Jim Stanek News

BroadwayWorld.com's New and Updated Who's Who Entries for the Week of 3/18/2007. Updates include: Doug Besterman, Ruben Brache, Jonathan Castillo, Emily Drennan, Allison Fischer, Jeffrey Landman, Jamie McGonnigal, Eric Nelsen, Jim Stanek, Max von Essen, David Weitzer, Darryl Winslow.

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies

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Jayne Paterson will join Constantine Maroulis in the hit musical revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, directed by Gordon Greenberg, now playing Off-Broadway at The Zipper Theatre

Dan Whitten, lead producer of the hit musical revival Jacques Bel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, now playing at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street) has extended an open invitation for local high school drama and music students to see the production for free through January 7th

Musicals Tonight! continues its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its current editions of At This Performance…™ to be held on Sunday, November 12th and Monday, November 13th at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre

Natascia Diaz, Sebastian La Cause and Jim Stanek will be among the stars of the Kennedy Center's production of Carnival, the whimsical 1961 Bob Merrill musical that will run from February 17th through March 11th, 2007 at the Eisenhower Theatre

Constantine Maroulis, the former 'American Idol' finalist currently on Broadway in The Wedding Singer, announced at Chatterbox that on January 7th, he will join the cast of Off-Broadway's hit Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris revival

On October 16th, a launch party was held at the Zipper Theatre to celebrate the release of the cast album for the hit Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

On Monday, October 16th, every audience member in attendance at that evening¹s special performance of the hit musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris will be the first to receive complementary copies of the show's new CD, and are invited to a post-performance reception (co-sponsored by Chez Josephine and Camino Sur) at the Zipper Theatre

Jim Stanek will replace Drew Sarich in the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, the longest-running Off-Broadway musical on the boards, celebrated its 10th anniversary on Tuesday, August 1 at the Westside Theatre

According to Elton John's website, the cast recording of Lestat will not be released in the immediate future

On June 12th, The York Theatre Company presented some of Broadway's brightest stars singing the songs of emerging composers and lyricists in 'NEO2,' and BroadwayWorld was there for the event!

Jim Stanek (Lestat), Becca Ayers (Avenue Q), Heather Ayers (Five Course Love), and Rich Affannato (Forbidden Broadway) are set to appear in two readings of the new musical Love Incorporated, by Marc Castle, on Monday, June 19 at 5 p.m. and Tuesday, June 20 at 3 p.m. at The Snapple Theatre Center

Tonight at York Theatre Company, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will host two sold-out performances of 'NEO2' at 6:00pm and 9:00pm; the evening will feature some of Broadway's brightest stars

Due to overwhelming demand, and with the 9pm performance sold out, York Theatre Company has announced an additional performance of 'NEO2,' a benefit concert celebrating emerging musical theatre writers, at 6:00pm on Monday June 12th

Lestat, the musical based on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, will hang up its cape on May 28.

The cast of 'Lestat' in the studio recording their cast album, May 22. The album is set to release in July, with Hugh Panaro, Carolee Carmello, Allison Fischer, Jim Stanek, and Drew Sarich.

The cast of Lestat will go into the recording studios of Mercury Records on May 22nd to record a cast album, which will be released in July