Song at Sunset - 1998 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 15

Composer and performer Jason Robert Brown and Lauren Kennedy will present a special one-night-only concert version of The Last Five Years, Brown's 2002 musical that won the Drama Desk Award for Best Music and Best Lyrics, with the original Off-Broadway orchestra, Monday, March 17, 2008 at 7PM.

Laura Benanti, Alice Ripley and Tituss Burgess will join the previously announced Jason Robert Brown for the upcoming Strathmore Center production of Brown's acclaimed song cycle Songs for a New World

Aaron Sorkin will collaborate with rock band The Flaming Lips for a stage musical based on the band's 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.'

The producers of the new hit Broadway musical Grey Gardens- East of Doheny, Staunch Entertainment, Randall L. Wreghitt/Mort Swinsky, Michael Alden and Edwin M. Schloss, in association with Playwrights Horizons - have announced that the musical's acclaimed leading lady, Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole, has been invited to make a special appearance at The Kennedy Center Honors Gala in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, December 3

Don't Quit Your Night Job 5 took place at Joe's Pub on October 26th and BroadwayWorld.com has the exlusive photos from the event!

Maureen Moore, the respected performer who has previously gone on for such stars as Bernadette Peters, will serve as the standby for Christine Ebersole in the upcoming Broadway musical Grey Gardens; Dale Soules and Megan Lewis are among the other standbys, as well

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Chad Kimball, Lauren Kennedy, Christiane Noll and other stars will perform numbers from The Bill Russell Songbook in a free October 25th concert

Jason Robert Brown and Lauren Kennedy will take part in an October 24th benefit concert of Brown's Songs for a New World to benefit the fire-damaged North Shore Music Theatre

Disney has announced that Tarzan will being previews on March 24, to open on May 10, 2006.

Composer/lyricist/performer Jason Robert Brown will play gigs in Washington D.C. (on August 5th, 6th and 7th) and in New Orleans (on August 15th)

Composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown will travel to both Los Angeles and Washington, DC to perform in concert venues--on July 30th in LA, and from August 5th-7th in DC

Hugh Jackman will repeat his performance as the Boy from Oz' title role when the show comes to Sydney and Melbourne next year

Hugh Jackman will open his one-man stage spectacular in Sydney, Australia after its Las Vegas engagement

He's gone from being the Phantom and the Scarlet Pimpernel to president of the U.S.

Full coverage and interviews on the new concert staging...