Former Crossing Jordan star Jill Hennessy, along with Kevin Chapman (Person of Interest), Jere Shea (Passion) and Lauren E. Banks (Instinct) have been cast opposite Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge in City on a Hill, Showtime's drama pilot executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. All will be series regulars if the project moves forward. In addition, Cathy Moriarty, Michael O'Keefe, Amanda Clayton and Rory Culkin are set for guest roles and will recur if the project…...
- 12/12/2017
- Deadline TV
If songwriters had to choose the definitive performances of their masterpieces to be placed in a musical time capsule I'm sure last night's cabaret concert by Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley would be selected. A celebrity filled audience at Feinstein's54 Below was at times spell bound by the musicianship and sound of their magnificent voices. Jason and Marin shared songs they introduced on Broadway from shows including Ragtime, Passion, The Full Monty, Curtains, and The Visit. There were also gems from roles they originated in Broadway revivals like Kiss Me, Kate, and American Songbook Standards from their many TV, cabaret, and concert hall appearances. Their often used designation of Broadway's Golden Couple are a Gold Standard, and who ever opens that time capsule in the future is gonna flip.
- 5/31/2017
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Sundance Festival reveals the state of the indie film market, and 2017 will be remembered as the year of Amazon Studios and Netflix. And given the festival’s robust TV and Vr programs,, which were dominated by Google and Facebook/Oculus, there’s further digital disruption ahead.
According to one indie distributor, Sundance 2017’s valuations and sales are almost a third higher than last year. Put the same titles into the Sundance market two years ago, and they would have sold for far less. That’s because Netflix and Amazon Studios on the narrative side are dramatically driving up prices. “It’s just ridiculous what the digital guys are doing to the marketplace,” said one veteran indie CEO. “‘The Big Sick’ is a great little movie but it’s a $4 million -$6 million buy. There’s no logic to this model.”
However, Sundance has always been about the haves and the have-nots.
According to one indie distributor, Sundance 2017’s valuations and sales are almost a third higher than last year. Put the same titles into the Sundance market two years ago, and they would have sold for far less. That’s because Netflix and Amazon Studios on the narrative side are dramatically driving up prices. “It’s just ridiculous what the digital guys are doing to the marketplace,” said one veteran indie CEO. “‘The Big Sick’ is a great little movie but it’s a $4 million -$6 million buy. There’s no logic to this model.”
However, Sundance has always been about the haves and the have-nots.
- 1/27/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Sundance Festival reveals the state of the indie film market, and 2017 will be remembered as the year of Amazon Studios and Netflix. And given the festival’s robust TV and Vr programs, which were dominated by Google and Facebook/Oculus, there’s further digital disruption ahead.
According to one indie distributor, Sundance 2017’s valuations and sales are almost a third higher than last year. Put the same titles into the Sundance market two years ago, and they would have sold for far less. That’s because Netflix and Amazon Studios on the narrative side are dramatically driving up prices. “It’s just ridiculous what the digital guys are doing to the marketplace,” said one veteran indie CEO. “‘The Big Sick’ is a great little movie but it’s a $4 million -$6 million buy. There’s no logic to this model.”
However, Sundance has always been about the haves and the have-nots.
According to one indie distributor, Sundance 2017’s valuations and sales are almost a third higher than last year. Put the same titles into the Sundance market two years ago, and they would have sold for far less. That’s because Netflix and Amazon Studios on the narrative side are dramatically driving up prices. “It’s just ridiculous what the digital guys are doing to the marketplace,” said one veteran indie CEO. “‘The Big Sick’ is a great little movie but it’s a $4 million -$6 million buy. There’s no logic to this model.”
However, Sundance has always been about the haves and the have-nots.
- 1/27/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Today in 1994, Passion opened at the Longacre Theatre, where it ran for 97 performances. Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore. Passion is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with Sweeney Todd and Road Show. Set in 19th century Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.
- 5/15/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.
