(classical music) - [Announcer] Production of Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from the John P. Murphy Foundation, the Kulas Foundation, the Stroud Family Trust, the Kelvin & Eleanor ...

Musical Theatre Guild presents APPLAUSE, celebrating the life and career of composer Charles Strouse – with an expanded live orchestra! Musical Theatre Guild’s 2025-2026 season – celebrating the ...

Since opening its doors in May 2007, the people behind The Ringwald Theatre have intended to produce staged concert versions of little-produced musicals. Seventeen years later, that dream is coming ...

Broadway composer Charles Strouse, creator of the hit musicals Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie, died at his home in New York City on Thursday. The composer of the musicals "Bye Bye Birdie," ...

When performers didn't acknowledge the applause, I kept thinking the clappers might get the hint. But they never did in the Beethoven, and interstitial applause finally petered out only halfway ...