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Broadway in Seattle

By: Jason OConnor

If you live in the greater-Seattle area or plan on visiting, one activity should be tops on your list to experience at least once: Seattle’s thriving theatre scene. Seattle was named after Chief Noah Sealth, who was appointed chief by the territorial governor of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Under that mild, cloudy climate has grown a magnificent community of performing artists that is extremely popular, and is a famous stop for national Broadway plays and musicals. Seattle has around twenty live theater venues, a number of them being associated with fringe theatre, but many that host national Broadway tours.

The glorious 5th Avenue Theater has been around since the roaring 20s, captivating their audiences with vaudeville shows featuring top performers. It went from vaudeville to movies until it fell on hard times in the late 1970s. To our benefit, the theater recovered and following a $2.6 million renovation, re-opened in 1980. Today it hosts top quality musical revivals, Broadway shows and touring Broadway musicals. The 5th Avenue Theater also puts forward a number of education and outreach programs.

The 5th Avenue Theater currently hosts approximately one hundred and fifty musical performances on stage each year. The 2007-2008 schedules include a wonderful listing of top shows including: Lone Star Love, Into The Woods, the Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical, Whistle Down The Wind, and in December, Jersey Boys, the new Tony Award-winning musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, The Four Seasons.

Operated by the Seattle Theatre Group, a not-for-profit performing arts organization, the Paramount & Moore Theatres present vibrant programming and maintains an extensive Education and Community program.

The Paramount & Moore Theatres is currently hosting Young Frankenstein, the inspired re-imaging of the Mary Shelley classic created by funnyman Mel Brooks, It is about the journey of Frederick Frankenstein, who in present day is an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor. He inherits the dreaded Frankenstein castle and laboratory and faces a life changing dilemma". Does he remain a respected professor in New York or does he stay in Transylvania and carry on his grandfather, Victor Frankenstein's insane experiments? This story is told as comedy and as a result presents a brilliant and entertaining show that has remained a classic since its inception. It features music and lyrics by the three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. Even if you didn't care for the original Frankenstein, if you've never seen the Mel Brooks version, you won't want to miss it. It is funny, bright and well worth it. You will have a wonderful evening of song and wit.

Another excellent Seattle theatre is the Taproot Theatre, which celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2006.

With that said, Taproot presents a number of wonderful shows like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Importance of Being Earnest, an Oscar Wilde classic, and the Farndale classic retelling of A Christmas Carol. When the Farndale Dramatic Society gets into it, anything can happen; missing actors, Santa Claus dropping in and audience participation that makes any performance memorable and fun. They take the Dickens's classic and make comedic hilarity you won't soon forget.

Founded under trying conditions during World War II, Seattle Center Foundation George M. Ross had a vision to bring performance arts and spiritual renewal through music to the Washington area, and the realization of that goal became the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra which was started in August of 1944.

The 2007-2008 seasons begins in October with the Bernard Herman Symphony, , with a Piano Concerto No. 2 in C with Denice Grant, as well as the music of Hermann. It will be held at the Meany Theatre on October 21st. Hermann is best know for his musical scores for all of the Alfred Hitchcock's films as well as for other movies including Cape Fear, Taxi Driver and Citizen Kane.

December would not complete without the Olympic Ballet Theatre rendering of the Nutcracker Ballet. There is an Evening of Opera featuring singers from the prestigious Seattle's Opera Young Artists singing arias from Mozart, and later in the season, Vivaldi, and Schurmann's Six Studies of Francis Bacon and more. If you love fine music, this is a must stop on your tour of Seattle.

Another hilarious musical showing in Seattle is Spamalot. Directed by none other than Mike Nichols, Monty Python's Spamalot features a new score with lyrics and music by Idle and composed by Jon Du Prez who also composed "A fish Called Wanda". If you’re a Monty Python fan and enjoyed their Holy Grail movie, then you are absolutely going to love the mirthful stage version. Following the legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, this comic classic once again "raises silliness to an art form", recreating their no-holds-barred movie on stage in what's guaranteed to be a smash hit.

If you are going to Seattle or live there, you are privy to a thriving and vibrant theater scene that offers everything from ballet, symphony and opera to serious theatre and uproarious musical. Whether you are tourist or resident, you owe it to yourself to take a gander at the performing arts offerings. Although Seattle is well-known for its coffee and grunge music, it also offers a fantastic performing arts scene that will please just about anyone’s taste’s in theater.

