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The Barn Stage Company Announces 2016 Summer Musicals

The Barn Stage Company's artistic director J. Scott Lapp and Executive director Jordan Beck announced the company's 2016 Summer season lineup today. Featuring two original productions in The Truax's intimate 120-seat theatre, the season includes the world premiere of Biting Broadway!

The Dallas Opera Presents World Premiere of BECOMING SANTA CLAUS, 12/4

The Dallas Opera is delighted to present an original, musically compelling and visually stunning world premiere: Mark Adamo's BECOMING SANTA CLAUS, opening on Friday, December 4th at 7:30 p.m. in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. 

Dallas Opera to Premiere Mark Adamo's BECOMING SANTA CLAUS, 12/4

DALLAS, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 – The Dallas Opera is delighted to present an original, musically compelling and visually stunning world premiere: Mark Adamo's BECOMING SANTA CLAUS, opening on Friday, December 4that 7:30 p.m. in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.  

Bob Saget, Victoria Clark, Beth Leavel and More to Appear at NYMF's 2015 Gala

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) will honor Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw, theatre executive and producer Darren P. DeVerna and former NYMF board chair Martin Grant at its 2015 Gala to be held on Sunday, November 15th at the Edison Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan (240 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036).

BWW Feature: Hilarious Musical Theater Game Show TUNE IN TIME Showcases New York's Talented Young Songwriters and Composers at the York Theatre

Question: Would you buy an orchestra ticket (or any ticket for that matter) to an experimental Broadway musical called The Sweaty Smorgasbord where the 11 o'clock number is "Supper Sings Tonight?" How about checking out a derivative Jason Robert Brown musical titled The Gassy Breakthrough, where the song "Too Soon" is about whether the protagonist should fart on the first date? Here's one that potential musical theater show investors would love: A new Disney style musical called The Sticky Snake. Of course these aren't real or even prospective Broadway musicals. They are ideas that have emerged from the creative minds of some young composers and lyricists who might very well have their musicals gracing Broadway theaters some day. But in the meantime they have been conjuring up these wild concepts in Tune In Time, a musical theater game show staged semi-regularly at The York Theatre Company on East 54th Street (the next installment will be on Monday, November 9 at 7:30 pm) that could have been created by some hybrid of Chuck Barris (of The Gong Show fame) and Mel Brooks. As the show's creators and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields are fond of promoting about Tune In Time, "Anything goes . . . and usually does."

Broadway at the Cabaret - Top 5 Picks for November 2-8, Featuring Mary Testa, Jennifer Diamond, Kelli Rabke, and More!

Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars! Well after Broadway orchestras begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including: 'We're Gonna Have To Ask You To Leave' Hosted by Michael Urie & Celia Keenan-Bolger; Kelli Rabke at the Metropolitan Room; Mary Testa & Michael Starobin at 54 Below; From Paris to New York at 54 Below; and Jennifer Diamond at 54 Below.

FANCY NANCY: SPLENDIFEROUS CHRISTMAS Opens 11/28 at Theater at St. Jean

VITAL THEATRE COMPANY is pleased to announce the return of FANCY NANCY: SPLENDIFEROUS CHRISTMAS for the 2015 holiday season. Based on the New York Times bestselling picture book by Jane O'Connor with illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser, the musical has a book by Cara Lustik and Matthew Hardy, music by Randy Klein and lyrics by Matthew Hardy and directed by Sam Viverito. The production will play at the Theater at St. Jean, on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00 pm, November 28 - December 27, 2015. Tickets are $49.50 for regular seats and $59.50 for premium seats. For reservations and information visit www.vitaltheatre.org or call (212) 579-0528. The Theater at St. Jean is at 184 E 76th Street at Lexington Avenue

BWW Interview: Jackie Burns on Performing with Frank Wildhorn at BYU

Tony-nominated composer Frank Wildhorn will join three Broadway vocalists for a night of music at Brigham Young University that celebrates his hit musicals, including THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, JEKYLL & HYDE, and more. Jackie Burns graciously took the time to answer some questions for BroadwayWorld.

GHOSTLIGHT Gets Starry NYC Reading Tonight

Broadway leading lady Jennifer Hope Wills (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; WONDERFUL TOWN) will play the role of scorned wife 'Billie Burke' (who was famously married to Flo Ziegfeld, but was perhaps most known for he role as Glinda in MGM's classic THE WIZARD OF OZ) in the highly anticipated staged reading of GHOSTLIGHT the musical tonight, October 22nd at 9:00 PM.

Marvel Joins NYMF Judges Panel

Marvel, in collaboration with The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) (Executive Director & Producer Dan Markley), is excited to announce that it will hold a chair on the NYMF's Grand Jury, which selects shows for the 2016 Festival.

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