On May 13, Anything Goes star Stephanie J. Block had her fingers crossed to win the award for Best Replacement at the 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards. When the honor ultimately went to Darren Criss, Block was a gracious runner-up. But her night at the awards was just beginning! When Wicked won the award for Favorite Tour, the former ...

The fun never stops aboard the S.S. American! When the cast of Anything Goes isn’t crooning Cole Porter classics, they’re backstage jamming to “What Makes You Beautiful” by pop band One Direction. Anything Goes cast member Raymond J. Lee captured all of the behind-the-scenes fun in a music video featuring Stephanie J. Block and the cast as ...

Bill English will take over as Billy Crocker in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes. English will assume the role on May 1, succeeding original cast member Colin Donnell who departs the production April 29. English previously stepped in for Donnell from January 24 through February 19 while Donnell starred in Merrily We Roll Along ...

How does Colin Donnell spend his time when he’s not sailing the seven seas in Anything Goes or playing a billionaire in CW’s new TV pilot Arrow? He's playing the piano with Grammy winner Norah Jones, of course! In Jones’ new “Happy Pills” music video, Donnell plays a suave driver who picks up a high-heeled, hitchhiking Jones ...

It seems 80 is the new 60, and Broadway luminaries continue to light up the stage well into their golden years. Earlier this week, Anything Goes star Joel Grey was welcomed into the Broadway octogenarian club. He joins a list of working 80+ actors that includes Nice Work If You Can Get It’s Estelle Parsons, The Best Man Tony ...

On April 11, Anything Goes star Joel Grey turned 80 years old—and this Tony winner knows how to party! Grey’s friends threw a bash at the McKittrick Hotel (home of off-Broadway’s Sleep No More) in honor of the actor's big day, as well as the 40th anniversary of the 1972 musical film Cabaret. Grey, who won ...

The Anything Goes crew welcomed two-time Tony winner Bernadette Peters aboard the S.S. American on April 11 to celebrate a very important milestone: cast member Joel Grey’s 80th birthday! Peters, who played Grey's little sister in the 1968 Broadway musical George M!, surprised Grey onstage and led the audience in a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday." After ...

Last month Anything Goes star Colin Donnell said “bon voyage” to the S.S. American and set sail to…Vancouver? Donnell took a leave of absence as ship stowaway Billy Crocker to shoot the CW pilot Arrow, a modern-day retelling of the DC Comics' The Green Arrow. On April 3, Donnell returns to the Tony-winning revival. Broadway.com recently caught ...

It was smooth sailing for the Broadway cast of Anything Goes on March 21, when Stephanie J. Block and the company celebrated the show's 400th performance at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. After taking their bows, Block joined castmates Joel Grey, Robert Petkoff, Julie Halston and Erin Mackey and more to celebrate the milestone onstage (and eat some delicious cake ...

With a Broadway resume that includes Elphaba in Wicked and Irish chieftain Grace O’Malley in The Pirate Queen, it’s no wonder Stephanie J. Block laughingly declares, “People are used to seeing me standing center stage, belting my guts out.” These days, Block is giving angst a rest and embracing her saucy side as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes ...