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We hope you enjoy this issue and will invite your friends and family to join the Fan Club. Your subscription settings can be found below. See you on Broadway!
NOTE: This is an archived version of this newsletter. Not all shows and offers still apply. Some links may no longer be accessible. |
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Kids Take Over Broadway! |
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Last month's annual Kids' Night on Broadway® celebration in New York City was a smash-hit success. More than 27,000 young people and their parents attended 22 Broadway shows and 3 Off Broadway productions in New York City. They met cast members and participated in Broadway activities at pre-show parties at Madame Tussauds New York and the Times Center. Here are some shots of the festivities. |
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A Chorus Line cast members Paul McGill and Emily Fletcher
teach kids all the right dance moves.
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KNOB National Ambassador Rosie O'Donnell kicks off the event.
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Top: Kids get make-overs courtesy of The Phantom of the Opera.
Bottom: Rosie's Broadway Kids perform at the pre-show party. |
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Download the 2008 Kids Night on Broadway Souvenir Playbill, generously provided by Theatre Development Fund (large PDF file).
Thanks to our sponsors Madame Tussauds New York, The New York Times, 106.7fm, NBC4, Theatre Development Fund, Spotlight Live, Camp Broadway, and Rosie's Broadway Kids.
Click for info about Kids' Night on Broadway in other cities this winter and spring.
Kids' Night photos courtesy of Emile Wamsteker
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Free Exhibition:
Songwriters and the Tony Awards® |
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Now through June 14, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Tony Award Productions team up to mount a special exhibition that offers a unique window into the creation of Tony Award-winning musicals.
Writing to Character: Songwriters & the Tony Awards spotlights the more than 70 Broadway shows that have won Tonys for either Best Musical or Best Score. The exhibition is on view through June 14 (the day before the 2008 Tony Awards telecast on CBS) at the Library, which is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza in Manhattan. Click for hours and directions. Admission is free.
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The exhibition is a fascinating collection of documents, manuscripts, photos, and other memorabilia that tell the story of a musical's creation. It explores the work involved in putting on a show, from the opening night performance back through rehearsals, orchestrations and arrangements, demos and money raising, writing the songs, and plotting out the show, |
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| Composer John Kander (Chicago, Curtains) at the exhibition on opening night. |
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all the way to the original concept. A few of the items on display include:
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- The guitar on which Duncan Sheik first plucked out the chords for “Mama Who Bore Me,” and then went on to write the first four songs he composed for Spring Awakening (Best Musical, 2007)
- The conductor's piano score from Guys and Dolls (Best Musical, 1951), with an additional verse for “Adelaide's Lament”
- W. H. Auden's unused lyrics for “Song of the Quest” from Man from La Mancha (Best Musical, 1966)
- From Fiddler on the Roof (Best Musical, 1965), composer Jerry Bock's notes and revised outlines, and star Zero Mostel's script
- Video interviews with past Tony-winners Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Herman, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and Adam Guettel
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Library will also present a free public program series featuring appearances by such noted songwriters as Charles Strouse, Maury Yeston, and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
For more info, visit TonyAwards.com.
Photo: JemalCountess/Wireimage.com
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Your Name Above The Title |
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Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Conference, a three-day intensive workshop for prospective producers, general managers and investors, takes place in May.
Remember Matthew Broderick in the Mel Brooks musical The Producers? His character, Leopold Bloom, comes down with an acute illness: the show-biz bug. He sings “I Wanna Be a Producer,” imagining himself as a modern-day Flo Ziegfeld or David Merrick.
Have you ever been tempted to follow in Leo Bloom's footsteps (without landing in jail, of course)? If you think you might have the right stuff to bring a play or musical to the stage on Broadway or elsewhere, here's a must-do item for your date book this spring:
Commercial Theater Institute's Producing Conference takes place on May 2 – 4, 2008. Open to anyone interested in producing, co-producing or investing in the commercial theatre on Broadway, Off Broadway, Touring Broadway, and elsewhere, the program offers practical information of interest to prospective producers, general managers, and investors. Each session consists of presentations and panel discussions with experienced producers, general managers, entertainment attorneys, and managing directors who offer specific case histories that illustrate the various means of developing theatrical productions.
The Producing Conference is of special interest to anyone exploring relationships between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors in the development of a theatre project.
