Tag Archives: Susan Stroman

Musical Notes: 19 May 2010

Index Paradise Found at the Menier Chocolate Factory … p.2 Charles Strouse in Hospital … p.3 Reading of Alyss Cancelled … p.3 New Mamma Mia! Website Launched … p.3

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THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS on Broadway Next Season

There may be two theatres opening up on Broadway next next week – the Circle in the Square Theater and the Henry Miller’s Theater – but Off-Broadway’s The Scottsboro Boys won’t make the transfer to the Great White Way this … Continue reading

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PHOTOS: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

With the show having opened Off-Broadway last night, it’s time for us to see what The Scottsboro Boys looks like for ourselves. Here’s a gallery of photographs by Carol Rosegg and Richard Termine. With a book by David Thompson, The … Continue reading

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Official Casting News for PARADISE FOUND

The Menier Chocloate Factory has officially announced casting for the world premiere or Paradise Found and revealed a few new details about the plot. Kate Baldwin, John Cullum, Shuler Hensley and Judy Kaye will all join Mandy Patinkin in the … Continue reading

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Menier’s PARADISE FOUND Dates – a confirmation?

It’s not exactly the newest news – dates aside, all else is pretty much the same news we’ve been hearing about Paradise Found since last September – but Baz Bamigboye is reporting it in The Daily Mail anyway: Broadway star … Continue reading

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NEWSFLASH: Previews start for THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

The new Kander and Ebb musical (with book by David Thompson), The Scottsboro Boys, begins previews today Off-Broadway in the Vineyard Theatre. The show deals with the famous “Scottsboro” case of the 1930s, in which a group of young African … Continue reading

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NEWSFLASH: Full Production for THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

The Vineyard Theatre has announced that The Scottsboro Boys, the John Kander-Fred Ebb-David Thompson musical that received an invitation-only reading in June, will have its debut as a fully-staged production at their Off-Broadway theatre in 2010. Susan Stroman will direct … Continue reading

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PARADISE FOUND at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Harold Prince has announced that Paradise Found, the musical he is to co-direct with Susan Stroman, will have its debut at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory – so says Variety‘s Richard Ouzounian, who got the news straight from the horse’s mouth … Continue reading

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NEWSFLASH: A “New” Kander and Ebb Musical

The Vineyard Theatre has announced that it will host a reading of John Kander, Fred Ebb and David Thompson’s The Scottsboro Boys on June 26 at 15:00. The subject matter of the show – the 1930s “Scottsboro case”, which saw … Continue reading

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Michael John LaChiusa and the “Faux Musical”

Opera News published a super article by Michael John Lachiusa about the state of musical theatre. Entitled “The Great Grey Way”, the article is essential reading for anyone interested in musicals and how they are developing in this new century. … Continue reading

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