Michael Bolton News

A weekly column on Broadway, Baltimore, and Washington Theater.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University, in association with the Johnny Mercer Foundation, has announced that Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated lyricist David Zippel will serve as one of the 'master teachers' for 'The Power of the American Popular Song' festival that will be held on the Evanston campus Aug. 7 through 12

Franc D'Ambrosio, who's most known for playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera for most of the show's five-year run in San Francisco is going solo at Joe's Pubon Sunday night, April 30th at 7:00 pm.

Barbara Streisand's early TV special 'Ny Name is Barbra' will be one of the music specials featured in a starry pledge week on PBS from December 3rd through 11th

Kevin Reed, a name well known for his role on the studio recording 'Brownstone,' is making his Encore debut. The show is initially set to run for three nights.

Franc D'Ambrosio, who starred in the title role of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award winning musical The Phantom of the Opera for over six years, has just completed a special musical guest star appearance on the NBC Network special Brian Boitano's Skating Spectacular which first aired January 1, 2005 and has been scheduled for rebroadcast on January 29, 2005, 2:00 - 4:00 pm EST. In promotion of the special (preceding its first airing), Brian Boitano chose to perform to D'Ambrosio's extraordinary vocal rendition of 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' on The Today Show in late December, 2004.