Paul Gemignani News

Manhattan School of Music has announced its annual Professional Musical Theater Workshop, taking place on Tuesday May 29 through Friday June 22, 2007.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that PS Classics will record the new Broadway cast album of 110 IN THE SHADE on April 23rd, 2007 to be released June 5th, 2007.

Sony Masterworks' reissues of the original Broadway cast recordings of Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday In The Park With George and Into The Woods feature heightened vibrancy and clarity.

New CD editions of four classic Stephen Sondheim musicals will be released by Masterworks Broadway this month.

Country music star/Golden Globe nominee Reba McEntire ('Reba') and Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate) will reunite this summer for three concerts of South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl.

The Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the full company joining Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald as 'Lizzie Curry,' Tony Award winner John Cullum as 'H. C. Curry,' and Steve Kazee as 'Starbuck' in a new Broadway production of 110 in the Shade, with a book by N. Richard Nash, music by Tony Award-honoree Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tony Award honoree Tom Jones and directed by Lonny Price.

Click in for reviews of Avenue Q: The Book, The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You?, The Alchemy of Theatre, We Bombed in New London, Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, Stop The Show, In Their Company: Portraits of American Playwrights, Fantasia: Life is Not a Fairy Tale and The Entertainment Sourcebook 2007.

Manhattan School of Music student, Micah Young, presents his revue 'The World Upstairs'

The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007. The musical - a New York Philharmonic premiere - will star Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Kimbrough, Brian Dennehy, Marni Nixon and Tim Jerome.

Tony Award-winner John Cullum has been cast as H.C. Curry, the father of Audra McDonald's Lizzie, in the upcoming Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade

Spamalot star Steve Kazee will play charismatic rainmaker Starbuck to Audra McDonald's Lizzie in the upcoming Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade

Among the winners of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, announced on Saturday, August 19th, were 'High School Musical,' Paul Gemignani, Patricia Clarkson and Cloris Leachman

Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark has found her next role--vulnerable ex-showgirl Sally Durant Plummer in the upcoming Encores! staged concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, which will run from February 8th through 11th at City Center

For many years the theater community wondered why Tony Award wining actress Patti LuPone had never been cast as Mama Rose in the various revivals of the legendary musical GYPSY...Finally, the part and the actress were brought together at Ravinia's Music Festival and the results surpassed expectations

Leo Ash Evens is making his Ravinia Festival debut this August as Tulsa in Gypsy, alongside Patti LuPone. He has performed the role of Tulsa twice before, most recently in Houston, TX opposite Andrea McArdle. Evens made his international debut in Moscow, as Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street.

San Francisco's PBS affiliate has a great collection of theatre-related specials for the month of August, including the 3-part 'Broadway Lost Treasures' series and 'Liza with a Z.'

Theatre stars and Broadway-related programs were quite visible on the list of 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominations, with 'High School Musical' and Hugh Jackman among the nominees

Arlene Shuler, President and CEO of New York City Center, announced today that the 14th season of its acclaimed ENCORES! series will celebrate the great Broadway revue, a form that flourished from just before 1900 until the early '50s.

The Manhattan School of Music's Professional Musical Theater Workshop, led by Artistic/Musical Director Paul Gemignani, takes place from June 5th through June 30th; Lonny Price and Joanna Merlin are among the faculty

Michael Siberry is enjoying life on the road as he tours the U.S. and Canada playing King Arthur in Monty Python's SPAMALOT.