As previously speculated, the new musical Leap of Faith will push up its Broadway start date from the fall and begin performances April 3 at the St. James Theatre, replacing the revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

Four-time Tony Award nominee Raul Esparza will headline the show, joined by Jessica Phillips as Marla and Kendra Kassebaum ...

Leap of Faith, Alan Menken and Glenn Slater’s musical adaptation of the 1992 feature film starring Steve Martin, is headed to Broadway in fall 2012, according to The New York Times. Four-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza, who starred in a 2010 debut production in Los Angeles, will reprise his performance as Jonas Nightingale, an evangelical con man offered the ...

Less than 24 hours after her closing performance in the Los Angeles production of Leap of Faith, Brooke Shields was on the red carpet at the Broadway opening of Driving Miss Daisy, telling Broadway.com that her experience with the new musical was “the best ever.” The actress added that she expects the show to make it to Broadway next ...

Complete casting has been announced for the Los Angeles debut of Broadway-bound musical, Leap of Faith. Kendra Kassebaum (Wicked), Nicholas Barasch (West Side Story), Tony winner Jarrod Emick (The Boy From Oz), Kecia Lewis-Evans (The Drowsy Chaperone) and Leslie Odom Jr. (TV's Big Day) will join previously announced stars Raul Esparza and Brooke Shields when the show begins performances ...

Bubbly good witch Katie Rose Clarke knows about dressing rooms. She previously appeared on the Rialto as Clara Johnson in The Light in the Piazza, a role she reprised on the show's first national tour, then played Glinda for nearly four years during Wicked's first national tour. But it wasn't until she finally settled in at Wicked ...

Eden Espinosa will return to the role of Elphaba in the open-ended engagement of Wicked at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre beginning March 2. Espinosa first played the green witch at the Orpheum in the summer of 2005, and she’ll be reunited there with former co-star Kendra Kassebaum as Glinda. Espinosa is also a veteran of the Broadway and ...

To celebrate the return of the smash-hit musical Wicked to San Francisco, four of the city’s iconic monuments are going green—in lights, that is. From January 30 through February 6, the Coit Tower, Ferry Building, City Hall and War Memorial Veterans Building are turning Elphaba-green in lights that come on at sunset and burn until midnight.

This unusual ...

Kendra Kassebaum and Teal Wicks will play Glinda and Elphaba in the forthcoming San Francisco engagement of Wicked, along with Broadway company vets Carol Kane as Madame Morrible and David Garrison as the Wizard. The open-ended run will begin performances on January 27, 2009, at the Orpheum Theatre.

In addition to Wicked, Kassebaum’s Broadway credits include Assassins and Rent ...

Complete casting has been announced for the Roundabout’s one-night-only gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s acclaimed A Little Night Music. The Tony Award-winning musical, directed by Scott Ellis with musical direction by Paul Gemignani, was originally slated to play at Nokia Theatre Times Square on January 12, 2009. The starry benefit will now play at ...

Alli Mauzey, Brynn O’Malley, Kevin Kern, Alex Brightman and Rialto newcomer Marcie Dodd will all be strolling towards the Emerald City soon, joining the cast of Wicked as the hit show’s new Glinda, Nessarose, Fiyero, Boq and Elphaba, respectively. Brightman begins on November 4, and the other newcomers will give their first performance on November 11.

“I’m ...