It’s Official: Zeta-Jones is Broadway Bound
When last we wrote here, we reported unconfirmed rumors that Catherine Zeta-Jones would be joining Angela Lansbury on Broadway in the revival of Steven Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. That news is official now, with previews for the production set for November 24th at the Walter Kerr Theatre. This will mark Zeta-Jones’ Broadway debut in this revival of the popular 1973 musical. In it’s original incarnation at the Shubert, A Little Night Music won 6 Tony awards, among them Best Musical and Best Original Score. Look for opening night on December 13th at the Kerr.
Vanessa Williams Returns to Broadway
Veteran TV and movie actress and Grammy award winning vocalist Vanessa Williams is coming to Broadway this Spring to star along with Barbara Cook, Michael Arden and Leslie Kritzer in Sondheim on Sondheim. The show takes a look at living legend Steven Sondheim through his music and through film and videotape interviews with the famed composer. This marks a return to Broadway for Williams, who originally hit The Great White Way back in 1994 when she appeared in Kiss of the Spider Woman. She was also nominated for a Tony award in 2002 for her performance in Sondheim’s Into the Woods. Previews for this limited engagement at Studio 54 are set to begin on March 12, 2010, with opening night planned for April 22nd.
The 39 Steps Closing
After nearly two years on Broadway, producers of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps have announced that the show will close on January 10, 2010. The production originally opened in January of 2008 at the American Airlines Theatre. But during it’s two year run, it actually moved twice – once to the Cort Theatre in April of 2008, then to the Helen Hayes Theatre in January of this year. That is where it will play it’s final performance. And while the show had a relatively low profile compared to some others, when it closes it will have played 771 performances. And that makes it the longest running play on Broadway in the last 7 years.
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