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Listen: Happy Birthday, Babs! Critics Review “Anastasia,” Tonys Can Hear Me Again, and Forbes Profiles Jennifer Ashley Tepper!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

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Notes:

Happy 75th Birthday, Barbra Streisand!

“Six Degrees of Separation” Opens Tonight

1) Critics Have their Say with “Anastasia” on Broadway

2) Tonys Announce a Long Overdue Reversal

United Scenic Artists Welcome Announcement

3) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

4) Show and Casting News

“The Little Foxes” Extends on Broadway

Andy Karl’s “Groundhog Day” Schedule for the Week

Marcia Gay Harden and Brian J. Smith to Lead “Sweet Bird of Youth” at Chichester

5) Trial Reveals that “Rebecca” Producers Have Lost the Rights to Bring the Show to Broadway

6) Phillipa Soo and the Cast of “Amelie” Kick Off Broadway Week on “The Today Show”

7) Forbes Profiles Jennifer Ashley Tepper

Listen: Were the Critics Sweet on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”? Nottage, Sheik, Kron, Trask, Radnor & More to Develop New Works at Vassar!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

“Sunday in the Park” and “Significant Other” Say Goodbye to Broadway

1) The Critics Review Broadway’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Revival

2) Stars Bring New Works to Vassar’s Powerhouse Season

3) American Shakespeare Center Announces Playwriting Competition

Shakespeare Comes to Bryant Park this Summer

Reduced Shakespeare to Release Pop-Up Book

4) Potpourri

Mulaney and Kroll to Host Easter Bonnet Competition

“The Lightning Thief” to Receive Cast Album

5) Cynthia Nixon and Laura Linney Swap Roles in “The Little Foxes” Scene

6) Linda Winer Resigns as Newsdays’ Chief Theatre Critic

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. Following the interview, Carey Purcell joins us for reviews. We review Indecent, God of Vengeance @ New Yiddish Rep, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Little Foxes, Der Rosenkavalier @ The Met, Daniel’s Husband @ Primary Stages, War Paint, Amélie, and Present Laughter.

 

This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since March 16, 2009. It is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more than 400 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews.

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Panel:

Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

Peter Filichia is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, “The Great Parade”, available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook

BroadwayStars

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

Michael Portantiere is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim and BroadwayStars. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.

Carey Purcell | [email protected] | Twitter | Website

Carey Purcell is a freelance journalist who has been published in American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, The Culture Trip, Paste Magazine, The Village Voice and many other publications. Follow her on Twitter at CareyPurcell.

 

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guests: Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton

Julie’s Greenroom on Netflix

Julie Andrews: IMBD | IBDB

Emma Walton Hamilton: IMBD | IBDB

Reviews: 

PF + CP + JM + MP: Indecent @ Cort Theatre, 138 W. 48th Street

MP: God of Vengeance @ New Yiddish Rep, Theatre at St.Clement’s, March 2017 (closed)

PF: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory @ Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 W. 46th St.

CP + PF: The Little Foxes @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St., through  Jun 18, 2017

MP: Der Rosenkavalier @ The Met

MP: Daniel’s Husband @ Primary Stages, Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, through April 28, 2017

CP: War Paint @ Nederlander Theatre, 208 W. 41st St.

CP: Amélie @ Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W. 48th St.,

CP: Present Laughter @ St. James Theatre, 246 W. 44th St.

 

Discussion: 

Television, Film and Streaming: 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Julie’s Greenroom (Music From The Netflix Original Series)

Anything Can Happen In The Theater by Julie Andrews & Giullian Yao Gioiello

Let Your Voice Be Heard by Giullian Yao Gioiello & John Tartaglia & Jennifer Barnhart & Frankie Cordero & Stephanie D’Abruzzo & Dorien Davies & Tyler Bunch

Take A Leap by David Hyde Pierce & Julie Andrews & John Tartaglia & Jennifer Barnhart & Frankie Cordero & Stephanie D’Abruzzo & Dorien Davies

 

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Listen: (Most) Critics Rave about Bette Midler in “Hello, Dolly!” Four Plays Announced for Broadway Next Season, “Sunday” is Getting an Album, and Kelli and Steven Reunite for “Brigadoon!”

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

1) The Critics Review Broadway’s “Hello, Dolly!” Revival

By Official Decree, Today is “Dolly Day” in New York City

2) Michael Cera, Chris Evans, and Kenneth Lonergan will Re-Open the Helen Hayes Theatre Next Season

3) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to Adapt “An Enemy of the People” for Broadway

4) Baz Bamigboye Reports Mark Rylance to Bring “Farinelli and the King” to Broadway in December

5) “Sunday in the Park with George” Revival Makes Two Major Announcements

Live Design Online Shows How a Chromolume is Made

6) Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale to Reunite for “Brigadoon” Concert

7) Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser to Receive Tony Honors for Excellence

8) Show and Casting News

Michael Shannon to Lead “Simpatico” at McCarter

Dule Hill and Daniel J. Watts to Lead “Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole” Workshop at Old Globe

