| Holidays were a big hit for Broadway shows | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:11:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | The holidays have been very good to Broadway, according to final figures released by the League of American Theatres and Producers. The week between Christmas and New Year's resulted in a total gross of $29.1 million for 30 shows. That's up from $25.2 million for the last week of 2005. Attendance climbed to 314,310, jumping from 283,923 the previous year. Of those 30 productions, 22 played to greater than 90 percent capacity, while 10 reported better than 100 percent capacity (including standing room), the league said. But then ticket prices have been inching up steadily, too, with the regular top ticket price of $111.25 for most musicals during 2006 now being breached. "Jersey Boys" now charges $116.50 for Tuesday through Thursday performances for its orchestra and front mezzanine tickets and $121.50 for Friday through Sunday performances.... | |
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| | | "Broadway Idol" Winner to Play Laurie Beechman Theatre | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:35:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Jaclyn Huberman, who won the New York Musical Theatre Festival's recent Broadway Idol competition, will go it solo at the Laurie Beechman Theatre Nov. 11 and 14 at 8 PM. Huberman's show entitled You Don't Know Jac: An Evening of New Songs is directed by Jim Augustine. Musical director Andy Boroson will be featured on piano. The young singer, according to a press notice, will perform "all new music by the hottest of Broadway's next generation. From jazz to pop, art song to torch song, it's a sneak peek into the future of the Great White Way." The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located within the West Bank Café at 407 West 42nd Street. There is a $15 cover charge and a $15 food/drink minimum. Call (212) 695-6909 for reservations. .... | |
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| | | Jersey Boys and Off-Broadway Stars Slated to Launch NYC Marathon in Song Nov. 5 | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:09:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Broadway's Jersey Boys will be among the theatre stars helping to launch the 37th Annual ING New York City Marathon. Michael West currently starring in Off-Broadway's Forbidden Broadway: SVU will sing "America the Beautiful" to start the Wheelchair Races. I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change star Amy White will then offer "God Bless America" for the Women's start (at 9:35 AM). And, for the official 10 AM start, Jersey Boys will perform their take on the national anthem. The five-borough event which includes more than 37,000 runners will be broadcast live exclusively on NBC for five hours, starting at 9 AM. For more information on the event, visit ingnycmarathon.org. .... | |
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| | | Wedding Singer's Maroulis Will Likely Join Off-Broadway Brel ... | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:39:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Former "American Idol" finalist Constantine Maroulis, who is currently making his Broadway debut in The Wedding Singer, has found his next stage project. At the weekly Seth's Broadway Chatterbox fundraiser at Don't Tell Mama, Maroulis told the audience he will join the acclaimed revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris next year. Seth Rudetsky, the musician-actor-comic who hosts Chatterbox, confirmed to Playbill.com that Maroulis said he will begin his Brel performances in January 2007. A spokesperson for the Brel revival could not confirm the casting. Maroulis, according to his official website, will play his final performance in The Wedding Singer Dec. 3. That new musical will close at the Hirschfeld New Year's Eve to pave the way for the Kander and Ebb/Rupert Holmes musical Curtains.... | |
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| | | Bed Bath & Beyond Spree Delays Broadway's `Little Dog Laughed' | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:28:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Broadway star Julie White's excursion to buy sheets at Bed Bath & Beyond in Chelsea delayed Sunday's preview of her new show ``The Little Dog Laughed,'' and almost cost her producers $25,000. White, who plays a tough Hollywood agent in the comedy, hadn't arrived at the Cort Theater for the 2 p.m. curtain and her cellular phone was off, said Tom D'Ambrosio, a spokesman for the show. Actors' work rules require them to be in their dressing rooms 30 minutes before the performance is scheduled to start. Director Scott Ellis took the stage and told the audience that the show would begin at 2:45 -- assuming the actress showed up. He offered refunds to anyone in the audience who didn't care to wait. ``It got serious for a second,'' producer Roy Gabay said in an interview.... | |
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| | | Mahaffey Theater sets Broadway series | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:15:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | ST. PETERSBURG - The critically acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim's dark musical Sweeney Todd tops the 2007-08 Broadway subscription season announced Tuesday by Live Nation at Mahaffey Theater at the Progress Energy Center. Also on the schedule are The Wedding Singer, a musical comedy now on Broadway, a revival of Camelot with Michael York as King Arthur and a show by Australia's Ten Tenors. Each production will have eight performances over a week in the city-owned theater, which recently underwent a $20-million renovation. Live Nation, the leading promoter of touring Broadway with series in 51 North American markets, is switching from its longtime home at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, where the current season is its last at the downtown Tampa complex.... | |
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| | | Canning site opens up options on Broadway | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 3:10:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | The proposed purchase of the 22-acre former Larsen Canning Co. site is aimed at facilitating redevelopment of Green Bay's west downtown area for a variety of uses, On Broadway Inc. officials say. "It opens up a world of possibility in terms of development," said Naletta Burr, director of On Broadway Inc. "This will truly help us reach our vision for the Broadway district." At a sidewalk news conference outside the Birds Eye Foods plant, 520 N. Broadway, the nonprofit redevelopment organization announced it had reached agreement with Birds Eye on the purchase. Birds Eye is expected to stay on as a long-term tenant in a portion of the office facility. On Broadway officials hope to partner with developers to renovate the property as apartments, condominiums, retail, a market pavilion, craft shops and artist studios.... | |
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| | | Mike Greenberg: Fake arches on Broadway building raise intellectual issues | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 7:07:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Among the 20th century's most familiar paintings is René Magritte's "The Treachery of Images," with its photo-realistic likeness of a tobacco pipe above this sentence in cursive script: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." ("This is not a pipe.") Strictly speaking, it was not a picture of a pipe, but a picture of a picture of a pipe. Magritte's painting has become emblematic of the peculiarly 20th-century tension between reality and representation. In architecture, the prime moral imperative of the modern movement was proclaimed by its spiritual founder, Louis Sullivan: "Form ever follows function." He meant that a building's form should fit its use, but also that appearance should express structural reality, without dissembling. Sullivan was active during the transition from the dominance of load-bearing masonry walls to the age of steel or concrete frames.... | |
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| | | Spirit of Broadway announces new production | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:04:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Spirit of Broadway Theater in Norwich has announced their next production for the 2006 season. John and Jen, a musical written by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald, will be performed at the theater from Oct. 25 to Nov. 26. Shows run Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors. .... | |
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| | | Broadway revival of `Inherit the Wind' | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:10:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK - Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy will star in a Broadway revival of "Inherit the Wind," a fictionalized retelling by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee about the 1920s Scopes monkey trial. The production, directed by Doug Hughes, will begin preview performances in March at the Lyceum Theatre, Adrian Bryan-Brown, a spokesman for the show, said Wednesday. An opening date and other casting will be announced. "Inherit the Wind" tells the story of a Tennessee science teacher, John Scopes, who was put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Plummer will portray lawyer Henry Drummond, based on the famous attorney Clarence Darrow, and Dennehy will be Matthew Harrison Brady, based on the well-known politician William Jennings Bryan. The original Broadway production, which starred Paul Muni and Ed Begley, opened in 1955.... | |
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