To kick off the second season of the Broadway.com talk show Show People, host Paul Wontorek sits down with the man who first dreamt up the smash hit Wicked, composer/lyricist Stephen Schwart…
To kick off the second season of the Broadway.com talk show Show People, host Paul Wontorek sits down with the man who first dreamt up the smash hit Wicked, composer/lyricist Stephen Schwart…
— The fall on Broadway started early this year. And auspiciously. Transferring from the Kennedy Center in Washington, Eric Schaeffer's lush, raw and moving revival of "Follies," the …
Tickets are now available for the first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's Godspell, starring Weeds' Hunter Parrish as Jesus. Directed by Daniel Goldstein, performances begi…
The box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, opens for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
A “load-in” is the period of time when a show’s set/lights/sound are literally loaded into the theater from the streets, where they’ve been brought by trucks from sho…
This Sunday, the New York Times will publish one of the biggest issues of the year for arts lovers. Â It’s the annual Fall Preview. So, while print may not be where we’re spend…
I’ve always considered pre-production of Broadway shows to be in four phases, or to use a driving metaphor since I like fast cars, four gears: 1st Gear – Pre-production2nd Gear &…
What do Jesus and drug dealers have in common? Apparently they’re not so different, according to Godspell star Hunter Parrish. The actor will play the son of God in the musical's u…
We have weekly internal marketing meetings about everything we work on here at DTE. Â But, as you can imagine, we’ve been focusing on Godspell more and more as our day-by-day countdo…
Every fall, there’s a street fair on the Upper East Side with a block dedicated just to theater. Â I usually take a few booths for some of my other shows, and this year I took one fo…
Because today was the last business day before we start rehearsals on Monday, there was a flurry of activity in my office. Â In fact, it’s 8:23 PM right now, and about five of my sta…
Although our official Meet & Greet isn’t until Monday, today, four of our cast members got a chance to say hello to each other for the first time at a recording studio in Midtown. …
The box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, will open for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
The box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, will open for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway revival of Godspell, which will begin previews at Circle in the Square on October 13, with an official opening set for November 7. Daniel…
Jim Caruso's Cast Party is an extreme open mic that has been running every Monday for the past eight years at Birdland, the historic music room in Manhattan's Theater District. It's also a b…
As the numbers on our Day by Day countdown get closer and closer to zero, more and more opportunities for us to to speak to the media about our production of Godspell pop up. Â Makes sens…
With only 6 days before Director Danny Goldstein dives into rehearsals, I thought it was a great time to ask Danny to walk me and my other Producers through the show, scene-by-scene, from Th…
In conjunction with the upcoming Broadway revival of Godspell, which will begin previews at Circle in the Square Theatre in October, Masterworks Broadway is releasing "Godspell - The 40…
By Peter Filichia -- There are many wonderful aspects to the "40th Anniversary Celebration" of Godspell. How often is an original cast album (of the landmark 1971 off-Broadway production) o…
I spent Labor Day working on Godspell paperwork, including the forms required by Actors’ Equity Association for our “bond.” Â The bond is a financial guarantee (approxima…
I spent the last couple of days in LA and arrived back in the city early this morning. Â I picked up the Sunday New York Times at JFK to read in the taxi on the way back from the airport. …
If you read my other blog, you know that I’ve got a lot of ideas. Â My theory is, the more the better, because honestly, they’re not all going to be great. Â But if you keep …
There may be 41 days until performances begin, but there are less than 10 (!) days until the first rehearsal. The first day of rehearsal of any show always feels like the first day of school…