by Mike Haber | Aug 3, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Earlier this past Sunday, The National Tour of
WICKED did have its first audience back in 17 months. However this was a special INVITED DRESS performance. We COULDN’T BE HAPPIER to share with you video taken by a fan of the cast at the curtain call. From the stage at The Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, TX, here is the cast taking in every morning on their first bows with a REAL audience.
The current Touring cast of WICKED is led by….
Tony winner Clevant Derricks as “The Wizard”,
Sharon Sachs as “Madame Morrible”,
Amanda Fallon Smith as “Nessarose”,
DJ Plunkett as “Boq”,
and
For those who may not know what an INVITED DRESS is, it’s basically a special private dress rehearsal performance for family, friends, and industry just within 1-2 days before performances begin to the public.
WICKED’s Munchkinland Tour officially reopens in Dallas tonight where it will run through September 5th, 2021. From there, it’s expecting to hit various cities all across North America.
The Broadway and London companies are set to reopen next month!!
Prepare yourselves!!! Get tissues ready before watching!!!
How THRILLIFYING was this?!!!!
by Mike Haber | Aug 3, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
REJOCIFY!! After 17 months of being shutdown, the Award winning smash hit
WICKED relaunches its ongoing National Tour starting TONIGHT in Dallas, Texas!!! It will play at the Music Hall at Fair Park there through September 5th, 2021 before once again DEFYING GRAVITY all over North America. It’s expecting to hit the following cities…..
Charlotte, NC,
Greensboro, NC,
Appleton, WI,
Cincinnati, OH
Kansas City, MI,
Costa Mesa, CA
Omaha, NE,
Boston, MA,
Orlando, FL,
Miami, FL,
and
Houston, TX.
More new cities will be announced at a later time.
WICKED makes history as the first Broadway National Tour to reopen since Live Theater has been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s also the 2nd company of the show to be performed since the shutdown…. The first was its ongoing company in Korea.
Along with the tour, the Broadway production is set to reopen at the Gershwin Theatre on September 14th, 2021. Meanwhile, the London company is set to reopen the next day on September 15th, 2021 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.
WE COULDN’T BE HAPPIER to have one of the most POPULAR, groundbreaking, beloved, and bewitching shows back….. FOR GOOD!!!!
Break a leg to the entire cast, crew, musicians, and creative team.
Have a happy, healthy, and safe re-opening night!!!!!
WELCOME BACK WICKED MUNCHKINLAND TOUR!!!
Talia Suskauer, Allison Bailey, and Cleavant Derricks Star in Return of Wicked Tour | Playbill
by Mike Haber | Aug 2, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, Gleeks Fan Tour (Times Square), News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: This year’s headlining lineup has been revealed for the return of
Darren Criss‘ annual
Elsie Fest concert this month!! What an exciting lineup of Broadway’s best reunited, taking center stage, and celebrating the return of Live Performance in the Big Apple!!! This year’s headlining performers will include….
2 time Tony and Olivier Award nominee Adrienne Warren (Broadway’s
BRING IT ON,
Shuffle Along, and set to return this Fall in her critically acclaimed performance in
Tina: The
Tina Turner Musical),
upcoming new Musical Theater songwriting duo Barlow & Bear.
The lineup will also feature special guests….
ELSIE FEST 2021 is set for August 29th, 2021 at the Prospect Park Bandshell (now set to be renamed the Lena Horne Bandshell) in Brooklyn. It will also be part of the
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival.
by Mike Haber | Aug 2, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
SPECTACULAR, SPECTACULAR NEWS: Acclaimed stage and screen star
Natalie Mendoza (Broadway’s first OG “Arachne in
Spider-Man along with the West End revival of
Miss Saigon and TV’s Hotel Babylon) has been tapped as the newest SPARKLING DIAMOND in the 14 time Tony nominated smash hit
Moulin Rouge when the show reopens on the Great Bright Way this Fall. She takes over the role of “Satine” replacing the show’s original leading lady Tony winner
Karen Olivo.
Olivo (who was nominated for her performance in this) played her final performance in MOULIN ROUGE back in March 2020 at the time when Broadway was shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this past Spring, Olivo announced her departure from the show in protest of the Broadway community’s silence on the allegations against producer Scott Rudin. On Instagram, she explained that “Social justice is more important than being the sparkling diamond.”
