Latest Broadway Buzz

Spring Awakening Star Lea Michele to Play Feinstein's April 7

NEWS April 5, 2008 | 5:09PM

Spring Awakening leading lady Lea Michele will perform a return concert at Feinsteins' at Loews Regency on Monday, April 7. Titled "Once Upon a Dream," the show finds the young star singing songs from a variety of Broadway dream roles. Spring Awakening co-star Jonathan Groff will also appear as Michele's guest star.

Michele made her Broadway debut as a ...

Spring Awakening to Launch National Tour in San Francisco

NEWS March 20, 2008 | 9:45AM

Spring Awakening will launch its first national tour on September 4 at the Curran Theater in San Francisco after a pre-tour premiere at San Diego's Balboa Theatre in August. Stops on the first year of the tour include Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Toronto, Seattle, Houston, Tempe, Louisville, East Lansing and Tampa, with other cities to be announced. Casting for ... Read More...

Kristine Nielsen Will Replace Kate Burton in Spring Awakening

NEWS February 28, 2008 | 2:14PM

Kristine Nielsen will join the cast of Spring Awakening on March 4 in the adult women's roles, producer Jeffrey Richards confirmed. Nielsen replaces Kate Burton, who joined the show on December 21 and will depart on March 2. Spring Awakening is continuing its run at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

Nielsen is scheduled to play Madame de Volanges, the ...

Lea Michele to Play Eponine in Hollywood Bowl Les Miserables Concerts

NEWS February 26, 2008 | 10:49AM

Spring Awakening star Lea Michele has revealed that she will play Eponine in the Hollywood Bowl's Les Miserables in Concert series on August 8, 9 and 10. Michele made the announcement during her solo concert at Feinstein's at the Regency on February 25. She plans to depart Spring Awakening on May 18, which will also be the final ... Read More...

Sixteen-Year-Old Emma Hunton Joins Spring Awakening

NEWS February 19, 2008 | 10:34AM

Sixteen-year-old Emma Hunton will make her Broadway debut in Spring Awakening on February 19 in the role of Ilse, the show's free-spirited bohemian character. Lauren Pritchard played her final performance in the Tony-winning musical on February 17 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

An 11th grader in Los Angeles who was discovered during the L.A. auditions for Spring ...

Spring Awakening Recording Wins Grammy Award

NEWS February 10, 2008 | 11:03PM

The original cast recording of Broadway's Spring Awakening nabbed the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. The 50th annual Grammy celebration was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 10.

The album, produced by composer Duncan Sheik, was released by Decca Broadway on December 12, 2006. It features the complete Tony-winning score by Sheik ...

Grammy Nominations Honor Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line and More

NEWS December 6, 2007 | 12:50PM

The original cast albums of the Broadway musicals Spring Awakening and Grey Gardens, the Broadway revival recordings of A Chorus Line and Company, and a compilation recording of West Side Story snagged Grammy Award nominations for Best Musical Show Album. The 50th annual Grammy ceremony will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 10.

The complete ...

Lilli Cooper: Full-Time Student, Full-Time Broadway Actress

FIRST PERSON September 18, 2007 | 1:00PM

About the author:
Think you're busy? Try combining a full class load at a prestigious New York City high school with eight Broadway shows a week—at age 16. That's how Lilli Cooper spent the past year as one of the youngest cast members in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Spring Awakening. Oh, and it was her junior ... Read More...

Lauren Pritchard

FRESH FACE August 2, 2007 | 1:23PM

Age: 19

Currently: Starring as Ilse, a before-her-time hippie child navigating the perils of adolescence in 1890s Germany, in Broadway's rock musical sensation Spring Awakening.

Hometown: Jackson, Tennessee. "My dad manufactures and sells school supplies, so I had play-dough in my house when I could barely walk," Pritchard recalls. "I would bring it for the entire class, so I ...

John Gallagher Jr.: A Year of Firsts at Spring Awakening

FIRST PERSON May 15, 2007 | 9:33AM

About the author:
Since the phenomenon that is Spring Awakening opened on Broadway last fall, its youthful stars have developed a devoted following—and none more than the charming and talented John Gallagher Jr., who has just been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. As Moritz, an angst-filled teen with a distinctively high-flying hairstyle ... Read More...