When the 77th Tony Awards nominations are announced this morning, those honored with recognition will have been selected by a small group of theatre professionals who commit to seeing each and every eligible production that opened during the 2023-2024 season. They are thus able to make informed decisions on what shows, performers and creatives should earn the spotlight of New York theatre’s top honor.
This past season, 60 theatre professionals saw all 36 eligible musicals, play, and revivals and will select the nominees in 26 competitive categories.
Below, see a complete list of the 2023-2024 Tony Awards nominating committee members, including their professions plus past Tony nominations and wins. Some of these nominators may have to recuse themselves prior to voting if they have a conflict, such as if a production that they worked is eligible for a nomination this year.
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This past season, 60 theatre professionals saw all 36 eligible musicals, play, and revivals and will select the nominees in 26 competitive categories.
Below, see a complete list of the 2023-2024 Tony Awards nominating committee members, including their professions plus past Tony nominations and wins. Some of these nominators may have to recuse themselves prior to voting if they have a conflict, such as if a production that they worked is eligible for a nomination this year.
Watch 2024 Tony Awards nominations slugfest: Final predictions in 17 competitive categories
Warren Adams,...
- 4/30/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Ain’t No Mo star and playwright Jordan E. Cooper, Kpop composer Helen Park, and Ojibwe and Oneida performance artist Ty Defoe are among the new members of the Tony Award nominating committee.
The trio are among 25 new members of the 2023-2024 committee announced today by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Other newcomers include Dear Evan Hansen composer Benj Pasek, writer-director Miranda Haymon, actors Jason Tam, Bob Balaban and Adam Chanler-Berat, and Flying Over Sunset lyricist Michael Korie.
The 2023-2024 committee of the Tony nominators will include 60 members, each of whom serve a three-year term. The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
The 2023-2024 Nominating Committee includes:
Warren Adams – Director/Choreographer/Producer
Becky Ann Baker – Actor
Bob Balaban** – Actor/Producer/Director/Writer
Pun Bandhu – Actor/Producer
Danielle Barlow** – Theatre Administrator
Sarah Benson** – Director
Rick Boynton** – Creative Producer, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Christopher Burney – Producer...
The trio are among 25 new members of the 2023-2024 committee announced today by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Other newcomers include Dear Evan Hansen composer Benj Pasek, writer-director Miranda Haymon, actors Jason Tam, Bob Balaban and Adam Chanler-Berat, and Flying Over Sunset lyricist Michael Korie.
The 2023-2024 committee of the Tony nominators will include 60 members, each of whom serve a three-year term. The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
The 2023-2024 Nominating Committee includes:
Warren Adams – Director/Choreographer/Producer
Becky Ann Baker – Actor
Bob Balaban** – Actor/Producer/Director/Writer
Pun Bandhu – Actor/Producer
Danielle Barlow** – Theatre Administrator
Sarah Benson** – Director
Rick Boynton** – Creative Producer, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Christopher Burney – Producer...
- 7/10/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Tony Awards has added new members to its nominating committee, including Ain’t No Mo star and playwright Jordan E. Cooper and Kpop composer Helen Park, who have both been outspoken about the need for change within the industry.
Other new members joining for the 2023-2024 Broadway season include The Greatest Showman and Dear Evan Hansen songwriter Benj Pasek, actor Bob Balaban, actor and playwright Adam Chanler-Berat, interdisciplinary artist Ty Defoe and director Miranda Haymon.
The Tony Awards nominating committee is typically younger and more diverse than the larger Tony Awards voting body. However, the addition of Cooper and Park is particularly notable, as both had shows this past season that posted early closing notices and have spoken out about the need for Broadway to improve how it markets to and welcomes diverse audiences (Kpop is about competing Korean pop bands, while Ain’t No Mo’ follows a series...
Other new members joining for the 2023-2024 Broadway season include The Greatest Showman and Dear Evan Hansen songwriter Benj Pasek, actor Bob Balaban, actor and playwright Adam Chanler-Berat, interdisciplinary artist Ty Defoe and director Miranda Haymon.
The Tony Awards nominating committee is typically younger and more diverse than the larger Tony Awards voting body. However, the addition of Cooper and Park is particularly notable, as both had shows this past season that posted early closing notices and have spoken out about the need for Broadway to improve how it markets to and welcomes diverse audiences (Kpop is about competing Korean pop bands, while Ain’t No Mo’ follows a series...
- 7/10/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Patrick Herold, who served as Partner and Head of Theater at ICM Partners for nearly two decades, has moved to UTA as an agent in the Theatre division. He will be based in New York and report to Partner & Head of Theatre, Mark Subias. Herold is the latest ICM agent to leave following the agency’s acquisition by CAA.
