FIRST LOOK: Taylor Louderman (Original star of Broadway’s BRING IT ON THE MUSICAL and “Wendy” from NBC’s Peter Pan the Musical Live) is joining the cast of the Award winning smash hit Kinky Boots on Broadway as the new “Lauren” starting this Monday at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Current “Lauren” Haven Burton plays her final performance tomorrow.
Get a first look of Louderman in costume and wig as “Lauren” she posted earlier today at her put-in rehearsal.
BREAKING NEWS: The new original revue Prince of Broadway – A New Musical (paying tribute to the work of the 21 time Tony winning legend Harold Prince) is going through a lot of revamping (since it’s 2015 Japan premiere) for it’s long awaited upcoming Summer 2017 Broadway debut including an all new original song opening the show from Tony winner Jason Robert Brown.
PRINCE OF BROADWAY will be presented by Manhattan Theatre Club as one of the first new shows for the 2017-2018 Broadway season. It will begin previews on August 3rd, 2017, open on August 24th, 2017, and will run for a limited engagement
No word has been made yet about casting and if any of the cast members from the 2015 Japan premiere or the initial 2012 Broadway run will be continuing.
Join the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys tonight for their final SATURDAY NIGHT SCREAM before their final performance tomorrow.
Basically since Saturday is usually the 7th show of the week (since Broadway does 8 shows a week), the SATURDAY NIGHT SCREAM is a shout off between the August Wilson Theatre and the Neil Simon Theatre where cast members open their dressing room windows and start yelling at each other. Sometimes, both shows will serenade each other’s theatres with a song.
The way the tradition all began was in the beginning of JERSEY BOYS run on Broadway. Steve Gouveia (original cast member that made his Broadway debut with the show) and Peter Gregus (who has still been playing Bob Crewe in the show since Day 1) were dressing roommates b****ing that they were exhausted doing 8 shows a week (only at the 7th show). Gregus gave Souveia (since it was his Broadway debut) advice to just scream as loud as he could if he feels stressed. And he did! Souveia opened up the window from the dressing room screaming out “F*** YOU BROADWAY!” He felt a lot better after that. He continued to do it ever since every Saturday night about 5 minutes before 5 minutes to places. One day after Gregus did his scream, the cast of Hairspray (which was playing at the Neil Simon at the time) began to start screaming things back. Ever since then, the SATURDAY NIGHT SCREAM became a 52nd street tradition ever since.
With JERSEY BOYS closing tomorrow, let us hope that the company of Groundhog Day Musical (set to take over the August Wilson this Spring) and the company of the current revival of Cats the Musical will continue with the SATURDAY NIGHT SCREAM tradition. As some of you may know GROUNDHOG DAY’s leading man 2 time Tony nominee Andy Karl previously performed in the August Wilson within JERSEY BOYS on Broadway as a replacement for Tommy DeVito. He can let the whole company know about it and the tradition will live on.
Who has experienced seeing the SATURDAY NIGHT SCREAM in person?
It’s Saturday Night on Broadway NYC 52nd Street Style
BREAKING NEWS: Some of Broadway’s best are celebrating our new president Donald J. Trump on his Inauguration Day at The Town Hall next week in NYC with a benefit concert entitled “Concert for America: Stand Up, Sing Out!” to raise money for human rights.
Expecting to be part of this concert on January 20th is Tony winners Chita Rivera, Kelli O’Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, The Betty Buckley Page, Jessie Mueller, and Billy Porter.
Additional performers expecting to be part of the event includes Sharon Gless, Andrea Martin, Bebe Neuwirth, Rosie O’Donnell, Rosie Perez, Lillias White, Judy Gold, Caroline Rhea, Stephanie Mills, and Charles Busch. The concert is being organized by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, who recently put together the benefit concert Broadway For Orlando.
In addition, the concert will be streamed live via Facebook.
Who is excited? How are you spending Inauguration Day weekend?
DID YOU KNOW: In the school edition of the Tony winning smash hit Avenue Q, the moments we all know from the show that include profanity and sexual themes (yes that includes puppet nudity) have been removed from the script and score to make it appropriate for High School drama departments to perform the show.
One of the popular songs from the show THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN has been entirely changed to an all new song entitled MY SOCIAL LIFE IS ONLINE. Since there is no mentioning of pornography, Trekkie Monster becomes a “Shut-In” (being obsessed with social media) instead of a “pervert”.
If you want to perform the clean school version of Avenue Q in your school, you can get the rights from Music Theatre International.
Because the original AVENUE Q has some content elements that previously made it a difficult choice for some high school productions, MTI has worked with the …
Get your tap shoes ready and tune in at 8PM ET tomorrow to watch the opening number of #HolidayInnLive before you watch the full performance on #BroadwayHD!
