Ambassador Theatre Group rebrands as ATG Entertainment. The announcement was made public Monday 15 April, 2024. With the new rebranding comes a new logo, design language, and the new brand proposition “Passion Behind Performance”. The CEO was excited to make the announcement.
There are many things that Broadway knows how to do well. From the big opening numbers, to the set pieces they convey. Broadway has also been known to keep us swooning with love songs. There are of course the classics like ‘If I Loved You’ from Carousel, the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, or something with a bit more humour for those who fall for the one who makes them laugh like ‘Do You Love Me’ from Fiddler On The Roof which opened on Broadway in 1964. Ranking the top 5 Broadway love songs was not easy when taking everything into consideration.
The Jimmy Awards went virtual for 2021, celebrating the best and brightest stars of tomorrow in an online ceremony. Also known as The National High School Musical Theatre Awards®, the ceremony showcased all of the 70+ nominees from across the USA in a program befitting of the industry awards we all know and love. The […]
Disney Theatrical have made the exciting announcement that they will be hosting an array of fan favourites in London’s Covent Garden this summer. Not only will there be performances, but there will be a range of completely free interactive experiences for visitors, perfect for the school summer holidays. The pop-up experience is timed to coincide with the scheduled removal of restrictions in the UK, which are currently planned to be lifted from 19th July.
Samuel Edward Wright, best known for his role as Sebastian in the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid, has sadly passed away at the age of 74. The actor and singer had been ill with prostate cancer for three years, and died peacefully in his sleep at his home in New York on 24 May 2021.
Back due to popular demand, the producers of West End Musical Brunch have announced another season of the West End Musical Drive-In for Spring 2021. The shows promise to wow audiences every week with stars from the biggest West End shows performing fan favourite musical theatre hits, live on stage while audiences brush off the lockdown blues, singing and dancing along in their own cars or outside.
In part three of our series with The Smith Center, we looked at the process for putting shows together and how this works on the day. In part four, we are reflecting on the impact of sensory friendly shows and looking to the future of accessibility with Melanie Jupp.
In part one we introduced what accessibility and sensory friendly shows broadly entail and discussed some of the financial elements involved with putting on performances at The Smith Center. In part two, we are joined by Melanie Jupp once again, and taking a look at the topic of engaging with sensory friendly companies.
Lisa Carling is the Director of Accessibility Programs at TDF, and helps design and implement services that make theatre performances more accessible to people with disabilities on Broadway, Off Broadway and nationwide. She runs a department that provides autism-friendly, open captioned, audio described and sign language interpreted performances, as well as seating for theatregoers with mobility disabilities. The department assists regional theatres across the country in starting their own captioning and sensory-friendly programming, and provides grants through a partnership with New York State Council on the Arts to state cultural organisation for captioning events that are open to the public.
Between April 2018 and March 2020, The Smith Center presented two sensory friendly performances of touring Broadway productions, as well as four sensory friendly performances from national and international touring companies and artists. To find out more about Accessibility at The Smith Center, we spoke with Melanie Jupp, who gave us an insight and introduction to sensory friendly shows and the financial elements involved with putting on a performance.
In the weeks following the Tony Awards on June 9th, Broadway has seen the closing of many of shows: King Lear, Network (June 9), Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (June 16), Hilary & Clinton (June 23), All My Sons, Kiss Me Kate (June 30) and The Ferryman, My Fair Lady, Ink (July 7). In the coming weeks they will be joined by, Be More Chill, The Prom, What the Constitution Means to Me, Frankie & Johnny…, Cher, Pretty Woman and King Kong! Thousands of people have enjoyed these shows; however, they will soon be gone.
Producer, director, choreographer, composer, set designer, costume maker, sound and light designers, it is no secret that, whether you’re going through a show’s playbill or the movie credits, it takes quite a team to bring any show or movie to life and, while the expression “too many cooks” can come up in rehearsals, one must acknowledge that each and every member of a creative team has their area of expertise and that one’s work wouldn’t be complete nor would it be able to stand out without someone else’s contribution.
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