Broadway
David Byrne’s American Utopia Wins Tony Award
David Byrne’s American Utopia was honored with at the 74th annual Tony Awards, which were held at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City on Sunday night. The production was presented with a Special Tony Award, which are given to shows that don’t fall into any of the competitive categories. It marked Byrne’s first time winning a Tony, and leaves him just an Emmy Award away from obtaining EGOT status. (Byrne was nominated at last week’s Emmys, but lost the award for Outstanding Variety Special to Hamilton.) Later on during the Tony Awards, Byrne returned to the stage to perform “Burning Down the House.” Watch the replay below. Advertisement Related Video Based on Byrne’s 2018 album of the same name, American Utopia initially opened in October 2019. On stage, Byrne is joined by ...
Ben Platt Performs Showstopping Number from ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ on ‘Fallon’: Exclusive
Broadway is back, and The Tonight Show is throwing the spotlight on the best in showbiz. Across this week, Jimmy Fallon’s late-night TV show has featured some of music theater’s hottest acts for a special Broadway bonanza. On Wednesday night (Sept. 15), Ben Platt stopped by for a rendition of “Waving Through a Window” from Dear Evan Hansen. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
‘Wicked,’ ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Hamilton Reopen to Cheers on Broadway
“The Lion King,” “Hamilton” and “Wicked” all staked out Tuesday to reopen together in early May after then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo picked Sept. 14 for when Broadway could begin welcoming back audiences at full capacity. The trio of shows were beaten by Bruce Springsteen’s concert show in June and the opening of the new play “Pass Over” on Aug. 22, as well as the reopening of two big musicals — “Hadestown” and “Waitress.” But the return of the three musicals — the spiritual anchors of modern Broadway’s success — as well as the return of the long-running “Chicago” and the reopening of the iconic TKTS booth, both also on Tuesday, are important signals that Broadway is back, despite pressure and uncertainty from the spread of the delta variant. The crowds virtually blew the roof off the thr...
Kelly Clarkson Salutes the Big Apple in Season 3 Opener: ‘We Can All Draw Inspiration From New York’
Clarkson revealed that the cover was actually Chenoweth’s idea. “Kristin, I love you and your taste in music. Why do you love this song?” she asked, as Chenoweth ribbed the host about having “her” initials lit up on the set. “I really wanted to say that I love Imagine Dragons and to try to find the right song … you look back in my history and Kander-Ebb wrote ‘New York, New York,’ which is ‘king of the hill, top of the heap,'” Chenoweth responded. “And this song reminded me of people coming together and being strong, and we as New Yorkers are coming back and that’s why I wanted to do it.” Hometown hero Fat Joe agreed, saying, “I’m a proud New Yorker, and our city is just a city of hope and inspi...
New The Karate Kid Musical Slated for 2022 Pre-Broadway Run in St. Louis
Meet me in St. Louis, Daniel-san! The new musical adaptation of The Karate Kid is headed to the home of the Gateway Arch for its pre-Broadway tryout. According to a report from Deadline, The Karate Kid — The Musical will kick off a limited month-long engagement through Stages St. Louis beginning May 22nd, 2022. Helmed by Japanese director Amon Miyamoto, the show will then run through June 26th. While casting for the new musical has yet to be announced, Robert Mark Kamen — the screenwriter of the original 1984 classic — is handling the script, with music and lyrics by Smash composer Drew Gasparini. (Yes, we have him to thank for helping write Hit List, the fictitious show-within-a-show that eventually spawned a real-life 2013 concert event starring Jeremy Jordan, Andy Mientus...
Nick Jonas Shares Sneak Peek of His ‘Dream Role’ in ‘Jersey Boys’
Valli, 87, confirmed the New Jersey-bred Jonas Brothers member would portray him in the upcoming TV musical film in an interview on Today. “[Jersey Boys] is being filmed for television and Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers is playing Frankie, and I’m really excited about that,” he said in June. The following month, Jonas, 28, shared a TikTok video of the “first day tech rehearsal on stage.” Running from 2005 to 2017 on Broadway, the original four-time Tony Award-winning jukebox musical follows the story of ’60s rock ‘n’ roll group The Four Seasons, which was split into four “seasons” for every member to narrate their perspective on the band’s history. In 2007, the Jersey Boys: Original Broadway Cast Record...
