Stage Entertainment News

The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. 'Fiddler' and the Paramount triumph and make plans, two Sondheim shows next year from Gary Griffin, the return of 'Hank Williams' and 'Last Five Years,' 'Parade' and 'Pirates' in short runs, and two Victorian musical dramas, spanning the pond...and more!

BIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, will offer $29 tickets to college students for its first four performances, April 2-5, 2013. Students will also be invited to attend a Q&A following the show with the cast and creative team members. 200 tickets per performance will be available at this special price when students use the code UNIVERSITY. Tickets are available online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com.

Hoy se ha presentado en Valencia la gira nacional de Los Miserables que comenzara el 17 de octubre en el Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria. A ella han asistido Julia Gomez Cora y Claude-Michel Schonberg, compositor junto a Alain Boubill de la obra maestra.

With Whoopi Goldberg in the audience, the Dutch version of Sister Act premiered in Scheveningen on March 2nd. Helmed by director Carline Brouwer, starring Carolina Dijkhuizen as Doloris Van Cartier, the show opended to largely positive reviews. Here's BroadwayWorld's summary of the reviews by the national newspapers.

Joop van den Ende and Henk Kivits have jointly agreed that Mr Kivits will step down as CEO of Stage Entertainment Group on 31 July 2013. Mr Kivits decided not to accept Joop van den Ende's offer to extend his contract as CEO of the international theatre company by an additional two years. Kivits has been CEO since 1 August 2007.

SISTER ACT, the family friendly, over the top spectacle with nuns that rock, opens at the Academy of Music on April 2 - 7 for a limited engagement as part of the Broadway Season, presented by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization. The press opening is Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 pm.

Stage Entertainment has just announced that Tanja Dik as managing director of Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties, market leader in the Netherlands.

Last week, it was announced that Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera (Das Phantom der Oper) will return to Hamburg. From December 2013 onwards, the legendary multi-award winning musical will be presented by Stage Entertainment at the Neue Flora Theater.

Cameron Mackintosh ha anunciado hoy que la aclamada nueva produccion de la obra de Boublil & Schonberg Les Miserables volvera a Broadway en marzo de 2014 a un teatro todavia por anunciar. Este sera el segundo revival del musical desde su estreno en 1987 en Nueva York.

Ab Dezember 2013 prasentiert Stage Entertainment den Musicalwelterfolg wieder in der Neuen Flora, dem Theater, das extra fur diese Show gebaut wurde. Mehr als 130 Millionen Zuschauer hat DAS PHANTOM DER OPER seit seiner Premiere vor gut 26 Jahren weltweit in seinen Bann gezogen.

SISTER ACT, the family friendly, over the top spectacle with nuns that rock, opens at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts tonight, February 19-24, 2013 for a limited engagement.

Michael Riedel reports that Simon Cowell is hard at work on THE X FACTOR MUSICAL, which just had an invitation only workshop in London last week, starring Alexander Hanson as the infamous reality show judge. The show, with a 16 million dollar budget is being co-produced by Cowell and Stage Entertainment, and features an original score by Steve Brown and a script by Harry Hill.

SISTER ACT is coming to Cleveland this March for a limited engagement! SISTER ACT is part of the KeyBank Broadway Series at PlayhouseSquare.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts just announced the stellar lineup for the 2013-2014 Broadway Las Vegas series running August 2013 to July 2014. The upcoming season, sponsored by Southern Nevada Ford Stores, brings many of Broadway's most beloved and famed musicals and plays to Las Vegas for the first time.

The national tour of SISTER ACT is coming to the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, PA from tonight, February 5-10, 2013.

Stage Entertainment in the Netherlands has issued a casting call for a Dutch version of JERSEY BOYS, the hit musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. JERSEY BOYS will open in the Beatrix Theatre in September 2013.

Ellison joins the cast to play silent movie screen siren, and owner of a voice never meant for the ‘talkies', Lina Lamont.

Direct from Broadway, SISTER ACT, the hilarious, five-time Tony-nominated musical smash, is coming to Houston. SISTER ACT opens at the Hobby Center on May 28 and runs through June 2. Tickets go on sale to the public Sunday, January 27.

Será el sábado 26 de enero, gracias a la colaboración de Stage Entertainment y la ONCE. Es la primera vez que un musical se hace accesible para personas ciegas.

A total of 35 established and emerging writers, composers and lyricists will converge on the Goodspeed campus this month to participate in the first-ever Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. The writing teams, representing more than twenty new musicals, will populate the campus, creating a truly exciting environment for discovery and inspiration.