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“Kid Cabarets: Broadway Youth Live” BroadwayCon Panel Announced, Tyra Polke on “A Home for the Holidays” CBS Special, and more!

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Alumni and current Broadway and Off-Broadway kids Joshua Turchin (Forbidden Broadway, The Pill), Audrey Bennett (Frozen, Amelie), Swayam Bhatia (Really Rosie, Dream Street), Grace DeAmicis (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Bonale Fambrini (Radio City Christmas Spectacular, The King and I), Carly Gendell (School of Rock), Gianna Harris (School of Rock), Kaylin Hedges (Kris Kringle), and Madeleine Pace (The Hard Problem) will take part in the BroadwayCon panel “Kid Cabarets: Broadway Youth Live” on January 26th at 10am!

Tyra Polke (A Christmas Story Live) danced during the CBS special “A Home for the Holidays” last night, hosted by Idina Menzel! Catch the full special on CBS Online.

Check out the theme song for “John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch”:

And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Waitress, A Christmas Carol, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Our Dear Dead Drug Lord!







YBAN at LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE with Levi Smith, Pictures from the Kids of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and more!

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Happy first night of Hanukkah to all who are celebrating! Chag Sameach!

Young Broadway Actor News founder Lindsay went to see Levi Smith (A Bronx Tale) in Love Actually Live at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills! The show runs through December 29th; get tickets HERE.

And here are pictures from the kids of A Christmas Carol, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Waitress, and Our Dear Dead Drug Lord!









Alexander Bello, Jonah Mussolino, and Chinua Baraka Payne Cast in CAROLINE, OR CHANGE; Sophia Anne Caruso and Julia Nightingale Guest Star on “Evil”; and more!

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Congratulations to Alexander Bello (The Rose Tattoo, All My Sons), Jonah Mussolino (A Bronx Tale), and Chinua Baraka Payne (The Lion King), who have been cast in the upcoming revival of Caroline, Or Change! Check out the casting announcement on Playbill.com.

Last night, Sophia Anne Caruso (Beetlejuice) and Julia Nightingale (Generation Me) guest starred on “Evil” on CBS!

Isabella Iannelli (The Rose Tattoo) performed at a special party for the upcoming “In The Heights” movie! The first trailer for it is also out now, with Isabella as well as Gregory Diaz IV (Matilda, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown), Reyna Guerra (Runaways), Kevin Tellez (On Your Feet), and Jordan Vergara (On Your Feet)!

 

 

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Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) is up for Broadway.com’s Star of the Year! Vote now!

“Ship: A Visual Poem,” with Antonio Watson (Tina), will play Sundance! Get more details on Variety.com.

Young Broadway Actor News founder Lindsay had a blast hanging out with alum Ella Dane Morgan (Waitress) and her mom Laura in Los Angeles, enjoying boba and shaved ice!

Sophia Anne Caruso and Presley Ryan made a TikTok with their Beetlejuice co-star Alex Brightman and Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris!

Here’s the trailer for “John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch,” with kids from The Lion King, Mrs. Doubtfire, and more!

Suri Chen (Miss Saigon) modeled for The Children’s Place!

 

Check out these videos from the most recent “Switched” at 54 Below!

And here are photo and video highlights from this year’s Red Bucket Follies!

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY to Play West Palm Beach Ahead of Returning to NYC, Kids’ Night on Broadway Tickets Now on Sale, and more!

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Forbidden Broadway, with Joshua Turchin, will play in West Palm Beach, Florida, from December 27-31 before it returns to New York City!

Tickets for Kids’ Night on Broadway are now on sale! Get yours HERE.

The Broadway Star Project released two new albums recently, featuring kids from School of Rock, Once, and more! You can purchase CDs for both “The Broadway Star Experience” and “The Holiday Star Experience” now!

Get to know Ella Rubin (The Rose Tattoo) on BroadwayBox.com!

Winter Donnelly (Frozen) has booked an Off-Broadway show! More details to come.

Check out these performance videos from “Switched!” at 54 Below:

And here’s a picture from the kids of A Christmas Carol!

Andrew Barth Feldman to Depart DEAR EVAN HANSEN in January, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY to Move to the York Theatre Company, and more!

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Andrew Barth Feldman will play his final performance of Dear Evan Hansen on January 26th. Go see him before then if you can!

Forbidden Broadway will move to the York Theatre Company! Get more details HERE.

What the Constitution Means to Me and The Inheritance made Time’s Best Theater Performances of 2019 list, while Make Believe was included on The New York Times’s Best Theater of 2019 list!

Watch Kylie Kuioka (Panama Hattie) sing “Not for the Life of Me” at “Switched!” at 54 Below:

Here’s Joshua Turchin (Forbidden Broadway, The Pill) and Ellie Kim (School of Rock, Dream Street) singing “Suddenly Seymour” at “Switched!” at 54 Below:

Congrats to Lily Buchanan (The Underlying Chris), who appeared on a recent episode of the TV series “Tricked”!

Earlier this week, Presley Ryan performed “Say My Name” and “Dead Mom” with her Beetlejuice castmates at Broadway Under the Stars, a free event at The Shops at Columbus Circle!

