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Feinstein'S54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents Pump Boys And Dinettes Reunion Concert featuring original castcreators Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Jim Wann,John Foley, and John Schimmel, with Bob Stillman. Pump Boys And Dinettes ran for 577 performances on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony for Best Musical in 1982. It was the first Broadway hit written and performed by Actor-Musicians and is considered a pioneering work in that regard. The LondonWest End production was nominated for an Olivier for Best Musical, 1985, and the Toronto version won Canada's Dora Award for Best Musical shortly after. Since then it has been produced across the country and around the world, became Chicago's longest-running musical for decades and remains a perennial favorite. This concert version will feature the entire score and is directed by JoAnn M. Hunter.

First up in Encores 2017 season is Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Tony Award-winning musical based onMark Twain's classic American novel. Big River will starNicholas Barasch,Patrice Covington,Andrew Cristi,Wayne Duvall,Mike Evariste,Charlie Franklin,Annie Golden, Katherine A. Guy,Megan Masako Haley,Adrianna Hicks,Zachary Infante,Gizel Jimenez,Andrew Kruep,John-Michael Lyles,Cass Morgan,Tom Nelis,David Pittu,Tom Alan Robbins,Horace V. Rogers,Kyle Scatliffe,Christopher Sieber, andLauren Worsham.

First up in Encores 2017 season is Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Mark Twain's classic American novel. Big River will star Nicholas Barasch, Patrice Covington, Andrew Cristi, Wayne Duvall, Mike Evariste, Charlie Franklin, Annie Golden, Katherine A. Guy, Megan Masako Haley, Adrianna Hicks, Zachary Infante, Gizel Jimenez, Andrew Kruep, John-Michael Lyles, Cass Morgan, Tom Nelis, David Pittu, Tom Alan Robbins, Horace V. Rogers, Kyle Scatliffe, Christopher Sieber, and Lauren Worsham.

First up in Encores 2017 season is Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Tony Award-winning musical based onMark Twain's classic American novel. Big River will starNicholas Barasch,Patrice Covington,Andrew Cristi,Wayne Duvall,Mike Evariste,Charlie Franklin,Annie Golden, Katherine A. Guy,Megan Masako Haley,Adrianna Hicks,Zachary Infante,Gizel Jimenez,Andrew Kruep,John-Michael Lyles,Cass Morgan,Tom Nelis, David Pittu,Tom Alan Robbins,Horace V. Rogers,Kyle Scatliffe,Christopher Sieber, andLauren Worsham.

Next up in the Encores season isDo I Hear a Waltz, the romantic, rarely-seen 1965 musical that marked the only collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. Do I Hear a Waltz will star Claybourne Elder, Melissa Errico, Sarah Hunt, Zachary Infante, Cass Morgan, Richard Poe, Michael Rosen, Sarah Stiles, and Richard Troxell. The ensemble includes Kristine Bendul, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Jenny Laroche, Jennifer Locke, Nathan Madden, Skye Mattox, Devin Roberts, Manny Stark, and Alex Wong.

Paper Mill Playhouse's spring musical, Pump Boys And Dinettes, begins tonight, featuring James Barry Jim,Gabe Bowling Jackson, Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam WeberEddie. Pump Boys And Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys And Dinettes is directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys And Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater through May 1, 2016. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside opening night below...

Paper Mill Playhouse's spring musical, Pump Boys And Dinettes, begins tonight, featuring James Barry Jim, Gabe Bowling Jackson, Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam WeberEddie. Pump Boys And Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan,John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys And DINETTESisdirected by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys And Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater through May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10.Check out highlights from the production below...

Paper Mill Playhouse'sspring musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes, begins tonight, featuring James BarryJim, Gabe Bowling Jackson,Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam Weber Eddie. Pump Boys and Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys and Dinettes will be directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys and Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theaterthrough May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10, at 700pm. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the production below...

Encores Artistic Director Jack Viertel today announced casting for the Encores production of Do I Hear a Waltz, the romantic, rarely-seen 1965 musical that marked the only collaboration of Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim. Do I Hear a Waltz will star Claybourne Elder, Melissa Errico, Sarah Hunt, Zachary Infante, Cass Morgan, Richard Poe, Michael Rosen, Sarah Stiles, and Richard Troxell. The ensemble includes Kristine Bendul, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Jenny Laroche, Jennifer Locke, Nathan Madden, Skye Mattox, Devin Roberts, Manny Stark, and Alex Wong.

Paper Mill Playhouse will soon present its spring musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes, featuringJames BarryJim, Gabe Bowling Jackson,Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha UmphressRhetta and Sam Weber Eddie. Pump Boys and Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick,Debra Monk,Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann.Pump Boys and Dinettes will be directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys and Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater from April 6 through May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10, at 700pm. Paper Mill Playhouse's 2015-2016 Season is proudly sponsored by Investors Bank.

Paper Mill Playhouse has announced casting for its spring musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes. This Tony Award nominee features James Barry Jim, Gabe Bowling Jackson, Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam Weber Eddie. Pump Boys and Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys and Dinettes will be directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys and Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater from April 6 through May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10, at 700pm. Paper Mill Playhouse's 2015-2016 Season is proudly sponsored by Investors Bank.

Feinstein's54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents an evening with Paul Williams, Lisa Howard, Cass Morgan, Steven Booth, Lesli Margherita, Kate Wetherhead, Robb Sapp, Daniel Torres, Stephen Bienskie, Kevin Covert, Leo Daignault, Kevin Zak, Jeff Hiller and Sheri Sanders as well as muppeteers Tyler Bunch, Anney Ozar, David Stephens, Matthew Furtado, Kristin Feeney and James Silson in 'Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas In Concert' tonight, December 15, 2015 at 930 pm doors at 845 pm.

This just in New York City Center's acclaimed Encores Off-Center series, under the artistic direction of Jeanine Tesori, will return this summer for a second season of landmark Off-Broadway musicals. The season opens with Jonathan Larson's tick, tick Boom, June 25 - 28, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo, directed by Oliver Butler, and continues with a one-night only performance of Randy Newman'sFaust The Concert, with Randy Newman as the Devil, directed by Thomas Kail, on July 1. Pump Boys and Dinettes, withbook, music and lyrics by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann , directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford, wraps up the season, running July 16 - 19. Chris Fenwick is the Encores Off-Center music director.

The Bridges of Madison Countybegins previews on Friday, January 17, 2014 and opens on Thursday, February 20, 2014, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 236 West 45th Street. The complete casting includes Kelli O'Hara as Francesca Johnson, Steven Pasquale as Robert Kincaid, Hunter Foster as Bud Johnson, Cass Morgan as Marge, Michael X. Martin as Charlie, Caitlin Kinnunen as Carolyn, Derek Klena as Michael, as well as Whitney Bashor, Jennifer Allen, Ephie Aardema, Katie Klaus, Luke Markinovich, Aaron Ramey, Dan Sharkey, Tim Wright, Jessica Vosk, Charlie Franklin, and Kevin Kern.The company met the press earlier today and you can check out phtoos from the festivities below...

Producers Jeffrey Richards, Stacey Mindich, and Jerry Frankel announced today that Cass Morgan and Michael X. Martin will join the cast of The Bridges of Madison County, the new musical based on the best selling novel by Robert James Waller. Morgan and Martin will play the roles of Marge and Charlie, the nosy neighbor and her husband to the Johnson family.

As the Broadway production of Mary Poppins comes to a close, we asked current and original principle cast members, as well as current cast members who have been with the show since day one, to share with us some memories and tell us what being a part of the magic has meant to them. Original Bird Lady, Cass Morgan, shared...

The York Theatre Company will present the first reading of new works in the new program Neo Reading Series Saint Ex, with Book amp Lyrics by Sean Berry and Music by Jenny Giering. Directed by Kent Nicholson with music direction by Matt Castle, the cast will feature Alex Gemignani Assassins in the title role, with Haley Bond Yorks Pietro DAmore, Charlie Brady Les Misrables, Amy Justman Company, Carl Kimbrough A Christmas Story, tour, Omar Lopez-Ceparo American Idiot, Cass Morgan Memphis and Krysta Rodriguez The Addams Family. Composer Maury Yeston Dreamgirls acted as mentor John Arthur Pinkard is the producing mentor. One night only performance set for Monday, December 17th at 700 p.m at The York Theatre at Saint Peters Citicorp Building, entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue.

Abby Lee, David B. Brode and Executive Producer Tom Viertel just announced that the hit 1982 Tony nominated Best Musical Pump Boys And Dinettes will return to Broadway this spring at a theatre to be announced. Conceived and written by the original company, John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Tony Award winner Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann, Pump Boys And Dinettes will be presented in a new production with direction and musical staging by Tony Award winner John Doyle.

