It's hard to believe that Reichen Lehmkuhl was ever thought to be ugly. In his autobiography, Here's What We'll Say, he writes of a note that a girl left in his middle school locker: 'She went on to tell me I was ugly, disgusting, and to top it off, a total geek.' He then discusses how he was considered unattractive even as he entered the United States Air Force Academy.
Against all odds, Los Angeles' El Portal Theatre celebrates 10 years of live theatre, following the rebuild of the historic movie venue, severely damaged by the Northridge Earthquake of 1994. To mark the anniversary, producers Jay Irwin and Pegge Forrest have programmed a line up of audience favorites and special events specifically catering to the historic theatre's loyal audience, including the return of the one and only Debbie Reynolds, Renee Taylor & Joe Bologna, Rip Taylor, Fritz Coleman, Adam Corolla, and brand new large-scale holiday musical extravaganza produced by the Lythgoe Family (So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars), plus a breath taking Parisian follies/cirque special for the summer.
Today, we are continuing where we left off last week in our complete overview of Stephen Sondheim's career in honor of his 80th birthday, as well as the opening of his new musical SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, by taking a listen to all the Sondheim-related soundtracks available on CD and MP3...
You may know her from Broadway's recent revival of The Seagull. Or, Come Back, Little Sheba. Or the feature films 'Revolutionary Road' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, 'It's Complicated' with Meryl Streep and Alex Baldwin, 'The Valley of Elah,' 'Me and Orson Welles'...the list goes on. True, she does bear the famous last name (grandfather is Elia Kazan), but Zoe is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and diverse up-and-comers in entertainment, and can currently be found every night at the Shoenfeld Theatre starring alongside Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Anthony Mackie in Martin McDonough's A Behanding in Spokane, directed by John Crowley.
Before the hit stage musical MARY POPPINS' three-month-long tour stop at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre comes to an end on February 7, BroadwayWorld's Michael Lawrence Quintos sat down with Bolger for a nice, long chat about his year on tour, his stay in Los Angeles, his video blog stardom, and his future plans after he dances his final super-CALI-fragilistic jig.
It's 'crunch-time' for gift giving and it's never too late to get a gift certificate from Amazon.com, who I wholeheartedly support, because I have yet to find better pricing on everything that my colleagues and I write about and review here at BroadwayWorld.com ... No, this is not a paid endorsement.
Happy Holidays to all the wonderful readers at BroadwayWorld.com! No doubt this has been quite the year for everyone, including me. With so many changes in our lives due to social and economic issues all over the world, this is a time of year when we have to look inside ourselves and find the simple things in life that we have to be thankful for and celebrate the joy of the season. Family and friends gathering and sharing some very special time with each other, reminiscing of times past and creating new ones.
Arlington's Erin Maguire makes her Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre debut as the national tour of 'The 101 Dalmatians Musical' parks and barks in Boston during Christmas week
Before arriving for a two-week run at the Orange County Performing Arts Center from November 17 through 29, SPRING AWAKENING's Matt Shingledecker sits down with BroadwayWorld correspondent Michael Lawrence Quintos to talk about his life on the road, his roots, and what it means for him to be a part of the hit stage musical.
Before arriving for a two-week run at the Orange County Performing Arts Center from November 17 through 29, SPRING AWAKENING's Matt Shingledecker sits down with BroadwayWorld correspondent Michael Lawrence Quintos to talk about his life on the road, his roots, and what it means for him to be a part of the hit stage musical.
The 'Bright Side of Life' will light up for just two more weeks as The Tony and Grammy Award-winning MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT makes its final stop (after an almost four year national tour run) at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on October 6 - 18. As a special closing treat, John O' Hurley (TV's Seinfeld, Dancing with the Stars, and Family Feud) will reprise the role of King Arthur for its final set of performances. Orange County correspondent Michael Lawrence Quintos recently spoke with cast members Paula Wise and Christopher Gurr about their long, soon-to-end journey with the hilarious musical comedy.
Last week, the Broadway community mourned the loss of multiple Tony Award-winning librettist, screenwriter and author Larry Gelbart, who died at his home in Beverly Hills on September 11 at the age of 81. This week, Mike Sacks of Vanity Fair released an except from one of the last interviews ever conducted with the legend for Sacks' book: 'And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers on Their Craft' (Writers Digest Books).
An original cast member off and on B'way and in London, Ann rejoined the show for its final months.
Broadway and Wicked star Eden Espinosa who is set to debut at the Ford Amphitheatre in 'ME' this Friday, July 24 with special guest Grammy winner Paula Cole sits down with Broadway World to discuss her concert debut, all things Wicked, the plight Brooklyn and getting naked in RENT!
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, continues its 10th Anniversary season with the return of platinum-selling singer and songwriter ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY for two performances only, June 6. In a rare solo performance, the acclaimed vocalist and songwriter will accompany herself on piano as she celebrates the release of her newest CD, 'At Last.' The show is at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).
The Associated Press reports that President Barack Obama's gift of an iPod to Queen Elizabeth II came packed with 40 songs from popular Broadway productions, including 'The King and I,' 'West Side Story', 'Dreamgirls' and 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
Blake Bashoff misses having normal hair.
Hes been playing the lovable, desperate, hairstyle-challenged Moritz in the hit show Spring Awakening for over a year, first with the Broadway company and currently with the first touring production of the show. The role of Moritz is a meaty, emotional tour de force for an actor, but it also means that Bashoff must go through not one, but two extreme hairstyles over the course of the musical?s two acts. And though Bashoff loves so many things about Moritz, he probably wishes that shampoo and conditioner were invented in late nineteenth century Germany.
One would think that the man who conducts the Boston Pops, the Utah Symphony and is the Artistic Advisor of the Summer Institute and Music Festival of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina to be pretty apathetic about Christmas music by the time fruitcake season rolls along, but that's not true with Keith Lockhart.
With today being Halloween, we thought it was a perfect time to re-run one of our most popular interviews EVER, a very special chat with the original 'man behind the mask' of the Phantom of the Opera, Michael Crawford.
When the first act of Warren Manzi's PERFECT CRIME ends, the audience sits in stone cold silence. The silence lasts for a few moments after the houselights are brought up and when the audience does finally react, they are abuzz about the convolutions of the plot that is unraveling before them. According to actor Robert Emmet Lunney it's 'hopefully because the audience is thinking; maybe even perplexed.'
Gadgets here! Gadgets there! No sooner than I saw 'Mark D' on my mobile when the text alert on the other phone was bleeping. That tagline read 'Hairspray Star!' So hold your thumbs it was 1st come, 1st served…..
BroadwayWorld.com recently held a special contest and gave one lucky Spring Awakening fan the opportunity to interview Hunter Parrish. The winning contestant was picked to have a q&a with Hunter live via telephone, well, that is what the contest originally announced, but we had something much more fun in the works, thanks to the very helpful Spring Awakening production offices we had the winner, Linda Buchwald see the show and meet Hunter in person to conduct the interview!
Hello this is Champaign Charlie Salem on my way from London to the highlands of Scotland for the world's largest theatre festival with BW's regular overview of the Theatre Scene from across the pond
They met during The Phantom of the Opera and these two have been making beautiful music together ever since.
Beloved TV M*A*S*H actor takes the stage in new comedy at New World Stages.
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