Jon Hartmere News

Producer Randy Taradash announced today that bare, the original rock musical by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere will hold an invite only New York presentation on Tuesday, February 24 in anticipation of its San Francisco Bay Area premiere in late Fall of 2009. The cast for the reading includes Scott Porter (NBC's 'Friday Night Lights', Altar Boyz), Matt Doyle (Spring Awakening, the CW's 'Gossip Girl'), Shoshana Bean (Wicked, Hairspray), Manoel Felciano (2006 Tony award nominee Sweeney Todd), Kecia Lewis-Evans (The Drowsy Chaperone), Janine LaManna (The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweet Charity), Neil Haskell (Altar Boyz), and Alysha Umphress (2008 MAC Award nominee, Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn).

Daily Variety is reporting that Paramount Pictures has fast-tracked 'Footloose,' in an effort to get the film ready to start production next spring. 'Footloose' which will star Zac Efron and is to be directed by Kenny Ortega, is white hot after the $42 million opening weekend for 'High School Musical 3.'

Ambitious production at the Theatre Project Merits Attention

Ovation Award winning director Kristin Hanggi (bare, Rock of Ages) is back in New York, directing CATCH THE FISH, a clever new play written as a response to the popular Vanity Fair Article 'Rich, Jaded and Lost in L.A.' The show plays at the New York Fringe Festival August 18-26 and I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kristin and producer John Davisi to catch up, learn about the show and more…

The 2004 Off-Broadway hit bare: a pop opera will receive a studio recording later this year.

Fresh from her sold out solo debut at Joe's Pub, Natalie Joy Johnson, star of the cult hit BARE, comes to the Cutting Room (19 West 24th Street) with Our Lady J and the Pink Champagne Orchestra on Wednesday, March 15th 2006.

For technical reasons BARE: A POP OPERA will resume performances two weeks later than announced. Performances at Dodger Stages (340 West 50th Street) will begin on Wednesday, October 27. Productions in the four other theaters at Dodger Stages will open as scheduled.

The stars of the sold out hit Off-Broadway musical BARE: A Pop Opera, will all be appearing Thursday May 20 at 6:30 PM, and again at 10:45 to sign copies of the new CD 'Selections from BARE: A Pop Opera,' featuring 11 songs from the show.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Jenna Leigh Green, known to many in the general public from her TV and film work, but she's most known these days, especially to New York theater audiences as Ivy, star of the Off-Broadway hit, 'Bare: A Pop Opera.'

The stars of the eagerly anticipated bare: a pop opera were out in full force at Therapy on Monday night to celebrate their Off-Broadway opening, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the 'bare' essentials!

Let's just recognize that enormous elephant in the room right from the top, shall we? Because as soon as the flood of praise for bare began to trickle its way to New York from Los Angeles, where its scheduled 32 performance run received such raves that it was extended to four months, the comparisons to Rent came pouring out as quickly as the comparisons to Hair saturated the word-of-mouth at Rent's Off-Off Broadway opening...