We reported in November that Harrison’s Sophia Gennusa, 9, was one of of four young actresses chosen to play the lead role of Matilda in a Broadway musical based on Roald Dahl’s beloved story of an extraordinary girl who dreams of a better life. We have more big news. Earlier… Read More →
Songwriters say stars, songs, surprises mark show’s return Jennifer Hudson, as Broadway veteran Veronica Moore, appears in tonight’s season-two premiere of “SMASH” on NBC. Nanuet native Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman know that fans of NBC’s “SMASH” have endured a long wait since last season. So the writers of “Hairspray,”... Read More →
Longtime Rocklander returns to Broadway after a decade away Ellen Burstyn likes to keep sharp. “I exercise my memory at every opportunity,” says the newly-minted 80-year-old, calling from her car on a ride from her Rockland home to Broadway’s American Airlines Theater for another performance of William Inge’s “Picnic,” directed… Read More →
Sharr White sits in the empty Samuel J. Friedman Theatre before a recent performance of “The Other Place,” his award-winning intermissionless drama that opens on Broadway tonight. After a few moments, his star, Laurie Metcalf (of “Roseanne” fame) appears, her hair in rollers, and sits in the chair at center… Read More →
Harrison’s Sophia Gennusa will share role Just announced today that the much-anticipated Broadway production of “Matilda” will alternate the demanding lead role among four young actresses, one of whom is from Westchester. Sophia Gennusa, 9, from Harrison, is a veteran of Purchase College’s famed “Nutcracker.” (That’s her, inset, when she… Read More →
An actor’s life, with lessons from Tommy Nick Wyman has played roles romantic, comedic and ruthless in his actor’s life. He was Eliza Doolittle’s love interest in a 1981 revival of “My Fair Lady” that starred Rex Harrison, played Thernardier in Broadway’s “Les Miserables” and, in his most visible role,... Read More →
Broadway revival has Holmes recalling audition for Papp “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” an audience-participation musical, is preparing its first Broadway revival. When the audience enters the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54 space this fall, they’ll be entering The Music Hall Royale for a show; a cast of Victorian actors… Read More →
Writer has three shows opening this fall Thomas Meehan’s fall sounds like it could be the start of a great joke: An orphan, an elf and a little tramp meet on Broadway … The words of the 83-year-old Suffern native and three-time Tony-winner (“Annie,” “The Producers,” “Hairspray”) will ring across… Read More →
‘Today’ host spent years on musical about radio evangelist (Carolee Carmello in “Scandalous.”) “If you put Oprah with Madonna and Lady Gaga, you still wouldn’t have what Aimee was for her time,” says Kathie Lee Gifford, speaking about the subject of the Broadway musical the “Today” show host has written.
Holiday favorites to light up the Theater District (John Bolton plays The Old Man, with his “major prize” in last season’s national tour of “A Christmas Story: The Musical.”) Stage adaptations of three Christmas classics will compete for box-office on Broadway this holiday season, while a fourth holiday favorite marks… Read More →
Broadway welcomes its share of stars of screens large and small this fall, appearing alongside bona fide luminaries of the American stage.
