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

Theatre News Roundup: 9/28-9/29

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• Catch the Butcher opens September 29 
• Eclipsed starts preview performances 9/29
• Travels With My Aunt begins performances 9/29
• Perfect Arrangement begins performances 9/29
• Nicu's Spoon begins performances of Richard III 9/29

Closed for Renovations (CANCELLATIONS)

• Ripcord performances delayed until October 1 

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Les Miserables fan day ticket offer. You can purchase two mezzanine tickets for $60.01 on October 6th, exclusively at the box office.
• Up and Away has extended

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• True Love the Pink musical will be presented October 10th 
• Anthony E. Zuiker will write the libretto for a musical adaptation of Soul Train
• Distant Thunder 
• Bat Out of Hell

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• In Your Arms 
• Fondly, Collette Richland

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Hoon Lee begins his run in The King and I September 29th
• Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams will star in Blackbird at the Belasco starting in March
• Casting for Hell's Belles
• Casting for The Doctor's Dilemma reading October 19 at Symphony Space includes Rebecca Luker and Christian Campbell
• Casting for Steve

Brush Up Your Shakespeare (SHAKESPEARE)

• The Oregon Theatre Festival has commissioned "translations" of all 39 of Shakespeare's plays into modern English

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Julian Ovenden replaces Stephen Pasquale in the NY Pops concert on 10/9
• Artists for World Peace on Broadway October 11 at Joe's Pub
• Beth Leavel cabaret at Muny 

A Musical (MUSICALS)

• Sisters' Follies: Between Two Worlds
• Mad Libs Live

It’s Only a Play (PLAYS)

• The Vast Machine 
• A Clockwork Orange

One Song Glory (ALBUMS)

• Lena Hall "Sin & Salvation: Live at the Carlyle" 
• Encores Lady Be Good will be released on CD November 13

Theatre News Roundup: 9/23-9/27

Hello my dears,

I am too tired to fill you in on everything that I've been doing in the last few days but rest assured I haven't been neglecting you without good reason. Now, before I'm too tired to type it, here is your catch up TNR.

Another Op’nin, Another Show (OPENINGS)

• The Gin Game began previews September 23. 
• Catch the Butcher began performances September 23. Opening night is scheduled for 9/29 with the show playing through 10/30.
• Dames at Sea began performances September 24. 
• Would You Still Love Me If began performances September 26.
• Trip of Love began previews September 26.
• Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening opens September 27
• Fondly, Collette Richland opens 9/28
• Daddy Long Legs opens 9/28

TKTS (TICKETS/RUSH/ETC)

• Purchase $19.60 preview tickets to Trip of Love with the code TLF1960 until September 29
• Amelie has extended again at Berkeley Rep. Performances will now continue until 10/18.
• An Act of God with Sean Hayes in San Francisco. Tickets on sale in October.
• Dear Evan Hansen will start previews 3/25 and open 4/24
• Primary Stages Tixteen program for middle and high school students
• School of Rock box office opens 9/28

I Wanna Be A Producer (IN DEVELOPMENT)

• Our Mutual Friend musical will have a staged reading 10/19

Everyone’s a Critic (REVIEWS)

• Spring Awakening

I Hope I Get It (CASTING)

• Jason Danieley will begin a run as Billy Flynn in Chicago 10/13 after Ryan Silverman departs 10/12
• Casting for Signature Theatre's revival of Incident at Vichy includes Richard Thomas
• Full cast for Breaking Through at Pasadena Playhouse 
• Casting for Hir at Playwrights Horizons
• Lynne Wintersteller and Jeremy Kushnier among the cast of Shear Madness
• Full cast for If/Then tour

Come to the Cabaret (CABARETS/CONCERTS/ETC)

• Dee Dee Bridgewater will appear as part of the New Orleans Masquerade at the Apollo
• Past, Present, and Future October 5 benefit gala for the National Asian Artists Program
• Annaleigh Ashford December 31 show at 54 Below 
• Kerry Butler at 54 Below

One Song Glory (ALBUMS)

• 40th Anniversary Re-release of A Chorus Line OBC recording with 8 bonus tracks 10/23
• 10/12 It Shoulda Been You performances and CD signing at Barnes and Noble
• Sara Bareilles will release What's Inside: Songs From Waitress 11/6
• Daddy Long Legs will release a cast album