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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Hear What Jason Biggs Told "The View" About Heidi Chronicles by Robert Viagas

Jason Biggs, currently starring on The Heidi Chronicles appeared on the TV talk show "The View" March 17 to discuss the play.

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See What Jason Biggs Told "The View" About Heidi Chronicles by Robert Viagas

Jason Biggs, currently starring on The Heidi Chronicles appeared on the TV talk show "The View" March 17 to discuss the play.

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Hear It Before Broadway! Download Mini-Allegiance Cast Album With Lea Salonga, George Takei and Tell by Adam Hetrick and Robert Viagas

A mini-cast album of the Broadway-aimed musical Allegiance, starring Tony Award winner Lea Salonga, George Takei and Telly Leung, is available for digital download.

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See Julie Andrews Travel Back to Austria in New "The Untold Story of 'The Sound of Music'" Special T by Robert Viagas

ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and Oscar-winning actress Julie Andrews will collaborate on "The Untold Story of 'The Sound of Music,'" a one-hour special on their jou…

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Exclusive: Last Five Years Sets DVD/Blu-Ray Release With Bonus Features by Robert Viagas

The film version of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years comes out on DVD and Blu-ray May 5 from Anchor Bay Entertanment and RADiUS, with a selection of choice extr…

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Exclusive: Last Five Years DVD/Blu-Ray Release Sets Release With Bonus Features by Robert Viagas

The film version of Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years comes out on DVD and Blu-ray May 5 from Anchor Bay Entertanment and RADiUS, with a selection of choice extr…

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Monday, March 16, 2015

1776 Opened 46 Years Ago Today: See a Look Back at the Film! by Robert Viagas

On this date in 1969, 1776 opened at the 46st Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers). The show, which portrayed the final weeks of debate leading to the signing of the Declaration of Indep…

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Breakout London Star Cynthia Erivo Wins Plum Lead in Broadway Color Purple Revival by Robert Viagas

Cynthia Erivo, who earned raves from U.K. and American critics for her performance in the plum lead role of Celie in the 2013 London production of The Color Purple, has been tapped to recrea…

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Rupert Holmes and Melissa Manchester at Work On New Musical by Robert Viagas

Sweet Potato Queens, a new musical with a book by Tony-winning The Mystery of Edwin Drood writer Rupert Holmes and music by Grammy winning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester, will get …

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Playbill Vault's Today In Theatre History: March 16 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, David Lefkowitz and Anne Bradley

1914 Female impersonator Julian Eltinge is lyricist and star of The Crinoline Girl. Otto Hauerbach provides the book and Percy Wenrich the score. S/he'll twirl at the Knickerbocker Theat…

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Saturday, March 14, 2015

The Top 7 Moments From Sutton Fosters Carnegie Hall Debut by Robert Viagas

When Sutton Foster was 15 years old she made a wish list of things she wanted to accomplish in life. "The number one thing," she said, "was to sing at Carnegie Hall."

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Fire Destroys Historic Grand Hall at South London's BAC by Mark Shenton and Robert Viagas

A serious fire has destroyed a historic part of South London's influential BAC (once known as Battersea Arts Centre). The fire, which broke out in the venue's Grand Hall March 14 at …

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Friday, March 13, 2015

Shuffle Along Posts Casting Notice for Tap Dancers by Robert Viagas

Audra McDonald's new musical project Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, was just announced yesterday, but director George C. Wolfe and…

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Sondheim On Lady Gaga, "Peter Pan Live!" and His Next Musicals On Stage and Screen by Robert Viagas

As the West End prepares for revivals of Sweeney Todd and Gypsy, the Times of London visited composer Stephen Sondheim at his home in Manhattan and asked a lot of the questions his fans have…

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"Fantasticks" Film Finally Gets Blu-Ray Release by Robert Viagas

Twenty years after it was made and 15 years after it was released in cinemas, the film adaptation of The Fantasticks is finally getting a release in Blu-Ray format in a limited 3,000-…

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EXCLUSIVE: Compare Hamilton (2015) with Hamilton (1917): First Publication of Lin-Manuel Miranda's L by Robert Viagas

One of the biggest hits of the spring is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Off-Broadway musical, Hamilton, which is scheduled to move to Broadway this summer. But it will not be the fir…

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Nathan Lane Talks Iceman Cometh on Charlie Rose: "You Have To Do…These Great Parts" by Robert Viagas

Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy appear on PBS's "The Charlie Rose" show today to tell what their current sold-out Brooklyn Academy of Music production of The Iceman Cometh me…

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Listen to Idina Menzel's New Song From "Frozen Fever" by Robert Viagas

Broadway's Idina Menzel had a mega hit last year with the song "Let It Go" from the soundtrack of the animated Disney film "Frozen."

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PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MARCH 13 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley

1928 It's one for all, and all for almost 10 months of The Three Musketeers. William Anthony McGuire stages his book based on the Alexandre Dumas novel. P.G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey …

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Flash: New Audra McDonald Musical Headed to Broadway by Robert Viagas

A powerhouse trio of director George C. Wolfe, choreographer Savion Glover and six-time Tony-winning star Audra McDonald will converge in the forthcoming new Broadway musical, Shuffl…

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Audra McDonald's Next Broadway Musical, Shuffle Along, Boasts a Powerhouse Team by Robert Viagas

A powerhouse trio of director George C. Wolfe, choreographer Savion Glover and six-time Tony-winning star Audra McDonald will converge in the forthcoming new Broadway musical, Shuffl…

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It's Official: Disney Will Make "Frozen 2" by Robert Viagas

Disney has announced that it will make "Frozen 2," a sequel to its most successful animated film ever, Variety reported.

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Friday Is Deadline for Special $20.15 Tickets at Hand to God by Robert Viagas

The producer of the new Broadway play Hand to God is offering a special themed discount for the first 15 previews, March 14-27. At those performances a limited quantity of tickets will b…

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Exclusive: Check Out "32 E-flats in a Row," on the Creation of On the Twentieth Century by Robert Viagas

As On the Twentieth Century prepares to open its first Broadway revival, Hal Leonard Books is releasing Andy Propst's biography of the composer, "You Fascinate Me So: The Life and T…

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Tim Burton to Direct Live-Action "Dumbo" for Disney by Robert Viagas

Tim Burton, the Hollywood auteur responsible for dark-themed film musicals “Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Sweeney Todd,” has been chosen by Dis…

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Watch Mini Docu on 1973 Sondheim: A Musical Tribute Concert That Helped Launch the Sondheim Cult by Robert Viagas

Forty-two years ago today Broadway woke up with a new superstar on its hands. By March 1973 Stephen Sondheim had already written lyrics to West Side Story, Gypsy and other shows and had …

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PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MARCH 12 by David Gewirtzman and Robert Viagas, Ernio Hernandez and Anne Bradley

1928 Birthday of playwright Edward Albee, who will go on to write Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? and Pulitzer-winners, A Delicate Balance, Seascape and…

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Is Alec Baldwin Planning a Return to the Stage? by Robert Viagas

Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to be the star of June revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons this summer, according to a report in The N…

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Alec Baldwin Returning to Stage in All My Sons This Summer by Robert Viagas

Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to star in a June 9-28 revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons.

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Alec Baldwin Planning a Return to the Stage? by Robert Viagas

Emmy winner and Tony nominee Alec Baldwin is set to be the star of June revival of Arthur Miller's classic drama about responsibility, All My Sons this summer, according to a report in The N…

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