Walt Spangler News

Garry Marshall and Paul Williams have turned the hit TV show into a good-hearted family musical that can stand on its own.

Atlantic Theater Company is proud to announce a one week extension of the world premiere production of Lucy Thurber's play Scarcity, directed by Jackson Gay. Scarcity began previews August 29, officially opened September 20 and has now been extended through Sunday, October 21 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company at The Linda Gross Theater.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced its mainstage production of Happy Days: A New Musical, based on the hit Paramount Pictures television series created by Garry Marshall who also wrote the book, with music and lyrics by Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning Hall of Fame songwriter Paul Williams

Atlantic Theater Company has announced casting for the first production of its 2007-2008 season, world premiere production of Lucy Thurber's play Scarcity, directed by Jackson Gay

Start with the gentle humor and imagination of a James Thurber, combine it with a mixture of hip and cute reminiscent of Charles Schulz and propel it with the humanistic passion of Frank Capra and you'll find yourself in the crazy and charming world of this off-the-wall musical

The New York Musical Theatre Festival's Next Link presentation of The Flight of the Lawnchair Man, playing from September 13th through 18th, will reunite its 2005 Goodspeed Opera cast--including Sweeney Todd's Donna Lynne Champlin--as well as much of its creative team

In the famous Act One finale of Mame, the musical's irresistible title character single-handedly revives the drowsy South, sending its courtly gentlemen and Georgia peaches into an ecstatic serenade of acceptance and very high octaves. It's a rousing number in the Kennedy Center's gorgeously-mounted production, but it's hard to find the same kind of enthusiasm with Christine Baranski filling Mame's jodhpurs

Linda Mugleston will star in the American Conservatory Theatre's production of the Weill-Brecht musical Happy End in San Francisco this June; the production will feature choreography by John Carrafa

Complete casting is now set for the upcoming Kennedy Center production of Mame, which will open at the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on June 1st after beginning previews on May 27th; the show, starring Christine Baranski, will run through July 2nd

The Helen Hayes Awards honor achievement, celebrate, and promote the Washington D.C. professional theatre.

Jeff McCarthy will play Beauregard Burnside in the Kennedy Center's starry summer production of Mame

Alan Muraoka will play Ito in the Kennedy Center production of Mame, which will star Christine Baranski and run from June 1st through July 2nd

Harriet Harris will play Vera to Christine Baranski's Mame in the Kennedy Center production of Mame

Casting has been announced for the Atlantic Theater Company's double bill production of Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room

A design team has been assembled for the upcoming Kennedy Center production of Mame, which will now open on June 1st rather than on the previously-announced February 18th