Tag Archives: Broadway

Courtesy of Universal Studios, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is the DVD of NBC’s The Sound Of Music – Live!, which is available today online and at retailers nationwide. The hills are alive again with the DVD release of the amazing LIVE broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC, starring Grammy® winner Carrie Underwood, the multi-talented Stephen Moyer, …

Via Broadway Cares: The 25th anniversary celebration of Gypsy of the Year, the culmination of six weeks of extraordinary fundraising by 56 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies, raised an amazing $4,343,234 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. On December 9 and 10, 2013, the show’s energetic opening number featured Klea Blackhurst as Ethel Merman comparing gypsies of her day …

Clip recap: “BD Wong wrote and directed this special holiday music video to showcase our Performance Ensemble students at Rosie’s Theater Kids. Music and lyrics by the wonderful Steve Karmen and Nancy Coyne. Happy Holidays, everyone!” (Tipped by JMG reader Nathaniel)

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Just in via email: The annual tradition for family entertainment had a not-so-discrete agenda this time around. This year’s parade chose to send a Politically Correct message, but their plan backfired and the statement they really sent to families is that Macy’s cannot be trusted. “Raise You Up” was not suitable for families for many reasons. The inappropriate act starred …

Newsday reports on The Sound of Music Live!, which airs on Thursday at 8PM. NBC has a lot riding on this one. The production boasts two directors (Broadway vet Rob Ashford, who worked with the cast on character, and Beth McCarthy-Miller, who has helmed live shows including “Saturday Night Live”) — six lavish sets (Alps, abbey, and so on, constructed …

Wingnuts yesterday took to Twitter and Macy’s Facebook page to scream with outraaaaaage because the Thanksgiving parade featured a performance by the cast of Kinky Boots.

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Clip recap: Who could get Broadway icons Julie Andrews, Gwen Verdon, Bernadette Peters and Angela Lansbury together for the holidays? Why, only Broadway Cares, of course, and the exclusive Broadway Legends ornament set (with some special assistance from theatre favorite Christine Pedi.) Whether your special someone loves one-of-a-kind Broadway memorabilia or collects every original cast recording, you’ll find whatever is …

For those unaware, those statues are part of George Segal’s Gay Liberation monument in Christopher Park, which is in Sheridan Square in the West Village. Stewart had a scene with the statues in the 1995 movie, Jeffrey. (Via Towleroad)

The Lion King has become the first Broadway show in history to have grossed a billion dollars. Via Playbill: “This humbling milestone is a testament to the vision and artistry of Julie Taymor,” said Thomas Schumacher, president and producer of Disney Theatrical Productions, in a statement. “For nearly 17 years she has been The Lion King‘s guiding creative force and …

Via Towleroad.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will hold the 27th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction on September 22nd in Times Square. Free and open to the public, the annual event takes place from 10 AM – 7 PM in the heart of the theatre district along West 44th Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue) and in Shubert Alley. One of …

Tickets go on sale next month. (I think the picture is a photoshop)

Clip description: “The male cast of King Kong: The Musical perform Big Spender from Sweet Charity at Twisted Broadway Melbourne, an annual charity event raising money for Oz Showbiz Cares / Equity Fights AIDS.”

Going viral this weekend with almost 300K views is a clip from Kristen Chenoweth’s Friday night concert at the Hollywood Bowl. When musicians call audience members up on stage to perform with them, the results are usually fun but a little cringe-worthy. During the show, she [Chenoweth] called Southern California resident Sarah Horn to the stage and invited her to …

A Christian school in Nebraska has allegedly fired its superintendent for appearing in a local production of The Producers.  Because that show is gay, apparently. Harold Scott has been an educator for 22 years and superintendent at the school started by Calvary Community Church since 2011. In an email response to questions Wednesday, he said he was told the reason …

Here’s an except from Harvey Fierstein’s interview with Michelangelo Signorile: “It seemed to me a really good time for us as a community to say, ‘You know what boys? Time to stop fucking with us,’” he said, also backing the boycott of Stolichnaya Vodka that has taken off worldwide. “It’s time for them to stop to making money. Time for …

Fabulous: “You will be popular, the right kind of popular. I’ll teach to zip your fly, you won’t be that guy, with a camera down his pants.”

“Look at that asshole [Orson Scott Card] that wrote this new Harrison Ford movie [Ender’s Game]. I think that you can have any opinion you want, but at least be willing to take the consequences of your opinion. It’s like, ‘Well, I hope that people will be more understanding,’ or what did he say? ‘More tolerant of my views.’ The …