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https://playbill.com/job/joy-nyc-epa-10-03-24-10-07-24-10-17-24/15c02b6c-4a12-4699-9757-ac8bc3fbde76

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Robert-Lopez-and-Kristen-Anderson-Lopez-Working-on-New-Stage-Musical-20240918

A new stage musical project is in development from songwriting duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.

"I don't think we can say what it is, but we are working on something for the stage and we are really excited," the Frozen songwriters told BroadwayWorld in a recent exclusive interview.

"We're kind of right in the middle of it now and having a lot of fun. It's been way too long. The pandemic happened and, to use a Marvel metaphor, it was kind of like the blip. We were gone from Broadway for years and we didn't mean for it to be this long," they explained. 

The most recent stage project from the Lopezes is the stage adaptation of Frozen, which has seen enormous success on Broadway, on tour, and in global markets. The Tony®-nominated Best Musical completed its Broadway run in March 2020 after breaking four house records at The St. James Theatre. The North American tour recently played its final performance on September 1st, 2024 at the Center for the Performing Arts in San Jose, CA. 

https://variety.com/2024/music/columns/orville-peck-broadway-early-development-1236148661

Orville Peck may be headed to Broadway.

The masked country singer hinted that he could be working on a project for the New York stage at an appearance Tuesday night at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

During conversation moderated by Rolling Stone writer Tomás Mier, Peck was asked by an audience member if he was interested in combining his acting background and music success on Broadway.
“It’s crossed my mind,” he said to applause. “Recently, it’s got interesting.”

A source tells me that the project is in the “very early stages of development.”

Meet the WARRIORS!

Starring: @aneesafolds as Cleon

@sashahutchings as Cowgirl

@minanina81 as Cochise

@phillipasoo as Fox

@lia_man as Mercy

@jazzy_joness as Swan

@gizeljimenezofficial as Rembrandt

@glambergray as Ajax

ANNOUNCEMENT: "‘Buena Vista Social Club’ sets Broadway run; initial casting announced" by Broadway News' Michael Abourizk - "The new musical, which premiered with Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company in December 2023, will begin Broadway previews on Feb. 21, 2025 and open on March 19 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali will direct the production, with joint choreography by Patricia Delgado and Tony winner Justin Peck. ...

Featuring a book by Marco Ramirez, “Buena Vista Social Club” chronicles a group of musicians who collaborate on a unique sound in pre-Castro Cuba. ... The musical’s cast will include Renesito Avich as Eliades, Natalie Venetia Belcon as Omara, Julio Monge as Compay, Leonardo Reyna as Young Rubén, Mel Semé as Ibrahim, Jainardo Batista Sterling as Rubén, with ensemble members Angélica Beliard, Carlos Falú, Héctor Juan Maisonet, Ilda Mason and Marielys Molina, all of whom will reprise their performances from the Off-Broadway staging. New to the company will be Isa Antonetti as Young Omara, Ashley De La Rosa as Young Haydee, Da’von Moody as Young Compay, Sophia Ramos as ensemble and Wesley Wray as Young Ibrahim. ...

In addition to Orin Wolf, John Styles and Barbara Broccoli, “Buena Vista Social Club” is being produced by Atlantic Theater Company, Luis Miranda, LaChanze, Nick Gold and John Leguizamo." https://bway.ly/i1itb3

Is anyone seeing the show?

A limited engagement of Elf The Musical is headed to Broadway this holiday season! Starring Grey Henson in the title role, the musical will open this November at the Marquis Theatre. Following two hugely successful, record-breaking seasons in London’s West End in 2022 and 2023, this production of Elf The Musical will be new to Broadway and will mark the musical’s return for the first time in over a decade. 

https://x.com/mrcarl_woodward/status/1832794557743820992

Watch celebrities strip down to raise money for prostate and testicular cancer research on The Real Full Monty premiering December 9.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kenny-Ortega-Developing-YA-Reimagining-of-THE-PHANTOM-OF-THE-OPERA-for-Disney-20240906

According to Deadline, Ortega will direct and executive produce the movie, which will be a young adult reimagining of the classic Gaston Leroux tale for Disney+. The studio is looking at franchise potential with the project, hoping for another Descandants-level success. The spec script was written by Giovanni M. Porta, with reports indicating that it will not be an adaptation of the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Read more at Deadline.

BroadwayHD will present the world streaming premiere of the Off-Broadway musical, Between the Lines, on Monday, September 23, with a Watch Party at 7:00PM. Based on the #1 New York Times bestselling novel from author Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha van Leer, the production was captured during its 2022 run at New York’s Tony Kiser Theater, earning four Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Musical and three Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BETWEEN-THE-LINES-Will-Stream-on-BroadwayHD-This-Month-20240905

This is more of an illustration, as noted by the signature on the corner. I think this is an artist rendition of their likenesses, as opposed to Photoshopped.

THE APPLE BOYS, a new fast-paced musical comedy set in Gilded Age Coney Island, with book by Jono Lyons and music and lyrics by 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient Ben Bonnema, will have industry presentations on Monday, September 23 and Tuesday, September 24 in Manhattan at Ripley Grier 38th St. Studios.

Directed by David Alpert and featuring music supervision by Rona Siddiqui, the four person cast will feature Alex Gibson (SpongeBob Squarepants, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812); Jelani Remy (Back to the Future, Ain’t Too Proud); Emily Skeggs (Tony nominee for Fun Home); and Teddy Yudain (Little Shop of Horrors). The September presentations will feature new vocal arrangements by Hamilton’s Matt Gallagher with music direction by Emily Whitaker.

Under threat of an unfair rent hike, Jack, the grandson of Johnny Appleseed, sets out to save his family apple orchard through a chance encounter with three new friends: “famous” hotdog purveyor Nathan, champion strongman Warren, and aspiring roller-coaster designer Hank. In pursuit of their dreams, while challenging the ruling elite, this unlikely cohort discovers the transformative power of working together by joining their voices in song.

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Recording Broadway: A life in Cast Albums is veteran producer Thomas Z. Shepard's first-person account of the making of fifty plus years' worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein ("truly awesome but very complicated", Sheldon Harnick ("as warm and decent as he was talented", Barbara Cook ("one of my favorites", Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury ("so gifted and so easy to be with and to work with", Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim ("a genius, and very easily bruised", Barbra Streisand ("as professional at 24 as any veteran I've ever worked with", Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more.

Alongside this unforgettable saga is the tale of Shepard's childhood as a very short piano prodigy on the middle-class streets of East Orange, New Jersey, and his emergence into the world as a recording producer of, first, classical music and then Broadway Original Cast recordings, Shepard has a unique voice, a striking combination of Broadway glitz, classical-music elegance and New Jersey street kid, and his book will be compelling even to someone not among the millions of Broadway lovers around the world for whom his recordings are a vital link to Broadway at its best.

I know one of her dream roles has always been Lola in Damn Yankees and by-golly, she must do THAT revival!