For Jonathan Tunick, an early love of “Tubby the Tuba” led to a career as an orchestrator. He talks about his Sondheim partnership, and creating a sound that “can hint at unspoken secrets.”
Category: Theater (Broadway)
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Roundabout to Stage ‘Pirates of Penzance’ and ‘Yellow Face’ on Broadway
Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
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Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ Is Becoming a Musical From Orin Wolf
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is lined up to write the book, and Lileana Blain-Cruz will direct.
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Ani DiFranco Learned (and Cried) a Lot During Her First Year in N.Y.C.
“The lessons that New York has for you around every corner — it was a big part of my young adulthood, this city,” said the singer-songwriter, who will make her Broadway debut in “Hadestown.”
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Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on ‘The Color Purple’ and a Painful Role
Offered the chance to revisit her Broadway performance as the much-abused Celie, the star faced a difficult path.
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24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023
Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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Alicia Keys’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ to Open on Broadway This Spring
The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
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Broadway Babies, Singing Show Tunes for Seniors
What happened when four young theater actors performed for an older generation? “I was expecting to have the best show ever and that happened.”
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Tammy Faye Bakker Is Broadway Bound. As a Musical.
A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
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Huey Lewis and the News Musical Is Coming to Broadway in March
“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is a romantic comedy featuring songs by the chart-topping 1980s band.