Sayonara, Ken

The King and I at the Tonys

Thanksgiving Parade - The Performances

Here's a collection of performances from both the CBS and NBC broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade held yesterday in NYC.

Nice Work If You Can Get It with Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara:


ELF the Musical:


The Cast of Bring It On the Musical:


The Cast of ANNIE:


The Cast of ONCE featuring Steve Kazee and Cristin Millioti:


Cinderella featuring Laura Osnes, Victoria Clark and Santino Fontana:


Newsies:

Nice Work

Snapshots from the Broadway Flea Market 2010

The Broadway Flea Market was last Sunday at Shubert Alley and 44th St. Lani and I enjoyed browsing the tables as well as talking to some Broadway people. Here are some photos of the event:


2010 Broadway Flea Market Poster


Jim Caruso and Bebe Neuwirth at the Celebrity Table


Crowd at Shubert Alley

Broadway Bears table

the other Broadway Bares table

a tank top worn by Daniel Craig in A Steady Rain being auctioned (I heard it sold for $ 6,500)

Megan Sikora (Promises) and Bebe Neuwirth (The Addams Family) hosting the auction at Shubert Alley

Jerry Mitchel (Legally Blonde and the upcoming Catch Me If You Can) at the Broadway Bares table

tons of playbills, cds and other theatre memorabilia

busy 44th St.

Sh-K-Boom Records table

Cookies from an Old Lady from Tales from the Tunnel table

we found this amusing....the box said SUTTON FOSTER did not wear these CLOTHES!

Maddie's Corner table

Kristin Chenoweth at Maddie's Corner table

Seth Rudetsky at the Chatterbox table

tap shoes from Billy Elliot

Some photos from the Broadway Celebrity table:

Kate Baldwin

Julia Murney

Kelli O'Hara

Ann Harada

Donna Murphy

DVR Alert: South Pacific on PBS

The Tony Award winning revival production of South Pacific at Lincoln Center will come to viewer's homes this Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 8pm via PBS. It is part of the PBS series Live at Lincoln Center. The wonderful Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot have come back to the production to reprise their roles as Nellie Forbush and Emile De Becque for the filming. Too bad they weren't able to have Matthew Morrison to reprise his role as Lt. Cable. The show itself is closing this Sunday Aug.22, 2010 catch it one more time before it closes! To check show times and local listings please click here.

(photo from LCT.org)

Sending Shivers Down My Spine

About two years ago. The place....Joe's Pub. The song.....Bohemian Rhapsody. Sung by......Aaron Tveit, Gavin Creel, Alice Ripley, Julia Murney, Kelli O'Hara and Amy Spanger. Oh and Tom Kitt on the piano. So much awesome in one song!

Kelli O'Hara Sings God Bless America

Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific, Light in the Piazza) sings God Bless America at Game 6 of the World Series last Wednesday.

Movie Musical Watch: Clear Blue Tuesday

An Indie pop/rock movie musical, Clear Blue Tuesday explores the lives of eleven New Yorkers after Sept. 11 forces them to examine why they moved to New York and whether they'll stay. It sprawls over the course of six years, each year on a Tuesday in September, as they try to achieve the dreams that drew them to the city.

From the press notes: Through personal journeys, Clear Blue Tuesday explores the difference between the goals we pursue and what makes us happy and how the expanding gap between the two becomes more visible against the backdrop of catastrophic world events.

The movie cast is composed of a plethora of theatre actors Erin Hill, Vedant Gokhale, Cassandra Kubinski, Brother Love, Jeremy Schonfeld, Julie Danao-Salkin, Jan O'Dell, Greg Naughton, Asa Somers, Becca Ayers and Robert Hager. Plus cameos from Kelli O'Hara, James Naughton, Julia Murney and Christopher Hanke to name a few.

To check out the trailer click here (be patient it takes time to load). There is a premiere on Sept. 10 in NYC according to this post by one of the cast but more info from this page.

(photos from ClearBlueTuesday.com)

An Enchanting Evening Indeed

This is so overdue!

So last Oct. 2, 2008 I saw South Pacific with Mike and Tom at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre of Lincoln Center. It's the second production of the show that I had seen (the first one was from Repertory Philippines with a very young Lea Salonga as Liat). It is a very exquisite production of the show. The music is so beautiful specially when you hear it with the original orchestrations and that 30 piece orchestra! In fact the most thrilling part for me during the night was when *** spoilers *** the overture played and the thrust stage was retracted revealing the orchestra. The audience that night exploded with applause at that moment (I have heard though that, that happens every night). It is so refreshing to hear that full rich music in that theatre.

The show is perfectly casted Kelli O'Hara is wonderful as Nellie Forbush with her crystal clear soprano while Paulo Szot is commanding as Emile De Becque. Loretta Ables Sayre (Bloody Mary) and Danny Burstein (Luther Billis) were both funny and good in their roles. Even the ensemble of guys and gals were excellent. Our Lt. Cable that night was Andrew Samonsky who had the privilege of singing my favorite song in the show.....Younger Than Springtime. He has a very beautiful voice that will make you fall in love ha ha ha! I should say though that we were sitting on the last row of the balcony and the actors didn't seem to be mic'd (which was nice to hear a more natural sound) but I could still hear every note of a song and every word of the dialogue......just unbelievable!

The set is amazing! Now I know why it won the Tony for set design beating Sunday In The Park with George. The set really does transport you to an island.....with a beach, an army camp, army trucks and an airplane....it could very well give the helicopter from Miss Saigon a run for it's money.

If you get a chance don't pass this up. It's amazing to see one of the classic pieces of musical theatre done very well.

I didn't go to the stagedoor but here are some pictures I took that night:


The front of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre


The wall by the box office


the Understudy board


the lobby before the show started


there was so much construction at the site but this is the marquee