Herold brings with him a stellar roster of long-term clients including the estates of Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill and Sam Shepard; writers Lisa Kron and Doug Wright; composers Cyndi Lauper and Stephen Trask; and directors Christopher Ashley, Michael Greif and Julie Taymor.
Additionally, his clients, all of whom are expected to join him at UTA, include the estates of Horton Foote, Moss Hart and Wendy Wasserstein; theater luminaries Athol Fugard and John Guare; playwrights Richard Nelson and Paul Rudnick; composers and lyricists Rosanne Cash, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie; directors Walter Bobbie,...
Herold brings with him a stellar roster of long-term clients including the estates of Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill and Sam Shepard; writers Lisa Kron and Doug Wright; composers Cyndi Lauper and Stephen Trask; and directors Christopher Ashley, Michael Greif and Julie Taymor.
Additionally, his clients, all of whom are expected to join him at UTA, include the estates of Horton Foote, Moss Hart and Wendy Wasserstein; theater luminaries Athol Fugard and John Guare; playwrights Richard Nelson and Paul Rudnick; composers and lyricists Rosanne Cash, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie; directors Walter Bobbie,...
- 8/15/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Awards nominations were announced on Monday, May 9 by Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry. While the nominations for the 75th annual Tony Awards were determined by a few dozen theater professionals, winners were decided by upwards of 650 members of the Broadway community.
The Tonys take place June 12 at Radio City Music Hall hosted by newly minted Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. The 2022 Tony Awards winners list below includes all 26 competitive categories.
Musicals
Best Musical
“Girl From the North Country”
“Mj”
“Mr. Saturday Night”
“Paradise Square”
“Six”
X — “A Strange Loop”
Best Musical Revival
“Caroline, or Change”
X — “Company”
“The Music Man”
Best Actor (Musical)
Billy Crystal, “Mr. Saturday Night”
X — Myles Frost, “Mj”
Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man”
Rob McClure, “Mrs. Doubtfire”
Jaquel Spivey, “A Strange Loop”
Best Actress (Musical)
Sharon D Clarke, “Caroline, Or Change”
Carmen Cusack, “Flying Over Sunset”
Sutton Foster, “The Music Man”
X — Joaquina Kalukango, “Paradise Square”
Mare Winningham,...
The Tonys take place June 12 at Radio City Music Hall hosted by newly minted Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. The 2022 Tony Awards winners list below includes all 26 competitive categories.
Musicals
Best Musical
“Girl From the North Country”
“Mj”
“Mr. Saturday Night”
“Paradise Square”
“Six”
X — “A Strange Loop”
Best Musical Revival
“Caroline, or Change”
X — “Company”
“The Music Man”
Best Actor (Musical)
Billy Crystal, “Mr. Saturday Night”
X — Myles Frost, “Mj”
Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man”
Rob McClure, “Mrs. Doubtfire”
Jaquel Spivey, “A Strange Loop”
Best Actress (Musical)
Sharon D Clarke, “Caroline, Or Change”
Carmen Cusack, “Flying Over Sunset”
Sutton Foster, “The Music Man”
X — Joaquina Kalukango, “Paradise Square”
Mare Winningham,...
- 6/12/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
WME has inked stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist James Lapine in all areas.
Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim.
He also directed Merrily We Roll Along, as part of Encores at New York City Center. With William Finn, he teamed on March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, later presented on twice Broadway as Falsettos; A New Brain; Muscle, and Little Miss Sunshine.
He has also directed on Broadway David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child; The Diary of Anne Frank; Michel Legrand’s Amour, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the 2012 revival of Annie, and his stage adaptation of the famous Moss Hart autobiography Act One, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater on the Beaumont stage.
With Frank Rich, he co-produced and also directed the HBO documentary Six...
Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion, and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim.
He also directed Merrily We Roll Along, as part of Encores at New York City Center. With William Finn, he teamed on March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, later presented on twice Broadway as Falsettos; A New Brain; Muscle, and Little Miss Sunshine.
He has also directed on Broadway David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child; The Diary of Anne Frank; Michel Legrand’s Amour, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the 2012 revival of Annie, and his stage adaptation of the famous Moss Hart autobiography Act One, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater on the Beaumont stage.
With Frank Rich, he co-produced and also directed the HBO documentary Six...
- 11/16/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
James Lapine, stage director, playwright, screenwriter and librettist, has signed with WME for representation in all areas.
Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Into the Woods,” “Passion” and “Sondheim on Sondheim.” He has collaborated with William Finn on “March of the Falsettos” and “Falsettoland,” later combined on Broadway as the full-length musical “Falsettos.” Lapine and Finn also worked together on “A New Brain,” “Muscle” and “Little Miss Sunshine.” On Broadway, Lapine also directed David Henry Hwang’s “Golden Child,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “Amour,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” the 2012 revival of “Annie” and “Act One.”
Lapine’s experiences on screen include co-producing and directing the HBO documentary “Six by Sondheim,” writing the film adaptation of “Into the Woods” and writing and directing the film “Custody.” He is the author of the book “Putting it Together: How...
Lapine wrote the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park With George,” “Into the Woods,” “Passion” and “Sondheim on Sondheim.” He has collaborated with William Finn on “March of the Falsettos” and “Falsettoland,” later combined on Broadway as the full-length musical “Falsettos.” Lapine and Finn also worked together on “A New Brain,” “Muscle” and “Little Miss Sunshine.” On Broadway, Lapine also directed David Henry Hwang’s “Golden Child,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “Amour,” “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” the 2012 revival of “Annie” and “Act One.”
Lapine’s experiences on screen include co-producing and directing the HBO documentary “Six by Sondheim,” writing the film adaptation of “Into the Woods” and writing and directing the film “Custody.” He is the author of the book “Putting it Together: How...
- 11/16/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Flying Over Sunset, the new Broadway musical by James Lapine, Tom Kitt and Michael Korie that suspended production March 12, will reopen this fall, Lincoln Center Theater announced today.
Lct also will reopen its new Off Broadway opera Intimate Apparel this fall.
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“We are proud of these shows and the many talented artists who made them,” said Lct artistic director André Bishop, “and we hope and pray that we will reopen them in the Fall. That is our plan. May better times come to us all.”
Both productions suspended performances when theaters were closed on March 12 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in preparation for the coronavirus pandemic.
Lct also will reopen its new Off Broadway opera Intimate Apparel this fall.
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“We are proud of these shows and the many talented artists who made them,” said Lct artistic director André Bishop, “and we hope and pray that we will reopen them in the Fall. That is our plan. May better times come to us all.”
Both productions suspended performances when theaters were closed on March 12 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in preparation for the coronavirus pandemic.
- 3/24/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal composer and arranger Tom Kitt has three New York stage productions on hold during the coronavirus shutdown, a trio of shows at various points in their production lives, spanning the industry’s commercial and non-profit sectors, and representing both Broadway and Off Broadway.
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- 3/23/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Lincoln Center Theater, under the direction of Andr Bishop is producingthe new musicalFLYING Over Sunset during its 2019-2020 season. Flying Over Sunset, with a book and direction by James Lapine, music by Tom Kitt, and lyrics by Michael Korie, will feature choreography by Michelle Dorrance, and will begin previews March 12, 2020 and open on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street. Carmen Cusack, Harry Hadden-Paton and Tony Yazbeck will head the cast.
- 1/7/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lincoln Center Theater, under the direction of Andr Bishop, has announced it will produce a new musical during its 2019-2020 season. Flying Over Sunset, with a book and direction by James Lapine, music by Tom Kitt, and lyrics by Michael Korie, will feature choreography by Michelle Dorrance, and will begin previews March 12, 2020 and open on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 150 West 65 Street. Carmen Cusack, Harry Hadden-Paton and Tony Yazbeck will head the cast with additional casting to be announced at a later date.
- 8/20/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Brave New World author Aldous Huxley, diplomat Clare Booth Luce and movie star Cary Grant now have two things in common: They all tried LSD, and they’ll all be subjects of a Broadway-bound musical being developed by a trio of theater’s most accomplished creators.
Lincoln Center Theater announced today it will produce a new musical in the spring called Flying Over Sunset, with book and direction by frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, music by Tom Kitt (the Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal) and lyrics by Michael Korie (Tony-nominated Grey Gardens). Michelle Dorrance, founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance, will be making her Broadway debut as the choreographer.
Flying Over Sunset will begin previews March 12 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, officially opening April 16, with Carmen Cusack as Booth Luce, Harry Hadden-Paton as Huxley and Tony Yazbeck as Cary Grant.
Lincoln Center Theater announced today it will produce a new musical in the spring called Flying Over Sunset, with book and direction by frequent Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, music by Tom Kitt (the Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal) and lyrics by Michael Korie (Tony-nominated Grey Gardens). Michelle Dorrance, founder and artistic director of Dorrance Dance, will be making her Broadway debut as the choreographer.
Flying Over Sunset will begin previews March 12 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, officially opening April 16, with Carmen Cusack as Booth Luce, Harry Hadden-Paton as Huxley and Tony Yazbeck as Cary Grant.
