The iconic theater diva and star of 24 - count 'em, 24 - Broadway shows including 'Evita,' 'Master Class,' 'Noises Off,' 'Anything Goes' and 'Sweeney Todd' brought all the songs she 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda' sung, plus a few more, to The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH this past weekend
Turtle Shell Productions is announcing the world premiere of new musical Fritz & Froyim, with book and lyrics by Norman Beim (Success) and music by Mark Barkan (writer for Nat King Cole, Vic Damone, Elvis Presley and Paul Anka) and Rolf Barnes (composer, conductor for Volpe). The show is based on Romain Gary's novel The Dance of Genghis Cohn, and will be directed by Turtle Shell Productions Artistic Director John W. Cooper.
Broadway and cabaret star Yvonne Constant will return to Danny's Skylight Room on November 8th at 7 PM with her show La Chanson Realiste: Paris in the Twenties with Musical Director Russ Kassoff.
Barbara Streisand's early TV special 'Ny Name is Barbra' will be one of the music specials featured in a starry pledge week on PBS from December 3rd through 11th
Waiting for the Moon, Frank Wildhorn's new musical based on the rocky marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, will open at New Jersey's Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center on July 20th
Patti LuPone will perform her concert The Lady with the Torch at the Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center on June 25th and 26th as part of the Lenape's fourth Summer Series
There were some wonderful offerings on the stages of Philadelphia and South Jersey last year and this year is proving to be another exciting year for some of Broadway's favorites. Some shows are hot off the Great White Way, while others are fresh new revivals or solid standing favorites. A few shows and events are exciting new premiers that the Philly area theater crowd always welcomes with open arms.
