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The search for Broadway's Biggest Fan is over. After the Broadway.com staff watched all of the video submissions, former Broadway.com vloggers Michael James Scott and Casey Likes, along with current Broadway.com vlogger Isabelle McCalla, convened to select the winner. They selected Molly Carter from Fort Pierce, Florida, who’ll be visiting Broadway in person for the first time.
Molly wins roundtrip airfare for two to New York City, two tickets to three current Broadway shows (Aladdin, Back to the Future and Water for Elephants), a three-night hotel stay at a 4-star Midtown hotel in ..read more
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Age: 29
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Credits: Trey Curtis made his professional acting debut in the Facebook Watch series Five Points. He performed in the third national tour of Hamilton, which traveled to Puerto Rico and featured the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, in the title role. Before landing that role himself on Broadway, Curtis understudied a number of the principal roles at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, including John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson and Hercules Mulligan/James Madison. Curtis records and releases his own music as TREY.
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Opening-night celebrations abound this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. But amid all the carousing, we still found time to check in on old friends, peek inside Broadway’s glitziest new musical and enjoy an exclusive in-studio performance from a citizen of Oz.
Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner Jessica Lange, star of Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, sits down with host Fadal for a conversation about her latest Broadway project. Hear how she’s settling in as matriarch of Paula Vogel’s challenging family story.
On the opening-night front, it’s back-to-back red-carpet revels: Join the resist ..read more
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This year's instalment of Broadway Bares, the industry’s annual, one-night-only striptease event, is embracing a Las Vegas theme. Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip, created by director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, will take place on June 23 at Hammerstein Ballroom. There will be two performances, at 9.30pm and midnight.
As previously reported, the Pride Month event will be directed by The Lion King dance captain and veteran Broadway Bares performer Kellen Stancil, with Paula DeLuise as associate director. Stancil will be joined by the choreographers John Alix, Mike B ..read more
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A new musical comedy created by Marla Mindelle, the writer and original star of the off-Broadway hit Titanique, will open off-Broadway. The Big Gay Jamboree, directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher, features a book by Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage, with music and lyrics by Mindelle and Philip Drennen. Performances will begin at the Orpheum Theatre on September 14 with an official opening night set for October 1.
In The Big Gay Jamboree, Mindelle plays Stacey, who wakes up hungover in an off-Broadway musical. With no memory of how she got there, Stacey is forced to put her BFA in t ..read more
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The Great Gatsby, now running at the Broadway Theatre, will release an Original Broadway Cast Recording this summer with Sony Masterworks. Featuring music and lyrics by Tony Award nominees Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, the digital album is set for release on June 21 with the physical CD arriving August 2. The CD is now available for pre-order.
Directed by Marc Bruni, The Great Gatsby is a musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's seminal American novel, set in Jazz-Age New York. The production stars Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada as Jay Gatsby and Daisy ..read more
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At the close of every Broadway season, fans across the globe bestow the most democratic theater award of the year. The Broadway.com Audience Choice Award is the only major theatrical prize awarded solely by votes cast online by audience members.
Awards are presented in traditional categories along with several unique ones, including Favorite Diva Performance, Favorite New Song, Favorite Breakthrough Performance, Favorite Funny Performance and Favorite Onstage Pair. An award is also presented for national tours to encourage the participation of Broadway fans not only in New York but across the ..read more
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Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's hit downtown farce about First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, will move to Broadway this summer for a limited engagement. Following its twice-extended world premiere at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the production will take up residence at the Lyceum Theatre for 12 weeks. Previews begin June 26 ahead of a July 11 opening, with performances set to run through September 15.
Escola leads Oh, Mary! as a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in ..read more
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Illinoise, the dance-centric musical adaptation of Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois, opens April 24 at the St. James Theatre. Its matinee performance will mark both its very first Broadway performance and its official opening. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Justin Peck with a book by Peck and Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury, Illinoise comes to Broadway following successful runs at Bard College's Fisher Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and New York City's Park Avenue Armory.
Set around an intimate campfire, Illinoise h ..read more
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Illinoise, the dance-centric musical adaptation of Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois, opens April 24 at the St. James Theatre, the night of its very first Broadway performance. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Justin Peck with a book by Peck and Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury, Illinoise comes to Broadway following successful runs at Bard College's Fisher Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and New York City's Park Avenue Armory.
Set around an intimate campfire, Illinoise harnesses dance and music to delve into themes of se ..read more