Commercial Theater Institute is a joint program of the Broadway League and Theatre Development Fund. The 2008 event takes place at New World Stages on West 50th Street.
The fee is $435 (or $335 if you register before March 14, 2008). Registration and information are available at CommercialTheaterInstitute.com or (212) 586-1109. |
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Original Rent Stars to Tour - Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal, the original Mark and Roger, will take Rent on tour across America starting in January 2009, reprising their Broadway performances. Tour dates and locations to be announced. For info on current shows now on national tour, visit TouringBroadway.com.
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Anthony Rapp (left) and Adam Pascal in Rent. Photo: Joan Marcus |
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- In the Spotlight: Sherie Rene Scott - Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present a one-night benefit performance of You May Now Worship Me, starring Sherie Rene Scott (Ursula in The Little Mermaid ). The show, a musical glimpse into the true tales of Sherie's life, will play the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Monday, March 31. All proceeds will go to the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of the Actors Fund.
- Patrick Stewart in Macbeth – Following its current sold-out run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart transfers to the Lyceum Theatre for a limited run from March 29 to May 24.
- August on the Move - August: Osage County switches theatres next month, moving from the Imperial Theatre to the Music Box on April 29.
- Coming This Fall: Shrek - The musical adaptation of the animated film Shrek will play the Broadway Theatre. Sutton Foster and Christopher Sieber star as Princess Fiona and Lord Farquaad. Previews begin in November.
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Sweeney Todd on Disc and on Tour - The DVD of Tim Burton's film adaptation of Sweeney Todd will hit stores on April 1. Johnny Depp plays the film's title character, the razor-wielding Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Meanwhile, the national touring production of Sweeney Todd starring Judy Kaye as Mrs. Lovett plays Los Angeles this month.
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Judy Kaye and David Hess in the National Tour of Sweeney Todd by DavidAllenStudio.com
- 'I in the Sky' over Times Square - From March 6 through April 26, 2008, you can see yourself larger than life 48 stories above Times Square, thanks to a street-level photo-booth at the Chashama gallery (112 West 44th Street) and the Lumacom electronic display sign atop the 4 Times Square building. It's free! For more info, visit www.TimesSquareNYC.org.
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Journeys in the Night:
Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square
Applause Theatre and Cinema Books
By Theodore Mann
Where did Dustin Hoffman, George C. Scott, Al Pacino, Geraldine Page, Jason Robards, Jr. and dozens of other great American
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performers first get their act together? A new memoir by Theodore Mann, a founder and longtime leader of Circle in the Square, tells the story of an Off Broadway company founded in the 1950s that forever changed the face of the American theatre.
Along with legendary director José Quintero, Mann and Circle opened audiences' eyes with landmark productions of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and the American premiere of O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Mann took the helm and brought Circle not only to new artistic heights, but uptown to Broadway and 50th Street. Groundbreaking productions of Shaw, Molière, Williams, O'Neill, and Greek classics brought great literature of the stage in New York and America.
Journeys in the Night includes an 85-minute DVD of the 1977 television program “Twenty Five Years of Circle in the Square,” featuring Hoffman, Scott, Vanessa Redgrave, Colleen Dewhurst, James Earl Jones, and Mann himself talking about their experiences at the theatre. The disc includes excerpts of such noted Circle in the Square productions as Death of a Salesman, Mourning Becomes Electra, and The Lady from the Sea.
Click to purchase Journeys in the Night from Amazon.com |
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For Kids: Summer on Broadway! |
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Camp Broadway - Broadway's Original Summer Camp - is now accepting applications for its 2008 New York City summer programs.
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Camp Broadway features five days of training for theatre-loving kids ages 6-18 with instruction by experienced Broadway-trained faculty. The program includes classes in ensemble singing, dance and movement, voice and acting, along with very special Master Classes with Broadway artists. This summer, the week also includes a full-day behind-the-scenes experience with Broadway's hit musical In The Heights, including a panel discussion with the creative staff, tickets to the matinee, a talk-back with the cast, and a very special luncheon with other kids currently working on Broadway. The week culminates with a finale presentation for the entire family.
To enroll, or for more information, please visit www.CampBroadway.com or call (212) 575-2929.
Camp Broadway is a proud member of The Broadway League. |
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