by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
In case you missed it, here is the cast performing a medley of 2 of the show’s powerful anthems THANK U and YOU LEARN.
As of you can see in the video, this performance also marked the debut of the show’s new leading ladies….
Broadway favorite
Heidi Blickenstaff temporary filling in for Tony nominee Elizabeth Stanley as “Mary Jane”
newcomer Morgan Dudley who replaces Tony nominee Celia Gooding as “Frankie”.
JAGGED LITTLE PILL is set to rock and rebel at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre starting October 21st, 2021.
How incredible was that?!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
BACK TO HOGWARTS!! Full casting has been revealed for the Broadway production of the Award winning smash hit
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It will feature a lineup of cast who were previously doing the show at the time of the pandemic plus newbies.
Under the direction of John Tiffany, the cast will be led by….
James Romney as his son “Albus Severus Potter”,
David Abeles (Broadway’s
Once) as his best friend “Ron Weasley”,
Jenny Jules as his best friend and bookwork “Hermione Granger Weasley”,
Nadia Brown as “Rose Granger-Weasley”,
Aaron Bartz as longtime Wizarding rival “Draco Malfoy”
Brady Dalton Richards as “Scorpius Malfoy”,
When it returns, HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD will be fully re-staged, updated, and performed as a ONE PART play. This will be updated for all companies here in North America. However, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will only continue being performed as its traditional TWO PARTS at its inaugural home in West End company (set to reopen October 14th, 2021 at London’s Palace Theatre).
The Broadway production is set to reopen here in NYC at the Lyric Theatre starting November 12th, 2021.
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: This
Tony Awards Sunday will be including a full musical episode of the legendary long running Animated comedy
The Simpsons…. perfect timing to kick of its 33rd season.
This episode entitled THE STAR OF BACKSTAGE will follow “Marge Simpson” who attempts to stage a revival of her high school’s musical entitled Y2K: THE MILLENIUM BUG. With all of it happening, she dreams of that perfect company where everyone is everyone’s best friend….. all told through song and dance. However, everything changes when the school’s former leading lady returns to steals the spotlight – and “Marge” discovers her beloved high school memories are not at all how she remembers. It will feature Stage and Screen favorite
Kristen Bell doing the singing voice of “Marge”.
The clip we are about to show you introduces the school’s former leading lady “Sasha Reed” performing her big number. Her voice is done by stage and screen favorite Sara Chase (Broadway’s
First Date and TV’s
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt plus cousin of NYBT’s very own Michael).
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
DELICIOUS NEWS! Grammy Award winning country singing sensation
Jennifer Nettles (last seen on Broadway as “Roxie” in
Chicago) will return to the Great Bright Way to join the cast of the limited engagement revival of the Tony and Grammy nominated smash hit
Waitress.
The
Sugarland singer will replace the show’s composer and revival’s original leading lady
Sara Bareilles in the role of pregnant pie maker “Jenna Hunterson” for a strictly limited month long run. That run will last from October 19th-November 24th, 2021 at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
An announcement for the next “Jenna” after Nettles will be revealed soon.
Meanwhile, Bareilles (who is set to start filming Season 2 of
Girls5Eva and will be starring as “The Baker’s Wife” in
New York City Center Encores production of
Into The Woods next) will bake her last set of pies at the diner on October 17th, 2021.
That’s not all, “Jenna” is getting a new set of best friends who co-work at the diner with her next month. It has just been announced that Maiesha McQueen (who appeared on the 1st National Tour of WAITRESS) and Ashley Blanchet (Broadway’s
Frozen) will take over the roles of the sassy “Becky” and quirky “Dawn” starting October 5th, 2021.
Charity Angél Dawson and Caitlin Houlahan will BOTH take their final bows on October 3rd, 2021. Both performers are set to resume performances at their most previous Broadway projects before COVID. Dawson will be heading back to reopen Mrs.
Doubtfire: The Musical and Houlahan will reopen
Girl From The North Country.
WAITRESS will continue to run on Broadway through January 9th, 2022.
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
Under the direction of Michael Longhurst, the cast is still expecting to be led by….
West End star
Sharon D. Clarke reprising her Olivier Award winning performance of the titular role of housemaid “Caroline Thibodeaux”,
Broadway legend
Chip Zien as socialist ideology man himself “Mr. Stopnick”,
Alexander Bello (Broadway’s The Rose Tattoo and
All My Sons) as the son of “Caroline” himself “Joe Thibodeaux”,
and
New to the cast will include….
Broadway newcomers Jaden Myles Waldman, Gabriel Amorso (Broadway’s
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), and Adam Makké all TRIPPLE alternating the role of the curious, sympathetic, and neurotic “Noah Gellman”
CAROLINE OR CHANGE will run at the legendary Studio 54 for a strictly limited engagement. Long awaited preview performances will begin on October 8th, 2021, the official Opening Night is set for October 27th, 2021, and will run till February 13th, 2022. An extension may be possible if the show does well.
This revival of
Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner’s powerful and inspirational musical was originally slated to begin previews on March 13th, 2020 and open on April 7th, 2020. However, the plug got pulled on the whole production as Live Theater was forced to abruptly shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company did NOT even reach their invited industrial dress rehearsal. Now, they’re getting a 2nd chance.
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize winning smash hit musical A STRANGE LOOP is heading to move ON Broadway. But first, it will have an out-of-town tryout in our nation’s Capitol of Washington D.C. Casting has been announced. Under the direction of Stephen Brackett and choreography by Raja Feather Kelly, it features a 7 person cast led by…
newcomer Jaquel Spivey as “Usher the Usher
along with all 6 of the original Ensemble members playing “The Thoughts” returning consisting of….
L Morgan Lee,
James Jackson, Jr.
John-Michael Lyles,
John-Andrew Morrison ,
Jason Veasey,
and
Antwayn Harper.
For anyone that may not know of A STRANGE LOOP, the musical is written by Michael R. Jackson inspired by his own personal experiences. It tells the story of a young average overweight, gay, black artist named “Usher” (working as an Usher) at war with a host of demons—not least of which are the punishing thoughts in his own head—in an attempt to capture and understand his own strange loop.
The show had a triumphant sold out World Premiere Off-Broadway run at
Playwrights Horizons in the Spring of 2019. It was well praised by critics and Theatergoers everywhere.
In addition, the show is already getting a lot of Theater Glory early during the time of Quarantine winning various Awards including the
Lucille Lortel, the
Drama Desk, the Obies, and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
No word has been said on when the show will hit the Big Apple. Stay tuned.
