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News Archives - 2002
- January 2, 2002
- Happy New Year!
Raśl was featured in Playbill Online's and Broadway.com's year-in-reviews. Click on the following links:
Playbill Online - From Riff Raff to Riches
Broadway.com - Unforgettable Performances
Broadway.com - Quotable Quotes
- January 6, 2002
- Photos of Raśl as the Emcee in Cabaret have been added to the Images page.
- January 17, 2002
- Two Cabaret reviews have been added to the Press section. Raśl will continue his run as the Emcee in Cabaret through the end of March.
- February 1, 2002
- The Kennedy Center has officially announced the casts and schedules for this summer's Sondheim Celebration. Raśl will be playing "George" in Sunday in the Park with George and "Charley" in Merrily We Roll Along. Tickets go on sale on Febuary 11. See the Projects page for more information.
- February 8, 2002
- The entertainment/magazine program "Latin Access" will feature a segment on Latins on Broadway that includes an interview with Raśl, and is expected to air this weekend. The program will air in New York City on WNBC Channel 4 at 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 10. Check your local listings or TVGuide.com for showtimes in other areas.
- March 17, 2002
- An article from the Miami Herald has been added to the Press section. Raśl will continue his run in Cabaret through mid- to late-April.
- March 20, 2002
- Playbill Online lists Raśl as one of the performers in an upcoming BC/EFA benefit concert:
Three star-studded concert evenings are planned as fund-raisers for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in the next few months...A Night of Latin Rhythms featuring the talents of Celia Cruz, Chita Rivera, La India, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Raśl Esparza. Backed by the Jose Bellos Orchestra, the May 6 performance will feature musical arrangements by Ray Santos. Latin Rhythms will be held at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill on W. 42nd Street, and tickets range from $50 to $1,000.
For more information or to purchase tickets, call (212) 840-0770 (ext. 268) or visit www.broadwaycares.org.
- April 2, 2002
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Raśl will be among the honorees at a Drama League luncheon on May 10. He will be recognized for his performance in tick, tick...BOOM! More info coming soon...
And this just in: Raśl's official final performance in Cabaret will be April 21.
- April 5, 2002
- Production photos of the Cabaret company have been added to the Images page.
- April 10, 2002
- Cabaret celebrated its 4th anniversary on Broadway on March 19. Photos from the celebration are on the Images page.
- April 24, 2002
- Raśl's final performance in Cabaret was Sunday, April 21. Raśl is now off to Washington DC for the Sondheim Celebration. See the Projects section for details.
Raśl steps forward to speak a few words after his final performance as the Emcee.
© KARLA MERRIFIELD/Star File - All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
- April 30, 2002
- Raśl has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his performance in tick, tick...BOOM!. In addition to Raśl's nomination, tick, tick...BOOM! received a total of six nominations: Outstanding Musical, Director (Scott Schwartz), Featured Actor in a Musical (Jerry Dixon), Book of a Musical (Jonathan Larson & David Auburn), Music (Larson), and Lyrics (Larson). See Broadway.com for a complete list of nominees. Winners will be announced and the ceremony held at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center on May 19.
- May 21, 2002
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Raśl was awarded an Obie from the Village Voice yesterday for his performance in tick, tick...BOOM! Click here for the article from Playbill Online.
- May 24, 2002
- Broadway.com has announced the winners in its Audience Awards poll, and Raśl is the winner in two categories: Favorite Male Breakthrough Performance (as Jon in tick, tick...BOOM!) and Favorite Male Replacement (for his performance in Cabaret). tick, tick...BOOM! was voted Favorite New Off-Broadway Musical. Click here to see a complete list of winners.
Also, check out the photo-ops from the Obie Awards at the Village Voice website and the Drama Desk Awards at Broadway.com.
- June 3, 2002
- Playbill Online featured a "Photo Call" of Sunday in the Park with George from the Sondheim Celebration.
- The Company
- Raśl and costar Melissa Errico
- June 13, 2002
- An article from Theater Mania has been added to the Press section.
- June 18, 2002
- An article from Playbill Online has been added to the Press section.
- June 20, 2002
- Pick up the June 21 copy of "Entertainment Weekly" (Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr. on the cover). There is a review of the Sondheim Celebration's three current productions, Sunday In The Park With George, Sweeney Todd, and Company in the "Stage" section. On a personal note, your webmasters will be traveling to DC this weekend to catch Raśl in Sunday. :-)
- July 7, 2002
- An article from The Washington Post has been added to the Press section.
- July 15, 2002
- Playbill Online featured a photo call for Merrily We Roll Along, which opened at the Kennedy Center on July 12. Click here to view.
