Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Things 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…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 06:25PMEd Wilson has been an important fixture on Broadway for years now, designing hair/wigs for some of Broadway’s most ‘Unsung’ musicals of the last several years including 9 t…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:09PMSunday, November 24, 2013
It was the year 2000, and Menzel was just coming off her Tony Nominated turn as Maureen in Rent. Her next high profile job was in 2000, as a replacement in a big budget Broadway spectacular.…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:03PMIdina Menzel has been giving her fans small morsels her new musical If/Then to enjoy over the last several months. And now the new musical, penned by composers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Nex…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:59AMSaturday, November 23, 2013
It was a packed sold-out (two show), one-night only event at Catalina Grill in Los Angeles, and Ms. Hilty’s “best friends” in the room were her husband (in the band), and b…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 12:30PMFriday, November 22, 2013
It might be best known as the first act of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Song and Dance (which won Bernadette Peters a Tony Award in 1986). But Tell Me On A Sunday came first. …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:45PMThursday, November 21, 2013
It was worth the trek to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California to see an extremely unique production of Jeanine Tesori’s Violet set on a moving bus, that ran November 14-17, 201…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 09:04PMLiza Minnelli gave half-sister Lorna Luft some Birthday love on social media today, posting on her official Facebook page: “Happy Birthday to my beautiful sister Lorna Luft Official …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 07:53PMUSA Today first reported that Alabama has FINALLY decided grant posthumous pardons to the victims of the 1931 Scottsboro Boys case. The Scottsboro Boys musical on Broadway was the final coll…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:26PMWith the many waves of “Reno Sweeneys” the U.S. and U.K. has experienced over the years (Patti, Elaine, Sutton, Caroline, Sally, Rita…the list goes on), it is easy to forge…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:34PMThis morning, NBC’s The Sound of Music impresario Neil Meron tweeted an extended promo of the shows dress rehearsal process. Broadway favorites Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, and Chris…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 10:06AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Long before we had the fabulous Mark Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can) composer and lyricist of SMASH’s fictional Marilyn Monroe bio, Bombshell; there was the …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:10PMThey aren’t confirming it yet, but (heavy) word on the street suggests that The Roundabout Theatre Co. is clearing out The American Airlines Theater to make room for Sutton Foster in t…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:05PMThe sets are new, the stars are new, and a few new/cut songs have been added in. But critics are still making the many of the same points about Side Show as they did in 1997. Essentially, it…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:17AMMonday, November 18, 2013
Sondheim’s Road Show had many incarnations (and titles) before it arrived at The Public Theater on November 18, 2008. The musical premiered at the NY Theater Workshop from October thro…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 04:43PMThis is season could definitely use some musical revivals (if the Tonys rule it as one). As previously predicted by U.B., the success of Encores! summer concert staging of Violet has transla…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:33PMSunday, November 17, 2013
It was a truly desolate musical theater season on Broadway in 1994 when Andrew Lloyd-Webber pushed London’s Norma (Patti) aside in a sensational move to make room for Glenn Close’…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 09:58PMMonday, November 11, 2013
This is sad news for Broadway, as another beautiful new musical, Big Fish, bites the dust. Reviews were mostly good for this special show helmed by Broadway powerhouse Susan Stroman, who…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:45AMSunday, November 10, 2013
American audiences tend to like their ‘Sweeney‘ served Victorian period, with a bit of edge (no pun intended). But the press photos for Royal Exchange Theatre’s current production of S…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 01:45AMSaturday, November 9, 2013
It was the little musical that just couldn’t. Seven months after the opening of his Jekyll & Hyde, Frank Wildhorn opens his second Broadway show The Scarlett Pimpernel on November …
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 08:09PMThis fairly unknown Cole Porter tuner that opened November 9th 1938 featured a book by Sam and Bella Spewack (with whom Porter later collaborated on Kiss Me Kate), Sam Spewack also served as…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 02:39PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Think you know everything about Mr. Todd? Then maybe you can guess where Stephen Sondheim was originally inspired to write the musical adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet S…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 04:23PMThe concept of an Addams Family musical based on the Charles Addams’ macabre mid century illustrations had had been thrown around for a while. Finally, after a tryout in Chicago,the sh…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 03:42PMIt may be true that this was a flop of the highest order, but not everywhere. Let’s take a look back at Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula on Broadway and beyond. Dracula, the Musical is b…
SOURCE: unsungbroadway.com at 11:56AM 
