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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tony Nominee Tom Edden on His Early Inspiration and Inappropriate Audition for One Man, Two Guvnors by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 33; Guilford, England Current role: A side-splitting, Tony-nominated comic turn as pacemaker-fueled octogenarian and trainee waiter Alfie in One Man, Two Guvnors. G…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PM
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Santino Fontana on Teaching Piano to Once Tony Nominee and ‘Great Student’ Cristin Milioti by Gemma Wilson

In the midst of her post-Tony nomination whirlwind, Once star Cristin Milioti is probably saying a very special thank you to the man who helped her land a part in the musical in the first pl…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PM
Friday, May 18, 2012

Darren Criss Gives Licking Privileges, Jeremy Jordan Goes Both Ways & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

It's hard to believe another insanely busy week on Broadway is over, but it's even harder to believe we managed to narrow this week's lessons down to 10! The Broadway.com Audienc…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Jesus Christ Superstar's Josh Young on His 'Bad Kid' Past, Tony-Nominated Present & Blissfully Wedded Future by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 32; Wallingford, PA Current Role: A Tony-nominated performance as conflicted betrayer Judas Iscariot in Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Teenage Nig…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Da’Vine Joy Randolph on Her Charmed Journey From Opera Diva to Ghost Scene-Stealer by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 25; Philadelphia, PA Current Role: An over-the-top, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as reluctant psychic Oda Mae Brown in Ghost. R&B Roots: The vivacious&nbs…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:51PM
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

One Man, Two Guvnors Star Jemima Rooper Wants to Talk ‘Cock Sock’ with Lady Gaga by Gemma Wilson

British actress Jemima Rooper is rocking the black suit and fedora of a 1960s East End thug on Broadway in One Man, Two Guvnors, playing a young woman who is in disguise as her dead brother.…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:23PM
Monday, April 30, 2012

Streetcar Star Nicole Ari Parker on Her Overwhelming Broadway Debut as Blanche DuBois by Gemma Wilson

Nicole Ari Parker is having one hell of a homecoming. For the first time since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and heading for Hollywood, she’s bac…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PM
Friday, April 27, 2012

Jonathan Groff Had Low Spring Awakening Self-Esteem, Corbin Bleu Hearts a Smash Star & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

It has been one crazy week on Broadway. Six new shows have opened in the last seven days, and it’s hard to believe how much we’ve learned. It turns out that Jonathan Groff got of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:37PM
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Dee Snider on ‘Rocking It Out’ With Patti LuPone and Bebe Neuwirth for New Album Dee Does Broadway by Gemma Wilson

Heavy metal icon and Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider never imagined he’d be a part of the Broadway scene, but here he is with the May 8 release of his new show tune-filled album, De…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘Jumped and Danced and Cried’ Over In the Heights Collaborator's Pulitzer Win by Gemma Wilson

When news broke that Quiara Alegría Hudes had been awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful, no one was more excited than Lin-Manuel Miranda, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PM
Thursday, April 19, 2012

How Ghost Took a Spiritual Journey to a Become a Spectacular Stage Musical by Gemma Wilson

A Haunting Idea The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

How Ghost Took a Spiritual Journey to Become a Spectacular Stage Musical by Gemma Wilson

A Haunting Idea The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

Christina Kirk on the ‘Whirlwind-Slash-Roller Coaster Ride’ of Clybourne Park by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 41, New York City Current Role: Doing double duty as 1950s housewife Bev and 21st-century real estate agent Kathy in the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitze…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PM
Monday, April 16, 2012

One Man, Two Guvnors’ James Corden on His Year of Becoming a Dad and Bona Fide Stage Star by Gemma Wilson

British actor James Corden first set foot on a Broadway stage six years ago as one of the title school chums of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys. For his second Rialto run, he’s r…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:19PM
Friday, April 13, 2012

Jesus Is a Yankees Fan, Darren Criss Is Crushing on Jeremy Jordan & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Faster than you can say “bravo!" another week on Broadway is over. Here at Broadway.com that means it’s time to take stock of the last seven days, when we learned about a se…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PM
Friday, April 6, 2012

Neil Patrick Harris Wants to Score as Tony Host, Adam Pascal Shares Salon Secrets & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Time flies when Broadway is having fun, and another week on the Great White Way is already behind us. From news of a favorite Tony Awards host’s return to the unsung successes of some …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PM
Friday, March 30, 2012

