by Mike Haber | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog, off broadway, Shows
Our hearts are BOOMING with excitement rhythm as the doors to the Orpheum Theatre in the East Village has just just reopened welcoming audiences back to the Award winning Off Broadway smash hit
Stomp. This show has been running here in our New York Theater scene for the past 27 YEARS.
Have you wondered how they have kept the sound of Brooms, Match Boxes (all fire proof), and garbage bags in sync after all this time? How do you make music out of the most random objects? You are about to find out with a little behind the scenes tour from former cast member Simeon Weedall.
PLEASE NOTE: This was taken a year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
WELCOME BACK STOMP!!!
Break legs!!!
How many of you have seen STOMP?
What is your favorite STOMP uses?
Who is excited to welcome this landmark show back to NYC?!!
by Mike Haber | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog, News, off broadway, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Next week’s Opening Night performance of
The Public Theater‘s Shakespeare in the Park presentation of MERRY WIVES has sadly been postponed. At a recent performance, cast member
Jacob Ming-Trent sustained an onstage injury and needs to recover.
The Opening Night of MERRY WIVES was set for July 27th, 2021 at
Central Park‘s Delacorte Theatre. It will now be pushed to August 9th, 2021 and still expecting to run through September 18th, 2021.
by Mike Haber | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, off broadway, Shows
BREAKING NEWS:
Lincoln Center Theater is set to release another one of its incredible previous Award winning productions part of its all new PRIVATE REELS series. The next show set to be streamed will be
Sarah DeLappe‘s critically acclaimed Soccer female empowerment play THE WOLVES.
Filmed from the stage of LCT’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, the play will be available to watch for a limited time on
Broadway On Demand from July 22nd, 2021 through August 15th, 2021.
In case anyone may not know, THE WOLVES follows a group of young girls on an indoor youth soccer team in their pre-game ritual. This coming of age story follows the girls as they navigate big questions and wage tiny battles from the safety of their suburban stretch circle.
The play originally was developed through a workshop lab at the
Playwrights Horizons Theater School and Clubbed Theatre back in 2015. It officially had its world premiere production Off Broadway in 2016 at the
Duke on 42nd Street for a strictly limited Summer engagement. The original run was well received, the production played an encore run in the Duke that same year for the holiday season. The following year, it transferred to
Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
Under the direction of Obie Award winner
Lila Neugebauer, this team consists of…..
Paola Sanchez Abreu as player # 25,
Brenna Coates as player # 7,
Jenna Dioguardi as player # 13,
Samia Finnerty as player # 14,
Midori Francis as player # 8,
Lizzy Jutila as playerr # 00,
Sarah Mezzanotte as player # 2,
Tedra Millan as player # 46,
and
Susannah Perkins as player # 11.
Who is excited to see this powerful play on film?!!!
by Mike Haber | Jul 14, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, off broadway, Shows
FIRST LOOK: One of the most popular genres of worldwide music out there is
KPOP. With origins coming from South Korea and staying true to its routes, it combines various styles we know today such as pop, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, and classical. There have been so many great acts from this genre including
BTS,
BlackPink,
Seo Tai-Ji And Boys, and Mr. GANGNAM STYLE himself PSY. Noe the legacy of this genre is now a Musical Theater piece heading for Broadway!!!
KPOP THE MUSICAL features a score by Helen Park and Max Vernon along with a book by Jason Kim. The story takes the audience into the high-stakes world of the Korean pop music. It follows a group of superstars gearing up for a special one-night-only concert, However one of the singer’s inner struggle threatens to dismantle their entire label.
The musical had its world premiere Off-Broadway at
Ars Nova back in 2017. It ran for a successful month and a half run earning rave reviews. Under the direction of Teddy Bergman, choreographed by Jennifer Weber, and in association with The
Ma-Yi Theater Company, the cast starred….
