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Dreamgirls

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We are honored that Dreamgirls has received FIVE OLIVIER AWARD NOMINATIONS including:
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  • Best New Musical
  • Best Actress: Amber Riley
  • Best Supporting Actor: Adam Bernard
  • Best Music
  • Best Costume Design

Thirty-five years after the groundbreaking original Broadway production, this UK and West End premiere of the sensational and iconic Tony Award®-winning musical DREAMGIRLS opened at the Savoy Theatre on December 14, 2016 to incredible reviews:

  • “THE SHOW COMES ROARING AT YOU LIKE A SOUPED-UP, CHROME-PLATED LUXURY SEDAN. AMBER RILEY OWNS CENTER STAGE WITHOUT EVEN SEEMING TO TRY in Casey Nicholaw’s high-octane revival of this Supremes-inspired musical. And when she sings, Effie’s pain and anger, vulnerability and power, meld into one sparkling, mellifluous river.” -Ben Brantley, The New York Times
  • “5 STARS. A DAZZLING SHOW…IT’S A PERFORMANCE THAT’S AT ALL TIMES EXHILARATING.” –The London Evening Standard
  • “5 STARS. CASEY NICHOLAW’S DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY IS SO SLICK THAT THE ENERGY SIMPLY BOUNCES OFF THE STAGE.” –Broadway World
  • “5 STARS. AN UNDENIABLE MUSICAL THEATRE PHENOMENON.” –London Theatre
  • “5 STARS. AFTER 30 YEARS OF WAITING, DREAMGIRLS HAS ARRIVED IN LONDON. THE MONTHS OF EAGER ANTICIPATION ARE OVER AND TONIGHT AMBER RILEY AND THE CAST OF THIS INCREDIBLE MUSICAL BLEW THE ROOF OFF LONDON’S SAVOY THEATRE.” –British Theatre
  • “4 STARS. FANTASTICALLY ENTERTAINING RIDE ON A SHOWBIZ ROLLERCOASTER.” –The London Guardian
  •  “4 STARS. AMBER RILEY GIVES A BLAZING PERFORMANCE AS EFFIE.” –The Independent 
  • “4 STARS. A SHOW WITH TREMENDOUS GUSTO OF SOUL AND GAIETY OF SPIRIT.” –The Daily Telegraph
  •  “4 STARS. RILEY AIMS HIGH AND RAISES THE ROOF.” –Metro
  • “THE OVERWHELMINGLY TALENTED CAST DELIVERS THE BEST TWO HOURS IN THE WEST END.” -The Huffington Post
  • “THE SECRET OF DREAMGIRLS IS THE HUMAN VOICE; BIG, POWER-SURGE VOICES, AND IT DRIVES AUDIENCES WILD.” –Variety 
  • “LONDON HAS HAD TO WAIT 35 YEARS FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE BROADWAY HIT DREAMGIRLS – BUT IT HAS BEEN WORTH THE WAIT.” –The Stage

DREAMGIRLS transports you to a revolutionary time in American music history and charts the tumultuous journey of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called ‘The Dreams’. They learn the hard lesson that show business is as tough as it is fabulous.

DREAMGIRLS features the classic songs ‘And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going’, ‘I Am Changing’, ‘Listen’ and ‘One Night Only’. This much-anticipated new production is directed and choreographed by the hugely successful, Tony® and Olivier award-winning Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Something Rotten!) and Amber Riley (Glee) plays Effie White.

Catch up with all the action from opening night by clicking here.

Tickets now on sale. Performances at the SAVOY Theatre, West End, London.

For tickets and more information please click here.

Dear Evan Hansen

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Dear Evan Hansen has WON SIX 2017 Tony Awards Including:

  1. Best Musical
  2. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical – Ben Platt
  3. Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Rolein a Musical – Rachel Bay Jones
  4. Best Book of a Musical – Steven Levenson
  5. Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for theTheatre – Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
  6. Best Orchestrations – Alex Lacamoire

Dear Evan Hansen is a Two-Time Drama League Award winner for:

  1. Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical
  2. Distinguished Performance Award – Ben Platt 
Ben Platt winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards

Ben Platt made history on May 19, 2017 when he became the youngest actor ever to win the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance Award.Dear Evan Hansen is a 2017 Lucille Lortel Award Winner For:

  1. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical – Ben Platt
  2. Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical – Rachel Bay Jones

Dear Evan Hansen is a winner of EIGHT 2017 Audience Choice Awards:

