Monday, June 22, 2015
A Tony Award nominee for Spring Awakening, Jonathan Groff has been away from theater for a while, making himself known and beloved in two of the most disparate roles imaginable: as the flawe…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:04AMThursday, May 28, 2015
In collaboration with her husband John Pizzarelli, as well as solo appearances in musical theater, in concert and cabaret, on recordings, etc., the "singers' singer" Jessica Molask…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:52AMMonday, May 4, 2015
Zorba! may be the greatest Kander and Ebb musical you've never seen. A story of life and death in the Greek isles, originally produced and directed by Harold Prince, the show was well regard…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:29PMSunday, May 3, 2015
Zorba! may be the greatest Kander and Ebb musical you've never seen. A story of life and death in the Greek isles, originally produced and directed by Harold Prince, the show was well regard…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:34PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
The Musicals Tonight! production of the delicious 1933 musical Pardon My English, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind, opens tonight. Dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:44AMSaturday, March 14, 2015
The lusty Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon has a wonderful score, but it's not a show you see revived every day, which makes it a perfect choice for the City Center Encores! series.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:05PMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Choreographer Randy Skinner has had hits with a number of revivals, revisals, and others shows based on pre-existing, classic material, from 42nd Street to White Christmas to the City Center…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 05:32PMMonday, November 3, 2014
Michael McKean would have an honored place in entertainment history if only as co-creator and co-star of one of the funniest, most creative films ever made: This Is Spinal Tap. (If you haven…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:32PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
The beloved Bob Merrill/Michael Stewart musical Carnival has opened in a Musicals Tonight! production at Theatre Row. Heading the cast are Ali Ewoldt at Lili, Scott Guthrie as Paul Berthalet…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:28AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Some performers (and theatergoers) have mixed feelings about the "actors doubling as musicians" trend that seems to have grown stronger in musical theater over the past decade or s…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:37AMSunday, June 29, 2014
One of America's greatest composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser in a sense had three careers -- as a writer of stand-alone songs during the Tin Pan Alley era, songs for Hollywood films, and scor…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:21AMSaturday, May 10, 2014
It's been a good couple of seasons for those of us who are such great fans of William Inge that we want to see even his most obscure works on stage. Last year, The Actors Company Theatre (TA…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:54PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
Malcolm Gets was most recently seen on stage as one of the witches (!!!), along with Byron Jennings and John Glover, in Macbeth, and before that opposite Will Chase in The Story of My Life. …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:20PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
This year's East Bonnet competition was filled with delights, from a hilarious opening number with Rory O'Malley as an ambitious actor and Michael Riedel as Satan, to the roof-raising finale…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:00AMFriday, April 4, 2014
In 1970, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber burst onto the worldwide stage with the concept album of a musical about the last days of Jesus, the landmark rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, whi…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:50AMSunday, March 30, 2014
I consider myself spoiled -- or maybe privileged is the better word -- to have seen and heard several performances of Frank Loesser's operatic musical The Most Happy Fella with full orchestr…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:30PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Little Mary Sunshine, that delightfully silly operetta spoof by Rick Besoyan, is currently being revived by Musicals Tonight! at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre, directed by Thomas Sabella-Mills.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:07PMFriday, January 31, 2014
It's not always easy to be funny and sexy on stage (or off) at the same time, but Rachel York managed that feat very well as Norma "Paris Makes Me Horny" Cassidy in Victor/Victoria…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:36PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
This year's "Gypsy of the Year" competition at the Minskoff Theatre began with a tribute to the star of the original production of Gypsy, the great Ethel Merman, channeled by the w…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:49PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Like most other songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman are less well known by their own names than by the titles of the songs for which they have so beautifully written the lyrics: "The …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:18AMMonday, December 2, 2013
The second annual NYC edition of Sparkle!, a charity benefit Christmas concert put together and hosted by Scott Nevins, was held last night (Sunday, December 1) at XL nightclub, spreading ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:55AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
When last (and first) I interviewed Jeremy Jordan in September 2011, he was rehearsing for the leading role of Jack Kelly in the world premiere production of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:40PMSunday, October 27, 2013
On Sunday evening, October 27, Encompass New Opera Theatre honored the great lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, etc., etc.) with a gala event featuring so…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:20PMThursday, September 19, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to Lavon Fisher-Wilson from "Newsies" about her transition from Louisville, Kentucky to the Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:08PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to Singer/Actor Chelsea Packard about singing Jazz.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:04PMMonday, September 16, 2013
A real-life married couple since 1999, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon have worked together several times before on stage -- sometimes playing spouses, sometimes not. Now, they're taking on two o…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:05AMFriday, September 13, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to composer Drew Gasparini about composing for SMASH.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:02PMThursday, September 12, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to Marni Raab about playing the role of "Christine" in "Phantom Of The Opera."
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:00PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to Forbidden Broadway actor Marcus Stevens. Marcus shares a few of his characters with us.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:58PMSunday, September 8, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to Lavon Fisher-Wilson from "Newsies" about starting a youth theatre program in Kentucky.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:55PMSaturday, September 7, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to costumer Sally Ann Parsons about making magic for Cinderella's Fairy Godmother.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:53PMFriday, September 6, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks to "Phantom Of The Opera" actor Marni Raab about the role of the alternate to "Christine."
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:49PMThursday, September 5, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider talks gets Composer/Singer/Songwriter Drew Gasparini to sing a few bars.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:45PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Lauren Class Schneider gets Actor/Writer Elisabeth Gray to share some of her characters from "Southern Discomfort"
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:39PMLauren Class Schneider talks to "Hands On A Hardbody" cast member Chelsea Packard about performing in an original Broadway musical.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:36PMLauren Class Schneider talks with Newsies cast member Lavon Fisher-Wilson. Lavon talks about and demonstrates a couple of song styles.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:31PMLauren Class Schneider talks to composer Drew Gasparini about what it's like to write rock music and musical theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:24PMSaturday, July 6, 2013
What's the most politically significant date in American theater history? You'll often get one of two answers (or both) to that question: May 10, 1849, the night of the so-called Astor Place…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:35AMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Back in the day, the title role in the wildly popular Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly! was played on Broadway and elsewhere by almost every major female stage (and/or screen) star of a cer…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:36PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
For many of us who can barely walk and chew gum at the same time, professional dancers seem to be rare, very talented birds indeed -- and they are. But, of course, they're actually human bei…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:22PM 
