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A report in The Canadian Press says that comedian Mel Brooks is working on a musical adaptation of his 1974 film 'Blazing Saddles'. Brooks says he has written two songs for the show and is currently working on a third.
Legendary funnyman Mel Brooks is set to be a featured guest at the TCM Classic Film Festival in April. As part of the festivities, TCM will partner with the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as they honor Brooks with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which marks its 50th anniversary this year. Brooks will also introduce a festival screening of his first feature film, The Producers (1968), which earned Brooks an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, comes to Boston for a limited two-week engagement at the Boston Opera House April 20 - May 2.
The 2009-2010 season of Reprise Theatre Company continues with 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,' 1962's Tony-Award-winning Best Musical, March 16 to 28 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Directed by David Lee, the production's book is by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
WaterTower Theatre (WTT)' Laughter on the 23rd Floor will play its last show on February 7, 2010.
Santa Monica Playhouse & The Lord Chamberlain's Players present the Los Angeles premiere of New York-based Actor Mary MacDonald Hamill's solo show 'William & Mary (in Search of the Miraculous)' written and performed by Hamill with excerpts from William Shakespeare and incidental music by Michael Welsh, and directed by Rod Menzies. For two performances only, opening Sunday, January 17, 2010.
WaterTower Theatre (WTT) begins the new year with Neil Simon's classic comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
Rosemary Prinz, a veteran of Broadway and the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, leads the cast in The Cleveland Play House production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Lost in Yonkers is a touching and hilarious coming of age story and a very eccentric family.
Director, choreographer, performer and author, Margery Beddow, died Sunday, January 3rd at her home in NYC.
WaterTower Theatre (WTT) begins the new year with Neil Simon's classic comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
Santa Monica Playhouse & The Lord Chamberlain's Players present the Los Angeles premiere of New York-based Actor Mary MacDonald Hamill's solo show 'William & Mary (in Search of the Miraculous)' written and performed by Hamill with excerpts from William Shakespeare and incidental music by Michael Welsh, and directed by Rod Menzies. For two performances only, opening Sunday, January 17, 2010.
The Toronto Star is reporting that Catch Me if You Can, the highly anticipated new Terrence McNally/Marc Shaiman musical, may be having it's out of town try out in Toronto before heading to Broadway.
Rosemary Prinz, a veteran of Broadway and the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns, leads the cast in The Cleveland Play House production of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Lost in Yonkers is a touching and hilarious coming of age story and a very eccentric family.
Best known as a creator of broad film farces and uproarious parodies, jack-of-all-trades Mel Brooks has been entertaining audiences for years with his wacky and absurdist humor. Now just in time for the holidays, the king of comedy's brilliant work is available for the first time in high definition in The Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-ray Disc, debuting December 15 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
The Kennedy Center Honors medallions were presented on Saturday, December 5. The Honors Gala was recorded for broadcast on the CBS Network for the 32nd consecutive year as a two-hour primetime special on Tuesday, December 29 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT).
WaterTower Theatre (WTT) begins the new year with Neil Simon's classic comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor.
Stage and screen award-winning star Tommy Lee Jones has quit The Lincoln Lawyer film project over creative differences with the script, Variety is reporting. Jones had been confirmed to direct and star in the film alongside Matthew McConaughey. Lakeshore Entertainment is producing the piece, an adaptation of the novel by Michael Connelly.
THE NEIL SIMON PLAYS are the first Broadway revivals of two of Neil Simon's beloved Eugene Morris Jerome plays, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, directed by David Cromer. Brighton Beach Memoirs opened last night at the Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). Broadway Bound joins Brighton Beach Memoirs in repertory on November 18, with opening night on Thursday, December 10.
Broadway In Chicago is excited to announce Tony Award winners Roger Bart and Shuler Hensley will reprise the roles of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and The Monster in the first national tour of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein. The Chicago engagement will play the Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited six week engagement November 3 - December 13, 2009.
Best known as a creator of broad film farces and uproarious parodies, jack-of-all-trades Mel Brooks has been entertaining audiences for years with his wacky and absurdist humor. Now just in time for the holidays, the king of comedy's brilliant work is available for the first time in high definition in The Mel Brooks Collection on Blu-ray Disc, debuting December 15 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
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