Tokyo, Japan - WOWOW, Japan’s leading premium pay TV broadcaster, announced that Matthew Morrison, Kelli O’Hara and well-known Japanese actor Yoshio Inoue have signed on as headline performers for WOWOW’s highly anticipated “Tony Awards Concert In Tokyo,” which will take place in March next year. Morrison, who most recently starred as “J.M Barrie” in the Harvey Weinstein musical Finding Neverland, and was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in The Light in the Piazza, and … [Read more...] about Star-studded performances at Tony Awards
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WOWOW secures deal to broadcast 2014 Tony Awards
Tokyo, Japan – WOWOW, Japan’s premium pay-TV broadcaster, announced on April 25 that it has entered into an agreement to broadcast the 2014 Tony Awards show live, exclusively on WOWOW. The 2014 Tony Awards will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on June 8, 8pm-11pm (ET/PT time delay) and are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. CBS is broadcasting the awards show in the U.S. Securing the rights to broadcast the Tony Awards continues … [Read more...] about WOWOW secures deal to broadcast 2014 Tony Awards
NBC to broadcast LIVE “The Sound of Music” in December
New York - On December 3, 2013, Sony Masterworks will release the companion soundtrack to NBC's live broadcast of The Sound of Music, based on the classic stage musical. The three-hour live production, starring Carrie Underwood as Maria von Trapp, will air December 5, 2013. The Sound of Music The cast also includes Audra McDonald (Private Practice), who has won five Tony Awards and two Grammys, as Mother Abbess; Stephen Moyer (True Blood), who will play Capt. Georg von Trapp; … [Read more...] about NBC to broadcast LIVE “The Sound of Music” in December