On the Town Revival 1959 - Articles Page 21

Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for 'Will & Grace,' will play El Gallo, Lucas Grabeel from 'High School Musical' will play Matt, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener will play Bellomy in 'The Fantasticks,' which concludes the 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company at the Freud Playhouse May 5-May 17 (press opening May 6).

Northrop at the University of Minnesota continues is 08|09 season with strong performances providing the Twin Cities a global experience from four prominent international choreographers and jazz leaders revisiting the work of renowned legends such as John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Jeff Harnar with critically acclaimed cabaret show THE 1959 BROADWAY SONGBOOK.

The Cleveland Play House will present the following productions throughout their 2008-09 season:

At the dawn of the atomic age, before Boeing Boeing and Doris Day rom-coms, there was THE TENDER TRAP, a light sex comedy about a New York bachelor and the various women seeking to marry him. This will be the first New York production of THE TENDER TRAP since its 1954 Broadway premiere.

The Tony Award-winning Manhattan Theatre Club (Peter J. Solomon, Chairman of the Board; Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) dedicated its Broadway theatre the 'Samuel J. Friedman Theatre' on Thursday, September 4. The ceremony began at the theatre (261 West 47th Street at 8th Avenue) . MTC previously announced that it was renaming its Broadway home, until now known as the Biltmore Theatre, the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in recognition of the pioneering Broadway publicist.

Laura Benanti, a 2008 Tony nominee for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as 'Louise' in Gypsy had her caricature unveiled at the world famous Sardi's Restaurant on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008. We were there to catch all the fun as she was cheered on by family, friends and her co-stars!

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

Broadway By The Year, an extremely popular series of concerts held at The Town Hall, tackled the year 1959 on April 30th. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture all the fun as several Broadway performers took to the stage to sing songs from The Sound of Music, Gypsy, Fiorello!, Take Me Along, Once Upon a Mattress and more! We are pleased to bring you where no cameras have ever been allowed before in this Video Exclusive!

A cast of Broadway stars performed in Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959, presented by The Town Hall, on Monday April 30 at 8 PM.

With Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959 headed to Town Hall on Monday, April 30th, I checked in with the night's director Marc Kudisch to get the scoop on how he's approaching presenting this banner year for Broadway, which happens to include such little known tuners as Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Fiorello! and Once Upon a Mattress.

A cast of nine Broadway stars will perform in Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959, presented by The Town Hall, on Monday April 30 at 8 PM.

Curtains may not be the kind of show that flies you into musical comedy heaven, but for two hours and forty minutes it cruises securely in the air stream of sock-o.

The Town Hall will present 'Broadway By the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1959' on Monday April 30 at 8 PM.

Emily Skinner, the Tony-nominated star of Side Show, will be reunited with that show's Hugh Panaro when she directs him (and possibly duet with) him in The Town Hall's 'Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1938.'

Performances of THE PAJAMA GAME will begin Friday, January 27th on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre with the official opening set for Thursday, March 2nd. The limited engagement is scheduled to run 20 weeks through June 18th, 2006.

The area is bursting with theater companies--with both classics, and premieres of new works.