West End and Broadway star Elaine Paige today launches the 24-Hour Song Challenge by challenging The Showstoppers to compose her a musical theatre song in just 24 hours.
When New York Fashion Week hit Manhattan, Broadway got a little taste of glamour, as well. For the first time, on November 19, 2019, a Broadway show (Moulin Rouge!) collaborated with fashion designers Phillipe and David Blond for a runway show. Members of the cast of the Broadway hit musical showcased looks by The Blonds.
But before they took to the runway, make-up designer Sarah Simini and Kabuki highlighted the beauty secrets behind Moulin Rouge!, using MAC makeup products. They demonstrated some of the signature make-up from the show in a master class, before joining in a panel with The Blonds, Kelly Bales, and producer Bill Damaschke.
Take a sneak peek at the event in the video above, or watch the full master class with makeup tips in the video below.
Tonight, Stokes returned to give fans on an update on his condition, letting them know that he is happily four days symptom and medication free
Of all the power moves we have thus seen on Smash, the only one that could outclass throwing a martini into an ex’s face is Tom’s, “Call Liza.”
See, Liza’s gonna fix his relationship with Ivy, which is on the rocks because he hired the woman Ivy’s spent her entire career trying to escape to play her mother—which promptly ends up in Michael Riedel’s column. (Poor Ivy, first her Heaven on Earth meltdown, now she’s back in the papers for more terrible reasons.) And Tom, as we know, is desperate for things to remain the same as ever they were and for everyone to like him. (Funny, he had no qualms about Derek disliking him.)
Also, they’re in tech but Tom has enough time to call Liza to prepare a special birthday surprise for Ivy? Remember when Karen couldn’t even accept a proposal? Not only that, but Julia is off downtown, working on Hit List as a dramaturg. “You know my feelings about that,” she demurs. But how can she resist the chance to make it up to Jesse L. Martin? Plus she gets to flirt with him some more, in front of an audience (just Kyle, but still!). They bicker about her Amelia Earhart play (!) with all the flashbacks (!!), then Jesse L. Martin admits that he had a bit of a thing for Julia back in the day (!!!).
“I’ve been thinking,” Karen says to Jimmy during a wardrobe room makeout sesh. “You shouldn’t do that,” he whispers. Red flag, girl. She wants to make their relationship public; Jimmy, however, is more concerned with protecting her from his Past.
At Table 46 (I was about to make a crack about how often they go, then I remember that I am typically greeted with my cocktail of choice as soon as I walk into Glass House, so scratch that), Tom has supplied Ivy with a birthday surprise: A brand-new song, sung directly to her by Liza Minnelli. It’s so good, Eileen has a martini in front of her and doesn’t do anything but drink it, even when Michael Riedel sidles up to sow discontent.
Of course then Tom follows Ivy home to give her back her keys and finds her at her birthday party (at Gusto’s! I used to sit outside and drink gin and eat fried green olives there) and he’s… upset? Tom. If you’re the boss, you don’t get to be friends with your employees all the time. As usual, Ivy has to tell some man how things work. Do you think she ever gets tired of it?
Oh, and in terms of Hit List: Derek storms out of rehearsal; Karen stands up for herself with Derek and Jimmy; Jimmy alludes darkly to his Past and yells at Derek. And Kyle figures out the structure of Hit List with (?) Julia. Or perhaps he does it on his own after she gives him index cards and a corkboard.
And as the night grows late, Jimmy stops by Karen’s apartment to take her on a real date (she finds drugs in his jacket pocket!), and Derek stops by Gusto’s to wish Ivy a. happy birthday. On again.
BroadwayWorld has already shared a list of songs to keep you inspired during these trying times, as well as exclusive daily content from some of your favorite Broadway stars. Now, we’re bringing you some musical inspiration straight from the stars themselves What are they listening to to stay sane Find out below
Tony Award winner Celia Keenan-Bolger, her former To Kill a Mockingbird co-star Tony nominee Gideon Glick, and writer Victoria Myers teamed up to launch #BroadwayFeedsBellevue, a campaign to supply meal sponsorships for medical professionals working at Bellevue Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. The initiative kicked off April 3.
The initiative solicits donations for a virtual meal train. The team uses the donations to order meals from local restaurants, which have been suffering due to the pandemic, and send the meals to Bellevue for night shift workers who need to provide their own meals. The establishments currently participating in the meal train are Westville, Ruby’s, Taim, and Village Den.
Bellevue is the oldest public hospital in the United States and one of the largest in the nation. This food feeds those laboring on the front lines.
In the first 24 hours of the meal train’s activation, #BroadwayFeedsBellevue raised nearly $30,000 with donations from Broadway and beyond. Donors include Lin Manuel-Miranda, Rachel Brosnahan, Kelli O’Hara, Stephanie Block and Sebastian Arcelus, Caissie Levy, Patti Murin and Colin Donnell, Laura Benanti, Cynthia Nixon, Zachary Quinto, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Ashley Park, Arian Moayed, Judith Light, Andrew Rannells, Benj Pasek, Christopher Hanke, Brandon Uranowitz, Bartlett Sher, Michael Urie, Ari Graynor, Leigh Silverman, Jeanine Tesori, among others.
Sign up to sponsor a meal here. Each meal sponsorship (food for workers for one night) is $150, however, no donation is too small and the team will combine multiple small donations to fund a meal.
Follies first opened at the Winter Garden on April 4, 1971, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, with choreography by Bennett. Follies earned seven 1972 Tony Awards and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical.
The show, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, ran for over 500 performances with a cast that included Dorothy Collins, John McMartin, Alexis Smith, Gene Nelson, Yvonne De Carlo, Fifi D’Orsay, and Graciela Daniele. It has been revived on Broadway twice: first in 2001 with a production that opened 30 years and one day after the original starring Judith Ivey, Blythe Danner, Gregory Harrison, and Treat Williams, and then in 2011, starring Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Ron Raines, and Danny Burstein.
Read the 1971 Playbill in the Vault.
Composer Frank Wildhorn posted the first in series of home concerts he will be sharing while theatre fans are social distancing at home.