- 8/20/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Dramatists Guild Foundation celebrated the work of musical writing team Scott Frankel, Michael Korie, and Doug Wright at a salon co hosted by the Core Club on Monday, September 25. The trio spoke about the creation of their musical War Paint in a panel discussion led by Vanity Fair special correspondent, Amy Fine Collins.
- 9/27/2017
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Earlier this week, the 2016-2017 class of Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows presented excerpts of full length works at Playwrights Horizons at 700 Pm. This presentation caps off a year spent working under the tutelage of Michael Korie Grey Gardens, Laurence O' Keefe Heathers, and Diana Son Stop Kiss. BroadwayWorld has photos from the event below...
- 9/20/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
It's not often that listening to a cast album makes one think of Richard Strauss, but such is the genius of Scott Frankel and Michael Korie. The composer-lyricist team best known for the brilliant Grey Gardens is back with War Paint, the story of rival beauty moguls Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. Here both story and emotion are thinner, but the music is gorgeous--Straussian in its elegiac beauty and bell-like notes--and worthy of its two stars, Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, two of the most unique and exciting voices in musical theater. Like a golden-age Hollywood director 'managing' the two stars of a women's picture, the score has to find ways to manage its two leads, giving each an equal role. Ebersole gets an old-fashioned entrance--her Red Door spa staff sings breathlessly, 'She's coming, she's coming...,' bursting into a triumphant 'She's here' LuPone's entrance is less heralded but equally dramatic and separate,...
- 5/30/2017
- by Remy Holzer
- BroadwayWorld.com
Just last night, acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons held itsannual Spring Gala Benefit.This year called A Celebration Of Song, it honoredthree of the company's exceptional alumni writers Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel Grey Gardens, Far From Heaven, Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens, Far From Heaven and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens.BroadwayWorld was on hand for the big night and you can check out photos below...
- 5/9/2017
- by Jessica Fallon Gordon
- BroadwayWorld.com
Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons will hold its annual Spring Gala on Monday evening, May 8, at the event space 583 Park Avenue. Titled A Celebration Of Song, the evening will honor three of the company's exceptional alumni writers Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven at Playwrights, Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven at Playwrights and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife and Grey Gardens at Playwrights. The Grey Gardens writing team has returned to Broadway with their new musical, War Paint, now playing at The Nederlander Theatre.
- 5/5/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ryan Murphy had it easy with his new FX series “Feud.” Bette Davis and Joan Crawford actually met face to face and, hating every minute of it, made a movie together, “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” Broadway’s Doug Wright, Scott Frankel, and Michael Korie have given themselves a much tougher task with their new feud musical, “War Paint,” which opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre. Cosmetics titans Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden set up shops near each other in Manhattan during the Depression, but never met during their long reign over the world of lipstick, facials, and nail polish.
- 4/7/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizonswill hold its annual Spring Gala on Monday evening, May 8 at the event space 583 Park Avenue. Titled A Celebration Of Song, the evening will honor three of the company's exceptional alumni writers Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven at Playwrights, Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven at Playwrights and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Doug Wright I Am My Own Wife and Grey Gardens at Playwrights.
- 2/9/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Just last month, Works amp Process at the Guggenheim offereda behind-the-scenes look at War Paint, the new musical by librettist Doug Wright, composer Scott Frankel, lyricist Michael Korie, and director Michael Greif in advance of the Broadway opening on April 6, 2017. Two-time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole star as America's first major female entrepreneurs and relentless and legendary rivals, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. LuPone and Ebersole joined the creative team for a moderated discussion and performance excerpts with moderator Amy Fine Collins, Vanity Fair special correspondent.
- 2/7/2017
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Tony winners Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole will duke it out on Broadway this spring as rival cosmetics titans in the new musical “War Paint,” producers announced Thursday. The show, which had a sold-out trial run at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre this summer, will begin previews on March 7, 2017, in advance of an official opening on April 6 at the Nederlander Theatre. The score is by composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, whose previous credits include “Grey Gardens” and “Far From Heaven,” with a book by Tony winner Doug Wright. Michael Greif (“Rent,” “Grey Gardens”) will direct. Also Read: 'Oh,...