- 3/7/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Off-Broadway's acclaimed Classic Stage Company today announced plans for its 2016-17 season, led by incoming Artistic Director John Doyle and Managing Director Jeff Griffin. Doyle, a Tony Award winner for Sweeney Todd and the director of Broadway's highly-praised new production of The Color Purple, assumes the artistic leadership of Csc beginning in July, succeeding Brian Kulick, who has led the company since 2003. For Csc, Doyle has directed Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion and Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Allegro, and later this season will direct Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
- 2/29/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone has joined the star-studded Broadway roster for The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim, a gala benefit for Off-Broadway's esteemed Classic Stage Company on Monday, March 14 at Alice Tully Hall 1941 Broadway hosted and directed by Tony Award winner John Doyle, who will become the company's new Artistic Director in July. In addition to LuPone, the evening will include performances from Sondheim's canon by Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Cynthia Erivo The Color Purple, Joaquina Kalukango The Color Purple, Judy Kuhn Fun Home, Csc's Passion, Marin Mazzie Kiss Me, Kate and Alexandra Silber Fiddler on the Roof.
- 2/23/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Glenn here bringing you some more trivia from this year’s best original song category. Obviously, I could be mistaken about some of these, but, well, in which case la la la, not listening, move along.
Trivia #1 – 2016 marks the first time in Oscar history that two documentaries have ever been nominated in a category outside of the non-fiction categories. While documentaries have been nominated in the original song category in the past – Mondo Cane in ’62 being the first, I believe – and Hoop Dreams scored a best editing nomination in 1995, this year both The Hunting Ground’s “Til It Happens to You” and Racing Extinction’s “Manta Ray” make for a first that two have been cited.
Trivia #2 – This year’s nomination for “Manta Ray” is the third nomination for an enviro-doc in this category in the last decade. While Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth...
Trivia #1 – 2016 marks the first time in Oscar history that two documentaries have ever been nominated in a category outside of the non-fiction categories. While documentaries have been nominated in the original song category in the past – Mondo Cane in ’62 being the first, I believe – and Hoop Dreams scored a best editing nomination in 1995, this year both The Hunting Ground’s “Til It Happens to You” and Racing Extinction’s “Manta Ray” make for a first that two have been cited.
Trivia #2 – This year’s nomination for “Manta Ray” is the third nomination for an enviro-doc in this category in the last decade. While Melissa Etheridge’s “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth...
- 2/10/2016
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Some of Broadway's most talented musical leading ladies will come together in The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim, a gala benefit for Off-Broadway's esteemed Classic Stage Company on Monday, March 14 at Alice Tully Hall 1941 Broadway helmed by Tony Award winner John Doyle, who will become the company's new Artistic Director in July. The evening will include performances from Sondheim's canon by Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Cynthia Erivo The Color Purple, Joaquina KalukangoThe Color Purple, Judy Kuhn Fun Home, Csc's Passion, Marin Mazzie Kiss Me, Kate and Alexandra Silber Fiddler on the Roof. Additional performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
- 2/1/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The 1860s are a familiar period for Donna Murphy. In addition to winning Tonys for playing Fosca in the original Broadway production of Passion and Anna in the 1996 revival of The King And I, the actress played Mary Todd Lincoln in the television movie, The Day Lincoln Was Shot. All three projects were set between 1862 and 1867. And, while she jokes that the 1998 film was the last time that she had worn a corset, when she read the pilot episode of PBS's Civil War medical drama Mercy Street, premiering tonight at 1000pm Et, she knew that she wanted to be involved.
- 1/17/2016
- by Matt Tamanini
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Marin Mazzie Marin most recently starred in the off-Broadway revival of Carrie. Before that she led the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Next to Normal and in the Broadway production of Enron. She received Tony and Drama Desk nominations and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as LilliKatharine in the hit revival of Kiss Me, Kate, and later received an Olivier Award nomination when she made her West End debut in the show. Other Broadway credits include Monty Python's Spamalot also West End, Ragtime Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations, Passion Tony nomination, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Big River, and Out of this World and Kismet Encores.
- 10/9/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1994, Passion opened at the Longacre Theatre, where it ran for 97 performances. Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore. Passion is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with Sweeney Todd and Road Show. Set in 19th century Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.
