Ben Forster plays Jesus, with support from Tim Minchin as Judas and Melanie C (née Sporty Spice) as Mary Magdalene.Highlight: Forster brings the requisite power falsetto to "Gethsemane" (0:55), but Chris Moyles, done up as sleazy TV talk-show host, brings a note of much-needed levity to the somber proceedings with "King Herod's Song" (1:09). (the full list of directors can be found here), "As Chair of The Drama League Awards, I am proud of how our staff is constantly pivoting to meet the needs of our community. a parable about a medieval prince on a journey of self-discovery, stuffed with delightful songs—and turned it into, mesmerizing exercise in rotting-showbiz style. Though there have been several musical adaptations of the story, it is the 1954 musical with a score by Moose Charlap, Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Carolyn Leigh that tends to be the best known amongst theatre fans. Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe starred in the 2015 Lincoln Center Theater revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic 1951 romantic drama about culture clash between the King of Siam and an English governess in the 1860s. But it's an indispensable record of Fosse's staging and Ben Vereen's deceptively ingratiating performance as the Leading Player. Though it was adapted into a motion picture in 2005 featuring much of the original Broadway cast, the final performance of the Broadway production was captured and shown in movie theatres as well, later released on DVD and Blu-ray. When it opened on London’s West End in 2005, it became an immediate hit, winning four Olivier Awards. Copyright 1991-2020 © Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nicholas Nickleby did later transfer to Broadway with the London cast, winning 1982 Tony Awards for Best Play and Leading Actor in a Play for Roger Rees. All rights reserved. Highlight: No lover of Broadway camp should miss the climactic “Confrontation” (1:57) between our antihero’s two identities, performed by a sweaty, chest-baring Hasselhoff as a hair-flipping coup de théâtre. Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi play squabbling coworkers who don't realize that they're also pen-pal lovers; Jane Krakowski and Gavin Creel are the comic secondary characters. Highlight: Getting back to her musical-theater roots—she rocketed to stardom in 1959's Once Upon a Mattress—Burnett lays it on the line to her unsatisfactory husband (played by Hearn) in the bitter Follies waltz "Could I Leave You?" Alfi Boe leads the cast as escaped convict Jean Valjean; the supporting players include Norm Lewis as Javert, Lea Salonga as Fantine, a terrific Samantha Barks as Éponine and a somewhat overwhelmed Nick Jonas as Marius. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Access to all things Hamilton: An American Musical. CompanyStephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company broke all the rules when it opened on Broadway in 1970. Beneath its sublime-to-ridiculous jokes, this wild ride is onto something about reality-show culture and the poignancy of its debased participants—which more or less includes all of us now. Macbeth (2010) This May, we created The Gratitude Awards to inspire the theatre community with hope during the pandemic, said Comley, "next spring, we hope to be in person again, for at the 87th Annual Drama League Awards. Cats wasn’t filmed on Broadway, but the original production was captured on a stage in London in 1998, with original West End star Elaine Paige no less. Begun when Andrew Lloyd Webber was still a teenager, this was the composer first success with librettist Tim Rice: a cheeky pop-rock Bible story about a flashy dresser who gets sold into slavery and then rises to power after a false accusation of sexual assault. You will still find popular shows like Memphis, Romeo and Juliet, Jekyll and Hyde, and more. HamiltonFilmed on the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theatre in June 2016, the live capture of the Pulizter- and Tony-winning musical was slated for an Octopber 2021 theatrical release—until COVID-19 preempted that plan, resulting in the movie dropping on Disney+ July 3. Eliot, Cats is about… well, cats! Though the complete original cast was not captured, the recording does feature Angela Lansbury (in her Tony-winning performance), Ken Jennings, and Edmund Lyndeck. BroadwayHD is the world's premiere online streaming platform delivering over 300 premium live productions to theatre fans globally, including Kinky Boots, Cats, 42nd Street, She Loves Me, The Phantom of The Opera, The King and I, Sound of Music and many more. That's where BroadwayHD comes in. The one-day-only event, starring Olivier nominees Rachel Tucker and Rachel John, played the West End October 11 following a digital production earlier this summer. Elaine Stritch At Liberty wasn’t filmed on Broadway, but when Stritch took the show to London’s West End, cameras captured a performance for release on DVD. Directed by Bartlett Sher, this opulent production includes gorgeous period costumes and a lush rendition of the score (which includes such standards as "Hello, You Lovers," "Getting to Know You" and "Something Wonderful"); O'Hara gives a measured, beautifully sung performance as the I of the storm, for which she won a Tony Award (as did Ruthie Ann Miles as the King's head wife). The Broadway production was filmed on stage during a Los Angeles stop on the national tour, and much of the original cast returned to their roles for the filming, including Jeremy Jordan, Kara Lindsay, Ben Fankhauser, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, and Tommy Bracco.
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