The Music Man News

A WARNING to sticklers for strict narrative: this column is a blatant mashup. Contemporary pop fans will understand the terminology, but for others - say, those more likely to attend to the musings of theater critics - some explanation might be required.

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Michele Lee , Tony Award-winner Debra Monk , Tracee Ellis Ross and Casey Wilson will join the rotating cast of Love, Loss and What I Wore.

So I'm sitting out on the back porch the other morning, just enjoying the sun coming up and watching a few leaves fall to the ground, having my usual one-sided conversation with God.

When Aspen's Crystal Palace dinner theater closed the curtains for the last time two years ago, Mike Monroney, who had been a cast member for 16 years, had the expected reaction.

Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth; Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson; and Abigail Breslin with Alison Pill photo by Joan Marcus and Aubrey Reuben This was the week for major-league, big-deal Broadway revival announcements.

Set for Atlantic's The 24 Hour Plays [ P ] Atlantic Theater Company's 24 Hour Plays to Feature Danson, Cake, Ritter, Johnston and More [ TM ] Patrick Cassidy, Rebecca Luker, and Shirley Jones to Star in Kennedy Center's Music Man Concert [ P ] Cassidy Will Join Jones and Luker for "The Music of The Music Man " Concert [ MG ] Canadian theatre great ...

Mark Kanny can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7877. The Pops opened its season Thursday night at Heinz Hall with a decisive win, a fabulous concert version of Meredith Willson's show "The Music Man." Marvin Hamlisch began his 15th season as principal Pops conductor working in his strongest repertoire -- Broadway musicals.

HOLLYWOOD, CA, October 08, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Academy Award winner, Shirley Jones, popular veteran of America's Broadway, Motion Picture and TV arenas, takes the jump this month into the "Recording" sector when she flies to Branson, MO.

As previously reported, Shirley Jones, who played Marian in the film of The Music Man , and Rebecca Luker, who played that same role in the musical's recent Broadway revival, will take part in "The Music of The Music Man " concerts Nov.

Access Hollwood is reporting that paramedics were called to the Nokia Theater for Kristin Chenoweth backstage, after the star won an Emmy award earlier on Sunday evening for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her role as Olive Snook in "Pushing Daisies." The site states that Chenoweth "first complained about a migraine headache, then ...

In 1961, Robert Preston had just finished on Broadway in the role of his career, Prof.

It took her 2 years to land the role in Billy Elliot, but Corrieanne Stein, at 13, got the part of ballet girl, played 300 performances on Broadway, and is back to tell about it.

Helena's Rebecca Luker, currently on Broadway in her Tony-nominated role of Mrs.

Oscar-award winning director John Ford presents Oscar-award winning actor Henry Fonda in "My Darling Clementine" screening for free tonight at 7:30 in the Library of Congress Packard Campus Theater on Mount Pony.

Take a trip down under in the LOC Packard Campus Theater with the Friday Night Foreign, "Walkabout" , screening tonight at 7:30. In English with Australian accents, the movie tells the story of two children stranded in the Outback and their cultural meeting with an Aborigine on walkabout, that is, a periodic return to nomadic life, or something.

An initial list of Kristin Chenoweth concert dates has been announced on the Tony Award winner's official website.

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I think I love this: Shirley Jones will guest-star on ABC Family's Ruby & the Rockits , playing mother to David and Patrick Cassidy, her real-life stepson and son, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

Rockwell portrait of Middle America in 1912, set to delightful dance and song. It's a lavish musical with an elegant set and great costumes to complement the now-classic story of a con man who hoodwinks a small Iowa town.

From So You Think You Dance to Hairspray, Aurora native Jesse Weafer has made a splash on stage and screen.