Musicals News
 Beijing Will Get a Broadway of Its Own (New York Times) The distance between a Broadway show and an authentic Chinese meal is about to get a lot shorter, at least for theatergoers in the Eastern Hemisphere. A $686 million construction project will bring a 32-theater complex to Beijing, where imports of Western musicals and other shows will play year-round, Variety reported. The entertainment complex is being built by Beijing Shibo Real Estate in the ...
Philly's Walnut Street to Stage Scoundrels, Oliver!, Fiddler , Coward and Conger (Playbill) Bernard Havard, producing artistic director of Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre, announced a 2009-10 Mainstage season that includes the musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Oliver! and Fiddler on the Roof, plus a Noël Coward play and a world-premiere play.
Symphony, chorus team up for New Yearâ€s Eve 'Lullaby' (Rapid City Journal) The Black Hills Symphony Orchestra and the A Cappella Showcase will perform together for “Lullaby of Broadway,” a New Year’s Eve concert featuring music from traditional Broadway musicals.
Plano Metropolitan Ballet begins ‘Annie, the Orphan’ performances Saturday (Plano Courier) One of America’s favorite musicals, “Annie,” will dance its way into Plano starting Saturday. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Cindi Lawrence Hanson, the Plano Metropolitan Ballet (PMB) celebrates its 22nd season with an original ballet, “Annie, the Orphan.”
Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald) The Lakeland Theatre Company in Littleton announces its 2009 season. Lakeland consistently offers the best entertainment value around, with family classics, musicals, plays, special events and concerts to suit everyone’s taste and style.
THE LEADING MEN: Hewitt and DeGennaro (Playbill) RAZZLE DAZZLER As word hit the street that Jimmy Osmond will be playing Billy Flynn in the U.K. tour of Chicago , it's time to get acquainted with Broadway's current Flynn, Tom Hewitt.
Many Broadway shows facing final curtain (UPI) NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- More than a dozen of New York's Broadway plays and musicals have announced they will stop all showings by the end of January.
Heidelberg tenor on song for Australia Day (Leader Community Newspapers) TENOR Timothy Jaques has sung in productions big and small.
The Cute Surge—The proliferation of cute on the Web (Chicago Tribune) How did this happen? When did it all go fuzzy? When did we learn to stop worrying about the state of the union and start loving images of the furry and button-nosed?
In Memoriam: Playbill.com Remembers Those We Lost in 2008 (Playbill via Yahoo! News) A Nobel Prize-winning playwright. A major Broadway theatre owner and producer. A longtime New York City theatre critic. A sultry cabaret star who sexily purred songs into her eighties.
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