American Musical Theatre of San Jose announced Dec. 1 that it was ceasing operations effectively and that its slate of upcoming shows, both self-produced and touring, were canceled. A call today from the press office of the touring musical Chicago refutes that claim, and a press representative said that the show will go on as [...]
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`Chicago’ will go on in San Jose
Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Dec 08 - 2 Comments
AMTSJ ceases operation
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Posted by Chad Jones on 01 Dec 08 - 6 Comments
The final curtain has fallen abruptly on the American Musical Theatre of San Jose. The group sent out a press release today announcing that it will cease operations effective immediately and that their productions of Tarzan and 42nd Street and the presentations of touring shows Chicago and Avenue Q have been canceled. Here is more [...]
New musicals are hot, hot, hot
Archived in the category: AMTSJ, Kathy Evans, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Sue Frost, The Drowsy Chaperone, TheatreWorks, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Oct 08 - 0 Comments
Audiences around the country are clamoring for …wait for it…wait for it…musicals. Sue Frost, a founding partner of Junkyard Dog Productions, a group dedicated to the development and production of new musicals, says that last year, she was part of a new musicals panel at a Theatre Communications Group conference and it was overflowing with [...]
First a tea cup, then stardom
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Posted by Chad Jones on 12 Jul 07 - 0 Comments
Remember the name James Zongus. You just might be able to say you knew him when. Though only 12 years old, James, a Foster City resident, has been performing for nearly a decade, and his story is strikingly familiar if you know the song “I Can Do That” from A Chorus Line. Like the kid [...]
Mandragona shakes it up
Archived in the category: AMTSJ, All Shook Up, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, Cal Shakes, Elvis Presley, Joe Mandragona, Magic Theatre, Susan Anton, backstage, local theater, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 13 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
They’ve shaken up All Shook Up, the new juke-box musical that spins a new story out of old Elvis Presley songs. The show began performances on Broadway in March 2005 and closed seven months later. Producers were hoping for another Mamma Mia! and ended up with something closer to Good Vibrations, the dismal musical that [...]
All-4-`Joe’
Posted by Chad Jones on 05 Apr 07 - 0 Comments
A member of a once-popular boy band is taking a break from his group to perform in some musical theater. No, Justin Timberlake is not starring in Broadway by the Bay’s Show Boat. Nor is Jordan Knight aiming for respectability in TheatreWorks’ Merrily We Roll Along. This boy-band member may not be a household name, [...]
Heading to `Camelot’
Archived in the category: AMTSJ, Camelot, Lerner and Loewe, Michael Lerner, backstage, local theater, movie musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 24 Jan 07 - 1 Comment
In this week’s Jones for Theater column, I talked with Michael Lerner, (left, with fellow film director Ludi Boeken) son of famed lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, Gigi). Though he has spent his career as a journalist and a filmmaker, Michael finally got involved in the family [...]
