On Thursday, January 10, 2008 the entire cast of the hit Broadway musical Xanadu appeared in the popular 'Live at Lincoln' series at Barnes & Noble to celebrate the release of the original cast recording!
Glimpses of the Moon, a new musical directed by Marc Bruni. Glimpses of the Moon will play an 8-week limited engagement at Off-Broadway's Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel
On December 10, Broadway Veteran Chip Zien will host 'Monday Nights, New Voices' year end wrap up concert with a bevy of stars and New Voice alumni from this past years series.
PS Classics recorded the cast album of the Broadway musical hit Xanadu on October 29. The production, presented by Robert Ahrens, Tara Smith and Brian Swibel opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on July 10 to great critical and audience acclaim.
Naughty! The Musical World of Emmet Taylor Farkas, a new musical comedy by Leo Schwartz, will have its world premiere reading Thursday, September 27 at the Sage Theatre (711 7th Avenue) at 4:30PM & 8PM as part of this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival. Naughty! has been awarded the 2007 NYMF Director's Choice Award.
The third season of the acclaimed 'Monday Nights, New Voices' series continues September 10 at 7PM at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre. Coleen Sexton will host the evening featuring the talents of Michael Buchanan, Mitch Dean, Mark Fisher, Samantha Massell and Patti Murin. Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, Tony-nominated for there book and score of Broadway's The Wedding Singer, will be the evening's guest composer/lyricist team.
This flat out hilarious show is for people who love Broadway musicals but who hate Broadway musicals that are based on movies, have jukebox scores, sell on-stage seating, make the actors wear those mouthpiece microphones, wink at the audience with smarmy self-reference, are cheaply produced, are packed with jokes only gay men understand, really belong Off-Broadway and put the actors on roller skates.
The first musical of the new Broadway season, Xanadu opened on Tuesday, July 10th at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the star-studded opening night party!
The Jones-Schmidt musical Mirette, starring Robert Cuccioli, will be presented as part of the York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti series from December 16th through 18th