Hollywood Musicals Year by Year - 1927 to 1939 (Hollywood Musicals Year By Year , Vol 1)
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
From Charles Isherwood's Times review of Memphis , the new Broadway musical about the first D.J. in the fifties to play black music, co-written by Bon Jovi's David Bryan: "Dare I suggest that Memphis is the Michael Bolton of Broadway musicals? I do." (And he likes Bon Jovi , even!) [ NYT ] Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: bon jovi , broadway , charles isherwood , david bryan ,...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
THE Edinburgh Playhouse is set to be sold to a leading theatre operator in a move that has raised hopes of more big-name West End productions coming to the Capital.
Business Travel News - TravelPlus (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Autumn promotion sees Hairspray, Jersey Boys, Sister Act, Billy Elliot reduced. A major new promotion has been launched by London theatre website westendtheatre.com , offering thousands of reduced-price tickets to see West End musicals this autumn. Discounted tickets include recent Tony award winner Billy Elliot (£22.50 off), Olivier award winning musical Jersey Boys (25% off), big-budget and...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Best known for his stage roles in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' and 'Annie,' he also appeared on television shows and in films. Harve Presnell, the commanding baritone who starred in such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, according to his agent, Gregg Klein. The actor was 75...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
Music Reviews: While 1931 was the year more than 2,000 banks closed at the height of the Great Depression, the latest concert in the Broadway by the Year series focused mainly on the bright side.
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
Broadway in Chicago recently held a conference on the topic of transforming books into Broadway Musicals, partially due to the success of “Wicked,” the longest running Broadway Musical in Chicago history. But “Wicked” wasn’t the first work of literature to be interpreted through song on the stage. Here are ten Broadway musicals based on books. [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 03/21/2009
A Broadway Musical titled ‘Night of Musicals—Tune in to Earth’ will be performed on March 22 at HICC, Madhapur, 7.30 p.m. onwards. Donor passes are available at Odyssey, Walden, Music World, Bottles and Chimney, Outswinger, ...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 03/13/2009
Actress Cynthia Nixon has dismissed reports that hit TV show Sex And The City was being turned into a Broadway musical. Nixon and her co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall reunited for the big screen adaptation of the programme last year, which grossed 284 million pounds worldwide. The success of the film [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Actor DWAYNE 'THE ROCK' JOHNSON is begging Broadway bosses to cast him in a musical - insisting his Samoan heritage means he'd be a natural on the New York stage. The ...
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 03/12/2009
Broadway continues its unoriginality run because the ’80s cult classic movie Heathers is being turned into a musical according to Reuters. The director of Race of Witch Mountain is trying to the bring the show to stage next year and I hope he isn’t successful. While in ways I think it could work if it [...]
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Hollywood 1993 cult hit ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ will soon be turned into a musical, as it is all set to make its Broadway debut. The Tom Hanks- and Meg Ryan-starrer flick is being refurbished into a musical, reports the Daily Express. Jeff Arch, who penned ‘Sleepless in Seattle’, is working with composer and lyricist Leslie Bricusse to [...]
Super Tech News / Published News (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
I can't wait for Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark to open on Broadway. There have been many Broadway shows produced for kids and their parents in recent 15 Vote(s)
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
John McGlinn was a mercurial conductor and orchestrator who brought to the great US musicals keen taste, scholarship and renewed razzle-dazzle. He produced numerous discs during the late-1980s and early-1990s resurgence of interest in works which had so alleviated the Depression years and beyond.
The Stage (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
Lord of the Rings director Matthew Warchus is bringing a new stage version of the Oscar-winning film Ghost to the West End in 2010.
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