Stephanie McClelland News

The producers of the upcoming Broadway production of INHERIT THE WIND starring two time Tony® Award winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy have announced the complete 34-member company.

The first North American Tour of the Broadway hit The Color Purple will premiere at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) for a limited engagement beginning April 17, 2007

The box office at the Belasco Theatre (111 W. 44th St.) will open on Monday, January 22nd for R.C. Sherriff's play Journey's End, with previews starting on February 8th in advance of a February 22nd opening.

The Menier Chocolate Factory's hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors will extend its tendrils into the West End this spring

A limited edition, vinyl album of the Grammy Award-nominated original cast recording of the five-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will be released by Ghostlight Records on Valentine's Day, Wednesday, February 14

Multi award-winning actress and recording artist Elaine Paige will return to the West End to take the title role in the Broadway smash hit musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, the five-time Tony Award winning musical will preview at the Novello Theatre from 14 May, with press night on 5 June and opening night on 6 June.

Broadway's Tony Award® winning smash hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE welcomes Peter Bartlett to the cast on Tuesday, January 16th at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway).

Broadway's smash hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE toasted the New Year with its best week ever and a new house record at the Marquis Theatre, grossing $1,381,179. for nine performances for the week ending December 31st, 2006.

Tony Award winners Sutton Foster and Bob Martin, stars of the Tony Award winning musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, will be featured on NY-1's 'On Stage' this weekend.

Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel, who stars in the title role of the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone, will sit down with 'Broadway's Biggest Hits' radio host Bud Wilkinson this weekend to discuss both her own plans for New Years Eve and what she speculates her tipsy alter ego 'Beatrice Stockwell' might do to toast a highball to 2007

Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel, who stars in the title role of the Tony Award® winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone, recently sat down with Associated Press Radio's Jane Waldman to chat about the joy that originating her role in the hit musical has brought her this year, backstage Holiday spirit, and spending Christmas at her home away from home on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre

The Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone had its best week ever and set a new house record at the Marquis Theatre, grossing $1,073,880 for the week ending December 10, 2006

The five-time Tony Award® winning hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE recouped its initial investment on Broadway in just thirty weeks and less than seven months following opening to critical acclaim at the Marquis Theatre on May 1, 2006. THE DROWSY CHAPERONE paid back its $8 million capitalization during the week ending November 26, 2006 following 272 performances (240 regular performances and 32 previews).

Since its first preview on November 1, 2005 THE COLOR PURPLE has the highest cumulative attendance figures of any new Broadway show of the 2005-2006 season. Nearly 750,000 audience members from across the country and around the world have seen the production.

The 2006 NYMF Awards for Excellence were presented on Sunday, November 12th at the Hudson Theatre, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The smash hit musical, The Color Purple, nominated for eleven 2006 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and the recipient of a Best Actress Tony Award, for LaChanze (as Celie), celebrates its first year anniversary on Broadway

Chicago native Felicia P. Fields will reprise her 2006 Tony-nominated role of Sofia in the national tour of the hit musical The Color Purple, while NaTasha Yvette Williams will succeed her on Broadway

Tickets for The Color Purple in Chicago will go on sale to the general public on Friday, October 20

Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster, currently showing off on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone, will be featured on Sirius Satellite Radio's 'Seth Rudetsky's Studio A Cabaret' on Broadway's Best Channel 77 on Friday, August 11th

The Color Purple will begin the casting process in Chicago July 14 - 18 for the National Tour of the Broadway smash hit musical, which will kick off at the Cadillac Palace Theatre April 17, 2007