worst part about theatre is knowing all the smaller productions of things that were never fully recorded and/or archived, now forever lost to time. you can never hear that specific version of a song from your local theatre in 2017. you can never see your favorite broadway actor doing performances before they ever made it to bway.
2004 Rent (Steve, u/s Roger, Mark) US national tour [January – December 2004 National tour replacement]
2005–08 Hairspray (Link Larkin) US national tour [August 2005 – July 2006 First national tour replacement], Neil Simon Theatre [July 18, 2006 – January 18, 2007; April 1 – May 4, 2008 Broadway replacement]
2007 The Three Musketeers (D'Artagnan) North Shore Music Theatre [August 21 – September 9, 2007 Regional production]
2008–10 Next to Normal (Gabe Goodman) Second Stage Theatre [January 16 – March 16,2008 Original Off-Broadway production], Arena Stage [November 21, 2008 – January 18, 2009 Original Washington, D.C. production], Booth Theatre [March 27, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Original Broadway production]
2008 Saved! (Dean) Playwrights Horizons
[May 10 – June 22, 2008 Original Off-Broadway production]
2009–11 Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale, Jr.) 5th Avenue Theatre [July 28 – August 16, 2009 Original Seattle production] Neil Simon Theatre: [March 11 – September 4, 2011 Original Broadway production]
2018–22; 2023 Moulin Rouge!(Christian) Emerson Colonial Theatre: [July 10 – August 19, 2018 Original Boston production] Al Hirschfeld Theatre: [June 28, 2019 – March 11, 2020, September 24, 2021 – May 8, 2022, January 17 – April 9, 2023 Original Broadway production; paused due to COVID-19 , Won 2020 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Returning for limited engagement in 2023]
A postcard of the main dining room in the Hotel Latham, 5th Avenue & 28th St., 1922. "Completely renovated. In the heart of New York's business and shopping center. Convenient to theatres, railroad and steamship terminals."
For #womenshistorymonth a look at some of the most important women in the history of The Phantom of the Opera.
Number 20. Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess is probably one of most well known names in Phantom history.
She began her Phantom journey by re-imagining the role as the first Christine in Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular in 2006.
In 2010, she originated the role of an older Christine Daaé in the original London version of Love Never Dies, which continues the story of Phantom.
Sierra once again played Christine Daaé in the 25th anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall in London
She also played the role in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera several times, including the 25th anniversary. She also returned to the show for a limited run to play Christine alongside Norm Lewis' Phantom.
Sierra was also going to be Christine in the, unfortunately aborted, first French production.
Besides Christine Daaé, Sierra, a drama Desk and Drama League nominee, is best known for originating the role of Ariel in The Little Mermaid on Broadway.
Sierra began her career in the ensemble and as an understudy for Cosette on the U.S. national tour of Les Misérables, a few years later January 10, 2013 she joined the West End company at the Queen's Theatre and took over the role of Fantine.
She also played the roles of Binky and Ram Dass in the musical Princesses at Goodspeed Opera House and the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Her previous work includes West Side Story (Maria), The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), The Boy Friend and Sweet Charity (Charity).
She also originated the role of Rosalie Mullins in School of Rock, 2016.
From July 26–28, 2019, Sierra starred as Cinderella in the Hollywood Bowl's production of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.
From March 13-May 15, 2022, Sierra starred as "Mary" in the New York premiere of Barry Manilow's musical Harmony at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.
At the moment she stars as Lily in the newly imagined production of The Secret Garden at the Ahmanson.
She has frequently participated in Broadway Barks, a cat and dog adoption event founded by Bernadette Peters.
"I want to be rich" "i want to be famous" okay?? well all i want in life is to know what pictures are shown in the seattle 2018 space age bachelor man when constance says "look at these cruel images!" when talking about why she (as the evil cat queen) hates earth and the audience laughs.
What's the joke? whats so silly? why cant 5th avenue theatre just release the entire high-quality recording of ride the cyclone on their youtube?? 😐
Okay, watching every clip from 2018 RTC Seattle at The 5th Avenue Theatre and ACT Theatre, and falling more in love with the cast every second.
Waiting For The Drop was already my favourite opening number, but Connor Russell's Space Age Bachelor Man, Adam Standley's This Song Is Awesome, and ESPECIALLY his rendition of Talia really secured this cast as one of my favourites.
does anyone have an alliance theatre or act/5th avenue bootleg (or i guess any production other than 2016)? i have a blue bridge if anyone wants to dm me for it ^-^
edit: OH ALSO MCCARTER THEATRE DO RECORDINGS OF THAT ONE EXIST
Final photo: Greg McCormick Allen, Taryn Darr, Christina Saffran Ashford, and Michael Gruber performing at the tree lighting ceremony at Westlake Mall.
White Christmas at 5th Avenue Theatre! it ran from: Nov. 28 - Dec. 30, 2009
Michael plays Bob Wallace in this production!
“Éponine had stalked Montparnasse’s élégant silhouette through the rue du Champ-d'Asile— where he prowled along the border of the dreadful Cimetière du Sud— past the Gaité theatre, and then turned back towards La Salpêtrière. He weaved through a maze of tight alleyways and derelict pathways before finally stopping outside a shabby building on an unremarkable street corner near the Austerlitz area; His lodgings, she presumed. The city’s nocturnal avenues had been quiet tonight, and neither her nor Montparnasse had encountered anyone aside from a couple of sleeping drunks and weary prostitutes. But, she knew better than to think that this meant that she was safe from the cognes yet.”
Chapter 3: La Petit Mort
Relationship: Montparnasse/Éponine Thénardier
A (mostly) canon compliant retelling focusing on what Éponine and Montparnasse might have gotten up in the four months between February 3rd and June 5th 1832, if she had not been “nabbed” on the night of the Gorbeau ambush. Intended as a deeper exploration of the dynamic between the pair that we see glimpses of in Les Misérables, and a general study of their individual characters and motivations.
Also, naturally featuring a hell of a lot of the Patron-Minette, including most of the minor affiliates that we only see mentioned by name in the novel.
i'm saying goodbye to my hometown. i've stepped foot in here for the last time. with a camera i stole from a popstar on 5th avenue. upon arrival i saw those friends i grew up with. with whom i shared kisses and hugs and secrets of suicide. the folly of nostalgia. our eyes locked and we once again, for a moment, became pale teenagers. the wind became stubborn. our crooked eyes ripped out of our skulls and dropped onto the pavement. i was given a chance to see everything for the first time again.
the hobos act like icarus.
i'm in virginia, westward bound. rusted elbows and knees scraped with harmony. the perversion of a thousand suns. glaring in sweat. a reflection of our selves, the crew, carrying cameras and light fixtures across 47 highways and sunburnt prairies in search of the final shot. the director yells "wrap" yet we keep going. we're not there yet.
i’m making a movie about my hometown. before it burns down to the ground. it feels like we’ve been filming for 9 months. or maybe we just started yesterday. my morals are slipping. my vision is foggy. this film has no characters, it has a crew.
we share beds and tell each other secrets. we speak quietly of fears that this production may never end.
At that moment, a house down the street catches on fire and an elderly couple kisses their final kiss.
a firework goes off in the basement of a widowed Sarah and she momentarily goes deaf.
a trackstar loses her virginity in a Super 8 motel.
my camera is slipping further and further from my hand. I fear I’m creating something that I have no control of.
a world made unto theatre will act in its inherent dramas and contradictions.
i’m not sure when i'll return to the city. if i come back too early, shoot me and distribute your earnings evenly.