New York City Opera News

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of The Light in the Piazza, which will circle the country for 50 weeks beginning in August

The 60 presenters and co-hosts of the Tony Awards--including Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Bernadette Peters and Chita Rivera--will be honored with designer accessories, gift sets, jewels at the Official Presenter Gift Lounge backstage where they can customize their own gift collection

On May 22nd, Sweeney Todd star Lauren Molina--joined by guests Michael Cerveris, Manoel Felciano and others--performed at the Duplex, and BroadwayWorld was there for the event!

On July 1st, Judy Kaye, Lisa Vroman and more will sing the songs of Leonard Bernstein at Caramoor in Katonah, NY

Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Thomas Viertel announced today that they will present a new production of THE FANTASTICKS, the world's longest running musical, beginning preview performances on Friday, July 28, 2006 and opening on Thursday, August 17 at New York's brand new Snapple Theater Center (210 West 50th Street at Broadway).

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

LAUREN MOLINA, currently starring as Johanna in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, presents a one night only concert event on Monday, May 22nd at 7pm.

Christopher Sieber, who created the role of Sir Dennis Galahad in the Tony Award winning Broadway production of Monty Python's Spamalot, will join the London cast opening at the Palace Theatre in October.

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.

Nancy Opel and Bryan Batt are among the stars of John Epperson's--a.k.a Lypsinka's--new play My Deah, running April 21st through May 7th

After scoring a hit in her previous February 27th concert with Julian Fleisher, The Threepenny Opera star Ana Gasteyer and the popular jazz singer/musician will return to Joe's Pub on May 22nd

The Phantom of the Opera will welcome Michael Shawn Lewis as its new Raoul on April 3rd, while Roland Rusinek will step into the role of Piangi on March 31st

The Lincoln Center Festival 2006 will feature a 9-hour marathon of plays by J.M. Synge and Julie Taymor's opera Grendel among its offerings

Sweeney Todd's Lauren Molina and The Light in the Piazza's Aaron Lazar will take part in The Composer's Voice: An Evening with Mark Adamo on Monday, March 6th

The 2006-2007 season of The Roundabout Theatre Company has been announced, with Audra McDonald to star as Lizzie Curry in the theatre's revival of the musical 110 in the Shade

On February 27th, Ana Gasteyer will perform with Julian Fleisher at Joe's Pub

The Blue Hill Troupe will present The Pirates of Penzance in uptown Manhattan from March 31st through April 8th

On February 15th, Christopher Hampton's play Embers, starring Jeremy Irons, will open in London

On March 6th, Lauren Molina and Aaron Lazar will take part in The Composer's Voice: An Evening with Mark Adamo

The world premiere recording of See What I Wanna See is now available for pre-order on Sh-k-boom records. Their web site reports a release date for the album of mid-February.