- 5/15/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
If you caught Carole King performing with Sara Bareilles at the 2014 Grammys, you’d know just how timeless an artist King and her work are. Her Diamond graded pop-album Tapestry from 1971 is a masterpiece, and one of the best selling albums of all time. And though today King maybe doesn’t get the indie cred as some of her ’70s, singer/songwriter female contemporaries like say, Joni Mitchell, that may be about to change.
Broadway World was the first to report that Sony has just secured the rights to adapt the Broadway hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, along with King’s life rights, her songwriting collaborators’ life rights, and the rights to many of her hit songs including “The Locomotion,” “One Fine Day,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “So Far Away,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman,...
Broadway World was the first to report that Sony has just secured the rights to adapt the Broadway hit Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, along with King’s life rights, her songwriting collaborators’ life rights, and the rights to many of her hit songs including “The Locomotion,” “One Fine Day,” “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” “So Far Away,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman,...
- 3/23/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.
- 3/7/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
You think you know three-time Tony Award Nominee Marin Mazzie from her recent show-stopping turn in Bullets Over Broadway, her corseted characters in Ragtime and Passion or maybe from the scene-chewing screwballs of Kiss Me Kate and Spamalot... or possibly you thought you gained a glimpse of her as the star of Next To Normal heaven help us if that is really her in the guise of Margaret in Carrie. Come see and hear the real Marin Mazzie as she steps back into her formative years with an evening of fun and fantasy as we get inside the head of a Midwest girl and the music she loved, running at 54 Below February 4-7 7Pm. Check out a photo preview from her show below...
- 2/3/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
6th Update, Tuesday, 3 Pm: Rentrak Theatrical filed the weekend’s actuals with Warner Bros.’ American Sniper counting a four-week cume through yesterday of $110.4M. Talk about the spoils of war: American Sniper propelled the 2015 box office, in its first 19 days, 3.6% percent over the same frame last year with $667M. It stands to reason that this would be the highest-grossing four-day Mlk weekend of all-time with $248.5M after American Sniper broke a slew of records, read Eastwood’s career-high bow, best three-day opening ever during January and February. Previous Mlk record was 2009 with $231.5M when Sony comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop zoomed up a four-day bow of $39.2M. American Sniper had the biggest theater average of the four-day weekend with $30,100, followed by Sony Classic’s Still Alice, which chalked up $20,685 PTA or $248K in 12 venues.
The consensus is that American Sniper is going to hold for another two weekends. Wide releases...
The consensus is that American Sniper is going to hold for another two weekends. Wide releases...
- 1/20/2015
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline
There are two upcoming movie musicals that, for a long time, I've wanted to make into motion pictures, should someone with money be willing to give me the funds to make them -- Into The Woods and The Last 5 Years. I'm both nervous and excited to see how directors Rob Marshall and Richard Lagravenese, respectfully, have interpreted the material I hold so close to my heart. I am especially nervous for Into The Woods, given Marshall's less than impressive track record. If someone is going to screw up something I cherish, it should be me. Of course, there are far more than two musicals I have a deep connection to. Some have already been made into films, like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Les Miserables, but there is a vast collection of musicals I have thought could make fantastic films, but have never been made.
- 10/20/2014
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
On the surface, Dr Ronald Meltzer has it all. He's a brilliant surgeon, one of the best in his field, having specialised in re-attaching severed nerves. He probably has enough money to buy the swankiest property that money can buy – or at the very least, a fancy speedboat. He's even thinking about settling down with his girlfriend, a woman called Melissa Burns. So what's grating his cheese?
Well, it turns out that Melissa's only his make-believe girlfriend. The two had one platonic date after Meltzer saved Melissa's sight, but Meltzer's deluded himself into thinking that one day they'll be walking down an aisle, cutting a three-tiered cake and jetting off to the Bahamas for a honeymoon. In the real world, despite his medical brilliance and sackfuls of money, Melissa isn't looking to get to know Meltzer better. If only someone would tell Meltzer, given that he's gone all creepy stalker...
