Theatre News Roundup: 10/25-10/31

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• The Humans opened 10/25 
• Kick opened 10/25
• Before Your Very Eyes opened 10/26
• Previews for Incident at Vichy began 10/27. The show is scheduled to open 11/15.
• Songbird opened 10/28
• Dead and Breathing began performances 10/28
• Therese Raquin opened 10/29
• Invisible Thread begins 10/31

The Party’s Over (CLOSINGS)

• Amazing Grace closed 10/25

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Halloween ticket discounts. Unfortunately most of these are no good to you now but, still, take a look. 
• Steven Pasquale will star in a revival of The Robber Bridegroom directed by Alex Timbers. Tickets on sale 11/22.
• $10 Hamilton tickets for 20,000 11th graders
• American Songbook at Lincoln Center concerts. On sale dates 11/2 and 11/16.
• EXTENSIONS: First Daughter Suite extends to 11/22. Empanada Loca extends to 11/15. The Humans extends to 12/27. Night is a Room extends to 12/20.
• 20th Kids' Night on Broadway participating shows
• Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages. All tickets $25.
• Hughie will begin previews at the Booth 2/5 and open 2/25. Various on sale dates in the first half of November. Check article.

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Alice By Heart from Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater, and Jessie Nelson. Based on Alice in Wonderland. 
• Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) working on Cher musical
• In Real Life
• On the Air
• Birthday Boy
• The Connector

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• The Humans 
• Sylvia 
• Therese Raquin

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Andrew Rannells steps into the role of King George III in Hamilton from 10/27 to 11/29. Jonathan Groff is scheduled to return 12/1.
• Stacey Sargeant will replace Saycon Sengbloh 11/3 in Eclipsed 
• Hayden Tee will play Javert starting 1/29/16
• Villain: DeBlanks weekly casts announced
• These Paper Bullets!
• The Wiz Live!
• Eddie George as Billy Flynn in Chicago 
• Stratford Festival A Chorus Line

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (RUMORS)

• Broadway transfer for The Humans

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Daisy Eagan joins Rebecca Luker for Secret Garden benefit concert. Now two performances.
• Broadway Can! for City Harvest 11/16  
• New Orchestrations 11/9
• NY Pops Boublil/Schonberg concert in May
• Daisy and Jordan: Rejected Bond Girls 11/15 54 Below

Theatre News Roundup: 10/20-10/24

Sorry, my loves! I know it's starting to seem like the TNR is weekly but my nights have just been really busy this week.

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• Cesar Alvarez's Futurity featuring The Lisps opened 10/20. It is fantastic. A lot of dates are sold out but you should see it if you can. 
• Ripcord opened 10/20.
• A View From the Bridge began previews 10/21. China Doll began previews 10/21
• First Daughter Suite officially opened 10/21. Empanada Loca officially opened 10/21
• Lost Girls began performances 10/21 
• Misery previews began 10/22
• Dames at Sea officially opened 10/22. Romance Language officially opened 10/22.

Closed for Renovations (CANCELLATIONS)

• Lin-Manuel Miranda is out of Hamilton with the flu 
• She Loves Me dates pushed back two weeks

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Eclipsed (with its entire off-Broadway cast) will close at the Public 11/29 and transfer to Broadway, beginning previews 2/23/16 and opening 3/6/16 for a limited run at the Golden Theater.
• Hand to God Halloween puppet ticket contest
• Daddy Long Legs $25 student rush, limit one per person
• Gypsy of the Year tickets on sale next week
• American Psycho tickets on sale
• Tickets sold out for On Hello On (Off) Broadway

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Gimme a Band, Gimme a Banana! Carmen Miranda samba spectacular
• Free 3C reading 10/26
• Steve Martin's Meteor Shower at the Old Globe
• Justin Simien musical

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• The Bandstand 
• First Daughter Suite 
• Dames at Sea

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Laverne Cox will star as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Fox's 2016 live broadcast of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
• Casting for Bright Star scheduled for March 2016 includes Paul Alexander Nolan and Dee Hoty. Carmen Cusack will make her Broadway debut in the show.
• New York Animals 
• Mario Lopez joins Grease Live as radio disc jockey Vince Fontaine
• Casting for all male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in NJ 
• Nene Leakes cast as Matron Mama Morton in Chicago from 11/23-12/20
• John Cullum will star in A Child's Christmas in Wales
• Casting for 4-performance benefit production of Miss Handel in Brooklyn features Lauren Worsham 
• Elf 
• Ruby Lewis cast in Cirque du Soleil's Paramour

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (SHAKESPEARE)

•  The Royal Shakespeare Company's King & Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings will play BAM 3/24/16- 5/1/16. Tickets go on sale 11/16

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Songs in the Key of Equality 10/26
• Chita Rivera will play Cafe Carlyle 1/12-1/23 
• The Essential Liz Callaway album release concert 11/30

Theatre News Roundup: 10/16-10/19

Hello everyone,

I'm in a weird mood today. I skipped a concert tonight because it was too cold to go out and I dawdled too long before deciding to get ready, probably intentionally because I knew I wasn't in the mood to go out. But it's not something I generally do. I can't remember the last time I skipped a play or concert. I'll even go late rather than skip it all together. Anyway, it's put me in a mood.

