Robert Creighton to Perform at The Metropolitan Room, 2/12 & 2/13
by BWW
News Desk - Feb 12, 2012
Broadway actor/song and dance man/award winning playwright, Robert Creighton, and special guests: Erin Mackey (Wicked and upcoming in Anything Goes), Laura Osnes (Bonnie and Clyde), Arbender Robinson (Hair), Heidi Blickenstaff (The Addams Family, The Little Mermaid), Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls) will be performing at The Metropolitan Room.
Robert Creighton to Perform at The Metropolitan Room, 2/12 & 2/13
by Caryn Robbins - Feb 9, 2012
Broadway actor/song and dance man/award winning playwright, Robert Creighton, and special guests: Erin Mackey (Wicked and upcoming in Anything Goes), Laura Osnes (Bonnie and Clyde), Arbender Robinson (Hair), Heidi Blickenstaff (The Addams Family, The Little Mermaid), Tituss Burgess (The Little Mermaid, Guys and Dolls) will be performing at The Metropolitan Room.
Allan Harris, Michael Lanning, et al. Set for CROSS THAT RIVER Reading, 1/26
by Nicole Rosky - Jan 25, 2012
Theatre Aspen is holding a private reading of the new musical Cross That River on Thursday, January 26th, in New York City. The musical is subtitled "a new musical about the black west" with a book by Allan & Pat Harris and Andrew Carl Wilk and music and lyrics by Allan Harris (based on an original story by Allan & Pat Harris).
SMASH to Sponsor 2012 Junior Theatre Festival, 1/13-15
by BWW News Desk - Jan 13, 2012
A thundering chorus of 3,000+ Broadway stars, students and teachers will lock step and raise their voices and hearts in song during the 2012 Junior Theater Festival, a monumental celebration of on-stage and backstage excellence happening January 13 - 15, 2012 in Atlanta, GA, it was announced today by Theater of the Stars president Nick Manos and Timothy Allen McDonald, founding chairman of iTheatrics. Presented by New York's iTheatrics and Atlanta's Theater of the Stars and sponsored by leading theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI), Disney Musicals and NBC, the Junior Theater Festival is the world's largest musical theater festival dedicated to groups working with elementary school, middle school and high school aged students.
STAGE TUBE: Jeremy Jordan Talks JOYFUL NOISE!
by Nicole Rosky - Jan 3, 2012
Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan and Queen Latifah star in the upcoming film 'Joyful Noise.' The film tells the story of two women who band together to stop a small-town gospel choir from shutting down. In the video below, Broadway's Jeremy Jordan chats with Dance On about what to expect from the movie!
SMASH to Sponsor 2012 Junior Theatre Festival, 1/13-15
by Nicole Rosky - Jan 3, 2012
A thundering chorus of 3,000+ Broadway stars, students and teachers will lock step and raise their voices and hearts in song during the 2012 Junior Theater Festival, a monumental celebration of on-stage and backstage excellence happening January 13 - 15, 2012 in Atlanta, GA, it was announced today by Theater of the Stars president Nick Manos and Timothy Allen McDonald, founding chairman of iTheatrics. Presented by New York's iTheatrics and Atlanta's Theater of the Stars and sponsored by leading theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI), Disney Musicals and NBC, the Junior Theater Festival is the world's largest musical theater festival dedicated to groups working with elementary school, middle school and high school aged students.
BWW Poll Results: Voters Want the 'Special Event' Tony Category Back!
by BWW - Dec 26, 2011
In BONNIE & CLYDE, the newest musical from Broadway regular Frank Wildhorn, Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes star as two small-town kids from the middle of nowhere that became the biggest folk heroes in all America. The production features direction by Jeff Calhoun, lyrics by Don Black, book by Ivan Menchell and music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by John McDaniel.
STAGE TUBE: First Look at JOYFUL NOISE With Dolly Parton, Jeremy Jordan & More!
by Kelsey Denette - Dec 19, 2011
Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan and Queen Latifah star in the upcoming film 'Joyful Noise.' The film tells the story of two women who band together to stop a small-town gospel choir from shutting down. The film is slated for a January 13 release - get a first look with the film's official full length trailer below!
Photo EXCLUSIVE: BUSTED! BONNIE & CLYDE Stars Confess Their Guilty Pleasures - The Melissa Van Der Shyff Edition
by Monica Simoes - Dec 7, 2011
Though innocent of the crimes committed by their onstage counterparts, the stars of the new shoot-'em-up Broadway musical, BONNIE AND CLYDE, which opened at the Schoenfeld Theatre on December 1, 2011, are no guiltless parties. For BroadwayWorld's newest photo feature, BUSTED!, we tracked down the stars and got them to confess their biggest guilty pleasure. In this third column, The Blanche Barrow Edition, we reveal Melissa Van Der Schyff's lazy habit: napping!
December Events Announced at York Theatre Company
by Gabrielle Sierra - Nov 22, 2011
The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces the recipient of the second York Theatre Company Noël Coward Prize, celebrating individual musical theatre talent; as well as the next three offerings in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series.
Laura Osnes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, et al. Featured on GEORGIA STITT Album; 11/29 Release
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 18, 2011
SH-K-BOOM RECORDS will release the new CD from GEORGIA STITT, the award winning and critically acclaimed composer and lyricist. My Lifelong Love features thirteen of Stitt's original songs performed by some of the entertainment industry's most exciting singers, including Jesse Tyler Ferguson (TV's 'Modern Family,' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Anika Noni Rose (The Princess and the Frog, Dreamgirls, TV's 'The Good Wife'), Brian d'Arcy James (TV's 'Smash,' Shrek, Titanic), Susan Egan (Beauty And The Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Shoshana Bean (Wicked, Hairspray), Heidi Blickenstaff ([title of show], The Addams Family), Laura Osnes (Anything Goes, Bonnie and Clyde), Christopher Jackson (In The Heights, TV's 'The Electric Company'), Michael Arden (Bare, Source Code), jazz duo Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli, Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow) and Michael McElroy (Rent, Broadway Inspirational Voices). The recording will be available on November 29, 2011. You can pre-order the album at http://sh-k-boom.com/georgiastitt.shtml.