Well, it turns out that Melissa's only his make-believe girlfriend. The two had one platonic date after Meltzer saved Melissa's sight, but Meltzer's deluded himself into thinking that one day they'll be walking down an aisle, cutting a three-tiered cake and jetting off to the Bahamas for a honeymoon. In the real world, despite his medical brilliance and sackfuls of money, Melissa isn't looking to get to know Meltzer better. If only someone would tell Meltzer, given that he's gone all creepy stalker...
- 6/24/2014
- Shadowlocked
Today in 1994, Passion opened at the Longacre Theatre, where it ran for 97 performances. Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore. Passion is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with Sweeney Todd and Road Show. Set in 19th century Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.
- 5/15/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.
- 3/7/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, today announced plans for its 20142015 Season. The upcoming season for the esteemed off-Broadway company begins in October with Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Allegro, directed by Tony Award-winner and Csc Associate Director John Doyle. Allegro marks the second installment of Csc's Musical Theater Initiative, which launched last year with the company's hugely-successful production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion, directed by Doyle. Considered one of Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's most personal and groundbreaking works, Allegro was their third collaboration and first premiered on Broadway in 1947.
- 3/6/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony Award nominee and recording artist Melissa Errico, who recently starred in the hit revival of Stephen Sondheim's Passion and will soon be seen in the upcoming Cinemax series, The Knick, will join Tovah Feldshuh who will host, the singing string quartet Well-strung Edmund Bagnell, Christopher Marchant, Daniel Shevlin and Trevor Wadleigh, and acrobats from Ringling Bros. and Barnum amp Bailey Circus, including Ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson, to perform at Theatre Development Fund's Tdf 2014 Gala on Monday, March 3 which celebrates the 35th season of Tdf's Accessibility Programs Tap. Tap are Tdf's services for people with physical disabilities, as well as individuals on the autism spectrum. Ms. Errico will be accompanied on piano by Tedd Firth. She replaces Victoria Clark who had previously been announced. The program will be directed by Donna Drake.
- 2/13/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Three time Tony Award nominated Broadway favorite Marin Mazzie Passion Ragtime Kiss Me, Kate, who will star as Helen Sinclair in the world premiere production of the new musical comedy Bullets Over Broadway this spring, will sing the National Anthem at Yankee Stadium this Sunday, January 26th to open the 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series in New York, the National Hockey League announced today.
- 1/24/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim have been linked together in the minds of theatergoers and fans of musicals since they first collaborated on the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sunday in the Park With George,” for which Lapine wrote the book and directed. They went on to create “Into the Woods” and “Passion” together, and then Lapine crafted the loving revue “Sondheim on Sondheim” in 2010, in which an eclectic cast of singing actors transformed songs we thought we knew, interspersed with freshly filmed commentary from Sondheim. Now Lapine has returned to paying tribute to his friend and colleague with the HBO documentary “Six by Sondheim,” airing Dec. 9. Focused on six of his best-known songs (performed in sometimes unusual stagings by a cast that includes Darren Criss and America Ferrera), the doc captures both the magic and the skill inherent in any Sondheim song. We spoke to Lapine about how to pay fresh tribute...
- 12/4/2013
- backstage.com
Today we are talking to a three-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress who has made a major mark on the West End with her peerless string of richly varied performances - ranging from premiere UK productions of Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday In The Park With George and Passion to Lady In The Dark, Ragtime and The Woman In White, as well as her various solo engagements, who now also excels as a director of theatre and opera, as well - the gifted Maria Friedman. Discussing all aspects of the recent West End production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's anomalous musical experiment Merrily We Roll Along - cited by the master himself as the best production of the show to date - and now the fantastic Fathom film presentation of it arriving in movie theaters nationwide and around the world on October 23. Detailing the finer points of the reverse-chronological...
- 10/18/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Marin Mazzie Marin most recently starred in the off-Broadway revival of Carrie. Before that she led the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Next to Normal and in the Broadway production of Enron. She received Tony and Drama Desk nominations and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as LilliKatharine in the hit revival of Kiss Me, Kate, and later received an Olivier Award nomination when she made her West End debut in the show. Other Broadway credits include Monty Python's Spamalot also West End, Ragtime Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations, Passion Tony nomination, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Big River, and Out of this World and Kismet Encores.
