2008 Tony Award nominees Patti LuPone, Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti from the Tony Award nominated production of 'Gypsy' will perform nationally on ABC'S 'Good Morning America' on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 between the 8 and 9 a.m. hour.
REVIEW: The First National Tour of The Color Purple lands for 3 weeks at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre.
Mario Lopez makes his Broadway debut joining the cast of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical 'A Chorus Line'.
After over 1,000 performances as Broadway's favorite big-girl Tracy Turnblad, Shannon Durig will take her final 'Hairspray' bow on Sunday, April 13, 2008. Amidst teasing-up her towering hair and busting-down TV segregation, Shannon has fostered a loving family among the nicest kids in town...
Mario Lopez will be making his Broadway debut Tuesday, April 15, in A CHORUS LINE. He is taking over the role of Zach, the demanding director who is casting the chorus roles for a new Broadway Musical.
Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Gypsy will reunite LuPone with co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti. Directed by multiple Tony Award winner and author of the musical Arthur Laurents, GYPSY began preview performances on Monday, March 3, 2008 and will open on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at Broadway's St. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street).
Without auditioning or formally training in dance, Jimmy has performed in four hit musicals on Broadway.
Transforming such a momentous story into a staged musical, as bookwriter Marsha Norman has done with The Color Purple, could not have been an easy task. What has ended up on stage more closely resembles a Disney spin on history, rather than a gritty realization of historical abuse. Yet, it strikes a soulful chord with a gospel and jazz aged sensibility, giving the musical an otherwise absent poignant heartbeat.
Venturing out of the chorus, André has had a lead in 'Pippin' regionally and a featured role in an ABC soap storyline.
David Henry Hwang's hilarious new play recalls the Miss Saigon controversy, Shakespeare's Cymbeline gets a gorgeous production at Lincoln Center and Barry Williams (a/k/a Greg Brady) shows off some impressive musical comedy skills.
Aaron Sorkin's telling of the the battle over television is dry and passionless while The Grinch gets even better in its return to Broadway.
The Lincoln Center Theater production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Mark Lamos and featuring Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris, John Cullum, John Pankow, Martha Plimpton and Phylicia Rashad, opens on Sunday, December 2 at 6:30PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Marilyn Maye scores big time at The Metropolitan Room while Young Frankenstein is a bit like a night at Scores.
The Lincoln Center Theater production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline, directed by Mark Lamos and featuring Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris, John Cullum, John Pankow, Martha Plimpton and Phylicia Rashad, is currently in previews and will open on Sunday, December 2 at 6:30PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Young Frankenstein is scheduled to officially open on November 8 at the Hilton Theatre
This Saturday, a national publication will be outside the Helen Hayes Theatre after the matinee (approximately 3:30pm) to shoot a group photo of as many Xanadu fans as they can to accompany a national story they are writing about the fANADUs.
PS Classics will record the cast album of the Broadway musical hit Xanadu on October 29.
The West Coast premiere of Oprah Winfrey's new musical, The Color Purple began performances at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre October 9, running through Sunday, December 9.
Robert Ahrens, lead producer of the Broadway musical Xanadu announced that Cheyenne Jackson will permanently assume the role of Sonny in the production.
Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre before moving to San Francisco
