Exclusive: “You thought you knew Scrooge,” an ominous voice intones. “You don’t know this Scrooge.” So get acquainted with Estella Scrooge, the upcoming world premiere streaming musical with a heavy-hitting Broadway pedigree.
This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s “Never Look Down” as clips and characters from the cleverly filmed production take us through this new musical spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. References and storylines from other Dickens classics — including Great Expectations, Little Dorrit and Bleak House — are incorporated into the mix.
Estella Scrooge will premiere Friday, November 27 at EstellaScrooge.com. Tickets go on sale Tuesday for $24.99 at Ticketmaster.com.
As Deadline reported in September, Estella Scrooge utilizes greenscreen technology and virtual sets along with individually recorded performances. Billed as “the first fully-realized musical to be filmed in virtual production,” Estella Scrooge uses hundreds of images, animations and digital environments blended...
This first-look trailer (watch it above) features Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) singing the show’s “Never Look Down” as clips and characters from the cleverly filmed production take us through this new musical spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. References and storylines from other Dickens classics — including Great Expectations, Little Dorrit and Bleak House — are incorporated into the mix.
Estella Scrooge will premiere Friday, November 27 at EstellaScrooge.com. Tickets go on sale Tuesday for $24.99 at Ticketmaster.com.
As Deadline reported in September, Estella Scrooge utilizes greenscreen technology and virtual sets along with individually recorded performances. Billed as “the first fully-realized musical to be filmed in virtual production,” Estella Scrooge uses hundreds of images, animations and digital environments blended...
- 11/16/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive With a roster of Broadway actors from such recent or on-pause productions as Waitress, Hadestown, The Play That Goes Wrong and Moulin Rouge!, a new musical inspired by A Christmas Carol and other works of Charles Dickens will make its streaming debut before Christmas utilizing technology to combine socially distanced performances.
Estella Scrooge, with a book and direction by Tony Award winner John Caird and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Tony-nominated for 2001’s Jane Eyre), will star Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) as the title character, the niece of Carol‘s Ebenezer Scrooge. Clifton Duncan (The Play That Goes Wrong) will costar as her childhood sweetheart Philip “Pip” Nickleby.
Also featured are Patrick Page (Hadestown), Carolee Carmello (Mamma Mia) and Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!) as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Those actors and others will film their performances – separately, live, and one at a time – this week, with...
Estella Scrooge, with a book and direction by Tony Award winner John Caird and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (Tony-nominated for 2001’s Jane Eyre), will star Betsy Wolfe (Waitress) as the title character, the niece of Carol‘s Ebenezer Scrooge. Clifton Duncan (The Play That Goes Wrong) will costar as her childhood sweetheart Philip “Pip” Nickleby.
Also featured are Patrick Page (Hadestown), Carolee Carmello (Mamma Mia) and Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!) as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Those actors and others will film their performances – separately, live, and one at a time – this week, with...
- 9/9/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Today in 2005, Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 137 performances. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth - and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio. The Broadway cast included Sutton Foster, Maureen McGovern, Janet Carroll, Jenny Powers, Megan McGinnis, and Amy McAlexander.
- 1/23/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Adam Halpin Broadway's Glory Days, Rent Natl. Tour has just joined the cast of the new musical Daddy Long Legs, alongside his wife Megan McGinnis Broadway's Les Miserables, Side Show, Little Women. Halpin, recently seen in another two-person musical The Last Five Years at Long Wharf Theatre, assumed the role on November 20th. The couple will appear together onstage through February 2016.
- 11/30/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ballet, opera, and orchestra companies worldwide have allowed their performances to be screened in cinemas for years (and for the price of a ticket), but for the first time fans of Off-Broadway theater will be able to experience a production from the comfort of their homes. "Daddy Long Legs" and the Davenport Theatre have partnered with Live Stream to stream a live performance of the intimate musical for free online. "I'm worried about the theater industry falling behind," Ken Davenport, one of the producer's of "Daddy Long Legs," told the New York Times. Written and directed by John Caird, with music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, "Daddy Long Legs" is based on the novel that inspired the 1955 Fred Astaire film of the same name. The Davenport's production stars Megan McGInnis and Adam Halpin as a witty young woman and her mysterious benefactor. The performance will stream at here on Thurs.
- 11/30/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
The new musical Daddy Long Legs will have an open-ended run at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. Starring Megan McGinnis Broadway's Les Miserables, Side Show, Little Women and Paul Alexander Nolan Broadway's Once, Jesus Christ Superstar, Doctor Zhivago and based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs features music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon Sense and Sensibility, book by Tony Award and Olivier Award winner John Caird Les Miserables, and direction by John Caird. Daddy Long Legs begins previews on September 10, 2015, and will officially open September 28, 2015. Tickets are on sale now at Telecharge.com.Below, BroadwayWorld takes you inside the rehearsal room with the cast for a special performance preview...
- 9/2/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway in Bryan Park concluded its 2015 program this week - and BroadwayWorld was on hand to capture the festivities. This week's line-up included performances from the casts ofSpring Awakening, Dames At Sea, Once Upon A Mattress, The King And I, and Daddy Long Legs.Below, watch as Daddy Long Legs' Megan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan perform a sneak peek of 'The Color of Your Eyes' and 'The Secret of Happiness.'...
