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Friday, June 15, 2012

Steve Kazee Sleeps Around, Lea Michele Has the Time of Her Life & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

The 2012 Tony Awards have come and gone, but not before teaching us some pretty fantastic Broadway lessons. Between James Corden telling us what’s better than a Tony and Steve Kazee ge…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:18PM
Monday, June 11, 2012

Huh? Interpretive Dance & Digital Jesus Are Among the WTF Moments of the 2012 Tony Awards by Gemma Wilson

OK, theater fans. You saw them, we saw them. Now we have to talk about them. Read on to find our what our top 10 double-take-worthy WTF moments that happened at the Beacon Theatre at the 201…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59AM

Patti LuPone Can Steal Any Show, Audra McDonald Will Make Your Mascara Run & More Lessons of the 2012 Tony Awards! by Gemma Wilson

We love sharing our 10 lessons of every week with you here at Broadway.com, but we think the Tony Awards deserve lessons of their own! The stars were all out at the Beacon Theatre on June 10…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:32AM
Friday, June 8, 2012

Jeremy Jordan Was a Pageant Baby, Sutton Foster Has a Big Mouth & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

It's curtains for another week on Broadway. With the Tony Awards right around the corner, we’ve learned lots of juicy secrets from the nominees, from Jeremy Jordan’s pageant …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:17PM
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Ramin Karimloo Honors Phantom and Finds His Own Voice on New Album Human Heart by Gemma Wilson

As star of Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies and Les Miserables, Ramin Karimloo has proven to posses one of the most powerfully expressive voices currently in musical theater. On hi…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:49PM
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Once Nominee Elizabeth A. Davis on Her Texas Roots, Passion Projects and Taking Project Runway to the Tony Awards by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 31; Channing, TX Current Role: A Tony-nominated performance as violin-playing, man-eating Czech immigrant Reza in the Dublin-set love story Once. Jill of All T…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PM
Friday, May 25, 2012

Sutton Foster Is a TV Goddess, Lea Michele's Flesh Is Fully Inked & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Memorial Day weekend is upon us, so before the world heads off into a three-day weekend it's time for a look back at the week on Broadway! From a sneak peek at one of our favorite Broadw…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:40PM
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tony Nominee Tom Edden on His Early Inspiration and Inappropriate Audition for One Man, Two Guvnors by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 33; Guilford, England Current role: A side-splitting, Tony-nominated comic turn as pacemaker-fueled octogenarian and trainee waiter Alfie in One Man, Two Guvnors. G…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:07PM
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Santino Fontana on Teaching Piano to Once Tony Nominee and ‘Great Student’ Cristin Milioti by Gemma Wilson

In the midst of her post-Tony nomination whirlwind, Once star Cristin Milioti is probably saying a very special thank you to the man who helped her land a part in the musical in the first pl…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:57PM
Friday, May 18, 2012

Darren Criss Gives Licking Privileges, Jeremy Jordan Goes Both Ways & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

It's hard to believe another insanely busy week on Broadway is over, but it's even harder to believe we managed to narrow this week's lessons down to 10! The Broadway.com Audienc…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:30PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Jesus Christ Superstar's Josh Young on His 'Bad Kid' Past, Tony-Nominated Present & Blissfully Wedded Future by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 32; Wallingford, PA Current Role: A Tony-nominated performance as conflicted betrayer Judas Iscariot in Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Teenage Nig…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:09PM
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Da’Vine Joy Randolph on Her Charmed Journey From Opera Diva to Ghost Scene-Stealer by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 25; Philadelphia, PA Current Role: An over-the-top, Tony-nominated Broadway debut as reluctant psychic Oda Mae Brown in Ghost. R&B Roots: The vivacious&nbs…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:51PM
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

One Man, Two Guvnors Star Jemima Rooper Wants to Talk ‘Cock Sock’ with Lady Gaga by Gemma Wilson

British actress Jemima Rooper is rocking the black suit and fedora of a 1960s East End thug on Broadway in One Man, Two Guvnors, playing a young woman who is in disguise as her dead brother.…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:23PM
Monday, April 30, 2012

Streetcar Star Nicole Ari Parker on Her Overwhelming Broadway Debut as Blanche DuBois by Gemma Wilson

Nicole Ari Parker is having one hell of a homecoming. For the first time since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and heading for Hollywood, she’s bac…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:08PM
Friday, April 27, 2012

Jonathan Groff Had Low Spring Awakening Self-Esteem, Corbin Bleu Hearts a Smash Star & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

It has been one crazy week on Broadway. Six new shows have opened in the last seven days, and it’s hard to believe how much we’ve learned. It turns out that Jonathan Groff got of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:37PM
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Dee Snider on ‘Rocking It Out’ With Patti LuPone and Bebe Neuwirth for New Album Dee Does Broadway by Gemma Wilson

