Richard Jay-Alexander News

Disney legend and Broadway star Lea Salonga will be performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 11, 2008.

Spring Awakening star Lea Michele will making her Hollywood debut at Upright Cabaret in Mark's Restaurant (861 N. La Cienega Blvd) on August 15th, 2008. Michele will be staying in Hollywood after the concert to perform in the Les Miserables concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert will be directed by Richard Jay-Alexander (who also will be directing the Les Mis concert) with musical direction by Ben Toth. Tickets can be purchased at: http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=25950.

The ensemble has been announced for Les Miserables at The Hollywood Bowl.

According to recent reports, Rosie O'Donnell's next gig will be performing with musician and long time friend Cyndi Lauper on her upcoming 'True Colors' tour.

Disney legend and Broadway star Lea Salonga will be performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on July 11, 2008.

British actor Tom Lowe will be playing Enjolras in upcoming Les Miserables in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl. He will be replacing Aaron Lazar who dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.

On May 12th, 2008 Bernadette Peters hosted the launch party for her new book, 'Broadway Barks'. A long time advocate of pet adoption, Bernadette Peters and fellow actress Mary Tyler Moore started the organization Broadway Barks!

Les Miserables at the The Hollywood Bowl has completed casting, and BroadwayWorld.com has the scoop!

'Debra and Mary's Night on the Town' crosses the bridge and moves into Manhattan for one night only on Monday, March 31st at 8:30 P.M.

Bernadette Peters has been knockin' 'em dead with triple standing ovations on her recent concert dates. One of those ovations is for a song she wrote, both music and lyrics called 'Kramer's Song' which is a bonus in her upcoming book BROADWAY BARKS (with illustrations by Liz Murphy), coming out on April 28th.

J. Mark McVey, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Michele, Melora Hardin, Aaron Lazar, Rosie O'Donnell cast in Richard Jay-Alexander directed summer concert. We talked to the director and more!

Melora Hardin of NBC's 'The Office' performed at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, CA on January 5, 2008.

BroadwayWorld's own James Sims sat in on NBC's 'The Office' Star Melora Hardin's rehearsal before catching up with the actress to talk about her singing background, working with Alexander and how she juggles film and television roles with motherhood and song-writing...

It was announced today that Melora Hardin will be moonlighting from her day job on the highly successful comedy 'The Office' to entertaining at the Catalina Jazz Club with her show 'At the Water Cooler.'

This Monday, December 3rd at 8:30 p.m. DEBRA and MARY will present a very special MUST-SEE SHOW. The guest will be Producer/Director RICHARD JAY-ALEXANDER.

'Perfect Pairings,' the Bay Area Cabaret 2007-2008 Concert Season, features duo performances by top performers and vocalists in a varied season of theatre, jazz, pop and Broadway artists at some of San Francisco's most elegant venues. The season begins on Sunday, November 11 at 7PM, with the Bay Area premiere of Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker's 'Life is a Duet' at the Florence Gould Theatre of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park.

Tony-Award Winner and Broadway legend Brian Stokes Mitchell made his solo concert debut at the renowned Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 15, 2007. The After Party was held at the legendary Russian Tea Room.

Tony-Award Winner and Broadway legend Brian Stokes Mitchell made his solo concert debut at the renowned Carnegie Hall on Monday, October 15, 2007. Proceeds from the one-night-only appearance benefited The Actors Fund, celebrating its 125th anniversary! Directed by Richard-Jay Alexander, with Paul Gemignani as conductor and musical director, Brian Stokes Mitchell was joined on-stage by special guests Heather Headley, Phylicia Rashad, Nikki Renee Daniels and Reba McEntire. Also during the event, Patti LuPone presented the Actors Fund Medal of Honor to John Breglio.

I sat with Brian Stokes Mitchell on the lobby steps of Carnegie Hall, where one week from tonight, he will make his solo debut on the world's most famous stage with a 42-piece orchestra. Here's what he had to say...

Tony Award ® Winner and Broadway legend, Betty Buckley, has become the first female artist signed to Playbill Records, a join-venture partnership with SONY BMG Masterworks Broadway. Buckley's first CD as a newly signed artist to Playbill is entitled Betty Buckley 1967 and will be released on October 16th, 2007.