Based on the 1957 television production
There’s more to this classic tale than sewing mice and magical pumpkins. Ballet Memphis will reprise Steven McMahon’s interpretation of the Charles Perrault fairy tale as the season’s last mainstage show. The company debuted the work–featuring the famous score by Sergei Prokofiev as well as sets from the London City Ballet –during the 2008-09 season.
Producer Howard Panter for Ambassador Theatre Group and co-producers Tulchin/Bartner/Jenkins, Bill Kenwright, Darren Bagert, and Tom Gregory announced today that Craig Bierko (Tony Award nominee for The Music Man; Scary Movie 4) will star as 'Sky Masterson' and Kate Jennings Grant (Proof) will also star as 'Sarah Brown' in the new Broadway production of the greatest musical comedy GUYS AND DOLLS.
LAUREN GRAHAM (Golden Globe Award nominee for 'Gilmore Girls') will appear as 'Miss Adelaide' opposite Oliver Platt's 'Nathan Detroit' in the new Broadway production of GUYS AND DOLLS.
Just in time for the holiday season, Alan Ayckbourn's SEASON'S GREETINGS makes its return to the New York stage for the first time in over 20 years as Hudson River Repertory Company brings this hilarious and cynical comedy to the McGinn/Cazale Theatre beginning November 20th.
A new production of GUYS AND DOLLS, directed by Tony-winner Des McAnuff will begin previews on February 3, 2009 at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre. Opening Night is March 1.
The finale of Rubicon Theatre Company's celebratory 10th Anniversary 'Festival' Season is the delightful Bock & Harnick musical comedy SHE LOVES ME.
Village Theatre's highly anticipated annual Festival of New Musicals returns for an eighth year, featuring staged readings of six new musicals- Chasing Nicolette, Killala Bay, Dennis The Menace, The Alchemists, The Gypsy King, and The Yellow Wood. These are fully sung presentations, performed with script-in-hand, of six brand new musicals.
The daughter of a Vietnam vet, Megan plays one of the hippies in this summer's Shakespeare in the Park revival.
Today it was announced that GUYS AND DOLLS will open on Broadway for the first time in 17 years in the spring of 2009 at a Nederlander Theatre to be announced. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, this production is the first joint Broadway project by director Des McAnuff and Sergio Trujillo since Jersey Boys.
Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) announces its mainstage production of Little Shop of Horrors, a musical written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. It's a musical comedy to die for - literally! The musical is based on Roger Corman's 1960 sci-fi comedy and includes several show-stopping numbers including 'Skid Row (Downtown),' 'Somewhere That's Green,' and 'Suddenly Seymour,' as well as the title song. Little Shop of Horrors will run at the Millburn theatre from June 4 through July 6, 2008.
Venturing out of the chorus, André has had a lead in 'Pippin' regionally and a featured role in an ABC soap storyline.
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.
Franc D'Ambrosio, who's most known for playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera for most of the show's five-year run in San Francisco is going solo at Joe's Pubon Sunday night, April 30th at 7:00 pm.
Birdland is proud to present - direct from the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's Cabaret and Performance Conference under the new artistic leadership of Michael Bush (Director of Artistic Production for Manhattan Theatre Club) - award-winning actress Suzzanne Douglas in her brand new cabaret theatre evening, Lucky to Be Me, on Tuesday, November 15.
The New York Theatre Ballet will kick off their new season with The Nutcracker on December 3rd
Lauren Kennedy will join the cast of MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT as The Lady of the Lake on December 20, 2005. As announced previously, Simon Russell Beale will assume the role of King Arthur on the same date.
This November, Ruth Williamson, Suzzanne Douglas and Penny Fuller will perform their respective cabaret shows at Birdland
Harold Thau will present the New York premiere of ALMOST HEAVEN: THE SONGS OF JOHN DENVER, a new musical opening Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at Off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre (2162 Broadway at 76th Street). Directed by Tony Award nominee Randal Myler (It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues), ALMOST HEAVEN begins preview performances on Friday, October 28.
The New York Theatre has announced its 2005-2006 season of Once Upon a Ballet shows for children and families
The 19th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction was held on Sunday, September 25 in Shubert Alley. The Flea Market raised a grand total of $544,037 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Rob Evan has been cast as King Solomon in the musical Sheba, which will receive staged readings by the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab as part of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival
This December, DISNEY LIVE! WINNIE THE POOH will play a special month-long holiday engagement at New York's legendary Beacon Theatre (2124 Broadway at West 74th Street), December 8-28, 2005.
Performances begin Wednesday evening, October 19, 2005 and will continue through Sunday evening, December 4, 2005. Opening night is Sunday evening, October 23, 2005 at 7:30PM.
The off-off-Broadway Vital Children's Theatre has announced its season of 5 musicals for 2005-06
A new musical of the hit film Ever After will be directed by Doug Hughes and will feature a score by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich when it bows on Broadway in 2007
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