#lunt fontanne theatre

[billy-bts]

[billy-bts]

I’ll be in NYC on Friday morning!! Seeing Josh on Saturday!

sweeney josh era coming to an end

[operaqueen]

Mary Martin, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne. New York, late 1950's.

[chicgeekgirl89]

Joe Locke’s voice is incredible. Truly he was the highlight of the night! Sutton was hilarious as always and Aaron was…well he’s not a baritone, but he is hot and we love him for it. 😂

[spilledcoffeefrommy]

09NOV2023, THU

Attend The Tale of Sweeney Todd

Backstory:

Was drawn to watch Sweeney Todd (2007 film) before because of its star-studded cast. Imagine Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Jamie Campbell Bower in one film! A musical film!! I was so intrigued and excited! It. Did. Not. Disappoint.

Come 2019, it was announced that ST is coming to Manila!! Top-billed by Jett Pangan, Lea Salonga, Nyoy Volante, Gerald Castro and produced by Atlantis as a celebration of their 20th Anniversary! We were able to get tix at the balcony (medyo likod na) dated October 25, 2019. WHAT A PERFORMANCE!!! *slow clap

‘Twas Dec. 17, 2022 when I found out that there’s gonna be a 3rd revival of Sweeney Todd on Broadway. When I saw the line up, I was DEAD!!!! I said shucks gusto ko manood!!!! Puntirya ko talaga makita in the flesh si Josh Groban, Jordan Fisher, and of course Gaten Matarazzo!!! Just a pipe dream atm because we really have no plans of going abroad. Then came this invitation from a friend, and surprisingly everybody agreed to come and meet us (more reason for us to go). I was thinking at that time, whoa everything lined up. So, we’re a GO! Sadly, JF left early last June 18, 2023. And we actually missed to see Gaten too!!! Iyak na lang eh. Should have I known that his last performance will be on November 5, we would’ve booked the tix on that date!!!

Nonetheless, our baliw magastos generous friend suddenly booked front row tickets on November 9, 2023. Annnd BLOODY HELL, the show was revengefully amazing!!!! Annaleigh Ashford was such a scene stealer and no one could have done it better than Josh Groban!! After the show, a big crowd was already waiting outside the theatre. Even though we didn’t get the chance to really talk and have our photo-ops with the cast (unlike Hamilton), we were able to see them up close and let them sign our playbills.

Thank you for Sweeney Todd, Mr. Stephen Sondheim (mainly, but also 2M2M). Revenge theatre for this revenge travel by some revengeful hoomans. 😉❤️🖤

[gantpowell]

More of the Lunt-Fontanne theatre.

[citizenscreen]

“The Sound of Music” premiered at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16,1959, where it ran for more than 1,443 performances. Mary Martin headed a cast that also included Theodore Bikel and Patricia Neway. #OnThisDay

[bestmusicalworldcup]

Death Becomes Her opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 21st with previews beginning October 23rd.

Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard star as Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp. Also confirmed for the Broadway production are Christopher Sieber and Michelle Williams as Ernest Menville and Viola Van Horn.

Directed and choreographed by Tony winner Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her features a book by Marco Pennette and an original score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey. The Chicago production will officially open May 19 for a limited engagement through June 2.

[gatabella]

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor following their successful benefit performance of prose and poetry readings at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, 1960s

[burtonandtaylor]

Richard Burton, “To be or not to be” from "Hamlet," at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway in 1964.

[silver-screen-divas]

Remembering MYRNA DARBY today on her birthday

Darby had a short career in the theatre, and as a Ziegfeld Girl - she was in fact discovered by Flo Ziegfeld himself.

Her Broadway resume included:

* “No Foolin’” (1926); 108 performances at The Globe Theatre (now the Lunt-Fontanne).

* "Rio Rita" (1927/28); 494 performances at three different venues: Ziegfeld Theatre (demolished 1966); Lyric Theatre (renovated 1996); The Majestic (still open).

* "Rosalie" (1928); 335 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre (still open).

* "Three Musketeers” (1928); 315 performances at the Lyric Theatre.

* "Whoopee" (1928/29); 407 performances at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Darby appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927.

She also modeled, and appeared with fellow Ziegfeld Girls Muriel Finlay, Blanche Satchel and Jean Ackerman in magazine ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes.

She was considered one of the sweetest and nicest young women in the business (she would bring homemade cookies to the theatre for the staff and crew), and her future looked bright. However, Darby was diagnosed with heart problems, and after swimming one day, it’s believed that she suffered a sunstroke-induced heart infection.

Sadly, Myrna Darby died on Sept. 28th in NY City in 1929. She was only 21.

