tick, tick... BOOM! - 2006 - Articles Page 13

L.A. Stage Alliance announces presenters for 2006 Ovation Awards...

Take the Boy Bands quiz to win one of 5 pairs of tickets to opening night of Altar Boyz on November 7 at the Hippodrome Theatre. Deadline: Noon 11/04/2006.

The 2006 Barrymore Awards, celebrating achievement in Philadelphia-area theatre, were announced on October 23rd at the Merriam Theatre

The producers of JERSEY BOYS, winner of this year's Tony® Award for Best Musical, have announced the cast that will launch the National Tour in San Francisco.

The tour schedule has been announced for Altar Boyz, which will kick off its 30-week tour with a three-week engagement at Chicago's LaSalle Bank Theatre

Ars Nova and New York Musical Theatre Festival will welcome 2006 Jonathan Larson Award-winner Joe Iconis for 'Things to Ruin,' which will be performed at Ars Nova on Tuesdsay, September 26th at 8 PM

Michael Ingersoll has been cast as Nick Massi in the upcoming Jersey Boys tour

All-Star Benefit Concert to Feature Top Country Artists and Broadway Performers Kicking Off 'Nashville Celebrates Country,' a Week of Activities Leading up to 'The 40th Annual CMA Awards'

Christopher Durang, Frank Wildhorn, Lauren Kennedy and Jarrod Emick were among those who scored Barrymore Award nominations

Kim Cattrall plans a more able-bodied performance in Streetcar, Gavin Lee swaps for Gavin Creel, Jamie and Cathy make wedding plans at the Menier and The Play's The Thing reveals its winner

A weekly column on Broadway, Baltimore, and Washington Theater

tick, tick… Boom! originally presented as a 'rock monologue' entitled Boho Days, was performed by composer/lyricist Jonathan Larson as an autobiographical look at his dream of leaving his mark on the musical theater landscape. Larson was working on Boho Days at the same time he was writing the ground-breaking musical RENT, though, of course, his tragic death meant that he did not live to see his dream become a reality.

Sarah Litzsinger will succeed Ashley Brown as Beauty and the Beast's Belle on May 30th

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 3rd Annual Summer Play Festival (SPF) has announced the directors who will be staging the 15 plays to be showcased at this year's festival, as well as the on sale date (June 5th)

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.

I Love You Because will offer the talkback 'He Said...She Said' on March 30th; it will feature advice from relationship experts Ian Kerner and Jillian Strauss

Patrick Cassidy received top honors winning the Best Actor in a Touring Production for his title role performance in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph) in the annual Golden Icon Awards announced Friday by Travolta Family Entertainment.

Molly Ringwald will headline the national tour of Sweet Charity, which will launch in September of 2006

In March and April, composers (such as Jeff Blumenkrantz and Paul Scott Goodman) will join writers and performers for the 2006 Music Theatre Marathon

The 2006-2007 at the Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center has been announced. The seven-show season ranges from $156 - $615, and sales begin Sunday. Call 800-343-3103 or go online at www.broadwayacrossamerica.com.

No Doubt they'll be no Angry Men (or Women) now that the HIPP has a Wicked Scoundrel of a Bee Season with lots of Spam and Charity

A new touring production of Sweet Charity, based on the recent revival and starring Molly Ringwald, has announced stops in Denver and Houston

'JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS,' the landmark musical, is indeed alive and well and will be revived at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street).