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New York is the city that never sleeps, and with so many events and activities each week across all five boroughs, it can be hard to know what’s actually worthwhile. Here are the events New York City actors should have on their radars this week. The New York City Ballet presents “The Nutcracker.”Beginning performances Nov. 24, George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” will tinker over to the David H. Koch Theater. The production is particularly special for the New York City Ballet, as every single one of its 90 dancers, 62 musicians, 32 stagehands, and two casts of 50 young students of the School of American Ballet, partake in the holiday classic throughout the month of performances. (Tickets start at $85) Kris Kringle will sing you a tune.Thanksgiving is now behind us, which means the holiday season is in full swing. Since there is really no better way to usher in the merriment than...

Kris Kringle The Musical has found its Kris Kringle and Mrs. Claus ...Broadway's Andrew Keenan-Bolger Tuck Everlasting, Newsies and Kim Crosby Into the Woods, Guys amp Dolls will play Kris Kringle and Mrs. Claus, respectively, in the original holiday musical, featuring previously announced Tony Award nominees Cathy Rigby Peter Pan, Seussical and Pamela Myers Company, Into the Woods.

Title: Into the Woods (1991 Original Broadway Production) Rlj Entertainment / Image Entertainment Director: James Lapine Writer: James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim Cast: Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg Running time: 153 minutes, Not Rated Special Features: None Available December 2nd The 1991 Broadway filming of a musical about several storybook characters whose lives intertwine.  The baker (Chip Zien) and his wife (Joanna Gleason) are childless and make a wish to have a child. Jack (Ben Wright) and his mother (Barbara Bryne) are penniless and make a wish that the selling of their milk-less cow will bring them some money.  Cinderella (Kim Crosby) is denied by  [ Read More ]

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Let’s be honest. Much like a novel, when you adapt a stage musical for the screen, some things get changed. Whether for time constraints, plot streamlining, or to make a tongue-twister of a song easier for audiences to understand, fans must sacrifice purism on the alter of the silver screen. As far as changes go though, modifying Cinderella’s (Anna Kendrick) metaphor about delaying grown-up decisions by kicking the can down the road to a first person narrative is a minor offense. And Anna Kendrick sings the hell out of her predicament. For we diehard “Into the Woods” fans out there, perhaps take heart in the fact that the changes are Sondheim sanctioned. The composer was on set to help bring his Tony Award-winning musical to the big screen. Kendrick even mentioned the process to Vanity Fair back in October. She said, “It’s certainly not like we took...

Anna Kendrick in Into the WoodsPhoto: Walt Disney Pictures The Into the Woods publicity campaign is in full force now, with the December 25th release just under two months away. Today, Disney has released ten new character posters for the film, which you can see below. They include James Corden's Baker, Emily Blunt as his wife, Meryl Streep as the Witch, Johnny Depp as the Wolf, Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, and more. Today is a very important day in the history of Into the Woods because on this day in 1987, the original Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine show opened. That cast included Bernadette Peters as the Witch, Chip Zien as the Baker, Joanna Gleason as his wife (who won a Tony for her performance), Kim Crosby as Cinderella, and Robert Westenberg as the Wolf and Cinderella's Prince. Having been born after it opened, I...

Audiences have an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to journey back into the woods and American musical theater history with the creators and original Broadway cast of the award-winning musical Into the Woods on Sunday, November 9 at 6 p.m. in Segerstrom Hall. Part conversation, part musical selections, this one-night-only reunion celebration is being written and produced by Eileen Roberts in association with Segerstrom Center for the Arts. It features special guests composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and author and director James Lapine, along with original Broadway cast members Bernadette Peters The Witch, Joanna Gleason The Baker's Wife, Chip Zien The Baker, Robert Westenberg Cinderella's Prince and Wolf, Kim Crosby Cinderella, Danielle Ferland Little Red Riding Hood and Ben Wright Jack. Mo Rocca is the moderator Tedd Firth is the musical director.