- 10/13/2016
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
They were the brand name on every woman's lips. Goodman Theatre announces it will produce the world premiere of War Paint, a new musical that charts the ascent and arch-rivalry of cosmetics entrepreneurs Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. Patti LuPone, who generates more raw excitement than any other performer on Broadway The New York Times, and Christine Ebersole, a first-class, revitalizing master of period style The New York Times, respectively star as Rubinstein and Arden, the brilliant innovators with humble roots who shrewdly navigated the 1930s male-dominated business world to forever change the business of beauty. Directed by Michael Greif Rent, Next to Normal, IfThen, Grey Gardens, War Paint reunites Scott Frankel and Michael Korie-the acclaimed composer and lyricist team of Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven-with Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright Grey Gardens, I Am My Own Wife, The Little Mermaid. The musical is inspired by the book,...
- 11/12/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2006, Grey Gardens opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 307 performances. Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale 'Big Edie' and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale 'Little Edie' by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations.
- 11/2/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Just in BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at highlights of Grey Gardens Bay Street Theater presents Tony Award winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York as Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, the musical, now running through August 30 with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie. Michael Wilsondirects. For tickets, call the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500 or online at www.baystreet.org. Check out a first look at highlights of the show below...
- 8/24/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bay Street Theater presentsTony Award winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York as Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, the musical, beginning tomorrow, August 4, where it will run through August30 with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie. Michael Wilson directs. For tickets, call the Bay Street Theater Box Office at631-725-9500or online atwww.baystreet.org.
- 8/3/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago, which opened at the Broadway Theatre on April 21st, 2015, recorded its cast album on Thursday, May 28th. Authors include composer Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyricists Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Amy Powers the two multi-platinum Sunset Boulevard hits and book writer Michael Weller screenwriter for Hair and Ragtime. Check out photos from the recording session below...
- 5/30/2015
- by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- BroadwayWorld.com
Independent film producer and CEO of Branded Pictures Entertainment J. Todd Harris ("The Kids Are All Right," "Bottle Shock") has been feeling an easterly pull back to his theatre roots over the past year. Having started in the theatre right out of college running the repertory company TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, the producer of nearly 40 films, is now producing the stage musical adaptation of Doctor Zhivago based on the Nobel Prize-winning Boris Pasternak’s novel, which also served as the basis for the 1965 Academy Award-winning David Lean film starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie (and Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin and Tom Courtenay). I had chance to catch up with this bi-coastal whirlwind last week after he returned from the show’s opening on Broadway.
Peter Belsito : Isn’t independent film hard enough? What got you interested in Broadway?
J. Todd Harris : (laughing). I didn’t think anything could be harder than independent films, but I was wrong. The fact is my wife Amy Powers is a co-lyricist on the show and has been working on it for over a decade after its first try-out at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2005. Four years ago, we moved to Australia for our way “out of town” run and I felt I could help raise a bit of money, so I was an associate producer. When word came in last year that it was going to Broadway, I told them I thought I could raise a million dollars and serve as one of the producers.
Pb : Did you raise your share? And how does it compare to raising money for a film?
Jth : I did, and then some, from about thirty individual investors. In that sense, it’s not unlike a lot of independent films that are financed with equity. It’s a different eco-system, but the concept is pretty similar. And, just like a lot of independent films, you don’t make money up front! It’s all about ownership, so you really hope the show breaks even soon. The authors – book, lyrics, composer – all get a royalty off the top. No nonsense like the movie business. This contributes to my love for my wife.
Pb : What is the show’s budget, if I may ask?
Jth : About 15M, it’s a Big Broadway show. There are well over one hundred investors and probably 30 credited producers. When A Gentleman’s Guide to Murder won the Tony Award last year, I thought the stage was going to collapse so many producers went up to collect the award. But, you know, it takes a village. Sometimes a small city. It’s okay to reward and acknowledge the backers of a show. It’s a huge risk and without these backers we’d be a poorer culture. They’re like modern day patrons. Why not give them a moment in the sun?
Pb : How did you get the rights to Doctor Zhivago? Such a big title!
Jth : I cannot take credit for that. Composer Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden) originally got the rights well over ten years ago and started working with a creative team, but before the La Jolla production the team changed and that’s when my wife was recruited to co-write the lyrics with Michael Korie ( Grey Gardens) and joined the team that included book writer Michael Weller (Loose Ends, screenplays for Hair and Ragtime ) and director Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys). Des was artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse at the time. And the show’s lead producer Anita Waxman was involved very early on providing the seed capital for La Jolla and then putting the financing together for Australia and now Broadway.
Pb : That’s a long gestation period, even compared to Hollywood, isn’t it?
Jth : It is one of the longer ones, but these things can literally take years as creative teams gel, script and music mesh, and planets align for talent, money and – not least importantly – a theatre. The strange alchemy that gets a Broadway show a greenlight isn’t all that different than the weird science of getting a big Hollywood movie off the ground.
