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 ...

Stephanie J. Block is back on Broadway beginning March 15, when she takes over the role of nightclub singer-turned-evangelist Reno Sweeney in the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes. Block is replacing original star Sutton Foster, who is headed for Hollywood to film new ABC Family series Bunheads. Block previously stepped in for Foster in November 2011 while Foster filmed the ...

Bon voyage, Reno! On March 11, Sutton Foster played her last performance as tap-dancing nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in the Tony-winning hit revival of Anything Goes. The two-time Tony-winning actress departs the S.S. American for TV land, where she’ll star in the ABC Family series Bunheads. Foster originated the role of Reno in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival ...

Bill English has assumed the role of Billy Crocker in Anything Goes while Colin Donnell takes a leave of absence. Donnell, who is taking a hiatus to film the CW drama pilot Arrow in Vancouver, will return to Anything Goes on April 3. English will play Billy Crocker until April 1.

English has appeared on Broadway in Twentieth Century and ...

In the corporate world, employees leaving a job are often asked to sit through a sometimes grueling "exit interview" about their time at the company. Although that concept doesn't exist for Broadway performers, we think it's fun to check in with stars as they finish up a successful run, so we asked departing Anything Goes star Sutton Foster ...