Frances Ruffelle News

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Radaronline.com is reporting that Disney star Cody Linley is Broadway-bound in the remake of the musical Over Here! Linley, of Hannah Montana and Dancing with the Stars fame, reportedly has passed on the Disney Channel's television movie Starstruck in order to participate in the Broadway production. Sterling Knight has since taken over the Starstruck role. Over Here! is hoping for an opening in the beginning of 2010.

Simon Greiff (for SimG Productions) in association with Scott Alan announced today that leading Broadway star Stephanie J Block and West End/Broadway star Frances Ruffelle will be joining Scott Alan in Concert for Just Me ... and Them: The Music of Scott Alan at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on Sunday, October 11th 2009.

Simon Greiff (for SimG Productions) in association with Scott Alan announced today that leading Broadway star Stephanie J Block and West End/Broadway star Frances Ruffelle will be joining Scott Alan in Concert for Just Me ... and Them: The Music of Scott Alan at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on Sunday, October 11th 2009.

London's Player's Theatre will play host in March to the UK premiere of the recent Off-Broadway show, Make Me a Song - a 'songfest' of numbers from the inspirational pen of Tony Award winning composer/lyricist, William Finn.

Chicago will celebrate a decade of decadence in the West End with a special charity gala performance at the Cambridge Theatre on Wednesday, December 5.

The smash-hit musical Chicago celebrates 10 glittering, celebrity-studded years in the West End on November 18, 2007.

Amra-Faye Wright (Velma Kelly), Frances Ruffelle (Roxie Hart), Terence Maynard (Billy Flynn) and Paul Rider (Amos Hart) will return to star in the smash hit West End musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre from November 5 until December 8. At the same time, Sue Kelvin will return to play Mama Morton.

Chicago will celebrate its 10th anniversary in the West End with a special charity gala performance at the Cambridge Theatre on Wednesday, December 5.

The 1974 Broadway musical comedy 'Over Here!' is currently scheduled to open at Toronto's Elgin Theatre late this June for a summer-long run before a potential London-transfer where it may open next year. Possibly starring Donna McKechnie and Frances Ruffelle.

Laura Michelle Kelly flies from Cherry Tree Lane to Middle Earth, Frances de la Tour stars in Boeing-Boeing and Lloyd Webber casts Joseph through reality TV

The previously announced London premiere of the musical Over Here! has been indefinitely postponed - but not cancelled

Oscar-winner Jessica Lange will return to the role of Amanda Wingfield in an upcoming West End revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

On October 9th, Les Miserables will become the longest-running musical on the West End

Tony Award-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, who currently appears in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, has been cast as the waifish Eponine in the upcoming Broadway return of Les Miserables

Drew Sarich, Doug Kreeger, Megan McGinnis and more round out the cast of Les Miserables, which returns to Broadway this fall

Tony Award-winner Frances Ruffelle took the stage of the Supper Club on July 10th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the first of two exciting concerts!

In 1987, a British actress in a shabby brown trenchcoat, newsboy cap and with a dirt-smudged face, sang of her solitude. Breaking all but the stoniest hearts of the Imperial Theatre's audiences, she scored numerous awards--including the Tony--before returning to the UK. Two decades later, Frances Ruffelle has come back to New York to perform a cabaret show

On Sunday 16th July, the King?s Head Theatre Islington will present a very special musical tribute Gala to the theatre?s founder, entrepreneur and producer, Dan Crawford who died last July at the age of 62.

Due to a commitment in the UK, Frances Ruffelle will no longer be performing on Monday, June 26th at the Supper Club; instead, she will take the stage of the midtown venue on July 10th and then for an encore performance on July 17th