If you live in the greater-Seattle area or plan on visiting, one activity should be tops on your list to experience at least once: Seattle’s thriving theatre scene. Seattle was named after Chief Noah Sealth, who was appointed chief by the territorial governor of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Under that mild, cloudy climate has grown a magnificent community of performing artists that is extremely popular, and is a famous stop for national Broadway plays and musicals. Seattle has around twenty live theater venues, a number of them being associated with fringe theatre, but many that host national Broadway tours.

The glorious 5th Avenue Theater has been around since the roaring 20s, captivating their audiences with vaudeville shows featuring top performers. It went from vaudeville to movies until it fell on hard times in the late 1970s. To our benefit, the theater recovered and following a $2.6 million renovation, re-opened in 1980. Today it hosts top quality musical revivals, Broadway shows and touring Broadway musicals. The 5th Avenue Theater also puts forward a number of education and outreach programs.

The 5th Avenue Theater currently hosts approximately one hundred and fifty musical performances on stage each year. The 2007-2008 schedules include a wonderful listing of top shows including: Lone Star Love, Into The Woods, the Andrew Lloyd Webber's acclaimed musical, Whistle Down The Wind, and in December, Jersey Boys, the new Tony Award-winning musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, The Four Seasons.

Operated by the Seattle Theatre Group, a not-for-profit performing arts organization, the Paramount & Moore Theatres present vibrant programming and maintains an extensive Education and Community program.

The Paramount & Moore Theatres is currently hosting Young Frankenstein, the inspired re-imaging of the Mary Shelley classic created by funnyman Mel Brooks, It is about the journey of Frederick Frankenstein, who in present day is an esteemed New York brain surgeon and professor. He inherits the dreaded Frankenstein castle and laboratory and faces a life changing dilemma". Does he remain a respected professor in New York or does he stay in Transylvania and carry on his grandfather, Victor Frankenstein's insane experiments? This story is told as comedy and as a result presents a brilliant and entertaining show that has remained a classic since its inception. It features music and lyrics by the three-time Tony Award winner Mel Brooks and is directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. Even if you didn't care for the original Frankenstein, if you've never seen the Mel Brooks version, you won't want to miss it. It is funny, bright and well worth it. You will have a wonderful evening of song and wit.

Another excellent Seattle theatre is the Taproot Theatre, which celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2006.

With that said, Taproot presents a number of wonderful shows like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Importance of Being Earnest, an Oscar Wilde classic, and the Farndale classic retelling of A Christmas Carol. When the Farndale Dramatic Society gets into it, anything can happen; missing actors, Santa Claus dropping in and audience participation that makes any performance memorable and fun. They take the Dickens's classic and make comedic hilarity you won't soon forget.

Founded under trying conditions during World War II, Seattle Center Foundation George M. Ross had a vision to bring performance arts and spiritual renewal through music to the Washington area, and the realization of that goal became the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra which was started in August of 1944.

The 2007-2008 seasons begins in October with the Bernard Herman Symphony, , with a Piano Concerto No. 2 in C with Denice Grant, as well as the music of Hermann. It will be held at the Meany Theatre on October 21st. Hermann is best know for his musical scores for all of the Alfred Hitchcock's films as well as for other movies including Cape Fear, Taxi Driver and Citizen Kane.

December would not complete without the Olympic Ballet Theatre rendering of the Nutcracker Ballet. There is an Evening of Opera featuring singers from the prestigious Seattle's Opera Young Artists singing arias from Mozart, and later in the season, Vivaldi, and Schurmann's Six Studies of Francis Bacon and more. If you love fine music, this is a must stop on your tour of Seattle.

Another hilarious musical showing in Seattle is Spamalot. Directed by none other than Mike Nichols, Monty Python's Spamalot features a new score with lyrics and music by Idle and composed by Jon Du Prez who also composed "A fish Called Wanda". If you’re a Monty Python fan and enjoyed their Holy Grail movie, then you are absolutely going to love the mirthful stage version. Following the legendary tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, this comic classic once again "raises silliness to an art form", recreating their no-holds-barred movie on stage in what's guaranteed to be a smash hit.

If you are going to Seattle or live there, you are privy to a thriving and vibrant theater scene that offers everything from ballet, symphony and opera to serious theatre and uproarious musical. Whether you are tourist or resident, you owe it to yourself to take a gander at the performing arts offerings. Although Seattle is well-known for its coffee and grunge music, it also offers a fantastic performing arts scene that will please just about anyone’s taste’s in theater.

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