Tom Wopat News

Jim Caruso is proud to announce the return of TOM WOPAT to the Birdland stage on Monday, December 27 at 7pm. This concert is part of the Broadway at Birdland series, which highlights performers and composers from the Great White Way.

The Broadway artwork for CATCH ME IF YOU CAN has been released!

Jim Caruso is proud to announce the return of TOM WOPAT to the Birdland stage on Monday, December 27 at 7pm. This concert is part of the Broadway at Birdland series, which highlights performers and composers from the Great White Way.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine, and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, will present the debut of television and stage star LINDA PURL on January 26 and 27, 2011.

The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 and broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

Image Entertainment is proud to share a celebration of the life and wondrous work of one of Broadway's greatest legends - the incomparable Stephen Sondheim. For the master composer and lyricist's 80th birthday, scores of the musical theater's brightest stars gathered to perform more than two dozen sensational numbers from Sondheim's unsurpassed canon. Many of these enduring songs are rarely heard and several are performed by the original Broadway cast members. David Hyde Pierce hosts this magical event with Sondheim's longtime collaborator Paul Gemignani conducting the New York Philharmonic. Directed for the stage and television by Lonny Price and filmed live March 15-16, 2010 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, this is a must-have addition for every musical theatre aficionado. SONDHEIM! The Birthday Concert is available today, November 16, at an SRP of $24.98 for the DVD and $29.98 for the Blu-ray; the concert is also be available via digital download. Click below for some preview clips!

Eisemann Center Presents continues the Spotlight Series with the Texas Premiere of The Man That Got Away: Ira Without George - The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 8:00 pm in the Hill Performance Hall and also at The 1894 Grand Opera House on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 8:00pm.

Eisemann Center Presents continues the Spotlight Series with the Texas Premiere of The Man That Got Away: Ira Without George - The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 8:00 pm in the Hill Performance Hall and also at The 1894 Grand Opera House on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 8:00pm.

Today, lead producers Margo Lion and Hal Luftig announced the complete cast for the new Broadway musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN. Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz will star as Carl Hanratty and Aaron Tveit will star as Frank Abagnale, Jr. alongside Tony Nominee Tom Wopat as Frank Abagnale, Sr. and Tony Nominee Kerry Butler as Brenda Strong. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN will open on Broadway on Sunday, April 10, 2011 at The Neil Simon Theatre, 250 W. 52nd Street. This new musical, created by a team of Tony winners, features a book by Terrence McNally, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, choreography by Jerry Mitchell and is directed by Jack O'Brien. Previews begin March 7, 2011.

On Tuesday, November 9 Scobar Entertainment Presents Kurt Reichenback direct from Rex Reed's IRA WITHOUT GEORGE at the Iridium Jazz Club at 8 PM and 10 PM.

Eisemann Center Presents continues the Spotlight Series with the Texas Premiere of The Man That Got Away: Ira Without George - The Lyrics of Ira Gershwin on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 8:00 pm in the Hill Performance Hall and also at The 1894 Grand Opera House on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 8:00pm.

This year's American Friends of Rabin Medical Center 'Best Of Israel / Best Of New York' Gala is shaping up to be an unforgettable evening. With Charlie Rose hosting for his 2nd year, the annual fundraising gala is being held in the newly renovated Empire Ballroom at the Grand Hyatt New York on Monday, November 1, 2010. Over 600 people will be in attendance, including diplomats, civic, business, medical and philanthropic leaders of their respective industries. Peter Riguardi, President of Jones Lang LaSalle is joining the gala as the dinner honoree.

On Tuesday, November 9 Scobar Entertainment Presents Kurt Reichenback direct from Rex Reed's IRA WITHOUT GEORGE at the Iridium Jazz Club at 8 PM and 10 PM.

The Broadway Cabaret Festival at Town Hall kicked off with a concert of hit songs that started on Broadway.

'Let's see if we can do this without a microphone,' peeped Jo Sullivan Loesser, as she prepared to fill the 1,495-seat Town Hall with 'Somebody, Somewhere,' which she introduced in the 1956 original Broadway production of The Most Happy Fella.  While the age of the widow of the great Frank Loesser is a fact you'll not find via Google, let's just say she's a few decades beyond the point where audiences would expect to hear such lovely, expressive and, yes, loud soprano tones from an unamplified voice.  The house, still and silent for those few minutes of bliss, finally erupted with appreciative cheers for the brief reminder of a time when all Broadway musicals were sung that way.

Yesterday, October 17, The Town Hall presented Broadway Originals. The afternoon featured songs and memories with performers reprising songs they introduced either in the original Broadway production or revival. This three-concert series, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for THE TOWN HALL, took place over one weekend and included Broadway Melody Makers on Friday, October 15th and Betty Buckley in Concert on Saturday, October 16 at 8PM.

BROADWAY MELODY MAKERS on Friday October 15th at 8PM, was directed by Scott Coulter, with musical direction by Ross Patterson. The cast also includes Tony Award ® winners Alice Ripley (Next to Normal, Sideshow) and Michael Cerveris (Assasins), along with Nellie McKay (Threepenny Opera), Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun, A Catered Affair), and Mary Testa (Xanadu, On the Town). The concert featured songs by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, and so many others down through the decades to the likes of Jule Styne and Cy Coleman, among others.

Lucie Arnaz (They're Playing Our Song), Sarah Uriarte Berry (A Light in the Piazza), Carole Demas (Grease), Loni Ackerman (So Long, 174th Street) and Nancy Opel (Urinetown), join the cast of The Town Hall's Broadway Originals on Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 PM.

Broadway's Melody Makers on Friday, October 15 - Starring Tom Wopat, Ana Gasteyer, Mary Testa, Nellie MacKay and More!

Lucie Arnaz (They're Playing Our Song), Sarah Uriarte Berry (A Light in the Piazza), Carole Demas (Grease), Loni Ackerman (So Long, 174th Street) and Nancy Opel (Urinetown), join the cast of The Town Hall's Broadway Originals on Sunday, October 17th at 3:00 PM.