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Amazing Grace, the new musical about the writer of the beloved hymn, opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theater on July 16. The show, which had a previous run in Chicago, marks the profes…
Click for photos from the star-studded opening night of Amazing Grace on July 16, 2015 at Gotham Hall. See the new musical at the Nederlander Theatre.
Broadway's new musical Amazing Grace officially opened last night, July 16, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street. The cast features Tony Award nominee Josh Young,Erin Macke…
Broadway's new musical Amazing Grace officially opened last night, July 16, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street. The cast features Tony Award nominee Josh Young, Erin Mack…
The new Broadway musical celebrated its run at the Nederlander Theatre.
The creators have good instincts about a story worth telling. But their reach exceeds their grasp.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A serious musical with epic themes doesn't come to Broadway that often. The refreshing new show "Amazing Grace" admirably covers slavery, abolition, sedition and spiritu…
There's a scene in Fun Home " both the book and the musical " in which a 9-year-old girl shows her father a fanciful map she's drawn for school. As the father grows more agitated t…
The new Broadway musical 'Amazing Grace' was inspired by the story of John Newton.
NEW YORK - When the hymn "Amazing Grace" gets to the line about saving "a wretch like me," it's not routine self-flagellation. The author of the song was a wretch indeed,…
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opened July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the stor…
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opened July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the stor…
Broadway's new musicalAmazing Graceofficially openedlastnight, July 16, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street.The cast features Tony Award nomineeJosh Young,Erin Mackey, Ton…
Broadway's new musical Amazing Grace officially opened last night, July 16, at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre 208 West 41st Street. The cast features Tony Award nominee Josh Young, Erin Mack…
An intermittently effective new musical about the slave trader-turned- clergyman who wrote the famous hymn.
Your god can do his worstKill me if he canI curse in his faceAnd i spit on your planI will not be subject to god or to manI am my own masterYou all can be damned.-- words sung by John Newton…
A first-time composer brings a tale of slavery and salvation to Broadway.
The new Broadway musical Amazing Grace, which played a sold-out world premiere in Chicago, officially opened July 16 at the Nederlander Theatre. Tony nominee Josh Young stars in the stor…
With its clean-cut heroes and villains and its earnest Christianity, the musical "Amazing Grace" is an outlier on Broadway " where the new normal is the bold, hip-hop-flavored "Hamilton." As…
To see President Obama break into "Amazing Grace" at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries ago.…
The musical, named for the 18th-century hymn often associated with African-American culture and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, unfolds as a history lesson trimmed in melodrama.
In 18th-century England, the scion of a slave-trading family works in the business for years, then has a crisis of conscience, repudiates the evil practice and becomes a man of God and an ar…
NEW YORK - The message of "Amazing Grace" - that the most despicable, slave-owning wretch can see the light and the errors of past ways and become a force for reconciliation - is an aspirati…
There’s an audience out there for “Amazing Grace,” flawed as it is, but they may not get to see this religious-uplift musical if the $16 million show’s marketing mach…
Can a sudden religious conversion be convincingly dramatized? Can a man who has done cruel, hateful, casually sadistic acts as a young 18th century British slave trader for almost three quar…
