Musical Theatre FactoryTune In Tuesdays continues on May 5 with Douglas Lyons and Ethan Pakchar’s BEAU.BEAU had a rousing launch production at the 25th season of the Adirondack Theatre Festival last year after development with MTF, The Directors Company, Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theatre Company and Bucks County Playhouse.
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With theatres dark for the time being, casting directors are getting creative and encouraging performers to participate in video auditions. Here’s a selection of upcoming Equity auditions around America, in chronological order according to submission deadlines.
CURIOUS THEATRE 2020-2021 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/01/2020)
OKLAHOMA! (SETA TOUR)
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/06/2020)
PARAMOUNT THEATRE 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE 05.06.20)
VICTORY GARDENS 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE 05.06.20)
REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE 05.11.20)
BORDERS I & II
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/12/2020)
MARYS SEACOLE
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/12/2020)
THE NICETIES
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 05/12/2020)
MAN CAVE
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.13.20)
MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE 20-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.14.20)
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE 2020-21 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSION (DEADLINE: 05/15/2020)
CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER 2020-2021 SEASON
EQUITY VIDEO AUDITIONS (DEADLINE 05.15.20)
AS YOU LIKE IT
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.18.20)
BLOOD BROTHERS
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.18.20)
KPOP (BROADWAY)
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE 05.22.20)
NATIVE GARDENS
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS (05.23.20)
ARC STAGES 20-21 SEASON
NYC EPA (06.15.20)
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
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Theatre Under The Starsannounced the winners of the2020 Tommy Tune Awardsduring an online event this evening that streamed on bothFacebookandYouTube.
1899 Happy birthday Edward Kennedy Ellington, who, taking the surname “Duke,” becomes one of the 20th century’s most important musician-composers. He writes the scores for the Broadway musicals Beggar’s Holiday and Pousse-Cafe, and his songs are later used in the hit revue Sophisticated Ladies, and the Twelfth Night-inspired musical Play On!
1919 Celeste Holm is born in New York City. She never says no as Ado Annie in the original 1943 production of Oklahoma! and acts in films as everybody’s witty and wise best friend.
1940 Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne head the cast in Robert E. Sherwood‘s There Shall Be No Night. The drama describes the courage of the Finns recently overrun by Russian invaders. It plays 181 performances at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway, and wins the Pulitzer Prize.
1966 Paula Strasberg, an early member of the Actors Studio (with husband Lee) and a drama coach, dies at age 55.
1968 This is the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” when Hair opens on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre. James Rado and Gerome Ragni wrote the book and lyrics for the Galt MacDermot musical. The production runs four years, for a total of 1,750 performances.
1992 William Finn and James Lapine combine March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland into one musical, which they call Falsettos. Opening on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, it stars Stephen Bogardus as Whizzer, Michael Rupert as Marvin, and Chip Zien as Mendel. Finn wins the Tony Award for Best Score, and Finn and Lapine win for Best Book. It runs 486 performances.
1996 It’s “No Day But Today” for the cast of the Broadway sensation Rent, opening at the Nederlander Theatre. Michael Greif directs the musical that makes names for such actors as Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Taye Diggs, and Idina Menzel. Written by Jonathan Larson, the show plays 5,123 performances on Broadway, and wins many awards including the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Larson sadly never saw any of the success that his musical brought, having died in January 1996 of an aortic aneurysm.
1997 Leonard Bernstein‘s musical Candide is revived on Broadway by director Harold Prince. The show, based on the 1759 novel Candide by Voltaire, features Jim Dale, Andrea Martin, and Harolyn Blackwell. Unlike Prince’s long-running 1974 Broadway revival, this production runs only 104 performances.
2001 Two-time Pulitzer winner August Wilson continues his epic chronicle of 20th century African-American life when King Hedley II opens on Broadway. Two Tony-winning musical comedy stars take on dramatic roles in the play: Brian Stokes Mitchell and Leslie Uggams.
2002 Broadway and TV comedian Carol Burnett makes her debut as a playwright when Hollywood Arms, co-written with her daughter Carrie Hamilton, opens at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. It transfers to Broadway in October 2002.
2006 Rent celebrates its 10th anniversary on Broadway with a reunion event at the Nederlander Theatre.
2009 The first Broadway revival of Samson Raphaelson‘s 1934 romantic comedy Accent on Youth opens at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. David Hyde Pierce portrays a playwright who finds fresh inspiration in a pretty young secretary in the Manhattan Theatre Club production, directed by Daniel Sullivan.
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Need a Disney sing-a-long to get you through the day Broadway favorite Susan Egan is here to help Watch as thethe original voice of Meg, sings the Hercules classic ‘I Won’t Say I’m In Love’ from home, with the help of her Broadway Princess Party pals- Courtney Reed, Laura Osnes,Adam J. Levy and Benjamin Rauhala.
Cherry Artists’ Collective, based out of Ithaca, New York, will premiere a new work of international theatre created specifically to be live streamed. Written in collaboration with six playwrights from around the world, the new piece, titled Felt Sad, Posted a Frog (and other streams of global quarantine), will go live May 1–9.
Sliding scale tickets start at $15 and can be purchased by clicking here. Confirmations will be sent by email followed by an exclusive link to the live stream, which will be sent an hour before performance time.
Felt Sad, Posted a Frog is co-directed by Artistic Director Samuel Buggeln and Collective member Beth F. Milles. The writers are Iva Brdar from Belgrade, Serbia; Jorgelina Cerritos from San Salvador, El Salvador; Rebekka Kricheldorf from Berlin, Germany; Santiago Loza from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Saviana Stanescu from Bucharest, Romania and New York; and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon from New York.
The new work, which is performed in English, explores interactions and relationships as they play out on global screens in a time of danger. The translations are by Neil Blackadder, Buggeln, and Ana Brdar.
“Since 2014 the Cherry has been making theatre by our watchwords ‘radically global, radically local, formally innovative’. We’ve created productions with writers from Serbia, France, Germany, Argentina, El Salvador, and Quebec, as well as experimental new works based in our histories of upstate New York,” says CAC’s artistic director Buggeln. “This tough current moment is a paradox: a time of forced isolation that is bringing people from vastly different places into common(-ish) experience. The Cherry is humbled and grateful for the opportunity to bring together theatermakers’ voices from around the world, to muse in their very different ways on the days we are all living through.”
To learn more about Cherry Artists’ Collective, visit TheCherry.org.
The Emmy and Golden Globe winner, known for her long-running variety series The Carol Burnett Show, made her Broadway debut in Once Upon a Mattress in 1959, originating the role Princess Winnifred. She returned five years in Fade Out – Fade In as Hope Springfield in 1964.
With a booming career on screen, Burnett would not return to the Great White Way until three decades later, starring in Moon Over Buffalo in 1995. Four years later, Burnett took the Broadway stage again in Putting It Together, a revue of Stephen Sondheim’s work. Burnett was last seen on Broadway in 2014 in Love Letters, A.R. Gurney’s two-character play following a relationship through written correspondences.
In addition to her time on Broadway as a performer, the special Tony Award recipient made her playwriting debut with 2002’s Hollywood Arms, an adaptation of Burnett’s memoir.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies is now streaming through the weekend, as part of The Shows Must Go On We’re celebrating the streaming production with a flashback to the show’s journey.
