“For me, this is where math becomes art”… explains Fiddler cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, when describing her experience playing the Broadway revival of Sondheim’s A Little Ni…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 11:53PMThis might be one of the rarest, and most special moments in musical theater history where we see a real-life subject who has bonded with the actor(s) who have both re-created, and heighted …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:38PMIt is hard for most of us to believe that it has been almost two years since the death of our beloved Elaine Stritch. Born in 1925 in Detroit, Stritch eventually made her Broadway debut in L…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:02PMIn honor of Fox’s Grease: Live!, we look back at the tradition of casting full-grown adults, and passing them off as high school students, in this American classic. Perhaps West Side S…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:47AMIn the spring of 1963, one of Lucille Ball’s favorite performers, Broadway legend Ethel Merman, agreed to star in a Desilu pilot for a new television series, Maggie Brown. When the sit…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:28PM“Some People” gotta pay the bills…and Ethel is no exception. Merman recorded 14 songs for The Ethel Merman Disco Album, although only seven were released on the finished re…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:34PMWe are all familiar with the stunning chandelier repilca of Paris’ famed opera house, Palais Garnier, featured prominently in the The Phantom of the Opera. But, how much do you know ab…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:38PMThese days, it is easy to take for granted all of the media resources we have to preview new and upcoming Broadway shows. But way back when, you had to actually attend a show to see it. Th…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:03PMAs nationwide audiences salivate in anticipation of the feathered hair maven coming to a city near them, Hedwig and the Angry Inch producers and casting directors are assembling their short …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 08:18PMLet’s take a look back at Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula on Broadway, which opened today in 2004. Dracula, the Musical is, of course, based on Bram Stoker’s original Victorian novel. The sho…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 11:02AMMusical theatre classic A Chorus Line went on to win The Pulitzer Prize, Drama Critics Circle Award, and nine Tonys in 1975; and ran a record-setting 6,137 performances. Most theatre fans kn…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 10:49AMWelcome to Merman Mondays, where we look forward to starting your week with a blast! Join us in celebrating “The Merm” with Unsung videos, photos, stories, and little known fac…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:31PMAs diverse casting has quickly become the norm in US and UK theater, with revolutionary pieces like the mega-hit ‘Hamilton’ setting a new standard, audiences and critics alike ar…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:21PMSometimes the holidays don’t exactly look like a Hallmark card. If you can relate, then maybe a Chistmas spent with Tony winner Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, J. Robert Spencer and Jennife…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 10:26AMThe cast of A Christmas Story, currently in its holiday run at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, woke up early to perform on ABC’s Good Morning America. Dan Lauria will once agai…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:37PMIt might be the oldest story in the book. Dames at Sea, the musical parody of flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals, centers on a young understudy who suddenly steps into a role o…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 11:58AMDreamgirls , which premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981, was originally developed as a project for Broadway star Nell Carter. Playwright Tom Eyen and composer H…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 11:12AMIn Part One of “A Conversation with Betty Buckley”, Unsung Broadway’s Founding Editor, Scott Kaufman sat down with the Broadway legend, discussing her childhood, ‘Car…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 06:08PMIn a rare conversation, Unsung Broadway’s Founding Editor, Scott Kaufman sits down with Broadway legend, Betty Buckley. In Part One, Buckley discusses childhood; also ‘CarrieR…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:29PMRarely is a Broadway star given their own retrospective musical on The Great White Way (especially while they are still around to sing and dance in them!); but few musical theatre actresses …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:59PMNow that the cat is officially out of the bag that Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s 1970′s classic Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is being fast-tracked into a big budget featu…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 10:42PMBefore Broadway had really warmed up to the idea of screen-to-stage musical adaptations, My Favorite Year, with a charming score by Ahrens and Flaherty (Once On This Island, Suessical, Ragti…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:38PMNow that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have secured their newest stage-to-screen project, Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin, with the (well-chosen) Weinstein Group, the big questions are: Who wil…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:50AMAfter ratings like this, there is no doubt that conversations at NBC are already underway in regards to next year’s live musical broadcast. Despite the varied reviews, producer Neil Me…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:50PMIt was the stuff of legends. The Carrie of a new generation. It was a Broadway disaster that few could image was possible. How could someone, let alone a group of people, invest in such an i…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 06:01AMTony winner Marc Shaiman might be best known to musical theater fans as the man to brought music to 1960′s Baltimore in Hairspray, or for his memorable score to Bombshell on NBC’…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:35PMIt was a first class team that put together 2006′s ill-fated rock musical High Fidelity; including composer Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, Bring It On), Amanda Greene (Bring It On, Hands On…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 05:44PMOne of the great musical theatre actresses of our time, Tony winner Betty Buckley (Pippin, Cats, Drood, Sunset Blvd, Dear World) is beginning the holiday run of her show The Vixen Of Broadwa…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 04:18PMThe Sound of Music has been a mega-hit all over the world since it’s release in 1965; although not necessarily with that title. It was actually renamed for its release in certain forei…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:25PMFor the first time in a Broadway musical, the writer didn’t struggle to figure out an appropriate ending for the show; he simply let the audience figure it out for themselves! The musi…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:00PMThings must be going well over at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre! Rarely do we see a Bway musical move UP their opening date. But they must have solidified things after it’s highly succ…
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