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New York City Center today announced that its musical theater programming for the 2025–2026 Season will include an Encores! presentation of an all-Black production of La Cage Aux Folles starring Billy Porter as Albin. Robert O’Hara will directed the production scheduled for June 17 through 28, 2026.

The musical was one of three Encores! productions and a gala presentation announced today by City Center for the season – the first season planned by the newly appointed VP & Artistic Director, Musical Theater Jenny Gersten.

Besides Porter, no casting was yet announced for the season.

In addition to La Cage, the other Encores! musicals to be presented are the Hugh Martin-Timothy Gray musical High Spirits, based on Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward, to be directed by Jessica Stone; and the Michael John Lachiusa-George C. Wolfe musical The Wild Party, directed by Lili-Anne Brown.

In addition to the Encores! entries, the City Center season will include gala benefit...

Core pre-Code excellence! This movie delivers sexy situations while nailing small town intolerance and hypocrisy. When push comes to shove, the slighted and slandered Nancy Carroll makes daring, socially unacceptable choices that would never be allowed after the Production Code was enforced. Gorgeous Carroll is a vivacious blend of Clara Bow and Claudette Colbert. She must choose between slick playboy Cary Grant and hunky geologist Randolph Scott. What she really needs is a bus ticket out of her Town Without Pity. The picture is funny, well observed and well written. And it has Grady Sutton — ooh!

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Starring: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods, Lilian Bond, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell, Stanley Smith, Rita La Roy, Rose Coghlan, Oscar Apfel, Jessie Arnold, Grady Sutton, Marjorie Main, .

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Today in 2000, The Wild Party opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. The Wild Party is a musical with a book by Michael John Lachiusa and George C. Wolfe and music and lyrics by Lachiusa. It is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. The Broadway production coincidentally opened during the same theatrical season 1999-2000 as an off-Broadway musical with the same title and source material. Its plot centers on a party - fueled by bathtub gin, cocaine, and uninhibited sexual behavior - hosted by Queenie and Burrs, whose relationship is disintegrating. The cast included Toni Collette making her Broadway debut as Queenie, Mandy Patinkin as Burrs, and Yancey Arias as Black.

Are you Team Lippa or Team Lachiusa? For theater types, the dueling musicals of The Wild Party — one by Andrew Lippa, one by Michael John Lachiusa, both somehow given their premieres in the spring of 2000 — provide an opportunity for personal branding and group identification that others may get from, say, The Hunger Games. Both derive from Joseph Moncure March’s seedy Jazz Age narrative poem about a gin-soaked debauch chez Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville siren and her abusive lover. Both musicals use (to varying degrees) vaudeville itself as a framing device and a metaphor for the disjointed, sensation-oriented experiences that pass for their characters’ lives. And both musicals flopped, Lippa’s off Broadway and Lachiusa’s on, despite stellar casts and scores memorable enough to become quick cult items when recorded. But in almost every other way the two parties are entirely different, and for me the sensational mounting...

Today in 2000, The Wild Party opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. The Wild Party is a musical with a book by Michael John Lachiusa and George C. Wolfe and music and lyrics by Lachiusa. It is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. The Broadway production coincidentally opened during the same theatrical season 1999-2000 as an off-Broadway musical with the same title and source material. Its plot centers on a party - fueled by bathtub gin, cocaine, and uninhibited sexual behavior - hosted by Queenie and Burrs, whose relationship is disintegrating. The cast included Toni Collette making her Broadway debut as Queenie, Mandy Patinkin as Burrs, and Yancey Arias as Black.

There are two upcoming movie musicals that, for a long time, I've wanted to make into motion pictures, should someone with money be willing to give me the funds to make them -- Into The Woods and The Last 5 Years. I'm both nervous and excited to see how directors Rob Marshall and Richard Lagravenese, respectfully, have interpreted the material I hold so close to my heart. I am especially nervous for Into The Woods, given Marshall's less than impressive track record. If someone is going to screw up something I cherish, it should be me. Of course, there are far more than two musicals I have a deep connection to. Some have already been made into films, like Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Les Miserables, but there is a vast collection of musicals I have thought could make fantastic films, but have never been made.

Today in 2000, The Wild Party opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. The Wild Party is a musical with a book by Michael John Lachiusa and George C. Wolfe and music and lyrics by Lachiusa. It is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. The Broadway production coincidentally opened during the same theatrical season 1999-2000 as an off-Broadway musical with the same title and source material. Its plot centers on a party - fueled by bathtub gin, cocaine, and uninhibited sexual behavior - hosted by Queenie and Burrs, whose relationship is disintegrating. The cast included Toni Collette making her Broadway debut as Queenie, Mandy Patinkin as Burrs, and Yancey Arias as Black.

Today in 2000, The Wild Party opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. The Wild Party is a musical with a book by Michael John Lachiusa and George C. Wolfe and music and lyrics by Lachiusa. It is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. The Broadway production coincidentally opened during the same theatrical season 1999-2000 as an off-Broadway musical with the same title and source material. Its plot centers on a party - fueled by bathtub gin, cocaine, and uninhibited sexual behavior - hosted by Queenie and Burrs, whose relationship is disintegrating. The cast included Toni Collette making her Broadway debut as Queenie, Mandy Patinkin as Burrs, and Yancey Arias as Black.

From a silent Hitchcock movie to the story of a boxer who dreams of being a great violinist, Danny Leigh explores cinema's enduring love of the fight game

Boxing was there at the very dawn of cinema. As early as 1894, film-makers were shooting prize fights: the fast and furious physical spectacle was perfect for the new medium of motion pictures. Soon, scores of directors had been drawn to boxing – not just for the violence but for the drama of fighters' lives. In 1927, Hitchcock made The Ring, a silent tale of a pugilistic love triangle that is his one and only original screenplay. While many boxing movies reached greatness, even the most ordinary could still thrill with a canny sprinkling of what became genre staples: wise old trainers, crooked promoters, fixes, comebacks, wives who can't bear to look. In fact, plenty of boxing films are really about the women behind the men.

Today in 2000, The Wild Party opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 68 performances. The Wild Party is a musical with a book by Michael John Lachiusa and George C. Wolfe and music and lyrics by Lachiusa. It is based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March narrative poem of the same name. The Broadway production coincidentally opened during the same theatrical season 1999-2000 as an off-Broadway musical with the same title and source material. Its plot centers on a party - fueled by bathtub gin, cocaine, and uninhibited sexual behavior - hosted by Queenie and Burrs, whose relationship is disintegrating. The cast included Toni Collette making her Broadway debut as Queenie, Mandy Patinkin as Burrs, and Yancey Arias as Black.