The AndyGram

28th ANNUAL

BROADWAY FLEA MARKET
& GRAND AUCTION

RETURNS TO
TIMES SQUARE, SHUBERT ALLEY
AND WEST 44TH STREET

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

PRODUCED BY AND BENEFITING BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS

The 28th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction (#bwayflea) arrives Sunday, September 21, 2014, in the newly transformed Times Square pedestrian plaza, historic Shubert Alley and along West 44th Street in the heart of New York City's Theatre District. The biggest day of the year for Broadway fans is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL
EXTENDS LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Get Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Tickets

Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, the musical play starring record breaking six-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, will extend its strictly limited engagement through September 21st, 2014. The production will be dark from September 1st through September 7th while Ms. McDonald takes a previously scheduled vacation, and the final 16 performances will begin starting September 9th, 2014.

THE WORLD PREMIERE
OF
THE MOST FAMOUS
BRAZILIAN LOVE STORY EVER TOLD
ON BROADWAY

BLACK ORPHEUS

WILL FEATURE:

BOOK BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
LYNN NOTTAGE

DIRECTION BY MULTI TONY AWARD-WINNER
GEORGE C. WOLFE

New York, NY – Producers Stephen Byrd, Alia Jones-Harvey, and Paula Marie Black* proudly announced today that the new musical stage adaptation of Black Orpheus will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and will be directed by multi Tony® Award winner George C. Wolfe.  The score will include many of the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa, and Vinicius de Moraes themes from the motion picture. The production will have its world premiere on Broadway. 

THE ILLUSIONISTS  – WITNESS THE IMPOSSIBLE™

TO DEBUT ON BROADWAY THIS FALL 
FOR SIX WEEK ENGAGEMENT AS PART OF A 30-CITY US TOUR

Blockbuster Theatrical Show has Dazzled Audiences around the World

THE ILLUSIONISTS - WITNESS THE IMPOSSIBLE™, the world’s best-selling touring magic show, will make its Broadway bow this fall at the Marriott Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway), beginning previews onNovember 26 and opening on December 4. It will play a strictly limited six-week engagement through January 4 2015 as part of a 30-city US tour. Tickets for THE ILLUSIONISTS go on sale today at www.ticketmaster.com.

PRINCIPAL CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

World Premiere at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France                        

PRIOR TO BROADWAY 

Music and Lyrics by GEORGE GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWIN

Book by CRAIG LUCAS

Directed and Choreographed by CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON

Principal casting has been announced for the upcoming world premiere production of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. The cast will include Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan, Leanne Cope as Lise Dassin,Veanne Cox as Madame Baurel, Jill Paice as Milo Davenport, Brandon Uranowitz as Adam Hochberg, and Max Von Essen as Henri Baurel. 

LINDA BLOODWORTH THOMASON
TO MAKE HER BROADWAY DEBUT AS THE BOOKWRITER OF

T H E   F I R S T   W I V E S   C L U B

BROADWAY BOUND MUSICAL
TO PREMIERE AT CHICAGO’S
ORIENTAL THEATRE
SPRING 2015

SCORE BY HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND

DIRECTION BY SIMON PHILLIPS

New York, NY – Producers Jonas Neilson, Paul Lambert and Executive Producer Elizabeth Williams announced today that an all-new production of The First Wives Clubwill be presented at Chicago’s Oriental Theater in Spring 2015, aiming for Broadway in the 2015-2016 Season. Five-time Emmy Award nominee Linda Bloodworth Thomason makes her theatrical debut as book writer and Simon Phillips will now direct the musical.  The First Wives Club will feature songs -- both new original music and classics -- by Motown legends Holland-Dozier-Holland, who are responsible for such hits as "Reach Out…I'll Be There," "Stop in the Name of Love," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch),"  and “My World Is Empty Without You.”

Stage Adaptation

of

THE WAR OF THE ROSES

NOVEL

Heading to Broadway
for
2015-2016 Season 

Novel and Adaptation by WARREN ADLER

Tony Award winning Producers Jay Gutterman, Cindy Gutterman, Cathy Chernoff, Carl Moellenberg and Wendy Federman announce that THE WAR OF THE ROSES, the riveting stage adaptation by Warren Adler based on his original best-selling novel of the same name, will bow on Broadway during the 2015-2016 season. 

LINCOLN CENTER THEATER
ANNOUNCES ITS NEW PRODUCTION OF

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S
THE KING AND I

music by RICHARD RODGERS
book and lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon

directed by BARTLETT SHER

Production will star KELLI O’HARA and KEN WATANABE

PREVIEWS BEGIN THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2015
OPENING NIGHT IS THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015

AT THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Producing Artistic Director, André Bishop) has announced that Kelli O’Hara will play Anna Leonowens, and Ken Watanabe will play the King of Siam, in its new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon.  The production, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, will begin performances Thursday, March 12, 2015, and open on Thursday, April 16, 2015, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street).

BROADWAY TO DIM ITS LIGHTS
FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 27TH
at 7:45 PM
IN MEMORY OF
CELEBRATED STAGE AND SCREEN ACTOR
ELI WALLACH

New York, NY (June 25, 2014) -- The Broadway community mourns the loss of renowned stage and screen actor Eli Wallach, who passed away on Tuesday at age 98. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in his memory Friday, June 27th, at exactly 7:45pm for one minute.