For Natalie Mendoza, she is no stranger to the world of the hottest CAN CAN nightclub in Paris. Her journey with
Moulin Rouge goes back to its early beginnings as the Oscar winning
Baz Luhrmann film we know in love. In the original 2001 film, Mendoza played one of the main can-can dancers known as “The China Doll”. She also reunites with director Alex Timbers after previously working together on the West End production of
Here Lies Love. Full circle moment.
She joins many of the show’s still on-going original Broadway cast members expecting to return including….
it’s singular Tony nominated leading actor and Broadway heartthrob Aaron Tviet the young aspiring we “Christian”,
Tony nominee
Danny Burstein as the owner & ringmaster of the Moulin Rouge himself “Harold Zilder”,
Tony & Olivier Award nominee Sahr Ngaujah as head performer “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec”,
Broadway and West End favorite
Tam Mutu as the rich, vain, and abusive psychopathic “Duke of Monroth”
Ricky Rojas as the sexiest tango dancer all of Paris himself, “Santiago” aka “The Narcoleptic Argentinean”,
Tony Award nominee Robyn Hurder as the jealous “Nini Legs-in-the-Air”,
a fully newly announced Ensemble.
In addition,
Ashley Loren will continue to serve as the alternate for the role of “Satine” performing 1-2 times a week. Yup, Mendoza is expecting to do 6-7 shows a week.
Mendoza’s first night with MOULIN ROUGE will be the very same day as the show is expecting to CAN-CAN its way back to Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre starting September 24th, 2021.
Along with the Broadway production, MOULIN ROUGE is also set to launch long awaited new companies around the world including….
London’s West End at the Piccadilly Theatre,
a North American National Tour,
an Australian company (where it all began) playing Melbourne’s Regent Theatre.
COME WHAT MAY & WELCOME BACK TO THE MOULIN ROUGE!!!
CONGRADULATIONS NATALIE! WELCOME BACK TO BROADWAY!!
by Mike Haber | Aug 2, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
FIRST LOOK: One of the most promising powerful new shows expecting to finally make its long awaited Broadway debut is
Tom Kitt, James Lapine, and Michael Korie’s new musical
Flying Over Sunset. Tickets officially go on sale starting today!!! You get them either on
Telecharge or through
Lincoln Center Theater’s webite (they’re even including a limited amount of $32 tickets for each and every performance through their LincTix program).
That’s not all, we are so enthused this morning to share with you an early sneak peak of the new show in action. A production photo was released today of the musical’s leads in costume consisting of Tony nominated stars….
Carmen Cusack as American author and politician “Clare Boothe Luce”.
This photo was taken while FLYING OVER SUNSET was still in tech rehearsals prior before its initial Spring 2020 debut. However, it was abruptly shutdown on March 12th, 2020 (the date it initially was supposed to start previews) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cusack, Paton, and Yazbeck are expecting to continue when FLYING OVER SUNSET is set to make its long awaited Broadway debut this Fall 2021 at The Vivian Beaumont at
Lincoln Center Theater. Previews will now begin November 11th, 2021 and will have its official Opening Night on December 13th, 2021.
by Mike Haber | Jul 31, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Broadway reopens its doors this upcoming week with the first NEW play to open for the first time in 17 months. We are talking about the Broadway transfer of
Lincoln Center Theater /
LCT3‘s critically acclaimed production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s play
Pass Over. Earlier this week, the cast, crew, and full creative team have moved into their upcoming 9 week engagement home at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre just in time to start tech rehearsals.
In tradition for all shows playing a
Jujamcyn-owned house, producer
Jordan Roth always takes in a beautiful special moment with welcoming the companies of new shows into their new Broadway Theater. Check it all out below.
This video makes our hearts so happy to see the magic of a Broadway show beginning to work once more!!!
PASS OVER will play Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre for 9 weeks only. Previews begin August 4th, 2021. The official Opening Night is set for September 20th, 2021 and will run through October 10th, 2021.
WELCOME PASS OVER!!
HAPPY RE-RUNNING AUGUST WILSON THEATRE!!!
