A Gershwin Musicade
Few cabaret performers electrify an audience. Peter Allen was able to do it with sheer energy, talent and drive. You had to see him jump on top of the piano to understand just how much energy was used up during one number. Hugh Jackman can do it. His personality and good looks alone drive both men and women crazy...and his stamina is also phenomenal. Then there's Alan Cumming - appearing last week for one week only at the Geffen Playhouse-whose extraordinary vocal style and devilish sense of humor can keep a show in high gear.
Book-It Repertory Theatre and 4Culture's Heritage and Site-Specific performance divisions partner to present a Book-It Special Edition: Two Wheels North, by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, adapted and directed by Annie Lareau.
BroadwayWorld sat down with Susan Egan and Georgia Stitt to learn a little bit more about their upcoming gig, 'All Knocked Up (again!)
Gavin Creel is ever-evolving as an artist. His career defines 'growth' and his music is continuous proof that Creel pours every ounce of his fairly bursting soul into each lyric. Gavin possesses a voice that transports the listener, be it coming from the stage of the Al Hirschfeld theatre every performance as he brings his 'Claude' to emotional life in the Tony Award winning HAIR, or tonight from the confines of Joe's Pub as he plays his first concert date in over 8 months. Tickets to the two-time Tony Award nominee's Joe's Pub concert were sold out within one hour of going on sale. A second show that was added to due to the demand sold out in ten minutes!
On July 20, 2009, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, celebrated it?s fifth birthday and announced the 2009 nominees at its annual sold-out event at the Carmine Street Recreation Center located at 25 Carmine Street.
British actor Hugh Laurie has vowed he will never return to the stage, for fear of losing his mind.
The star of TVs HOUSE has only stage credit, a production of Gasping in the West End in the 1990s, states that he 'couldn't do it again. I actually started to have out-of-body experiences and it was really very frightening. I would sort of lean my body and float around the upper circle and sit next to people and eat their crisps. It was really strange.' adding 'It was actually quite frightening. I really did think I was losing my mind. I just thought this is what stage actors do - this is something you have to go through. It isn't normal - it can't be normal.'
The Story of My Life is set to get its first post-Broadway regional production in Spring of 2010 at Act II Playhouse in Pennsylvania.
Artistic director Bud Martin wrote on the Act II Insider blog 'This is a show that I saw done as a reading in a play festival last year and wanted very much to do the show at Act II and then move it to New York. While I was not able to get it to Act II first, we will be the first ones to do it after its Broadway run. It is being directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. who has written and directed many shows, including AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'.
A special performance of 'Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not To Do It Again' by Jean-Claude van Itallie will be presented one night only, October 27, 2008 at La MaMa E.T.C. (Annex Theater), 66 East Fourth Street, Manhattan, to support the rebuilding of the century-old theater barn at Shantigar, the unique center for theater, meditation and healing located in Rowe, MA.
A special performance of 'Tibetan Book of the Dead or How Not To Do It Again' by Jean-Claude van Itallie will be presented one night only, October 27, 2008 at La MaMa E.T.C. (Annex Theater), 66 East Fourth Street, Manhattan, to support the rebuilding of the century-old theater barn at Shantigar, the unique center for theater, meditation and healing located in Rowe, MA.
April brought a shower of Upright Cabaret across Southern California as the Upright Boys celebrated their third-year anniversary by producing a star-studded re-grand opening, four solo engagements, and a benefit for The Trevor Project co-hosted by Neil Patrick Harris...
Well, imagine my surprise when I opened my mailbox and not only did I receive a copy of the new Betty Buckley CD, Betty Buckley 1967 (being released on Playbill Records, a joint-venture partnership with SONY BMG Masterworks Broadway), BUT accompanying it, was a 12 inch LP, in all of its HI-FI 'MONO' glory.
Part two of a three part series about recent graduates of the Towson University Theatre Program - an actor, a director and a playwright - all of whom have made the successful, if difficult transition to life as a working artist.
Lee is the winner of Any Dream Will Do, and the star of the upcoming revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!
WHO: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company WHAT: William Shakespeare's As You Like It WHEN: Friday and Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 5PM, through July 8: Sun. 6/10, Fri 6/15, Sat 6/23*, Sun 6/24, Fri 6/29, Sat 6/30, Sat 7/7, Sun 7/8. Saturday, June 23rd, As You Like It at 4PM, Henry V at 8PM. WHERE: Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City. HOW MUCH: Adults $25, Seniors 65+ $22. Buy tickets to both, and they are just $40.00. Kids are FREE with paying adult. CONTACT: 410-313-8874 or www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com
The on/off production could be on again for the end of 2007!
BARE Star Appearing in Solo Upcoming Cabaret Debut feb 1st
In which we wonder WHY Sarah Brightman wishes to ignore her past....The former Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to be a guest on one of our 100 channels here at XM Satellite Radio. She will be in the building at the same time as my daily live show.
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