Pb : Sounds like a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
Jth : There are, but from a producing angle, there’s usually a small group of lead producers who make the major financial decisions and every creative team finds its own rhythm. Writers and composers are accorded a lot more respect in theatre; that’s the major difference from movies.
Pb : Are you happy with how the show has come out?
Jth : Thrilled. Of course, it’s hard to claim crystal clear perspective when one is as emotionally invested in the show as I am in Doctor Zhivago, but I think the creative team has taken an epic story and distilled it to its emotional and political core. Lucy Simon has written melodies that will live forever in the musical theatre firmament. Des has done a masterful job of staging a huge and complex show. Ambition doesn’t begin to describe it. We got mixed reviews, but so did Phantom, Cats and Wicked. The final arbiter is audiences, and the dozen or so times I’ve seen the show at the Broadway Theatre, there have been copious cheers and tears.
Pb : You also did a show last year?
Jth : Yes, I was part of the producing team that developed and produced Heathers The Musical, based on the Daniel Waters script directed by Michael Lehmann back in 1988. It was a great experience working with a very tight creative and producing team. Andy Fickman directed a script, book and music by Kevin Murphy and Larry O’Keefe. It ran off Broadway for about 5 months and we hope we can adapt that to the screen and go back to Broadway.
Pb : Do you find a lot of talent crossing over from Hollywood to Broadway?
Jth : More and more, that is the case. Not just writers, directors and actors, but also material. Broadway is flooded with adaptations of movies – Aladdin is running strong, Honeymoon In Vegas recently closed, and last year Bridges of Madison County and Big Fish had nice runs on Broadways as musicals. I definitely have my eye on other fare to crossover from screen to stage.
Pb : Can you tell us what you’re working on?
Jth : Not yet, but some very recognizable titles that I think are ideal for the Great White Way.
Peter Belsito : Isn’t independent film hard enough? What got you interested in Broadway?
J. Todd Harris : (laughing). I didn’t think anything could be harder than independent films, but I was wrong. The fact is my wife Amy Powers is a co-lyricist on the show and has been working on it for over a decade after its first try-out at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2005. Four years ago, we moved to Australia for our way “out of town” run and I felt I could help raise a bit of money, so I was an associate producer. When word came in last year that it was going to Broadway, I told them I thought I could raise a million dollars and serve as one of the producers.
Pb : Did you raise your share? And how does it compare to raising money for a film?
Jth : I did, and then some, from about thirty individual investors. In that sense, it’s not unlike a lot of independent films that are financed with equity. It’s a different eco-system, but the concept is pretty similar. And, just like a lot of independent films, you don’t make money up front! It’s all about ownership, so you really hope the show breaks even soon. The authors – book, lyrics, composer – all get a royalty off the top. No nonsense like the movie business. This contributes to my love for my wife.
Pb : What is the show’s budget, if I may ask?
Jth : About 15M, it’s a Big Broadway show. There are well over one hundred investors and probably 30 credited producers. When A Gentleman’s Guide to Murder won the Tony Award last year, I thought the stage was going to collapse so many producers went up to collect the award. But, you know, it takes a village. Sometimes a small city. It’s okay to reward and acknowledge the backers of a show. It’s a huge risk and without these backers we’d be a poorer culture. They’re like modern day patrons. Why not give them a moment in the sun?
Pb : How did you get the rights to Doctor Zhivago? Such a big title!
Jth : I cannot take credit for that. Composer Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden) originally got the rights well over ten years ago and started working with a creative team, but before the La Jolla production the team changed and that’s when my wife was recruited to co-write the lyrics with Michael Korie ( Grey Gardens) and joined the team that included book writer Michael Weller (Loose Ends, screenplays for Hair and Ragtime ) and director Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys). Des was artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse at the time. And the show’s lead producer Anita Waxman was involved very early on providing the seed capital for La Jolla and then putting the financing together for Australia and now Broadway.
Pb : That’s a long gestation period, even compared to Hollywood, isn’t it?
Jth : It is one of the longer ones, but these things can literally take years as creative teams gel, script and music mesh, and planets align for talent, money and – not least importantly – a theatre. The strange alchemy that gets a Broadway show a greenlight isn’t all that different than the weird science of getting a big Hollywood movie off the ground.
Pb : Sounds like a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
Jth : There are, but from a producing angle, there’s usually a small group of lead producers who make the major financial decisions and every creative team finds its own rhythm. Writers and composers are accorded a lot more respect in theatre; that’s the major difference from movies.
Pb : Are you happy with how the show has come out?
