by Mike Haber | Oct 4, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
FETCH NEWS!!! THE PLASTICS are back and ready to take REVENGE after 18 1/2 months isolated from all those at NORTHSHORE HIGH. Full casting has been announced for the return of the National Tour of the smash hit
Mean Girls this Fall. This high energetic company will feature an unbelievable lineup of returning cast members, newbies, and even alumni from the Broadway company now coming to the road.
Under the direction and choreography by Tony winner
Casey Nicholaw, the cast will be led by its returning cast members….
Megan Masako Haley (National Tour of
WICKED and Off Broadway’s Pacific Overtures) as THE PLASTICS head gossip Queen herself “Gretchen Wieners”,
Mary Kate Morrisey (National Tour of WICKED) as the rebellious and creative “Janis Sarkisian”,
Eric Huffman as the showstopping TOO GAY TO FUNCTION “Damian Hubbard”,
Adante Carter (Off Broadway’s Sweetee) as the heartthrob and love interest “Aaron Samuels”,
Kabir Bery as everyone’s favorite high energetic, rapping, and funky MATHLETE himself “Kevin Gnapor”,
Laurence E. Street as the caring, appreciative, and offish “Principal Duvall”,
New to MEAN GIRLS National Tour will include….
newcomer Nadina Hassan who replaces
Mariah Rose Faith as THE PLASTICS head leader and QUEEN BEE herself “Regina George”,
April Josephine who replaces Gaelen Gilliland as “The Adult Women” track in the show consisting of….. “Mrs. Heron”, “Mrs. George”, and of course “Ms. Norbury”.
If you missed
Mean Girls during its successful FEARLESS run on Broadway, no worries. Here is your chance to see it in a city near you. It will re-kick off in Tempe, AZ beginning November 2nd, 2021 before traveling to the following cities across North America….
Portland, OR,
Seattle, WA,
Salt Lake City, UT,
Albuquerque, NM,
Oklahoma City, OK,
Milwaukee, WI,
Nashville, TN,
St. Louis, MI,
Omaha, NE,
Indianapolis, IN,
Washington D.C, (where the show had its pre-Broadway tryout),
Memphis, TN,
New Orleans, LA,
Schenectady, NY,
Baltimore, MD,
Atlanta, GA,
Houston, TX,
Hartford, CT
San Diego, CA,
and more.
Check the site to see when MEAN GIRLS is coming to your town.
by Mike Haber | Oct 3, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
IT’S OCTOBER 3RD….. You know what that means?!!! It’s National
Mean Girls Day!!!!!
In case anyone may not know the whole inside joke, there’s a scene where the main character “Cady Heron” has her eyes on the cutest boy in her Math class by the name of “Aaron Samuels”. “Cady” is asked of that certain day by “Aaron” that changes her life forever. Because of the film earning a huge cult following, it became Nationally well known as NATIONAL MEAN GIRLS DAY!!!
The musical adaptation of
Mean Girls is set to make its way back to the Musical Theater stage. Sadly, the Broadway production is not coming back but the FETCH National Tour is set to relaunch next month. It will re-kick off in Tempe, AZ beginning November 2nd, 2021 before traveling to the following cities across North America….
Portland, OR,
Seattle, WA,
Salt Lake City, UT,
Albuquerque, NM,
Oklahoma City, OK,
Milwaukee, WI,
Nashville, TN,
St. Louis, MI,
Omaha, NE,
Indianapolis, IN,
Washington D.C, (where the show had its pre-Broadway tryout),
Memphis, TN,
New Orleans, LA,
Schenectady, NY,
Baltimore, MD,
Atlanta, GA,
Houston, TX,
Hartford, CT
San Diego, CA,
and more.
Check the site to see when MEAN GIRLS is coming to your town.
Under the direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw, the cast will be led by….
Danielle Wade as “Cady Heron”,
Nadina Hassan as “Regina George”,
Megan Masako as “Gretchen Wieners”,
Jonalyn Saxer as “Karen Smith”,
Mary Kate Morrisey as “Janis Sarkisian”,
Eric Huffman as “Damian Hubbard”,
Adante Carter as “Aaron Samuels”,
Kabir Bery as “Kevin Gnapor”,
Laurence E. Street as “Principal Duvall”,
and
Gaelen Gilliland as “The Adult Women”.
How are you celebrating MEAN GIRLS day?
Favorite song from the musical?!
by Mike Haber | Oct 3, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
AND TONIGHT NEW YORK CITY, THEY ARE……. LIVE!!! Tonight is the ultimate coronation day celebration as the Olivier Award nominated smash hit GIRL POWER musical
SIX FINALLY reaches its long awaited Official Opening Night on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
For those who may not know, THE QUEENS were ready to rock the Great Bright Way on their initial March 12th, 2020 Opening Night. However, the plug got pulled on the Opening Night….. it turned out to be the day that Broadway and Live Theater would be abruptly shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s truly gonna be the ultimate party tonight at the HAUS OF HOLBIEN. We know Broadway is ready to GET DOWN!!!
Break a leg to the QUEENS, their LADIES-IN-WAITING, the crew, and creative team!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 3, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Broadway Audience, Festivals & Events, News
MERRY BROADWAY CHRISTMAS!!! After 2 years, the popular Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction is back today till 7pm. Sending our love to everyone going. Have a happy, healthy, and safe time. For us at NYBT, we will doing the online edition to still support
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. We can’t wait to be back in-person with all of you next year. Who has been to Flea?! Who is excited?!
by Mike Haber | Oct 2, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, off broadway, Shows
Last night, Off Broadway’s
Vineyard Theatre welcomed the 2nd half of rotating shows part of its new ON BROADWAY Repertory series at the Lyceum Theatre now entitled THE LYCEUM PLAYS.
As of last night, Lucas Hnath’s one woman play
Dana H. (led by Deirdre O’Connell) officially began preview performances. The official Opening Night is set for October 17th, 2021.
Dana H rotates along with Tina Satter’s Is This A Room(led by Emily Davis) began its preview performances a few weeks ago where it will officially open on October 11th, 2021.
Both plays will play a rotating schedule for 17 weeks and set to close on January 16th, 2022.
Break a leg to Deirdre, crew, and creative team of DANA H on their first preview last night. Have a wonderful, happy, healthy, and safe run.
by Mike Haber | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: It has just been announced that more COVID-19 POSITIVE cases were reported today within the company of Disney’s smash hit
Aladdin. Due to all of this, the team at
Disney Theatrical sadly announced that these next week and a half of performances have been cancelled.
This will consist of performances from tonight, October 1st through October 10th, 2021. The show will resume performances starting October 12th, 2021 at the legendary New Amsterdam Theatre.
This latest news of COVID-19 cases have been announced following a recent report of cases at the long long running Disney musical. The show cancelled its initial 2nd performance back on Broadway this past Wednesday and returned yesterday.
We send our love to the cast, crew, musicians, creative team, and everyone in AGRABAH. Speedy recovery to all at
Aladdin.
ALADDIN Cancels Additional Broadway Performances Through October 10th Due to Additional Covid-19 Cases (broadwayworld.com)
