Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, www.TheProducersPerspective.com) will present the second offering of THE DAVENPORT DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES, four readings of new works (plays and/or musicals), on Monday, June 14th at the Mint Theater (311 West 43rd Street/3rd floor): Steven Owad's Heartland, directed by Stafford Arima.
Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, www.TheProducersPerspective.com) will present HEARTLAND as the second selection in THE DAVENPORT DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES, four readings of new works (plays and/or musicals), on Monday, June 14th at a theater TBD.
Today we continue our series of conversations with the recipients of the 2010 Tony Awards for Special Achievement which this year is being awarded to the Alzheimer's Association of America and their spokesperson: Broadway, film and television star - and past Tony-winner - David Hyde Pierce. In the first part of this discussion yesterday, I spoke to Harry Johns, the CEO of the organization. Now, in the second part, I speak to the magnetic and magnanimous Mr. Hyde Pierce himself.
The David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center) in association with Davenport Theatrical Enterprises will present the world premiere of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage in the Jaeb Theater, beginning a limited engagement on Wednesday, June 9 and continuing through July 3.
Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, www.TheProducersPerspective.com) will present the second offering of THE DAVENPORT DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES, four readings of new works (plays and/or musicals), on Monday, June 14th at the Mint Theater (311 West 43rd Street/3rd floor): Steven Owad's Heartland, directed by Stafford Arima.
On June 21, New York's The Acting Company will host ONE ENCHANTED EVENING: RODGERS, RODGERS, AND GUETTEL, a benefit celebrated the music of Richard Rodgers, daughter Mary Rodgers, and grandson Adam Guettel. The benefit will be directed by Christopher Gattelli with musical direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and will feature many theatrical luminaries.
YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, is pleased to announce that famed dancer/choreographer Desmond Richardson has joined its Board of Trustees. Richardson will be one of two YoungArts Alumni representatives on the Board.
The Awesome 80s Prom now in its 6th year at the famed club Webster Hall (125 East 11th Street), will welcome Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech from the hit TV series 'Saved by the Bell,' beginning May 21st, for six weeks only, through June 26th. Davenport has been busy revising the script and creating a special role for Diamond to play, the role of Dustin Diamond, himself.
Michael Riedel, in today's New York Post reports that Sutton Foster has been cast in an upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company revival of ANYTHING GOES.
Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, www.TheProducersPerspective.com) will present the first industry-only reading of MISS ABIGAIL'S GUIDE TO DATING, MATING, AND MARRIAGE! (based on the book by Abigail Grotke) on Friday April 30th at Theater Three (home of the Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, between Eighth & Ninth Avenues).
Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones, currently starring in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music, led the all-star cast performing in Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebration on April 26 at New York City Center. Like Lansbury and Zeta-Jones, all of the performers have either originated Sondheim characters or performed them in notable revivals. As a group, the gala's performers have appeared in more than 75 Sondheim shows. The gala, directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle, highlighted numbers from shows for which Sondheim has written both music and lyrics, and featured a full orchestra conducted by Encores! Music Director Rob Berman. The benefit will help fund New York City Center's artistic and education programs. In addition, a portion of the evening's proceeds will go to Young Playwrights Inc, a charity of great importance to Sondheim.
ENRON began previews on Broadway on April 8, 2010 at The Broadhurst Theatre and opened last night, April 27, 2010. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the starry opening night arrivals.
Utilizing songs from John Denver, one of America's most cherished songwriters and performers, A MOMENT IN TIME, is about a marine in Afghanistan who, moments before a battle, recalls a safer, happier place. The new musical will get its world premiere at Five Towns College, Dix Hills, New York, on June 25-27, 2010.
Raul Esparza will be appearing in the Center Theatre Group's production of Leap of Faith, which Esparza participated in a reading for in the past. The world-premiere will take place Sept. 5-Oct. 17. With music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Glenn Slater, Leap of Faith is based on the Steve Martin film of the same title. Tony award-winner Rob Ashford will be directing and choeographing.
Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, www.TheProducersPerspective.com) will present the first industry-only reading of MISS ABIGAIL'S GUIDE TO DATING, MATING, AND MARRIAGE! (based on the book by Abigail Grotke) on Friday April 30th at Theater Three (home of the Mint Theater, 311 West 43rd Street, between Eighth & Ninth Avenues).
Leap of Faith, the new musical based off of the 1992 Steve Martin Film, will have its world premiere September 5th through October 17. The production will officially open September 26, and will play Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre.
Today we are taking a listen to Stephen Sondheim's musicals of the 1980s, each a striking artistic achievement attempting to do something never done before in Broadway history and improving the very genre of musical theatre itself with his work on these three very different shows. MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and INTO THE WOODS...
Lately, my favorite part of Broadway has been the extras - the bonuses - what happens when the shows are dark.
Today, we are taking a listen to ANYONE CAN WHISTLE and COMPANY, two of the most genre-bending and revolutionary musicals of the latter twentieth century, both boasting Sondheim's strongest songs of the sixties. These recordings contain some of the most legendary and illustrious Broadway casts of all time and include the names Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Bernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch, Raul Esparza, Dean Jones, Larry Kert and Jane Krakowski, just to name a few...
ANYONE CAN WHISLTE is an experimental satire that takes aim at every target on the American cultural scene of the moment-conformity, psychology, race relations, greed, religion and politics. It divided the critics, thrilled the emerging counter-culture, baffled the masses, and became an instant legend-one that has grown over the years along with Sondheim's reputation. The title song and 'With So Little to Be Sure Of' have survived as cabaret classics, but the rarely heard complete score is a riot of jazzy, show-biz razzmatazz, waltzes, gospel numbers and Broadway pastiche, as full of variety and surprise as the show that gave birth to it.
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