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Sh-K-Boom Records
Sh-K-Boom Records is an independent record label and producer of recorded and live entertainment, which was founded in 2000 by Kurt Deutsch with the mission of bridging the gap between pop music and theater. In 2004 Sh-K-Boom created their second imprint, Ghostlight Records, dedicated to the preservation of traditional musical theater, spurred by the popular release of their first-ever show cast recording, Jason Robert Brown's '' The Last Five Years''. Together the two labels have over 200 albums in their catalogues. The company has also produced over 50 live concerts as part of their Sh-K-Boom Room Concert Series, and are currently developing new and innovative projects for the stage and screen. Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight Records are twelve-time Grammy Award nominees and four-time Grammy winners in the Best Musical Theater Album category for ''In the Heights'', ''The Book of Mormon'' and '' Beautiful: The Carole King Musical''. Ghostlight's ''Book of Mormon'' album was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Deutsch
Kurt Deutsch (born Jul 26, 1966, St. Louis, Missouri) is an actor, director, record producer and film producer. He is the president and co-founder, with then-wife Sherie Rene Scott, of Sh-K-Boom Records. In 2017, the company became a division of Warner Music Group's Arts Music, he and Scott divorced, and he became Senior Vice President for Theatrical & Catalog Development for Warner Chappell Music. Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records In 2000, Deutsch founded Sh-K-Boom Records, an independent record label that aimed to bridge the gap between pop/rock and theater. In 2004, a new musical theater subsidiary of Sh-K-Boom, Ghostlight Records, was created to focus on more traditional scores and cast recordings. As of 2015, the label has over 150 albums in its catalog, including ''The Book of Mormon'', ''In the Heights'', '' Beautiful: The Carole King Musical'', ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' and many more Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records, under Deut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sutton Foster
Sutton Lenore Foster (born March 18, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical seven times, winning in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in '' Thoroughly Modern Millie'', and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in '' Anything Goes'', a role which she reprised in 2021 for a London production, scoring a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Her other Broadway credits include '' Grease'', ''Little Women'', '' The Drowsy Chaperone'', '' Young Frankenstein'', '' Shrek the Musical'', '' Violet'', ''The Music Man'', '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', and ''Once Upon a Mattress''. On television, Foster played the lead role in the short-lived ABC Family comedy-drama '' Bunheads'' from 2012 to 2013. From 2015 to 2021, she starred in the TV Land comedy-drama '' Younger''. Early life Foster was born on March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasia Barzee
Anastasia Barzee is an American Broadway and West End actress. Career Barzee originated the role of Betty Haynes in '' White Christmas'' (2004-2006 tour). She also originated the role of Josephine in the West End cast of ''Napoleon'' (2000), opposite Paul Baker and Uwe Kröger, and the role of Lady Mortimer in the Broadway production of ''Henry IV'' (a combination of '' Part 1'' and '' Part 2''), directed by Jack O'Brien starring Kevin Kline, Audra McDonald, and Dana Ivey. Barzee was a replacement in the Broadway production of '' Jekyll & Hyde'', as Emma Carew. She starred from January 1999 until January 2000 opposite Rob Evan and Luba Mason. She also appeared as Hope in the Broadway cast of ''Urinetown'' (2002-2003) and also as Ellen in the Broadway and touring cast of ''Miss Saigon'' (1995-1998). She was also in the Los Angeles cast and national tours of both '' City of Angels'' (as Mallory/Avril in 1991) and ''Sunset Boulevard'' (as an understudy Betty in 1993). In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Delaria
Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. She portrayed List of Orange Is the New Black characters#Carrie "Big Boo" Black, Carrie "Big Boo" Black on the Netflix original series ''Orange Is the New Black'' (2013–2019) and Psychic List of One Life to Live characters introduced in the 1990s, Madame Delphina on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC ABC Daytime, Daytime Drama One Life to Live, One Life To Live from 1999 to 2011. She also starred in the Broadway (theatre), Broadway productions ''POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive'' in 2022 and the 2000 revival of ''The Rocky Horror Show''. She was the first openly gay comic to appear on American television in a 1993 appearance on ''The Arsenio Hall Show''. Early life DeLaria was born in Belleville, Illinois, the daughter of Jerry Jean (née Cox), a homemaker, and Robert George DeLaria, a jazz piano, jazz pianist and social worker. Her paternal gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin (; October 15, 1937 – December 29, 2024) was an American actress and singer. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she received several awards including three Drama Desk Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Obie Awards, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010. After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She made her television debut in '' Rhoda'' and had a recurring role in ''Barney Miller'' (1975–1976). She gained fame for playing the title role of a waitress at a roadside diner in the CBS sitcom ''Alice'' (1976–1985), a role for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy. She later starred in NBC's sitcom '' Sean Saves the World'' and the CBS si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982) is an American singer and actress who is best known for playing the titular character in the United States national tour and Broadway productions of ''Mary Poppins''. Early life Brown was born February 3, 1982, in Gulf Breeze, Pensacola, Florida, the youngest of four children. She started singing when she was 6 years old and then started professional singing lessons when she was 14. She studied at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Career Brown initially caught the attention of casting director Tara Rubin not long after graduating from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. After a successful audition, she was cast in the Disney touring production '' On the Record''. This in turn led to her Broadway debut on September 20, 2005, replacing Brooke Tansley as the lead character, Belle, in the Disney Theatrical production of ''Beauty and the Beast''. She departed the role on May 28, 2006, after eight months and she was succeeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Murney