- 10/9/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway veteran Melissa Errico announced early last month that she would be undergoing a surgery to repair a blood vessel on her vocal chord. In April, Errico had to depart the Classic Stage Company production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion to go on vocal rest. The singer has started a blog to document her experiences and continues now with her fourth post.
- 6/12/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Drama Desk Awards — commonly known as the theater world’s Golden Globes, though nominees are represented across all NYC productions in a season — are the last precursor to the Tony Awards (check EW.com tomorrow morning for a full list of those). And judging by the list below, it’s going to be quite a competitive year, with some pretty heavy-hitters mixed in with longshots, not to mention some major snubs (Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Fiona Shaw, Chaplin’s Rob McClure to name a few). The winners will be announced at NYC’s Town Hall on May 19. Below is...
- 4/29/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that acclaimed Tony Award-winning director John Doyle will join the company for its 20132014 season as an Associate Director. Doyle, who directed and designed the company's current highly-acclaimed production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Passion, will develop his own projects for Csc, contribute leadership for Csc's new Musical Theatre Initiative for which Passion was the launch production and consult with Artistic Director Brian Kulick over season planning and other creative aspects of Csc's artistic programming.
- 4/11/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company announced today that Amy Justman will assume the role of Clara for the final 11 performances of their critically-acclaimed new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion through Friday, April 19 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Melissa Errico, who originated the role of Clara, has been out of the show with bronchitis since March 21. Ps Classics announced today that they had postponed the cast recording of Passion which was scheduled for today until Ms. Errico is fully recovered. A new recording and release date will be announced in the coming days.
- 4/9/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that their critically-acclaimed new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company, will extend once again by popular demand for four additional performances through Friday, April 19 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Passion stars Melissa Errico Clara, Judy Kuhn Fosca and Ryan Silverman Giorgio. The production also features Stephen Bogardus Colonel Ricci, Jeffry Denman Lieutenant Barri, Jason Michael Evans Private Augenti, Ken Krugman Lieutenant Torasso, Orville Mendoza Sergeant Lombardi, Tom Nelis Doctor Tambourri, Will Reynolds Major RizzoliLudovic, John Antony understudy and Amy Justman understudy.Csc also announced that twenty 10 tickets for each of the final four performances - Tuesday, April 16 at 7pm, Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm, Thursday, April 18 at 8pm and Friday, April...
- 3/14/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Nine months after rushing to meet a fixed premiere date at the L.A. Phil, John Adams' Passion oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary still doesn't feel like it's quite come to full term. Maybe it never will. Musically dynamic and enthralling in sections, this 135-minute attempt to recharge the story of Jesus' final days with contemporary relevance and social justice perspectives arguably doesn't go far enough to become genuinely provocative or penetrating. Instead, it spins some familiar wheels, both from the format of Adams' 2000 Nativity oratorio El Nino and in the familiar gestures of librettist
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- 3/8/2013
- by Todd McCarthy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.
- 3/7/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that their critically-acclaimed new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company, will extend by popular demand through Sunday, April 14 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Passion stars Melissa Errico Clara, Judy Kuhn Fosca and Ryan Silverman Giorgio. The production also features Stephen Bogardus Colonel Ricci, Jeffry Denman Lieutenant Barri, Jason Michael Evans Private Augenti, Ken Krugman Lieutenant Torasso, Orville Mendoza Sergeant Lombardi, Tom Nelis Doctor Tambourri, Will Reynolds Major RizzoliLudovic, John Antony understudy and Amy Justman understudy.BroadwayWorld brings you highlights from the show below...
- 3/4/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that their critically-acclaimed new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company, will extend by popular demand through Sunday, April 14 at Csc 136 East 13th Street. Passion stars Melissa Errico Clara, Judy Kuhn Fosca and Ryan Silverman Giorgio. The production also features Stephen Bogardus Colonel Ricci, Jeffry Denman Lieutenant Barri, Jason Michael Evans Private Augenti, Ken Krugman Lieutenant Torasso, Orville Mendoza Sergeant Lombardi, Tom Nelis Doctor Tambourri, Will Reynolds Major RizzoliLudovic, John Antony understudy and Amy Justman understudy.