Heavy metal icon and Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider never imagined he’d be a part of the Broadway scene, but here he is with the May 8 release of his new show tune-filled album, De…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:06PM
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘Jumped and Danced and Cried’ Over In the Heights Collaborator's Pulitzer Win by Gemma Wilson

When news broke that Quiara Alegría Hudes had been awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful, no one was more excited than Lin-Manuel Miranda, …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:32PM
Thursday, April 19, 2012

How Ghost Took a Spiritual Journey to a Become a Spectacular Stage Musical by Gemma Wilson

A Haunting Idea The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

How Ghost Took a Spiritual Journey to Become a Spectacular Stage Musical by Gemma Wilson

A Haunting Idea The 1990 film Ghost is as much a comedy as a romance, but it began life as a much darker project. “I had wanted to do a movie about ghosts for 10 years, and to tell it…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:42PM

Christina Kirk on the ‘Whirlwind-Slash-Roller Coaster Ride’ of Clybourne Park by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 41, New York City Current Role: Doing double duty as 1950s housewife Bev and 21st-century real estate agent Kathy in the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris' Pulitze…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:08PM
Monday, April 16, 2012

One Man, Two Guvnors’ James Corden on His Year of Becoming a Dad and Bona Fide Stage Star by Gemma Wilson

British actor James Corden first set foot on a Broadway stage six years ago as one of the title school chums of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys. For his second Rialto run, he’s r…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:19PM
Friday, April 13, 2012

Jesus Is a Yankees Fan, Darren Criss Is Crushing on Jeremy Jordan & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Faster than you can say “bravo!" another week on Broadway is over. Here at Broadway.com that means it’s time to take stock of the last seven days, when we learned about a se…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:59PM
Friday, April 6, 2012

Neil Patrick Harris Wants to Score as Tony Host, Adam Pascal Shares Salon Secrets & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Time flies when Broadway is having fun, and another week on the Great White Way is already behind us. From news of a favorite Tony Awards host’s return to the unsung successes of some …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:37PM
Friday, March 30, 2012

Gavin Creel Goes Mormon, Lindsay Lohan’s Crazy for Glee & More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Seven days have passed in the blink of a Broadway eye. We’re taking stock of the last week in the stage world, from the announcement that Gavin Creel will be ringing doorbells across t…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:57PM
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Richard Fleeshman on How Coronation Street and Elton John Got Him Ready to Get Racy in Ghost by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 22; Manchester, UK. Current Role: Making a heartbreaking Broadway debut as devoted specter Sam Wheat in the musical adaptation of Ghost. All in the Family: You…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:52PM
Monday, March 26, 2012

Raven-Symoné on Slipping Into Sister Act, Singing with Mary Poppins and Starting Life in New York by Gemma Wilson

She’s been a TV star since she was three years old, and now Raven-Symoné is taking on a new challenge, making her Broadway debut as aspiring disco-diva Deloris Van Cartier in Si…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:45PM
Thursday, March 22, 2012

What’s the Buzz: How Two British Kids Made Rock Musical History With Jesus Christ Superstar by Gemma Wilson

In the Beginning Though the iconic Jesus Christ Superstar “brown album” became a fixture in teenagers’ basements and church youth groups alike in the early 1970s, creators…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:55AM
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Falling Slowly: How Once Wooed Audiences From Grafton Street to Broadway by Gemma Wilson

Once, the new Broadway musical based on the hit indie film of the same name, is bringing a bittersweet brand of love story to the Jacobs Theatre. Read on to get the story behind the story of…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:56PM

Paul Nolan on How Farm Life and Les Miserables Led Him to Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway by Gemma Wilson

Age & Hometown: 33; Rouleau, Saskatchewan, Canada Current role: Starring in the greatest story ever told in Jesus Christ Superstar. Wide Open Spaces: Paul Nolan grew up in a f…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:26PM
Friday, March 9, 2012

Hunter Parrish Wants Idina to Be His Mama, Nick Jonas Bows to Grammy Winner Adele and More Lessons of the Week by Gemma Wilson

Say goodbye to another week on Broadway and hello to another set of Broadway lessons! A lot has happened in the last seven days, from Hunter Parrish’s very own dream casting session to…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:23PM
Monday, March 5, 2012

Once Star Cristin Milioti on Being on ‘Cloud Nine’ With Tina Fey & the Power of Not Kissing Steve Kazee by Gemma Wilson

With her slight frame and enormous doe eyes, Cristin Milioti could easily have gone the ingénue route, but the actress had a different plan for her theatrical career. Milioti made her…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PM

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