Broadway’s cheerleading musical opens Wednesday Photo by Michael Meseke: The creative team behind Broadway’s “Bring It On: The Musical” includes, from left: Lin-Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (music supervisor), Andy Blankenbuehler (director, choreographer), Jeff Whitty (book), Tom Kitt (music, arrangements, orchestrations), and Amanda Green (lyrics). Tom Kitt couldn’t… Read More →
Long-time WBT and WPPAC player returns to Broadway Broadway star Robert Cuccioli, best known for winning the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards (and being nominated for a Tony) for pulling double duty in “Jekkyl & Hyde,” will return to Broadway and play two characters again starting Aug. 7… Read More →
Katonah’s Bryggman shares stage with Parsons (and a pooka) in “Harvey” For 35 years, Katonah’s Larry Bryggman played Dr. John Dixon on the daytime drama “As the World Turns,” winning two Emmys. He earned Tony nominations for 1994’s “Picnic” and 2001’s “Proof.” Now, he’s back on Broadway, in “Harvey,” Mary… Read More →
It’s official: The opening left by the closing of “Leap of Faith” at the St. James Theater will be filled by “Bring It On,” the musical based on the 2000 Kirsten Dunst cheerleading movie. When it starts previews July 12 — for a rare Broadway summer opening on Aug. 1… Read More →
When the curtain rises on “Annie” in the fall — at a yet-to-be-named Nederlander theater on Broadway — the young actress playing the coveted role of Molly, the little orphan who Annie takes a shine to — will be Scarsdale’s Emily Rosenfeld. Emily, who is 8, is a veteran of… Read More →
Apparently, Alan Menken has a thing for 1992. Three films that came out that year — “Sister Act,” “Newsies,” and “Leap of Faith” — have all made the leap to Broadway, each with a score by the New Rochelle native. The eight-time Oscar-winner is accustomed to being busy, juggling movie… Read More →
Meet Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, the men behind “Peter and the Starcatcher” As a kid, Dave Barry saw his share of Broadway shows. “The great thing about growing up in Armonk was that you lived in this little town where you knew everybody, but you were 30 miles from… Read More →
Actor Peter Scolari is a lifelong juggler. He has juggled on the street, on stage and on “The Tonight Show.” It’s a skill that comes in handy these days: Scolari juggles five characters in the new Broadway play “Magic/Bird” — about NBA greats Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Larry Bird —... Read More →
The new Broadway musical “Once,” directed by John Tiffany and opening Sunday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, is one of those shows in which the cast is also the band. Based on the Oscar-winning 2006 film of the same name — about an Irish busker (simply “Guy”) and his… Read More →
Daniel Goldstein calls this “the fall of two babies.” The first is Gracie, his first child, due to his wife, Melissa, at any moment. His other baby is “Godspell,” the first Broadway revival of the Stephen Schwartz musical based on St. Matthew’s Gospel. Goldstein, a Larchmont native, makes his Broadway… Read More →
New Rochelle’s Kara DioGuardi is best known for her two seasons judging “American Idol.” Earlier this month, she made her Broadway debut as the headline-grabbing merry murderess Roxie Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Kander & Ebb’s “Chicago.” We chatted the morning after her first performance. PK: How did… Read More →
The 2011-12 Broadway season officially began with the most-anticipated show of the 2010-11 season: the $75-million “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” starring White Plains’ own Jennifer Damiano, which opened at the Foxwoods Theater two days after the Tony Awards were handed out in June. Over the summer, Rockland native Tyne… Read More →
Don’t try to pigeonhole Kelli O’Hara. The Westchester resident is a bona fide Broadway star, a three-time Tony nominee, for “The Light in the Piazza,” “Pajama Game,” “South Pacific.” On Sept. 23, she appears in the season premiere of the CBS drama “Blue Bloods,” playing a woman whose husband is… Read More →
After the MTA announced it would shut the entire system for the weekend, and Disney Theatricals canceled its Saturday and Sunday performances of MARY POPPINS and THE LION KING, the Broadway League reconsidered its decision to go on with weekend shows—made while the trains were still expected to roll.
(This post has been overtaken by the news. Read the latest, on Broadway canceling weekend shows, here.) Looks like Broadway’s going on with the show… Paul Libin, chairman of The Broaadway League, said today: “As of now, all Broadway shows in New York City for the coming weekend are playing… Read More →
Dear fellow theatergoers at WONDERLAND last night: Three things to think about before your next excursion to the theater: 1) bringing an infant to a Broadway show is not a good idea, particularly one with a bad cough who cries through the first act. 2) if you feel the need… Read More →
OK, all of these people have been going to see previews of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and reviewing it like it’s the final product, which is bogus. Thanks to Coco, you can see the real thing and judge for yourself:
Will Ferrell may have created Buddy in the 2003 film, “Elf,” but it’s Sebastian Arcelus who has to fill those curly-toed shoes eight shows a week in “Elf, the Musical,” onstage at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre through Jan. 2. Finding Buddy has been the task of Arcelus and the creative… Read More →
Bedford’s Dori Berinstein is a Tony-winning producer (“Thoroughly Modern Millie”) who also made an award-winning documentary film about Broadway (“ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway”). “I love trivia and I love Broadway,” she says. Who better, then, to create “The Broadway Challenge,” a new app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod… Read More →
