Hottest Articles on BWW from Sunday, May. 27

1) BWW TV: Broadway Salutes the Troops at Fleet Week- Part 2; PORGY & BESS, ANYTHING GOES, and More!

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, this week celebrated the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is America's premier tribute and "thank you" to the men and women who serve in the armed forces, and BroadwayWorld was there this afternoon for a special tribute to the troops from Broadway. Check out performances from the casts of ANYTHING GOES, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, and PORGY AND BESS below! (more...)

2) FLASH SPECIAL: A Jeff Calhoun Celebration - From GREASE to NEWSIES

Today, as a sideline to this weekend's extensive, exhaustive and exclusive InDepth InterView Tony Awards Edition: Jeff Calhoun, we are shining a special spotlight on the career of Calhoun on the Great White Way thus far with an electrifying collection of clips beginning with his collaborations with master director/choreographer Tommy Tune on THE Will Rogers FOLLIES - today's 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown dedicatee - and BUSKER ALLEY, through to his directorial debut with GREASE and his subsequent work on ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, BELLS ARE RINGING, TABOO, GREY GARDENS, BIG RIVER, NINE-TO-FIVE and this year's twofer of new musicals that he directed and choreographed, the recently-closed BONNIE & CLYDE and the still-running mega-hit NEWSIES. As a performer, Calhoun appeared in Tune productions like MY ONE AND ONLY and THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS - as well as the montage film ARIA - but, unquestionably, he is most well-known and best-loved by Broadway babies for his visionary work on so many new and original musicals, as well as some stupendous revivals along the way, as well. Cowboys to call girls to Pink Ladies; Boy George to Huck Finn to Edie Beale - this collection has it all! (more...)

3) Twitter Watch: Annette O'Toole-Michael McKean's 'Surgery Went Great'

On Twitter Watch, Annette O'Toole wrote of Michael McKean "Surgery went great. He took 4 steps just now. Sitting in chair. Very good attitude. Sends his love." (more...)

4) STAGE TUBE: Cast of BRING IT ON Tour Talks Being On the Road

In celebration of Bring It On: The Musical getting its marquee this week, Spencer Howard of TripKnowledgy: The Science of Suitcase Living, interviewed cast members of the Bring It On tour about their favorite parts of being on the road. Hear what Taylor Louderman, Elle McLemore, Ryann Redmond, Michael Mindlin, and Neil Haskell have to say in the video below! (more...)

5) 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - Day 16: NINE Is A 10 (Twice)

Today we are continuing our 30-day Tony Awards countdown - ending, of course, on the 2012 Tony Awards, June 10 - with a salute to a Tony-winning Best Musical directed and choreographed by the one and only Tommy Tune and composed by Maury Yeston - NINE. Based on Federico Fellini's 8 ½, NINE is a surrealistic concept musical that concerns itself with the mid-life crisis of a glamorous Italian film director and the many, many women in his life - his wife, his mother, his mistress, his muse, his agent and many, many more. (more...)

6) BWW Awards Update 5/27 - 7 Days to Go!

Voting opened on May 3, 2012 and runs through June 4, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards! Here are the current standings as of 5/27 with just 7 days to go in voting! (more...)

7) STAGE TUBE: Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the nation's top acting talents known for playing extremely varied roles in film and on stage, including Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar, and Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt, which earned him an Oscar nomination, speaks with Mo Rocca about his Tony Award-nominated performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway. (more...)

8) BROADWAY CLEANS HOUSE Yard Sale Benefits Humane Society Today, 5/27

Broadway Cleans House, a yard sale featuring items from Broadway performers, takes place today, Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm at Pearl Studios in New York City. Organized by Kate Shindle (Wonderland, Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Jekyll & Hyde), the sale will feature donations and sale items from cast members of Godspell, The Addams Family, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, A Chorus Line, and many others. Expect to find one-of-a-kind opening night presents and show relics, along with clothes, books and furniture (more...)

9) BWW Reviews: TANGENT, New Diorama Theatre, May 25 2012

Gary Naylor sees an ambitious new play carried off with aplomb. (more...)

10) Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise Hosts PBS's NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT Tonight, 5/27

On the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded line-up will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated programs, the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT. The program is co-hosted for the seventh year by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna (CRIMINAL MINDS) and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise (CSI:NEW YORK) (more...)

11) BWW's On This Day - May 27, 2012

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 27 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)

12) Lillias White Celebrates THE NIGHT AFTER THE TONYS at Catalina Jazz Club, 6/11

Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret proudly present Broadway diva Lillias White: The Night After The Tonys, as she belts out the best of Broadway and Jazz, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, for one performance only, on Monday, June 11. Showtime is 8pm, with cocktail and dinner service beginning at 6:30pm. (more...)

13) Trevor Nunn to Direct ALL THAT FALL, Starring Eileen Atkins & Michael Gambon at Jermyn Street, Oct 9-Nov 3

On the back of Jermyn Street Theatre's recent announcement of the UK premiere of Henrik Ibsen's comic fantasy St John's Night, to be staged this July, the smallest theatre in the heart of the West End announces another major production for this autumn. Three giants of the British stage come together as Trevor Nunn directs Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon in All That Fall, a radio play by Samuel Beckett. The work, which has never been seen in London before, continues and extends this small and intimate theatre's burgeoning reputation for attracting the very best talent in British theatre in order to rediscover and stage lesser-known works by major writers. Jermyn Street's production of ALL THAT FALL will play 9th October - 3rd November, with press night set for 11th October at 7.30pm. (more...)

14) Photo Flash: Ana Gasteyer and Brian d'Arcy James at Bay Street Theatre

Ana Gasteyer, from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and SUBURGATORY and Brian d'Arcy James from the new hit series SMASH performed to a sold-out crowd last night, May 26, at Bay Street Theatre. " Gasteyer and James mingled with the crowd, including actress Blythe Danner, at the post-show VIP soiree. Among the evenings attendees, Board Chairman Frank Filipo, Board Member Jane Holden as well as Hamptonites Bruce Sloan and Sal & Mary Lou Ranieri; and Matt McGrath, a Bay Street Theatre Artistic Associate and the director of the upcoming Mainstage production of Polly Draper in MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE, by Geraldine Aron. See below for photos from the after-party! (more...)

15) Peter Mac Celebrates Bea Arthur & Judy Garland's 90th Birthdays, Today, 5/27

Bea Arthur would have turned 90 years old on May 27, 2012. To celebrate her birthday, actor D.J. Schaefer is transformed as Bea Arthur and will join Judy Garland played by rewound tribute artist, Peter Mac in a very special show Bea Arthur and Judy Garland: Tribute Artists Celebrate 90th Birthdays. (more...)

16) Photo Flash: Bootleg Theater Extends EVANGELINE, THE QUEEN OF MAKE-BELIEVE thru 6/2

Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe — The songbook of Grammy Award winners David Hidalgo and Louie Perez of Los Lobos drives Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, a multimedia play with music that takes its title from the group's 1985 rocker "Evangeline." Evangeline, a devoted daughter by day, a Hollywood go-go dancer by night. A journey of self discovery by a young Chicana, whose neighborhood roots and make-believe world collide when she experiences the West Side art scene and the music of the Sunset Strip, is set against the 1968 student walkouts in East L.A. and the fight for equal education and civil rights. Two performances have been added to Bootleg and About Productions' show, Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2, both at 7 pm. (more...)

17) Photo Flash: Yes, and ... Productions Kicks Off LA Premiere of ORDINARY DAYS

Yes, And … Productions, led by Helen H. Ota and Michael C. Palma, presents the Los Angeles premiere of the musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon at the Imagined Life Theater now through June 10, 2012. See photos from the production, which opened last night, May 26, below! (more...)