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NOTE: This is an archived version of this newsletter. Not all shows and offers still apply. Some links may no longer be accessible. |
 September '07 |
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| Broadway on Broadway® presented by Continental Airlines is coming to Times Square on September 16th at 11:30am. It's live and it's FREE! |
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This is the quintessential New York City event: 50,000 spectators at the "Crossroads of the World," live musical numbers from Broadway shows performed on a giant outdoor stage, giant screens in Times Square, a galaxy of celebrity performers, and a big finale with loads of confetti. To learn more about the concert click here. |
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At this year's Broadway on Broadway® concert, the spotlight is on YOU…the Broadway Fan! The Broadway Fan Zone will also make its debut this year, giving you an opportunity to enjoy the concert from a VIP area right near the stage. The first 100 fans to show up dressed as their favorite Broadway character will get to be up-close and personal in the Fan Zone! Come dressed to the Broadway Ticket Center (1560 Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets inside the Times Square Information Center) starting at 8am to get your Fan Zone entry ticket! Don't forget to enter the Broadways Biggest Fan sweepstakes!
The top three videos receiving the most votes will be shown at Broadway on Broadway on jumbotron screens in Times Square. During the concert, audience members will chose the winner! Make sure to be there... *For a complete list of Broadway's Biggest Fan Sweepstakes Official Rules & Regulations, click here. |
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Mr. Nicholaw is currently in rehearsal for the launch of a major national tour of The Drowsy Chaperone which will open on September 19th in Toronto, the city where it began as a Fringe Festival show in 1999. Ben Pesner caught up with Mr. Nicholaw on a break from rehearsal to ask him about his career path and The Drowsy Chaperone. Ben Pesner: In your many years as a performer, did you ever do a national tour? Casey Nicholaw: I did a bus-and-truck tour of 42nd Street. Once when we were in Chicago, the director called me aside at half hour and said I was the fattest chorus man on the stage, and I better do something because I was doing a disservice to the show. Then, as the curtain was going up, the button popped off my pants and I had to do the whole number holding my pants up. I thought, I don't need this! And so you eventually switched to directing and choreographing. How did you make that happen? I always knew I wanted to choreograph. One day I thought, “I need to just do it.” So I rented a studio [where] I would go be creative and see what happens. The first couple of weeks I was sitting there alone, eating my sandwich, thinking, “What the heck am I doing?” Then, before I knew it, I had gathered 25 friends and we did a presentation of 3 pieces that I choreographed. I invited every producer, writer, director that I had ever worked with to come, and I started to get work after that. It was totally self-generated. After I was working on Spamalot, [Drowsy producer] Kevin McCollum called me, and the morning after Spamalot opened I had an interview for The Drowsy Chaperone. I met with the writers and we all hit it off right away. I was interested in working as a director, and Kevin saw that in me. He wanted to give me an opportunity. |
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And now you have two hit shows running in New York at the same time! It's really wild. It's also really convenient because the shows are not even a block away from each other. I can go to one at 7:00 p.m., give some notes, go the other at 7:30 and give some notes, and then go back and watch the first show. How do you describe what The Drowsy Chaperone is about? It's about a man who is a complete musical theatre fanatic. He wants to share his love for a show called The Drowsy Chaperone with the audience. The musical actually comes to life in his apartment, until the two worlds get sort of blurred. |
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Georgia Engel, well known to audiences not only for her work on Broadway but for her film and television work including "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Everybody Loves Raymond," is reprising the role that she originated on Broadway for the tour. What is it like working with her? She's fantastic. She brings such a good sense of comedy to the show. You want to feel taken care of when the show-within-the-show begins, and you want people who are absolutely lovable onstage. Georgia is the first person you see in the musical-within-the-show, and she brings all of that. |
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What do you think has made The Drowsy Chaperone so appealing to audiences? Everyone can relate to the character of an everyman that loves something, whether it's a musical or a TV program or a movie or a celebrity or cars or any other passion. So many women come and say, "My husband loved this show and I was so surprised because he doesn't really like many musicals I take him to." You get to laugh for an hour and a half, and people just love doing that. It's a great show for kids too. People see the show and say, "I came with my mother and my son and we all had a great time." View a list of Casey Nicholaw's Broadway credits. Visit The Drowsy Chaperone on-line to find out when the tour will be playing near you. |
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| Broadway's fall season features more stars and exciting new shows than ever. Here are some of the details: Hank Azaria stars in The Farnsworth Invention, Aaron Sorkin's new play about the invention of television. F. Murray Abraham, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, Katie Finneran, and Alison Pill star in Theresa Rebeck's “sinister comedy” Mauritius, about a pair of half-sisters who inherit a stamp collection. Tom Stoppard, author of last season's Tony Award®-winning Best Play The Coast of Utopia, is back with Rock ‘n' Roll, which explores links between popular music and politics. Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack, and Rufus Sewell star. Past Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) stars in the premiere of a recently rediscovered play by Mark Twain, Is He Dead?. Written in 1898 but never performed, the play has been adapted by David Ives. The Seafarer is a new play from London by Conor McPherson (Shining City) about the sea, Ireland, and the power of myth. Harold Pinter's classic drama The Homecoming stars Raúl Esparza, Michael McKean, Eve Best, and Deadwood's Ian McShane. Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner, and Daniel Sunjata star in the beloved comedy Cyrano de Bergerac. Randy Quaid brushes up his Shakespeare in Lone Star Love, a musical that transposes the Bard's Merry Wives of Windsor to the Wild West. Robert Cuccioli and Dee Hoty also star. More Shakespeare on Broadway: A new production of Cymbeline features Jonathan Cake, Michael Cerveris, John Cullum, Martha Plimpton, and Phylicia Rashad. From Chicago's fabled Steppenwolf Theatre Company comes August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, a vivid portrait of a Midwestern family at a turning point. Chazz Palminteri makes his Broadway debut with his one-man show A Bronx Tale, which depicts a rough childhood on Bronx streets populated by a cast of friends and enemies. For more information on these and other new and long-running shows, visit ILoveNYTheater.com. |
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| Broadway Mania at J&R Music World |
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J&R Music World is proud to present Broadway Mania! |
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J&R Music World is located at 23 Park Row, Downtown Manhattan across from City Hall. For more information call (212) 238-9000 or log on to www.jr.com/broadway. |
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Don't forget to send us your photos! We want to see pictures of you standing in front of a Broadway theatre in New York or anywhere across North America! |
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