'Lennon' To Sing at Broadway's Broadhurst July 2005 After San Francisco and Boston Dates
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Playbill - Producers of the Broadway-bound musical Lennon announced it will land at the Broadhurst Theatre in July 2005 following its world premiere at San Francisco's Curran Theatre and a stint at Boston's Colonial Theatre.
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The piano on which John Lennon composed his hit song "Imagine" in 1971 has been brought to New Orleans for a photograph session that the piano's new owner hopes will bring awareness to the hurricane-stricken city.
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Punk-era New York music icons Patti Smith and Television plan to share a stage for the first time since 1977.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the songs of John Lennon can all be found in the top 15 of the U.S. pop album chart, the biggest confluence of ex-Beatles in years.
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Yoko Ono will unveil the Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Oct. 9, the date that her husband, John Lennon, was born in 1940.
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The Beatles and theatre group Cirque du Soleil are to produce a show in Las Vegas featuring Beatles music.
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In tradition with Broadway versions of &quot;The Lion King&quot;? and &quot;Beauty and the Beast,&quot; the popular animated film franchise about the loveable green ogre is set to become a singing and dancing extravaganza on Broadway.
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A musical that uses more than 30 Beach Boys songs is set to open in Broadway in January next year. "Good Vibrations" is actually a book by Richard Dresser about small-town teenagers who come to Southern California. The songs expected to b...
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A couple of odd shows are planned for the Los Angeles Opera's '08- 09 season.  First there's consummate New Yorker Woody Allen, who has agreed to fly to L.A.
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This week's big Broadway  opener, or actually reopener, takes place Thursday at Studio  54: the Meinier Chocolate Factory's production of "Sunday in  the Park With George," staged as it was amid much buzz and  excitement in 2005-06 in London.
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John Lennon will have two new compact discs out this fall. Capitol Records announced it was releasing a 17-song disc, "Acoustic," which collect some of the quieter post-Beatles work, including "Working Class Hero," "Watching the Wheels" and "Dear Yoko," by Lennon, who was murdered in 1980.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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Variety - NEW YORK  -- Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such hit Broadway musicals as "Chicago" and "Cabaret" as well as the big-city anthem "New York, New York," died Saturday of a heart attack.
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A green, grumpy, wildly popular ogre will sing and dance on a Seattle stage this summer on his way to Broadway. Shrek, the star of the blockbuster animated movies, will appear in a new musical set to premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Aug. 14-Sep...
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Playbill - The forthcoming musical version of Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings will make its debut in San Francisco before opening on Broadway in Aug. 18, 2005, announced the producers.
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The remaining files held by the FBI on John Lennon may soon be released, following a court ruling in Los Angeles recently. The FBI argued with the court that the release of the files could compromise relations with a certain foreign country.
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Playbill - The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), a three-week celebration highlighting the next generation of musicals and the varied community of writers and artists working in musical theatre today, will begin accepting submissions for its 2005 season Jan. 10.