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‘The Who’s Tommy’ Stage Musical Targets A 2021 Return To Broadway
Des McAnuff, the two-time Tony Award winner who directed the original Broadway staging of The Who’s Tommy, will direct a new production of the musical for 2021, producers Hal Luftig and Patrick Catullo announced today.
"Our new production of Tommy will be a reinvention aimed directly at today," said McAnuff in a…
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Des McAnuff Will Lead Donna Summer Bio-Musical To Broadway In April
SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical will open on Broadway at the Nederlander Organization’s Lunt Fontanne Theatre on April 23, following previews slated to begin March 28. A developmental production of the new musical ends a twice-extended engagement at the La Jolla Playhouse on Christmas eve.
Featuring a book by Colman…
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‘Jersey Boys’ Will Shutter In January After 11 Seasons On Broadway
Jersey Boys, the most successful jukebox show Broadway has produced and a global phenomenon later revisited in Clint Eastwood’s less successful 2014 film, will end its record-breaking 11-year run on January 15, 2017. The 12th-longest running show in Broadway history, it will have played 4,642 performances at Jujamcyn…
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Marshall Brickman’s Roy Rogers Musical Sets Creative Team Topped By Des McAnuff
The happy trails to Broadway may have turned into a long and winding road but writer Marshall Brickman’s biotuner project about cowboy and cowgirl marrieds Roy Rogers and Dale Evans is back on track with a fleshed out creative team. Brickman (Annie Hall, Jersey Boys, etc.) and producer Larry Spangler have signed…
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Broadway’s Carole King Role Goes To ‘Superstar’s Mary Magdalene
Chilina Kennedy, who played Mary Magdalene in Des McAnuff’s Stratford-to-Broadway transfer of Jesus Christ Superstar, is set to take over for Tony winner Jessie Mueller in Beautiful — The Carole King Musical. Mueller, who along with the biomusical got a big thumbs up from the “You’ve Got A Friend” writer, departs…
Des McAnuff Leads ‘Dr. Zhivago’ Musical To Broadway – UPDATE
UPDATE, 9:30 AM with more info: After eight years of development, director Des McAnuff and a creative team that includes playwright and screenwriter Michael Weller, composer Lucy Simon and lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers will bring their musical adaptation of Dr. Zhivago to the Broadway Theatre in the spring…
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