by Mike Haber | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: It has just been announced that celebrated rising singer, actor, and composer
Alvis Green Jr. is set to share the stage with Broadway favorite
Jessica Vosk next month at her ONE NIGHT ONLY solo show at New York’s famed
Carnegie Hall.
Green Jr. lands his debut on the legendary stage thanks to a contest that the
WICKED,
Fiddler on the Roof, and
Finding Neverland star put together where fans had to prepare a 16 bar cut of a Musical Theatre or Pop/Rock song via
TikTok using the hashtag
#VoskTok #VoskyAtCarnegie. Over 200 of Jessica’s super fans known as the VOSKIANS submitted their videos. In the end, it was Alvis’ powerful vocal chops she and her team loved. In the actual concert, He joins Jessica onstage for their duet as part of the show’s finale.
This once-in-a-life time contest for the Voskians is a full circle pay-it-forward moment for Jessica Vosk. Carnegie Hall was where she landed her first big professional gig as a performer. Following quitting her job on Wall Street following 3 rough years away from the spotlight, she was cast in a concert production of Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s musical KRISTINA there. 4 years later, Broadway began to discover a supernova!!!
Alvis Green Jr joins the complete lineup of other special guests that will perform with Vosk including…..
Jessica Vosk’s Carnegie Hall solo show entitled MY GOLDEN AGE is set for November 8th, 2021 at 8pm. Under the direction of Tony winner Warren Carlyle, Musical Direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and accompanied by a small orchestra, the show will showcase Vosk’s spectacular vocal chops as she pays tribute to the artists that inspired her journey from Wall Street to Broadway. She will do songs from
Barbra Streisand,
Judy Garland,
Sarah Vaughan, and more. It will also include a selection of songs from Vosk’s favorite composers including
Stephen Sondheim,
Burt Bacharach, and
Stephen Schwartz (yup, you can expect some WICKED tunes).
Check out the winning video below!!!
Congratulations to Alvis Green Jr on this exciting debut!!
It shows that you CAN make it to Carnegie Hall if you PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!!
Who is excited?!
How amazing is Alvis?!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
PLEASE FOLKS, MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!! The remaining, full, and final casting has been announced for the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Meredith Wilson’s legendary musical The Music Man has been revealed. The final set of residents of RIVER CITY will include an unbelievable lineup of Broadway favorites and newcomers. That will consist of….
newcomer
Benjamin Pajak making his Broadway debut as the shy and self conscious turn confident coronet player “Winthrop Paroo”,
The PICK-A-LITTLE, TALK-A-LITTLE Ladies will consist of….
The RIVER CITY dysfunctional schoolboard (that becomes a Barbershop Quarter) will feature….
Nicholas Ward (Broadway’s On The Town, The Lion King, and
Frozen) as “Oliver Hix”,
This exciting lineup joins the previously announced…..
Award winning stage and screen star
Hugh Jackman in the titular role of “Professor Harold Hill”,
Tony winning stage and screen star
Sutton Foster as “Marian Paroo”.
Emma Crow as “Zaneeta Shinn”,
Under the direction of Jerry Zaks and choreographed by
Warren Carlyle, this new highly anticipated revival of
The Music Man marches into Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre this holiday season. Previews will begin December 20th, 2021 and will have its official Opening Night on February 10th, 2022.
Congrats to this amazing cast!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
This holiday season is truly gonna be magical as New York City continues to wake up and we continue celebrating the return of our Broadway Theater scene. It has just been announced that the BROADWAY SNOW GLOBES will be returning beginning next month through Christmas in Times Square.
For those who may not know, the BROADWAY SNOW GLOBES debuted in 2019 prior before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It featured 4 larger-than-life snow globes designs inspired by some of the hottest tickets on the Great Bright Way. As it did prior to the shutdown, the show’s represented will once again will include…..
Catch these 4 globes ringing in THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR and Broadway’s triumphant comeback from November 3rd – December 26th, 2021. See it only in Times Square!!!
Broadway Show Globes to Return to Times Square With Designs Inspired by WICKED, THE LION KING, AINT TOO PROUD & More (broadwayworld.com)
by Mike Haber | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
SHE HAD IT COMIN’!!! Since Broadway is back, Tony and Emmy winner
Kristin Chenoweth is continuing to push of finally getting herself back on stage. We’ve seen her attempt to go in for
Come From Away,
Dear Evan Hansen,
Waitress, and even attempting to fly back into
WICKED. However, Chenoweth is NOT giving up.
On her next audition stop, the 4’11 versatile stage and screen star decided to boost her game up by one thing….. GIVE EM’ THE OLD RAZZLE DAZZLE….. AND ALL THAT JAZZ. In this hilarious video, she is attempting to become the MERRY MURDERESS in the Award winning revival of
Chicago. Can Kristin Chenoweth impress long running leading leady
Bianca Marroquin with her Bob Fosse dance skills outside the production’s home at the Ambassador Theatre?!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 28, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
HOWDY, BROADWAY FANS!!! New York’s MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET is only 28 DAYS till The 95th Annual
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We have more toe-tapping performances coming your way on our TOP 30 BROADWAY AT MACY’S COUNTDOWN. Truy an exciting day to ring in the return of the holiday season and celebrate the return of Broadway. Here comes another great Broadway performance?
At # 28 on our countdown, we take a trip to a notable HONKY TONK town in Tennessee in the 1950’s during a time of segregation and the birth of Rock N’ Roll. There, we meet a young Caucasian White DJ who attempts to get an Black nightclub singer on the radio. Slowly, they fall into a forbidden interracial romance that leads them into dangerous situations. Welcome to that town that is…..
Memphis. The show features a score by Bon Jovi keyboard player David Bryan along with additional lyrics and a book by Joe DiPietro.
From the 2011
CBS telecast, here Tony nominated Broadway rock star
Adam Pascal as “Huey Calhoun” and the cast bringing that rock n’ roll vibe to a downtown park in lower Manhattan. Here they are performing the fan favorite RADIO.
MEMPHIS originally was developed during the 2003-2004 season at the
North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts and
TheaterWorks in Mountain View, California. It had it’s official world premiere production in 2008 at
La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, California and then later played The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington in 2009.
Following the success of those world premiere productions, MEMPHIS officially arrived on Broadway in 2009 playing the Shubert Theatre where it ran for a total of 30 previews and 1,165 regular performances. Under the direction of Tony winner Christopher Ashley and choreographed by Tony winner Sergio Trujillo, the cast was led by…..
Tony nominee Chad Kimball (later Adam Pascal) as “Huey Calhoun”,
Tony nominee Derrick Baskin as “Gator”,
Cass Morgan (later Nancy Opel) as “Mama Gladys Calhoun”,
Tony winner Michael McGrath (later John Jellison) as “Mr. Simmons”.
The show went on to receive 8
Tony Awards nominations in 2010 winning 4 including BEST MUSICAL and BEST SCORE.
During its run in the Big Apple, the show was also captured on film released in Movie Theaters. The filmed proshot is now available on BOTH DVD and digital download including
BroadwayHD. It stars the entire original cast live from the stage of the Shubert Theatre.
Following the success of Broadway, MEMPHIS went on to become a worldwide hit across America, in London’s West End, Australia, and more. It’s currently also being done in High Schools and Regional Theaters everywhere.
Doesn’t this musical make you want to yell HOCKADOO?!!!!!!
How FANTASTICAL is this show?!!
