Musicals
In this episode of PLAY BY PLAY, Patrick Pacheco and Frank DiLella sit down with Broadway's Charl Brown to talk about his Tony-nominated performance as Smokey Robinson in "Motown The Musical."Penned by Motown founder Berry Gordy, the box office hit...
In this episode of PLAY BY PLAY, Patrick Pacheco and Frank DiLella sit down with Broadway's Annaleigh Ashford to talk about her Tony-nominated performance in "Kinky Boots." Penned by Harvey Fierstein with a score by Cyndi Lauper, the musical about a drag...
At one point in the development of “Matilda, the Musical,” the new Broadway smash hit, Bertie Carvel, who plays the villainous headmistress of Crunchem Hall, asked the show’s director, Matthew Warchus, if he might have a hammer and chisel to play with. While...
“If a totalitarian regime was going to have a sound, it would be club music,” says Alex Timbers. “All presided over by a DJ on high, one man controlling everything you did.” The hot young director (“Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson,” “Rocky, Das Musical”) has...
British singer Sarah Brightman hopes to become the first professional artist to record a single in space.Brightman, who rose to fame starring in the original London and New York casts of "The Phantom of the Opera", plans to be the next paying...
Based on an obscure 1997 documentary of the same name, “Hands on a Hardbody” opened late last month at Broadway’s Brook Atkinson Theater. Pulitzer and Tony-Award winning playwright Doug Wright drew from his Texas roots when creating the book for this new...
The pages of the wildly popular book "Fifty Shades of Grey" have now been set to music and given a humorous twist for a new off-Broadway production called "Cuff Me: The Fifty Shades of Grey Musical Parody".The musical is the brainchild of...
Despite receiving a mixed critical response, Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" has smashed the record for single-day West End ticket sales, according to British media."Mormon", the brainchild of "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, sold more...
Linda Eder, his ex-wife and one-time muse, calls it his “unhealthy obsession with Broadway.” His associates in the pop recording world think he’s nuts. But composer Frank Wildhorn, as passionate about baseball as he is about theater, says...
For the saccharine-averse, the holidays can be a tough time. All that caroling, enforced cheer, and dangerous sugar levels. So why drop hundreds of dollars on an onstage Christmas show? Well, for one, most are smart enough to introduce a villain...
