Can-Can - 2004 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 3

Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center will present MEAN GIRLS, the musical based on the 2004 film, with performances running on weekends at the venue's East Los Angeles Avenue location.

Japanese band SiM will release the album HOOMAN AFTER ALL via UNFD, with frontman MAH describing it as a tribute to rock's late-nineties and early-2000s era.

The Tony Award-winning Best Musical 'Avenue Q' was groundbreaking when it premiered in 2003, but times have changed — and Ann Harada says that her character Christmas Eve is often a topic of conversation.

FRIGID New York will present its 29th season, including the Days of the Dead Festival, Gotham Storytelling Festival, and The Fire This Time Festival, with performances at UNDER St. Marks.

Theatre has always intersected with politics, and the presence of American presidents in Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre plays and musicals is a major part of this. Did you know that all of our heads of state have been featured in shows, whether as characters or as plot points that are part of the action? Dramatizing current and former leaders of our nation is a way to examine their affect on society at the time and how political events, even those of many years ago, still impact us all. 

Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, who stars as Katie Connelly in the Muny production of Meet Me In St. Louis, will be inducted into the Muny Hall of Fame, honoring her contributions in more than a dozen Muny productions over four decades.

TAKING BACK SUNDAY will commemorate the 20th anniversary of its album LOUDER NOW with a deluxe anniversary edition, according to a release from Big Picture Media.

The Actors Studio of New Jersey announced the full cast and creative team for MEAN GIRLS, THE MUSICAL, set to run at the historic Dunellen Theatre this fall.

Roundabout Youth Ensemble (RYE), an after-school and summer program for NYC public high schools, has announced the world premiere of the new play Stars in Relations by Lauren Urbanec.

Bassist and composer Hannah Marks will bring her quartet to DC Jazz Festival as part of an ASCAP Foundation partnership supporting emerging jazz creators.

Roundabout Youth Ensemble will present the world premiere of STARS IN RELATIONS, a new play by Lauren Urbanec directed by Jonah Fisher, at a Manhattan black box theater.

Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater in New York revealed a monthlong slate of jazz performances, including Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes, Monty Alexander, and the MIKI YAMANAKA TRIO.

Jesse Eisenberg's new theater-themed film, The Debut, will close the 70th BFI London Film Festival in October. Learn more about the film and its UK premiere here.

Ruth Eckerd Hall will present Home For The Holidays starring All-4-One. Sheena Easton, Ruben Studdard and Lindsey Webster, including a tribute to the late Peabo Bryson.

Zingher Productions will stage its debut show, a dark comedy set in 2004 about a teenager who kidnaps Tobey Maguire, at the Warehouse Studio Theatre.

If you have never experienced a Penguin Project production before, you are missing out. It is one of the most inspiring, heart-warming theatre experiences.

City Theatre Austin will present the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q, directed by Matthew Shead with musical direction by Carrie Culver, closing the company's anniversary season.

Regina is probably one of the hardest vocal tracks that I've been dealt. Just making sure: as an actor/performer, my instrument is part of my body, so preparing physically. I've been really, really diligent with both by this, it's so lame, but my workouts, my supplement regimen, my hydration, just making sure that I can give a consistent performance every night and do that while also in stilettos.

Let's go crazy! BroadwayWorld has just learned that 42 years to the day since Prince’s legendary film premiered, and three weeks since the album re-entered the Billboard 200, the stage adaptation of PURPLE RAIN will arrive on Broadway. PURPLE RAIN will premiere next spring at the Majestic Theatre, beginning previews on  Friday, March 12, 2027, and officially opening on Monday, April 12, 2027. We have all of the details here!

The Strokes' Reality Awaits is out now, their first album in six years, featuring 'Going Shopping' and 'Falling out of Love,' produced by Rick Rubin.

Nonpoint released a double version of new single 'Red Yeti,' one featuring Skye Sweetnam of Sumo Cyco, and announced their 11th studio album, The Last Word, via 361 Degrees Records, ahead of an upcoming tour.

Marc Anthony brings VEGAS...MY WAY! back to Fontainebleau Las Vegas's BleauLive Theater with five shows this July and August. Get ticket details now.

Tina Fay’s MEAN GIRLS, with the right level of farce can be a delightful experience.   Beck’s staging, inspite of a talented cast, was pleasant.  It could have been great with the right concept.  Go?, Of course! Most audience members, as displayed by the standing ovation at the end of the performance I attended, displayed their like-level of enjoyment.

The Crystal Method announced a 25th anniversary celebration for 'Tweekend,' including a limited edition vinyl release, a remix package, and a fall tour.

Broadway In Chicago is currently presenting the return engagement of & Juliet, the musical that flips the script on Shakespeare’s classic, imagining what would happen if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo.