Bring This Show To Broadway, PLEASE!

OMG! It's Goosebump Time On Broadway

Watch as supserstar Hugh Jackman makes his first apperance in the long-awaited revival of The Music Man at Broadway's legendary Winter Garden theater. All of the greats have played the Winter Garden and now, here's Jackman at the first night's preview and the audience literally goes wild. So many, many people (we're among them) have been holding tickets for this show for so long that this breathless moment couldn't come soon enough. So much pent-up energy and emotion is tied up with this. When a Great American Musical opens like this on a grand scale, you know Broadway Is Back! May it ever be so!

Hauntingly Beautiful Tribute To Sondheim!

 

Central Synagogue's (NYC) tribute to the great Stephen Sondheim from Shabbat Services, Z”L “Opening” (from Sunday In The Park with George) “Not A Day Goes By” from (Merrily We Roll Along) “No One Is Alone” (from Into The Woods) “Being Alive” (from Company) “Move On” (from Sunday In The Park with George)

Montage From New Musical 'Flying Over Sunset'

Watch a montage of scenes from FLYING OVER SUNSET on Broadway. Now through February 6, 2022 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Tickets and more info: https://flyingoversunset.com/ 1950s Hollywood. You are at a beautiful beach house overlooking the Pacific with Cary Grant, Clare Boothe Luce and Aldous Huxley… and they are on an acid trip. Together. That is the bold premise of FLYING OVER SUNSET, a new musical written and directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner James Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Falsettos). Join three extraordinary people as they take an exhilarating journey into the most colorful corners of the human psyche – delving into their private desires, hopes and secrets. Carmen Cusack (Bright Star), Harry Hadden-Paton (My Fair Lady) and Tony Yazbeck (On the Town) lead the cast in this brilliantly imagined story of revelation and connection. FLYING OVER SUNSET features a score written by Pulitzer Prize, Emmy® and Tony Award winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) and Tony nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens). Michelle Dorrance, the world-renowned dancer and MacArthur grant winner, will make her theatrical debut as the show’s choreographer. Don’t miss the next breathtakingly original musical from James Lapine!

Broadway Goes Dark In Memory Of Sondheim

 

The bright lights of Broadway -- the Great White Way -- are rarely extinguished. 

But in a unique and poignant tribute, the League of Broadway Theaters ordered 

all theater lights to be dimmed last night foir one miniute in memory of The Master

 -- legendary Broadway composer/lyrist Stephen Sondheim who recently passed away.

This is an honor bestowed only on a few of Broadway's most accomplished artists. 

Watch as Broadway goes dark and the lights then come back on again. 

There's only one Broadway, folks. 

If you haven't been there you're missing a true American treasure that is beloved the world over.

Broadway Goes Dark Next Week For Sondheim

 

London's West End Goes Dark For Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim was adored in London. Tonight the West End (London's theater district) went dark as a memorial to The Master -- the great Broiadway musical copmposer and lyricist.

A Spicy, Rarely Heard Sondheim Tune!

 

Sondheim: Ten Things You MUST Remember!

 

 

As we move forward, keep the following in mind:

1) There will be no "new Sondheim". There is no successor. Not now, not ever. While others may follow The Master, they do not succeed him.

2) If you saw the original production of a Sondheim show on Broadway, you saw history. Doesn't matter which show it was. Any Sondheim show. Consider yourself privileged.

3) If you have a letter from the man (he wrote thousands and was vigilant about replying) let's hope you've held onto it and that you'll treasure it forever. It's invaluable!

4) Some Sondheim shows ran longer than others but all have been and will continue to be revived. There were no "flops". None!

5) If, through your own fault, you've never experienced a Sondheim show or are unfamiliar with his music you are culturally deprived and, arguably, culturally illiterate.

6) If Bob Dylan was worthy of the Nobel Prize for literature then so too is/was Sondheim.

7) Sondheim never grows old. You grow old and come to appreciate Sondheim in new, different, deeper ways. But Sondheim never grows old or tiresome. Never!

8) Sondheim was the last link -- the magic link, the missing piece -- that connected us to Broadway's dazzling Golden Age. He was the needle and the thread that pulled everything together.

9) Sondheim recreated the Broadway musical bringing it into the modern era and truly turning it into an art form. No one else was equipped to do this.

10) The man lives in his music. Everything you want or need to know about him is there in his music. He lives on there and, in so doing, he remains immortal.

And one more thing: The art of writ is hard work. You don't create it by waving a magic wand or conjuring up some celestial spirit. It's work! What this man created was the product of hard work.

SUNDAY: Broadway Sings Out For Sondheim!

 

THIS Is Broadway: Sunday For Sondheim!

Sunday's tribute to Stephen Sondheim in the center of Times Square featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda and performers from every show currently appearing on Broadway. THIS is the Broadway community: together, caring, remembering in tribute to the man who was the undisputed Master, now immortalized via the endless performances of his works all over the world forever!

Rare TV: Watch Sondheim's Mastery Of Words!

 A rarely seen 1966 episode of the game show PASSWORD, featuring Stephen Sondheim and Lee Remick as players,. In the episode, which originally aired on Christmas in 1966, Sondheim plays special guest to his dear friend, Remick. Watch Sondheim absolutely dominating in this once "lost" episode, which hasn't been seen in more than 50 years

Sondheim's Life: A Luminous Gift To All!

 

The death of Stephen Sondheim, the great Master of the American musical stage is an incalculable loss to popular culture and to the art of musical theater.
It'a a loss for civilized theater that challenged you, that made you think and feel and enter a world that could only be created by a musical genius.
For Broadway, this is the loss of the last link to the Golden Age of musicals.
Our first encounter with Sondheim came in 1970 when we saw the groundbreaking musical Company. Yes, people called it the first "theme" musical but they weren't quite sure what to make of it. We were young and hardly seasoned in the ways of the world but we loved the show from the first moment to the last.
Why? Well, it just captured a moment, a young man's journey, a yearning -- yes, but also a sense of cool detachment that was indicative of the time. Yet the piece was also timeless as evidenced by the fact that it has been revived again and again and is running on Broadway right now.
After Company, we were hooked. And so we saw A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures (a personal favorite), Sweeney Todd (his masterwork), Sunday In The Park With George, Into The Woods, Passion and, most recently Road Show. Later, we caught up with revivals of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (the first show for which he wrote both music and lyrics), Anyone Can Whistle (written with Richard Rodgers), Do I Hear A Waltz?, Follies, Merrily We Roll Along and Assassins. Of course, who hasn't seen Gypsy and West Side Story for which Sondheim wrote the lyrics?
No two Sondheim shows were exactly alike but they all touched upon Big Themes: the complicated relationships between parents and children; the tortured minds of destructive souls; the nature of evil; the ravages of time; the fickleness and foolishness of youth; the true meaning of fairy tales; brotherly love -- and hate; the relentless drive of obsessive love; the meaning (or lack thereof) of marriage; history's distortions; lust, greed, guile, guts and gullibility -- and, almost always, the longings of the human heart. And all of this, all of this staggering output spanned nearly 70 years!
In fact, Sondheim was said to be working on a new musical at the time of his death at age 91. If he wasn't creating, he wasn't alive. This was hi9s elixir, his tonic.
Sondheim always had a twinkle in his eye, even to the end. Most recently we saw him just before the COVID outbreak when City Center presented a production of Road Show. Sondheim appeared after the curtain came down to talk about the show and its various iterations and voyage to its present form. He enjoyed interacting with the show's young director. He was sharp, lucid, funny, self-deprecating and, as always, delightfully at home on a New York stage -- in a town and at a place where he spent most of his life. New York was his forever habitat and the stage was his natural milieu.
He often remarked that he wasn't in the business of writing hits because that's not the way he wrote songs. He wrote for a particular character at a particular moment in a particular scene in a particular show. But he did write Send In The Clowns, Not A Day Goes By, Broadway Baby, The Ladies Who Lunch, Comedy Tonight and Losing My Mind, among others. And, of course he wrote the lyrics for more hit tunes than could possibly be mentioned including the haunting There's A Place For Us and the rousing Everything's Coming Up Roses.
Sondheim was the essence of Broadway and he loved the main stem, the Great White Way. Nowhere was that love more evocatively expressed than in Follies with songs that assembled a pastiche of every type of melody that has graced the musical stage.
He took both his hits and his misses in stride. And that proved to be a wise and visionary attitude as some of his early also-rans turned out to be hits later down the road.
Our favorites? It's hard to even imagine where to begin but Follies, Sweeney Todd, Company and Pacific Overtures would have to be near the top.
If you probed Sondheim about his work he would often appear to be inscrutable. But he'd be the first to tell you there was no magic to it. It was hard work -- tedious work. And he worked very, very hard at it. It could be a tortuous, frustrating, even exasperating and very, very lonely business. All of that is best examined and revealed in Sunday In The Park With George.
For audiences, of course, there were moments in Sondheim shows that were nothing less than exhilarating. But there were poignant moments as well.
Many felt that Sondheim was enigmatic. But look at his life: the only child of divorced parents, he pretty much adopted Oscar Hammerstein's family as his own and Hammerstein became his caring and understanding mentor.
From an early age, Sondheim likely knew he was different -- set apart, blessed with a certain talent and destined for a solitary adventure into an imaginary world.
For the real of the story of Stephen Sondheim, explore his works. There, his life unfolds and is a luminous gift to all of us -- if you're willing to look, listen, savor and learn!

Why You'll LOVE The Horrors Of This 'Little Shop'

Lest you think Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd invented the grim combination of murder, mayhem and music, think again. Long before Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop there was another shop that dabbled in Broadway guts and gore and that was the Little Shop of Horrors. Of course, Little Shop of Horrors never made it to Broadway proper. A mere fraction of the size and scope of Sweeney, Little Shop opened off Broadway and there it stayed for a good long time.

Then, in 2015 City Center's acclaimed Encore series revived Little Shop with Jake Gyllenhaal in the starring role as Seymour, the endearing but ultimately menacing nebbish who works at Mushnik's troubled flower shop on skid row. While there, Seymour harbors a crush on Audrey, a coworker and also nourishes a strange plant with an insatiable appetite and a penchant for the macabre. We enjoyed the Encores production but it was difficult imaginng hunky Gyllenhaal as a spindly, bullied nerd. Also, City Center's vastness and huge stage overpowered this basically intimate show.

Now, Little Shop is back in the much smaller Westside Theatre just off Broadway where it's much more at home with a fine cast starring Broadway favorite Jeremy Jordan and featuring the always adept and multi-talented Christian Borle. Jordan actually looks the part of Seymour and Brole plays the heavy to the hilt along with a few other characters. With Tammy Blanchard as Audrey, the love interest and Tom Alan Robbins as shop-owner Mushnik and backed up by the irrepressible Urchin singers (Salome Smith, Aveena Sawyer and Joy Woods) this cast plays the whole show broadly and with such delight at being on stage and in front of a live audience again that they win you over right from the start.

Jordan is one of Broadway's most versatile actors and here, teamed with the bulgy-eyed Borle, he seems to be savoring every moment of Little Shop's journey into what becomes a blood-thirsty mess, albeit peppered with non-stop laughs. Borle and Jordan wring every bit of mugging physicality out of their roles in what is basically a grisly tale wrapped in a cartoon-style musical that can't hide its smirk.

Of course, a major nod must be given to the show's adept puppeteers who help Seymour's plant grow into a mammoth monster that overwhelms not just the story but nearly the entire stage. But since Little Shop never even tries to be a serious morality tale, the fright is all in fun.

And yet, in this era of COVID and biological warfare, well -- you may just see some pertinent warnings.

Prognosis: A delightful, perfectly-mounted hit. Don't miss it! 

We've Got Our Tickets; What About You?

The classic musical "Little Shop of Horrors" is back on stage in New York City.

The Most Produced School Plays, Musicals

FULL-LEGNTH MUSICALS:
1. The Addams Family 
2. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 
3. The Theory of Relativity (
4. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 
5. Little Women 
6. Godspell 
7. (tie) Disney's High School Musical 
7. (tie) Little Shop of Horrors 
9. (tie) Bright Star 
9. (tie) Into the Woods 
9. (tie) Disney's The Little Mermaid 

FULL-LEGNTH PLAYS:
1. Clue 
2. Almost, Maine 
3. It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play 
4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
5. She Kills Monsters 
6. A Christmas Carol 
7. The Laramie Project 
8. The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon 
9. Alice in Wonderland 
10. (tie) Our Town 
10. (tie) Peter and the Starcatcher 
10. (tie) Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic 
10. (tie) Radium Girls 
10. (tie) Twelfth Night 
10. (tie.) Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play

SHORT PLAYS:
1. Check Please 
2. Help Desk: A Stay-at-Home Play 
3. (tie) 10 Ways to Survive Life in a Quarantine (One-Act): A Stay-at-Home Play 
3. (tie) The Internet is Distract—Oh Look a Kitten! 
5. Bad Auditions by Bad Actors 
6. The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (One-Act) 
7. (tie) Game of Tiaras (One-Act) 
7. (tie) Our Place 
7. (tie) Scenes From a Quarantine 
7. (tie) The Audition 
7. (tie) This is a Test 

 

Oh, It's Happening - And Sooner Than You Think!

 

 Beanie Feldstein stars in FUNNY GIRL, with Ramin Karimloo—and Broadway audiences are the luckiest people in the world. Access exclusive fan presale tickets through Thursday, October 7 before the public on sale this Friday, October 8 at 10am. www.funnygirlonbroadway.com/ 

About FUNNY GIRL: The musical comedy classic is back for the first time ever! 

This bittersweet comedy is the story of the indomitable Fanny Brice, a girl from the Lower East Side who dreamed of a life on the stage. Everyone told her she’d never be a star, but then something funny happened—she became one of the most beloved performers in history, shining brighter than the brightest lights of Broadway. 

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Twitter: www.twitter.com/funnygirlbwy 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/funnygirlbwy/

Complete List Of Tony Winners!

Best Play 

Grand Horizons 
WINNER: The Inheritance 
Sea Wall/A Life 
Slave Play 
The Sound Inside 

Best Musical 
Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Moulin Rouge! The Musical 
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Revival of a Play 
Betrayal 
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune 
WINNER: A Soldier's Play 

Best Book of a Musical 
WINNER: Diablo Cody, Jagged Little Pill 
John Logan, Moulin Rouge! The Musical 
Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre 
WINNER: A Christmas Carol, Music: Christopher Nightingale  
The Inheritance, Music: Paul Englishby  
The Rose Tattoo, Music: Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb  
Slave Play, Music: Lindsay Jones  
The Sound Inside, Music: Daniel Kluger  

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play 
Ian Barford, Linda Vista
WINNER: Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance
Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life
Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal
Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life
Blair Underwood, A Soldier's Play 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play 
Joaquina Kalukango, Slave Play
Laura Linney, My Name is Lucy Barton
Audra McDonald, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
WINNER: Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical 
WINNER: Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge! The Musical 

**From The Tony Awards Rules: If the Tony Awards Nominating Committee has determined that if there is only one nominee in a category listed, such category shall be submitted to the Tony Voters which may, by the affirmative vote of sixty (60%) percent of the total ballots cast, grant an Award in that category. 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical 
Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Adrienne Warren, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play 
Ato Blankson-Wood, Slave Play
James Cusati-Moyer, Slave Play
WINNER: David Alan Grier, A Soldier's Play
John Benjamin Hickey, The Inheritance
Paul Hilton, The Inheritance 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play 
Jane Alexander, Grand Horizons
Chalia La Tour, Slave Play
Annie McNamara, Slave Play
WINNER: Lois Smith, The Inheritance
Cora Vander Broek, Linda Vista 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical 
WINNER: Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Derek Klena, Jagged Little Pill
Sean Allan Krill, Jagged Little Pill
Sahr Ngaujah, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Daniel J. Watts, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical 
Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Pill
Celia Rose Gooding, Jagged Little Pill
Robyn Hurder, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
WINNER: Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill
Myra Lucretia Taylor, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Scenic Design of a Play 
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
Soutra Gilmour, Betrayal
WINNER: Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Derek McLane, A Soldier's Play
Clint Ramos, Slave Play 

Best Scenic Design of a Musical 
Riccardo Hernández and Lucy Mackinnon, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Costume Design of a Play 
Dede Ayite, Slave Play
Dede Ayite, A Soldier's Play
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
WINNER: Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Clint Ramos, The Rose Tattoo 

Best Costume Design of a Musical 
Emily Rebholz, Jagged Little Pill
Mark Thompson, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
WINNER: Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge! The Musical 

Best Lighting Design of a Play 
Jiyoun Chang, Slave Play
Jon Clark, The Inheritance
Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside
Allen Lee Hughes, A Soldier's Play
WINNER: Hugh Vanstone, A Christmas Carol 

Best Lighting Design of a Musical 
Bruno Poet, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Justin Townsend, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge! The Musical 

Best Sound Design of a Play 
Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid, The Inheritance
WINNER: Simon Baker, A Christmas Carol
Lindsay Jones, Slave Play
Daniel Kluger, Sea Wall/A Life
Daniel Kluger, The Sound Inside 

Best Sound Design of a Musical 
Jonathan Deans, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Nevin Steinberg, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Direction of a Play 
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
WINNER: Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance
Kenny Leon, A Soldier's Play
Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal
Robert O'Hara, Slave Play 

Best Direction of a Musical 
Phyllida Lloyd, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Diane Paulus, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Alex Timbers, Moulin Rouge! The Musical 

Best Choreography 
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Anthony Van Laast, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical 

Best Orchestrations 
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill
WINNER: Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen, Matt Stine and Justin Levine, Moulin Rouge! The Musical 
Ethan Popp, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical

Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-Competitive Categories

Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Graciela Daniele

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Julie Halston

Special Tony Awards
Broadway Advocacy Coalition
David Byrne's American Utopia
Freestyle Love Supreme

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Fred Gallo
Irene Gandy
Beverly Jenkins
New Federal Theatre (Woody King Jr., founder)

So Many B'way Greats . . . Gone!

Bernadette Peters helps Broadway say goodbye to those we’ve lost over the past year and a half. Robbie Fairchild then gives dance performance, followed by Brian Stokes Mitchell performing “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha. Kelli O'Hara and Norm Lewis end the segment with a stunning performance of “Somewhere” from West Side Story. The 2020 Tony Awards aired on CBS September 26, 2021.

OMG! Three Magical Broadway Moments!

 

From last night's Tony Awards. Absolutely stellar!

THE Biggest Tony Moment Last Night! WOW!

 

If there really are "Wheels of a Dream," we like where @thegoodfight's @AudraEqualityMc and @bstokesmitchell are taking us. #TonyAwards pic.twitter.com/tKlIY1rvg0

— CBS (@CBS) September 27, 2021

Two of Broadway's greatest stars. 

One of the most melodic and compelling Broadway numbers ever written. 

An epic show that simply resonates more and more as each year passes -- so rich in meaning. 

A Tony moment to savor, to treasure, to herald and  to share endlessly. THIS gave us goosebumps. 

Oh, how proud I am to say that I saw them do it in the original production and I'll NEVER forget it. 

THIS is Broadway!

A NEW Sondheim Musical Next Season?

During a rare TV appearance (to promote a new book he's co-authored) America's greatest living Broadway composer revealed that he's been working on a NEW musical.

Yes, at 91 Stephen Sondheim says his new show (called Square One) had a preliminary reading and, if all goes well, may be ready for Broadway "nest season".  As for that trial reading, on another TV show Nathan Lane reports that he and Bernadette Peters participated in a reading of "a new Stephen Sondheim musical". Could this be the long-anticipated Buñel musical that Sondheim was said to have set aside? Or is it something else? Very few details are know about the show. We suppose we'll just have to wait.

But a NEW Sondheim musical? That would be cause for unparalleled joy!

We've Got Our Tickets! What About YOU?

 

Get Ready! The Moment Is Almost Here!

  

 We can't wait to welcome you home! #ThisIsBroadway 

 Get your tickets now: https://thisisbroadway.org

A Triumphant/Tragic Night On Broadway

Forty oneyears ago, on August 25, 1980, "42nd Street" opened in New York.  

After an epic, rapturous, premiere performance producer David Merrick took center stage to announce to the audience and company that the show’s director, Gower Champion, had died that afternoon. 
So as not to threaten that night's opening performance, his death was kept a secret from the cast, who reacted with horror and grief at the news. This sensational musical went on to win the Tony Award as Best Musical and ran 3,486 performances. It was later revived on Broadway to acclaim once again and is considered a classic.
Here is rare footage from the poignant scene on opening night after the curtain came down.

David Merrick says, "It's a tragic moment... I am sorry to have to report Gower Champion died," and the rest is made inaudible due to the audience reaction. Jerry Orbach then had the reflexes to call, in character, for the curtain to be closed on the shocked performers on stage.

Since The Lights Will Soon Be On Again

There's a broken heart for every light on Broadway

A million tears for every gleam, they say
Those lights above you think nothing of you
It's those that love you that have to pay
There's a sorrow lurking in each gloomy shadow
And sorrow comes to everyone someday
T'will come to our brothers, but think of the mothers
With broken hearts for each light on Broadway
There's broken-hearted husbands, there's broken-hearted wives
There's broken-hearted sweethearts who must now lead double-lives
And there's the boy and girl who thought twas' right to take a chance
And they all must pay the fiddler if they dance, dance, dance...

There's a broken heart for every light on Broadway
A million tears for every gleam, they say
But if you have the fire, that bottomless desire
That always yearning, fiercely churning, stomach turning need,
I't's guaranteed, you'll succeed
So will you come to battle?
With critics and their prattle?
Will you join in Apollo's rendezvous?
Then you will join the greats on old Broadway
Then we will join the greats on old Broadway!

Songwriters: Fred Fisher / Howard Johnson

List Of B'way Openings, Re-Openings!

Oh, how we've waited to bring you this news! And how happy we are to report it!

And now, here is the latest complete updated list of Broadway show openings as (after a VERY long break) we head into a new (and resumed) fall season as provided by 

Pass Over Previews Aug. 4, Opening Sept. 12, August Wilson Theatre

Hadestown Sept. 2, Walter Kerr Theatre

Chicago Sept.14, Ambassador Theatre

Hamilton Sept. 14, Richard Rogers Theatre

Lackawanna Blues Previews Sep. 14, Opening Sept. 28, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

The Lion King Sept.14, Minskoff Theatre

Wicked Sept. 14, Gershwin Theatre

David Byrne’s American Utopia Sept. 17, theater TBA

Six Previews Sept.17, Opening Oct. 3, Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Come from Away Sept. 21, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

Moulin Rouge! Sept. 24, Al Hirschfeld Theatre

The Lehman Trilogy Previews Sept. 25, Opening Oct. 14, Nederlander Theatre

Aladdin Sept. 28, New Amsterdam Theatre

Thoughts of a Colored Man Previews Oct. 1, Opening Oct. 31, Golden Theatre 

Caroline, Or Change Previews Oct. 8, Opening Oct. 27, Studio 54

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Oct. 8, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Girl from the North Country Oct. 13, Belasco Theatre

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations Oct.16, Imperial Theatre

Jagged Little Pill Oct. 21, Broadhurst Theatre

Mrs. Doubtfire Previews Oct. 21, Opening Dec.5, Stephen Sondheim Theatre

The Phantom of the Opera Oct. 22, Majestic Theatre

Trouble in Mind Previews Oct. 29, Opening Nov. 18, American Airlines Theatre

Diana: The Musical Previews Nov. 2, Opening Nov. 17, Longacre Theater

Flying Over Sunset Previews Nov. 4, Opening Dec. 6., Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater

MJ: The Michael Jackson Musical Previews Dec. 6, Opening Feb. 1, 2022, Neil Simon Theatre

Dear Evan Hansen Dec. 11, Music Box Theatre

Company Previews Dec. 20, Opening Jan. 9, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

The Music Man Previews Dec. 20, Opening Feb. 10, 2022, Winter Garden Theatre(tickets not yet on sale)

Birthday Candles Previews March 18, 2022, Opening April 10, 2022, American Airlines Theatre

EXACT DATES YET TO BE ANNOUNCED . . . 

Clyde’s Fall 2021, Helen Hayes Theatre

The Book of Mormon Eugene O’Neill Theatre

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Lyric Theatre

The Minutes theater TBA

To Kill a Mockingbird Shubert Theatre

West Side Story Broadway Theatre

Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death theater TBA

American Buffalo Circle in the Square

Between Riverside and Crazy Fall 2022, Helen Hayes Theatre

How I Learned to Drive Spring 2022, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Plaza Suite Hudson Theatre

Skeleton Crew Winter 2022, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Sing Street theater TBA

Take Me Out Spring 2022, Helen Hayes Theatre

1776 Spring 2022, American Airlines Theatre

Get Ready: It'll Be Here Just Before Christmas!

 

Watch: Glover, Lane Reopen Broadway Briefly With Taps And Laughs!

 

Broadway reopened its doors — for 40 minutes or so — on Saturday, April 3, with a special NY PopsUp performance at the St. James Theatre. The matinee, directed by Jerry Zaks, featured an audience primarily made up of staffers from the Actors Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, with back-to-back performances from Tony winners Savion Glover and Nathan Lane. Through the magic of tap dance, above Glover reflects on his life in the theater, while exploring what Broadway is, was, and will be. Below, Lane delivers a boffo monologue invvolving a visit from Hugh Jackman.

MLB Pitcher LOVES Broadway, Releases Showtunes Disc

The closest Broadway ever gets to baseball is through productions of Damn Yankees and Take Me Out. But one pro ballplayer is taking a step closer to blending the two. In 2020, Steven Brault, a lefty pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, released his first record, titled A Pitch At Broadway. A show tunes cover album, it features songs from some of Brault's favorite shows. Here, Brault performs a cover of "Wait for Me" from the Tony-winning Hadestown, alongside fellow player Josh Bell and Hadestown stars Andre Dé Shields, Reeve Carney, Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad. 

A Broadway House Manager Tells His Story!