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Get The Prom Movie Celebration Started with First Single 'Tonight Belongs to You'

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 30 2020 @ 10:35 am

The starry film adaptation of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical The Prom is arriving on Netflix on December 11, and fans now have an anthem to get them pumped up for the movie's release. The single "Tonight Belongs to You" is out now and includes vocals from James Corden, newcomer Jo Ellen Pellman and Kerry Washington. As previously reported, the movie stars Meryl Streep as Dee Dee Allen, Corden as Barry Glickman, Andrew Rannells as Trent Oliver, Nicole Kidman as Angie, Ariana DeBose as Alyssa Greene, Kevin Chamberlin as Sheldon Saperstein, Washington as Ms. Greene and Keegan-Michael Key as Mr. Hawkins. Pellman plays the central role of Emma. Directed by Ryan Murphy, with a screenplay by Broadway's Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin and music by Matthew Sklar and Beguelin, this movie musical is sure to make you want to get up and dance. Get a first listen to the exuberant track below!

Listen to Carrie Hope Fletcher Belt Out a Song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's New Cinderella Musical

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 30 2020 @ 10:23 am

The first single from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella has arrived! As previously reported, the show will now begin performances at London's Gillian Lynne Theatre on March 19, 2021 due to the coronavirus crisis. Opening night for the world premiere musical is scheduled for April 7. In the meantime, fans can listen to star Carrie Hope Fletcher sing out "Bad Cinderella." A full cast recording will be released before the new show debuts on stage.

“Fifty years ago, I couldn’t get Jesus Christ Superstar on stage as nobody wanted to produce it, so it appeared on record first," Lloyd Webber said in a statement. "It's so strange to find history repeating itself half a century later with the album of the complete score of my new Cinderella. I can't get Cinderella on stage because I'm not allowed to, so I have gone back to my roots and recorded the album first."

Enjoy the track below!

Tony Winner Laura Benanti Joins Gossip Girl Reboot

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 30 2020 @ 10:19 am

Are you ready, Upper East Siders? Tony winner Laura Benanti is joining the cast of the upcoming Gossip Girl reboot on HBO Max, according to Deadline. Serving as a sequel to the original series that aired on The CW from 2009-2012, this spinoff is created by Joshua Safran, who also served as an executive producer for the original.

Benanti joins a previously announced cast that features such stage favorites as Adam Chanler-Berat, Tavi Gevinson and Jason Gotay. Rounding out the cast is Thomas Doherty, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Emily Alyn Lind and Johnathan Fernandez. Character details for the HBO Max series are being kept under wraps.

Benanti won a Tony Award for Gypsy and has garnered four other nominations for her turns in She Loves Me, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Into the Woods, and Swing!. She most recently appeared on Broadway as Eliza Doolittle in the Lincoln Center Theatre My Fair Lady revival. Benanti's self-titled debut studio album just released, and her upcoming scripted musical special Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 will premiere on HBO Max next year.

The reboot picks up a decade after the original Gossip Girl, following …

Working Its Way Back to London! Jersey Boys Will Return to the West End in April

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 30 2020 @ 10:01 am

The Tony and Olivier-winning musical Jersey Boys is set to return to London’s West End, opening at the new Trafalgar Theatre (formerly known as Trafalgar Studios). Performances are scheduled to begin on April 14, 2021 with opening night set for April 21. Casting will be announced later.

Jersey Boys is a musical biography of the Four Seasons' rise, tough times, personal clashes and ultimate triumph as a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. In addition to following the quartet’s coming of age as performers, the core of the show is how an allegiance to a code of honor learned in the streets of their native New Jersey got them through a multitude of challenges: gambling debts, Mafia threats and family disasters. Jersey Boys is a glimpse at the people behind a sound that has managed to endure for over four decades in the hearts of the public and includes popular hits like "Walk Like a Man," "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" and many more.

Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe, Jersey Boys opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005, won the Tony Award for …

What To Do (Without Broadway!): A Day-to-Day Schedule

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: October 30 2020 @ 10:00 am

Even with Broadway on hold, there's plenty to do. Trust the Broadway.com editors to get you in on the best online events, theater-centric films, TV shows and more!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
Macbeth: A Surround Sound Experiment Begins @ 8PM ET
For three evenings, Shakespeare’s haunting psychological tale of raw political ambition is reimagined as an immersive auditory experience, benefiting The Actors Fund. Recorded in isolation, the company includes Tamara Tunie, Laila Robins, Derek Wilson, Joel de la Fuente, Robert Cuccioli, Geoffrey Owens, Jacob Cogman, Sean Hudock, Rocio Mendez, Tim Nocolai, Mandy Olsen, Shane Taylor, Patrick Toon and Jeorge Bennett Watson.
Tickets start at $13

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
Dracula Begins @ 8PM ET
Norm Lewis stars as Count Dracula in this live audio experience that transports audiences to Transylvania. Based on Orson Welles' radio play and adapted by Resounding Creative Director Steve Wargo, the cast also includes Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Siho Ellsmore, Chris Renfro, Dick Terhune, Stuart Williams and John Stimac.
Tickets are $20

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
Innocent Dreams Releases
This one-act radio play, starring Austin Scott (Hamilton, Girl From the North Country), releases on all podcast platforms. Telling the true story of Davontae Sanford, who was arrested at …