One of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved musicals, Carousel, is headed to Lincoln Center for five performances with the New York Philharmonic. The cast is a dream come true for connoisseurs of great singing, including Broadway favorites Kelli O’Hara (Julie Jordan), Jessie Mueller (Carrie Pipperidge) and Jason Danieley (Enoch Snow) and opera stars Nathan Gunn (Billy Bigelow) and Stephanie ...

Broadway.com has learned exclusively that The Mystery of Edwin Drood star Jessie Mueller has landed her next big gig, playing rough-and-tough showtune-singing bootlegger Billie Bendix in the Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It. The 2012 Tony Award nominee will start performances on April 2, replacing Kelli O’Hara, who is leaving the hit show on March ...

It’s been 11 years since Blythe Danner last walked the Broadway boards in Follies, but this stage and screen star has been keeping plenty busy. Between starring in the Meet the Parents movies, frequent appearances in Williamstown and off-Broadway, and guest-starring on TV shows from Huff to Will & Grace, Danner also plays mother to Gwyneth and Jake Paltrow, and ...

Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is only a few weeks away from making his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, and on January 22, the Broadway newbie got a lesson from the pros. Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson caught a performance of the toe-tapping Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It, then headed backstage to ...

PBS will air concerts from Kristin Chenoweth, Josh Groban and more as part of its Live From Lincoln Center series. As previously announced five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will serve as the series' host.

The series will kick off with the American Songbook’s celebration of Tony-winning songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb. The event, titled Ring Them Bells ...

PBS will film and broadcast the New York Philharmonic's upcoming concert production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Tony-winning musical Carousel. The musical will star four-time Tony nominee and Nice Work If You Can Get It headliner Kelli O’Hara as Julie Jordan and opera singer Nathan Gunn as Billy Bigelow. Carousel will run at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall ...

Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman’s musical adaptation of the best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County will premiere in August 2013 at Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. The new musical will reunite South Pacific and The Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher and leading lady Kelli O’Hara. Sher and O’Hara participated in previous readings of ...

Audra and Sweeney and War Horse, oh my! 2012 may be coming to a close, but there’s still tons of fun to be had on Broadway. Check out what’s in store on New Year’s Eve and beyond in this week’s Broadway.com Datebook.


MONDAY, DECEMBER 31
POP THE CHAMPAGNE WITH AUDRA MCDONALD & JOSH GROBAN
Avery Fisher ...

There’s a new momma in town! Stage and screen star Blythe Danner has joined the Broadway cast of the Gershwin tuner Nice Work If You Can Get It as kooky mother Millicent Winter, and on December 19, after her second performance, Danner and her delighted castmates posed for photos. In Nice Work, Matthew Broderick stars as Jimmy Winter, a ...

Tony and Emmy winner Blythe Danner begins her run as Millicent Winter in Nice Work If You Can Get It on December 18. Danner succeeds Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons, who originated the role. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall and featuring a book by Joe DiPietro, the hit Gershwin musical is currently playing at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre, starring ...