Congratulations to Demi Singleton, Sophia Kekllas, and Michael Cascetta, who will all make their Broadway debuts in School of Rock! Congrats also to Ruth Righi, who will move from playing Sophie to Marcy in the show!
Eleanor Koski (Les Miserables) will appear on the premiere episode of “Alex Inc.” on ABC this fall! Congrats, Ella!
The cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will sell cookies at Schmackary’s tomorrow from 5-7pm for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS! Get more details on BroadwayBakes.com. Also, Anthony Rosenthal (Falsettos) was at Schmackary’s yesterday for Broadway Bakes!
It’s time to vote in BroadwayWorld’s Theater Fans’ Choice Awards! Vote HERE.
Check out videos from A Bronx Tale performing at Barnes & Noble on Playbill.com!
Shane Davis (Matilda) is featured in ACT Magazine! Check it out:
Congratulations to If I Forget and Anastasia, which both won Outer Critics Circle Awards! If I Forget won for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Anastasia won for Outstanding Projection Design. Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com!
Congrats to alumni Gaten Matarazzo (Les Miserables, Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Caleb McLaughlin (The Lion King, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek), and Sadie Sink (The Audience, Annie), whose show “Stranger Things” won Show of the Year at the MTV Movie & TV Awards!
Lots of our featured shows and kids have been nominated for Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards! Here they are:
Favorite New Musical: Amelie, Anastasia
Favorite Musical Revival: Falsettos, Miss Saigon, Sunday in the Park with George
Favorite Long-Running Show: Kinky Boots, The Lion King, Waitress
Favorite Leading Actor in a Musical: Christian Borle for Falsettos, Jake Gyllenhaal for Sunday in the Park with George
Favorite Leading Actress in a Musical: Christy Altomare for Anastasia, Annaleigh Ashford for Sunday in the Park with George, Phillipa Soo for Amelie
Favorite Featured Actor in a Musical: Ramin Karimloo for Anastasia, Derek Klena for Anastasia, Andrew Rannells for Falsettos
Favorite Featured Actress in a Musical: Stephanie J. Block for Falsettos
Favorite Funny Performance: Stephanie J. Block for Falsettos, John Bolton for Anastasia, Christian Borle for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Favorite Diva Performance: Stephanie J. Block for Falsettos
Favorite Onstage Pair: Christy Altomare and Derek Klena for Anastasia, Annaleigh Ashford and Jake Gyllenhaal for Sunday in the Park with George, Christian Borle and Andrew Rannells for Falsettos
Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Male): Jon Jon Briones for Miss Saigon; Jake Ryan Flynn, Ryan Foust, and Ryan Sell for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Anthony Rosenthal for Falsettos
Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Female): Savvy Crawford for Amelie, Eva Noblezada for Miss Saigon
Favorite Replacement (Male): Todrick Hall for Kinky Boots
Favorite Replacement (Female): Sara Bareilles for Waitress, Jenna Ushkowitz for Waitress
Favorite Tour: Fun Home, currently starring alum Alessandra Baldacchino (Fun Home, A Little Princess)
Congrats to Jake, Ryan, Ryan, Anthony, Savvy, Ali, and all the kids in these shows! Get more details about the nominations on Broadway.com.
Check out Alyssa Marvin (Dream Street, Number the Stars) performing “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas” at Tunes in Times Square!
Here’s Dante Melucci (School of Rock), Evie Dolan (School of Rock), and Jersey Sullivan (School of Rock) performing “Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind” from Spring Awakening at Tunes in Times Square!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Les Miserables, A Bronx Tale, Once, On Your Feet, The Lion King, The King and I, Anastasia, and Waitress, including many from Tunes in Times Square!
Remember to tune in to the Drama Desk Award nominations, streaming on TheaterMania beginning at 10am EST tomorrow morning! Get more details HERE.
Samara has extended its run through May 14th! Find out more on TheaterMania.com.
Watch the full episode of “The Americans” featuring Mavis Simpson-Ernst (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, Evita, A Little Princess) on FXNetworks.com!
Check out pictures of the cast of Waitress celebrating the show’s 1-year anniversary on BroadwayWorld.com!
The Lion King took home Best Presentation at this year’s BC/EFA Easter Bonnet Competition, and Sunday in the Park with George raised the second most amount of money! Find out more about the Easter Bonnet results on Playbill.com.
Gabby Pizzolo (Fun Home, Matilda) has joined the cast of a reading of Pamela’s First Musical! Find out more about the reading and the show, based on a children’s book by Wendy Wasserstein, on Playbill.com.
Congratulations to Luca Padovan (School of Rock, Newsies), who has been cast in Marvin’s Room! The show will bow on Broadway this summer with Roundabout Theatre Company. Also, Luca talked about what it’s like to be a kid on Broadway on Backstage.com!
Take a look at some pictures from yesterday’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular for the role of Clara!
Ethan Haberfield (Mary Poppins) and Analise Scarpaci (Matilda, A Christmas Story) will host A Time To Shine on May 7th! The lineup includes Jeremy Todd Shinder (Runaways, A Christmas Story). Get more details:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has announced that they will record a cast album and that they will begin a policy for rush tickets! Get more details about both on TheaterMania.com.
Happy 40th Anniversary to Annie, which originally opened on Broadway on this day in 1977!
“Shadowhunters,” starring Broadway alum Katherine McNamara (A Little Night Music), has been renewed for its third season! Find out more on Deadline.com.
The casts of Kinky Boots, The Lion King, A Bronx Tale, and many other shows will perform at this year’s Easter Bonnet Competition! In addition, Waitress and Sunday in the Park with George will be among the shows honored in a bonnet parade. Find out more on BroadwayWorld.com.
Check out Austyn Johnson (Matilda, Dream Street) featured in US Weekly!
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And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Sunday in the Park with George, Miss Saigon, Amelie, Anastasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Waitress, School of Rock, and Kinky Boots!
Happy Trails to Graydon Peter Yosowitz (You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown) and the company of The Light Years, which closed at Playwrights Horizons tonight! We can’t wait to see what’s next for you, Graydon!
And here are pictures and videos from the kids of The Lion King, Waitress, School of Rock, Kinky Boots, On Your Feet, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Amelie!
Check out these pictures and videos from the kids of Waitress, The Lion King, On Your Feet, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Miss Saigon, School of Rock, Anastasia, and Sunday in the Park with George!
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