by Mike Haber | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog, Broadway, NYBT NEWS
AND I THINK TO MYSELF!!! This season, Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Memphis, Hamilton, and last seen in Spamalot) is set to deliver another Broadway showstopping performance as will star as the great legendary ‘Louis Armstrong” in the new musical
A Wonderful World this Fall.
Under the co-direction of Iglehart, plus Christopher Renshaw, and Broadway favorite Christina Sajous, the show will be SWINGIN’ it 8 times a week at the legendary Studio 54. Previews start October 16th, 2024 and will officially open November 11th, 2024.
Tickets are on sale now online. However tomorrow if you’re in the Times Square area, Iglehart will help kick off the opening of the show’s Box Office with a full scale New Orleans style parade with members of the cast and a New Orleans style jazz band at 10am. If will all start in Duffy Square before marching it’s way to Studio 54’s Box Office for a ribbon cutting ceremony.
WONDERFUL WORLD tells the story of New Orleans jazz singer and trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s rise to fame. You can expect many of his notable standards that made him an international name.
It previously played a world premiere out of town tryout in Chicago last year earning rave reviews.
Additional casting will also include….
James T. Lane (Broadway’s Chicago and A Chorus Line) alternating with Iglehart as “Louis Armstrong” at certain performances,
Darlesia Cearcy (Broadway’s recent revival of Once on this Island and last seen in How to Dance in Ohio) as “Lucille Wilson”,
Dionne Figgins (Memphis) as “Daisy Parker’,
Kim Exum (recently seen as “Nabalungi” in The Book of Mormon”) as “Alpha Smith”,
Jennie Harney-Fleming (Broadway’s recent revival of The Color Purple and last seen as “Angelica” in Hamilton) as “Lil Hardin”,
& a full toe tapping Ensemble!!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, NYBT NEWS
RAZZLE DAZZLE NEWS: Latin Grammy Award winning singer Sebastian Yatra is set to show us Amigos that ALL HE CARES ABOUT IS…..AMOR!!!! He will be joining the Broadway cast of the long running revival of
Chicago this holiday season in the role of “Billy Flynn”.
Yatra’s engagement at the Imperial Theatre will be a 6-week run from November 25th-December 22nd, 2024.
Current “Billy Flynn” himself Broadway favorite Max von Essen will depart November 24th, 2024.
IS EVERYBODY READY FOR AN ALL NEW SILVER TOUNGED PRINCE OF THE COURTROOM?
by Mike Haber | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog, Broadway, NYBT NEWS, off broadway
Casting for an additional character to play Rossum’s character’s fiance is still underway.
Under the direction of Whitney White, the new play will play Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre. Previews start October 16th, 2024, official open November 7th, 2024, & will run through November 24th, 2024.
WALDEN tells the story of 2 sisters at a crossroads of their ultimate decision of a life in outer space or on earth.
by Mike Haber | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog, Broadway, NYBT NEWS
To kick off our first bit of HOT BROADWAY NEWS back in so long is a cast change announcement. Here we go!!!
Last night, Broadway favorite Kyle Selig (
Mean Girls original “Aaron Samuels” plus The Book of Mormon) took over as the new leading man in the cast of the Tony nominated smash hit
Water For Elephants at the Imperial Theatre.
Selig succeeded original cast member
Grant Gustin (TV’s The Flash and Glee) as Circus Veterinarian “Jacob Jankowski”. Gustin played his final performance this past Sunday. Next up for the versatile stage and screen star, he’s about to welcome a 2nd child.
WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS KYLE!!!!
HAPPY TRAILS GRANT. THE RIDE will always live in you!!
Who is excited for Kyle?!!
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by Mike Haber | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog, Broadway, NYBT NEWS
Hey y’all at New York Broadway Tours!!! Sorry I’ve been MIA for a whole year and a half.
We’ve still been around. I’ve been giving the tours out here in NYC with Amada watching via Florida. We never left. Just social media status was on a long pause. Amada was doing some promo postings and tweaks with all the new directions for NYBT we are so excited for coming up. Gonna be BIG and LIT!!!
I’m excited to get BACK IN THE GAME, BACK TO THE STAGE!! Lots of catching up and bringing back what really got us out there more….. THE BROADWAY NEWS & GOSSIP!! Everything you want to know about shows, stars, history and more.
In between of course, I did a lot with my solo cabaret work, shows, film, TV, & more. Keeping you in the loop on that as well.
See you out on the Streets and on here!!!
Welcome to NYBT 2.0!!!!!!
Your friendly neighborhood NYC guide Mike!!!
by NYBroadwayTours | Oct 2, 2022 | Blog, Broadway
BREAKING NEWS: 2-time Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes (Broadway's Cinderella, Grease, Bonnie & Clyde, and Bandstand) is back!!! The celebrated performer is set to release her first major solo album of original music this Fall!!! The album will be a set of EP's entitled ON THE OTHER SIDE. No official release date has been revealed.
This new album project marks as Osnes' 3rd solo recording project. Her debut solo album DREAM A LITTLE DREAM was released 10 YEARS AGO (in 2012) from Broadway Records as a live recording of her first solo cabaret show at the Cafe Carlyle. The album featured her performing a mix of Musical Theater, Standards, Pop, and Jazz along with special guests real-life husband Nathan Johnson, her former Pip Dream ENCORES co-star Tom Wopat, and of course her Tony nominated Bonnie & Clyde co-star Jeremy Jordan.
Her follow-up album IF I TELL YOU marked as Osnes 2nd album but also her first major solo studio recording. That album (released in 2013) showcased Osnes paying tribute to the music of Tony winning composer Maury Yeston.
We are so excited to hear this exciting new works of music from a powerhouse Broadway superstar.
Who is excited?!!!
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