(Photo of Myrna Darby by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1927)

[droughtofapathy]

I've been charting out Broadway theatre availability going into the spring, and it looks like we're going to have a fully-packed season. Based on how many announced openings, in a booming world where all the open-run fall shows keep running into the spring, there wouldn't be enough theatres to house them all. Right now, only the Imperial, James Earl Jones, and Music Box are absolutely guaranteed to be open, but we have seven shows that still need venues. But musicals that open in the fall have had a rough go of it recently, so that leaves the Belasco (Maybe Happy Ending), Longacre (Swept Away), Lunt-Fontanne (Death Becomes Her), Palace (Tammy Faye), and Studio 54 (A Wonderful World) in limbo. But given that none of these shows have even opened yet, it'll be a while until any incoming shows can announce.

There are also four houses with precarious residents: I don't think the Walter Kerr and Lyric shows are in any danger this season, but their days are numbered. The George Clooney play wants the Winter Garden, and with how BTTF's grosses have been, the Shuberts may enact that special clause in the contract to kick them out. They have a habit of doing things like that. As for Cabaret, I wouldn't put a January closing notice past them, but it'll take months for the renovations to restore order, so who knows on that one.

[emailsfromanactor]

The final Email from an Actor went out today. But (thanks in large part to my procrastination skills) there's more to come here! I'll be back soon with the rest of the Hamlet-cast-in-musicals posts, and I'll keep posting/reblogging relevant things if they come up. And for now, here are some quotes from an article about The Motive and the Cue that I linked to once before:

I’ve tracked down Sterne, at 81 one of the few cast members left to tell the tale. Far from thinking of Hamlet as a debacle, though, he proclaims it “the thrill of a lifetime”. He recalls the total hysteria that engulfed mid-Manhattan during the first night in New York, attended by a roll-call of illustrious names including Bob Fosse, Lillian Gish, Dudley Moore, Paul Newman and Neil Simon.  “There was the great terror of getting out of the theatre after the performance,” he says. “Thousands of people filled the block of West 46th Street from Broadway to Eighth Avenue, hoping to catch a glimpse of Burton and Taylor.” Police guarded the Lunt-Fontanne and the cast had to wait for “Dickenliz” to leave “to avoid getting trampled”.

...

Sterne, who was in all the rehearsals, witnessed the toll this hoopla took on Burton. “Richard was very friendly, down to earth with everyone, including the stage-door man. But one moment he would be exuberant and happy, the next he would be depressed about what was going on.” Drink was a crutch. Booze lay within easy reach not least because the production was sponsored by J&B Scotch. “They gave us endless bottles,” Sterne marvels. “Richard could down a whole one during a performance.” But if his delivery could be erratic, that was also the way he conceived the role. As Sterne explains: “He would change his movements and readings constantly because he felt that this was part of the ‘rehearsal’ concept.”

...

That sets Burton nominally in the same camp as some of the American malcontents, chief among them Redfield, whom [costume designer Jane] Greenwood remembers as a trouble-maker: “He was a bastard! He wanted everything his way. I think he wanted to play Hamlet.”

On the one hand, how dare Greenwood be mean to our boy Bill. On the other hand, as you may recall from an early Redfield email...

[Gielgud] shook hands cordially, popped a mint into his mouth, and then asked a surprising question: “Now, then—which part would you like to play in Hamlet?” I stopped myself from saying “Hamlet” and said “Laertes.”

And back to the article:

Sterne offers me one small but telling instance of the transatlantic rift: “Fortinbras – Michael Ebert – came onstage and started doing a mime of looking off and getting angry. Gielgud said ‘Michael, what is that you’re doing when you come on?’ Michael said, ‘Well Sir John, I’m trying to establish that I don’t like Claudius. He said, ‘But my dear boy, there isn’t time for any of that. Just say the words and get on with it!’ ”

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“We were tremendously in awe of Sir John,” Sterne insists. “Everyone would mainly listen to what he had to say, and Richard was grateful for all his suggestions.”

I'm so glad we got to hear a little bit more from Sterne, all these years later.

[overthinkingbelle]

Aaron Tveit appreciation post.

