Friday, April 13, 2012
Two Godspell blogs in a week! It’s like the old days! (Can you believe it has almost been one year since the Day By Day blog began?) More big news from the Godspell camp this week …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 03:36PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Just quick reminder that this your last week to catch Hunter Parrish in Godspell! Hunter’s last performance will be this Sunday, April 15th at 7:30 PM. And let me just say, if you…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:45PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Tony Award winner Susan Stroman will stage a new production of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow for the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-16 season, according to the New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Big news, GodspellBlog readers! When we cast Hunter Parrish in Godspell last summer, we all knew there was a chance he’d have to leave us a little early to rejoin his “Weeds̶…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:22PMThursday, March 22, 2012
As part of its ongoing exploration of Broadway history, Playbill Vault — the most comprehensive internet database of Broadway information — introduces a two-part series looking a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMMonday, March 19, 2012
The Cort Theatre box office will open March 22 for the Broadway transfer of Nicky Silver's biting family play The Lyons, starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:54AMFriday, March 16, 2012
The annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Complete casting has been announced for the Goodspeed Musicals production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame, which will play April 20-July 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AMComplete casting has been announced for the Goodspeed Musicals production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame, which will play April 20-July 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Jean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, will be remembered at a gathering of friends and colleagues 5:30…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:39AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Ok, Godspell fans, if you enjoyed getting a behind the scenes look at the making of Godspell on this blog, then you are going to love this . . . Ever watch DVD commentaries? You know, when…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 01:37PMLONDON (AP) -- Songwriter Robert B. Sherman, who wrote the tongue-twisting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and other enduring songs for Disney classics, has died. He was 86....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:00AMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Signature Theatre Company has announced a one-week extension for Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque, starring Tony Award winner Jane Alexander in the title role, which will officially …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:51PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Hurt Village — the new work by Katori Hall, the Olivier Award-winning writer of The Mountaintop — which officially opened Feb. 27, has extended its engagement at Signature Theatr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:39AMSunday, February 26, 2012
Billy Crystal hosts the 84th Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26, honoring excellence for the 2011 year in film. Among the nominees for Best Picture are "War Horse," "The Artis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 24, 2012
The previously announced one-week extension of the Second Stage Theatre revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive has been canceled, the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company announc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:56PMThursday, February 23, 2012
Ask Playbill.com answers a question about the music that you hear when you're leaving the theatre after a performance of a musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMSunday, February 19, 2012
The acclaimed City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along ends its limited engagement at the fam…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
The world premiere of The Jacksonian, the new Southern-set play by Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart), officially opens Feb. 15 following previews that began Feb. 7 in t…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMRod Brogan, Patricia Conolly, Lucas Hall, Jonathan Judge-Russo, Aimee Laurence, Joanna Leister, Wrenn Schmidt, David Sitler and John Thomas Wait are featured in Irish Repertory Theatre's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMGabe McKinley's CQ/CX, the fact-inspired drama about a journalism scandal, officially opens Off-Broadway Feb. 15 following previews that began Jan. 25 at the Peter Norton Space on West 4…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Academy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum will return to the Broadway stage in Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar this April, succeeding Alan Rickman in the role of surly teacher Leona…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:16PMAcademy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum revealed plans for a return to the Broadway stage in Theresa Rebeck's comedy Seminar. The actor said he will succeed Alan Rickman in the role of surly…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:15PMThe box office at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, which is located at 236 West 45th Street, opens for business Feb. 14 at 10 AM ET for the star-studded Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 13, 2012
Complete casting has been announced for the upcoming Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:11PMThursday, February 9, 2012
I’ll give you one hint: One word. Two syllables. Rhymes with Modsbell! No, it’s not BobSmell. It’s Godspell! Next Thursday, February 16th is going to be one special day f…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:18PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
The City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's short-lived but tuneful Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along plays the famed Manhattan venue Feb. 8-19.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, February 3, 2012
"Carol Channing: Larger Than Life," a new feature-film documentary about the life of Tony-winning Hello, Dolly! star Carol Channing, arrives in theatres in New York and San Francis…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThursday, February 2, 2012
The New York-based Elevator Repair Service will bring Gatz, the eight-hour stage version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," to the West End's Noel Coward Theatre,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:54AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Petula Clark, the Grammy Award-winning singer-actress with one foot in pop and one in musicals, has extended her current run at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, which began Jan. 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PMTickets are now on sale to the general public for Magic/Bird, Eric Simonson's drama about the rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM 
