musicals: Last News

said The Post’s Clive Barnes) and didn’t manage a coveted Tony Award nomination for Best Musical.But, as male lead Radames sings, fortune favors the brave. “Aida” stuck it out, sold plenty of tickets, and ran for four years at the Palace Theatre thanks to two words prominently emblazoned on the marquee: Elton John.Almost a quarter century later, and that world-famous name has all but become a liability. On Tuesday, the “Crocodile Rock” singer’s $25 million “Tammy Faye,” a migraine about mascara set to music, posted its closing notice only five days after opening night.

“Wicked” isn’t only playing in multiplexes this holiday season.The long-running musical can also continue to be seen live at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway for the 21st consecutive year.Mary Kate Morrissey (Elphaba) and Alexandra Socha (Glinda) lead the current cast; the pair took over the iconic roles back in April of this year.“She is the person I’m supposed to be doing this with every single day,” Morrissey told Broadway Direct. “We’re both so dedicated to the story and being earnest with the characters and not trying to prove that we have this riff or whatever it is.

dreadful new Broadway musical about 1970s and ‘80s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker posted its closing notice Tuesday — just five days after it opened at the Palace Theatre.“Tammy Faye” was reportedly capitalized at $25 million, and will lose every penny.When the show shutters Dec. 8, it will have played 24 previews and a scant 29 regular performances.

90 minutes, with no intermission. At the Longacre Theatre, 220 W. 48th Street.Something I won’t be saying on my death bed: “I wish I would’ve watched more shows about boats.”Yet another crew of singing seafarers sets off in the Avett Brothers’ uneven “Swept Away,” which opened Tuesday night at the Longacre Theatre.

her controversial reaction to a fan-edited poster for the movie “Wicked.” In a new interview, Erivo, 37, who plays Elphaba – aka the Wicked Witch of the West – in “Wicked,” says she “had a little human moment” when she saw the altered advert and acknowledged that she “fell out on the internet.” The star caught flak in October when she slammed a fan for editing the film’s poster to more closely resemble the iconic one from the original Broadway musical on which the movie is based.Erivo was particularly incensed that the fan-created movie poster obscured her eyes. “[T]o edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me,” she wrote on her Instagram story at the time.“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen.

longer.Hollywood has, somewhat mystifyingly, taken a two-and-a-half-hour hit Broadway musical and — hey presto! — stretched it into two two-hour-40-minute movies in hopes of a duo of smashes.You’re acutely aware of the doubled runtime in the genial first chapter, “Wicked: Part One,” which has the same number of songs as Act 1 of composer Stephen Schwartz’s show, but an extra 60 minutes of padding.Onstage, the “Wizard of Oz” prequel, which depicts the cackling Wicked Witch of the West as a misunderstood activist teen before Dorothy and Toto arrive, is fun and fizzy.Despite the Broadway production’s expensive effects and lavish design, the show succeeds more as a sweet boarding school comedy about friendship than a grand Ozian adventure. On-screen, however, director Jon M.

and cry this year.The new Broadway musical “Maybe Happy Ending,” which tells the story of two abandoned “helper bots” connecting in 2060s Seoul, is already wowing audiences after it began previews Oct. 16 at the Belasco Theater (the show officially opens Nov.

At the Belasco Theatre, 111 W. 44th St.The sublime start of “Maybe Happy Ending” is the closest I have ever come to experiencing a Pixar movie on Broadway.Oliver, a lonely robot played by Darren Criss, goes through his usual daily routine — over and over and over again.

wife story that fails to capture Armstrong, the artist. The “Hello, Dolly!” singer, who died in 1971, indeed married four times and was a cheating jerk to that quartet of women.His turbulent relationships with them as his fame skyrockets — from second trumpet in King Joe Oliver’s (Gavin Gregory) jazz band to Hollywood icon — punctuate “A Wonderful World.” That’s personally messy, yes, but it’s a theatrically tricky choice by book writer Aurin Squire to center a musical filled with many, many (did I say many?) upbeat tunes around spousal quarrels and infidelity.The show’s best numbers actually belong to the actresses who play the wives, each one fabulous.Think of it like “Nine” or “Six” — but “Four.”Armstrong’s ladies are Daisy Parker (Dionne Figgins), a “switchblade hooker”; practical piano player and manager Lil Hardin (Jennie Harney-Fleming); fan Alpha Smith (Kim Exum); and Cotton Club singer Lucille Wilson (Darlesia Cearcy), who finally holds him accountable for his zipper.Their personalities are as distinctive as their knockout voices.

“Teeth,” a new musical by Tony-award winner Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs, based on the cult 2007 horror film, is now playing at New World Stages following an incredibly well-received run earlier this year at Playwrights’ Horizons.Last week, The Post caught up with one of the stars of “Teeth,” Tony nominee and Olivier Award winner Andy Karl, who joined “Teeth” for its second NYC run.

