by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
What a night!!! Congratulations to all the winners for The 74th Annual
Tony Awards!!! What an unforgettable celebration it was to celebrate what we lost for 18 1/2 months and making up for all that lost time. So many standout winners tonight…
Moulin Rouge – 10 including BEST MUSICAL and BEST ACTOR (for Aaron Tviet),
A Soldier’s Play – 2 including BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY and BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY (for David Alan Grier)
Tina – 1 for BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL (for Adrienne Warren)
Bravo to all the hard working shows that won plus the nominees that lost.
So ready for next season coming up!!
In addition, we at New York Broadway Tours cannot wait coming to to start relaunching our Walking Tours as we pass down more Broadway stories with you. BOOK YOUR TICKETS and JOIN US for our Walking Tours starting next month!! See you back on the streets coming up.
Most importantly, GET VACCINATED and GO SEE A BROADWAY SHOW!!!
All of the Winners from the 2020 Tony Awards! (broadwayworld.com)
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, News, off broadway, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Stage and screen favorite
Corbin Bleu (Broadway’s
In The Heights,
Godspell, Holiday Inn, and Kiss Me Kate, TV’s
High School Musical) has lent his voice to Disney’s highly anticipated new Off Broadway musical on the classic story of
Winnie the Pooh this Fall. The performer recently released a recording of his rendition performing the theme song to the 1988 series THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH. You can listen to it now right below.
Created by Jonathon Rockefeller (the genius behind a recent touring production of The Very Hungry Caterpillar), this new stage adaptation of WINNIE THE POOH is set to make its World Premiere debut on October 21st, 2021 at Times Square’s
Theatre Row.
Based on the original
A.A. Milne children’s book that later became an iconic
Disney film, this unique new stage production of WINNIE THE POOH will feature breathtaking life-size puppetry through the eyes of the characters we all know and love. It will feature a brand new original tale of “Pooh” and “Christopher Robin” themselves along with all their best friends including “Eeyore”, “Kanga”, “Roo”, “Rabbit”, “Piglet”, “Owl”, and yes….. everyone’s favorite bouncing tiger himself “Tigger” too…. .HOO, HOO, HOO, HOO.
You can also expect many of the beloved tunes from WINNIE THE POOH’s various movies and TV shows. It will include this 1988 theme song along with many of the Sherman Brother songs from the original 1977 film that started it all including their OG WINNIE THE POOH theme song, RUMBLY IN MY TUMBLY, THE WONDER THING ABOUT TIGGERS, HELFFALUMPS & WOOZLES, and so much more.
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Roll up the Red Carpet because BROADWAY’S BACK!!! Everything is gearing underway as the stars, creators, nominees, and performers are slowly starting to prepare to arrive for long awaited 74th Annual
Tony Awards. Which of Broadway’s best are you so excited to see?!!! Who is excited?!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
So much anticipation in the air for Broadway’s biggest night this evening…. The 74th Annual
Tony Awards. Earlier today,
CBS Sunday Morning did a full set of featurettes on 3 of the hottest tickets back on Broadway this Fall. Check out below to see the behind the stories of….
Tina: The
Tina Turner Musical featuring its Tony nominated leading lady Adrienne Warren. It features an interview with Warren talking about the process transforming into the iconic QUEEN OF ROCK N’ ROLL and her life within this past year of the pandemic. TINA reopens on Broadway beginning October 8th, 2021 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Warren will stay with the show through October 31st, 2021,
David Byrne’s American Utopia which will be receiving a Special Tony Award tonight. The legendary rock singer talks about the experience of doing the show plus discussing importance of collective rituals, such as concerts, which have been denied us during the pandemic lockdown, and how their return is truly the greatest medicine. The show is currently playing a limited Encore engagement at Broadway’s St. James Theatre through March 6th, 2020
a sneak peak of the long awaited new musical
Diana. It features interviews with the show’s head Tony winning creative team (consisting of director Tony winner Christopher Ashley, composer
David Bryan, Joe DiPietro, and more) and its leading lady Jeanna de Waal. The show was abruptly shutdown after only a week and a half of previews. But it’s set to return this Fall. Previews resume November 2nd, 2021 and will finally reach its official Opening at the Longacre Theatre on November 17th, 2021. Most importantly starting this Friday, the filmed proshot of DIANA will be available to watch on
Netflix.
So happy to be celebrating the return of Live Theater!!!
How amazing was all that?!!!
VIDEOS: Go Inside the Making of DIANA, Adrienne Warren Talks TINA, and More on CBS SUNDAY MORNING (broadwayworld.com)
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Time is getting closer to Broadway’s Biggest Night this evening….. The 74th Annual
Tony Awards. Truly gonna be the ultimate party of celebrating the community we love and making up for all that lost time.
Little throwback to another one of our personal favorite TV commercials from
Visa sponsoring the Tonys. In promotion for the 2000 Tony Awards, this 30 second commercial is truly a Broadway showstopper. Here is Tony Award winning legend
Bebe Neuwirth as “Velma Kelly” in the long running revival of
Chicago and a cast of some notable Broadway Characters from shows that were running on the Great Bright Way at the time performing a Broadway Flash mob themed edition of George and Ira Gershwin’s legendary standard I GOT RHYTHM before finding themselves at the Box Office to enter the Tonys. Notable productions represented in the commercial included…
the original Broadway production of
Cats,
and more.
We at New York Broadway Tours are so happy to celebrating this community we love’s triumphant comeback.
The 2020 / 2021 Tony Awards will be coming to you live from Broadway’s legendary Winter Garden Theatre tonight. It all starts at 7pm EST with
Audra McDonald hosting actual ceremony of Awards via
Paramount+. Immediately at 9pm EST, transfer to the CBS telecast as
Leslie Odom Jr. hosts the 2nd half entitled BROADWAY’S BACK which will be a full concert event plus the revealment of the winning shows for BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY, BEST PLAY, and BEST MUSICAL.
PLEASE SHARE AND RETWEET THIS COMMERCIAL!!!
WE NEED A LITTLE BROADWAY RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE!!
Who remembers this commercial?
Who is excited for the the Tonys tonight?
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
With Broadway back, auditions are getting back in full swing. For many aspiring performers, it’s their dream to be in a show 8 times a week on the Great Bright Way. Even for many Broadway veterans, lot of them are anxious to head back to work and perform LIVE again including Tony and Emmy winner
Kristin Chenoweth.
Check out this SWANKIFIED and hilarious set of photos as the 4’11 versatile powerhouse she knocks on the door to various Theaters in attempts to be on stage again.
First stop is her old stomping grounds at the Gershwin Theatre for
WICKED. Not for “Glinda” but another possible role…
Her next step was attempting to be part of THE ROCK at the Award winning groundbreaking 9/11 musical
Come From Away to play “Captain Beverley Bass” (the first female pilot for
American Airlines). There’s totally nothing between HER AND THE SKY until current leading lady Olivier Award nominee (and fellow
Wicked alumni)
Rachel Tucker answers the Gerald Schonefeld Theatre stage door.
Finally, the 4’11 bundle of dynamite attempts to go WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW trying to take over the titular role in the groundbreaking Award winning smash hit
Dear Evan Hansen. Will she BE FOUND by the stage doorman at the Music Box Theatre?!!
Don’t Give Up Kristin!! Don’t give up anyone!!
How funny was that?!!!
