Sarah Brightman News

Sarah Brightman announces Mexico, US and Canada dates of brand new Symphony World Tour.

The Zipper Factory announces its June line-up featuring some old favorites and some new shows.

A New York return after 22 years! The Alloy Theater Company presents 'Tell Me On A Sunday' with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Richard Maltby, Jr. and stars 2007 MAC award nominee Maxine Linehan. The show will run on Sundays from now through May 18th at The Laurie Beechman Theater @The West Bank Café 407 W42nd Street.

Sarah Brightman's marathon promotion tour for the release of her new album 'Symphony' begins again, with the first stop being in Mexico. Additionally, it has been announced that 'Symphony' will be released in the UK on April 14. 'Symphony' concert in Vienna will be broadcast on PBS in March.

PBS will offer a wide selection of new features and concerts during its March 2008 line-up; including specials from Andre Rieu, James Last, Sarah Brightman, Daniel O'Donnell, James Taylor, Martina McBride and the High Kings. Shangri-La, a remarkable special from China, explores new dance horizons. And new compilations of classics include a Hollywood treasure chest of singing and dancing and a trip through the 60s. Continuing new music programs are also coming in March and April from signature PBS music series

'Symphony' by Sarah Brightman, the world's biggest selling soprano of all time, scores her highest U.S. chart debut this week at #13 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart with first week sales totaling 31,463. 'Symphony' is Brightman's first album of new material in five years.

Michael Riedel of the New York Post has added more fodder to the possibility of the up-coming concert version of Chess, at Royal Albert Hall May 12 and 13, may lead to a West End or New York revival.

To promote the up-coming release of Sarah Brightman's upcoming new album 'Symphony,' the celebrated recording-artist will cross the globe next week ... with her first stop in the US and a week of TV appearances.

There's a current rumor that the previously announced upcoming concert version of Chess, being presented in London, may head into the West End if successful at the two-night run in the Royal Albert Hall in May. Book writer Tim Rice, who wrote the book and lyrics purportedly stated: 'Rather than set up a £20 million production, we want to see how it holds up at the Albert Hall before we move ahead for an incredibly expensive production in a theatre.'

Casting has been announced for the London production of Jersey Boys, the Tony Award award-winning Broadway musical. The show will open in London's West End at the Prince Edward Theatre on Tuesday March 18, 2008, following previews from February 28, 2008. The London cast will be headed by Ryan Molloy as Frankie Valli, Stephen Ashfield as Bob Gaudio, Glenn Carter as Tommy DeVito and Philip Bulcock as Nick Massi.

Idina Menzel is rumored to star opposite recording-artist Josh Groban in the 21st Anniversary concert of Chess The Musical at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Monday May 12 and Tuesday May 13, 2008.

Sarah Brightman's much-anticipated new album, 'Symphony,' will be released in early 2008.

Lionsgate (NYSE:LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio and Twisted Pictures announced today that many of the top rock musicians were enlisted to record music for the Repo! The Genetic Opera soundtrack. Principal photography for the film was completed last month in Toronto, Canada. The film was stars Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, Alexa Vega, Anthony Head, Bill Moseley, Sarah Brightman and Kevin Ogilvie.

It is with a heavy heart that I reflect on yesterday's Thanksgiving Day Parade, here in New York...

The 81st Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade was held Thursday November 22, 2007 and broadcast nationally 9AM - 12noon on NBC.

Get Your Broadway Fix from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! Thursday November 22, 2007, Broadcast nationally 9AM - 12noon on NBC

Haunting the Cadillac Palace Theatre for the holidays, John Caudia and Sara Jean Ford head up a stellar cast in the National Tour of The Phantom Of The Opera.

Making their US performing debuts at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on Thursday, October 25 at 8PM are the acclaimed English soprano singer/actress (London's original Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, and Les Miserables) Claire Moore and Spring Awakening's Simon Hale (Strings and Additional Orchestrations) in 'Claire Moore and Simon Hale: Back 2 Back in Concert,' presented by Josephine Buchan.