Whoopi Goldberg has announced the creation of Festival Internazionale del Musical, a global celebration of musical theater to premiere next summer in Milan, Italy. Goldberg sits on the festival’s Creative Advisory Board along with performers Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, and other musical luminaries from around the world. The two-week festival will feature productions and a gala event that includes the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award. The festival, to be produced by Milano Musical Awards and Broadway International Group, is the creation of Fabrizio Carbon, Roberto Righi, Simone Genatt, Marc Routh, Diego Montrone and Jessica R. Jenen.
Below are Vereen in New York, Kim Young Sook in Seoul, Layton Williams in London, Lorella Cuccarini in Milan, Yingfei Liu in Shanghai, Lea Salonga in Manila, and other musical stars from Cancun, Dubai, and Moscow in a global rendition of Stephen Schwartz’s “Magic to Do” from Pippin.