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Returns to Broadway as Single Show
The Cursed Child is the latest show to schedule its return to New York City stages alongside other recent announcements for The Book of Mormon, The Lion King and Wicked, and the delayed debut of The Music Man. In a statement, producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender called Broadway’s reopening “an unprecedented moment in theatre history.” They shared that they were “delighted” to announce the debut of a re-imagined show “audiences can see in one afternoon or evening.” “Given the challenges of remounting and running a two-part show in the U.S. on the scale of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the commercial challenges faced by the theatre and tourism industries emerging from the global shutdowns, we are excited to be able to move forward with a new version of the play that allows au...
Bruce Springsteen’s Old Show Carries New Weight as He Reopens Broadway
The core of Springsteen’s Broadway show remains the same: Part “Growin’ Up” as Jersey Shore Bildungsroman, part examination of his own rock ‘n’ roll myth, part meditation on mortality. Right at the start, Springsteen talks about coming from a Boardwalk town, “where everything is tinged with just a bit of fraud,” then admits that his knowledge of fast cars and factory work is largely invented. “It has to be believable,” he said last night. “Which is tricky, because I’m lying.” This is reliably hilarious, but also braver than it might seem: At a time when so much pop music seems to rely on identity and experience, Springsteen is claiming the purview of a novelist. For all that, though, Springsteen’s show is incredibly personal. It’s about growing up surrounded by family, near a church that m...
Bruce Springsteen Jokes About DWI Arrest: “An Act So Heinous That it Offended the Entire Fuckin’ United States!”
Bruce Springsteen took the stage at the New York’s St. James Theatre on Saturday night to kick off a new run of his Tony Award-winning production, Springsteen on Broadway. During the show, as Rolling Stone points out, Springsteen addressed his November 2020 DWI arrest, which was subsequently dismissed during a virtual court appearance earlier this year. “I didn’t wake up one morning, get on my motorcycle and say, ‘I think I’ll drive to jail,’” Springsteen joked. “And then I had to go to Zoom Court! My case was the United States of America vs. Bruce Springsteen. That’s always comfortable to hear, that the entire nation is aligned against you!” As previously reported, Springsteen was stopped by a park ranger at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey o...
David Byrne’s American Utopia Returning to Broadway this Fall
After plans for a 2020 run were called off, David Byrne’s American Utopia stage show is finally returning to Broadway this fall. The massive six-month run will begin September 17th at its new location, the St. James Theatre — the same venue hosting Bruce Springsteen’s own Broadway revival this summer. Based on Byrne’s 2018 album of the same name, American Utopia initially opened in October 2019. On stage, Byrne is joined by an 11-piece mobile ensemble playing songs from American Utopia, other tracks from his solo catalog, and Talking Heads material. Annie-B Parson, who worked with Byrne on his preceding “American Utopia Tour”, scripted the show’s staging and choreography. In a statement, Byrne celebrated the return: “It is with great pleasure that finally, after a year+ like no o...
Springsteen on Broadway Off-Limits to Fans Vaccinated with AstraZeneca
As the world slouches towards normalcy, seemingly-small decisions about COVID-19 protocols are having surprising impacts on people’s lives. As the latest example, Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming revival of his Tony Award-winning show Springsteen on Broadway has announced that audience members must have received an FDA-approved vaccine, which makes it off-limits to people in other countries who got the AstraZeneca jab. So far, the US Food and Drug Administration has provided emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for three vaccines: Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Johnson & Johnson. AstraZeneca has sought an EUA, but in April the FDA asked for extra data amid evidence that the vaccine was linked to rare occurrences of blood clots. A similar issue led to an 11-day pause on the Joh...
Lin-Manuel Miranda & ‘Tonight Show’ to Welcome Back Broadway With Theater All-Stars: Exclusive
The Broadway celebration will include music from The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Dear Evan Hansen, West Side Story, The Lion King, Book of Mormon, Wicked and many more classic shows — including, of course, Miranda’s blockbuster hit Hamilton. Also along for the ride for the first time this week is a packed studio audience inside 30 Rock, after a year-plus of remote shows followed by audience-free tapings in the studio. Another Miranda production, In the Heights, is hitting the big screen this weekend, starring Anthony Ramos as Usnavi de la Vega, the role originated by Miranda himself on Broadway in 2008. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating...
