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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

New Musical In This House Gains Suzzanne Douglas as a Resident by Kenneth Jones

Suzzanne Douglas has joined the cast of the world-premiere musical In This House by Two River Theatre Company in Red Bank, NJ. Douglas replaces Brenda Pressley as Luisa Arden for the run, no…

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Charlayne Woodard, Andy Blankenbuehler, Standing On Ceremony Win L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards by Kenneth Jones

Re-Animator: The Musical, Standing On Ceremony, Small Engine Repair, Bring It On choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and solo performer Charlayne Woodard's The Night Watcher are among…

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John Lescault, Natascia Diaz Sing the Rock-Musical Tale of Rasputin in Brother Russia, Opening March 20 by Kenneth Jones

Dana Rowe and John Dempsey, the writers of the musicals The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, have crafted a new pop-rock musical called Brother Russia, about the life and times of Rasputin, …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Broadway-Aimed Stranger, the Bruce Hornsby Musical, Gets NYC Reading March 20; Lance Guest Is Title Rogue by Kenneth Jones

The Bruce Hornsby-scored musical formerly known as SCKBSTD has been retitled Stranger, and appears March 20 in the Developmental Reading Series of York Theatre Company in Manhattan. Lance Gu…

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Cort Theatre Box Office Will Open March 22 for The Lyons by Adam Hetrick and Kenneth Jones

The Cort Theatre box office will open March 22 for the Broadway transfer of Nicky Silver's biting family play The Lyons, starring Tony Award winners Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa.

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L.A. Critics Awards Ceremony Is March 19; Bring It On, Tom Kitt, Phylicia Rashad Among Nominees by Kenneth Jones

The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for excellence for work produced or presented in 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County will be handed out March 19. Among the nomi…

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Once, the Irish-Kissed Musical About "Falling Slowly," Opens on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

Once, the new stage musical based on the Oscar-winning film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, opens at Broadway'…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Saturday, March 17, 2012

THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once by Kenneth Jones

It's not as though Steve Kazee never played a principal role on Broadway, so why does it feel like only now, with the Broadway musical Once, that he's making his Big Breakthrough?

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Evans, Linzi Hateley and More Confirmed for "Les Miz" Film by Kenneth Jones

The cast of the film musical "Les Misérables" will feature "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen as Thenardier, U.K. Oliver! actor Daniel Huttlestone as child-hero Gavroc…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:20PM

Liz Callaway, LaChanze, Boyd Gaines, Marin Mazzie, Andrew Rannells Will Sing Ahrens & Flaherty at Carnegie Hall by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

The annual New York Pops Gala benefit on April 30 will honor the Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. A 7 PM Carnegie Hall concert called Journey On, borr…

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Baby Case, Musical About Lindbergh Crime, Gets Revision and Reading with Timothy Jerome, Anika Larsen by Kenneth Jones

Tony Award nominee Timothy Jerome, Anika Larsen, Becca Ayers, Charlie Brady and more will perform in a March 16 Manhattan reading of Baby Case, the Barrymore Award-winning musical fantasia a…

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Very Potter Musical Troupe's New Parody, Holy Musical B@man!, Starts March 16 in Chicago by Kenneth Jones

Team StarKid, the company behind the popular internet musical parody A Very Potter Musical, unveils its new spoof — the comic-book-inspired Holy Musical B@man! — March 16 wi…

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George Morfogen and Jim Stanek Step Into Freud's Consulting Room in NYC Starting March 16 by Kenneth Jones

The couch of Off-Broadway's Freud's Last Session gets two new occupants — George Morfogen as Freud and Jim Stanek as C.S. Lewis — beginning March 16 at New World Stages. …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Thursday, March 15, 2012

One-Man Iliad Extended at New York Theatre Workshop by Kenneth Jones

The New York premiere of Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson's solo-actor play An Iliad, based on Homer's "Iliad" translated by Robert Fagles, will get an extra week at New …

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David Strathairn Will Play Father to The Heiress on Broadway by Kenneth Jones

David Strathairn, the Academy Award nominee for "Good Night, and Good Luck," will play the imposing Dr. Sloper, father of the title character in Broadway's new production of Th…

