Sunday, January 16, 2011
Broadway’s Katie Rose Clarke (currently appearing as Glinda in Wicked) and Orfeh (Legally Blonde, Saturday Night Fever) got to sing two songs from Vote!, a new musical by Ryann Ferguso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 15, 2011
Here are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date January 15, 2011.
Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Next …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:38PM[SHARE]Janet Dacal, Darren Ritchie, Kate Shindle, Jose Llana and Karen Mason talk about bringing Lewis Carroll’s classic characters to new life in Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy’s new m…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:56AM[SHARE]Friday, January 14, 2011
Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Jan. 3-9, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark (Foxwoods Theatre), $1,588,514
Wicke…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:38PM[SHARE]Jeff Daniels, Hope David, Marcia Gay Harden and James Gandolfini, who were the original cast members of the Tony Award-winning run of Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage on Broadway, will re…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 13, 2011
Producer Whoopi Goldberg, director Jerry Zaks and composer Alan Menken discuss Sister Act, the upcoming Broadway musical based on the 1992 film about a Las Vegas lounge singer who finds hers…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:35PM[SHARE]A new ad for The Book of Mormon, the upcoming Broadway musical featuring book, music and lyrics by “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator Robert…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:21PM[SHARE]To celebrate the show’s star, Eve Plumb, who is best known for playing Jan Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage is offering…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, director Michael Wilson and costume designer David Woolard discuss their work on the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Tennessee Williams'…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The recent Paper Mill Playhouse production of Les Miserables inspired a unique marriage proposal from one audience member whose fiancée had a longstanding connection to the show, having pla…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]Monday, January 10, 2011
NBC and John De Mol and Mark Burnett, the executive producers of NBC’s “The Voice,” will hold auditions for the upcoming reality singing competition in New York Jan. 15.
T…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:28PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda wrapped the Broadway run of In the Heights, the hip-hop and Latin-flavored musical for which he wrote music and lyrics and to which he recently returned …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 9, 2011
Here are the most-read Playbill.com stories for the week of Dec. 26, 2010-Jan. 1, 2011, from information compiled by Playbill.com.
SPRING 2011 BROADWAY PREVIEW: Neil LaBute, Donna Murphy, Jo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:38PM[SHARE]The Emmy Award-winning PBS educational series “The Electric Company” will welcome several theatre vets to both its regular cast and guest star roster when it premieres its new se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 8, 2011
Here are the best-selling theatre CDS, as reported by billboard.biz, issue date Jan. 8.
Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
American Idiot,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner John Lithgow is performing his acclaimed one-man show Stories By Heart at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles through Feb. 13. In this commercial fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:26PM[SHARE]Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong discusses American Idiot, the Broadway musical based on Green Day’s rock opera album, in this newly released ad that also features clips from the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:41AM[SHARE]Friday, January 7, 2011
Video of Zachary Quinto’s answers to questions from Twitter and Facebook fans of the Signature Theatre Company production of Angels in America has been posted. Quinto is currently play…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[SHARE]Here are the top-grossing Broadway productions for the week of Dec. 27, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011, as reported by The Broadway League.
MUSICALS
Wicked (Gerswhin Theatre), $2,228,235
The Lion King (M…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 6, 2011
Stage and screen star Lorna Luft recently discussed her cabaret show, Songs My Mother Taught Me: The Judy Garland Songbook, with “LX New York.”
The show, which runs at Feinstein&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:51PM[SHARE]The Pee-wee Herman Show, which finished its Broadway run Jan. 2, will be taped for an upcoming HBO special the night of Jan. 6, according to a spokesperson from Type A Marketing.
The taping …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:56PM[SHARE]Maria Sansone of “LX New York” got to visit the cast of Million Dollar Quartet, the musicalization of the 1956 recording jam session featuring Elvis Presley (Eddie Clendening), J…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PM[SHARE]The Tampa, FL, news station WTSP-10 recently ran a feature on Wonderland, the Frank Wildhorn-Jack Murphy musical that is playing in Tampa prior to a Broadway opening in the spring.
Wildhorn …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The troubled and injury-prone preview period of the new Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark got a “Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger” from Stephen Colbert recently.
Col…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:20PM[SHARE]T.V. Carpio, the Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark actress who recently succeeded Natalie Mendoza in the role of Arachne, visited “LX New York” recently to talk about her experiences …
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:02PM[SHARE]Broadway and "Glee" star Lea Michele will be part of an ad campaign for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that seeks to stop the New York City horse carriage trade, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Several changes will be implemented in the 10th season of “American Idol,” according to The Hollywood Reporter’s latest issue, which hits stores Jan. 5.
The contestants on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:06PM[SHARE]A video preview of SCKBSTD, the new musical featuring a musical score and lyrics co-written by Bruce Hornsby, has been released. The video includes rehearsal footage shot at New York’…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM[SHARE]Leigh Zimmerman and the cast of Chicago recently visited FOX-5’s “Good Day New York” to perform their show’s iconic opening number, “All That Jazz.”
The h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:35PM[SHARE]Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage will host a post-show talkback following the Jan. 9 matinee performance. The interactive session will feature relationship guide Ra…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:47PM[SHARE]Christopher Tierney, the Spider-Man actor who was injured in a 30-foot onstage fall Dec. 20, spoke about his injuries in a Jan. 3 interview with Dana Tyler of New York’s WCBS-2.
On the…
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