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Sting Announces He Will Join the Cast of 'The Last Ship' on Broadway

The composer/lyricist and rock legend will join the cast for five weeks starting December 9. Sting confirmed this morning that he will join the cast of his well-reviewed but financially struggling semi-autobiographical Broadway musical The Last Ship.
  • Opera Superstar Renée Fleming Reaches for Broadway's Rendition of 'Living on Love,' Cites Hardships in Doing So

    Perhaps this is what the genre needs: a classical heavyweight like Renée Fleming pivoting from the "specifically European template" of opera and branching into other kinds of performing. This time, Fleming has her eyes on Broadway.An avid fan of all kinds of music, Fleming never pegged herself strictly as an opera singer. In an interview at Little Rock, the singer revealed that she was into all sorts of other genres — even learning Joni Mitchell in her youth.Seemingly hesitant to admit her affinity for anything not opera, she continued her hopes to star on Broadway in a production of "Living on Love," a farce she also performed this past summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts.She also went on to cite that she grew up listening and singing all different styles — everywhere from country-western to performing with a jazz trio. With some guitar skills under her belt, too, Fleming fancied singing troubadours like Joni Mitchell — maybe she has a protest song in her, too.
  • Kelsey Grammer ('Frasier') and Laura Michelle Kelly to Join Matthew Morrison ('Glee') in 'Finding Neverland' on Broadway

    Emmy-winner Kelsey Grammer and Olivier-winner Laura Michelle Kelly will co-star in the new musical opposite Matthew Morrison as J.M. Barrie, creator of 'Peter Pan.'