Tag: musical theater

Four pros model their favorite outfits for every audition.

Have you dreamed of being on Broadway since before you can remember? This could be your chance. School of Rock (aka that hilarious old Jack Black movie with kids so cute you can’t help but watch each and every time it’s on TV) is coming to The Great White Way in November, and the show […]

(Photo by Troy Phillips & Akimitsu Sadoi, courtesy Nick Adams) Few dancers have musical theater resumés as impressive as Nick Adams’. Originally from Erie, PA, Adams graduated from The Boston Conservatory in 2005, and just two weeks later was touring internationally with Chicago. He soon joined Chicago’s Broadway cast, and during the next four years, […]

The musical theater gods have showered us with love—or, rather, with two behind-the-scenes videos from Christopher Wheeldon’s new An American in Paris! And their timing is perfect: The show opens tonight in The City of Lights. I prefer the video with Wheeldon (the show’s director) and Craig Lucas (the show’s writer) talking about the production—because […]

Putting a new spin on Annie, a show from the 1970s—which in turn was based on a comic strip from the ’20s—is no easy feat. After all, it’s hard to think of little orphan Annie without her signature red hair and old-timey catchphrases. When the latest film version of Annie hits theaters this month, though, […]

You guys. Remember when I told you the greatest musical of all time (imo) is coming back? Well, in honor of Cats‘ upcoming West End revival this December, PBS re-aired it’s glorious 1998 film of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best work (also imo) on Friday night. (If you missed it, consider adding the DVD to your […]

Have you guys ever found a new dancer you love and had one of those where-have-you-been-all-my-life moments? Well, if you’re like me and that dancer is Daniel “Cloud” Campos (which you should be because…have you seen this guy?!), you’re a little late to the game. Cloud has been around for a while—appearing in Step Up […]

Think classic Broadway, and the tune “New York, New York” from On the Town probably comes to mind. Based on Jerome Robbins’ ballet Fancy Free, On the Town, with music by Leonard Bernstein, hit the Great White Way in 1944 and was later made into a movie starring Gene Kelly. This fall, On the Town […]