Movie appearances/roles:

2008-Ghost Town (Anesthesiologist)

2010-Howl (Peter Orlovsky)

2011-Girl Walks into a Bar (Henry)

2012-Premium Rush (Kyle)

2012-Les Misérables (Enjolras)

2013-A Dream of Flying (The Young Man) Short film

2015- Big Sky (Pru)

2016-Undrafted (John "Maz" Mazzello)

2016-Better Off Single (Charlie) Previously named Stereotypically You

2017-Created Equal (Tommy Reilly)

2018-Out of Blue (Tony Silvero)

TV roles/appearances:

2009–2012 Gossip Girl (William "Tripp" van der Bilt III) 10 episodes

2010 Ugly Betty (Zachary Boule) Episode: "All the World's a Stage"

2010 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(Jan Eyck) Episode: "Beef"

2011 Body of Proof (Skip) Episode: "Point of Origin"

2011 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Stevie Harris) Episode: "Personal Fouls"

2011 The Good Wife (Spencer Zschau) Episode: "Executive Order 13224"

2013–2015 Graceland (Mike Warren) Main cast; 38 episodes

2016 Grease Live (Danny Zuko) Television movie

2016 BrainDead (Gareth Ritter) Main cast; 13 episodes

2017–21 The Good Fight (Spencer Zschau) 3 episodes

2019 The Code (Matt Dobbins) 5 episodes

2020 One Royal Holiday (Prince James Gallant) Television movie

2021 American Horror Stories (Adam) Episode: "Rubber(wo) Man Part Two", (Jay Gantz) Episode: "Feral"

2021–present Schmigadoon! (Danny Bailey) Main cast; 6 episodes

Theatre works:

2003 Footloose (Garvin) Merry-Go-Round Playhouse [2003 Regional production]

2004 Rent (Steve, u/s Roger, Mark) US national tour [January – December 2004 National tour replacement]

2005–08 Hairspray (Link Larkin) US national tour [August 2005 – July 2006 First national tour replacement], Neil Simon Theatre [July 18, 2006 – January 18, 2007; April 1 – May 4, 2008 Broadway replacement]

2007 Calvin Berger (Matt) Barrington Stage Company: [July 3–14, 2007 Original regional production]

2007 The Three Musketeers (D'Artagnan) North Shore Music Theatre [August 21 – September 9, 2007 Regional production]

2008–10 Next to Normal (Gabe Goodman) Second Stage Theatre [January 16 – March 16,2008 Original Off-Broadway production], Arena Stage [November 21, 2008 – January 18, 2009 Original Washington, D.C. production], Booth Theatre [March 27, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Original Broadway production]

2008 Saved! (Dean) Playwrights Horizons

[May 10 – June 22, 2008 Original Off-Broadway production]

2008–09 Wicked (Fiyero Tigelaar) Gershwin Theatre [June 24 – November 9, 2008;

January 20 – March 9, 2009Broadway replacement]

2009–11 Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale, Jr.) 5th Avenue Theatre [July 28 – August 16, 2009 Original Seattle production] Neil Simon Theatre: [March 11 – September 4, 2011 Original Broadway production]

2010 Rent (Roger Davis) Hollywood Bowl: [August 6–8, 2010 Limited engagement]

2014–15 Assassins (John Wilkes Booth) Menier Chocolate Factory: [November 21, 2014 – February 8, 2015 Off-West End revival]

2017Company (Robert) Barrington Stage Company: [August 10 – September 10, 2017 Regional revival]

2018–22; 2023 Moulin Rouge!(Christian) Emerson Colonial Theatre: [July 10 – August 19, 2018 Original Boston production] Al Hirschfeld Theatre: [June 28, 2019 – March 11, 2020, September 24, 2021 – May 8, 2022, January 17 – April 9, 2023 Original Broadway production; paused due to COVID-19 , Won 2020 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Returning for limited engagement in 2023]

Feb. 9-May 12, 2023 Sweeney Todd (title role) Broadway revival, Lunt-Fontanne Theater (replacement)

Source: Wikipedia

[porciaenjoyer]

if you are ever in a frenzy. think to yourself "at least i was not far too close to the stage in the lunt-fontanne theatre on march 21 2023 during the song 'by the sea' from sweeney todd" BECAUSE i was and i'm also a teenage girl so you can imagine the stress i'm under

[breakawayshinies]

The Cast of Sweeney Todd on Broadway Includes Josh Groban, Gaten Matarazzo, and Annaleigh Ashford, among others. Attended: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, New York On: October 7, 2023 This isn't my typical autograph collection post, but I recently got to attend two Broadway shows and meet the cast at the stage door after, and it was just an incredible experience both times! I've been a theater nerd essentially my whole life, but up until now I've only attended one Broadway show (actually on Broadway - I go to lots of traveling ones that comes through my hometown), many years ago. This was a real treat, and as a massive fan of both Josh and Gaten, I'm so very glad I got to attend this show and meet them both! They were absolutely lovely. I have no words to describe my utter joy after this whole evening.