by Mike Haber | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Tony Award nominee Chad Kimball has filed a lawsuit against the production company of
Come From Away following previous news of departure. The Broadway veteran (also best known for originating the role of “Huey Calhoun” in the Tony winning
Memphis) has been experiencing a lot of backlash with his Christian Faith and beliefs not taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Earlier during the pandemic, Kimball himself tested POSITIVE for COVID-19.
by Mike Haber | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Broadway Audience, Casting, Festivals & Events, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: With the Great Bright Way returning, get ready to celebrate the rising future stars of Broadway as this year’s
Jimmy Awards will be happening in-person again for first time in 3 YEARS. This year’s edition has been set for June 27th, 2022 at Broadway’s Minskoff Theatre (home of Disney’s
The Lion King).
For those who may not know, The Jimmy Awards is considered the
Tonys that honors the best of High School Musical Theater shows from all across the country. The committee votes for the greatest young standout performers of their school productions which they get the opportunity to come to NYC taking part in a week of intensive events, workshops, and master classes with industry professionals consisting of Broadway’s best talents, composers, directors, casting directors, and more. The week leads up to the big ceremony itself where these young hopefuls get that one night only opportunity to perform on a Broadway stage where the nominees compete for the top titles and earn scholarships!!!!
The Jimmy Awards was last done in-person back in 2019. Due to COVID-19, it went through various changes. The 2020 edition was cancelled. This past Summer 2021, the Jimmys were done as a virtual livestreamed celebration.
Some of the Jimmy’s previous winners and nominees have later all went on to have unbelievable careers already on Broadway including….
Reneé Rapp – recently seen in her Broadway debut as “Regina George” in
Mean Girls,
Eva Noblezada – who went on to become an Olivier & 2 time Tony nominated leading lady for
Miss Saigon and was appearing on the Great Bright Way in
Hadestown,
Get ready to celebrate the next generation of Broadway!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
ISN’T IT IRONIC?!!! The Tony and Grammy Award winning smash hit
Jagged Little Pill is set to rebel once again on the Great Bright Way after 19 1/2 months. With the show reopening tonight at the Broadhurst Theatre, we are so happy to share with you these brand new production photos of the cast featuring its 2 new principal stars. The lineup consists of….
Broadway favorite
Heidi Blickenstaff who will temporary be filling in for its Tony nominated leading lady Elizabeth Stanley in the role of struggling suburban mother “Mary Jane Healy”,
newcomer Morgan Dudley who replaces Tony nominated star Celia Gooding in the role of rebellious, bisexual, and adopted African American teenage daughter “Frankie Healy”
newcomer Adi Roy who replaces
Antonio Cipriano in the role of High School student and love interest “Phoenix”.
Blickenstaff, Dudley, and Roy join the continuing lineup of the show’s original principals consisting of…..
Tony nominee
Derek Klena as the “perfect son” himself “Nick Healy”,
Tony nominee Sean Allan Krill as the porn addicting and frustrated suburban Dad as “Steve Healy”,
the show’s now Tony winning standout
Lauren Patten as the humorous, vulnerable, and easily hurt lesbian “Jo Taylor”.
Get ready to WAKE UP and raise those fingers high as we welcome JAGGED LITTLE PILL back to Broadway.
Break legs to the cast, crew, musicians, and creative team.
How amazing are these new production photos?!!
PLEASE BE ADVISED: With the show re-opening, there is a demonstration expecting to happen outside the Theatre. Earlier this show, the hit
Alanis Morissette musical has been receiving some controversial backlash against the show’s creative team in changing the character of “Jo” getting changed from trans to cisgender. Also, former original Ensemble member Nora Schell (who goes by They/Them pronouns) went through hell with the show’s stage management who forced the performer to postpone a Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome surgery.
by Mike Haber | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Following the success of last year’s virtual livestreamed concert, celebrated powerhouse
Shoshana Bean (Broadway’s
Waitress,
Hairspray, and first fulltime replacement Green Girl in
WICKED) will perform her SING YOUR HALLELUJAH holiday concert for the first time with a live audience. With celebrating BOTH the return Live Theater and THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR, it will be done as a 3-city stop concert tour.
The mini tour will kick off on December 4th, 2021 overseas in London playing the
Cadogan Hall. From there, Shoshana Bean will bring an ENCORE edition of the show on December 13th, 2021 back in our New York City backyard at Harlem’s famous
Apollo Theater (where the initial show was livestreamed last year) and will now include a live audience. Last but not, she will also perform it on December 18th, 2021 at the Immanuel Presbyterian Cathedral in Los Angeles, California.
In SING YOUR HALLELUJAH, Shoshana Bean brings her breathtaking vocal chops to new heights with her spin on some of the world’s beloved Christmas songs inspiring people to still bring in the joy of the holidays. It promises to bring us hope, joy, and love now after this previous scary year and a half.
Tickets are on sale now. Don’t miss this once in a lifetime performance by this spectacular talent spreading that holiday cheer we all need.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Shoshana-Bean-Announces-SING-YOUR-HALLELUJAH-Coming-to-London-New-York-City-and-Los-Angeles-20211021
by Mike Haber | Oct 21, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
HELLO, POPPETS!! YOU OUGHTA KNOW that after 19 1/2 months, Broadway continues to celebrate more of the hottest tickets back TONIGHT!!!! ALL WE REALLY WANT is some EASY PEASY times at the Theater once again. This evening, we are pleased to welcome back the companies of….
Alanis Morissette‘s groundbreaking Tony and Grammy Award winning smash hit
Jagged Little Pill set to raise their fingers high and rebelling & rocking it out once again at the Broadhurst Theatre
the highly anticipated new musical adaptation of the hit film Mrs.
Doubtfire set to resume its preview performances at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. This show had completed only 3 PREVIEWS back in 2020 before abruptly being shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, everyone’s favorite housekeeping nanny is back to once again spread some love and joy. The show will have its real official Opening Night on December 5th, 2021.
Break a leg to the cast, crew, musicians, and creative team of both these powerful shows!!!!
WELCOME BACK JAGGED LITTLE PILL & MRS. DOUBTFIRE!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 20, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
PERHAPS WE CAN FRIGHTEN AWAY THE GHOST OF SO MANY YEARS AGO…..AGAIN….. WITH A LITTLE ILLUMINATION…. GENTLEMEN!!!! This week marks another happy time as more of Broadway’s hottest tickets are making their TRIUMPHANT comebacks after 19 1/2 months dark. One of those shows is Broadway’s legendary record-breaking longest running smash hit
Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s
The Phantom of the Opera.
Earlier today on the show’s social media, a brand new promo commercial was released. This promo features the full Broadway cast reunited and back inside their 34 year old home at the Majestic Theatre. Just like in the show, they recreate the musical’s spectacular and breathtaking opening moment in THE PROLOUGE. For the first time since March 12th, 2020, the show’s famous signature set piece is revealed and rises once again….. the legendary chandelier. You also experience the company’s reaction of what exactly the show’s PHANS will be doing when the show reopens on Broadway this Friday….. thunderous applause into a standing ovation.
Get ready to experience that chandelier rising & crashing again 8 times a week as THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT is back. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA reopens at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre this Friday, October 22nd, 2021.
We are a mess watching this.
Chandelier Rises Again on Broadway – YouTube
