7 with the following schedule of events...

Composer Scott Alan will head back into the studio on September 12 & 13 to finish recording his debut CD, 'Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan,' with a large collection of Broadway stars collaborating to sing his original songs.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) announced today the 2007 NYMF Developmental Series, Special Events and Ars Nova Concert Series.

The Leopold Group, a new Chicago-based modern dance company, will present a concert version of Green Eyes, a new song cycle fusing musical theatre, pop/folk music, modern dance, and video-dance.

Joe's Pub has just announced the Green Eyes concert, featuring performers Nick Blaemire (Altar Boyz), and Megan Reinking (Lestat, Dracula) and musical director Jesse Vargas.

'Seth's Broadway 101,' billed as 'A Master Class in Belting, Divas, and Hostile Opinions,' was presented Monday, April 16, 7:30PM at New World Stages, and BroadwayWorld was there!

A revised version of Paul Scott Goodman's musical Bright Lights, Big City will have its premiere at Harvard University as a free semi-staged reading.

The 2006 Barrymore Awards, celebrating achievement in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced on October 23rd at the Merriam Theatre

Tony-nominee Mary Testa, Alton Fitzgerald White, and Todd Buonopane will star in a 45-minute excerpt of Sunfish, the winner of the 2005 Jonathan Larson award, which will be presented as part of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals on October 9th

Christopher Durang, Frank Wildhorn, Lauren Kennedy and Jarrod Emick were among those who scored Barrymore Award nominations

'The Early Revue with Scott Nevins' features Award winning Host Scott Nevins showcasing some of today's brightest stars from the worlds of Broadway and beyond.

Musical director and producer Brian J. Nash shares the diary that he wrote aboard Rosie's Family Cruise, which featured performances by Audra McDonald, Cyndi Lauper and more!

The musical Junie B. Jones will be available to parents and childrens at discounted prices with a series of Mom's Matinees from November 4th through December 1st

On Monday night, October 16, 2005, following the SOLD-OUT Standing Ovations IV Benefit Concert at Joe's Pub, performers and audienced members celebrated the concert's success at an after-party at Serafina.

Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich's children's musical Junie B. Jones will return in an off-Broadway production that will run from November 9th through December 3rd

Camera and laptop in hand, BroadwayWorld Artistic Director Jamie McGonnigal gives an inside look on the entertainment, the fun and the surprises on r family vacations' second cruise.

Ann E. Wrecksick, a musical parody of Annie from the creators of Bare, will open at Los Angeles' Cavern Club Theatre on July 22nd

Members of the Broadway community, including some of those on the release, picked up their copies of the new Hair studio CD, and so did we!

The Actors' Fund of America a benefit extravaganza on March 28, 2005.

The Actors' Fund presents CHARLES BUSCH AND JULIE HALSTON: TOGETHER ON BROADWAY, on Monday, March 28, 2005.