Nominations for the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards were announced on Tuesday, April 23. The stars of the hit Broadway revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, read off the nominees live from the Museum of Broadway.
Off-Broadway productions ultimately out-paced Broadway with this critics group. The new David Yazbek musical “Dead Outlaw” led the pack with nine nominations. It was followed by “The Connector,” another Off-Broadway musical, and “Stereophonic,” a lauded Broadway play, with seven nominations each.
While there are no Tony nominators in the Outer Critics Circle membership, these nominations can provide some clues as to how theater aficionados are thinking about this season’s Tony race. Of the five productions cited for Best New Broadway Musical, only “Days of Wine and Roses” and “Suffs” made the cut in the all-important Best Score category. They were joined by two Off-Broadway entries, as well as...
Off-Broadway productions ultimately out-paced Broadway with this critics group. The new David Yazbek musical “Dead Outlaw” led the pack with nine nominations. It was followed by “The Connector,” another Off-Broadway musical, and “Stereophonic,” a lauded Broadway play, with seven nominations each.
While there are no Tony nominators in the Outer Critics Circle membership, these nominations can provide some clues as to how theater aficionados are thinking about this season’s Tony race. Of the five productions cited for Best New Broadway Musical, only “Days of Wine and Roses” and “Suffs” made the cut in the all-important Best Score category. They were joined by two Off-Broadway entries, as well as...
- 4/23/2024
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Scott Bakula will return to the New York stage this winter in an Off Broadway, world premiere production of the new musical The Connector, conceived and directed by Daisy Prince with music and lyrics by Tony winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade) and a book by Jonathan Marc Sherman.
A production of the acclaimed Off Broadway non-profit company McC Theater, The Connector will begin performances at McC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater on January 12, 2024, with an opening night set for February 6. The limited engagement will run through February 18, 2024.
Set in the rapidly changing media and magazine worlds of the late 1990s (the title refers to a revered publication), The Connector also will feature choreography by Karla Puno Garcia, co-choreographer of the Broadway-found Days of Wine and Roses.
In addition to Bakula, who will play a character named Conrad, the large cast of The Connector will include Sweeney Todd‘s Joanna Carpenter,...
A production of the acclaimed Off Broadway non-profit company McC Theater, The Connector will begin performances at McC Theater’s Newman Mills Theater on January 12, 2024, with an opening night set for February 6. The limited engagement will run through February 18, 2024.
Set in the rapidly changing media and magazine worlds of the late 1990s (the title refers to a revered publication), The Connector also will feature choreography by Karla Puno Garcia, co-choreographer of the Broadway-found Days of Wine and Roses.
In addition to Bakula, who will play a character named Conrad, the large cast of The Connector will include Sweeney Todd‘s Joanna Carpenter,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason Robert Brown was just 25 years old when his Songs For A New World took the stage of Off-Broadway's intimate Wpa Theatre. As he played piano and led the handful of musicians in director Daisy Prince's production, a quartet of actors who all had big things ahead of them Brooks Ashmanskas, Andrea Burns, Jessica Molaskey and Billy Porter revealed the vivid collection of complex and approachable emotions expressed by the extraordinarily relatable collection of characters created by this young man's music and lyrics.
- 6/30/2018
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sh-k-boom Records will release the new CD from Georgia Stitt, the award winning and critically acclaimed composer and lyricist. My Lifelong Love features thirteen of Stitt's original songs performed by some of the entertainment industry's most exciting singers, including Jesse Tyler Ferguson TV's Modern Family, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Anika Noni Rose The Princess and the Frog, Dreamgirls, TV's The Good Wife, Brian d'Arcy James TV's Smash, Shrek, Titanic, Susan Egan Beauty And The Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shoshana Bean Wicked, Hairspray, Heidi Blickenstaff title of show, The Addams Family, Laura Osnes Anything Goes, Bonnie and Clyde, Christopher Jackson In The Heights, TV's The Electric Company, Michael Arden Bare, Source Code, jazz duo Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli, Kate Baldwin Finian's Rainbow and Michael McElroy Rent, Broadway Inspirational Voices. The recording will be available on November 29, 2011. You can pre-order the album at httpsh-k-boom.comgeorgiastitt.shtml.
