Megan Hilty News

Waterwell announces that Smokey Joe's Cafe conceiver, director-choreographer Otis Sallid, and musician Aaron Jones will create a new musical based on The Pied Piper for their summer program. They join the previously announced Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer"), Bobby Cannavale("Boardwalk Empire"), Stephen Adly Guirgis (Tony Nominee, The Mother****** with the Hat), Megan Hilty ("Smash"), Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights) and Beau Willimon ("House of Cards") who serve as Master Class Artists for the company's inaugural Summer Theater Lab. Casey McClellen and Kyle Pleasant also join the faculty.

An unforgettable night of entertainment will be featured on THE 67TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDSÒ, live from Radio City Music Hall, Sunday, June 9 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/ delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.

An unforgettable night of entertainment will be featured on THE 67THANNUAL TONY AWARDSÒ, live from Radio City Music Hall, Sunday, June 9 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/ delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. The show will include appearances by the 2013 Tony-nominated musicals 'A Christmas Story, The Musical,' 'Annie,' 'Bring It On: The Musical,' 'Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella,' 'Kinky Boots,' 'Matilda The Musical,' 'Motown The Musical' and 'Pippin.'

Megan Hilty's career began on the stage - her Broadway debut was alongside Idina Menzel in Wicked - and has transitioned to the small screen on NBC's musical drama Smash to her recently released solo album, It Happens All the Time (available in stores and on iTunes). She'll be returning to the stage at Austin's Zach Theatre on June 18 (shows at 7:00pm and 9:30pm), and she graciously took time to speak with BroadwayWorld to discuss her album, Smash, her upcoming concerts, and what's next for Megan Hilty.

America's favorite host, two-time Emmy Award-winning television personality Tom Bergeron (DANCING WITH THE STARS) will return tothe West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol to host A CAPITOL FOURTH, starring music legend Barry Manilow, who is back by popular demand following his powerful debut performance on the show in 2009.

A roster of Hollywood's brightest stars will appear on THE 67TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDSÒ, live from Radio City Music Hall, Sunday, June 9 (8:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The Tony Awards have announced the line-up of stars who will take the stage at the the 67th Annual Tony Awards. The 2013 Tony Awards will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on CBS, on Sunday, June 9th 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay) and are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

A Broadway star, two television legends and a guitar virtuoso have joined the entertainment lineup for the Encore Celebration Gala Weekend presented by Krieg DeVault. The June 28-29 benefit for the Center for the Performing Arts also serves as the setting for the second annual Great American Songbook Hall of Fame induction. Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli, Rita Moreno and Jimmy Webb represent the 2013 class of the Great American Songbook Hall of Fame.

The New York Philharmonic will present An Enchanted Evening with Paulo Szot, a one-night-only performance in which Tony Award winner and Metropolitan Opera artist Paulo Szot and divas from Broadway and television team up in a diverse program of Brazilian, Broadway, and concert songs.

On May 26, SMASH aired its farewell episodes on NBC and if you missed last night's big finish -- we've got both episodes right here featuring the Tony nominations and the awards themselves.

NBC lowers the curtain on SMASH with the series finale tonight, May 26. In anticipation of the show's closing night, Executive Producer Marc Shaiman wrote an in-depth send-off titled 'Goodbye, Norma Jean,' detailing what worked and what didn't throughout the series' two-season history.

Earlier this month, it was announced that NBC was lowering the curtain on SMASH, and despite winning E!'s Save One Show poll, the show must close. In anticipation of the series' finale tonight, May 26 on NBC, BroadwayWorld brings you a flashback of SMASH's high (and low) notes!

New BroadwayWorld.com Poll - Which SMASH show would you like to see win the Tony on the Series Finale?

Renowned musical theatre composer and lyricist Scott Alan will soon host a reading of HOME, written by Christy Hall and himself, on June 27, 2013 directed by Stafford Arima. 'For the first time in ten years of doing readings and workshops of HOME,' Alan writes, 'I am presenting the story I always set out to tell.'

Two more sensational songs have been released from the forthcoming series finale of NBC's musical drama series SMASH - no less than covers of Traffic and Queen byway of the dynamic leading ladies, Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty, and the rest of the cast!

The songs from the final episode of NBC's musical drama series SMASH are now available, including the Marc Shaiman/Scott Wittman showstopper 'Big Finish', performed by Megan Hilty and Katharine McPhee.