Judy Garland News

Broadway's Lawrence Leritz, Bill McCauley and Stephen Currens will join friends, family and colleagues to salute the life and career of the great ICM literary agent Mitch Douglas on Richard Skipper Celebrates (YouTube) this Saturday evening, November 6th, 2021 at 6PM est.

Cabaret, concert and recording artist Travis Moser has released a new version of the Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin holiday standard, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

The next Musical Theatre Melodies broadcast, hosted by Rob Morrison on 96.5 FM on Tuesday, November 2 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Robert Wright and George Forrest musical KEAN (from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre and the comedy by Alexandre Dumas).

The cast of Off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors appeared on The View today to perform a medley of the show's opening number and 'You Never Know'. Watch Jeremy Jordan, Salome Smith, Aveena Sawyer, and Joy Woods perform from the classic musical now!

The Off-Broadway production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – which re-opened its doors on September 21, 2021 – kicks off Halloween weekend today with a cast performance on the Special Halloween Episode of ABC-TV's national morning show “The View” at 11:00AM ET. 

'But the World Goes 'Round' follows the release of 'Nessun Dorma,' an iconic aria from the opera Turandot. Osmond's new album features selections from Into the Woods, Song and Dance, West Side Story, Les Miserables, Sound of Music, and more! Listen to the new track and preorder the album now.

Judy Garland is back, with everything behind her: four failed “relationships”, suicide attempts, drugs and alcohol addictions. It’s over, and she is determined – at the age of 46 with a new and younger fiance– to reclaim her crown and her fans.

It's not a stretch to say that it was quite a treat to witness the undeniable talents of Kristin Chenoweth live and in-person again at Orange County's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA for a one-night-only concert on October 23, 2021 in support of her most recent studio album For The Girls---a tribute to some of her favorite female singers of all time. In front of a full house of masked and (hopefully, thoroughly screened) vaccinated audience members, the Tony and Emmy-winning star of stage and screen sang, belted, and entertained with a solid 90-minute set filled with familiar, Girl-powered favorites, sprinkled with plenty of wit, humor, and heart in between. Her frequent musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell joins her again for this concert.

To commemorate Judy Garland’s centenary in June 2022, Avid Entertainment Ltd just announced the release of the double-CD set, Judy at Carnegie Hall, on February 4, 2022. Based on the best-selling and Grammy Award-winning LP of the same name, the set presents her historic concert at Carnegie Hall, New York on April 23, 1961.

The award-winning East Lynne Theater Company's raffle is back!  Like last year, this is the only fundraising event hosted by ELTC's board of trustees, due to the pandemic. It's a 50/50 raffle, in which only 300 tickets are available at $100 each. If all 300 tickets are sold, the winner and ELTC will each receive $15,000.

Get ready for a night of Broadway-style belting at The Winter Park Playhouse as Ms. Tay Anderson brings to life the best of Judy Garland and daughter Liza Minnelli in her new cabaret - Ring Them Bells - November 17 and 18.  Playhouse Musical Director Christopher Leavy will accompany on piano. 

Lorna Luft is a consummate entertainer. That’s no surprise of course. She was born to entertain. Her mother, Judy Garland was arguably the greatest entertainer of the 20th century. And Lorna has been entertaining professionally herself since she was 14 years old. Her high-profile turns in the film Grease 2 and as Miss Adelaide in the national tour of Guys & Dolls are only two of her many film, television, and stage credits. She has also been a very in-demand nightclub performer for decades. Over the years she has known and worked with some of the very best.

Billed as a 'cabaret sensation', Seth Sikes shows a full house of 54 Below patrons why, exactly, he is.

Broadway star Jessica Vosk will make her solo Carnegie Hall debut with her new concert, My Golden Age, on Monday, November 8, at 8:00 PM. Directed by Tony Award-winner Warren Carlyle, My Golden Age is Vosk’s homage to the likes of Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Bette Midler, and other legendary voices.

As tragic as the backstory behind the song 'American Pie' is with the much too early death of the new rock’n’roll-hope Buddy Holly, the track is also magnificent and legendary. The eight-and-a-half-minute ballad “American Pie” has been making history since its release in 1971. Check out McLean's new tour dates now!

This week, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Ann Hampton Callaway is one of America's most gifted artists in pop and jazz. A leading champion of the great American Songbook, she's made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. See Ann Hampton Calloway on tour!

Marriott Theatre, Lincolnshire will welcome two of its most popular artists  -  Angela Ingersoll and Heidi Kettenring – for two performances each of their holiday-themed concerts featuring the songs and evoking the musical stylings of some of America's favorite singers of the past decades.

Olivier Award nominated playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, asks the question, “What if an essentially unremarkable human being had an encounter or connection with a huge star that changed the course of their life?” Ten women all played by one extraordinary actress in Songs for Nobodies is running December2nd through December 12th at the Grandel Theatre.

This week in NYC a cast of top Broadway performers will come together for an AEA 29-hour reading of Summer Stock - The Musical, based on the beloved Judy Garland & Gene Kelly 1950 MGM movie of the same name.