Monday, December 15, 2014
Season 2 of Musical Theatre Magazine kicks off this week with great insights from top Broadway pros, including three-time Tony Award nominee Rebecca Luker, A Chorus Line steward Baayork Lee,…
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Press release: On the heels of the 16-time Grammy Award winner’s sold-out, standing-room-only debut performance on Tuesday night, December 9, Sting’s engagement in The Last Ship…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 09:39AMIn a case of deja vu, the unique musical tale of the Hilton sisters, Side Show, is leaving Broadway sooner than expected. The Broadway revival of Side Show only opened on November 17, 2014, …
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 09:21AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Note: The Murder for Two Off-Broadway cast album was reviewed in the April issue of Season 1 of Musical Theatre Magazine. Press Release: The hit musical comedy Murder For Two will hit the …
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 03:21PMBY Experience has partnered with the renowned Stratford Festival to present Stratford Festival HD, a stage to screen event series bringing the best of Shakespeare from North America’s lead…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 02:52PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
YELLOW SOUND LABEL has released HERRINGBONE, the two-disc solo CD debut by Tony Award-winner BD WONG. The unique concert album marks the recording premiere of the marvelously spooky one-man …
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 05:55PMProducers of the You Can’t Take It With You Pulitzer Prize-winning revival by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, are pleased to announce that Emmy Award-nominated TV and film star Anna Chlum…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 04:01PMMonday, December 1, 2014
Producers Don Frantz (Beauty and the Beast) and Jonathan Pollard (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) present the new musical comedy DISENCHANTED!, in its limited Off-Broadway engage…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 05:44PMAndrew Lippa and Brian Crawley’s beloved musical, A Little Princess, is coming to 54 Below on December 8, 2014. The cast will include Abigail Shapiro (current star of Liberty: A Monumenta…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 05:07PMJordan Roth, President and Principal Owner of Jujamcyn Theaters, announced today that his company will celebrate its audience this holiday season with two special programs: #12DaysofBway and…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 04:23PMThe new Broadway musical DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, based on Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, will star Tam Mutu making his Broadway debut as the passionat…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 09:59AMSunday, November 30, 2014
Robert Nederlander, Jr., and Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment (NWE) (www.NederlanderWorld.com) have announced a new production of RENT in Havana, Cuba, that will open December 24, 2014, a…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 10:48PMSouthpaw Entertainment and CJ E&M are producing a new stage musical based on the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name, August Rush, which starred Robin Williams. The workshop…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 10:21PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
From press release: The Tony Awards Administration Committee has met for the first time this season to determine the eligibility of seven Broadway productions for the 2015 American Theatre W…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 01:04AMSaturday, May 3, 2014
Hey, everybody! I went on a brief holiday from MTMag blogging because I knew the onslaught of info that will be coming down the pike now that we’re in full throttle award season. I upd…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 02:10PMThursday, March 20, 2014
Producers Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group announced today that the longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Haro…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 02:42PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The Great American Songbook High School Vocal Competition provides young singers with the life-changing opportunity to work with music industry professionals to experience firsthand the uniq…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 08:36PMFor those who haven’t heard, the February issue of Musical Theatre Magazine was delayed due to the ice storms that overtook the north eastern region of the United States — where …
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 08:05PMTuesday, February 11, 2014
Today came the news that Hugh Jackman will host the 2014 Tony Awards. The past few Tonys’ telecasts have been overwhelmingly successful thanks to the knock-out talent of triple-threa…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 10:27PMMonday, January 27, 2014
The highly anticipated revival of Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables has announced the cast list for the children in the show. According to the press release: Completing the 38-memb…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 04:28PMFriday, January 24, 2014
The Roundabout Theatre Company has announced additions to the lead cast of the original Broadway production of Violet, starring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Joining Foster for t…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 08:40PMThursday, January 23, 2014
The cast of the Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning global musical sensation Jersey Boys will perform at the NFL Super Bowl Tailgate Party in East Rutherford, NJ, on Sunday, February 2. …
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 03:06PMTechnically, War Horse is not a musical, it is a play with music. However, the music is so amazing, I wanted to let all of you know about this event that’s coming to a movie screen n…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 02:49PMThe Seattle Women’s Chorus will present an evening of swing-style tunes for their show honoring “Rosie the Riveter” — the women who went to work when the men went to war during W…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 02:09PMFriday, January 10, 2014
The Drama League’s 30th annual Musical Celebration of Broadway will honor Golden Globe nominee and Emmy award winner Neil Patrick Harris, who returns to Broadway this spring in the pre…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 10:24PMThe long-awaited return of Cameron Mackintosh’s Tony Award-winning masterpiece Les Misérables takes its first steps on Monday, January 13, 2014, when rehearsals begin in New York City. T…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 10:10PMThe producers of the upcoming Woody Allen film-turned-stage-musical, Bullets Over Broadway, have announced Karen Ziemba will play “Eden Brent”. She won the Tony Award for Conta…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 09:36PMYesterday, the Tony Awards Committee met to determine the eligibility of 14 Broadway productions that have already opened this season. The consideration is for the 2014 Tony Awards which w…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 09:13PMProving that musicals can come from anywhere, Siddhartha the Musical is crossing the pond following a successful European tour that sprang from the humble origins of an Italian prison. Siddh…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 08:56PMMonday, December 16, 2013
Once again, the Musical Theatre gods have smiled down upon us with the amazing insights and anecdotes shared by Tony Award winners and Broadway stars that can only be found in Musical Theatr…
SOURCE: musicaltheatremagazine.wordpress.com at 01:07PMWednesday, December 4, 2013
As NBC gears up for a rare television event, Broadway musicals fans are salivating to see the live televised production of The Sound of Music. With Tony Award winners Audra McDonald, Laura…
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