Krysta Rodriguezmakes her long-awaited Feinstein’s54 Below solo debut andhas debuteda brand new medley exploring career highlights from her time in Broadway shows including Spring Awakening, First Date, The Addams Family, In the Heights, A Chorus Line and more
Telly Leung, who recently concluded a 20-month Broadway run in the title role of Disney’s Aladdin, will return to the Green Room 42 with his popular nightclub act Sing Happy on September 26 at 7 PM.
Leung will take audiences through his personal journey from Brooklyn to Broadway, performing material by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Alan Menken, George and Ira Gershwin, and Cole Porter.
READ: How Every Broadway Role Has Led Telly Leung to Playing Disney’s Aladdin
Gary Adler (Altarboyz) is music director for Sing Happy, which features direction by
Alan Muraoka (Pacific Overtures, Miss Saigon).
Leung’s Broadway credits also include the musicals In Transit and Allegiance, the revivals of Flower Drum Song and Pacific Overtures, and the final Broadway company of Rent. He originated the role of Boq in the Chicago production of Wicked and played Dalton Academy Warbler Wes on Fox’s Glee. New York State of Mind: The Remixes —Telly Leung + DRWM was recently released and is available for download on iTunes and to stream on Spotify/Apple Music.
For tickets, visit TheGreenRoom42.com.
Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell will make his LA Opera debut in the company’s upcoming production ofThe Light in the Piazza.
Tony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will make his LA Opera debut in the company’s upcoming production of The Light in the Piazza, which will be presented October 12–20.
Mitchell will take on the role of Signor Naccarelli, playing opposite Tony-nominated soprano Renée Fleming and Dove Cameron as Margaret and Clara Johnson, respectively. Fleming and Cameron previously played those roles in the U.K. at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in June; the former will go on to reprise her work in Chicago and Australia.
READ: The Light in the Piazza, Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof and The Secret Garden Will Play Australia
With a Tony-winning score by Adam Guettel and a Tony-nominated book by Craig Lucas, The Light in the Piazza premiered on Broadway in 2005.
Mitchell received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his performance in Kiss Me, Kate. He also received Tony nominations for his performances in Man of La Mancha, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, and Ragtime, and he was recently inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Other notable Broadway shows include Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jelly’s Last Jam, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. In 2016, Mitchell returned to Broadway in Shuffle Along and received his most recent Tony Award for his work as Chairman of the Board of the Actors Fund.
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1915 Fanny Brice is reviewed in Variety for her performance at the Palace. Variety says that when she “learns to refrain from starting to disrobe before she is out of sight of the audience, her new act will be a step—several of them, in fact—in the right direction.”
1942 Josephine Bentham and Herschel Williams‘ comedy Janie begins a 642-performance run at Henry Miller’s Theatre. Antoinette Perry directs the play about three teenage girls who throw a secret party for soldiers at a neighboring army camp.
1959 The Crooked Mile opens at London’s Cambridge Theatre. There are 164 performances of the musical by Peter Wildblood. The tale of two Soho street gangs stars Millicent Martin and Elisabeth Welch.
2000 Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Cats closes on Broadway after nearly 18 years and 7,485 performances. The final performance is held at 6 PM for an invitation-only audience. It keeps its position as the longest-running show in Broadway history for just six years, before being overtaken by another Lloyd Webber show, The Phantom of the Opera. Cats returns to Broadway sixteen years later, in a revival starring Leona Lewis as Grizabella.
2001 Mandy Patinkin kicks off his Kidults concert tour at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway.
2002 The first national tour of The Producers launches in Pittsburgh, starring Lewis J. Stadlen and Don Stephenson as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom.
2012 Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan‘s musical Chaplin, depicting the life of screen legend Charlie Chaplin and chronicling the rise and fall of the infamous Little Tramp, opens on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre for a 135 performance run. Rob McClure stars in the title role, opposite Erin Mackey as wife Oona O’Neil, Christiane Noll as mother Hannah Chaplin, and Jenn Colella as villainous gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.
2016 Fun Home, Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron‘s Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, closes on Broadway after 582 performances.
Today’s Birthdays: Thomas Jefferson 1856. Adele Astaire 1896. Brian Murray 1937. Harry Groener 1951. Amy Irving 1953. Kate Burton 1957. Jeff Marx 1970. Misty Copeland 1982.
Watch highlights from the 2012 Broadway production of Chaplin:
The Broadway League, with the support of the New York City Department of Education DOE and the United Federation of Teachers UFT, has announced 15 participating shows for the fall 2019 season of Broadway Bridges.