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Tickets go on sale today at the Booth Theatre Box Office for Bette Midler’s return to Broadway in John Logan’s new one-woman play I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers, directed by Joe Mantello. I’ll Eat You Last will begin previews Friday, April 5 and opens Wednesday, April 24 at the Booth Theatre . Appearing on Broadway for the [...]
Barnes & Noble will host the cast album release for the new 2012 Broadway cast recording of Roundabout Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Hosted by Rupert Holmes, the event will be at Barnes & Noble (150 East 86th St at Lexington) on Friday, March 8th starting at 4:30PM. The “Live at Barnes and Noble” [...]
The current Broadway revival of Annie will release a new cast recording of the acclaimed production. Shout! Factory and its Broadway cast imprint Shout! Broadway will distribute the new album. The Grammy Award-winning original 1977 Broadway cast album has gone platinum, selling over one million copies to date. The Annie revival currently stars Katie Finneran as Miss [...]
Tony Award winning actress, Idina Menzel, will be back on Broadway next spring. The New York Times reports that Menzel is slated to star in a new musical, If/Then, penned by composer Tom Kitt and book writer/ lyricist Brian Yorkey. It is the first Broadway production by Kitt and Yorkey since their Tony [...]
On April 12, 2013, Tony Award nominee and star of “Smash” Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis, Julia Murney, Tony Award nominee Jennifer Laura Thompson and Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA will join The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall in celebration of Stephen Schwartz. The evening celebrates Schwartz’s 65th birthday as well [...]
Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick Tapped to Star in “The Last Five Years” Film Adaptation
Cameron Mackintosh has announced that his acclaimed new production of Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical masterpiece Les Misérables will come to Broadway in March, 2014 at a Shubert theater to be announced. The re-imagined Les Misérables is currently on tour, breaking box-office records across the country and around the world. The touring [...]
Casting for the New World Stages production of Peter and the Starcatcher, which will begin performances on Monday, March 18, 2013, has been announced. The cast includes returning Broadway cast members Rick Holmes, now playing Black Stache, Jason Ralph, now playing Boy, along with Kevin Del Aguila as Smee, Matt D’Amico as Slank, and Evan Harrington as Alf, all reprising their roles. They [...]
Tony Award winners Len Cariou, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Karen Ziemba have joined the star-studded lineup for this year’s Broadway Backwards, a one-night-only performance produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and benefiting BC/EFA and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York. The eighth annual edition of Broadway Backwards will be held Monday, March 18 at 8 PM at Broadway’s Palace Theatre. In addition to Cariou, [...]
At last year’s Oscar Awards ceremony, the two nominated songs weren’t even performed on the telecast. This year, the shows producers plan to make up for that exclusion. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have plenty of music in store for the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, to be held on February 24. The [...]
