Category Archives: Musicals
‘Breakup Notebook’: Musical resonates with the lonesome of all
Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 By Peter Filichia/For The Star-Ledger Everyone who’s ever been dumped — and doesn’t that include all of us? — is going to adore “The Breakup Notebook.” The new musical at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park is a complete triumph. Librettist Patricia Cotter and songwriter Lori Scarlett admit in their opening [...]
Larsen-Elliot Musical CLOAKED at the Village Theatre
Washington State’s Village Theatre, which helped give life to the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, will develop the new musical Cloaked by writers Danny Larsen and Michelle Elliott. Cloaked, a psychological thriller about an online connection, was first developed in a reading as part of the 2010 Festival of New Musicals. The [...]
Kleban goes to Gwon, Elliott
Composer-lyricist Adam Gwon and book writer-lyricist Michelle Elliott have been named this year’s winners of the Kleban Prize, with each set to receive $100,000 over two years. Gwon, whose tuner “Ordinary Days” was seen in a 2009 run at Gotham’s Roundabout Theater, scored the Kleban prize for lyricist, while Elliott, the book writer-lyricist of NAMT [...]
Nominees Announced for Inaugural Off Broadway Alliance Awards
Congratulations to Susan DiLallo! The Off Broadway Alliance has announced the nominees for the 1st Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off-Broadway between May 1, 2010, and May 1, 2011. Best Musical Revival A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Read more…
Joan Cushing in First Stage’s 25th Season
from Broadwayworld.com First Stage celebrates its 25th season in 2011-2012, continuing its mission of transforming lives through theater by creating exceptional theater experiences for young people and families through live, professional Theater Productions that engage, enlighten and entertain. The season concludes with a lively musical adaptation of DIARY OF A WORM, A SPIDER, AND A [...]
