The American Broadway musical has seen quite the evolution since the 1927 introduction of SHOWBOAT, widely considered the blueprint for using song and dance to advance a story’s plot. Over the years, ...

Bringing the smash Broadway musical The Music Man to film audiences proved a big undertaking. Three studios competed for the rights during the waning days of the great movie musical. And although ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeryl Brunner covers theater, entertainment and lifestyle stories. What a phenomenal few years it has been for Sutton Foster. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The studio had more control over the other cast and hired Shirley, who had recently won an Oscar for 1960's Elmer Gantry, over ...

The meteoric hype surrounding “The Music Man,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, has been building now for — somehow — three years. The musical boasts the same creative team as Bette Midler’s ...

After a long time, “The Music Man” has finally returned to Broadway with none other than Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster ready to take on two of the most iconic roles musical theater has to offer.

2 Full Cast Set for BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB North American Tour 3 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour The Music Man is Professor Harold Hill, who travels the Midwest preying upon ...

Theater nerds love to trot out the fact that in 1957, when The Music Man opened on Broadway, it won that year’s Tony award for Best Musical, and was generally crowned the production of the season by ...

Actor Max Clayton will perform the role of Professor Harold Hill alongside Sutton Foster in the musical comedy from June 14-21. By Trilby Beresford Associate Editor In wake of Hugh Jackman testing ...

“The Music Man” opening. VIP behinds from Mike Bloomberg to Bradley Cooper filled each of the Winter Garden’s 1,526 seats. Twixt Chuck Schumer and Harvey Fierstein our Gov posed coatless, sleeveless.

There is trouble in River City. While preparing to open the new production of The Music Man on Broadway, the producers were sued in New York state court over recasting four singers in the show. The ...