    1. Favorite New Musical: Book by Steven Levenson, Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
    2. Favorite Leading Actor in a Musical: Ben Platt
    3. Favorite Featured Actress in a Musical: Laura Dreyfuss
Wendy on the stage of Radio City Music Hall with Tony Award Winner Ben Platt just after DEAR EVAN HANSEN is awarded the 2017 Tony Award for BEST NEW MUSICAL
  1. Favorite Funny Performance: Will Roland
  2. Favorite Onstage Pair: Laura Dreyfuss & Ben Platt
  3. Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Male): Mike Faist
  4. Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Female): Laura Dreyfuss
  5. Favorite New Song: “Waving Through a Window”

The hit new Broadway musical opened on December 4, 2016 to amazing reviews:

    • “A GORGEOUS NEW MUSICAL FOR ANYONE WITH A BEATING HEART.” –The New York Times
    • “5 STARS!” –Time Out Magazine
    • “A MUSICAL SO FINE IN ITS CRAFT AND RICH IN ITS THEMES, ITS REWARDS BEING SEEN AGAIN AND AGAIN.” –New York Magazine
    • “A DAZZLING REMINDER OF THE POWER OF LIVE THEATER.” –The New York Daily News
    • “THAT RARE SHOW THAT CONNECTS AND ENLIGHTENS ALL OF US! AS DEEPLY UNIVERSAL AND UTTERLY COMPELLING AS ANYTHING YOU’RE LIKELY TO SEE ON STAGE.”-NY1
    • “THE NEXT BIG THING – AN IMPORTANT AND SERIOUSLY DELIGHTFUL ADDITION TO THE 21st CENTURY MUSICAL.” –Newsday
    • “INSTANTLY PIERCES THE HEART!” –Entertainment Weekly
Dear Evan Hansen winning Best Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards
  • “EXQUISITE.” –Deadline Hollywood
  • “HISTORIC.” –The Washington Post

Dear Evan Hansen composers Benji Pasek and Justin Paul are now Academy Award Winners for Best Original Song, “City of Stars,” from the film La La Land.

BROADWAY TICKETS NOW ON SALE! Performances at The MUSIC BOX THEATRE, 239 WEST 45TH STREET, NYC.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Hello Dolly

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Hello, Dolly! WINNER of  FOUR 2017 Tony Awards Including: 
  1. Best Revival of a Musical
  2. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical – Bette Midler
  3. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical – Gavin Creel
  4. Best Costume Design of a Musical – Santo Loquasto
Hello, Dolly! winning Best Revival of a Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards
Hello, Dolly! is a Five Time 2016-2017 Outer Critics Circle Award Winner For:
  1. Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway & Off-Broadway)
  2. Outstanding Actress in a Musical – Bette Midler
  3. Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical – Gavin Creel 
  4. Outstanding Choreographer – Warren Carlyle
  5. Outstanding Orchestrations – Larry Hochman 
Hello, Dolly! is a 2017 Drama Desk Award winner for:
  • Outstanding Revival of a Musical
  • Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Bette Midler
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a musical: Gavin Creel
Hello, Dolly! is a 2017 Drama League Award winner for:
  • Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

Hello, Dolly! is a two-time 2017 Audience Choice Award Winner for:

  1. Favorite Leading Actress in a Musical: Bette Midler
  2. Favorite Diva Performance: Bette Midler
Time Magazine ranked Hello, Dolly! among “The Top Plays and Musicals of 2017!” See the article by clicking here. 
 
This show is a revival of Jerry Herman’s classic 1964 musical and stars the multi-talented Bernadette Peters as Dolly Levi and Victor Garber as Horace Vandergelder. Take a look at the incredible reviews: 

  • “‘HELLO, DOLLY!’ IS ASTONISHING. BERNADETTE PETERS IS ONE OF FOUR OR FIVE HUMAN PLEASURES THAT ARE OUR RIGHT IN THE WORLD. Let’s just hope that this show’s producers have earthquake insurance.” –The New York Times