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• Hir began previews 10/16 
• Before Your Very Eyes performances began 10/17
• Trip of Love opened 10/18
• Rothschild & Sons opened 10/18
• The Bandstand opened 10/18
• Abe Koogler's Kill Floor opens 10/19

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Allegiance is offering $39 35 and under rush tickets and a $39 digital lottery 
• American Psycho tickets go on sale to the general public 10/23

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Staged reading of The Showmen 
• Freedom's Song
• Witch's Night Out

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• David Oyelowo/Daniel Craig Othello
• Casting for Once Upon a Mattress 
• Additional casting for Dear Elizabeth 
• Constantine Maroulis has left the company of The Pasadena Playhouse production of the new musical Breaking Through

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Only Make Believe Annual Gala 
• Dramatist Guild Fund's annual gala 10/26
• Birdland November lineup
• "Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 2" book release celebration
• Show Biz After Hours With Frank DiLella at Birdland

A Musical (MUSICALS)

• ART will stage Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

It’s Only a Play (PLAYS)

• Choice runs in Boston from October to November 
• Pericles will play Brooklyn 2/14-3/27
• 2016 Colorado New Play Summit

One Song Glory (ALBUMS)

• A 2 disc recording of Encores Off Center's A New Brain will be released in February

Theatre News Roundup: 10/13-10/15

Hello my dears,

Sorry for the delay. I saw Far From Canterbury again. I still love it. I also saw The Humans and Catch the Butcher. They were mildly amusing but not really for me. I'll tell you more about them some other time.

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• Romance Language began previews 10/13 
• The Gin Game officially opened 10/14
• Eclipsed officially opened 10/14

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• $19.65 Retro Roundabout TodayTix lottery (Once again I am asking you to please consider using my discount referral code if you have yet to make a purchase with TodayTix. It is "OKEQS.")
• Fool For Love extends until 12/13

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Sundance Lab at MASS MoCA
• Georgie: The Life and Death of George Rose 
• Phillip Dawkin's Charm plays Steppenwolf 
• PopStar
• Chasing the River 
• Waterfall officially opens in Seattle

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• Clever Little Lies 
• Ugly Lies The Bone 
• Eclipsed

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Taissa Farmiga will appear in The New Group's revival of Buried Child with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
• Zachary Quinto will star in MCC's production of Noah Haidle's Smokefall
• Gotta Dance
• Dear Elizabeth (concerning poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell)

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (SHAKESPEARE)

• Henry IV with an all female cast set in a women's prison

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Rebecca Luker will star in a one-night-only benefit concert presentation of The Secret Garden for the Make A Wish Foundation 
• Broadway's Future Songbook
• At This Performance
• We're Keen on Kate Baldwin

Theatre News Roundup: 10/9-10/12

Hello my dears!

It is late now. I will tell you about Perfect Arrangement, The Vast Machine, Futurity, and Hamlet in Bed on another day. Quickly for now, well performed but lacking some finesse, absolutely awful and very boring, original and fantastically spirited, and unexpectedly compelling and insightful.

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• Hard Love officially opened 10/11
• Clever Little Lies officially opens 10/12 
• Ugly Lies the Bone officially opens 10/13

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Lazarus extends 3 more weeks

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• George Dvorsky joins Ghostlight reading/workshop 
• Presenting Ethel Merman starring Carolee Carmello

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• Barbecue

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Jason Danieley begins his run in Chicago
• Chasing Rainbows 
• Gigantic

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (RUMORS)

• Jean Smart may be back on Broadway in the spring 
• Martin Guerre "ready"?