Jth : Thrilled. Of course, it’s hard to claim crystal clear perspective when one is as emotionally invested in the show as I am in Doctor Zhivago, but I think the creative team has taken an epic story and distilled it to its emotional and political core. Lucy Simon has written melodies that will live forever in the musical theatre firmament. Des has done a masterful job of staging a huge and complex show. Ambition doesn’t begin to describe it. We got mixed reviews, but so did Phantom, Cats and Wicked. The final arbiter is audiences, and the dozen or so times I’ve seen the show at the Broadway Theatre, there have been copious cheers and tears.
Pb : You also did a show last year?
Jth : Yes, I was part of the producing team that developed and produced Heathers The Musical, based on the Daniel Waters script directed by Michael Lehmann back in 1988. It was a great experience working with a very tight creative and producing team. Andy Fickman directed a script, book and music by Kevin Murphy and Larry O’Keefe. It ran off Broadway for about 5 months and we hope we can adapt that to the screen and go back to Broadway.
Pb : Do you find a lot of talent crossing over from Hollywood to Broadway?
Jth : More and more, that is the case. Not just writers, directors and actors, but also material. Broadway is flooded with adaptations of movies – Aladdin is running strong, Honeymoon In Vegas recently closed, and last year Bridges of Madison County and Big Fish had nice runs on Broadways as musicals. I definitely have my eye on other fare to crossover from screen to stage.
Pb : Can you tell us what you’re working on?
Jth : Not yet, but some very recognizable titles that I think are ideal for the Great White Way.
- 4/26/2015
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, Doctor Zhivago is directed by Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Michael Weller Ragtime, music byLucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Kelly Devine Rocky. The musical officially opened at the Broadway Theatre last night, April 21, 2015, and BroadwayWorld was there for the big night. Check out interviews with the full gang after the curtain went downbelow...
- 4/22/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece,Doctor Zhivagois directed by Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Kelly Devine Rocky. The musical officially openedat the Broadway Theatre lastnight, April 21, 2015, and BroadwayWorld was there for the big night. Check out photos from the curtain call below...
- 4/22/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
It’s got more marches than “The Music Man,” more battle scenes than “La Forza del Destino,” and it must set a record for the number of gun shots and bomb detonations in a Broadway musical. If all that noise doesn’t inspire an immediate visit to the ear doctor, there’s the score by Michael Korie, Amy Powers and Lucy Simon that’s guaranteed to require it. If that opening paragraph reads like an overly critical assessment of the new musical “Doctor Zhivago,” which opened Monday at the Broadway Theatre in New York, it’s nothing compared to the...
- 4/22/2015
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the production below...
- 4/15/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Save 40 on Doctor Zhivago, the acclaimed creative team leading the transformation from Nobel Prize-winning novel and film classic to stage spectacular is led by two-time Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, and features a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee KellyDevine Rocky.
- 4/8/2015
- by Contests - Broadway
- BroadwayWorld.com
Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre. Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael WellerRagtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy SimonThe Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky.Below, watch the next installment in a series of 'Meet the Actors' videos to learn more about leading lady Kelli Barrett...
- 3/24/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Doctor Zhivago begins performances on Broadway later this week on Friday, March 27, 2015, and will open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre. Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael WellerRagtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy SimonThe Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky.
- 3/23/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre. Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael WellerRagtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly DevineRocky.The company just gave the press a special sneak peek of the Broadway-Bound musical, and you can check out photos of the full gang below...
- 2/28/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre. Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael WellerRagtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly DevineRocky.The company just gave the press a special sneak peek of the Broadway-Bound musical, and you can check out photos of the full gang in action below...
- 2/25/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre. Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by two-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky.The company just gave the press a special sneak peek of the Broadway-Bound musical. Check out interviews with the full cast, as well as performances by the stars below...
- 2/25/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, will arrive on Broadway on Friday, March 27, 2015, with opening night set for Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. This sweeping musical romance, which revolves around five intertwined lovers set against a panoramic portrait of a nation in upheaval, is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuffJersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky.Below, check out a first listen of 'Now,' featuring Tam Mutu, who is making his Broadway debut as the passionate Doctor and poet Yurii Zhivago, and Kelli Barrett Wicked as Lara. Listen to...
- 2/10/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky. Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. The company just met the press and you can check out full photo coverage from the festivities below...
- 2/10/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky. Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. The company just met the press and you can check out a photo preview of the festivities below...
- 2/9/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky. Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of the marquee below...
- 1/30/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Doctor Zhivago will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at 630pm, at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. Doctor Zhivago is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky.
