Martin Charnin News

Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts in Kenner's Rivertown will present the popular holiday favorite, 'Annie', directed by co-artistic director Kelly Fouchi from December 6 - 22, 2013.

Annie opens November 29 and due to popular demand, performances have just been added and the final performance will be December 22. Tickets may be purchased by calling the SBCT Box Office 574-234-1112 (open weekdays 12-6 PM) or going online to www.sbct.org. Annie performs as part of the Memorial Children's Hospital Family Series in the Wilson Mainstage Auditorium. Tickets are $21 Fri, Sat (8 PM), $21 Sun (3 PM) $18 Wed & Thu (7:30 PM). Sponsors for Annie are Villing and Company, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, Memorial Children's Hospital, 1st Source Bank, and Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center.

This November, December and January, 54 BELOW presents an exciting lineup of the brightest talent from Broadway and beyond. Located just below legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street.

ANNIE, Broadway's favorite musical for all ages, invites your family to celebrate Halloween at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street) tonight, October 31st. Come in your Halloween costume and get a trick-or-treating surprise.

Leapin' Lizards! The Downtown Cabaret Children's Theatre production of Annie, Jr., an abbreviated version of Broadway's current production of Annie, takes audiences into the upcoming holiday season with its cabaret-style theatrical production especially for children of all ages and their families. Featured in the cast are Alanna Murphy as Annie and T. Sean Maher as Daddy Warbucks.

On November 3 & 17, Martin Charnin's Something Funny's Going On: A Cabarevue will play 54 Below. The dazzling new musical revue utilizes the writing talents of Charnin, Ronny Graham, Marvin Hamlisch, Douglas Bernstein, Dennis Markell, Abbott and Weeks, Weeden, Finkle and Fay, Kaufman and Krane and many others. Performed by four young, bright, stars-to-be, this is 75 minutes of new and evergreen sophisticated musical hilarity, sure to be a major Fall happening.

Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond:

Oklahoma City University Alumni and friends Tiffan Borelli (The York's TWO BY TWO & Martin Charnin's upcoming 'Something Funny's Going On' at 54 Below), Will Mann (B'ways MEMPHIS, BILLY ELLIOT Nat'l Tour) and Jennifer Sanchez (B'ways WEST SIDE STORY, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, GHOST, SPIDERMAN, and currently in LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE at Second Stage) reunite and celebrate the evening with their individual sets respectively in the showcase of their dreams in place of the one they never had.

ANNIE, Broadway's favorite musical for all ages, invites your family to celebrate Halloween at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street) on Thursday, October 31st. Come in your Halloween costume and get a trick-or-treating surprise.

Transport Group, the Drama Desk and OBIE award-winning theatre company, has announced that Almost, Maine, written by John Cariani and directed by Jack Cummings III, and I Remember Mama, written by John Van Druten and directed by Mr. Cummings, will comprise the company's 2013-14 season. Both productions will take place at the Gym at Judson, 243 Thompson Street, where Transport Group will now be in residency.

Tony Award winning director, lyricist and creator of the upcoming 54 Below revue 'Something Funny's Going On: A Cabarevue,' Martin Charnin (11/3 & 17), Robin de Jesus (11/24-25), Vivian Reed (11/11), Jarrod Spector (10/27-11/17), and Lee Roy Reems (11/10) all gathered at 54 Below earlier today to preview their upcoming shows. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out photos below!

The Kennedy Center, under the auspices of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), presents a free, five-night ASCAP Centennial Celebration on the Millennium Stage November 16-18 and 20-21, 2013. This live showcase of musical theater works from the past 100 years features songs by some of the theater world's most talented composers and lyricists and concerts from a lineup of acclaimed musical theater performers. The celebration is part of the Center's daily, free Millennium Stage performance series streamed live on the Kennedy Center website and archived for future viewings. It is the first in a series of events across the country that will celebrate ASCAP's upcoming 100th birthday, on February 13, 2014.

TONY and EMMY Award nominee Ron Raines returns to Broadway as Daddy Warbucks in the new Broadway production of ANNIE at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets). He will begin performances on Tuesday, December 10. Australian superstar Anthony Warlow will play his final performance as Daddy Warbucks on Sunday, December 8.

Leapin' Lizards! The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati opens its 89th MainStage season with a production of 'Annie JR.' at the Taft Theatre tonight, October 18-20 & 26, 2013.

October is Adopt-a-Dog month, and ANNIE on Broadway is celebrating by showing support for those who adopt shelter dogs. From October 15 through 31, at participating shelters around the city, individuals who adopt a dog from a participating shelter will receive a voucher for two tickets to see ANNIE in November, while supplies last. ANNIE has partnered with a select number of shelters and rescue groups in NYC, all of which are members of the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, to participate. Participating shelters include The Humane Society of NY, New York Animal Care & Control, Animal Haven, Sean Casey Animal Rescue and Louie's Legacy. More shelters will be announced via social media.

The sun will come out tomorrow on Food Network's CUPCAKE WARS, but four bakers had better get their cupcakes out faster than that if they want to make it to the Great White Way!

The new Billie Holiday musical Lady Day starring Tony and multiple Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater, opened last night, October 3 at the Little Shubert Theatre (422 West 42nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues). Written and directed by Stephen Stahl, the musical makes its New York debut having been produced at the Theatre de Boulogne-Billancourt and Theatre du Gymnase Marie Bell in Paris as well as The Donmar Warehouse and The Piccadilly Theatre in London, where it received critical praise and garnered an Olivier 'Best Actress in a Musical' Award nomination for Ms. Bridgewater. Check out photos from opening night below!

The sun will come out tomorrow on Food Network's CUPCAKE WARS, but four bakers had better get their cupcakes out faster than that if they want to make it to the Great White Way!

ANNIE, the critically acclaimed new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, celebrates one year on Broadway with this evening's performance. ANNIE began preview performances at the Palace Theatre (Broadway and 47th Street) on October 3, 2012, and opened on November 8, 2012.

Deadline reports that Dorian Missick (Southland) has joined the ANNIE remake alongside Tracie Thoms as Annie's 'fake parents'. The new film inspired by the classic Broadway musical with a modern spin also stars Quvenzhane Wallis in the title role with Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, as well as the recently announced David Zayas. The film is currenly filming on-location in New York City.