- 8/15/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Just last week, The New York Pops performed an inaugural concert at its new summer home, Forest Hills Stadium, with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, joined by former Broadway co-stars Colin Donnell and Megan McGinnis. Among other numbers, she performed John Denver's 'Sunshine on my Shoulders,' Cole Porter's 'I Get a Kick Out of You,' and will reprise her touching duet 'Flight' with McGinnis. Donnell will perform a duet with Foster, in addition to 'On the Streets of Dublin,' from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's A Man of No Importance. The concert is sponsored by Morgan Stanley and Reed Smith.BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special night below...
- 8/10/2015
- by Jessica Fallon Gordon
- BroadwayWorld.com
On August 6, 2015, The New York Pops will perform an inaugural concert at its new summer home, Forest Hills Stadium, with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster, joined by former Broadway co-stars Colin Donnell and Megan McGinnis. Among other numbers, Foster will perform John Denver's Sunshine on my Shoulders, Cole Porter's I Get a Kick Out of You, and will reprise her touching duet Flight with McGinnis. Donnell will perform a duet with Foster, in addition toOn the Streets of Dublin, from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's A Man of No Importance. The concert is sponsored by Morgan Stanley and Reed Smith.
- 8/5/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Megan McGinnis is heading back to the New York stage, starring alongside Paul Alexander Nolan in John Caird and Paul Gordon's musical adaptation ofDADDY Long Legs. Based on the 1912 novel by Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs tells the extraordinary tale of Jerusha Abbott McGinnis, the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home. One day, a rich, anonymous benefactor Nolan decides to send her to college, but she must write him a letter once a month. Unaware of his identity, she invents a nickname for him Daddy Long Legs. Through her brilliant and witty letters, Jerusha shares her experiences of college while discovering her own identity and reveling in the wonders of literature, adventure and love. But one key fact eludes her - who is Daddy Long LegsMcGinnis returns to the role after leading thepremiere at the Rubicon Theatre Company in 2009, and subsequent productions around the country. Shereceived the 2010 Los Angeles Ovation Award,...
- 8/2/2015
- by Nicole Rosky
- BroadwayWorld.com
Maybe there is a ticket floating around somewhere, but tonight's New York Pops concert has again sold out. Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster is making her solo debut at Carnegie Hall with The Pops. Maestro Reineke has put together a exciting program which also features Joshua Henry and Megan McGinnis. From what I heard at the rehearsal, the Carnegie audience is going to be glad they got a ticket to this one.
- 3/13/2015
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
On March 13, 2015, The New York Pops continues its 31st season with two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster in her solo debut at Carnegie Hall. Among other musical standards, Foster will reprise her unforgettable performances of Anything Goes and I Get a Kick Out of You from her Tony Award-winning turn as Reno Sweeney in the Cole Porter classic. She will also offer her own take on Down with Love, made famous by Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. Foster will be joined by special guest artists Joshua Henry and Megan McGinnis, who will sing the showstopper Let It Sing from Violet, and the touching Neverland from Peter Pan.
- 2/2/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2005, Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 137 performances. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth - and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio. The Broadway cast included Sutton Foster, Maureen McGovern, Janet Carroll, Jenny Powers, Megan McGinnis, and Amy McAlexander.
- 1/23/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rubicon Theatre Company announces a Broadway Cabaret Benefit that will feature Broadway stars Krysta Rodriguez First Date, The Addams Family and 'Smash' and Megan McGinnis Les Miserables, Little Women and Beauty and the Beast. Taking place on May 12th at 7 pm in Montecito, CA, the night will consist of hors d'oeuvres, a hosted bar, a silent auction, and a specially designed program of various Broadway hits performed as an intimate concert.
- 4/21/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2005, Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 137 performances. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth - and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio. The Broadway cast included Sutton Foster, Maureen McGovern, Janet Carroll, Jenny Powers, Megan McGinnis, and Amy McAlexander.
- 1/23/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2005, Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 137 performances. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth - and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio. The Broadway cast included Sutton Foster, Maureen McGovern, Janet Carroll, Jenny Powers, Megan McGinnis, and Amy McAlexander.
- 1/23/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Robert Adelman Hancock and Megan McGinnis will reprise the roles of Jervis Pendleton and Jerusha Abbott in John Cairds production of Daddy Long Legs, the second production at Londons newest theatre complex, the St. James Theatre. Daddy Long Legs will run at the St. James Theatre from 31 October to 8 December, with press night on 7 November 2012. Get a first look at Hancock and McGinnis in character below...
- 10/5/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2005, Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre now the August Wilson Theatre, where it ran for 137 performances. Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, it focuses on the four March sisters - brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo, romantic Meg, pretentious Amy, and kind-hearted Beth - and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio. The Broadway cast included Sutton Foster, Maureen McGovern, Janet Carroll, Jenny Powers, Megan McGinnis, and Amy McAlexander.
- 1/23/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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