You can vote for “Dancing with the Stars Juniors,” with Artyon Celestine (A Christmas Story Live), and “Stranger Things,” with Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Caleb McLaughlin (The Lion King, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek), and Sadie Sink (Annie, The Audience), in the 2019 Kids’ Choice Awards! Vote HERE.
All performances from the recent “Now & Then” concert, featuring current Broadway kids and former Broadway kids now all-grown-up, are available on YouTube! Check out the full playlist HERE.
Benjamin Harding (Matilda) is appearing in Urinetown at Chamblee Charter High School in Chamblee, GA, next week! Get tickets HERE.
And here are pictures from the kids of Kinky Boots, The Lion King, The Ferryman, Dear Evan Hansen, and What the Constitution Means to Me!
The cast of The Ferryman will include Audrey Bennett (Frozen, Amelie), Will Coombs (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, A Bronx Tale), Carly Gold (Fun Home tour), Matilda Lawler, Bella May Mordus (Grinch tour), and Brooklyn Shuck (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Tuck Everlasting, Les Miserables, Matilda, Annie)! Alum Trevor Braun (Billy Elliot, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) has also joined the cast. Get more details on Broadway.com!
An open call for dancers ages 15-25 for the upcoming West Side Story remake will take place in Brooklyn! Find out more on Playbill.com.
Check out this group photo from “Now and Then” at 54 Below, and keep an eye on our page for videos coming soon! (Photo Credit: BroadwayGirlNYC)
Rileigh McDonald (Good for Otto, Matilda) will guest star on “Law and Order: SVU” on September 27th!
Happy Trails to Victoria Collett and Katie Grober, who played their final performances as Lulu in Waitress today, and Brooklyn Shuck, who took her final bow in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child today as well! We can’t wait to see what’s next for all of you!
“Now and Then” is tonight at 54 Below, pairing up current Broadway kids with former Broadway kids for duets! Get more details HERE.
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Waitress, School of Rock, and The Lion King!
Check out photos from the first official curtain call of Gettin’ The Band Back Together on BroadwayWorld.com!
BroadwayWorld also has pictures from the show’s opening night party HERE!
And here’sSawyer Nunes chatting about Gettin’ The Band Back Together!
The kids of School of Rock and the teens of Gettin’ The Band Back Together will be performing at Broadway in Bryant Park tomorrow at 12:30pm! Get more details HERE.
NYC Broadway Week is back! Get 2-for-1 tickets for select Broadway shows from September 3rd to 16th. Purchase your tickets now!
Former Broadway kids from Matilda, Les Miserables, and more will perform at 54 Below on August 18th in “Back to Before”!
Also coming up soon for our featured kids and alumni at 54 Below, “Now And Then”!
“The Super,” with Mattea Conforti (Frozen, Matilda, Sunday in the Park with George) and Taylor Richardson (Annie, Smokefall, A Christmas Memory), will arrive in movie theaters on October 19th! Find out more information on Deadline.com.
YBAN’s founder Lindsay got to watch GiaNina Paolantonio (Matilda) film an episode of Nickelodeon’s “Lip Sync Battle Shorties”! Look for her episode this fall during the show’s second season!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Once On This Island, School of Rock, Waitress, Frozen, Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Mary Page Marlowe, The Lion King, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!
We now have more videos from Cabaret for a Cause! First, here’s Madilyn Jaz Morrow (Matilda) performing “Lifeboat”:
Check out Mavis Simpson-Ernst (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, A Little Princess, Evita) singing “Hold Me Now” and accompanying herself on guitar:
Several of our alumni are slated to guest star on two different episodes of “Sesame Street”! One of them will feature Shahadi Wright Joseph (Hairspray Live, School of Rock, The Lion King), Eduardo Hernandez (Really Rosie, On Your Feet), and Tori Feinstein (Matilda), along with tour kid Ellie Poon (A Christmas Story tour). The other will feature Ellie Kim (School of Rock, Dream Street) and Ava Della Pietra (School of Rock). Find out more below!
Also, Abbey was spotlighted on LoHud.com recently! Check out the article HERE.
A Christmas Story Live kids Hayley Shukiar and Marcello Silva are from the same town, and their town’s newspaper, the Thousand Oaks Acorn, featured them! Read the article on TOAcorn.com.
Austyn Johnson (Matilda, Dream Street) spoke about “The Greatest Showman” with MyTwinTiers.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of A Christmas Story Live, Cabaret for a Cause, Frozen, School of Rock, and the original Broadway cast of A Christmas Story!
Happy birthday to Kevin Tellez (On Your Feet)! We hope you had a great day, Kevin!
