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BROADWAY NOTES: JULY 30, 2008

BROADWAY NOTES: July 30, 2008
 

  
This Thursday, July 31st, Bryant Park will be flooded Under the Sea!  Join us at Broadway in Bryant Park at 12:30pm to catch Sierra Boggess, Tituss Burgess, Brian D’Addario and others from the cast of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID performing “Part of Your World,” “Under the Sea” and “She’s in Love!” [...]

BC/EFA FEATURED IN VARIETY

BROADWAY CARES/ EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS
FEATURED IN VARIETY
CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE
 
Tony Awardâ-wining actress Anika Noni Rose (Caroline, or Change; Dreamgirls) recently spoke to Variety’s Robert Hofler about working with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the assistance BC/EFA provides.
 
The feature was a part of Variety’s annual Philanthropy Report currently on newstands.
 
Below is an excerpt of [...]

BRIGADOON POSTPONES DUE TO BROADWAY THEATRE AVAILABILITY

BRIGADOON POSTPONES
DUE TO BROADWAY THEATRE AVAILABILITY
 
The new production of Lerner and Loewe’s BRIGADOON, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford and scheduled to play in Boston this fall, prior to a Broadway opening, has been postponed.  The delay is due to the lack of an appropriate Broadway theatre in Spring, 2009. 
 
BRIGADOON is produced by Ostar [...]

SPAMALOT INVADES EDMONTON

 
MONTY PYTHON’S
SPAMALOT
INVADES EDMONTON!
 
PERFORMANCES BEGIN TONIGHT, JULY 29TH      
AT THE NORTHERN ALBERTA
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM
 
 
MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT continues making history across the United States, as the National Tour begins performances tonight, Tuesday, July 29th in Edmonton, AB at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
 
Click on the links below to see what Edmonton, AB has to say about [...]

JERSEY BOYS DAZZLES DALLAS

DALLAS DAZZLED BY
JERSEY BOYS
 
JERSEY BOYS, the Tony® and Grammy® award winning Best Musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, opened to critical acclaim on Friday, July 25 in Dallas at Fair Park Music Hall where it will play through August 16, 2008.
 
Below are links to some of the reviews:
 
THE DALLAS [...]

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS FEATURED IN THE DAILY NEWS

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience  
DAILY NEWS FEATURE
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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN – July 30th to August 3rd
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – Sunday, July 27, 2008
REX & THE CITY – ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ stomps into Madison Square Garden
By Nicole Lyn Pesce
Forget the CGI wanna-bes from “Journey to the Center of [...]

MAMMA MIA! FEATURED IN WEEKLY VARIETY

MAMMA MIA!
 
WEEKLY VARIETY FEATURE
 
Click below to read the feature:
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=bio&peopleID=2930
 
July 28 – August 3, 2008 Issue On Stands Now
 
Film lays its love on ‘Mamma Mia!’ – Adaptation a super trooper for Broadway, road
 
By Gordon Cox
 
At first glance, it doesn’t look like the Broadway production of “Mamma Mia!” has a lot to gain from the movie version [...]

MAMMA MIA! DOMINATES STAGE AND SCREEN

MAMMA MIA! MANIA CONTINUES!
 
BROADWAY SETTLED IN MILLION DOLLAR CLUB
$1,022,164. (Weekly Gross)
 
ABBA TOPS MUSIC CHARTS AROUND THE WORLD
 
FILM HIGHEST GROSSING MOVIE MUSICAL OPENING EVER
 
The Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus‘ global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, settled into the Million Dollar Club last week grossing $1,022,164. for 8 performances ending July 27th, and topping the [...]

THE 39 STEPS ON BROADWAY.COM

http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=569164
 
Sam Robards
by Kimberly Kaye
Broadway.com
 
Sam Robards just can’t stay out of trouble. First, his character on TV’s hot series Gossip Girl began dabbling in narcotics and wound up in jail. And now Robards is on the run from British authorities eight times a week at the Cort Theatre, replacing Charles Edwards as the mustachioed Richard [...]

LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/theater/28prai.html?_r=1&ref=theater&oref=slogin
Ma, Pa and Half Pint Now Sing on That Prairie
By PATRICK HEALY
The New York Times
July 28, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS – Laura, Nellie and Almanzo. Charles and Caroline Ingalls. The wide open land, the unforgiving climate, the death of a baby boy. The characters and stories of “Little House on the Prairie” have delighted readers and [...]