Julia Murney News

A new musical about John Lennon, Come Together Right Now, will embark on a regional tour before playing Liverpool on December 8th

On Monday, November 7 a concert was held to benefit Only Make Believe, the charity that brings musical theatre to ill children, at the Millennium Hotel's Hudson Theatre.

The 7:30 PM concert, which benefits Only Make Believe, the charity that brings musical theatre to ill children, will be held at the Millennium Hotel's Hudson Theatre. As previously announced, those scheduled to appear include Hayley Mills, Linda Eder, Julia Murney, Chad Kimball, Andrew Lippa, Ashley Brown, Amanda Green and Montego Glover with direction by Joe DiPietro and musical direction by Seth Rudetsky.

On November 7th, a number of stars will perform in the Only Make Believe benefit, with Kathie Lee Gifford to receive the James Hammerstein Award

On October 23rd at 9:30PM, at Joe's Pub, Broadway favorite and New Orleans resident, Bryan Batt hosted a concert benefiting the victims of Hurricane Katrina. With Love, From Broadway to the Bayou's proceeds went to The Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana.

On November 7th, a number of stars will perform in the Only Make Believe benefit, with Kathie Lee Gifford to receive the James Hammerstein Award

Rebecca Luker, Michael Arden, Judy Blazer and others performed in And Then I Wrote...The Songs of Steve Marzullo on October 24th at Birdland

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Julia Murney, Chuck Cooper and Jenn Gambatese will perform at Theatreworks/USA's annual Gala Benefit on October 24th.

Fiddler on the Roof's Patrick Neusinger will be featured in the first concert of Broadway Spotlight's third season; it will be held on October 10th

Creators of the eight NAMT New Works musicals as well as performers and industry professionals turned out for a reception at Marseilles on September 27th

On September 26th Times Square's Chad Kimball's OGEAR Clothing hit the catwalk with some of the hottest Broadway stars modeling - including the brand new T-Shirt design saluting one of the country's leading AIDS Fundraisers, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

On Sunday evening, September 25 at 8:30 PM, the New York theatrical community will take the stage at the Gershwin Theatre for Broadway's Celebrity Benefit for Hurricane Relief.

Eden Espinosa,Bernadette Peters, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Cheyenne Jackson, Judy Kuhn, Terrence Mann, Phyllis Newman, Elizabeth Parkinson, Phylicia Rashad, Keith Roberts, Jai Rodriguez, Brooke Shields, Daniel Sunjata and the casts of Avenue Q and Rent have joined the line-up.

On September 26th at 1PM at Times Square's Planet Hollywood (1540 Broadway at 45th), OGEAR Clothing will unveil a new T-Shirt design to salute one of the country's leading AIDS Fundraisers, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Christina Applegate and John Lithgow co-hosted the 14th annual BROADWAY ON BROADWAY, a free outdoor concert in Times Square on Sunday, September 18 and BroadwayWorld was there!

Liz Callaway, Euan Morton, Deven May and Martin Vidnovic are the latest stars to join Broadway Unplugged II, which will have them singing without the aid of amplification on September 19th

LENNON, the new Broadway musical based on the life and songs of John Lennon will end its run at the Broadhurst Theatre on Saturday, September 24th at 8pm. The production will have played 42 previews and 49 regular performances.

The event will star Ben Vereen & Liza Minnelli and feature Bryan Batt, Shoshana Bean, Victoria Clark, Charlotte D'Amboise, Jill Eikenberry, Raul Esparza, Shuler Hensley, Megan Hilty, Bill Irwin, Brian d'Arcy James, Isabelle Keating, Adriane Lenox, Terrence Mann, Rue McClanahan, Michael McElroy, Julia Murney, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelli O'Hara, Denis O'Hare, David Hyde Pierce, Carole Shelley, Christopher Sieber, Michael Tucker, Frederick Weller and The Broadway Inspirational Voices, plus the casts of The Light in the Piazza, Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, All Shook Up, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Wicked.

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Hunter Foster, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and other stars have been cast in the eight National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, which will be held on September 25th and 26th

Adam Monley will replace Cheyenne Jackson as one of the stars of the NAMT musical Ace, which will be presented to NAMT members and to a small public audience on September 26th