Steven Jones News

Lyric Stage's BYE BYE BIRDIE, 1961's Best Musical Tony Award winner, opens tonight at the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Performance Hall. Lyric Stage's production will feature a 31 piece orchestra playing Robert Ginzler's original Broadway orchestrations.

Lyric Stage's BYE BYE BIRDIE, 1961's Best Musical Tony Award winner, opens tonight at the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Performance Hall. Lyric Stage's production will feature a 31 piece orchestra playing Robert Ginzler's original Broadway orchestrations.

Pandora Productions presents the satire of beauty contests, Pageant: The Musical, Thursday, May 6 through Sunday, May 16 at the Henry Clay (604 South Third Street). Tickets are $15-$17 and are available by phone (502) 216-5502 or online www.PandoraProds.org. Showtimes are 7:30 PM with matinees Sunday May 9 and Saturday, May 15 at 2 PM.

Pandora Productions presents the satire of beauty contests, Pageant: The Musical, Thursday, May 6 through Sunday, May 16 at the Henry Clay (604 South Third Street). Tickets are $15-$17 and are available by phone (502) 216-5502 or online www.PandoraProds.org. Showtimes are 7:30 PM with matinees Sunday May 9 and Saturday, May 15 at 2 PM.

The suspense is building . . . who will be chosen as 'Miss Glamouresse'? Miss Bible Belt; Miss Deep South; Miss West Coast; Miss Industrial Northeast; Miss Great Plains; or Miss Texas? Find out as Pandora presents Pageant: The Musical, premiering Thursday, May 6.

Pandora Productions presents the satire of beauty contests, Pageant: The Musical, Thursday, May 6 through Sunday, May 16 at the Henry Clay (604 South Third Street). Tickets are $15-$17 and are available by phone (502) 216-5502 or online www.PandoraProds.org. Showtimes are 7:30 PM with matinees Sunday May 9 and Saturday, May 15 at 2 PM.

Following last season?s triumph of Rodgers & Hammerstein?s Carousel, Lyric Stage Founding Producer Steven Jones has reunited director Cheryl Denson and music director Jay Dias for the world premiere of the newly restored The King and I, featuring a 35-piece orchestra playing the original Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations. Performances are June 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27 @ 8:00 PM and June 21 & 28 @ 2:30 PM. Performances are in the Irving Arts Center?s Carpenter Performance Hall, 3333 N. Mac Arthur Blvd,. Irving, Texas. Tickets, priced from $20-$50, are available online at www.lyricstage.org or by calling 972-252-2787.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND THE RE-INVENTION OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER, with Jac Alder and Steven Jones 'The words ?intellectual' and ?Broadway musical' were seldom mentioned in the same breath until the era of Stephen Sondheim, the dominant artistic force in the American musical theater since the 1970's,' wrote Stephen Holden recently in The New York Times

STEPHEN SONDHEIM AND THE RE-INVENTION OF AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATER, with Jac Alder and Steven Jones 'The words ?intellectual' and ?Broadway musical' were seldom mentioned in the same breath until the era of Stephen Sondheim, the dominant artistic force in the American musical theater since the 1970's,' wrote Stephen Holden recently in The New York Times

Ron Raines will play debonair Frenchman Emile de Becque in Casa Mañana's upcoming staging of South Pacific, running at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas from August 15th through 20th