- 11/18/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Colin Quinn, Christine Ebersole, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey are among the winners of the 9th annual Nightlife Awards which cover cabaret, comedy and jazz. Quinn is currently appearing on Broadway in his solo show "Long Story Short" and Ebersole just opened her cabaret act at the Café Carlyle. The awards will be presented Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., NYC. The event which features no acceptance speeches, only performances by the winners, will be hosted Emmy winner Bruce Vilanch.A complete list of Nightlife Award winners follows.Outstanding Comedian In A Major Engagementcolin Quinn Outstanding Cabaret Vocalist In A Major Engagementchristine Ebersole Outstanding Cabaret Duo Or Group In A Major Engagementjohn Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey Outstanding Cabaret Vocalistliz Lark Brown Outstanding Cabaret Duo Or Groupthe Rescignos Outstanding Cabaret Comedy Or Characterizationmark McCombs Outstanding Jazz Vocalistkaren Oberlin Outstanding Jazz Soloistharry Allen Outstanding Jazz Combo Or Big Bandmicroscopic...
- 1/11/2011
- backstage.com
Musician, entertainer, radio host and all-around good guy John Pizzarelli I don’t like blowing my own horn, but I can’t resist sharing two things with you. First, I’m the guest on this week’s edition of Radio Deluxe, the radio show hosted by John Pizzarelli and his wife Jessica Molaskey. John is one of the most talented guitarists on the planet, and a great all-around entertainer; Jessica is a theater-trained singer with impeccable taste. Somehow in the midst of their busy touring schedule they find time to host a lively (and very funny) two-hour radio show that celebrates the Great American…...
- 1/21/2010
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Tony Award winner Laura Benanti is set to replace British stars Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell in an upcoming "Spotlight" concert series at the Kennedy Center. Benanti will take over the concert, which is set to be a part of the "Barbara Cook's Spotlight" concert series, featuring Broadway stars and curated by Barbara Cook.
Portraying compelling characters in Broadway theater, television, and film has made Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti one to watch. She hit Broadway by storm starring opposite Patti LuPone in Gypsy. Playing Louise, Benanti received critical acclaim for her performance--the New York Times called her "delicious in the title role"--and became the first actress in that role on Broadway to win the Tony for "Best Featured Actress in a Musical." She also earned Tony nominations for her roles in Swing! and the revival of Into the Woods opposite Vanessa Williams.
Her Broadway credits include Gypsy (for...
Portraying compelling characters in Broadway theater, television, and film has made Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti one to watch. She hit Broadway by storm starring opposite Patti LuPone in Gypsy. Playing Louise, Benanti received critical acclaim for her performance--the New York Times called her "delicious in the title role"--and became the first actress in that role on Broadway to win the Tony for "Best Featured Actress in a Musical." She also earned Tony nominations for her roles in Swing! and the revival of Into the Woods opposite Vanessa Williams.
Her Broadway credits include Gypsy (for...
- 11/9/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bandleader/Musician John Pizzarelli and his wife, Broadway veteran Jessica Molaskey, are among the current standard-bearers of what is known as ?The Great American Songbook?. For the past three years the couple has hosted a weekly radio show from their ?Deluxe living room high atop Lexington Avenue.? in New York City. BroadwayWorld.com was invited to attend recent taping of ?Radio Deluxe? and talk with them.
- 8/12/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jessica Molaskey, the Broadway musical actress, jazz singing sensation, recording artist and radio personality, will perform an exclusive week-long engagement at the legendary jazz club Birdland (315 West 44th Street in Manhattan) from March 31 to April 4. She will be joined by the John Pizzarelli Quartet featuring John Pizzarelli on guitar, Larry Fuller on piano and Martin Pizzarelli on bass, Aaron Weinstein on violin and Tony Tedesco on drums. The show will feature selections from her critically acclaimed albums that she hasn't performed live, in addition to the possibility of special surprise guests. Performances are Tuesday through Saturday at 9:00 Pm and 11:00 Pm. There is a $30 general admission cover charge and $40 premium seats, both with a $10 table minimum. For reservations and further information, please call (212) 581-3080 or visit www.birdlandjazz.com.
- 3/19/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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