- 3/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Photo Coverage: Ryan Silverman, Melissa Errico, Judy Kuhn and More Celebrate Passion's Opening Night
Ryan Silverman as Giorgio, joins acclaimed, award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Melissa Errico as Clara, in Classic Stage Company's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company. Passion opened at Csc 136 East 13th Street on Thursday, February 28. BroadwayWorld was there for the opening night celebrations and brings you photos below...
- 3/2/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
In a rare treat for Off Broadway audiences, the incomparable Vanessa Redgrave is playing a Polish septuagenarian opposite Jesse Eisenberg in Eisenberg’s own play The Revisionist. I can’t imagine the last time the Oscar- and Tony-award-winning actress has played in a venue as small as the 179-seat Cherry Lane Theatre. But The Revisionist isn’t the only starry premiere on the boards this week; here’s a roundup of notable openings (click links for the full review).
The Revisionist Vanessa Redgrave displays “a well-wrought accent and hard-earned professional brio” in Jesse Eisenberg’s new drama about a young...
The Revisionist Vanessa Redgrave displays “a well-wrought accent and hard-earned professional brio” in Jesse Eisenberg’s new drama about a young...
- 3/1/2013
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
Ryan Silverman as Giorgio, joins acclaimed, award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Melissa Errico as Clara, in Classic Stage Company's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical, directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company. Passion will open at Csc 136 East 13th Street tonight, February 28.
- 2/28/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ryan Silverman as Giorgio, joins acclaimed, award-winning actresses Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Melissa Errico as Clara, in Classic Stage Company's new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical, directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company. Passion is currently in previews at Csc 136 East 13th Street, with an official press opening scheduled for Thursday, February 28. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 2/22/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Stephen Bogardus, Jeffry Denman, and More Join Classic Stage Company's Passion- Full Cast Announced!
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, today announced complete casting for the company's upcoming new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, to be directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company. Joining previously announced Melissa Errico Clara, Judy Kuhn Fosca and Ryan Silverman Giorgio in the production are Stephen Bogardus Colonel Ricci, Jeffry Denman Lieutenant Barri, Jason Michael Evans Private Augenti, Amy Justman understudy, Ken Krugman Lieutenant Torasso, Orville Mendoza Sergeant Lombardi, Tom Nelis Doctor Tambourri and Will Reynolds Major RizzoliLudovic. Passion is slated to begin performances on February 8, 2013 at Csc 136 East 13th Street, with an official press opening scheduled for Thursday, February 28, playing a limited engagement through Sunday, April 7. Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning at Noon on Thursday, January 3.
- 1/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony Awardwinning star of theater, film, and television, Nathan Lane will host Symphonic Sondheim, the New York Philharmonics performance of symphonic suites by Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Academy Award, and Grammy Awardwinning composer Stephen Sondheim. Experience the splendor of the New York Philharmonic playing symphonic suites of this legendary composer's greatest melodies from works such as Sunday in the Park with George, The Enclave, Pacific Overtures, Stavisky, Passion, and Sweeney Todd.
- 11/27/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, announced today that Ryan Silverman has been cast as Giorgio, joining acclaimedawarding winning actresses Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Melissa Errico as Clara, in the company's upcoming new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, to be directed by John Doyle director of the acclaimed Broadway revivals of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Company.
- 11/13/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Happy Birthday Marin Mazzie Marin most recently starred in the off-Broadway revival of Carrie. Before that she led the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Next to Normal and in the Broadway production of Enron. She received Tony and Drama Desk nominations and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as LilliKatharine in the hit revival of Kiss Me, Kate, and later received an Olivier Award nomination when she made her West End debut in the show. Other Broadway credits include Monty Pythons Spamalot also West End, Ragtime Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations, Passion Tony nomination, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods, Big River, and Out of this World and Kismet Encores.
