Martin Charnin News

After the success of their New York Musical Theatre concert engagement, Mel & El: This Show Rhymes reprising their performance at another venue, The Duplex! Performances are Wednesday, October 10 at 7PM and Wednesday, October 17 at 7PM.

The producers of Mel & El: This Show Rhymes have announced a giveaway. Every single audience member at their New York Musical Theatre Festival concert at Ars Nova on Friday, September 28 at 8PM will receive a Limited Edition Fagnet Magnet absolutely free.

California Musical Theatre has announced its 2007 Music Circus season with seven large-scale musical productions and seasoned Broadway veterans helming casts! Nancy Opel, Laura Griffith, Adinah Alexander, James Barbour, Walter Charles, Michael Gruber and others star!

WHO: The National Touring Company WHAT: Annie WHEN: Through March 25; Weds - Sat at 8PM, Sat at 2PM, Sun at 1PM and 6:30PM WHERE: Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore HOW MUCH: $25.00 - $65.00 + fees

Having completed sold-out runs in London, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C., Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands will make its Northwest Premiere in Seattle this upcoming April.

Andrea McArdle, Bill Berloni, and Shelley Bruce - who were among the original cast members of Annie - are hoping to contact alumni from the original Broadway run of the classic 1977 musical to stage an Annie reunion.

As the driving creative force behind the now 30-year-old musical that has spawned countless child stars, including Andrea McArdle and Sarah Jessica Parker, Charnin again returns to his beloved classic, currently at the Orange County Performing Arts Center...

The cast of Into the Weeds: The Bill Weeden Songbook will welcome guest star Lisa Brescia to the show as it's guest star for the production's final performance on Saturday, December 2. The performance will begin at 11 pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 West 42nd Street at 9th Avenue).

Natalie Toro and Lisa Brescia are the upcoming guest stars of Into the Weeds

The Civic Light Opera Company scores another Canadian premiere with Richard Rodgers final Broadway musical, I REMEMBER MAMA opening December 21.

This Saturday, November 4, the cast of Into the Weeds welcomes back Stephanie D'Abruzzo as the guest star of the evening.

In this second of a two part interview, The Times They Are A-Changin's musical supervisor talks about life in New York and Baltimore, working for Disney, and several new shows he is working on.

Matthew Arkin, James Naughton and J. Robert Spencer are among the stars set to appear in Into the Weeds

Annie creators Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, as well as former stage orphan Sarah Jessica Parker, are among those appearing in Julie Stevens' new documentary film Life After Tomorrow, which will air on Showtime in December

Kathie Lee Gifford will take on the role of the conniving Miss Hannigan in the Madison Square Garden holiday presentation of 'Annie'

James Naughton and the cast of Into the Weeds have been invited to perform One Big Team at a 'Perfect Evening' - a gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of Don Larsen's legendary World Series Perfect Game

Into the Weeds-Selections from the Bill Weeden Songbook has been extended indefinitely at the The West Bank Café