Today we rewind to 2017, when Once On This Island was getting ready to return to Broadway. Once On This Island opened on December 3 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it played for 457 performances.
Channing Tatum stopped by pre-production rehearsals of the Broadway-bound Magic Mike The Musical. See Tatum visiting a dance creative session led by the show's choreographer,Camille A. Brown (Once on this Island) below!
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the Tony Award winning Best Revival will close this Sunday, January 6, 2019. When it closes this production will have played 29 previews and 458 performances. Once On This Island opened on December 3 at Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street) to rave reviews.
Need a refresher on this season's nominated shows before the Tonys tonight? We've gotcha covered. Catch a full review below!
Shubert Alley was the place to be on Friday afternoon as the best of Broadway gathered to perform from just about every show on the Great White Way! BroadwayWorld was in attendance and you can check out highlights form the casts of Dear Evan Hansen, Waitress, Come From Away, Spongebob Squarepants, Once on This Island and so many more!
Watch below as Dane tells us all about want this nomination means to him, how he's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Katrina tells us all about want this nomination means to her, how she's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Esang De Torres, a contestant on the Philippines television show Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids, impersonated Lea Salonga, performing a rendition of On My Own from Les Miserables.
Watch below as Casey tells us all about want this nomination means to him, how he's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Clint tells us all about want this nomination means to him, how he's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Hailey tells us all about want this nomination means to her, how she's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Jessie tells us all about want this nomination means to her, how she's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Peter tells us all about want this nomination means to him, how he's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Tom tells us all about want this nomination means to him, how he's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as David tells us all about want this nomination means to him, how he's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Tina tells us all about want this nomination means to her, how she's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as Taylor tells us all about want this nomination means to her, how she's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
Watch below as LaChanze tells us all about want this nomination means to her, how she's preparing for the Tonys, and so much more!
It has been an epic year for Broadway, with a whopping fifteen musicals having opened in 2017. Before we get wrapped up in the theatre season ahead, BroadwayWorld wants to stop and salute the shows that made this year great. Check out our 2017 wrap up below!
In this episode of THEATER TALK, preview the 2017 fall theater season with Michael Musto (NewNowNext.com), Patrick Pacheco (L.A. Times), Elisabeth Vincentelli (The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsday), guest co-host Jesse Green (The New York Times) and executive producer/co-host Susan Haskins-Doloff. The productions they discuss include 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'The Band's Visit,' 'Once on this Island,' 'M. Butterfly,' Junk,' 'Meteor Shower,' 'The Parisian Woman,' 'Farinelli and the King, John Leguizamo's Latin History For Morons, Time and the Conways, Torch Song, The Wolves, Oedipus el Rey and more.
The revival of the Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated Best Musical Once On This Island, directed by Tony nominee Michael Arden and choreographed by the critically-acclaimed Camille A. Brown, will begin preview performances on Thursday, November 9, 2017 and officially open on Sunday, December 3 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The show held its press preview earlier today and BroadwayWorld has footage and interviews below!
Today we celebrate the original production of Once on This Island, which opened on this day in 1990.
In a new episode of the YouTube video series 'Journey to the Island,' the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Once on the Island discuss what it's been like working together so far, and how they already think of each other as a family.
Today, producers Ken Davenport and Hunter Arnold announced that Hailey Kilgore, an 18 year-old Oregon native, will make her Broadway debut as Ti Moune in the new Broadway production of Once On This Island, which will play the Circle in the Square Theatre (235 W. 50th street, NYC) this fall. Click below to go behind the scenes on the international search for Ti Moune, plus see a message from Hailey!
Beloved Broadway shows were stripped down, sexied up and given a Broadway Bares twist at this year's edition of Broadway Bares Fire Island. Inspired by some of the theatre's greatest hits and set to pop music, the evening brought Broadway style to classic striptease. Twenty-six of New York City's best dancers came together in Fire Island Pines on June 3, 2017, and raised a record-breaking $56,533 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Watch highlights from the show below, plus click here for photos!
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