A stage adaptation of Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, will arrive on Broadway in 2018, Disney Theatrical announced.
The stage musical, featuring the songs of the husband-and-wife team Bobby Lopez and Kristin Anderson Lopez (as did the movie), is being put together by some exciting Broadway pros: director Alex Timbers — whose credits include “Peter and the Starcatcher,” ”Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” ”The Pee-Wee Herman Show” and “Rocky” – choreographer Peter Darlilng – Billy Elliott and Matilda – set designer Bob Crowley – five-time Tony winner, most recently for An American in Paris
The plan is first to try out the show during the summer of 2017, in a theater and a town to be announced.
The Week in New York Reviews
Immersive Theater – Five elements that define it (my article in Howlround)
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The Woodsman, a nearly wordless play with puppets that tells the story of how the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz lost both his human body and his heart, arrives at New World Stages after several previous runs that were praised as charming and magical. So why did I fantasize dousing the cast with a bucket of water?
The Week in New York Theater News
The cast of Hamilton will perform its opening number live on The Grammys February 15, via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theater, the first Broadway show in five years to perform on the Grammys
Heisenberg by Simon Stephens with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, to open at the Samuel J. Friedman, the Manhattan Theater Club’s Broadway theater, on October 13, 2016
Colorblind and nontraditional are aggressive & inappropriate terms, writes stage manager Ross Jackson in “Blackness in Nonprofit Theater: Where Representation Becomes Marginalization, ” the first of 24 essays on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion in Non-Profit Quarterly.
Lincoln’s favorite Shakespeare. Performances (@IAmStephenLang etc) + historical context@MetMuseum Feb 11 pic.twitter.com/6OaRuVBabC
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 5, 2016
#SB50 news for theater fans: @LadyGaga sang National Anthem w/ @MarleeMatlin signing.pic.twitter.com/13jnwvviC9
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 7, 2016
You know him from @OnTheTownNYC & Off-Bway
But TV has given @Jay_A_Johnson a gun, cast him in @QuanticoTV pic.twitter.com/iSKbRB1AtZ— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 8, 2016
Itzhak Perlman to record bonus track for @FiddlerBroadway cast album, excerpts arranged by #JohnWilliams pic.twitter.com/V8nFO5fw0S
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 9, 2016
Ex @sfballet soloist @garenscribner takes over for @robbiefairchild in @AmericanInParis starting Mar 15 pic.twitter.com/oExmjqHTT9
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 9, 2016
The fuss over Beyonce’s “Politically charged”/”unapologetically black” Super Bowl half-time show