- 1/14/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Milos Forman was looking for the best writer to adapt the hippie anti-war musical Hair for the big screen. The Czech filmmaker already had a growing U.S. following in the wake of The Firemen’s Ball and Taking Off when 1975’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest took home five Oscars including best film and best director. And while Michael Weller had zero experience as a screenwriter, he did have a reputation for plays that cast a gimlet eye on the generation that came of age in the era of protest against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. His works included Moonchildren (1971), Loose Ends (1979) and Spoils Of War (1988), which interwove the intensely felt political and personal obsessions of Baby Boomers on the cusp of adulthood.
For Forman, Weller would write two of the most underrated films of their time, Hair (1979) and, two years later, Ragtime. Like his...
For Forman, Weller would write two of the most underrated films of their time, Hair (1979) and, two years later, Ragtime. Like his...
- 12/29/2014
- by Jeremy Gerard
- Deadline
As BroadwayWorld first reported, the new Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago, based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic Russian masterpiece, will begin performances on Friday, March 27, 2015, and open on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre 1681 Broadway. This sweeping musical romance, which revolves around five intertwined lovers set against a panoramic portrait of a nation in upheaval, is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff Jersey Boys, with a book by Academy Award nominee Michael Weller Ragtime, music by Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Lucy Simon The Secret Garden, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens and Emmy Award nominee Amy Powers Ella Enchanted, and choreography by Tony Award nominee Kelly Devine Rocky. Doctor Zhivago will be produced on Broadway by Anita Waxman, Tom Dokton, Latitude Link, Ted HartleyRKO Stage and Chunsoo Shin, with Joe Corcoran, J. Todd Harris, The Pelican Group and John Frost.
- 10/1/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Russian romance of Doctor Zhivago is officially coming to Broadway with performances beginning in spring 2015. The Des McAnuff-directed production of the musical, which is based on Boris Pasternak's novel, will occupy the Broadway Theatre with previews beginning March 27, 2015. It will open April 21, 2015. McAnuff, who directed Jersey Boys, first helmed the show when it premiered at 2006 La Jolla Playhouse. It was later tinkered with and staged in 2011 in Sydney also under McAnuff. "The creators of 'Doctor Zhivago,' the musical, have apparently learned much from their 2006 run at La Jolla Playhouse, where audiences reportedly felt history dwarfed the central story,...
- 10/1/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW.com - PopWatch
Doctor Zhivago is heading to Broadway this spring. The new Broadway musical — based on Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning 20th-century epic, which also became a beloved 1965 David Lean film — will begin previews on March 27 before an April 21 opening at the Broadway Theatre. The Russian romance centering on five intertwined lovers is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys), with a book by Oscar nominee Michael Weller (Ragtime), music by Grammy winner and Tony nominee Lucy Simon (The Secret Garden), lyrics by Tony nominee Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and Emmy nominee Amy Powers
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- 10/1/2014
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Looking much like an opening night, numerous boldfaced names were in attendance last week at a workshop for Finding Neverland, directed by Diane Paulas and starring Matthew Morrison and Laura Michelle Kelly. It'll premiere at begins performances in July 2014 at the Loeb Drama Center at The American Repertory Theater A.R.T. at Harvard University.Featuring new songs by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy, Neverland previously held a workshop on August 26th, featuring Kelly, Jason Alexander, Brian d'Arcy James and Kathleen Chalfant. The new musical Finding Neverland premiered in Leicester on September 22., led by Julian Ovenden and Rosalie Craig.Adapted from the much-loved Oscar-winning Miramax film, Finding Neverland, this exquisite new production was brought to the Leicester stage by celebrated Oscar and Tony Award-winner Harvey Weinstein, with direction and choreography by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford Anna Christie at Donmar Warehouse, a book by Allan Knee Little Women on Broadway,...
- 4/4/2014
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
The moving and heart-wrenching musical Far From Heaven is now available for Professional Theatrical licensing from RampH Theatricals, and its score will be published by Imagem Music, each a division of the Imagem Music Group. Based on Todd Haynes' multi award-winning 2002 film starring Julianne Moore, the musical features music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel Grey Gardens, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens, and a book by Tony winner Richard Greenberg Take Me Out.
- 2/26/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Far From Heaven's Kelli O'Hara, Isaiah Johnson and Nancy Anderson will perform at Barnes amp Noble with special guests Scott Frankel and Michael Korie in celebration of the release of the musical's Original Cast Recording. They will also be signing CDs. It all takes place tonight, November 13 at 7 p.m. on the event stage at the Barnes amp Noble, Upper East Side, 86th and Lexington.
- 11/13/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2006, Grey Gardens opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 307 performances. Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale 'Big Edie' and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale 'Little Edie' by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations.
- 11/2/2013
- BroadwayWorld.com
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