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The Marvelous Wonderettes
''The Marvelous Wonderettes'' is a jukebox musical comedy with a book by Roger Bean. The show, which uses pop songs from the 1950s and 1960s as a vehicle to tell its story, pays homage to the high school Songleader squads of the 50s. When called upon to perform at their senior prom as a last minute replacement, Springfield High Songleaders Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy, rally together to entertain their classmates in four-part harmony. The second act shows the four ten years later at a high school reunion. The musical includes the songs "Lollipop", "Dream Lover", " Stupid Cupid", " Lipstick on Your Collar", "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me", " It's My Party", and " It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)". Background In 1998, fresh off a run of Bean's first musical, ''Don't Touch That Dial!'' at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Bean was asked to write a new musical for their intimate black box space, the Stackner Cabaret. Bean suggested a musical about high school song lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Bean
Roger Bean (born March 20, 1962) is a writer and director who specializes in jukebox musicals. Bean wrote ''The Marvelous Wonderettes'', which played Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in New York City. ''The Marvelous Wonderettes'' was first written for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater, where Bean created various other musicals utilizing established and lesser-known radio and popular hits. ''The Andrews Brothers'', ''Winter Wonderettes'', ''Don't Touch That Dial!'', ''Route 66'', ''That's Amoré, Life Could Be A Dream'', ''Honky Tonk Laundry'' and ''Why Do Fools Fall In Love?'' have been produced in various theaters across the country (Musical Theatre West, Welk Resort Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, The Laguna Playhouse, Madison Repertory Theatre, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Phoenix Theatre, Water Tower Theatre, Invisible Theatre, and many others). In 2007, ''The Marvelous Wonderettes'' received the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Musical Inti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristy Cates
Kristen "Kristy" Cates (born March 14, 1977 in California) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Elphaba in the Chicago production of '' Wicked'' and as the original understudy in the 2003 Broadway production. She was previously in the casts of '' Princess Ida'' and the off-Broadway production ''Boobs! The Musical''. In 2016, she portrayed Ms. Bassett in ''Finding Neverland'' on Broadway and understudied the role of Madame du Maurier. She last appeared on Broadway as Grandma Josephine in '' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. Early life Cates started her performing career at only 3 years old, singing songs and presenting self-written musicals at home. In the second grade, her talents were recognized by the director of her grammar school musical who heard Cates "crowing" at the roosters who took up residence next to the playground. She was immediately cast as the singing rooster in the Christmas pageant. Cates attended Justin-Siena High Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryann Redmond
Ryann Kirby Redmond is an American actress and singer known for originating the role of Bridget in '' Bring It On: The Musical''. She performed on Broadway in the musical ''If/Then'', which closed on March 22, 2015, and became the first female actor to portray Olaf in '' Frozen'' on Broadway, in 2019. Personal life Born and raised in Alpharetta and Cumming, Georgia, she is the daughter of Andrea (Elvey) and Webb Redmond, a former marine and police officer. Her parents are divorced, both remarried, and she has 6 siblings/step siblings between them. She attended South Forsyth High School where she was involved with theatre. In 2006 she won a Breakthrough Performance Award at the Georgia One-Act competition. After graduating, she studied musical theatre in the CAP21 program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts on a full scholarship, but she left college when she was cast in ''Bring It On: The Musical''. Career In 2010, Redmond performed as Alice in the Elizabeth Swados ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana DeGarmo
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2004 as the runner-up of the third season of ''American Idol'', releasing her debut studio album, '' Blue Skies'', later that year. The following year, DeGarmo ventured into a career in musical theatre. She has starred in two Broadway, one off-Broadway and three national tours. She made her television acting debut in a six-month arc as Angelina Veneziano on ''The Young and the Restless.'' DeGarmo has since released two extended plays, ''Unplugged in Nashville'' (2009) and ''Live to Love'' (2012). She is married to fifth season ''American Idol'' finalist Ace Young. Early life Diana DeGarmo was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but was raised primarily in Snellville, Georgia. DeGarmo began singing at a young age, including the 1997 Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards, and in Atlanta-based stage productions of ''Annie'' and ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. At age t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Brier
Kathy Brier (born March 10, 1975) is an American actress and singer, known for her work on ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'' and the Broadway production of ''Hairspray''. Early life Brier grew up in Staten Island, New York where she attended Moore Catholic High School before studying theatre and business at Wagner College, qualifying for a Bachelor of Science in arts administration. Career Brier played the role of Marcie Walsh McBain on ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'' from October 18, 2002, until June 17, 2009 and returned briefly in November 2009. She also returned to the role briefly in 2011, in late October and early November. In 2004 her performance earned her a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series." From 2003 to 2004, Brier played the starring role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway production of ''Hairspray'', having previously been the standby for Tony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur for six months. Brier bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Bianco
Christina Bianco is an American actress, singer and impressionist. Bianco is best known for her theatrical work, television appearances and YouTube videos in which she impersonates celebrities, both singing and speaking. Career In 2015, Bianco starred in the one-woman, multi-character comedy ''Application Pending'', off-Broadway at the West Side Theatre for which she received her second Drama Desk Award nomination in the Outstanding Solo Performance category. She has appeared in ''Forbidden Broadway'' on the West End at London's Vaudeville Theatre, and also starred in the off-Broadway shows '' Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab'' and ''Newsical''. For her work in ''Forbidden Broadway Goes To Rehab'', Bianco was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, but lost to Haydn Gwynne, who won the award for her performance in ''Billy Elliot the Musical''. Bianco originated the role of Dora in the national tour of ''Dora the Explorer Live'', and was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Leigh Green
Jenna Leigh Green (born August 22, 1974) is an American actress and singer best known for her performances as Libby Chessler on the television show ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', as well as for roles on tour in the musical ''Wicked'' and later in the Broadway production. Early life and career Green was born Jennifer Leigh Greenberg in West Hills, California to an actress mother and a musician father. She was raised in Simi Valley, California with her twin sister Jessica and younger sister Becca in a family of actors and musicians. She began to perform in school and community theatre productions by age 12 and later began to appear in commercials and television programs, as well as a few made-for-TV movies. After graduating from Simi Valley High School, Green appeared for several seasons as Libby Chessler in the television series ''Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'' beginning in 1996. She also performed in guest spots on television shows like '' ER'' and ''Dharma & Greg'' and participa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket S
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Pearce (designer)
Bobby Pearce (born February 15, 1961) is an American costume designer for stage, film and television. He lives in New York City. Early life and education Pearce was born and raised in Miami, Florida. He holds a BA from Barry University in Miami, and an MFA in design from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He began his career in show business as a performer specialized in musical comedy but is also a classically trained mime and studied with Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau (; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", and he performed professionally worldw .... Career Bobby Pearce was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Costume Design for the 2003 production of ''Taboo (musical), Taboo'' starring Boy George. He also designed ''Signed, Sealed, Delivered'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westside Theatre
The Westside Theatre is an off-Broadway performance space at 407 West 43rd Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The building houses two auditoriums: the Upstairs Theatre, which seats 270, and the Downstairs Theatre, which features a thrust stage and has a seating capacity of 249. Formerly known as the Chelsea Theatre Center and the Westside Arts Theatre, the building was renovated in 1991. History The Romanesque Revival style building, designed by Henry Franklin Kilburn, was constructed in 1890 for the Second German Baptist The Schwarzenau Brethren, the German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkards, Tunkers, or sometimes simply called the German Baptists, are an Anabaptist group that dissented from Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed European state churches during t ... Church, which it housed until the 1960s. The site was then occupied by various nightclubs until its establishment as a theatre in 1976. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farah Alvin
Farah Alvin (born September 28, 1976) is an American theatre actress. She is the daughter of cinematic poster artist John Alvin. Early life Alvin grew up in Los Angeles, the daughter of the artists John Alvin and Andrea Alvin. In 1993, at the age of sixteen, she won the Spotlights Award, a scholarship competition for the Los Angeles Music Center and performed at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. At eighteen, she received a scholarship to the Brooklyn College music conservatory and moved to New York City. Career During her senior year of high school, Alvin earned her Actors' Equity Association, Equity card when she performed in the Los Angeles premiere of ''Fame: The Musical''. Three weeks after moving to New York, she obtained a role in the musical ''A Christmas Carol (musical), A Christmas Carol'' at Madison Square Garden. Alvin's first Broadway theatre credit came was in the revival of the musical ''Grease (musical), Grease''. Subsequent Broadway credits have included the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
