In Follies, Danny Burstein is stuck in a love triangle. His character, Buddy Plummer—once a stage door Johnny, now a salesman—is hopelessly in love with his wife, Sally (played by Bernadette Peters), who has in turn been in love with someone else their entire marriage. Luckily, ubertalented character actor Burstein doesn’t have the same problem. The low-key ...

As Elphaba, Wicked’s high-flying—and even higher-belting—leading lady, Teal Wicks has had Broadway audiences under her spell since joining the cast of the musical juggernaut earlier this year. But what is life like for this onstage charmer behind the scenes? Wicks invited Broadway.com photographer Jenny Anderson to spend a day in her Wicked world and find out ...

The Four Seasons were born and bred in New Jersey, but the musical that tells their story, Jersey Boys, is a hit around the globe, including London’s West End. During Broadway.com’s recent visit across the pond, photographer Bruce Glikas spent an afternoon at the Prince Edward Theatre snapping the pre-show rituals of stars Jon Lee (Frankie Valli ...

In shows like West Side Story, Grey Gardens and A Catered Affair, Matt Cavenaugh has gotten plenty of practice sweeping Broadway audiences off their feet. He’s at it again in the new off-Broadway musical Death Takes a Holiday, playing dashing fighter pilot Eric Fenton, a guest at a luxurious Italian villa after World War I. But don’t worry ...

Chester Gregory could teach his Sister Act character—a semi-valiant, would-be Romeo—a thing or two about playing it cool. As sweetheart cop Eddie ‘Sweaty Eddie’ Souther, Gregory spends his stage time pining for the glamorous Deloris Van Cartier (Patina Miller). Off stage, the Broadway vet (an alum of Hairspray, Tarzan and Cry-Baby) has his hands in a million and ...

As Jeanie, Hair’s sweetly romantic mother-to-be, Kacie Sheik has been charming audiences since the hit revival’s first concerts in Central Park back in 2007. She’s been on Broadway, the West End and the show’s national tour, and now she’s thrilled to be back in New York for a summer return engagement of the Tony-winning revival ...

There's a new gal in town over at Chicago: Nikka Graff Lanzarone recently joined the cast of the long-running revival as sultry murderess Velma Kelly. Lanzarone, who made her Broadway debut last fall in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, invited Broadway.com to join her on a busy two-show day. Before arriving at the Ambassador Theatre ...

Pushing strollers through the streets of Manhattan and vamping it up on the stage of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre are all in a day’s work for Jessica Stone. The Broadway regular is currently strutting her stuff as man-eating miscreant Erma in the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes. Stone's resume includes everything from Grease and the 1995 revival of ...

In her comedy career, Nicole Parker has played everyone from Ellen Degeneres to Kim Kardashian, so it’s no surprise that this MadTV alum made her Broadway debut opposite a fellow comedian in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. After that show outed Parker as the Broadway belting talent she is, the actress was scooped up to shine as Elphaba in ...

Every young actor dreams of making it to a Broadway stage, and actors of every age dream of making it to the Tony Awards. Some very lucky—and very talented—young stars, like Sister Act leading lady Patina Miller, see these dreams come true in the very same year. On May 3,  just two weeks after Sister Act’s Broadway ...