Best of the Rest Post! :D
Just a Reminder:
- Roundabout Theatre Company's limited engagement of Waiting for Godot will play its final performance on Sunday, July 12th at 2:00 PM.
- Sienna Miller will make her Broadway debut this Fall in Roundabout's production of After Miss Julie. Sienna is featured on the cover of Vogue Magazine (July Issue). Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter sits down with Sienna to discuss her upcoming movie, her Broadway debut and her After Miss Julie co-star, Jonny Lee Miller. Original photographs of Sienna Miller are included. The magazine is on stands now.
- Christine Andreas and Karen Mason will be part of the Hudson Stage Company's Divas benefit concert on July 11. Gregg Edelman will host the 7 PM concert, which also features the previously announced Beth Leavel and Liz Callaway.
- A host of theatre and cabaret favorites will be part of the Cabaret at the Castle series, which is presented at Castle on the Hudson in Tarrytown, NY. The Summer Serenade Series, held Sunday evenings, will boast the talents of Will and Anthony Nunziata (July 12), Luba Mason (July 19), Kristy Cates (July 26) and Brandon Cutrell (Aug. 9).
- The July 20 performance of Erotic Broadway, the late-night Monday series at Off-Broadway's Triad will feature John Selya, Tonya Wathen, Ioana Alfonso, Joe Ricci and Michelle Pruiett. Show time is 9:30 PM.
- Lea Salonga and George Takei will take part in a staged reading of the new musical Allegiance. The July 13 reading will be held at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. The cast will also feature Jose Llana, James Snyder, Michael K. Lee, Enrico Rodriguez, Jennifer Paz and Michael Hagiwara.
- The long-running Puppetry of the Penis will return to the New York stage Aug. 4 at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre. The production will play the Manhattan venue through Aug. 30. Opening is scheduled for Aug 6. Puppetry is described as "a non-sexual adult show." In the unique production, men bend their genitalia into shapes (it has been billed as "genital origami"). WHAT THE WHAT?!
- Tony Award-winning actress Jane Lapotaire will return to the stage for the first time in a decade when she stars in the world premiere of Peter Gill's Another Door Closed beginning Aug. 4 at the Theatre Royal, Bath. Opening night is scheduled for Aug. 11, and performances will continue to Aug. 29 only in the Ustinov Studio theatre.
- The annual The 24 Hour Plays Off-Broadway - featuring six new plays created in one day's time - will be held July 13 at the Atlantic Theater. Nikki Blonsky will host the event, which will feature the talents of Laura Breckenridge ("Gossip Girl"), Joey Slotnick ("Nip/Tuck"), Julie Halston (Hairspray, "Sex and the City"), Patrick Heusinger (Next Fall, "Gossip Girl"), Max Casella ("The Sopranos") and Russell Jones (Ruined) as well as the At Play ensemble.
- The line-up for the 20th Annual Cabaret Convention - which will be held Oct. 7-9 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan - has been announced. The three-day convention, which salutes the best of New York cabaret, will kick off Oct. 7 with Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate! It will feature the talents of Lucie Arnaz, Barbara Carroll, Matt Cavenaugh, Karen Mason, Marian Seldes, and Elaine Stritch. All in the Family is the title of the Oct. 8 performance, which will boast the talents of Ann Hampton, Liz Callaway, and Christine Ebersole. The convention will conclude Oct. 9 with Music Heals.
- The original cast of Broadway's Glory Days reunited in the studio July 2-3 to record the show's album. The Ghostlight Records release is scheduled to be available in stores and online by year's end. View the album here.
- Cheryl Hines of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" attended the 7 p.m. performance of Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular at The Venetian. If you are so inclined, photos are here.
- A photo of the ladies of the Broadway bound First Wives Club can be seen here.
- AVENUE Q's final cast takes it's first bow on Broadway. View photos here.
