START THE NEW YEAR OFF RIGHT! 2022 is here and pick your premier seat for the entirety of Broadway Utica’s undeniably stellar 2022 show lineup. With award-winning premiers like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Blue Man Group, and Hairspray gracing the venerable Stanley Theatre, they’re sure to thank you at each and every final bow…. Continue Reading →
Broadway Theatre League of Utica will present the hit musical comedy Spamilton: An American Parody at The Stanley Theatre on January 27, 2022. Tickets on sale now. Created by Gerard Alessandrini, the comic mastermind behind the long-running hit Forbidden Broadway and performed by a versatile cast of seven, Spamilton: An American Parody is a side-splitting new musical parody. After tearing it up… Continue Reading →
Shop No Longer: A subscription to Broadway Utica is the gift that gives all year long. It’s official: The 2022 season is just around the corner. and open for business. Blockbuster musicals and Broadway plays have returned to Central New York with cutting-edge premiers of favorite iconic stories. With them comes the exhilaration… Continue Reading →
Broadway Utica’s “Beyond The Stage” Makes Strides for Women in the Workforce The bright lights of Broadway lit up Genesee Street once again as hundreds of excited theatre-goers side-stepped their way into Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Armed with new notebooks, pens, and some sassy looking heels, audience members were ready to Dim Out The… Continue Reading →
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Takeaway Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Broadway sensation transformed Downtown Utica into a disco-era phenomenon. Billed as frothy, bold, and often poignant, the Des McAnuff – directed musical showcased Donna Summer’s rise from a young, self-conscious Boston girl to the disco diva we’ve come to know. The performance hit… Continue Reading →
Meet The Donna’s Behind Broadway’s Summer: The Donna Summer Musical In less than 24 hours Summer: The Donna Summer Musical will bring the “Hot Stuff” to The Stanley Theatre. The late, multiple Grammy winner Donna Summer will be played in three parts by Brittny Smith as Diva Donna, Charis Gullage as Disco Donna, and… Continue Reading →
Meet The Cast: Taylor Bloom as Paul Simon Taylor Bloom is an actor and creator based out of New York City. One of five brothers, he was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley near Middletown, Virginia, but it was his time at Shenandoah Conservatory College that instilled his love for acting, writing and… Continue Reading →
She Works Hard For The Money: A Campaign Built on Women Before Donna Summer became the face of the 1970s disco scene, she was LaDonna Gaines of Boston, Massachusetts. The daughter of a butcher and a teacher, a sister to six siblings, and a singer in the local church choir, her story is often hidden… Continue Reading →
Simon & Garfunkel Trivia: The Voices of a Generation It was 1953, the year of the polio vaccine, the end of the Korean War, and the height of President Eisenhower’s popularity, and for 11-year-old schoolboys Paul and Artie, it was the birth of what would become folk-rock history. Artie’s notoriously untamed hair, their infectious vocals,… Continue Reading →
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, experience a 4D telling of the Donna Summers story How many people can you name off the top of your head that have helped you achieve the position you are in right now? If you can name at least one, then you have at least one thing common with Donna… Continue Reading →
