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Des McAnuff, the two-time Tony Award winner who directed the original Broadway staging of The Who’s Tommy, will direct a new production of the musical for 2021, producers Hal Luftig and Patrick Catullo announced today.

“Our new production of Tommy will be a reinvention aimed directly at today,” said McAnuff in a statement. “Tommy combines myth and spectacle in a way that truly soars. The key question with any musical is ‘Does the story sing?’ and this one most certainly does.”

McAnuff called the Tommy character – marking his 50th birthday this year – “the anti-hero ground zero. He is the boy who not only rejects adulthood like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, but existence itself. He becomes lost in the universe as he stares endlessly and obsessively into the mirror at his own image. This gives our story a powerful resonance today as it seems like the whole...

Tony LePage Come From Away, Rock of Ages and Josh Sassanella Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Rock of Ages will debut songs from their new musical Oswald on Monday, August 19, 2019 at 7.00pm at The Green Room 42 570 10th Ave. The concert of Oswald features Reeve Carney Hadestown, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Amy Spanger Matilda, Elf, Justin Matthew Sargent Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark, Rock of Ages, Joe Carroll Frozen, Bandstand, Nasia Thomas Ain't Too Proud, Beautiful The Carole King Musical, Alex Finke Come From Away, Les Miserables, De'Lon Grant Come From Away,Donnie Kehr Billy Elliott, Jersey Boys, Justin Mortelliti Escape to Margaritaville, Blaine Krauss The Cher Show, Kinky Boots, and Joey Calveri Rock of Ages, Wonderland, with more talent to be announced.

Mark Lamura, known for his role as Mark Dalton on All My Children, has died, according to multiple reports.

Deadline reports the actor, who was 68, died Sept. 11 from lung cancer. TV Line confirmed Lamura’s passing with his close friend and fellow actor Donnie Kehr (House of Cards).

Susan Lucci, who played Lamura’s on-screen sister on the long-running soap opera, commemorated the late star in a touching Instagram post on Tuesday.

“How can this be?” she wrote. “I just received the shocking and deeply saddening news that wonderful Mark Lamura has passed away! Mark played my brother Mark on All My Children.

Mark La Mura, who played All My Children‘s Mark on and off for decades, has died. He was 68.

On Monday, La Mura’s AMC co-star and on-screen sister Susan Lucci posted an elegy to her friend on Instagram.

TVLine confirmed the actor’s passing with his close friend and fellow actor Donnie Kehr (House of Cards).

During his run as Pine Valley’s Mark Dalton, La Mura’s most notable storylines included romancing his (then unknown to him) sibling Erica and undergoing an intervention about his drug addiction. After La Mura left the ABC soap in the late 1980s,...

You can figure out everything you need to know about the big-screen version of the dazzling, Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys from the opening studio logos alone. A familiar piano cue from The Four Seasons’ catchy classic “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” plays over greying silver studio logos. In other words, you are going to get the electrifying pop staples but over a drab, lifeless execution. Director Clint Eastwood is no stranger to music, as he worked as a composer on many of his most recent films, but Jersey Boys is one musical adaptation that he should have left alone.

Jersey Boys is probably the most beloved of all of the jukebox musicals that blended the lights of Broadway with the biggest pop hits of yesteryear. In the stumble to the big screen, though, the behind-the-music story about how some delinquent boys growing up just outside of Newark became one...

The Path Fund's Donnie Kehr has announced the list of additional performers for their annual benefit concert on Monday, November 17 at Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street in New York City Rockers On Broadway - Teen Idols, which this year honors Frankie Valli and Micky Dolenz with Lifetime Achievement Awards and, radio-personality Cousin Bruce Morrow with the Ambassador of Rock Award.

Okay I admit it, I'm a showtunes queen! I love Broadway and musicals, good musicals, that is. And I think "Jersey Boys" is a good musical. The rugs-to-riches tale of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is captivating and the soundtrack rocks!

And now comes the inevitable movie version, and to be honest? It actually looks good! Director Clint Eastwood added some grittiness to the Broadway gloss and voila -- a musical that will steal our hearts this summer, June 20th to be exact! Oh, plus points for adding Christopher Walken to the mix! Will he sing? Or at least dance?

Take a look at the new "Jersey Boys" trailer and then sing with the soundtrack:

Here's the official synopsis:

Clint Eastwood's big screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical tells the story of the four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who...

