Results tagged “musicals”

Will we soon be hearing a "Broadway melody" on Nanjing Xi Lu? According to Shanghai Daily, Jing'an District authorities are totally hoping to turn that strip of road into something like the Manhattan theater district. We can't seem to find any other info on it, but we're always up for a couple more musical distractions... and people line kicking their way down "ol' Nanjing Xi" has a hilarious ring to it.

"High School Musical" is a bonafide hit with Shanghai audiences! The stage adaption of Disney's record breaking TV movie musical first opened in South Africa as part of a global tour before coming to its second stop, here in Shanghai. According to CCTV news, "the show has been a box office success" at the Shanghai Grand Theater for the past two weeks since its June 30th debut, with "ninety-five percent of the house sold for each performance."

Apparently one time just wasn't enough for Shanghai's cat crazy audience, because Andrew Lloyd Weber's super popular show about felines doing feline things is making its return trip to the city this September.

Elton John and Tim Rice's stylistically eclectic rock musical AIDA opened in Shanghai to a full house at the Majestic Theater last Saturday, starring Marja Harmon as Aida, Casey Elliott as Radames, and Leah Allers as Amneris — all three of whom were part of the North American tour of the show in 2006 and 2007. The show runs till Oct 12 in Shanghai, after which it moves on to Suzhou, Nanjing, Changsha, Wuhan, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Beijing, Chengdu and Tianjin.

If you're dying to see a drag show like no other, you are in luck! Starting yesterday at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, the Broadway musical Hairspray made its debut in Shanghai and will continue to play nightly for about two weeks. After that, they are off to Beijing for a week of performances.

              

It was yet another stellar performance by several up-and-coming local talents Yvette Ling, Monica Zhang, Javen Chen and Yunwu Xia from Live Mic Musical last Saturday at Kathleen's 5. Not to worry if you've missed it this time. We hear that this is going to be a monthly affair from now on!

The last time we attended anything Broadway related, we went to Live Mic Musical's debut production of their series of musical cabaret productions. If you missed the first production, you can judge the talent and performance level for yourself with the YouTube clip we've conveniently embedded. Or better yet, you can just come to the next show, which takes place this Saturday night.

Over the last few years, Broadway has been ever so gently creeping its way from the glitz and glam of Broadway to the back alleys and wet markets of Shanghai. With the recent success of touring productions of The Liong King, Mamma Mia, and most recently, 42nd Street, the group Live Mic Musical hopes to achieve the same kind of success with its first concert cabaret performed in Shanghai.

So it turns out that 42nd Street was as popular in Beijing as it was in Shanghai. Our inside sources tell us that while the musical packed the halls in Shanghai and Beijing, ticket sales just about everywhere else sucked. Sexy Beijing's Sufei went down to a screening to ask Chinese audiences what they thought of the show, and interviewed the actors as well. Two glaring observations: 1. Kristen Martin, the lead actress of the...