York Theatre Company, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti The Tom Jones Festival, presents the third musical in the spring series the New York Premiere of Harold and Maude, with Book amp Lyrics by Tom Jones and Music by Joseph Thalken Was, Songs from an Unmade Bed, based on the screenplay by Colin Higgins. BroadwayWorld caught the show's stars on opening night. See pictures of Matt Dengler, Cass Morgan, Donna English, Joseph Thalken, Tom Jones and more below...

Broadway's Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations, comes to Thirteen's Great Performances Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS check local listings. Featuring the original Broadway cast, including Tony nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover, as well as Derrick Baskin, J. Bernard Calloway, James Monroe Iglehart, Michael McGrath and Cass Morgan. Memphis is the historic first Best Musical Tony Award winner to air on U.S. national television with its original principals while simultaneously continuing a successful Broadway run and national tour.

Nancy Opel will return to the company of the 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical Memphis as Mama. Opel will begin performances today. Current Mama Cass Morgan played her final performance on Sunday, February 12th. Opel returns from a leave of absence where she appeared in David Bryan and Joe Dipietros The Toxic Avenger at The Alley Theater in Houston, TX...

The 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical Memphis announced today that Nancy Opel will return to the company as Mama. Opel will begin performances on Tuesday, February 14th. Current Mama Cass Morgan will play her final performance on Sunday, February 12th. Opel returns from a leave of absence where she appeared in David Bryan and Joe Dipietros The Toxic Avenger at The Alley Theater in Houston, TX.

Chicago – Sometimes high energy and spirited charisma are enough to redeem a mediocre musical, and that is precisely what “Memphis” has in spades. It’s not a wholly derivative show by any means, but it does tread through familiar troubled waters. Modern Broadway classics like “Hairspray” have already effectively illustrated that “Rock ’n’ roll is just Negro blues sped up.”

That memorable line is delivered late in “Memphis” by Felicia Ferrell (Montego Glover), a black club singer who becomes a singing sensation once she’s discovered by a smitten white DJ, Huey Calhoun (Chad Kimball), a character loosely based on Dewey Phillips. Racial tensions dissolve as music proves to be a uniting force. Yet while still under the threat of attacks in the ’50s-era South, Huey and Felicia must decide whether to stay put or make the move to the Big Apple.

Blu-ray Rating: 3.5/5.0

The plot unfolds precisely as one would expect,...

The 2010 Tony Award winning Best Musical Memphis previously announced that original Broadway cast member, and Outer Critics Circle Nominee, Cass Morgan will return to the company as Mama. Morgan will begin performances tonight, December 15th. Nancy Opel played her final performance on Sunday, December 11th, before taking a leave of absence to appear in David Bryan and Joe Dipietros The Toxic Avenger at The Alley Theater in Houston, TX. Opel is expected to return to her role in Memphis in February, 2012.

Chicago – In our latest direct-from-Broadway edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 15 admit-one passes up for grabs to the Chicago and Chicagoland screenings of the theatrical “Memphis” in HD! This special event will play for four nights only at dozens of theatres across Chicago and Chicagoland.

To win your free screening pass to “Memphis” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! These passes are valid at various screening times from Thursday, April 28, 2011 through Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at dozens of participating theatres across Chicago and Chicagoland. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The theatrical “Memphis” direct from Broadway in HD.

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Here is the synopsis for the new theatrical release of “Memphis”:

“Memphis” takes place in the smoky halls and underground clubs of the...

"The challenge in doing a Stephen Sondheim show is that the bar is raised so high," says Aaron Lazar, who plays the buffoonish Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in the Broadway revival of "A Little Night Music." "You want to make Steve happy; you want him to approve. Some great actors have been part of Steve's work. You want to feel you have been cast well."It's a tall order, but no taller than the challenges facing five other singing actors appearing on the Main Stem in productions representing an array of musical genres—from punk rock to rhythm and blues to golden oldies of the 1950s. Lazar, who is a veteran musical-theater performer, says Sondheim's lyrics are so specifically written for each character, "if you lose your place, it's not easy to ad-lib. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't going over the words to the songs backstage before I go on.

The popular Rock ?n' Roll, Country and Blue Grass music revue, Pump Boys And Dinettes, will preview May 28, open June 4 and run through August 2 at Drury Lane Oakbrook, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, Il. Pump Boys And Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hadwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel, and Jim Wann, who also starred in the original Off-Broadway production, which later went on to Broadway and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Musical of 1982 and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Musical for 1981-82.