This page is for BROADWAY. I must say, I am very sad to see "Showboat" go. After eight years and six Tonys including Best Musical, 1995. But the singer who has a wounderful voice, Michel Bell, who sang "Old Man River" is in Civil War. The show that is taking Showboat's place at the Saint James Theater. I have to see that show soon for it has gotten great reveiws. It also stares Gilles Chiasson from Rent. Read this reveiw below:
The Civil War is a musical saga that takes audiences beyond the bugle calls and the battlefields to tell the stories of the real people who went to war for what they believed in. The authors have adapted such original source material as letters, diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other historical texts, as well as the poetry of Walt Whitman, speeches by Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and other great orators of the day, to create a thematic musical tapestry--"an emotional landscape"--which movingly recounts individual hopes and heroics, love and loss, and the private battles between brothers. The Civil War is directly inspired by the actual wartime correspondence of soldiers and slaves, generals and Presidents, wives and mothers and is filled with the passion, idealism, turmoil and heroism of the men and women who defined a nation at a time when honor was something worth fighting for and freedom a cause worth dying for.
The Civil War will be staged by the four-time Tony Award-winning director, Jerry Zaks, and is being produced by Pierre Cossette, PACE Theatrical Group, Inc., Bomurwil Productions, Kathleen Raitt, Magicworks Entertainment, Inc.and Jujamcyn Theaters.
With the opening of The Civil War, Frank Wildhorn will become the only American composer in the past twenty years to have three shows running simultaneously on Broadway. Written by Mr. Wildhorn, Gregory Boyd (Artistic Director of Houston's Alley Theatre, where The Civil War> was originally commissioned and produced) and Jack Murphy (Silver Dollar).
suitable for all ages
First Preview 03/23/1999 -- Opening Night 04/22/1999
open ended engagementSCHEDULE:
Tue thru Sat 8:00 p.m.
Wed & Sat at at 2:00pm
Sun at 3:00pm2 hours 10 minutes
PRICES:
$20.00 to $75.00
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