Thanksgiving is less than a week away and we’re getting pretty psyched about our favorite turkey-day tradition: watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! The entire production is always spectacular, but we’re especially looking forward to the performances by Broadway casts. We reached out to Macy’s to get the scoop on which shows we’ll see this […]
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“I usually play the crazies, or I’m dancing around onstage in my underwear,” says Savannah Wise of her Broadway career. From Sherrie, a small-town girl turned rocker babe in Rock of Ages, to the seductive Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime, Savannah has a penchant for playing off-the-wall characters. But this year, her stage personality shifts as […]
You’ve been dancing your whole life, so when it comes time to start auditioning for musicals, it’s not the dance portion you’re worried about. You can time step and piqué turn with the best of ’em. But at musical theater auditions, there’s new lingo to learn, and you can’t just show up with your tap […]
After much anticipation, the comic book musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally crawls onto Broadway November 14. With mastermind Julie Taymor (The Lion King) in the director’s chair and a score by Bono and The Edge of U2, the show promises to be a bold, high-octane adventure. Newcomer Reeve Carney takes on the […]
As the holiday season approaches, what better way to get into the spirit than with Buddy the Elf? But you don’t have to watch the beloved film for the thousandth time to get your dose of Buddy and company—Elf is now a Broadway show! The stage version of the movie, which quickly became a Christmas […]
At the beginning of Broadway’s Memphis, the curtain opens on a soulful shindig at an underground nightclub. With grooving dancers in jewel-toned costumes everywhere, it’s hard to know where to look. That is, until Vivian Nixon appears. With her gorgeous legs and movement that alternates between fluid and explosive, whenever Vivian’s onstage it’s hard not […]
Paul McGill in “Fame” (Saeed Adyani) Triple threat Paul McGill, one of the brightest stars in the new remake of Fame (and one of the “Broadway Babies” from DS’s 2007 July/August issue), has had the kind of career every Broadway hopeful dreams about. The Pittsburgh native started training in tap, jazz, ballet and tumbling at […]