William Underwood News

The Broadway smash hit musical THE WIZ, with book by William F. Brown and music by Charlie Smalls, will blow audiences away July 7 through August 7, 2011 at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana. The production will open Sunday, July 10 at 7 p.m. Stacey Flaster will direct and choreograph. THE WIZ first opened on Broadway in 1975 and ran for four years (1600 performances). It made a historic footprint as the first large-scale big-budget musical featuring an all-African American cast. THE WIZ won seven Tony Awards including Best Musical and was produced in 1978 by Motown/Universal as a film starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, and Richard Pryor.

The Broadway smash hit musical THE WIZ, with book by William F. Brown and music by Charlie Smalls, will blow audiences away July 7 through August 7, 2011 at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana.

Fox Theatricals (Kristin Caskey & Mike Isaacson), Tom Gabbard, Amanda Dubois, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Nassib El-Husseini, and Thomas Lightburn announced today that they will bring TRACES, the acclaimed show by the Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers, to New York's Union Square Theatre (100 East 17th Street) this summer.

The Broadway smash hit musical THE WIZ, with book by William F. Brown and music by Charlie Smalls, will blow audiences away July 7 through August 7, 2011 at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana.

The Broadway smash hit musical THE WIZ, with book by William F. Brown and music by Charlie Smalls, will blow audiences away July 7 through August 7, 2011 at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana.

It's not a typo folks! This is not a review of anybody's production of "Sunset Boulevard," despite the vision mistakes of ALL of my friends when they asked me in writing where I was going. Instead, it's the seventh or eighth "Nunsense" musical (depending on whether or not you count one all-male show), that overwhelmingly popular and not-quite-as-critically-successful series of small-scale musicals by Dan Goggin, written over the last 25 years and featuring five characters in a series of wacky, real-time, semi-performance situations.

The latest addition to the hilarious NUNSENSE series of musicals is Playwright and Composer Dan Goggin's NUNSET BOULEVARD, THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL SHOW.

Chicago favorites Laura Freeman and Bradford Newquist with pianist William Underwood bring together a glittering mosaic of the world's favorite American music. The line-up features some of the best known composers and showstoppers from the past and current musicals. Whether it's the beauty of Rodgers and Hammerstein, the wit of Cole Porter, the tenderness of Jerry Herman, this show captures the full spirit of the American musical.

Chicago favorites Laura Freeman and Bradford Newquist with pianist William Underwood bring together a glittering mosaic of the world's favorite American music. The line-up features some of the best known composers and showstoppers from the past and current musicals. Whether it's the beauty of Rodgers and Hammerstein, the wit of Cole Porter, the tenderness of Jerry Herman, this show captures the full spirit of the American musical.

The Christmas Schooner brings holiday cheer to Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, from November 12 through December 20. The press opening will be on November 19. The whole family will enjoy this heart-warming story of a brave Michigan shipping captain who sails Christmas trees across Lake Michigan to the German immigrants in Chicago. The Christmas Schooner is a powerful, moving story with an exquisite score. Chuck Gessert will direct.

Three Cat Media presents Chicago cabaret favorites Rob Dorn and Laura Freeman in 'The Judy Garland Duets' at the Skokie Theater Music Foundation on August 16th, 2009 at 2:00pm. Join this musical tour-de-force as they pay tribute to one of the top entertainers of the twentieth century and her famous duets with such luminaries as Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney and many others.

Three Cat Media presents Chicago cabaret favorites Rob Dorn and Laura Freeman in 'The Judy Garland Duets' at the Skokie Theater Music Foundation on August 16th, 2009 at 2:00pm. Join this musical tour-de-force as they pay tribute to one of the top entertainers of the twentieth century and her famous duets with such luminaries as Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney and many others.