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:55PM

Music of The Flaming Lips to Ignite Des McAnuff Musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by Kenneth Jones

Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,…

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:01AM

Music of The Flaming Lips to Ignite Des McAnuff Musical Yoshimi and the Pink Robots by Kenneth Jones

Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director whose embrace of rock musicals has been passionate over the years, is writing and directing a new musical called Yoshimi and the Pink Robots, whi…

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM

Old Globe Opens Anna Christie, Eugene O'Neill's Early Pulitzer Winner, March 15 by Kenneth Jones

Jessica Love plays Anna Christie, the estranged prostitute daughter of a crusty sailor in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opening March 15 following previews from March…

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Hunter Foster & Rick Crom's Clyde 'n Bonnie Musical, Directed by Lonny Price, Premieres March 15 by Kenneth Jones

Hunter Foster and Rick Crom's satiric musical treatment of the criminal lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow has a cast — and a new title — for a new Atlanta-area producti…

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Single Girls Guide Musical, With Nancy Opel, Elizabeth Stanley, Graham Rowat, Gets ASCAP Reading March 26 by Kenneth Jones

The Single Girls Guide, the new musical about a swinging-'60s advice columnist, will get a developmental workshop reading through ASCAP in Manhattan on March 26.

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A Fresh Dream of Manderley: Rebecca Will Open on Broadway This Fall, Producer Says by Kenneth Jones

Postponed from the current season, Rebecca the Musical will open this fall at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, producer Ben Sprecher announced on the musical's Facebook page March 14.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:50AM

Complete Casting Announced for Goodspeed Mame Starring Louise Pitre, Judy Blazer by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Complete casting has been announced for the Goodspeed Musicals production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame, which will play April 20-July 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East …

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Complete Casting Announced for Goodspeed Mame Starring Louise Pitre, Judith Blazer by Andrew Gans and Kenneth Jones

Complete casting has been announced for the Goodspeed Musicals production of the Tony-winning Jerry Herman musical Mame, which will play April 20-July 1 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East …

SOURCE: Playbill at 09:26AM

Oscar Nominee James Cromwell, Alan Mandell and Barry McGovern Begin Waiting for Godot in L.A. by Kenneth Jones

Academy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell ("Babe," "L.A. Confidential," "The Queen," "Six Feet Under") is Pozzo in Mark T…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

THE "SMASH" REPORT: Episode 6, Or, The Pajama Top Game by Kenneth Jones

Playbill's weekly overview, with notes and comment, of the latest episode of the NBC series "Smash," about the people behind the creation of a new Broadway musical. Here's …

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High, Starring Kathleen Turner, Will Play Toronto in Spring by Kenneth Jones

Kathleen Turner will bring her performance as a salty nun in Matthew Lombardo's High to Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre May 8-13. Since its short life on Broadway in spring 2011, t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:01PM

Christopher Plummer Recreates Tony-Winnning Barrymore Turn in Film; Will Go Wide Following Canadian Screenings by Kenneth Jones

The film "Barrymore," starring 2012 Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer in the role that won him a Tony Award, will be shown at select cinemas in Canada beginning in May 2012 …

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:36PM

La Jolla's Hands on a Hardbody Musical Will Star Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster, Jarrod Emick and More by Kenneth Jones

The world premiere of Hands on a Hardbody, the new musical about a Texas-set endurance competition, will star Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick and Tony nominees Keith Carradine, Hunter Foster …

SOURCE: Playbill at 02:23PM

"Falling Slowly," Again: Once Cast Album Strums Its Way Into Stores March 13 by Kenneth Jones

Masterworks Broadway releases the cast album of Once: A New Musical on March 13, five days before the delicate Dublin-set musical opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Previews …

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Lost in Yonkers, Revised With the Permission of Neil Simon, Begins NYC Run; Cynthia Harris Stars by Kenneth Jones

Cynthia Harris is the imperious immigrant grandmother in The Actors Company Theatre/TACT revival of Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lost in Yonkers, beginning March 13 at Off-Br…

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Milwaukee Rep Plans Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park, Assassins and Mountaintop in 2012-13 by Kenneth Jones

Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2012-13 season will include the musicals Assassins, Ring of Fire, Blues in the Night and Gutenberg!; Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a fantastical look a…

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