Gavin Creel Goes Mormon, Lindsay Lohan’s Crazy for Glee & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Seven days have passed in the blink of a Broadway eye. We’re taking stock of the last week in the stage world, from the announcement that Gavin Creel will be ringing doorbells across t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PM
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Richard Fleeshman on How Coronation Street and Elton John Got Him Ready to Get Racy in Ghost by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 22; Manchester, UK. Current Role: Making a heartbreaking Broadway debut as devoted specter Sam Wheat in the musical adaptation of Ghost. All in the Family: You…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PM
Monday, March 26, 2012

Raven-Symoné on Slipping Into Sister Act, Singing with Mary Poppins and Starting Life in New York by Gemma Wilson

She’s been a TV star since she was three years old, and now Raven-Symoné is taking on a new challenge, making her Broadway debut as aspiring disco-diva Deloris Van Cartier in Si…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PM
Thursday, March 22, 2012

What’s the Buzz: How Two British Kids Made Rock Musical History With Jesus Christ Superstar by Gemma Wilson

In the Beginning Though the iconic Jesus Christ Superstar “brown album” became a fixture in teenagers’ basements and church youth groups alike in the early 1970s, creators…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:55AM
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Falling Slowly: How Once Wooed Audiences From Grafton Street to Broadway by Gemma Wilson

Once, the new Broadway musical based on the hit indie film of the same name, is bringing a bittersweet brand of love story to the Jacobs Theatre. Read on to get the story behind the story of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PM

Paul Nolan on How Farm Life and Les Miserables Led Him to Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 33; Rouleau, Saskatchewan, Canada Current role: Starring in the greatest story ever told in Jesus Christ Superstar. Wide Open Spaces: Paul Nolan grew up in a f…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PM
Friday, March 9, 2012

Hunter Parrish Wants Idina to Be His Mama, Nick Jonas Bows to Grammy Winner Adele and More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Say goodbye to another week on Broadway and hello to another set of Broadway lessons! A lot has happened in the last seven days, from Hunter Parrish’s very own dream casting session to…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PM
Monday, March 5, 2012

Once Star Cristin Milioti on Being on ‘Cloud Nine’ With Tina Fey & the Power of Not Kissing Steve Kazee by Gemma Wilson

With her slight frame and enormous doe eyes, Cristin Milioti could easily have gone the ingénue route, but the actress had a different plan for her theatrical career. Milioti made her…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PM
Monday, February 13, 2012

How I Learned to Drive’s Elizabeth Reaser on Her Bad Girl Days, Norbert Leo Butz Worship and Thinking Twilight Wasn’t a Big Deal by Gemma Wilson

The Second Stage revival of How I Learned to Drive doesn’t just mark a return for Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, back in New York for the first time in 15 years. It&rsq…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:20PM
Friday, January 27, 2012

Kristin Chenoweth Craves Dance Moms, Darren Criss Rocks a Sequined Glove & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

As the sun sets on another week in Broadway-land, it’s hard to believe how much we’ve learned in only seven days. Kristin Chenoweth has a serious reality TV problem? Nick Jonas i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PM
Friday, January 20, 2012

Andrew Rannells Hearts Toddlers & Tiaras, Nick Jonas Would Go Starkers on Stage & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Time flies when you’re having fun on Broadway! In the blink of an eye, another week is over, and we’re taking stock of what we've learned. From a Mormon star’s hidden t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:43PM
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Daphne Rubin-Vega on ‘Soaking up the Flavor’ of New Orleans to Prep for A Streetcar Named Desire by Gemma Wilson

Since making her splashy, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as Mimi in Rent in 1996, Daphne Rubin-Vega has been a fixture in the New York theater scene. She recently chatted with Broadway.com ab…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:01PM

Daphne Rubin-Vega on ‘Soaking up the Flavor’ of New Orleans to Prep for A Streetcar Named Desire by Gemma Wilson

Since making her splashy, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as Mimi in Rent in 1996, Daphne Rubin-Vega has been a fixture in the New York theater scene. She recently chatted with Broadway.com ab…

SOURCE: fortlauderdale.broadway.com at 05:01PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Daniel Radcliffe Together on Stage (Kind Of)! Twilight Meets Harry Potter in Musical Mash-up by Gemma Wilson

Team Edward! Team Jacob! Before a January 16 developmental reading of Twilight: The Musical, ushers warmed up an already enthusiastic crowd at New World Stages with a cheer-off, pitting &ldq…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:15PM

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Daniel Radcliffe Together on Stage (Kind Of)! Twilight Meets Harry Potter in Musical Mash-up by Gemma Wilson

Team Edward! Team Jacob! Before a January 16 developmental reading of Twilight: The Musical, ushers warmed up an already enthusiastic crowd at New World Stages with a cheer-off, pitting &ldq…

SOURCE: sanantonio.broadway.com at 05:15PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards