The National Tour of Anastasia had its official opening night in Schenectady, New York last week The production stars Lila Coogan as Anya, Stephen Brower as Dmitry, Jason Michael Evans as Gleb, Joy Franz as Dowager Empress, Tari Kelly as Countess Lily, Edward Staudenmayer as Vlad and Victoria Amelia Bingham as Little Anastasia. The ensemble includes Brianna Abruzzo, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Alison Ewing, Peter Garza, Jeremiah Ginn, Brett-Marco Glauser, Lucy Horton, Mary Illes, Fred Inkley, Kourtney Keitt, Beth Stafford Laird, Mark Mackillop, Kenneth Michael Murray, Taylor Quick, Claire Rathbun, Michael McCorry Rose, Matt Rosell, Sareen Tchekmedyian, and Addison Mackynzie Valentino.
- 10/17/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
You don’t have to be a Broadway baby to scratch your onstage acting itch. In fact, all around the country—and outside of it—there are bustling theater communities producing works so vibrant they’d have Edward Albee rolling over in his grave. Want in on that action? You’d be wise to know the ins and outs of industry happenings, and this is a good place to start: From across the pond and back again, here is the week’s biggest regional theater news. ‘Anastasia’ will journey across the country.While it still journeys to the past every night on Broadway, “Anastasia” is gearing up for its first national tour and has announced complete casting for the year-long run. The principal cast will be led by Lila Coogan as Anya/Anastasia, Stephen Brower as Dmitry, Jason Michael Evans as Gleb, Joy Franz as Dowager Empress, Tari Kelly as Countess Lily,...
- 7/31/2018
- backstage.com
Broadway legend Joy Franz, who starred in the original and revival companies of Into the Woods on Broadway, is the final cast member to join Tim Realbuto's July 24th star-studded 54 Below show entitled Tim Realbuto Alone With Plenty of Help. Throughout the evening, each guest star will play a different person in Tim's life. Franz will play Tim's mother.
- 7/16/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Celebrating its 10th anniversary season, this month at the Hudson Guild Theatre 441 West 26th Street, the White Horse Theater Company will present an exciting new production of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'night, Mother which will star Broadway veteran Joy Franz as Thelma, with Laura Siner playing daughter Jessie who previously starred in White Horse's acclaimed In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. The production will run from tonight, May 3-May 19 and will feature direction from White Horse's Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion, who will be staging a bold, visually alluring version of the dramatic work, heightening the theatricality and sharpening the focus on Jessie's looming bedroom door.
- 5/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Celebrating its 10th anniversary season, this May at the Hudson Guild Theatre 441 West 26th Street, the White Horse Theater Company will present an exciting new production of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'night, Mother which will star Broadway veteran Joy Franz as Thelma, with Laura Siner playing daughter Jessie who previously starred in White Horse's acclaimed In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel. The production will run from May 3-May 19 and will feature direction from White Horse's Producing Artistic Director Cyndy A. Marion, who will be staging a bold, visually alluring version of the dramatic work, heightening the theatricality and sharpening the focus on Jessie's looming bedroom door.
- 3/25/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The York Theatre Company James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Andrew Levine, Executive Director continues the Winter 2013 Musicals in Mufti Series with the 1956 musical hit, Happy Hunting, with book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey and music by Harold Karr. Directed by David Glenn Armstrong and with music direction by David Andrews Rogers, the cast stars Klea Blackhurst, and will feature Janine Divita, Joy Franz, Jessica Grove, Sean Martin Hingston, Michael McCormick, Heather Parcells, Andrew Samonsky, Eric Sciotto, Michael Sharon and Lynne Wintersteller.
- 3/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
In the spring of 2010, LG Electronics hoped to revive the classic soap opera model. The third largest mobile phone manufacturer's overly dramatic daytime series, The Young and the Connected was to air on a major Us network, showcasing how unbelievably attractive and incredibly privileged 20-somethings incorporate internet-enabled mobile devices into their lives. But, two days before filming, the network axed the production. LG was left with just enough footage to cobble together a web series that could be broadcast online and in between programs on a major UK network. At least that's how the fake press release reads. In reality, there never was any television production. UK creative agency, Rkcr/Y&R specifically created The Young and the Connected to live on YouTube and run as a series of idents for LG on the UK's channel 4. Directed by Sam Cadman at Rogue Films, the series is meant to show 16 to...
- 8/16/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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