  • “HELLO, BLOCKBUSTER! TYPE OUT ALL OF THE SUPERLATIVES YOU CAN because nights like this in the theatre make you feel overjoyed. They don’t make ’em like they used to – and that goes double for Broadway’s Dazzling ‘HELLO, DOLLY!’ Bernadette Peters brings high spirits, warmth and a voice that will make you laugh and cry with joy.” –Daily News
  • “BERNADETTE PETERS BRINGS THE AUDIENCE TO A STATE OF RAPTURE.” –Broadway News 
  • “THE AUDIENCE GOES SO INSANE you may think the roof will blow off, or the theatre itself will launch into outer space.” –The Daily Beast
  • “‘HELLO, DOLLY!’ DISTILLS THE MOOD-ELEVATING PROPERTIES OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL AT ITS GIDDY BEST. Theatergoers are clearly having difficulty containing their joy.” –Los Angeles Times
  • “BERNADETTE PETERS SEEMS TO POSSESS THE POWER TO MAKE TIME STAND STILL. Bernadette Peters as Dolly feels like the keeping of one of Broadway’s sacred promises. It delivers on exactly what’s craved by lovers of old-school musicals from the era when giants like Merman roamed the earth.” –The Washington Post
  • “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID GETTING SWEPT UP IN THE EXCITEMENT. Bernadette Peters descends a staircase like she invented stairs. An impeccable blend of spectacle and star power, this Dolly! is classic Broadway at its best.” –Entertainment Weekly
  • “IF ANYONE IS MUSICAL THEATER ROYALTY, IT’S BERNADETTE PETERS.” –The Hollywood Reporter
  • “BERNADETTE PETERS COMES BACK TO BROADWAY TO BLOW US ALL AWAY IN ‘HELLO, DOLLY!’ THE BEST SHOW ON BROADWAY.” –NPR
  • “THE ORCHESTRA SECTION BEHAVED ALL NIGHT LIKE THE SHUBERTS HAD PULLED OUT THE SEATS AND INSTALLED SPRING-LOADED STANDING MECHANISMS.” –Chicago Tribune
  • “SO THUNDEROUS IS THE APPLAUSE THAT ROARS THROUGH THE THEATER that I began to fear it would shake free some shower of plaster on the audience below.” –Broadway News
  • “THEY JUST DON’T MAKE ‘EM LIKE THIS. ANYMORE. AND WE ALL KNOW IT.” –Variety
  • “A MUST-SEE EVENT. A MUSICAL COMEDY DREAM. IF YOU’RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SCORE A TICKET, YOU’LL SEE SOMETHING HISTORIC. Wow, wow, wow indeed.” –Rolling Stone
  • “MIGHT I PROPOSE A NEW DEFINITION OF THE TERM ‘BROADWAY MUSICAL'” –The Star Ledger
  • “A PALPABLE BONDING FESTIVAL OF HOT-TICKET EXCITEMENT, CONTENTMENT, AND RAUCOUS JOY. Bernadette Peters electrifies the Shubert Theatre Stage.” –Newsday
Tickets now on sale at The SHUBERT THEATRE, 225 WEST 44th STREET, NYC. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

The Play That Goes Wrong

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The Play That Goes Wrong is a 2017 Tony Award Winner For:

  • Best Scenic Design of a Play — Nigel Hook
The Play That Goes Wrong is a 2017 Drama Desk Award winner for:
  • Outstanding Set Design for a Play: Nigel Hook
The Play That Goes Wrong is a 2017 Audience Choice Award Winner for:
 
  • Favorite New Play
After running in London for three successful years, The Play That Goes Wrong had its hilarious NY opening night on April 2, 2017.
 
  • “A GUT BUSTING HIT! LAUGH TILL YOU CRY!” -Ben Brantley, The New York Times
  • “COMIC GOLD!” –Variety
  • “WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE FUNNIEST PLAY BROADWAY HAS EVER SEEN! THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG GOES RIGHT!” –The Huffington Post
  • “IN THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, THE COMEDY GOES RIGHT. I can’t believe I’m laughing at this brilliance. Resistance is Futile!” –Newsweek
  • “HILARIOUS! NON-STOP PANDEMONIUM. THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG IS JUST RIGHT! A ridiculously entertaining disaster!” –Entertainment Weekly
  • “5 STARS. THE FUNNIEST PLAY ON BROADWAY!” –The Stage 
Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for BEST NEW COMEDY. The Play That Goes Wrong is a celebration of the best of live theatre and the worst!
  • 2015 BROADWAY WORLD UK WINNER FOR BEST NEW PLAY
  • 2014 WHATSONSTAGE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST NEW COMEDY

The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does! The accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!

Performances begin February 10, 2019 at NEW WORLD STAGES/Stage 4, 340 West 50th Street, NYC (between 8th and 9th Avenues).