YBAN has created a playlist of holiday songs from musicals like Elf and A Christmas Story, tracks from “Carols for a Cure” and “The Holiday Star Experience,” and singles/EPs released by the kids of Broadway and Off-Broadway! We’ll be updating it throughout the season. Give a listen HERE!

“Sunny Side Up,” with Nia Sioux (Trip of Love), has arrived on Brat TV!

Congrats to Dayton Tavares (Billy Elliot), who has been cast in Magic Mike Live, which will open in Melbourne in May 2020 and then tour through Australia!

Here’s a sneak peek of Suri Marrero (Frozen) in “John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch”!

The Seattle run of Mrs. Doubtfire has extended through January 4th! Find out more on BroadwayWorld.com.

Emerson Steele (Violet) is producing a show at 54 Below called “I Am Woman”! It will take place on February 23rd. Get tickets HERE!

Sophia Anne Caruso (Beetlejuice) is on the cover of Visual Tales Magazine!

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The newest episode of the podcast “Little Known Facts” features Ella Rubin (The Rose Tattoo)! Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com.

Here’s a peek at “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” with alum Jenna Weir (Frozen), coming to Amazon Prime on December 6th and PBS Kids on December 7th!

Madison Elizabeth Lagares (School of Rock, On Your Feet) sang the National Anthem for a recent Knicks game over the weekend!

And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Dear Evan Hansen, Frozen, A Christmas Carol, and Radio City Christmas Spectacular!






YBAN at THE UNDERLYING CHRIS, Final Episode of Andrew Barth Feldman’s Vlog Series, and more!

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I caught last night’s performance of The Underlying Chris and had a great time! Great job, Isabella Russo and Nicholas Hutchinson!

Also, congratulations to Lily Buchanan and Oumar Ibn, who are understudying the roles of “Christine and others” and “Philip and others” (respectively) in the show!

Here’s the last episode of Andrew Barth Feldman’s Dear Evan Hansen vlog series!

Congrats to Jordan Cole (School of Rock), who guest starred on last week’s episode of “Ray Donovan”!

And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Waitress, Tina, and more, including lots of kids volunteering with Broadway Serves!





Raigan Olivia Saunders-Newton and Sophia Rodriguez Depart and Delaney Quinn and Scarlett Sher Return to WAITRESS, and more!

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Happy Trails to Raigan Olivia Saunders-Newton and Sophia Rodriguez, who played their final performances as Lulu in Waitress this past weekend! We can’t wait to see what’s next for both of you!

Please welcome back to the diner Delaney Quinn and Scarlett Sher, who will finish out the run of Waitress as the final Lulus on Broadway!

Jai Ram Srinivasan (A Christmas Carol) is featured in the Loudon Times-Mirror!

MTI has acquired Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be licensed to schools, community theaters, and more! Get more information on Playbill.com.

And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Waitress, A Christmas Carol, Beetlejuice, The Rose Tattoo, and more, including photos of the kids of Broadway and Off-Broadway seeing The Gazillion Bubble Show at New World Stages!





THE INHERITANCE Opens on Broadway, Suri Marrero and Jesus Del Orden Depart THE LION KING, and more!

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Happy Opening to Ryan Buggle, Tre Ryder, and the company of The Inheritance! Break a leg!

Happy Trails to Suri Marrero and Jesus Del Orden, who played their final performances of The Lion King today! You can see Suri performing in Frozen, and Jesus, we can’t wait to see what’s next for you!

Mehret Marsh will make her debut as Young Anna Mae in Tina very soon! Here are her scheduled performance dates:

  • November 19-25
  • December 3
  • December 4 (matinee only)
  • December 10-13
  • December 14 (matinee only)

And here are pictures from the kids of Waitress, A Christmas Carol, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Beetlejuice!







TINA Opens on Broadway, A CHRISTMAS CAROL Begins Previews, and more!

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Happy Opening to the company of Tina! Break a leg, everyone!

Break a leg as well to A Christmas Carol, which begins previews tonight!

Get your tickets HERE to see Erica Simone Barnett (Matilda) and Leonay Shepherd (Little Miss Sunshine) in Kidz Theater’s A Chorus Line this December!

Check out photo coverage from “Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway,” with Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), on Broadway.com!

Roman Engel (Radio City Christmas Spectacular) appears in the new Apple TV+ show “Helpsters,” from the creators of “Sesame Street”!

Bella May Mordus (Make Believe, The Ferryman) recently filmed a commercial!

And here are pictures from the kids of A Christmas Carol and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

Brie Zimmer Performing in “Thoughts and Prayers: A Concert to Disarm Hate” Tonight, Amaris Sanchez Cast in Chopin Theatre’s THE NUTCRACKER, and more!

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Brie Zimmer (Happy Birthday, Wanda June) is performing in “Thoughts and Prayers: A Concert to Disarm Hate” tonight! Get more details on the event HERE.

Chicago! Amaris Sanchez (On Your Feet) has been cast in The Nutcracker at Chopin Theatre this holiday season! Get tickets HERE.

Bella May Mordus (Make Believe, The Ferryman) got to sing at one of Waitress‘s recent Cast Album Karaokes!

Check out these video highlights from Fear!

A Christmas Carol will offer rush tickets!

You could perform Beetlejuice in your community in the near future through MTI! Get more details on BroadwayWorld.com.

And here are pictures and videos from the kids of Forbidden Broadway, The Lion King, and The Rose Tattoo!