Walt Disney News

Direct from the North American tour of MARY POPPINS, Steffanie Leigh made her Broadway debut in the title role last night, October 11 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, The West End's original MARY POPPINS, played her final performance on Broadway Sunday, October 9. Steffanie Leigh joins a cast that also features Tony Award nominee Gavin Lee as Bert. Click below to watch Leigh explain how she made it to the Great White Way!

Direct from the North American tour of MARY POPPINS, Steffanie Leigh made her Broadway debut in the title role last night, October 11 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, The West End's original MARY POPPINS, played her final performance on Broadway Sunday, October 9. BroadwayWorld was on hand for Leigh's debut curtain call and brings you photo coverage below!

The annual Halloween haunt at Walt Disney Concert Hall features the groundbreaking German horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Friedrich Feher. The projection of the 1920 silent movie will be accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by organist Clark Wilson on Sunday, October 30 (the night before Halloween) at 7:30PM.

As part of the LA Phil's World Music series, Goran Bregovic, the Sarajevo-born musical icon of the Balkans, debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall with his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra featuring a Serbian gypsy band, a string ensemble, an Orthodox male choir and two Bulgarian sisters singing back-up.

The English Concert, led by celebrated Baroque specialist Harry Bicket, comes to Walt Disney Concert Hall, Tuesday, October 11, at 8 p.m., as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2011/12 Baroque Variations series.

Nicholas Goldsborough in association with the Odyssey Theatre is presenting award-winning German theater and film actor Clemens Schick who will appear in Windows at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble for a limited engagement, October 26 through October 30, 2011.

Walt Disney Studio's Home Entertainment has just released BEAUTY AND THE BEAST:3D Diamond Edition. Among the bonus features of the newly released DVD are a musical conversation with Composer Alan Menkin and a behind the scenes look at the making of the animated full length feature.

Walt Disney Records is set to release an album of songs inspired by the new hit Disney Channel original series 'A.N.T. Farm,' performed by cast members from the show. The album features new and classic songs sung by Hollywood Records artist and 'A.N.T. Farm' star China Anne McClain, her sisters Sierra and Lauryn, and 'A.N.T. Farm' co-stars Stefanie Scott and Carlon Jeffery. The 'A.N.T. Farm' soundtrack, which includes the new single 'Calling All the Monsters,' arrives in stores and to online retailers on Oct. 11.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's dynamic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel plays the dual role of conductor and host in the first LA Phil LIVE concert of the 2011/12 season to be broadcast live in select movie theaters throughout the U.S., Sunday, October 9, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern.

Direct from the North American tour of MARY POPPINS, Steffanie Leigh will make her Broadway debut in the title role, beginning performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre Tuesday, October 11. Olivier Award winner Laura Michelle Kelly, The West End's original MARY POPPINS, will play her final performance on Broadway Sunday, October 9.

The Garden Theatre, in partnership with Walt Disney World Resort, presents two free performances of Mariachi Cobre tonight at 8pm and 10pm at the Garden Theatre (160 West Plant Street).

Helen Hayes Award winner Brian Childers (Danny and Sylvia) and Kimberly Faye Greenberg (One Night with Fanny Brice, Ghostlight at NYMF) will lend their voices to Broadway Does Disney, a one-night cabaret performance to benefit Theatrical Gems.

The Buffalo return of Disney's THE LION KING opens tonight, Thursday, October 6 at 7:30 pm at Shea's Performing Arts Center for a limited engagement of four weeks through Sunday, October 30.

The monthly hit series 'The Metropolitan Room Presents Broadway on 22nd Street' is back in October with Arbender Robinson (HAIR, THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE LITTLE MERMAID), Cailan Rose (HAIR) and Robert Creighton (CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, CHICAGO, ANYTHING GOES).

Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre will welcome 'The Lion King' for the first time ever in Disney Digital 3DTM from September 16 through October 6, 2011, it was announced today by Lylle Breier, senior vice president of worldwide special events for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The El Capitan will even provide 'Kid Sized' 3D glasses for this one of a kind experience. A special live appearance by Timon is also featured at every performance.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil), the Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA) and Bard College (New York) today announced TAKE A STAND, a partnership which supports social change through music, provides a national platform for pioneering educators, and advances work in music education within the United States, inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema.

The English Concert, led by celebrated Baroque specialist Harry Bicket, comes to Walt Disney Concert Hall, Tuesday, October 11, at 8 p.m., as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2011/12 Baroque Variations series.

REDCAT's 2011 Fall Season, featuring a dynamic lineup of living legends and daring new voices in dance, theater, music, film/video, visual and multimedia work begins tonight.

On the heels of the phenomenal success of The Lion King 3D - which will cross the $80 million mark at the domestic box office today - The Walt Disney Studios has announced limited theatrical engagements for four of its classic films for the first time in 3D. The following titles from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios will be released in 2012 and 2013:

Yum! Family Series Program and Stage One Family Theatre will kick off the 65th season of theater for young audiences with the literary classic Ferdinand the Bull.