Julie Andrews News

A lack of suitable talent in Australia has forced producers of a big-budget musical to search New Zealand for a leading lady.

Macy's Center City will come alive today with the sound of seasonal music and with "Sound of Music" star Julie Andrews, as she unveils the store's holiday window display.

Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, center, with members of the cast of the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music." Fifty years ago this week, a nun-in-training, seven frisky kids and their grumpy but lovable father do-re-mi'd their way across a Broadway stage.

Movie "Mary Poppins" Julie Andrews proved herself in this 1964 film, which received 13 Academy Award nominations , as did the Walt Disney studios, which were much better known for their animated features.

Pirate Radio's hottie Tom Sturridge is not yet 25, but has been acting in movies with the likes of Annette Bening, Kenneth Branagh and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

A Melbourne stage production is to search New Zealand for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious actor to play Mary Poppins, after failing to find anyone suitable in Australia.

During the run of HBO's Sex and the City Willie Garson played Carrie Bradshaw's best gay friend -- Stanford Blatch Now he's playing a part that's an one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn from Stanford, that of a police informant on the new USA series White Collar.

The cover of next week's Newsweek features a picture of Sarah Palin, along with the headline "How do you solve a problem like Sarah?" The cover is one more example of the periodical's positioning itself as the ideas journal for people who think that the New York Times' in-house editorials are middle-of-road, but have too many big words.

Kevin Williamson is no stranger to the horror genre , nor is he a stranger to network television .

When Cameron Macintosh offered writer-actor Julian Fellowes the job of adapting "Mary Poppins" for a stage musical, two legacies were at stake.

What do you do when you want to take on a role made famous by Julie Andrews but don't make the cut? If you're Jayme Armstrong, you take on another role made famous by Julie Andrews, of course.

Ben Foster is one the finest of Hollywood's new breed of actors, be it on Six Feet Under or in films like 3:10 to Yuma and Alpha Dog.

The spirit of Julie Andrews and the sights and sounds of the Von Trapp family are coming alive at the Collins Center for The Performing Arts this fall, as students and the Andover High School drama and music departments take on Rogers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music." "The process of choosing a show for each fall production can be a ...

Actress/singer Rachel York will bring a dose of Broadway glamour to Akron on Sunday with her cabaret For the Love of It, which she'll perform at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the Akron-Summit County Main Library Auditorium.

TELESALES worker Connie Fisher could never have predicted how much her life would change when she auditioned for Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit TV show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? Being able to give up her nine to five job and step into the shoes of her childhood idol Julie Andrews was a big enough feat for the 26-year-old, but winning ...

Trane as he was also known - was a master of improvisation. As a composer he understood the necessity for structure and discipline, which are the foundations of creativity and provide the framework for improvisation.

MDIHS drama students rehearse for the fall musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie." Enlarge... MDI High School Drama will be taking a trip to the Jazz Age with their fall musical production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," starring Liz Gilley, Willis Reifsnyder, Sarah Stanley, Annie Joyce and Matt Homer.

Warning: If you wish to see a film that presents high school in all of its gritty reality with drugs, teen sex, and violence, then a oeThe Princess Diariesa is not the movie for you.

On November 16, 1959, The Sound of Music--the last musical collaboration of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II--made history when it opened at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theater.

SINGAPORE : After months of rehearsing for Zebra Crossing's production of the Broadway musical, 'Victor/Victoria', you'd think international jazz sensation Laura Fygi would have been bitten by the acting bug.