Rocker Joan Jett, Cheryl Freeman The Who's Tommy, Ariana Groover Bare, Steve Gouveia Jersey Boys, Emma Hunton Next to Normal, John Arthur Greene Matilda, Preston Truman Boyd Big River, Eric Michael KropGodspell, Michael Lanning Bonnie and Clyde, Sarah Schmidt Jersey Boys,Jeremy Schonfeld Drift, Andrew Berlin, Sarah Grace, Aisha Jackson, Greg Kamp, Megan Rice join Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis Jekyll amp Hyde, Eden Espinosa Wicked,Lena Hall Kinky Boots, Tony Vincent We Will Rock YouAmerican Idiot, Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis, Lesli Margherita, Tituss Burgess, Donnie Kehr and more all took part in Rockers On Broadway 20 - Celebrating 20 Years 1993-2013 at SoHo's le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street, NYC on Monday night.BroadwayWorld was there for the special concert event and you can check out photos from the star-studded arrivals below...

Rocker Joan Jett, Cheryl Freeman The Who's Tommy, Ariana Groover Bare, Steve Gouveia Jersey Boys, Emma HuntonNext to Normal, John Arthur Greene Matilda, Preston Truman Boyd Big River, Eric Michael Krop Godspell, Michael Lanning Bonnie and Clyde, Sarah Schmidt Jersey Boys,Jeremy Schonfeld Drift, Andrew Berlin, Sarah Grace, Aisha Jackson, Greg Kamp, Megan Rice join Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis Jekyll amp Hyde, Eden Espinosa Wicked,Lena Hall Kinky Boots, Tony Vincent We Will Rock YouAmerican Idiot and Rebecca Covington, Dionne Figgins,Jawan M. Jackson, Mykal Kilgore, Krisha Marcano, Jarran Muse, Jesse Nagar and Donald Webber Jr. from Motown the Musical, join Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis,Lesli Margherita, Tituss Burgess, Donnie Kehr and more for Rockers On Broadway 20. BroadwayWorld popped in on the team in rehearasals and brings you a sneak peek at the performers below...

Rocker Joan Jett, Cheryl Freeman The Who's Tommy, Ariana Groover Bare, Steve Gouveia Jersey Boys, Emma Hunton Next to Normal, John Arthur Greene Matilda, Preston Truman Boyd Big River, Eric Michael Krop Godspell, Michael LanningBonnie and Clyde, Sarah Schmidt Jersey Boys, Jeremy Schonfeld Drift, Andrew Berlin, Sarah Grace, Aisha Jackson, Greg Kamp, Megan Rice join Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis Jekyll amp Hyde, Eden Espinosa Wicked, Lena Hall Kinky Boots, Tony Vincent We Will Rock YouAmerican Idiot and Rebecca Covington, Dionne Figgins, Jawan M. Jackson, Mykal Kilgore, Krisha Marcano, Jarran Muse,Jesse Nagar and Donald Webber Jr. from Motown the Musical, join Tony Award winner Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis, Lesli Margherita, Tituss Burgess, Donnie Kehr and more for Rockers On Broadway 20 - Celebrating 20 Years 1993-2013 at SoHo's le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street, NYC on Monday, November 11 at 730 Pm. Presented by The Path Fund, Inc., tickets are on sale now at www.

Broadway Sessions is described as an evening of musical performances, games and open mic featuring a new Broadway guest each week. The show is created and hosted by Ben Cameron Bway Wicked, Aida and Footloose and features musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes on piano. This Thursday, November 7th, Broadway Sessions welcomes back Nikki Snelson, Nichole Turner, Donnie Kehr and more.

Tony Vincent, Constantine Maroulis, Lena Hall, and Eden Espinosa have joined previously announced Michael Cerveris, Alice Ripley, Norm Lewis, Lesli Margherita, Tituss Burgess, and Donnie Kehr in Rockers On Broadway 20 - Celebrating 20 Years 1993-2003 at SoHo's le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street, NYC on Monday, November 11 at 730 Pm. Presented by The Path Fund, Inc., tickets are on sale now at www.rockersonbroadway.com or httpwww.lepoissonrouge.com...

Good to Go Entertainment has announced the reading of their inaugural project the new musical Motel Rasdell a new musical by Danielle DeMatteo music and lyrics and Chrisina Bracco book will take place in New York City today, January 22nd under the direction of Donnie Kehr Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot. Broadway's Felicia Finley Mamma Mia, The Wedding Singer, Sara Schmidt Jersey Boys and Tracy McDowell Rent are among those who will be participating.

The recent event The Who's Tommy: 15th Anniversary Benefit Concert presented by The Path Fund / Rockers on Broadway raised $30,000, to directly benefit Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Dreams Foundation and the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation among other charities. Directed by Donnie Kehr, the one-night-only milestone event featured the original cast of the groundbreaking Broadway musical. The concert took place Monday, December 15, 2008 at the August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street).