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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on Jan. 16 to assess the eligibility of 11 Broadway productions ahead of the 2025 Tony Awards. This is the second time that the committee has met to discuss the 2024-25 Broadway season. Many of these decisions simply confirm a performer’s assumed status as lead or featured, but some surprise category placements could drastically affect the upcoming Tony race.

The productions discussed were: Sunset Blvd; A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical; Maybe Happy Ending; Tammy Faye; Elf; Swept Away; Death Becomes Her; Cult of Love; Eureka Day; Gypsy; and All In: Comedy About Love.

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The committee made the following determinations:

Tom Francis will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for his performance in Sunset Blvd. Soutra Gilmour (scenic design) and Nathan Amzi and...

30 years ago Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard” opened on Broadway, capping off a tumultuous journey from the West End which included the unceremonious replacement of its lead Patti LuPone with Glenn Close. The bumps along the way paid off, if not financially, then certainly in terms of awards, as it received an impressive 11 Tony Award nominations at the 1995 ceremony, winning seven. It didn’t hurt that there was only one other original musical, “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” and two musical revivals in contention that year.

Now three decades later a radically new version of “Sunset Boulevard,” abbreviated to “Sunset Blvd,” has opened on Broadway starring Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, the silent film star yearning to make a comeback in the age of talkies. Gone is the impressive, massive set of Norma’s mansion at 10086 Sunset Boulevard, as well as her iconic turban and shimmering kaftan. Director Jamie Lloyd...

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history when it ended its 35-year run in 2023, is coming back to North America in a tour featuring a reconfigured version.

The multi-year tour, which will launch at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre in November 2025, will feature Maria Björnson’s original design, be directed by Seth Sklar-Heyn (based on the original direction by Harold Prince) with the choreography of Gillian Lynne recreated and adapted by Chrissie Cartwright.

The touring production is based on a staging that debuted in London in 2021 following the Covid pandemic shutdown. The new, more economical version, still running in London, features a smaller orchestra and a redesigned set.

Additional tour cities and casting will be announced at a later date. Potential Broadway or New York plans were not addressed in today’s announcement.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh said today in a statement,...

10 November 2023 — Today, Lise Davidsen, the most in-demand soprano in the world right now, releases her new album, ‘Christmas From Norway’ via Decca Classics/Universal Music Canada. Hailed as “The living, breathing meteor of the current opera world.” (The I Paper), Lise Davidsen‘s forthcoming album presents a delightful and personally selected collection of traditional Norwegian Christmas music and classic festive favourites, spreading the warm glow of the Scandinavian Christmas spirit. Reflecting on the project, Lise expresses her long-standing desire to create this album. “For Scandinavians, Christmas serves as a beacon of light in the midst of a lengthy winter. Perhaps that is why we embrace it so wholeheartedly.” says Lise.

The ‘Norwegian Starlight’ (quote) is unstoppable: this season alone Lise has starred in the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms, where she ‘swept all before her’ (The i Paper), alongside cellist and label-mate Sheku Kanneh-Mason, during an event she...

The Robert Eggers movie The Lighthouse has gotten a 4K Ultra HD upgrade from A24 in the form of a Special Collector’s Edition release that’s now available from their online shop.

The Special collector’s edition of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is available in Standard Blu-ray and—for the very first time!—4K Uhd with a new Hdr master.

Featuring original artwork by Tobias Kaspar and a 64-page interior booklet, the printed discpack comes enclosed in an embossed wave-textured slipcase.

Disc extras include:

Exclusive mini documentary on composer Mark Korven Costume walkthrough and interview with costume designer Linda Muir 2019 making-of featurette Deleted scenes

Book contents include:

Storyboard excerpts by David Cullen Production design drawings by Craig Lathrop BTS photography by Eric Chakeen Bib-front shirt pattern made by Marvin Schlichting to Linda Muir’s design

You can grab your copy on Blu-ray ($45) or 4K Uhd ($47) from A24’s website right now.

Tony Awards nominations were announced on Monday, May 9 by Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry. While the nominations for the 75th annual Tony Awards were determined by a few dozen theater professionals, winners were decided by upwards of 650 members of the Broadway community.

The Tonys take place June 12 at Radio City Music Hall hosted by newly minted Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. The 2022 Tony Awards winners list below includes all 26 competitive categories.

Musicals

Best Musical

“Girl From the North Country”

“Mj”

“Mr. Saturday Night”

“Paradise Square”

“Six”

X — “A Strange Loop”

Best Musical Revival

“Caroline, or Change”

X — “Company”

“The Music Man”

Best Actor (Musical)

Billy Crystal, “Mr. Saturday Night”

X — Myles Frost, “Mj”

Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man”

Rob McClure, “Mrs. Doubtfire”

Jaquel Spivey, “A Strange Loop”

Best Actress (Musical)

Sharon D Clarke, “Caroline, Or Change”

Carmen Cusack, “Flying Over Sunset”

Sutton Foster, “The Music Man”

X — Joaquina Kalukango, “Paradise Square”

Mare Winningham,...

New York -- Much of the buzz coming from the new revival "Evita" has been about the spitfire Argentine playing the title role. But all of the heat actually comes from the guy shaking his bon-bon.

Ricky Martin is easily the best thing about this revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's bio of Eva Peron, which opened Thursday at the Marquis Theatre. He sings beautifully, dances gracefully, athletically climbs ladders, plays his role with a knowing sneer and elicits drools in his suspenders and tight white shirt. He even makes a mustache work.

In fact, maybe it's time for Broadway to have a new rule: Put Ricky Martin in everything. He would fit in happily at "Newsies." He would definitely enliven "Death of a Salesman." Heck, put him in "Mary Poppins" and watch the roof really lift off.

Crisply directed by Michael Grandage ("Frost/Nixon"), with high-kicking choreography by Rob Ashford...