Julia Kathleen Murney (born January 14, 1969) is an American actress and singer, also known for television commercial voice-overs. Until 2005, she was commonly known as the Broadway actress who had technically never appeared on Broadway, because her fame came mostly from her performances on the Broadway charity circuit and not traditional Broadway productions. She played the role of Elphaba in the musical '' Wicked'', both on the US national tour (2006) and on Broadway (2007). She is also a two-time Drama Desk Award nominee, for '' The Wild Party'' (2000) and ''Falling'' (2013). Early life The daughter of actor Christopher Murney and Anne Murney, Murney was named after the song "Julia" from The Beatles' '' White Album''. She has a younger sister, Caitlin (born 1977), who is a film producer and lives in Los Angeles, and younger brother, Patrick (born 1987), who is an actor and graduated from Syracuse University with a drama degree in 2009. Murney attended Stagedoor Manor summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Ebersole
Christine Ebersole (born February 21, 1953) is an American actress, singer and comedian. She has appeared in film, television, and on stage (theatre), stage. She has received two Tony Awards, and a Drama Desk Award as well as a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award. Ebersole made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the play ''Gas Light, Angel Street'' (1975). She won two Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for playing a prima donna in the musical revival ''42nd Street (musical), 42nd Street'' (2001) and for her dual roles as Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale in the original musical ''Grey Gardens (musical), Grey Gardens'' (2006). She was Tony-nominated for playing a society matron in ''Dinner at Eight (play), Dinner at Eight'' (2003), and Elizabeth Arden in ''War Paint (musical), War Paint'' (2017). On film, she made her film debut with a minor role as an actress the romantic comedy ''Tootsie (film), Tootsie'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Kuhn
Judy Kuhn (born May 20, 1958) is an American actress, singer and activist, known for her work in musical theatre. A four-time Tony Award nominee, she has released four studio albums and sang the title role in the 1995 film ''Pocahontas'', including her rendition of the song "Colors of the Wind", which won its composers the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Kuhn made her professional stage debut in 1981 and her Broadway debut in the 1985 original production of the musical '' The Mystery of Edwin Drood''. Subsequent Broadway roles include Cosette in ''Les Misérables'' (1987), Florence Vassy in ''Chess'' (1988), and Amalia Balash in '' She Loves Me'' (1993). For all three, she received Tony Award nominations. She returned to ''Les Misérables'' in 2007 to play the role of Fantine. She received an Olivier Award nomination for her 1989 West End debut playing Maria/Futura in ''Metropolis''. Other musical roles include Betty Schaeffer in the 1993 US premiere production of ''Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Daphne Rubin-Vega ( Vega; born November 18, 1969) is a Panamanian-American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the 1996 premiere of the Broadway musical '' Rent'' and Lucy in the 2007 premiere of the Off-Broadway play '' Jack Goes Boating''. Rubin-Vega also appeared as ''Bombshell'' publicist Agnes in the second season of the TV series '' Smash'' (2012) and as Luisa Lopez in the TV series ''Katy Keene'' (2020). In 2021, Rubin-Vega starred as salon owner Daniela in the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's ''In the Heights''. In 2024, she voiced Carmilla Carmine in the adult animated musical animated series ''Hazbin Hotel''. Early life Rubin-Vega was born in Panama City, Panama, the daughter of Daphine Corina, a nurse, and José Mercedes Vega, a carpenter. Her stepfather Leonard Rubin was a writer. She also has Afro-Barbadian ancestry on her mother’s side. Her mother moved from Panama to the United States with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Vereen
Benjamin Augustus Vereen (né Middleton; October 10, 1946) is an American actor, dancer and singer. He gained prominence for his performances in the original Broadway productions of the musicals ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and ''Pippin (musical), Pippin,'' for which he won the 1973 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Early life Vereen was born October 10, 1946, in Laurinburg, North Carolina. While still an infant, Vereen and his family relocated to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. He was adopted by James Vereen, a paint-factory worker, and his wife, Pauline Vereen, who worked as a maid and theatre wardrobe mistress. He discovered he was adopted when he applied for a passport to join Sammy Davis Jr. on a tour of ''Golden Boy (musical), Golden Boy'' to London when he was 25. He was raised Pentecostalism, Pentecostal. During his pre-teen years, he exhibited an innate talent for drama and dance and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Porter (entertainer)
William Ellis Porter II (born September 21, 1969) is an American actor and singer. Porter gained notice performing on Broadway before starting a solo career as a singer and actor. For his role as Lola in '' Kinky Boots'', Porter won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He credits the part for "cracking open" his feminine side to confront toxic masculinity. Porter also won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the musical's accompanying album. Porter starred in all three seasons of the television series '' Pose'', for which he was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, becoming the first gay black man to be nominated and win in any lead acting category at the Primetime Emmys. In 2020, he was included on ''Time''s list of the 100 most i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