For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

The Band’s Visit

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WINNER OF TEN 2018 TONY AWARDS INCLUDING: 

1. Best Musical
2. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Tony Shalhoub
3. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Katrina Lenk
4. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Ari’el Stachel
5. Best Book of a Musical: Itamar Moses
6. Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: David Yazbek
7. Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Scott Pask
8. Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Tyler Micoleau
9. Best Sound Design of a Musical: Kai Harada
10. Best Orchestrations: Jamshied Sharifi
 
DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNER FOR:
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Kai Harada 

“The Band’s Visit” accepting the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards ceremony.
DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD WINNER FOR:
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical
 
The hit Broadway musical, starring Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, opened on November 9, 2017 to amazing reviews. 
  • The New York Times Critics’ Pick

    “ONE OF THE MOST RAVISHING MUSICALS YOU WILL EVER BE SEDUCED BY OPENED ON THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE BARRYMORE THEATER. IT IS CALLED ‘THE BAND’S VISIT.’ Directed by DAVID CROMER with an inspired inventiveness that never calls attention to itself, ‘The Band’s Visit’ flows with the grave and joyful insistence of life itself. All it asks is that you be quiet enough to hear the music in the murmurs, whispers and silences of human existence at its most mundane – and transcendent.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

  • “DAVID YAZBEK’s melody matches the exquisitely 

    Wendy Federman with Multi-Emmy and Tony Award Winner Tony Shalhoub.

    uncertain certainty of the lyrics. That ‘something different’ is the heart-clutching sensation that throbs throughout this miraculous show, as precise as it is elusive, and all the more poignant for being both.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

  • “KATRINA LENK, who mixes languidly feline sensuality with knowing self-deprecation, IS MESMERIZING” -Adam Fedlman, TimeOut New York
  • “TONY SHALHOUB HAS POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN BETTER.” – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter 
  • “THE BEST MUSICAL OF THE YEAR HAS MADE IT TO BROADWAY. ‘The Band’s Visit’; shows that the great American art form (give or take jazz) is still full of life when practiced by artists who trust the taste and intelligence of their audiences.” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal 
  • “Directed here with A MAESTRO’S VIRTUOSIC VISION BY DAVID CROMER, ‘THE BAND’S VISIT’ IS GENTLE, SOULFUL, TUNEFUL – and THE BEST NEW MUSICAL ON BROADWAY.  BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, BEAUTIFUL STORY, BEAUTIFUL ACTING.” – Peter Marks, Washington Post
  • “THIS IS A REMARKABLE AND BOUNDLESSLY COMPASSIONATE AND HUMANISTIC PIECE OF THEATER.” – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
  •  “ITAMAR MOSES, one of our best playwrights, has 

    Wendy Federman with the Tony Award winning Katrina Lenk.

    translated the screenplay of ‘The Band’s Visit’ into musical-comedy terms with quiet skill. Mr. Yazbek’s songs are a savory multicultural mixture of Egyptian pop music, Israeli klezmer and cool American jazz, one so fresh-sounding that you can scarcely believe they’re being sung on a Broadway stage. His lyrics are just as good.” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal 

  • “A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF THEATER. In both form and content, the show gave me more hope for what Broadway might welcome, might foster, might become than any musical in a long time.” – Sara Holdren, New York Magazine
  • “FEED YOUR SOUL: GO SEE ‘THE BAND’S VISIT.’” – Jeremy Gerard, Deadline
  • “Moses and Yazbek have created something rare, grown-up and special. The book packs warmth, wit and economy. Irresistible songs blend strains of Arabic and Israeli melodies and flecks of jazz. Onstage musicians showcase the music to the max.” – Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
  • “★★★★ FOUR STARS! ‘The Band’s Visit,’ which feels even richer on Broadway than in its award-winning 2016 run at the Atlantic, is unconventionally wise. It is rare to encounter a show that has such a graceful sense of time.” -Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
  • “★★★★ FOUR STARS! An urgent, realistic and relatable portrait of vulnerable individuals from different cultures who are able to make an unexpected human connection. I doubt that a better written new musical will come to Broadway”  -Matt Windman, AM New York
With a book by Itamar Moses and a score by David Yazbek, The Band’s Visit is based on Eran Kolirin’s 2007 film about an Egyptian Police Band that arrives in Israel to play a concert. After a mix-up at the border, they are sent to a remote village in the middle of the desert. With no bus until morning and no hotel in sight, these unlikely travelers are taken in by the locals. Under the spell of the desert sky, their lives become intertwined in the most unexpected ways. The Band’s Visit celebrates the deeply human ways music, longing and laughter can connect us all.
Time Magazine ranked The Band’s Visit among “The Top Plays and Musicals of 2017!” See the article by clicking here. 
 
The Band’s Visit won TOP HONORS for Best Musical at the 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards and Obie Awards. 

THE BAND’S VISIT, starts a North American National Tour in the Spring of 2019. 

Tickets now on sale. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

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