Calling all fans of SMASH! LET US BE YOUR STAR and check out our all new walking tour dedicated to the shorten lived NBC Musical drama filmed in our Broadway backyard.
On this tour, you will….
-Learn about some of your favorite SMASH cast members including Megan Hilty, Christian Borle, Debra Messing, Jeremy Jordan, Leslie Odam Jr, Andy Minetus, and more!
– Visit the theatres where SMASH’s fictional musicals BOMBSHELL and HIT LIST were filmed at,
– Visit the real Broadway Theatres where some of your favorite cast members have gotten their start performing on Broadway,
– SMASH trivia,
– Learn about what goes into the creative process of developing a new Broadway musical,
– Sing Along with your licensed musical theatre tour guide to some of the fun songs made re-famous by Smash’s amazing cast!
BROADWAY HERE WE COME with our all new Be a SMASH Walking Tour!!
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: AT NIGHT IN NEW YORK, ALL THE STARS COME OUT…. In the 80’s to help promote tourists to come to the Big Apple, several Broadway shows play at the time came together to film these I LOVE NEW YORK commercials and we love it!! See if you can guess which shows and stars that participated in these 5 commercials.
Who thinks that the I LOVE NEW YORK company should do an updated version of the commercial with all of Broadway’s current hits?!
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BREAKING NEWS: The New York Spectacular starring the legendary Radio City Music Hall Rockettes will not be happening this summer 2017. The show will be taking a 1 year hiatus for the creative team to go through rewrites. The show however will be returning Summer 2018.
The Rockettes on the other hand will still be doing some special events throughout the summer including appearing in this year’s 2017 Tony Awards, a USO Tour, and appearing Internationally. And of course, the Rockettes will return to Radio City this Holiday season for the 2017 edition of the annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular this November.
We announced today that our New York Spectacular will be returning in Summer 2018. We’re looking forward to exciting appearances in 2017 like the Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall and international USO tours. And of course, we can’t wait to see our fans at this year’s Christmas Spectacular!
BREAKING NEWS: A fire has been reported on the 2nd floor of Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre (soon to be the home of The Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway next month). Praying everyone in ok.
According to several reports on Twitter, there was a fire on the second floor of Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre today. BroadwayWorld will keep you updated with the latest information as we have it.
Last night, the legendary composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber made history as the 2nd composer ever to have 4 of his hit shows all running on Broadway at the same time. The first was with Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Currently Lloyd Webber has The Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic, Cats the Musical at the Neil Simon, School of Rock the Musical at the Winter Garden, and now Sunset Boulevard at the Palace.
Congrats Andrew!!!! You are a legend!!!
He is the greatest composer of all. The casts of #SunsetBoulevard, Cats the Musical, School of Rock the Musical, and The Phantom of the Opera come together to celebrate Andrew Lloyd Webber.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Over the years, Broadway has had a history of shows that didn’t run that long but still ended up getting a cult following.
One of those shows was Brooklyn: The Musical, a street urban “side walk fairy tale” about a young girl from Paris named Brooklyn who becomes an acclaimed singing superstar and discovers the father she never knew in the city that bares her name. The musical uses the “play within a play” format with the actual story being told by 5 street corner and homeless musicians living under the Brooklyn Bridge.
BROOKLYN THE MUSICAL featured a score and book written by Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPherson (inspired by their real life stories). The cast featured Eden Espinosa in the title role, Tony nominee Kevin Anderson as Taylor (the possible Father), Ramona Keller as Ms. Paradice (America’s Diva of the Decade and Brooklyn’s singing rival), Tony winner Cleavant Derricks as the Streetsinger / Narrator, and future Tony winner Karen Olivo as Faith (Brooklyn’s Mother).
The show following a year to 2 years of workshops, Brooklyn had it’s World Premiere in Denver in 2003 before making it’s way to Broadway in 2004 at the Gerald Schonefeld Theatre playing a total of 311 performances. It was snubbed with no Tony Awards nominations in 2005. Following the Broadway run, the show went on a US National Tour starring American Idol runner-up Diana DeGarmo in the title role and Tony winner Melba Moore as Ms. Paradise.
The video below is Espinosa performing the show’s anthem and showstopping number which she brought down the house every night ONCE UPON A TIME.
At the same time many classic cult following Broadway shows have been doing a lot of reunion concerts at Feinstein?s/54 Below. Who thinks that there should be a reunion concert of BROOKLYN THE MUSICAL?!!!
