From award-winning author and director John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shrill Anthem is an edgy anthology series produced by TOPIC Missing Richard Simmons that tells a unique American story through a distinct musical voice.
It’s time to rock out because this week marks the tenth anniversary of the Tony-nominated musical Rock of Agesopening and bringing the Sunset Strip to Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre To celebrate the occasion, we’re throwing it back to that rocking night as Constantine Maroulis, Amy Spanger, Wesley Taylor, and more took their first bows Check out all the footage below
As the Tony-winning Broadway production of Kinky Boots prepares to close April 7, we’re taking a look back at the musical’s original Broadway cast. When the show opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4, 2013, the cast featured Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, and Billy Porter, who went on to win the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as the fierce, fabulous drag queen Lola.
The musical, which centers on the unlikely partnership between a young man who inherits his father’s down-on-its-luck shoe factory and a London drag queen in need of some stronger stillettos, also took home the Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as Tonys for Cyndi Lauper’s score, Jerry Mitchell’s choreography, and John Shivers‘ sound design.
The show has gone on to enjoy a successful six year run and has had productions in London, Australia, and Canada, a national tour, and an international tour that played Japan, Korea, and more.
Flip through photos of the original Broadway cast below:
Just yesterday, Alex Brightmanlaunched It’s Game Showtime, a live game show hosted by members of the BEETLEJUICE cast every Tuesday during preview performances outside the Winter Garden Theatre Box Office. It’s Game Showtime is part of BEETLEJUICE’s weekly lottery that opens at 5pm, and at 530pm, two lucky lottery entrants will be chosen to compete in It’s Game Showtime, a trivia game based on all things BEETLEJUICE. The winnergets a pair of tickets to that evening’s performance of BEETLEJUICE on Broadway, and the runner-up hasthe chance to purchase two specially priced 33.33 tickets for the performance.
As part of its partnership with BMG and licensing agency Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Lively McCabe Entertainment is developing three new musicals that will use music from the BMG catalog. The projects, set to premiere in 2020, are a country musical, a 1980s New Wave project, and a story about Mrs. Claus featuring contemporary pop hits.
The first of the projects, titled May We All, will tell the story of disappearing small-town America as seen through the hopeful eyes of its youth. Featuring a book by Troy Britton Johnson and Todd Johnson, the country musical will use songs from Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Faith Hill, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and featuring the title song by Florida Georgia Line and Tim McGraw.
An untitled New Wave Project will tell the story of two young New York City DJs who set off a music revolution in the 1980s. The new musical is conceived and written by Michael Kimmel (Songbird, The Last Goodbye), with arrangements and orchestrations by Kris Kukul (Beetlejuice, The Last Goodbye). The show will draw from the catalogs of Tears For Fears, Billy Idol, Simple Minds, Devo, Culture Club, and many more.
Rounding out the slate will be What A Wonderful World. Set in mid-20th-century New York, the musical comedy by Jeremy Desmon will tell the story of Mrs. Claus, the star behind modern-day Santa Claus. The musical will feature a score of contemporary pop hits arranged in an old-school “Nouveau Vintage”-style by arranger and orchestrator Jesse Vargas.
The three new projects join the existing developmental slate: Hey There, Delilah, a TV musical project in partnership with Plain White Ts; the new Joe Iconis musical Punk Rock Girl (a collaboration with BMG and R&H Theatricals); and the musical stage adaptation of Mystic Pizza (featuring songs by Melissa Etheridge, in partnership with MGM and Concord Theatricals).
Full casting has been announced for the American premiere of INK, written by Olivier Award winner James Graham Labour of Love, Privacy, Finding Neverland and directed by two-time Olivier Award winner, Tony and BAFTA Award nominee Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Rupert Goold King Charles III.