Alley Theatre presents the world premiere of the new musical Wonderland about Alice, a children's book writer in Manhattan who is suffering through a creative block, estranged from her husband and alienated from her daughter. It takes a trip to a strange-yet-familiar Wonderland for her to regain her life's balance and again find the love and everyday magic that reside in us all - if we know how to look. With a book by Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy (The Civil War), lyrics by Jack Murphy, music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlett Pimpernel, The Civil War), and directed by Gregory Boyd, Wonderland begins previews Friday, January 15, opens officially Wednesday, January 20 and runs through Sunday, February 14.
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The Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre, nationally known for its interpretation of Stephen Sondheim musicals, celebrates its 20th anniversary season by presenting Sondheim's most popular musical SWEENEY TODD, directed by Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer. The new production runs in the 276-seat MAX Theater, February 9 through April 4, 2010.
The Coterie, a downtown opera-theater company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will present a reading of the one-act comic opera PRAIRIE DOGS by Rachel Peters (Stretch (a fantasia)) and Royce Vavrek (Dog Days) on Monday, January 18th, at 7pm at A.R.T./New York (520 8th Avenue, New York City).
On January 17th, singer/actress Lauren Thomas will take to the Duplex Cabaret Stage for her for New York City solo concert, simply titled, 'A Way Back to Then.'
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to present the award-winning worldwide smash-hit musical, Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life on stage at the Cadillac Palace Theatre March 23 - April 4, 2010. Tickets go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 22, 2010.
A courtroom drama set to glorious music, Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio Susanna tells "a gripping tale of blackmail and lies that threaten to send an innocent young woman to her death," said Eugene Sirotkine, Conductor and Music Director of the Hudson Valley Singers who will perform the piece twice this season both in White Plains and in Manhattan. Last night, the chorus and their guest soloists, rising stars in the opera world, received a standing ovation. Accompanied by the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra and world-class soloists, the final performance is on Saturday, January 16 at 7:30 pm at the Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP) and LivelyWorks present a workshop production of The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth adapted by the composer. The performances, on Saturday January 16 and Sunday January 17, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. will take place at the Rose Studio, 10th Floor of the Rose Building (next door to The Juilliard School, enter on 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue).
Parsons Dance presents REMEMBER ME, an all-new version of last season's collaboration with the lead vocalists of East Village Opera Company (EVOC), featuring the music of the acclaimed rock opera band at The Joyce Theater from February 2-21, 2010.
A courtroom drama set to glorious music, Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio Susanna tells "a gripping tale of blackmail and lies that threaten to send an innocent young woman to her death," said Eugene Sirotkine, Conductor and Music Director of the Hudson Valley Singers who will perform the piece twice this season both in White Plains and in Manhattan. Last night, the chorus and their guest soloists, rising stars in the opera world, received a standing ovation. Accompanied by the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra and world-class soloists, the final performance is on Saturday, January 16 at 7:30 pm at the Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch
Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen ('The Boys from Syracuse') and Norm Lewis ('The Little Mermaid' and the upcoming 'Sondheim on Sondheim') bring beloved music of the Great White Way to Princeton on Saturday, January 30, as part of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's PSO POPS! sixth annual Broadway Concert.
Rod Gilfry, who had taken a hiatus from SOUTH PACIFIC to play Captain Von Trapp in Paris' Theatre du Chatelet's THE SOUND OF MUSIC, will return to his role as 'Emile de Becque' on January 19 when the next leg of the SOUTH PACIFIC tour makes its stop in Melbourne, Florida.
Opéra McGill et l'Orchestre symphonique de McGill sous la direction de Julian Wachner présentent The Rake's Progress d'Igor Stravinsky les 27 et 29 et 30 janvier à 19h30 à la Salle Pollack. David Lefkowich sera metteur en scene invité. La production sera surtitrée en français et en anglais. Les billets sont 27$ et 22$ (étudiants et aînés) et sont disponibles au guichet de la salle Pollack, du lundi au vendredi entre midi et 18h ainsi qu'une heure avant les représentations, ou par le réseau Admission (514-790-1245 or 1-800-361-4595, www.admission.com).
The Coterie, a downtown opera-theater company devoted to developing contemporary music theater works, will present a reading of the one-act comic opera PRAIRIE DOGS by Rachel Peters (Stretch (a fantasia)) and Royce Vavrek (Dog Days) on Monday, January 18th, at 7pm at A.R.T./New York (520 8th Avenue, New York City).
Bass-Baritone David Pittsinger returns to the role of Emile de Becque in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, for a seven week period beginning Tuesday, February 2nd through Sunday, March 21, 2010. The production's current Emile de Becque, baritone Paulo Szot, leaves the musical on Jan. 24 to prepare for his Metropolitan Opera debut in their new production of Shostakovich's The Nose. He returns to South Pacific on March 30, 2010.
The passionate world of opera comes to life in Philadelphia Theatre Company's world premiere of Terrence McNally's Golden Age on January 22 - February 14.
On January 17th, singer/actress Lauren Thomas will take to the Duplex Cabaret Stage for her for New York City solo concert, simply titled, 'A Way Back to Then.'
Dynamic tenor José Cura sings the title role of Verdi's rarely performed Stiffelio, the composer's daring opera about faith, jealousy, and redemption.
American baritone Thomas Hampson, the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic, will give the Annual Erich Leinsdorf Lecture, Monday, January 11, 2010, at 6:30 p.m., at the Walter Reade Theater, Broadway at 65th Street.
Following the record-breaking and critically acclaimed engagement of 'American Idiot' at the Berkeley Rep, the production is now Broadway-bound. 'American Idiot' will begin previews in March 2010 and open on Broadway in April at the St. James Theatre. The Broadway cast will be announced shortly.
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