The Water, the new musical by composer Georgia Stitt, lyricist Jeff Hylton and librettists Hylton and Tom Werenko, gets its world premiere in a sold-out developmental staging by the University of Michigan musical theatre department Nov. 18-21.
Xanadu, the unlikely stage adaptation of the execrable 1980 movie musical, the project that Broadway prognosticators have been setting up for the past several months as the theatre's next Good Vibrations, opened on July 11 — to positive reviews.
Singer-actor Billy Porter — whose Broadway credits include Grease!, Miss Saigon, Five Guys Named Moe and Smokey Joe's Cafe — was nominated for a Suzi Bass Award for his performance in the Alliance Theatre's production of Jelly's Last Jam.
Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York will play puppy-hating villainess Cruella de Vil in the new national touring production of The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith.