Get your tickets for Lyrics for Life now! It’s almost sold out. It will feature Oona Laurence (Matilda), Annabelle Kempf (Billy Elliot), Laurissa Romain (South Pacific), Ashley Brooke (Doctor Zhivago, Dream Street), Sumaya Bouhbal (Runaways), Mavis Simpson-Ernst (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Evita, A Little Princess), GiaNina Paolantonio (Matilda), Elizabeth Crawford (Tuck Everlasting), Christie Kim (The King and I), Sophie Knapp (Once, A Little Princess, Dream Street), Abbey Rose Gould (A Little Princess), Peyton Ella (The Sound of Music LIVE, A Little Princess), Ethan Haberfield (Mary Poppins), Frenie Acoba (Runaways, Matilda), Taylor Caldwell (Runaways, School of Rock), Chris Sumpter (Runaways, Matilda), Luka Kain (South Pacific), Stephen Sayegh (A Little Princess), and more to be announced! Find out more on the Facebook event.
Anthony Rosenthal‘s Broadway debut in Falsettos is featured on Playbill.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of On Your Feet, School of Rock, Fun Home, Les Miserables, Kinky Boots, Matilda, Falsettos, and The Lion King!
Tonight at 8:00pm, Tori Murray (Ruthless!) was in “All In with Cam Newton” on Nick!
You now have until July 10th to watch the live stream of She Loves Me on BroadwayHD! Find out more about it on Playbill.com.
The physical cast album of Waitress is out now!
Broadway For Orlando and Matilda performed at Broadway in Bryant Park yesterday! Check out pictures on Playbill.com.
Check out production photos from Runaways on Playbill.com!
Click HERE to find out about a special opportunity to see an ASL-interpreted performance of Runaways tomorrow!
Did you know that Runaways cast member Kylie McNeill‘s mother was in the original cast of Runaways in 1978? Read more about Kylie’s mom and other original cast members HERE!
Watch this short film from the kids of Fun Home!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of School of Rock, Runaways, New York Spectacular, and Les Miserables!
We hope the company of Tuck Everlasting had a great closing show today! Congrats on a great run, and we can’t wait to see what’s next for all of you!
YBAN’s founder Lindsay saw Fun Home and Les Miserables today, and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown yesterday! She had a great time–here are some pictures!
Lindsay also met Casey Butler (Finding Neverland)! Here they are together:
Here’s Brandon Niederauer (School of Rock) playing “Slight Return” at a New York Knicks game!
Watch Sophia Anne Caruso (Runaways, Lazarus, The Nether, The Sound of Music LIVE, Ruthless!) cover “Songbird” in the video below!
The kids of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown talked to Times Square Chronicle about their show! Read the article HERE.
Jeremy Shinder (Runaways, A Christmas Story) appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” recently! Watch below:
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Matilda, Finding Neverland, The King and I, Tuck Everlasting, School of Rock, Les Miserables, New York Spectacular, Waitress, and Fun Home!
The all-teen cast of Runaways has been announced! It will feature MJ Rodriguez, Frenie Acoba (Matilda), Taylor Caldwell (School of Rock), Sophia Anne Caruso (Lazarus, The Nether, The Sound of Music LIVE, Ruthless!), Aidan Gemme (You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Finding Neverland, Waiting for Godot, Mary Poppins), Matthew Gumley (The Addams Family, Mary Poppins, Elf, Beauty and the Beast), Sam Poon (The King and I, Macbeth), Jeremy Shinder (A Christmas Story), Ripley Sobo (Matilda, Once), Chris Sumpter (Matilda), Sumaya Bouhbal, Kenneth Cabral, Maxwell Cabral, Xavier Casimir, Joshua DeJesus, Adleesa Edwards, Reyna Guerra, Christina Jimenez, Kylie McNeill, Cele Pahucki, Siena Rafter, Claudia Ramirez, Ren, Deandre Sevon (Mother Courage and Her Children), and Maxwell Vice. Get more information on Broadway.com!
— Ruthless!The Musical (@RuthlessMusical) May 25, 2016
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of She Loves Me, Kinky Boots, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Tuck Everlasting, Matilda, and School of Rock!
Happy first performance to the company of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown! Break a leg!
Tuck Everlasting has announced that it will play its final performance this weekend. Go see it while you have the chance, it’s amazing! Get more information on BroadwayWorld.com.
Teen Mash Mob, with special guest Brandon Niederauer (School of Rock), will be held on June 2nd! Find out more on TheWaster.com!
Get a peek at the kids of The King and I singing “Getting to Know You” with Marin Mazzie below or on NYTimes.com!
Bonale Fambrini (The King and I) took part in the Caesar and Cleopatra reading with Gingold Theatrical Group’s Project Shaw! Get more details and check out pictures on BroadwayWorld.com.
Get to know Luca Padovan (School of Rock, Newsies) in a feature on Playbill.com!
Check out fan gifts and Dollar Friday on “Forever 17,” courtesy of Tuck Everlasting, on Broadway.com!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Finding Neverland, She Loves Me, Violet, Tuck Everlasting, Matilda, School of Rock, and The Gray Man!
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