Tony nominee Ashley Park as “MwE”,
James Seol as “Jerry”,
Vanessa Kai as “Ruby”,
Julia Abueva as “Sonoma”,
Ebony Williams as “Jenn”,
Cathy Ang as “Jin Hee”,
John Yi as “Bobo”,
Amanda Morton as “Yazmeen”,
Jinwoo Jung as “Oracle”,
Sun Hye Park as “Callie”,
Deborah Kim as “XO”,
Jiho Kang as “Lex”,
James Saito as “Moon”,
Joomin Hwang as “Timmy X”,
Susannah Kim as “Mina”,
and
Katie Lee Hill as “Tiny D”.
KPOP THE MUSICAL was nominated for 9
Lucille Lortel Awards in 2018. It won 3 for OUTSTANDING MUSICAL, OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL (for Ashley Park), and OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL (for Jason Tam). It was also nominated for 7
Drama Desk Awards and 2
Drama League Awards.
The show is scheduled to transfer its way ON Broadway coming. Prior before it does that, KPOP THE MUSICAL will have an out-of-town tryout in Virginia at the
Signature Theatre this Holiday season. Reuniting its original creative team, its scheduled to run from December 2021 through January 2022. Official dates, casting, and more will be announced at a later time.
The Broadway itinerary will also be mentioned later on as well.
by Mike Haber | Jul 14, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, off broadway, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: So much anticipation in the air for Live Theayer returning. We are so excited to share with you that OFF Broadway’s
Vineyard Theatre will be transferring 2 of its recent sold out hits ON Broadway this Fall…. Tina Satter’s IS THIS A ROOM and Lucas Hnath’s DANA H. Both these productions (based on real true stories) had triumphant sold out runs recently prior before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.
As part of the REPERTORY ON BROADWAY series, both plays will rotated and performed at the legendary Lyceum Theatre. Set to be played as a strictly limited engagement, the timing will consist as this…..
IS THIS A ROOM begin preview performances September 24th, 2021 and will officially open on October 11th, 2021. Meanwhile DANA H will start its previews October 1st, 2021 and will open October 17th, 2021. Both shows will alternate through January 16th, 2022.
In addition, both plays leading ladies will be reprising their performances from their Off Broadway runs to the Broadway stage.
Tina Satter’s IS THIS A ROOM tells the story of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist (played by Emily Davis) who goes under an intense interrogation by the FBI and eventually charged with leaking evidence of Russian interference during the U.S elections. Reality remains in jail with a record-breaking sentence. Satter both wrote and directed the play.
Lucas Hnath’s DANA H is a one woman show. It tells the story of a mother (played by Deidre O’Connell) who recounts an extreme horrifying kidnapping experience in a set of Florida motels for 5 months. This story was inspired by that real situation that Hnath’s real life mother dealt with. It’s directed by Les Waters.
Both these stories are also inspired by real transcripts from both these terrifying experiences.
Additional casting will be announced soon.
With REPERTORY ON BROADWAY going into the Lyceum Theatre, sadly it gets rid of the initial show that was slated to go there in the Spring of 2020…… the musical adaptation of the cult classic movie
Sing Street, However, the production is still slated to go to Broadway soon. Details on what will be of that show’s future will be revealed soon.
Tina Satter’s IS THIS A ROOM and Lucas Hnath’s DANA H. Will Play in Repertory on Broadway This Fall (broadwayworld.com)
by Mike Haber | Jul 10, 2021 | Blog, off broadway, Shows
Despite these last few days of tropical storm Elsa and tons of flooding,
The Public Theater relaunched its popular annual SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK series for the first time in over a year. The series will be presenting a production of MERRY WIVES (directed by Saheem Ali) all Summer Long!!! In addition, it has also been extended now through September 18th, 2021 at the Delacorte Theatre in
Central Park.
Check out the footage of director Saheem Ali taking center stage with a powerful speech as we celebrate the return of Live Theater in NYC.
WELCOME BACK SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK!!!
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