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Monday, 30 September 2024, The Kelly Clarkson Show opens with Kellyoke, featuring “Blues in the Night” by Eva Cassidy. Kelly Clarkson is then joined by the stars of Emily in Paris, Lily Collins, Ashley Park, and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu. Also on the show are Amy Yasbeck and Jason Ritter, representing the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic […]

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Equity casting is now underway for “Blues in The Night,” a musical coming this spring to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The production is currently seeking union actors, aged 24–64, in four lead roles: The Lady from the Road, The Woman of the World, The Girl with a Date, and The Man in the Saloon. All talent must have strong singing voices. There will be an Equity principal audition on Dec. 18 in Beverly Hills, California. Rehearsals will begin March 27, 2018, followed by tech April 22–26, previews beginning April 27, and a run from May 2–May 20 (or May 27 if extended). Actors will be compensated $676 per week minimum under the Equity Lort Non-Rep Contract. Ready to apply? Head to the casting notice and do so directly at Backstage here! Check out Backstage’s Los Angeles audition listings!

Happy Birthday Leslie Uggams Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the musical revue of the works of Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls in 1985. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie 2003 - 2004 and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Kennedy Center in 2004 and on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 2005. In 2001 she appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, receiving a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Happy Birthday Leslie Uggams Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the musical revue of the works of Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls in 1985. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie 2003 - 2004 and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Kennedy Center in 2004 and on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 2005. In 2001 she appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, receiving a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Broadway legend Leslie Uggams returns to 54 Below for two performances only Best known for her Tony Award-winning role in Hallelujah, Baby, as well as the groundbreaking miniseries, Roots, Ms. Uggams' storied career has spanned television her own CBS variety show, film Skyjacked and Broadway Her First Roman, Blues in the Night, Jerry's Girls, Anything Goes, King Headley II, Thoroughly Modern Millie, On Golden Pond. This June, look for Leslie delighting audiences on West 54th Street. Get your tickets now - they'll go fast 40-50 cover charge. 25 food amp beverage minimum.

Happy Birthday Leslie Uggams Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the musical revue of the works of Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls in 1985. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie 2003 - 2004 and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Kennedy Center in 2004 and on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 2005. In 2001 she appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, receiving a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Broadway legend Leslie Uggams makes her 54 Below debut forseven special performances only Best known for her Tony Award-winning role in Hallelujah, Baby, as well as the groundbreaking miniseries, Roots, Ms. Uggams storied career has spanned television her own CBS variety show, film Skyjacked and Broadway Her First Roman, Blues in the Night, Jerrys Girls, Anything Goes, King Headley II, Thoroughly Modern Millie, On Golden Pond. Check out photos from her 54 Below concert below...

One For My Baby is a song-and-dance celebration of big-city nightlife at the end of World War II with direction and choreography by Scott Thompson, who co-authored the book with musical arrangermusical director, Fred Barton. One for My Baby promises such classics as Stormy Weather, Get Happy, The Man that Got Away, Come Rain or Come Shine, It's Only a Paper Moon, That Old Black Magic and Blues in the Night.

A decade ago I launched a newsletter for old-movie buffs. I’ve had a ball doing it, but I haven’t been able to maintain a regular publishing schedule. Last month I vowed to catch up a bit, so now there aretwo new issues hot off the press, #29 and #30. My leading story is a two-part exploration of how the 1941 Warner Bros. movie Blues in the Night came about. I wondered if it was screenwriter Robert Rossen’s attempt to tell the story of jazz, or if the great Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer song of the same name inspired it. I learned the answers to those and many other (unasked) questions as I pored over the Warners production files held at the USC Doheny Library Special...

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Today we are talking to an iconic Tony Award-winning star who made her name as a teenager singing on TV variety shows - The Lawrence Welk Show and Sing Along With Mitch included - and then went on to a multimedia career in film and theatre, conquering Broadway with her Tony-winning turn in the Jule StyneArthur Laurents musical Hallelujah, Baby in 1967 and returning to the stage in the subsequent decades in a host of Broadway productions, such as Blues In The Night, Jerrys Girls, Anything Goes, August Wilsons King Hedley II and her celebrated Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie - a role she reprises in the new Muny production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical beginning this week - the one and only Leslie Uggams. Taking a thorough look back at her career thus far, Uggams opens up about her many successes and how she has endured for fifty years...

Happy Birthday Leslie Uggams Uggams starred in Hallelujah, Baby, which premiered on Broadway in 1967, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical. She appeared on Broadway in the revue Blues in the Night in 1982 and in the musical revue of the works of Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls in 1985. Later Broadway roles include Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie 2003 - 2004 and Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond at the Kennedy Center in 2004 and on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 2005. In 2001 she appeared in the August Wilson play King Hedley II, receiving a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

HollywoodNews.com: With each passing decade, Dave Brubeck continues to amaze millions of fans across the globe. His quartet performed more than 50 concerts in 2010, and Brubeck still creates new composi¬tions. On Monday, Dec. 6, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will celebrate Brubeck’s 90th birthday with the premiere of “Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way,” a new documentary executive-produced by Clint Eastwood.

The documentary takes its name from one of Brubeck’s most famous tunes, “In Your Own Sweet Way.” Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way was produced and directed by filmmaker and longtime Eastwood collaborator Bruce Ricker, whose credits include “Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends,” “Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser,” “The Last of the Blue Devils” and TCM’s Emmy®-nominated “Johnny Mercer: The Dream’s On Me.” Alec Baldwin is the narrator. In addition to serving as executive producer of the film,...

With 18 Academy Award® nominations for Best Song (and one more nomination for the song score of "Darling Lili," written in collaboration with Mancini), Mercer remains one of the cinema's most honored songwriters. Such standards as Blues in the Night, I'm Old Fashioned, That Old Black Magic and Something's Gotta Give added immeasurably to the impact of the movies in which they were performed, not to mention the good will generated by Mercer's anthem to the movie business - Hooray for Hollywood.