The New York Times, Erivo, 37, and Grande, 31, spoke about the casting process. Asked how they reacted after learning the other one had been cast, Erivo responded, “Absolutely no surprise whatsoever.”“I said, ‘Thank God,'” Grande recalled. Erivo then made a dig at the other women who were being considered to play Glinda in the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical.

Ariana Grande saying “thank u, next” to pop music?The diva behind chart-topping hits such as “7 Rings,” “Positions” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” revealed her plans to break free from the usual grind of her pop career after starring in “Wicked,” the big-screen adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical that hits theaters on Nov. 22.“I’m gonna say something so scary — it’s gonna scare the absolute s–t out of my fans and everyone, but I love them, and they’ll deal,” Grande, 31, said on the latest episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast hosted by her “Wicked” co-str Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.“I’m always going to make music, I’m always going to go on stage, I’m always going to do pop stuff, I pinky promise,” she continued.

“Wicked” film adaptation. The pop star, 31, plays Glinda the Good Witch in the first part of the two-film series, set to hit theaters Nov. 22.Though known professionally as Ariana Grande, the singer surprised audiences at early screenings of “Wicked” by using her full name in the credits.

Jamie Lloyd’s startling production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical from beginning to end, you’d swear it was brand new.And adrenaline pumps through our bloodstream anytime the extraordinary Nicole Scherzinger, making her wondrous Broadway debut, wails a note.She’s otherworldly as that reclusive has-been Norma. A revelation.

Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film “South Pacific” and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, has died. She was 93.Gaynor, among the last survivors of the so-called golden age of the Hollywood musical, died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, her long-time managers Rene Reyes and Shane Rosamonda confirmed in a statement to The Associated Press.“As we celebrate her legacy, we offer our thanks to her friends and fans and the countless audiences she entertained throughout her long life,” Reyes and Rosamonda said in a joint statement.

the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, an easy trip for New Yorkers.And before this year, one would have had to search far and wide to find “Something Rotten” on any theater lover’s list of favorites.Talk about “all’s well that ends well” — the show of Shakespearean shenanigans has a sitcom’s supply of belly laughs. Really, it’s a north-of-the-border reinvention.What the Broadway musical needed, it turns out, was to schlep 500 miles away from 42nd Street to a 71-year-old festival that made its reputation with stagings of the Bard’s plays.Since the mid-aughts, Stratford’s musicals, earthier than ours, have gotten better and better.

grand jeté into every damn thing. And yet, TV and film writers and directors have a very different view.

Bernadette Peters — who you may know from the original cast of “Sunday in the Park with George,” the film “Annie,” the musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” “A Little Night Music,” “Gypsy,” and much more — will perform at venues on a short six-show tour all over the United States.And, yes, the New York City native is making a stop in the Big Apple.On Monday, Oct. 28, Peters will headline at Carnegie Hall.At all gigs, the 76-year-old legend sings “selections from musicals as if for the first time…including ‘Gypsy,’ ‘Into the Woods,’ ‘Follies,’ ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘Anyone Can Whistle'” according to Stage and Cinema.“This legend and seasoned pro gives a tremendous amount of pleasure to her audience, and her sheer presence and youthfulness are inspiring.”Hoping to catch Peters strut her stuff and sing Sondheim live?As of now, tickets are available for all of her upcoming concerts.Prices start at $80 before fees on Vivid Seats at the time of publication.For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about Bernadette Peters’ fall 2024 tour below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn’t noted, will include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

The Drowsy Chaperone,” accidental ogre Fiona of “Shrek the Musical” and even her turn in the recent “Sweeney Todd.” Mrs. Lovett probably has some critters nesting in her hair, too.What a winningly funny mashup it is.

Aladdin” and “The Book of Mormon”), and play the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London after the House of Mouse’s “Hercules” packs up its Ionic pillars. Before heading to the West End, the production will try out in Bristol in early 2026, confirmed multiple sources.“Hercules,” the “Zero to Hero” Greek myth musical, also directed by no-sleep Nicholaw, starts next summer at the famed British theater that’s owned by Andrew Lloyd Webber.“Casey said he’d only do ‘Hercules’ if he got ‘Showman’ too,” a source said.Reports have popped up occasionally the last couple of years about a stage future for “Showman,” with a score by composer Justin Paul and lyricist Benj Pasek, who I ran into in London back in June while he was in town for work.Aha!Telling a spiffed-up story of the unusual performers hired by circus impresario P.T.

Stephanie Mills didn’t exactly ease herself on down the road to Oz — and Broadway immortality — five decades ago in “The Wiz.”“My mother had to make me go to the audition because I didn’t want to go,” Mills, 67, told The Post about that fateful first tryout for the starring role of Dorothy in 1974. “I had gone up for so many things and then I didn’t get them, so I was kind of disappointed, so I didn’t want to go.