Stage Holding News

Der Sender Hamburg 1 Fernsehen ehrte gestern in einer TV Gala Menschen und Organisationen, die sich in besonderer Weise um die Hansstadt Hamburg verdient gemacht haben.

The Pittsburgh International Children's Festival, a division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will present the 23rd annual festival May 13-17, 2009, in various venues throughout the city's university district of Oakland. The Festival is currently one of only four international theater festivals for children in the United States. Featured Children's Festival performance sites include Charity Randall Theatre, Studio Theatre, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Synod Hall and Carnegie Lecture Hall. The Festival grounds, free to the public, will complement the featured performances with hands-on cultural and educational activities, roving artists, booths, and exhibitors. The Target Community Stage returns this year as the center of outdoor Festival activities. The stage features a lively mix of professional artists and regional performance groups.

The Pittsburgh International Children's Festival, a division of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, will present the 23rd annual festival May 13-17, 2009, in various venues throughout the city's university district of Oakland. The Festival is currently one of only four international theater festivals for children in the United States. Featured Children's Festival performance sites include Charity Randall Theatre, Studio Theatre, Bellefield Hall Auditorium, Synod Hall and Carnegie Lecture Hall. The Festival grounds, free to the public, will complement the featured performances with hands-on cultural and educational activities, roving artists, booths, and exhibitors. The Target Community Stage returns this year as the center of outdoor Festival activities. The stage features a lively mix of professional artists and regional performance groups.

Tony Adams, the veteran film and stage producer whose credits include Blake Edwards' Pink Panther hits, S.O.B. '10,' and the film and stage versions of Victor/Victoria died Saturday, October 22nd, of a stroke at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. He was surrounded by family and friends. He was 52 years old.

Robin de Levita, Dragone and The Firm have announced the creative team for CARMEN: The Musical, based on the classic 1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée, directed by Franco Dragone. With music by John Ewbank, and a book by Sarah Miles, a developmental staging will be work-shopped later this year, with a Broadway production targeted for the 2006/07 season.

Jersey Boys, the Four Seasons musical, will open at the Virginia Theatre this season after a smash run at the La Jolla Playhouse

Following its hugely successful 12 week run from November 2004, the International Tour of MAMMA MIA! which is currently in Estonia following a sold out season in South Africa, will go to Paris, Brussels, Lisbon, Zurich, Vienna and various German cities before returning to Edinburgh on 29th March 2005 for an 8 week season.

The 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit play 12TH PREMISE, by Los Angeles playwright Brian Crano, will have its U.S. Premiere at The Lillian Theatre (1076 Lillian Way in Hollywood). Kristin Hanggi, who won both the LA Weekly and the LADCC Awards for Best Direction for the Ovation Award-winning musical bare, is set to stage this dramatic play about twenty-something college students emerging into the real world. Presented by Chaotic Entertainment, the limited engagement begins performances on March 3, 2005 with an official press opening on March 10, 2005.

Tickets go on sale for Broadway's GOOD VIBRATIONS, the new musical featuring the songs of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, beginning Sunday, November 7 by phone through Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200 or online at Telecharge.com; and in person at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre box office (230 West 49th Street) beginning Monday, November 8.

Casting has been announced for GOOD VIBRATIONS, the new musical featuring the songs of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, which will come to Broadway this December. Directed and choreographed by John Carrafa (Tony Award nominee for Urinetown and Into the Woods), GOOD VIBRATIONS will begin preview performances on December 20, 2004 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street). The official opening date is January 27, 2005.

For technical reasons BARE: A POP OPERA will resume performances two weeks later than announced. Performances at Dodger Stages (340 West 50th Street) will begin on Wednesday, October 27. Productions in the four other theaters at Dodger Stages will open as scheduled.

Dodger Stages opened on Sep. 9 with a ceremony hosted by Mandy Patinkin.