Cast members from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Legally Blonde will help the contemporary dance company dre.dance celebrate its fifth anniversary on Dec 14th. The event, entitled Broadway Celebrates dre.dance, will be held at New World Stages. Brian d’Arcy James, Celia Keenan-Bolger (…Spelling Bee), Steven Pasquale, Lauren Kennedy, Eric Jordan Young, Tracy [...]
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Spelling Bee and Legally Blonde Alumni to Celebrate dre.dance
November 23, 2009New York City Christmas CD and Concert
November 12, 2009New York City Christmas is a holiday CD to benefit ASTEP, and features some of your favorite Broadway stars singing tons of holiday music; what’s not to love?
To commemorate the CD release and also benefitting ASTEP, there will be a concert at Joe’s Pub on December 14th at 9:30pm. Raul Esparza, Sherie Rene Scott, Orfeh, [...]
Puppets + Rapping = ?
November 12, 2009Nope, Avenue Q at New World Stages has not rewritten the show to include rap. But Lin-Manuel Miranda will be on Sesame Street!
Will Miranda coax Big Bird into a new, greener habitat? Here’s a sneak peak of Miranda’s guest spot:
Read the PlayBlog article here.
-Sh-K-Danielle!
Join the “Hair” tribe in a march for equality!
October 2, 2009In an unprecedented move, the producers of the Tony award winning revival of “Hair” cancelled the October 11th performance of the show in order to allow their cast to join the National Equality March in Washington DC.
With the support of the whole Broadway community and Hair star Gavin Creel’s organization Broadway Impact, the New York theatre community [...]
13 Now Available for Licensing; New Double CD on the Way
September 21, 200913, which played on Broadway last season, is now available for full licensing by MTI for all amateur and professional productions! In addition, the creators of the show will also release a novel version of the show, geared towards young adults. They say it “remains faithful to the plot of the musical while opening up [...]
A Bunch of News
August 26, 2009There’s been lots of exciting news the past few days!
Christine Ebersole will be headlining a show at Feinstein’s with Michael Feinstein himself. The show is entitled Good Friends and will run Sept. 8-12th. You can get more information here, and you can buy tickets by calling (212) 339-4095 or by visiting the Feinstein’s website or [...]
BroadwayImpact Event This Friday!
August 26, 2009What are you doing this Friday at 2:30pm?
Going to Broadway Impact’s next event! This Friday the 28th, there will be a rally at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park to mobilize the community in preparation for the National March in Washington D.C. on October 11th. Co-founder of the organization, Gavin Creel, will be speaking, along [...]
White Christmas will return to Broadway
August 25, 2009If you missed out on the Broadway production of “White Christmas” this past year, don’t fear because the classic musical will return to the Marquis Theatre this November! While casting is yet to be announced, we do know that they will play 61 performances throughout November, December and January.
Make sure you grab your tickets when [...]
Tom Kitt Joins “American Idiot”
July 29, 2009Some pretty exciting news for Tom Kitt! The award-winning composer of next to normal has just been announced as Music Supervisor of the upcoming Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of American Idiot. The show is based on the Green Day album and will have a limited run Sept 4-Oct 11 at the Roda Theatre.
No casting has [...]
