Robert Lopez News

Two London musical hits - the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita and the transfer of the Broadway hit Avenue Q - have extended their runs.

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Recent news for Avenue Q includes an Olivier Award nomination, a new 'Scrubs' episode and a new house record

The nominations have been announced for the 2007 Laurance Olivier Awards, the UK's most prestigious theatrical awards. The awards will be presented on February 18, 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

On an upcoming episode of SCRUBS, D'Abruzzo plays a medical patient who checks in to the hospital complaining of hearing incessant music. The hospital is very quickly turned into a stage. I checked in with D'Abruzzo to get the full scoop!

Tomorrow night's special 9PM ET episode of NBC TV's popular comedy 'Scrubs' - subtitled 'My Musical,' with original songs by Avenue Q's Tony winning songwriting team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx - will feature Avenue Q Tony Award-nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo as its guest star

According to a casting notice, Avenue Q will soon be embarking on a national tour

San Francisco State University's Theatre Arts Department and Player's Club presents 'Urinetown,' the musical by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman, directed by Joey Price. Performances begin February 1 through 11 at the Studio Theatre.

'Avenue Q' breaks house record at the John Golden Theatre for the fourth consecutive year.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), an annual three-week event created in 2004 to smash the developmental glass ceiling and highlight the vibrant community of writers and artists working in musical theatre today, will be accepting open submissions from January 1 through March 1 for its fourth season. This year's festival will run from September 17 through October 7, 2007.

For the fourth consecutive year, AVENUE Q has set a box office record at the John Golden Theatre (252 West 45th St.) on Broadway. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical broke its own box office record -- yet again -- with an all-time high of $665,181 for the week ending December 31, 2006.

The creators of Avenue Q will be joined by Kate Monster and other cast members from the Tony-winning musical at this Live at Lincoln event featuring a special musical performance to celebrate Avenue Q: The Book-the complete guide to the quirky, fantastically funny Broadway show.

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, has joined forces with prolific cabaret producer Jamie deRoy on a new CD celebrating songwriters from the worlds of Broadway, pop, country and cabaret.

Avenue Q: The Book, the companion book to the Tony Award-winning hit Broadway musical about young people with big dreams and tiny bank accounts trying to make it in New York, was released by Hyperion on November 1st

This Saturday, November 4, the cast of Into the Weeds welcomes back Stephanie D'Abruzzo as the guest star of the evening.

Kelli Sawyer and Robert McClure will join the cast of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q on October 30th

Trekkie Monster and Lucy The Slut are all dressed up with places to go this Halloween

On October 16, TheatreworksUSA, the leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, was pleased to honor Kaki Hinton, Bebe Neuwirth and Tony Phelan with the Lee Salk Goodworks Award.

For the second time, the hit London production of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q has been extended

TheatreworksUSA's October 16th gala will feature Sandra Oh and Marin Mazzie, among other stars, while Bebe Neuwirth will be among the honorees