- July 16, 2002
- Four reviews of Merrily We Roll Along have been added to the Press section.
Site news: Increased volume of articles in the Press section has warranted a slight redesign of the page. All articles have been condensed into a single page and listed in chronological order, and new additions are clearly marked.
- July 18, 2002
- Playbill Online has confirmed rumors of a one-night-only highlights concert performance of this summer's Kennedy Center Celebration.
Those unable to make it to the ongoing Sondheim Celebration at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will have the chance to catch glimpses of the six Sondheim musicals presented at the famed theatre. On Oct. 21 the Kennedy Center will present "A Concert Spectacular of Musical Highlights Featuring Stars from the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration" in New York City.
Raśl is listed as one of the many performers on the bill.
Read the full article here.
- July 19, 2002
- Production photos from the Sondheim Celebration's Sunday in the Park with George and Merrily We Roll Along have been added to the Images page.
- July 25, 2002
- Cool reference website: Visit the Systran website and plug in any url within this website to translate the text into Spanish. (Also available: French, German, Portugese, and Italian.) This site has been added to the Interact page for easy access.
- August 26, 2002
- A representative from the Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that Raśl will return to Cabaret in the role of Emcee on September 9; his final performance is scheduled for January 5, 2003. Contracted days off are September 30 and October 21.
- August 27, 2002
- Sondheim: Exit Smiling (Washington Post, Aug. 27)
After 93 performances of six musicals for nearly 98,000 paying (and mostly cheering) customers, the curtain came down Sunday night on the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, a summer-long immersion in the muscular rhyme schemes and haunting melodies of America's greatest living musical theater composer. [Read more...]
- September 6, 2002
- Raśl will participate in this year's Broadway Flea Market on September 22, benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Announced appearances are subject to change; please visit www.broadwaycares.org (and click on "Events") for the most current information.
- September 29, 2002
- Added to the Press section: a spotlight on Raśl among the "Hot New Talent" in Show People Magazine.
- October 21, 2002
- Tonight is Lincoln Center's Sondheim Celebration highlights concert, featuring artists who participated in the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration this year. See an overview and song list on Playbill Online.
- October 22, 2002
- If you couldn't attend Lincoln Center's Sondheim Celebration highlights concert, read all about it on Theater Mania and Playbill Online. We will add reviews and other press coverage as they come in.
- October 23, 2002
- More reviews of the Sondheim Celebration highlights concert, from the New York Daily News, Broadway.com, and the Washington Post. (Please note that there is a very short survey that must be answered before proceeding to the Washington Post article.)
- October 25, 2002
- Photos from the Sondheim Celebration Highlights Concert have been added to the Images page.
A new Cabaret windowcard featuring Raśl and Molly Ringwald is now available for sale at Triton Gallery. Visit www.tritongallery.com, click on "Recent Additions", and click on "Cabaret (Molly Ringwald)" to view the poster and order.
- November 17, 2002
- From Playbill Online:
Christine Baranski, Melissa Errico, Raśl Esparza, Halley Feiffer, Boyd Gaines, Cady Huffman, Patricia Kalember, Kathleen McNenny and Tony Roberts join the previously announced cast of Alec Baldwin, Ellen Barkin, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Bette Midler and Chris O'Donnell for Mike Nichols' starry two-night benefit, Short Talks on the Universe.
Daniel Sullivan (Proof) will direct the evening of world premiere short plays at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Nov. 17-18.
For more information on the plays and how to get tickets, click here.
- November 29, 2002
- Raśl's final performance in Cabaret has been moved to December 31. The following performances are scheduled off:
Saturday December 21, 2002 (matinee)
Friday December 27, 2002 (matinee)
Saturday December 28, 2002 (matinee)
Sunday December 29, 2002 (matinee & evening)
Monday December 30, 2002 (evening)
After Cabaret, Raśl will appear in an Off Off Broadway show called Comedians with Jim Dale for The New Group. Daytime rehearsals begin in December with the opening scheduled for January. Click here to access The New Group's website.
Also, watch out for the year-end issue of "Entertainment Weekly", as Raśl will be featured in the issue.
- December 5, 2002
- From Playbill Online: One of musical theatre's busiest stars, Raul Esparza, will give his singing pipes a rest when he takes the role of Gethin Price in the New Group's Off-Broadway revival of Trevor Griffith's Comedians, beginning performances Jan. 3, 2003, at the Beckett Theatre. (More)
- December 13, 2002
- Raśl was featured in Entertainment Weekly's Best of 2002 issue (Dec. 20/27, Denzel Washington on the cover) as Best New Stage Star. See the scanned article and photo in the Press page.
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