Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the hilarious Off-Broadway musical comedy hit, BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL. This campy, off-the-wall parody inspired by a supermarket tabloid story of a half-boy, half-bat keeps both tongue and fang firmly in cheek. The exuberant score mixes rock, Broadway, gospel, and country music in a smart, witty, self-aware comical confection. Award-winning director Jay Manley helms this fabulous cult hit with musical direction by Spencer Williams, and choreography by Andrew Ceglio (also the production's star). BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL plays February 27 (press opening February 28, 8pm & March 1, 2pm) through March 22, 2009 at the Lohman Theatre at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. For tickets ($18-26) and information, the public may visit www.foothillmusicals.com, or phone the box office at 650 949-7360.
Called 'exuberant, campy fun' by the San Francisco Chronicle, BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL, ripped from the headlines of The Weekly World News tabloid, is a dark but whimsical parable on the secret desires and depravities of a small West Virginia town. While visiting the caves outside of Hope Falls, West Virginia, three young explorers find a bat-boy hiding among the caverns. The local sheriff, unsure of what to do with the dangerous captive, who could be connected to the strange illness killing off the local cows, takes the bat-boy to the veterinarian. While the townspeople clamor for his destruction, Bat Boy, who is taken in by the veterinarian and his family, learns to read, speak, and even fall in love. A wickedly slick satire that spoofs convention, BAT BOY chronicles the struggles of a boy with fangs who just wants to be loved. The show premiered at Tim Robbins' Actors Gang Theatre on October 31, 1997, and has since been produced Off-Broadway, in London's West End, at the Edinburgh Festival and in scores of productions throughout the world. The New York Times declared, 'It's remarkable what intelligent wit can accomplish, even within an outlandish frame,' of this Outer Critics Circle Award-winner for Best Off-Broadway Musical.
BAT BOY, THE MUSICAL plays February 27 (press opening February 28, 8pm & March 1, 2pm) through March 22, 2009 at the Lohman Theatre at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. For tickets ($18-26) and information, the public may visit www.foothillmusicals.com, or phone the box office at 650 949-7360.
Page 73 and Soho Rep team up to present the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's new play SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE directed by Anne Kauffman (Obie Award-winning director of Adam Bock's THE THUGS at Soho Rep). Previews begin January 15th prior to an official press opening of January 22nd at Soho Rep (46 Walker Street). Following Page 73's critically acclaimed productions of Jason Grote's 1001 and Quiara Alegr?a Hudes' ELLIOT, A SOLIDER'S FUGUE (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and fresh from Soho Rep's extended and acclaimed production of Sarah Kane's BLASTED comes this co-produced world premiere.
Scheduled January 15 through February 8, performances of SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE run Tuesdays - Sundays at 7:30pm, with Saturday matinees at 3:00pm (no matinee performance on Saturday, January 17) at Soho Rep (46 Walker Street - between Broadway &Church, 2 blocks south of Canal Street). Tickets are 99 cents through $35 and can be reserved by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101 or online at www.sixtymilestheplay.com, www.p73.org & www.sohorep.org.
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) will begin its second Native Theater Festival on Wednesday, November 12. This
Shuler Hensley ('Young Frankenstein: The New Mel Brooks Musical'), Keir Dullea ('The Good Shepherd') and other actors will read the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'They Knew What They Wanted,' written by Sidney Howard and directed by Joanne Woodward, on Monday, November 10, 7 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse
High School Musical 3:Senior Year had an impressive $15M weekend for a new total of $61.8M, holding the top spot once again at the box office. The film will be debuting a 'sing- along' version in select markets including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia on Friday, November 7.
Halloween is never a great day for the film industry, especially when it falls on a weekend. And as expected Friday's grosses were way down compared to a normal weekend reports DeadlineHollywood.com. In a shock Disney's High School Musical 3: Senior Year was down a whooping 90% from its historic opening a week ago. The film made $1.7 million Friday from 3,626 plays. But then Zac Efron, and those Wildcats staged an amazing comeback, jumping up nearly 400% to grab No. 1 with $8.2 million Saturday for a $15M weekend (including Sunday's estimate of $5.1 million) for a new total of $61.8M
The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced casting today for the second year of the Native Theater Festival, a four day festival dedicated to presenting extraordinary theatrical work by Native theater artists from the U.S. and Canada.
Shuler Hensley ('Young Frankenstein: The New Mel Brooks Musical'), Keir Dullea ('The Good Shepherd') and other actors will read the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'They Knew What They Wanted,' written by Sidney Howard and directed by Joanne Woodward, on Monday, November 10, 7 p.m., at Westport Country Playhouse
The North American release of Disney's High School Musical 3 may have brought in even bigger numbers than originally anticipated- but the musical also ruled at the foreign box office beyond expectations.
Fresh on the heels of Columbus Day... and a breath before Thanksgiving... 'Don't Quit Your Night Job' returns to New York City for another year of mayhem! BroadwayWorld had the entertaining opportunity to chat with the fantastic foursome- Steve Rosen, David Rossmer, Sarah Saltzberg and Dan Lipton - at The Zipper Factory in anticipation of their 3rd rompous season, opening Thursday October 30!
The North American release of Disney's High School Musical 3 brought in even bigger numbers than originally anticipated. Variety reports that High School Musical 3 brought in $42 million domestically to top the box office and to make it the biggest musical bow ever.
The North American release of Disney's High School Musical 3 brought in even bigger numbers than originally anticipated. By Friday, the movie had already grossed 16.9 Million dollars in 3,623 theaters it was released in, bringing the anticipated total weekend numbers up to 60 million from the original 40 million.
LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) opens its fall season with the first of two annual festivals of free staged readings, the Barn Series (October 23 - November 15, 2008). Ethan Hawke joins the previously announced roster of performers that includes LAB members Eric Bogosian, Elizabeth Canavan, Max Casella, John Doman, Kevin Geer, Didi O'Connell, John Ortiz, Portia, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Michael Stuhlbarg, Yul Vazquez, and David Zayas, among others.
Disney's High School Musical phenomenon leaps onto the big screen with High School Musical 3:Senior Year in which America's favorite high school students (Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman) hit senior year. BroadwayWorld brings you this special featurette on the making of this sure-to-be-a-hit movie!
DeadlineHollywood is reporting that High School Musical 3:Senior Year is hitting the high notes before it even opens on movie screens nationwide by jumping onto MovieTicket.com's Top-20 Pre-Sale List of All-Time.
