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)
by Mike Haber | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Happy 1st day of October!!! The celebration of Live Theater in NYC’s triumphant comeback returns as
Keenan Scott II‘s powerful new critically acclaimed play
Thoughts Of A Colored Man makes its Broadway Debut TONIGHT!!!
Under the direction of Steve H. Broadnax III and led by an all-star cast, it begins previews this evening at the Golden Theatre. The show have its official Opening Night October 31st, 2021, and will run for a limited run till March 20th, 2022.
Break legs to the entire cast, crew, and creative team!!!
by Mike Haber | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Today is an exciting ROYAL DAY Broadway Fans. Not only, its the first day of October but we celebrate the release of the highly anticipated filmed proshot of the new musical
Diana on
Netflix. This is your chance to experience this powerful new show before it returns to Broadway in front of a live audience next month.
This proshot of DIANA was recorded last Summer on the stage of show’s Broadway home at the Longacre Theatre (even while Broadway was still shutdown). Thanks to an approval from
Actors’ Equity Association and following extreme ongoing COVID-19 safety protocols, the company were able to reunite and film the show. Sadly, there is NO live audience since Broadway has been shutdown.
In case anyone may not be familiar or remember what DIANA is all about, it centers on the life of “Diana, Princess of Wales”. It follows her journey from Kindergarten Teacher, marrying “Charles, Prince of Wales”, and their scandalous divorce. The musical reunites the creative masterminds by the Tony winning smash hits
Memphis and
Come From Away. It features an original score and book by Joe DiPietro and
Bon Jovi‘s
David Bryan. Under the direction of Christopher Ashley, the cast is led by…
Broadway and West End star Jeanna de Waal in the titular role of “Princess Diana”,
Roe Hartrampf in his Broadway Debut as “Prince Charles”,
Broadway favorite Erin Davie as “Camilla Parker Bowles”,
2 time Tony Award winner Judy Kaye as “Queen Elizabeth”,
The show originally had its world premiere in 2019 at
La Jolla Playhouse before going through another full year of early development labs in gearing the show for Broadway.
At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, DIANA had just begun previews on March 2nd, 2020. However, it ran for only a week and a half before being abruptly shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 12th, 2020. The official Opening Night was set for March 31st, 2020.
Now that Live Theater and Broadway is back, the show will be returning. If you enjoy this proshot, this will give you a possible idea to see the show LIVE on stage. DIANA will resume Broadway previews on November 2nd, 2021 and will have its long awaited Opening Night on November 17th, 2021 at the Longacre Theatre.
Who is excited?
How amazing is this proshot?!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Disney’s smash hit
Aladdin will resume performances this evening at Broadway’s New Amsterdam Theatre.
This announcement just came following a recent report of last night’s 2nd performance being cancelled due to COVID-19 cases rising at the longtime Disney smash hit musical.
The team at
Disney on Broadway mentioned that their extensive protocol system in testing their employees and identify positive cases worked. It was able to allow them to act up immediately to contain those cases. Given the thoroughness of the COVID-19 protocols and a vaccinated workforce, the full company remains confident that the environment is safe for the full cast, crew, musicians, creative team, and the audience.
Members who work for
Disney Theatrical‘s companies are required to be fully vaccinated. Within the last 24 hours, everyone was given 2 ROUNDS of COVID-19 testing…. consisting of one rapid PCR and one lab based-PCR which have shown no new breakthrough cases in the company of
Aladdin.
We send our love, prayers, and thoughts to the company of ALADDIN. Have a safe and healthy show back tonight.
Everyone keep following those COVID-19 protocols.
by Mike Haber | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
FIRST LOOK: YOUR ROOM IS ALMOST READY!!! One of the most highly anticipated productions set to head to the Great Bright Way this season is the long awaited revival of Neil Simon’s legendary comedy
Plaza Suite.
Danny Bolero,
Molly Ranson,
Eric Wiegand,
and
Caesar J. Rosado.
This new revival of PLAZA SUITE is set to begin previews on February 25th, 2022 and have its official night set on March 28th, 2022 at Broadway’s
Hudson Theatre. It will run for a strictly limited engagement through June 12th, 2022.
To get us excited on what to expect, here is B-Roll footage of this production in action during its initial out-of-town tryout in Boston at the
Emerson Colonial Theatre back in February of last year 2020 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This revival of PLAZA SUITE was initially scheduled to begin March 13th, 2020. However the day before was when Broadway got shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The run was delayed twice due to the ongoing 18 1/2 months of Broadway being shutdown. However, it is finally happening stronger than ever.
For those who may not know, PLAZA SUITE is a 3 act play Each act centers on 3 sets of visitors in Suite 719 of New York City’s Plaza Hotel.
Following its world premiere run in Boston, the show originally made its Broadway debut in 1968 at the Plymouth Theatre (now the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) where it ran for only 2 previews and 1,097 regular performances. Under the direction of
Mike Nichols, the cast originally featured….
George C. Scott,
Maureen Stapleton,
and
Bob Balaban.
The original production was nominated for 3
Tony Awards in 1968. However, it took home only 1 for BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY (for Mike Nichols).
It was later captured on film 3 times. The original film was released in 1971. starring
Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton reprising her role from the stage production, Barbara Harris, and Lee Grant.
However, Neil Simon himself was not happy with the final product.
The 2nd filmed version was filmed for
HBO in 1982. Filmed in front of a live audience, this version starred Lee Grant and Jerry Orbach.
The most recent version was released as a TV film led by Carol Burnett alongside Hal Holbrook, Dabney Coleman, and Richard Crenna.
Tickets are on sale now for this highly anticipated new production!! All those who held tickets for performances initially set for March 2020 and its pushed to March 2021 engagement, they will have the ability to exchange their tickets for a new performance by contacting the original point of sale.
So excited to finally experience this classic Neil Simon comedy back on Broadway!!
PLAZA SUITE itself continues to be performed in schools, community, and regional theaters around the world.