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (SHAKESPEARE)

• The Public's Comedy of Errors 5 borough tour 

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• 8th annual Living For Today concert 10/25 at Joe's Pub. This year will focus on the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
• Betty Buckley, Norm Lewis, Alysha Umphress and others have been announced for the Broadway Close Up evening on William Finn 
• December 3rd Sinatra: Voice For A Century Gala at David Geffen Hall
• Marin Mazzie at 54 Below
• 10/13 private event at the Metropolitan Museum featuring Akhenaten the musical

It’s Only a Play (PLAYS)

• Before Your Very Eyes

One Song Glory (ALBUMS)

• The Light Princess London cast album released
• It Shoulda Been You album released

Theatre News Roundup: 10/8

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• The Bandstand begins previews at Papermill 10/8 
• Fool For Love officially opens 10/8 
• The Vast Machine begins performances 10/8. It will open 10/13 and run through 11/7.
• Medea begins 10/8 at LaMaMa
• Barbecue officially opens 10/8

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Tickets for Manhattan Concert Productions two concert presentation of The Secret Garden will go on sale tomorrow at 10am. Use the offer code SECRET20 for 20% off tickets.
• Les Miserables quiz for tickets

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• Fool For Love

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Sydney Lucas has been cast as Mary Lennox in both concert performances of The Secret Garden
• Andrew Rannells will join Hamilton as King George III from October 27- November 29. Jonathan Groff is scheduled to return December 1.
• Skylar Astin, Bianca Marroquín, and Morgan Hernandez have been cast in the 3-performance only production of West Side Story March 5-6 at the Knockdown Center in Queens

Theatre News Roundup: 10/2-10/7

Oh my God, where have I been for the last few days? Well, first of all the recapping is going horribly. I'm so behind, I might as well give up now. I also saw Daddy Long Legs (adorable), Sara Bareilles at BAM (incredible... I cried... I will eventually tell you what I think of her book), and Il Trovatore in HD (different from seeing it in the theatre).

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• Sylvia started previews 10/2 
• Cut Throat began performances 10/2. It will run through 10/25.
• Three Day Hangover's Dracula opens 10/2. Performances run through 10/17.
• Kill Floor began performances 10/3
• Line opened 10/5
• First Daughter Suite began previews 10/6
• Futurity began performances 10/6
• Old Times opened 10/6
• Rothschild & Sons began performances 10/6
• Allegiance began previews 10/6

Closed for Renovations (CANCELLATIONS)

• 10/7 performance of Therese Raquin cancelled

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• A second performance added for Encores Annie Get Your Gun 
• Waitress will start previews 3/25/16 and open 4/24/16 at the Brooks Atkinson. Presale tickets on sale now. General public tickets on sale November 5th.
• King Charles III $37 rush tickets
• Mint Theater losing 43rd St. space. The New Morality tickets for final week will be priced at $43. Final performance tickets are $100.
• Tickets on sale for MTC's Important Hats of the 20th Century ($30)
• The Color Purple box office open
• Lazarus tickets sold out
• United Solo Theater Festival. $20 tickets

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz
• We Are The Tigers presented 10/2-11/8 
• Indecent at Yale Rep Theatre
• Piece of My Heart coming to Broadway in 2016?
• INXS musical?

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• Hamilton album reviews 
• Old Times

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Encores Annie Get Your Gun 
• Bob Saget will join Hand to God 11/3
• Moana voice actress cast
• The Color Purple 
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Swinging On A Star

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (RUMORS)

• Kelsey Grammer may return to Finding Neverland in the winter?

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• The Lilly Awards Broadway Cabaret Nov 9. General admission tickets on sale 10/9.
• Best in Shows at 54 Below
• Rockers on Broadway 11/9 at Le Poisson Rouge
• Rumer Willis 54 Below

Theatre News Roundup: 9/30-10/1

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• The Humans begins performances 9/30 
• Empanada Loca begins performances 9/30 
• A Clockwork Orange begins 10/1
• Ripcord previews begin 10/1
• Therese Raquin begins previews 10/1

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• World Egg Day special events at Something Rotten 
• 5 step Misery sweepstakes
• Dates have been announced for New Victory Theater autism-friendly performances 
• Single tickets on sale for MTC productions Our Mother's Brief Affair (Linda Lavin) and The Father (Frank Langella)

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• GREASE Live! casting 
• John Krasinski will lead the cast of Sarah Burgess' Dry Powder at The Public. The show will run from March to April. 
• Casting for Night Is A Room
• Carson Elrod will head the cast of Important Hats of the 20th Century

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (SHAKESPEARE)

• The 36 playwrights adapting Shakespeare for the Oregon Theatre Festival 
• Much Ado About Nothing

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Celebrity Karaoke

A Musical (MUSICALS)

• American Psycho will begin previews on 3/24/16 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

It’s Only a Play (PLAYS)

• Kick will begin performances at St. Luke's Theatre in October 
• NAATCO will stage Lloyd Suh's Charles Francis Chan, Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery
• Why Water Falls will have a short run this fall at 13th Street Repertory

One Song Glory (ALBUMS)

• Annaleigh Ashford will release a live solo album called Lost in the Stars 
• Lin Manuel Miranda announces a planned mixtape of covers, remixes, and inspired-bys for Hamilton
• Melissa Errico: What About Today Live at 54 Below
• Frank Sinatra: A Voice On Air 
• Hunchback of Notre Dame album will be released in January