Lone Star Love News

This fall brought the 4th B'way show and 2nd child for Kevin, a journeyman performer who also writes music.

Triple Showcase at the West Bank Cafe to Feature Michael Wolff Trio, Creole Jazz Serenaders with Don Vappie, and the Red Clay Ramblers January 10th and 11th. Events are Open to the Public, and Part of APAP Conference as well. Three incredible bands will deliver two nights of top-notch music, with January 10th and 11th showcases at the West Bank Caf? in NYC:

VANITIES, A New Musical by Jack Heifner, with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by two-time Tony? Award-winner Judith Ivey and musical staging by Dan Knechtges, has postponed a planned Broadway run.

Tap dancing is a family tradition for Kelly, who's in 'White Christmas' for the fourth straight holiday season.

VANITIES, A New Musical by Jack Heifner, with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by two-time Tony® Award-winner Judith Ivey and musical staging by Dan Knechtges, will open on Broadway Thursday, February 26, 2009 at the Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street (preview performances will begin Monday, February 2).

Amas Musical Theatre presents two free performances of BURLY-Q! A Gay Burlesque, a show created by Phillip George (co-director of Forbidden Broadway) on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30pm and Wednesday, October 23 at 6pm at the newly-restored Actors Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South in New York.

Amas Musical Theatre presents two free performances of BURLY-Q! A Gay Burlesque, a show created by Phillip George (co-director of Forbidden Broadway) on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30pm and Wednesday, October 23 at 6pm at the newly-restored Actors Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South in New York.

Composer Andrew Byrne brings his unique brand of musical parody to The Zipper Factory Theater on Sunday, October 5, 2008 with the premiere of EXPOSED: THE SONGS OF AN ANDREW BYRNE. Tagged as 'Forbidden Broadway for trashy sluts,' EXPOSED has music and lyrics by Mr. Byrne, additional lyrics by Mark Blankenship and Lisa Rothauser, and is directed by Amy Rogers.

Composer Andrew Byrne brings his unique brand of musical parody to The Zipper Factory Theater on Sunday, October 5, 2008 with the premiere of EXPOSED: THE SONGS OF AN ANDREW BYRNE. Tagged as 'Forbidden Broadway for trashy sluts,' EXPOSED has music and lyrics by Mr. Byrne, additional lyrics by Mark Blankenship and Lisa Rothauser, and is directed by Amy Rogers.

VANITIES, A New Musical by Jack Heifner, with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by two-time Tony Award®-winner Judith Ivey and musical staging by Dan Knechtges, will begin performances on Broadway Monday, February 2, 2009 at a Shubert theatre to be announced.

Following acclaimed engagements in San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Toronto, Los Angeles and St. Paul, IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, a new stage adaptation of the beloved classic film, will arrive at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway this holiday season - guaranteeing that New York will have a white Christmas! The production is directed by Walter Bobbie with a book by David Ives and choreography by Randy Skinner.

Casting has been announced for VANITIES, A New Musical by Jack Heifner, with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum, directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey. Starring Lauren Kennedy (Spamalot, Side Show) as Mary, Sarah Stiles (Avenue Q, …Spelling Bee) as Joanne and Anneliese van der Pol (Beauty and the Beast, TV's 'That's So Raven') as Kathy, VANITIES will open on Broadway in the Fall of 2008 at a theatre to be announced.

Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma's premiere professional theatre company, announces its 46th season of musicals.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) announces its mainstage production of Little Shop of Horrors, a musical written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. It's a musical comedy to die for - literally! The musical is based on Roger Corman's 1960 sci-fi comedy and includes several show-stopping numbers including 'Skid Row (Downtown),' 'Somewhere That's Green,' and 'Suddenly Seymour,' as well as the title song. Little Shop of Horrors will run at the Millburn theatre from June 4 through July 6, 2008.

Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder) will present the Tony Award-Winning musical Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical, by Eve Merriam, with a score by Helen Miller. Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical will open on Friday, May 9 and run through the 18th at the American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th St.)

The Zipper Factory Theater (336 West 37th Street) proudly announces the addition of the following to its February schedule: 'Homemade Fusion' by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond on Monday February 18.

Lauren Kennedy celebrated her new CD 'Here and Now' at Broadway at Birdland on Monday, November 5 at 7 PM.

Robert Cuccioli to star as Don Quixote in the upcoming White Plains Performing Arts Center production of Man of La Mancha; part of the Broadway Classics series at the theatre to play November 29-December 16.

The production of LONE STAR LOVE, currently playing an engagement at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, has canceled its Broadway engagement this fall.

The new Broadway-bound musical comedy Lone Star Love, starring Academy-Award nominee Randy Quaid in his Broadway debut as Colonel John Falstaff, has its official Seattle opening Wednesday, September 19 at The 5th Avenue Theatre. The show continues its run in Seattle through September 30, and will open for previews at New York's Belasco Theatre on November 1; opening night on Broadway is December 3.