Thursday, August 27, 2015
You may think you know Spring Awakening, but you've never seen or heard it like this. Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Tony-winning musical returns to Broadway in the hands of the famed Deaf …
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
After nailing his open-call audition, Alfie, a one-year-old Maltipoo from New Jersey, won the honor of having his likeness built into the set of Broadway's Sylvia at the Cort Theatre. He bes…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Broadway had not been formally introduced to Steven Pasquale's iron lungs until his 2014 run in The Bridges of Madison County. While his indefatigable tenor filled the Schoenfeld Theatre wit…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
After nailing his open-call audition, Alfie, a one-year-old Maltipoo from New Jersey, won the honor of having his likeness built into the set of Broadway's Sylvia at the Cort Theatre. He bes…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, August 10, 2015
It's not every day that a piece of art makes waves as big as Lin-Manuel Miranda's new hip-hop musical Hamilton. The show, which only opened on Broadway last night, has claimed Faniltons like…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:31PM[SHARE]Auditions are exposing experiences. Alyssa Milano just never knew how exposing until an unfortunate ring-meets-sweater mishap during her audition for Fear with Mark Wahlberg. She revealed mo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:31PM[SHARE]Anyone who's seen Hamilton (the lucky few) or a #Ham4Ham lottery performance know the show is chock-full of outrageously talented performers. But who knew music director Alex Lacamoire or Ro…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2015
Monday, July 27, 2015
Tony Yazbeck, a 2015 Tony nominee for Broadway's On the Town, first appeared on Broadway as a newsboy in the 1989 revival of Gypsy. It wasn't until snagging the role of Al in the 2006 reviva…
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Amazing Grace, a new Broadway musical about the life of John Newton and the story behind the show's title hymn, opened last night at the Nederlander Theatre. The cast " led by Tony nominee J…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:27PM[SHARE]Stage veteran Taye Diggs is next in line to mount the throne of Broadway's tour-de-force rock concert, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, alongside the show's current Yitzhak, Rebecca Naomi Jones. B…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party begins performances tonight at New York City Center where a cast of Broadway stars will give the raucous musical new life for Encores! Off-Center. Running throu…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
More than 700 people tried their luck at the first-ever Hamilton Broadway ticket lottery on July 13, the night of the show's first preview at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. There's an added bo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:12PM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2015
It's been 15 years since Andrew Lippa's musical The Wild Party was last seen in New York, with a cast of heavy-hitters led by Julia Murney, Brian d'Arcy James, Idina Menzel, and Taye Diggs. …
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
The original cast of William Finn and Rachel Sheinken's musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee reunited for a one-night-only, 10th-anniversary concert performance of the musical …
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:25PM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Broadway will welcome back its favorite magical pair on July 12, when Penn & Teller on Broadway celebrates the opening of a new six-week run. The duo will bring elements of their long-runnin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:08PM[SHARE]How do you turn a sprawling young-adult story into a solo show? That's the question for James Lecesne, the Trevor Project cofounder who recently transformed his book Absolute Brightness into…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2015
What do Robert Preston, Craig Bierko, Patti LuPone, Tyne Daly, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane have in common? At one point in each of their careers, they've performed the classic sho…
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
Any audition coach will caution against over-confidence, but there are some times when it's hard…especially when the character breakdown has your name written all over it. Fresh off some e…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
"How do we not mess up what already works?" According to lyricist Glenn Slater, that's one of the main questions he and Andrew Lloyd Webber asked when creating the new musical version of Sch…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Inspired by Finn's personal experiences, A New Brain is a medical tragedy seen through the iris of a Looney Tunes short. After struggling composer Gordon Michael Schwinn (Jonathan Groff) col…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:38PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
In the early 1990s, songwriter William Finn was riding the wave of success of his Tony-winning musical Falsettos when he was struck down with an inoperable brain tumor. His experiences in th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:52PM[SHARE]Three actresses are getting ready to take Broadway by storm this fall when they make their debuts in the London transfer of John Doyle's acclaimed new production of the musical The Color Pur…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:52PM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2015
At the heart of the Tony-winning musical An American in Paris are three different love stories, all involving the same woman. She is the beautiful ballerina Lise Dassin, played by Tony nomin…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy share an uncommon commitment to their craft, as evidenced by the audition stories they shared with TheaterMania. At a recent event, Nighy recalled an audition s…
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