- 10/9/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
By Sam Negin
Theater Editor & Columnist
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This year’s fall TV lineup boasts an exciting number of Broadway stars popping up in the mix, particularly in new shows. I’d like to introduce some of these theater vets to avid TV fans — not only to support Broadway actors but also to see if they can, through their TV work, lure TV viewers out of the house and into a Broadway show (or several!).
Tony winners Laura Benanti (Broadway’s Gypsy, Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown) and Julie White (TV’s Grace Under Fire and Broadway’s The Little Dog Laughed) are coming to TV on a series called Go On, starring Matthew Perry (TV’s Friends). In the show, Perry’s character joins a support group run by Benanti and becomes friends with another member of the group, a lesbian widow played by Ms. White. The show...
Theater Editor & Columnist
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This year’s fall TV lineup boasts an exciting number of Broadway stars popping up in the mix, particularly in new shows. I’d like to introduce some of these theater vets to avid TV fans — not only to support Broadway actors but also to see if they can, through their TV work, lure TV viewers out of the house and into a Broadway show (or several!).
Tony winners Laura Benanti (Broadway’s Gypsy, Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown) and Julie White (TV’s Grace Under Fire and Broadway’s The Little Dog Laughed) are coming to TV on a series called Go On, starring Matthew Perry (TV’s Friends). In the show, Perry’s character joins a support group run by Benanti and becomes friends with another member of the group, a lesbian widow played by Ms. White. The show...
- 9/20/2012
- by Sam Negin
- Scott Feinberg
You think you know three-time Tony Award Nominee Marin Mazzie from her corseted characters in Ragtime and Passion or maybe from the scene-chewing screwballs of Kiss Me Kate and Spamalot or possibly you thought you gained a glimpse of her as the valium-induced bipolar star of Next To Normal heaven help us if that is really her in the guise of Margaret in Carrie. Come see and hear the real Marin Mazzie as she steps back into her formative years with an evening of fun and fantasy as we get inside the head of a Midwest girl and the music she loved. Mazzie will play 54 Below through September 8.BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below...
- 9/6/2012
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie Kiss Me Kate, Ragtime, Passion, Carrie, platinum Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ann Hampton Calloway Swing, legendary jazz vocalist, pianist and composer Barbara Carroll, andcelebrated piano-vocalist Tony DeSare Our Sinatra, Talk Show Confidential gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below earlier today.BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below...
- 9/4/2012
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
The upcoming Broadway revival of Annie has found its Daddy Warbucks. Australian actor Anthony Warlow makes his Broadway debut alongside Katie Finneran and Lilla Crawford when Annie bows on November 8 at the Palace Theater.
Warlow’s more than familiar with the famously cue-balled role: he’s currently playing Warbucks in a regional production in Melbourne, and his take on classic Warbucks songs like “NYC” and “I Don’t Need Anything But You” can be heard on the Aussie cast recording released earlier this year.
The new production of Annie features direction by James Lapine (Into The Woods, Passion) and choreography...
Warlow’s more than familiar with the famously cue-balled role: he’s currently playing Warbucks in a regional production in Melbourne, and his take on classic Warbucks songs like “NYC” and “I Don’t Need Anything But You” can be heard on the Aussie cast recording released earlier this year.
The new production of Annie features direction by James Lapine (Into The Woods, Passion) and choreography...
- 6/5/2012
- by Marc Snetiker
- EW.com - PopWatch
In addition to the previously announced new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapines musical Passion with Judy Kuhn and Melissa Errico, directed by John Doyle, CSCs 20122013 Season will feature Anton Chekhovs Ivanov, with Ethan Hawke, directed Austin Pendleton, and Bertolt Brechts The Caucasian Chalk Circle, featuring a new score by acclaimed singersongwriter Duncan Sheik and directed by Brian Kulick.
- 5/31/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1994, Passion opened at the Longacre Theatre, where it ran for 97 performances. Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore. Passion is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with Sweeney Todd and Road Show. Set in 19th century Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by the obsessive love of Fosca, his Colonel's homely, ailing cousin.
- 5/15/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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