Archive for 2010

We’re Just Saying

A Look at Broadway’s Ups and Downs during the week

Hunter Foster started a Facebook campaign to “Give The Tonys Back to Broadway!” inspiring both praise and insult to many of this year’s winners.  Debaters on both sides had one thing to say, who is Hunter Foster?

Both the shows Nunsense and Broadway Bares celebrated anniversaries this year, 25 and 20 years respectively.  Together, these summer shows have been able to celebrate 45 years of Dancers with Naughty Habits.

Leap of Faith casting was announced with Raul Esparza and Legendary Film and TV Star Brooke Shields, to which Hunter Foster announced, that’s ok with me.

Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein have teamed up to write a musical based on the British Film, Kinky Boots, about a drag queen that helps save his father’s shoe factory.  What? Did you expect those two to write a musical about a poor Midwestern family struggling in a bad economy?

After many entrances and exits, the remake of the film Footloose is a-go with a new up and coming star, Kenny Wormald, to which we wonder, how Six Degrees of Kenny Wormald sounds to the next generation?

Videos of the Week

Are you Tony’d out? We didn’t think so! Well in one last sweep of Tony celebration, we are featuring a few Tony moments from the past in celebration of the present. Here are a few Thank You Moments to bring you back to some glorious acceptance speeches. And don’t forget to Watch our exclusive mobile footage of the Thank You Cam series now available for free on the iBroadway app.

A Flip Cam Can Be a Beautiful Thing

iBroadway partnered with the Tony Awards last night to bring to you the Thank You Cam video series. Watch exclusive coverage of the Tony winners on their way to the press room. Download our free app to watch www.iBroadway.net

This is The Moment

If you don’t have plans yet for Sunday’s Tony Awards, there are lots of great options, including watching exclusive video footage of the winners using the iBroadway app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.  We will feature the winners saying Thank You to those they may have forgotten during their acceptance speech.

Don’t have one of those apparatus, feel free to check out the content on our partners web page at www.tonyawards.com. It’s going to be amazing!

To download our new FREE app, go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibroadway/id349362702?mt=8

Win 2 Tony Award Rehearsal Tickets for Sunday

CONTEST – Win 2 Tony Awards Rehearsal Tickets for Sunday, June 13.

To enter, join the iBroadway Facebook Fan Page and write “iBroadway Tony Contest” on our wall before midnight EST Thursday, June 10.

Winner will be announced on Facebook at 10am EST Friday, June 11. Winner will receive two (2) Tony Awards Rehearsal tickets for Sunday, June 13, 8:30AM at Radio City Music Hall. Entrants must be New York residents, and be able to receive tickets via messenger between 11am and 5pm on Friday, June 11.

See official sweepstakes rules here.

Welcome to iBroadway – Broadway Goes Mobile!

We are excited to announce the release of the app you’ve all been waiting for. iBroadway is finally here! It’s the easiest, most savvy way to access all things Broadway, all via you iPhone and iPod touch. Watch exclusive videos, read from Theater’s top bloggers (more on that to come), get show listings, and be able to buy tickets all from your phone. To download the app, visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibroadway/id349362702?mt=8. It’s fast and free!

Video of the Week

This week we selected one from the vaults of YouTube.  This video goes back a long ways away, back to 2008. A certain group of Broadway veterans put together a satirical video series based called Legally Brown based on the short lived MTV reality show Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods. The web series focused on replacing The Piragua Guy from the Tony Award Winning In The Heights. This particular video features Golden Globe and Tony Nominee Matthew Morrison. You may know him from a tiny show called Glee.

We’re Just Saying

A Look at Broadway’s Ups and Downs during the week

A Little Night Music will be closing its doors after June 20th and therefore, won’t be recasting its lead women. It’s too bad.  We were having so much fun at surmising the possibilities. We know we were rooting for Betty White as Madame Armfeldt.

The Drama League and Drama Desk honored very different performances this year. We all know what this is leading up to, a massive battle of who will win the coveted MTV Movie Award (Best Kiss) this year?

Rumors were confirmed that Sutton Foster would appear as the new Reno Sweeney in an upcoming revival of Anything Goes, following in the footsteps of Ethel Merman and Patti Lupone. To which we wonder if soon Foster will soon be venting, half of America loves me, and half hates me.

Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith attended an after party thrown by 11-time Tony Nominee FELA! at the Palm last week. To which, Memphis replied, we got the guy from…Bon Jovi.

The guest appearances on Glee grew even more Broadway-ier with Neil Patrick Harris singing Aerosmith’s Dream On with Matthew Morrison. We really can’t wait to hear Boyd Gaines and Jonathan Groff’s duet of Love in an Elevator.

Finally, Pee Wee Herman comes to Broadway. Nah, too easy.

Videos of the Week

iBroadway is a huge fan of video content, both professional and amateur. Once we launch, expect a whole bunch of fun footage to get you acquainted with shows you might not know of, and showcase ones you know quite well. Also, we would love for all you Broadway fans out there to submit your own YouTube videos for us to feature so we can highlight you!

In the meantime, here are three recent videos that we really like:

Katie Finneran and Sean Hayes in Promises Promises

Sahr Ngaujah in FELA!

La Cage Aux Folles – Sneak Peak

We’re Just Saying

It’s been a crazy week for the Broadway community since the Tony nominations were announced. While we are super excited about the June 13th ceremony (Watch on CBS at 8pm Eastern Standard Time), there are so many other thrilling occasions that you may have missed out on. Here are several events that have occurred since the Antoinette Perry Awards nominations.

Sondheim on Sondheim had to cancel a matinee due to lack of a 2nd understudy. Vanessa Williams and Erin Mackey were reported as both being ill, but we hear that they were both secretly out at another 80th Birthday Party for Stephen Sondheim.

Judith Light joins Dan Luria in the fall production of Lombardi at Circle in the Square. In other news, Fred Savage and Alyssa Milano are slated to appear in the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” at the Lyceum.

Off-Broadway production The Irish Curse, “a new comedy about guys with one tiny problem” closes its doors on May 1st. Did anyone else predict a “short” run?

Betty White successfully hosted SNL based on a Facebook campaign. Recently several more campaigns have sprung up including ones for Oprah and Rue McClannahan. Where is the Angela Lansbury love people?

Million Dollar Quartet performed on Late Night with David Letterman. Regarding their performance, Letterman proclaimed, “If it’s not great, I’m gonna eat my tie.” To which we wonder, what would Conan eat if they weren’t good?