1997 TV Cinderella, Starring Brandy, Sets 25th Anniversary Reunion Special on 20/20
Film & TV News
1997 TV Cinderella, Starring Brandy, Sets 25th Anniversary Reunion Special on 20/20
The event will feature original cast members Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg, Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, and more.
The 1997 TV production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, starring Brandy and the late Whitney Houston, has set a 25th anniversary reunion special for ABC-TV’s 20/20, airing August 23 during Disney’s World Princess Week. The one-hour-long event will feature original cast members Brandy and Whoopi Goldberg, Paolo Montalban, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, Jason Alexander, Veanne Cox, along with Billy Porter, Todrick Hall, Jade Jones, and more reflecting on the impact of the movie musical. The special will be followed by the first broadcast TV airing of the film in more than two decades.
See Brennyn Lark and Keri René Fuller Join Broadway’s SIX
SIX welcomed its newest royals Brennyn Lark and Keri René Fuller August 9 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. See them take their first curtain call below.
Hamilton Launches Pro-Choice Fundraiser Ham4Choice
Broadway News
Hamilton Launches Pro-Choice Fundraiser Ham4Choice
The winner will get to hang out with Lin-Manuel Miranda at the musical’s opening night in Germany.
Olivia Newton-John, Star of Grease and Xanadu Films, Dies at 73
Obituaries
Olivia Newton-John, Star of Grease and Xanadu Films, Dies at 73
The singer and actor also enjoyed a string of hits, including “Physical,” “I Honestly Love You,” and “Have You Never Been Mellow.”
The angelic-voiced Olivia Newton-John, who rocketed to superstardom opposite John Travolta in the blockbuster film version of the Broadway musical Grease, passed away August 8, according to a statement from husband John Easterling. She was 73.
The Broadway at LPAC Series Announces 2023 Season Lineup at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center
LAUDERHILL, FL: Arts Center Management (ACM), a multi-platform theatre management company, will partner with the City of Lauderhill to produce the Broadway at LPAC Series at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center in 2023. The blockbuster three-show season kicks off in January 2023. This year’s lineup will feature the smash hit musicals The Full Monty, 42nd Street and Always Patsy Cline!
RPM: A Night of One Acts
Art ON in conjunction with Miami Arts Studio REP presents RPM: A Night of One Acts. Written by Miami native playwright Ozzie Quintana, we follow two stories of machismo and feminism with a Cuban backdrop; almost a hundred years apart in time, but timeless in their content.
Brévo Theatre Presents “Brévo for Broadway”
Brévo Theatre is proud to present “Brévo for Broadway,” its inaugural production of the Young, Gifted & Brave – Theatre for Youth program that includes a compilation performance of Tony award-winning Broadway musicals and plays featuring more than 20 of Miami’s top high school student performers and recent graduates.
IN A TIME OF LOSS AND GRIEF, GABLESTAGE BRINGS JOAN DIDION’S ‘THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING’ TO LIFE
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Celebrated writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne were married for four decades, partners in life and sometimes in their work. They were, as she said to her nephew Griffin Dunne in the 2017 Netflix documentary “The Center Will Not Hold,” each other’s first reader. If one wrote the first draft of a screenplay, the other would function as a kind of “super editor (“Didion’s term), changing and rewriting until it was nearly impossible to tell who did what. In other words, their lives were uncommonly entwined. So when Dunne died suddenly of a heart attack in December 2003, Didion’s world was forever altered.
Pretty Woman: The Big New Musical!
South Florida Theater Magazine is LIVE at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts at the Opening Night of Pretty Woman The Musical!
If you think you loved the movie, wait until you see it live on stage! Based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, Pretty Woman The Musical is sure to light up your heart. Pretty Woman will run from May 4-15 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For tickets visit https://fortlauderdale.broadway.com/s….If you like this video, like and subscribe and visit us at https://southfloridatheater.com/
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