musicals
Glen Hansard releasing 1st solo album, schedules shows, playing Beacon Theaer, played BV-SXSW (pics, videos, dates)
Anti- reveals:Over 20 years in the making, singer songwriter Glen Hansard will release his first ever solo album, Rhythm and Repose, on Anti- Records June 19…
FELA! opens in Chicago (get discounted tix)
As previously announced, and as Jay-Z pointed out earlier today, Fela! the Musical opens in Chicago tonight (3/27). Check the poster above for the code to get discount tickets…
Tupac musical is casting...
It wasn’t that long ago that Upright Citizens Brigade hosted the parody show 2Pac: The Musical (“Like Mamma Mia but with more rapping!”)…
an interview w/ Gabriel Kahane on his new musical & other projects; see him @ Rockwood Monday (we're giving away tix)
Gabriel Kahane‘s new musical February House will be at NYC’s Public Theater May 8th-June 10th. The show debuted Feb 15th at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, and the Hartford Courant, condensing its review to a Twitter-length blurb, called it, “A haunting, intimate chamber musical so special you want to wrap your protective arms around it…
Cyndi Lauper-composed musical 'Kinky Boots' to get pre-Broadway run in Chicago
The NY Times reports:A new musical adaptation of “Kinky Boots,” the 2005 British film about a drag queen named Lola who helps save a family shoe factory, will have a pre-Broadway tryout run in Chicago this October, the producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced on Wednesday…
A Christmas Story, The Musical...
At a recent performance here of “A Christmas Story: The Musical!,” applause rippled through the 2,100-seat Fisher Theater when famous scenes from the film began to unfold, most notably a sequence in which one of the supporting characters gets his tongue stuck to an icy flagpole…
Bowie Organization Issues Statement re U.K. Musical
“”Neither the David Bowie Organization, nor its co-publishers EMI Music and Chrysalis, has issued a license for a Bowie musical at the O2, as has been reported in the U…
Swell Season's "Once" headed Off-Broadway
Swell Season @ Coachella 2011 (more by David Andrako)
….but not starring Glen & Marketa……”At the American Repertory Theater, the lead roles in “Once” were played by Steve Kazee (“110 in the Shade”) and Cristin Milioti (“The Little Foxes” at New York Theater Workshop); Mr…
Kylie Minogue on tour w/ a new live EP, working on a musical
Kylie Minogue is preparing a musical based on her long career which should be ready by next year.
Her creative director and stylist, William Baker, is co-writing the show with the Aphrodite star…
a Shaggs musical is coming (back) to NYC
“The band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music; the band was described in one Rolling Stone article as “…
