Musical Theater News

Published Tuesday 17 November 2009 07:21pm EST. CMTS' "Bat Boy: The Musical" explores an unconventional romance.

Not only are the leads husband and wife, but they fell in love while singing in voice class.

It seems that if you can't find something funny about the holidays, you haven't been looking hard enough.

Hello and welcome back to my ongoing series on the history of the Broadway musical and this week's installment which concerns the dates of November 8 through the 15th as we head into the holiday season on Broadway.. In this part you will find the premiere of two of the greatest hits of the early Broadway musical including the longest running show ...

There will be a new Kander and Ebb musical - off-Broadway. Vineyard artistic director Doug Aibel says "The Scottsboro Boys" will have its world premiere March 10 at the small nonprofit theater.

The world ended on a stage devoid of scenery or special effects, just a soprano in a dark sequined dress singing of redemption and love.

The initial swirling syncopation of sound is impossible to resist. Surely there are not many opening numbers better than the intoxicating first moments of "Ragtime," the stage version of E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel.

It's the dawning of the Age of Aquarius at UC's College-Conservatory of Music. The musical theater department presents original rock musical 'Hair' for a week-long run beginning Sunday.

Indianapolis native Karen Irwin grew up with a love of musical theater and a voice unsuited for it.

Loading... A relentless producer brought the Pulitzer Prize-winning book to musical theater.

You would have to look far and wide to find a show with a finer pedigree than "West Side Story." With lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Arthur Laurents and direction and choreography by Jerome Robbins, the musical based on "Romeo and Juliet" is still fresh, more than 50 years after its Broadway opening.

ROCKLAND : Producing Artistic Director of the Northport Music Theater, Ruth Gelsinger, has accepted the invitation of Angela Pomerleau, the Director of the Lincoln Street Center for Arts and Education to present a musical show at the Center at Christmastime.

Minneapolis Musical Theatre's "The Great American Trailer Park Musical" is a twangy tuner set in Armadillo Acres, Florida's most exclusive mobile-home court.

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress, will receive the first Stephen Sondheim Award from Signature Theatre, the company will announce Thursday.

The honor reunites two old friends, as well as artistic talents who are acknowledged innovators in their disciplines and have each forged careers that cover 50 years of theater and music history.

'Angela Lansbury's first appearance on the musical stage was in a show called 'Anyone Can Whistle,' for which I wrote the score. That appearance was a gift to the musical theater, although perhaps not such a gift to her, since the show only ran for nine performances,' Sondheim said in a statement, referring to his 1964 musical. 'I am thrilled that Signature Theatre is helping me make it up to her by giving her the first Stephen Sondheim Award.'

Mixing the seriousness of the founding of our country with the lightheartedness of musical theater does not seem like a winning formula for a play.

Nov 3 - Angela Lansbury returns to musical theater and Catherine Zeta Jones makes her Broadway debut with A Little Night Music, a Stephen Sondheim revival.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:45 p.m. Is "operetta" a fancy synonym for "musical"? THEATER PREVIEW 'Red Hot Operetta' is Oct.

That delectable bit of musical-theater blarney called 'Finian's Rainbow' has found its way back to Broadway for the first time in nearly half a century, its charms undiminished, particularly its buoyant score.

Gesturing to his wife and singing partner Shirley to join in, Joe Romagnoli entertains at the piano in their Fox Chase home.

Kellie B. Gormly can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7824. People attending the all-student version of the classic musical "Les Miserables" at the Byham Theater this week will be amazed by the professional quality of the voices they hear, the director says.