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No One in the News is Safe as the
Legendary Off-Broadway Musical Comedy ‘NEWSical The Musical’
Returns to Las Vegas at The V Theater at Planet Hollywood
LAS VEGAS, NV – The 5th longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history and 2011 winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, NEWSical The Musical, is thrilled to be returning to Las Vegas after a sold-out limited spring engagement at Majestic Repertory Theatre. The open-ended return engagement will begin November 17th at The V Theater at Planet Hollywood.
The up-to-the-minute musical mockery of all the news that’s fit to spoof tackles everything from the highest office in the land to the lowest depths of internet conspiracies…including Britney Spears’ and Adele’s Vegas residencies. Critics have compared the constantly evolving sketch comedy musical to Saturday Night Live and “The Daily Show set to music!” (Associated Press). The show changes weekly as it lampoons current events, politics, entertainment, influencers, TikTok crazes and everything in between. Audiences can expect more than a few jabs at the headliners, politicians, and local news stories from Sin City because what happens in Vegas, ends up on the NEWSical stage.
The Las Vegas engagement will once again feature Emmy Award winner Kristen Alderson (General Hospital, One Life to Live, Broadway’s Annie, Off-Broadway’s The Marvelous Wonderettes), she will once again be playing opposite real-life boyfriend Taylor Crousore (A Musical About Star Wars), joining Kristen from the New York and Denver production is Dylan Hartwell and her former Marvelous Wonderettes co-star Carly Sakolove (Mama Mia, The Book of Merman). Gregory Sullivan will be the show’s swing.
Kristen Alderson is best known for her Emmy Award-winning 15-year portrayal of Starr Manning on the iconic ABC Daytime soaps One Life To Live and General Hospital. She was also Emmy nominated for originating the role of Kiki Jerome on General Hospital. She was most recently seen in NEWSical’s sold-out Denver run and as Abigail in the campy serialized drama Mélange presented by LOGO TV.
Beginning performances on November 17th at The V Theater at Planet Hollywood, NEWSical promises 75 minutes of comedy, original music, many celebrity impressions, parodies, sketches, and non-stop laughs. Plus, as the news changes from day-to-day the show does as well!
NEWSical played a record-breaking run in New York where it won several accolades, was nominated for nine Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical Revue and Best Lyrics), received Mayoral and Senate Proclamations and received national press for its unprecedented string of celebrity guest stars. Over the years, NEWSical welcomed several celebrity guests into its cast including LaToya Jackson, Perez Hilton, Carson Kressley, Jackée Harry, Cheri Oteri, Kandi Burruss and more.
NEWSical is proudly produced by Emmy and Tony nominee Tom D’Angora, who most recently opened the award-winning Las Vegas residency of Naked Boys Singing playing at The Erotic Heritage Museum. The show was created by and written by Rick Crom (Urinetown) with direction by Mark Waldrop (When Pigs Fly, My Deah, Papermill Playhouse’s Gypsy) and music direction by Ed Goldschneider.
NEWSical The Musical plays The V Theater is located inside The Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. 3663 S Las Vegas Blvd. For tickets visit www.VTheater.com
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