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Exclusive: “You thought you knew Scrooge,” an ominous voice intones. “You don’t know this Scrooge.” So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with a heavy-hitting Broadway pedigree.

This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s “Never Look Down” as clips and characters from the cleverly filmed production take us through this new musical spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. References and storylines from other Dickens classics — including Great Expectations, Little Dorrit and Bleak House — are incorporated into the mix.

Estella Scrooge will premiere Friday, November 27 at EstellaScrooge.com. Tickets go on sale Tuesday for $24.99 at Ticketmaster.com.

As Deadline reported in September, Estella Scrooge utilizes greenscreen technology and virtual sets along with individually recorded performances. Billed as “the first fully-realized musical to be filmed in virtual production,” Estella Scrooge uses hundreds of images, animations and digital environments blended...

Exclusive With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas Carol and other works of Charles Dickens will make its streaming debut before Christmas utilizing technology to combine socially distanced performances.

Estella Scrooge, with a book and direction by Tony Award winner John Caird and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Tony-nominated for 2001’s Jane Eyre), will star Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) as the title character, the niece of Carol‘s Ebenezer Scrooge. Clifton Duncan (The Play That Goes Wrong) will costar as her childhood sweetheart Philip “Pip” Nickleby.

Also featured are Patrick Page (Hadestown), Carolee Carmello (Mamma Mia) and Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!) as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Those actors and others will film their performances – separately, live, and one at a time – this week, with...

Sarah Litzsinger joins the amazing cast to sing in the Benefit Cabaret, 'Tim Realbuto amp Friends Sing Jeanine Tesori'.

Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars Well after Broadway orchestras begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including Natalie Douglas in 'Hello Dolly...The Music of Dolly Parton' TASTiSKANK Featuring Kate Reinders and Sarah Litzsinger Micky Dolenz A Little Bit Broadway, A Little Bit Rock 'n' Roll 54 Sings Irving Berlin There's No Business Like Show Business and The Cast of Phantom Sings Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Casting for Motel Rasdell A New Musical was announced today. Broadway all stars head up the show Emma Hunton Rent, Next To Normal, Spring Awakening, Tim Young Next To Normal, Sarah Litzsinger Amour, Beauty amp The Beast, Alena Watters Sister Act, The Addams Family, West Side Story and Jonathan Hadley Jersey Boys, A Class Act.Other cast members include John Gardiner National Tours of Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Emily McNamara Newsical the Musical, My Big Gay Italian Wedding, Rj Woessner ABC's One Life to Live, NBC's The Sing-Off Ryan Powell, Sami Horneff, Jamie Cook, and Justin Liebergen.

Click below to watch a fun and funny video featuring Broadway's Caroline O'Connor A Christmas Story, Prince of Broadway, Mark Price Mary Poppins, Rocky Horror, Dance of the Vampires, Wonderful Town, Sarah Litzsinger Beauty and the Beast and Adam Monley Mamma Mia in Brian Sills' The Sills System for Success in Regional Theater, a lighthearted, satirical look at the realities of an actor's life.

The cast features Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick as Dr. MaddenDr. Fine, Next To Normal original Broadway cast member Tim Young as Gabe, Kevin Vortmann A Little Night Music as Dan, Laurie Veldheer Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse as Natalie, Danny Henning The Rep's Cabaret as Henry, and Broadway's longest running Belle in Beauty And The Beast, Sarah Litzsinger, as Diana. Get a first look below...

UnsungMusicalsCo. is proud to announce the development of a new production of How Now, Dow Jones (www.HowNowDowJones.com) starring Sarah Litzsinger (Beauty and the Beast), Colin Hanlon (Rent) and Fred Berman (The Normal Heart). With book by Max Shulman, music by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Carolyn Leigh, this newly revised version will be presented as part of the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.