Newsies The Musical - 2012 - Broadway Articles Page 11

Members of THE BOOK OF MORMON cast stood next to the NEWSIES company backstage at the 2012 Tony Awards on June 10 and caught their reaction to Christopher Gattelli's Tony win for Best Choreography. Check out the video below!

Homeless youth working towards brighter futures will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with Broadway stars at Covenant House's A Night of Broadway Stars gala tonight, June 12 on the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. A Night of Broadway Stars starts at 6:00 pm with a cocktail reception. The show begins at 7:30 pm, followed by a dessert reception with the stars.

It's Tony Award Month on The Lynne Show, which is set to feature interviews with NEWSIES director Jeff Calhoun, set and costume designer Tobin Ost and actor Laura Osnes, and BONNIE AND CLYDE THE MUSICAL's Jeremy Jordan. See details below.

At last night's 2012 Tonys, NEWSIES took home two awards- Best Score and Best Choreography. The whole NEWSIES team gave fans an inside look throughout the night, chronicling their experience from their big performance, to Alan Menken's win. Check out videos from the cast below!

Alan Menken and Jack Feldman are this year's recipients of the Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) Written for Theatre for NEWSIES. An eight-time Oscar winner, this is Menken's first Tony Award. Click below to hear from the maestro and partner Jack Feldman on his newest achievement.

Christopher Gattelli is the recipient for this year's Tony Award for Best Choreography for NEWSIES. Following his win, an emotional Gattelli spoke with BroadwayWorld about what the whole expereince has meant for him.

In anticipation of tonight's Tony Awards, the cast of NEWSIES, nominated for Best Musical and seven other awards, performs Tony tributes to Promises, Promises, Avenue Q and Dreamgirls. Check out the videos below!

It's Tony Award Month on The Lynne Show, which is set to feature interviews with NEWSIES director Jeff Calhoun, set and costume designer Tobin Ost and actor Laura Osnes, and BONNIE AND CLYDE THE MUSICAL's Jeremy Jordan. See details below.

It's Tony Award Month on The Lynne Show, which is set to feature interviews with NEWSIES director Jeff Calhoun, set and costume designer Tobin Ost and actor Laura Osnes, and BONNIE AND CLYDE THE MUSICAL's Jeremy Jordan. See details below.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger teams up with his favorite ladies of musical theatre to chat and sing. Episode One features Maddy Trumble. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Maddy Trumble has performed in the first national tour of MARY POPPINS (ensemble, u/s Mary), and most recently made her Broadway debut in NEWSIES.

Jess, a 'So You Think You Can Dance' finalist last year, is a Broadway veteran at 19.

Do you ever wonder what your favorite Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tour and regional stars are doing during intermission? Thanks to NEWSIES' Andrew Keenan-Bolger (@KeenanBlogger), dedicated performers and excited fans, now you can see for yourself. Keenan-Bolger started the trend when he was in Mary Poppins three years ago. Keenan-Bolger Tweeted today, May 26: 'Hey theatre tweeps, its time for Saturday Intermission Pics! Snap a pic of you or ur cast at intermish and tag #SIP'

Whoopi Goldberg, who previously hosted the cast of NEWSIES on THE VIEW, attended the May 23 evening performance of the new Broadway musical. In the photo below, Goldberg poses with leading lady Kara Lindsay, and the show's Tony-nominated star, Jeremy Jordan.

NEWSIES is now in previews at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre. The musical, featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will open on March 29th. In the video below, meet one of the characters from the show- Katherine, played by Kara Lindsay!

Our focus is 'Newsies,' the crowd-pleasing musical nominated for 8 Tony Awards. Joining us at our grand piano are the show's composer Alan Menken, and librettist Harvey Fierstein (both also nominated for Tony Awards), who describe the popular show's incubation period, and perform several of the show's best songs, plus a couple of others that didn't make the cut. Menken also shares a tune from the score of the original 1992 movie of 'Newsies,' which won him that year's 'Razzie 'Award for Worst Song.

Harvey Fierstein and Alan Menken - librettist and composer of the new crowd-pleasing musical Newsies - are interviewed on a new THEATER TALK this weekend, premiering tonight, May 19 (2012) at 8:30 PM on CUNY TV*, followed by airings Sunday 5/20 (12:30 PM on CUNY TV) and Monday 5/21 (5 AM on Thirteen, and 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM on CUNY TV). THEATER TALK is co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins.

Earlier this month, the 2012 Tony Awards Nominations were announced by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons. The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from the Beacon Theatre, on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 10, 2012. BroadwayWorld was there for this year's official Tony Brunch, and got a chance to chat with this year's nominees! Today we bring you Jack Feldman, nominee for Best Score for NEWSIES.