Signature Extends “Antipodes” Again

Stephen Colbert to Host Star-Studded Elevator Repair Service Gala

Broadway Bares Sets June Date and Theme

9) Ben Platt and Other Theatre Names on Time’s 100 Most Influential List

Listen: Andy Karl to Miss “Groundhog Day” Performances, Critics Review “The Little Foxes,” and the Drama League Announces 2017 Nominations!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

Andy Karl to Out of “Groundhog Day” for Four Performances

“Hello, Dolly!” Opens on Broadway Tonight

1) Critics Review “The Little Foxes” on Broadway

2) The Drama League Announces its 2017 Nominations

3) Roundabout’s “If I Forget” to Be Filmed for BroadwayHD

4) Show and Casting News

The Public and the National to Stage “All the President’s Men?”

Jennifer Damiano and Kelli Barrett to Lead Goodspeed’s “Deathless”

Kristin Chenoweth “Soapdish” London

– “Today on Broadway” December 5th, 2016

Will Smith in Talks to Play Genie in Live-Action “Aladdin”

5) Recommendations

Julie Andrews Counts Down Her Top-6 Favorite Musicals

Glenn Close and Company Crash “Hamilton” Curtain Speech

Listen: The Tonys Finally Find a Host, Critics Review “Indecent” on Broadway, and Uma Thurman is Rumored to Be Making Her Broadway Debut!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

“The Little Foxes” Opens on Broadway Tonight

1) Critics Review “Indecent” on Broadway

2) The Tonys (Finally) Find their Host

The Many Talents of Kevin Spacey

3) Uma Thurman Reportedly to Make Broadway Debut in a New Play

4) “Men Girls” Musical Tickets Go on Sale in DC

5) NPR’s Linda Holmes Recommends TV Fans Try Plays

Listen: The Show Goes on for Andy Karl and “Groundhog Day” and the Critics Love Them, Disney Finally Announces Frozen Casting, and Hello Dollars!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

1) Despite Injury, Andy Karl Opens “Groundhog Day” and the Critics Love Him

Andy Karl has a torn ACL

2) Disney (Finally) Announces the Denver and Broadway Cast of “Frozen”

3) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

4) Show and Casting News

Ashley Brown, Lindsay Mendez, and Ryan Silverman to Lead Encores’ “The Golden Apple”

Peter Scolari Joins “The Dreyfus Affair” at BAM

Jay Armstrong Johnson and Others Join MasterVoices’ “Babes in Toyland”

MTC Announces Cast of “Quartet of Stars”

5) Audra McDonald and Will Swenson to Host Drama League Awards

6) “Once Upon a Time” to Get a Musical Episode in May

7) The “Rebecca” Trial Starts Next Week

Listen: Andy Karl’s Injury Puts “Groundhog Day” Opening in Limbo, “Carousel” Announces Broadway Revival, and Tonys Struggle to Find Host, and “Nunsense” Gets its Own Series (Kinda).

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

1) Andy Karl Injury Puts “Groundhog Day” Opening in Limbo

Andy Karl Injured in Friday’s Performance

“Groundhog Day” Cancels Saturday Matinee

Understudy Andrew Call Takes Over Saturday Night

2) Mueller, Henry, and Fleming to Lead “Carousel” Revival

3) Michael Riedel Chronicles the Tonys’ Search for a Host

4) “Fun Home” to Open in London Next Year

5) “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Star Rachel Bloom to Pen Book

6) “Nunsense” Gets Its Own Web Series

7) Recommendations

360 Degrees of “The Hairy Ape” 

“Saturday Night Live” Stages a Middle School “Legally Blonde”

Josh Groban and “Great Comet” Cast Visits “Good Morning America”

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere review Present Laughter, War Paint, Sunday in the Park with George, In & Of Itself, Gently Down The Stream, Daniel’s Husband, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Wagner College Completely Student Productions’ of Assassins, and Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Assassins

 

This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since March 16, 2009. It is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more than 400 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews.

Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE.

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If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below.

Panel:

Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, “The Great Parade”, available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook

BroadwayStars

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim and BroadwayStars. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.

Matt Tamanini | Twitter

MATT TAMANINI is BroadwayWorld’s Senior TV and Film Critic and the host of the “Some Like it Pop” podcast, which is available on iTunes and Stitcher. You can connect with Matt on Twitter at @BWWMatt.

Notes and links for the podcast.

 

Reviews: 

PF + MP + JM: Present Laughter @ St. James Theatre, 246 West 44th Street, scheduled through July 2, 2017

Listen: This Week on Broadway for April 9, 2017: Tedra Millan

JM + MP: War Paint @ Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st Street

MP: Sunday in the Park with George, Hudson Theatre, 141 W. 44th Street, scheduled through April 23, 2017

JM + PF: In & Of Itself @ Daryl Roth Theatre

MP: Gently Down The Stream @ Public

PF: Daniel’s Husband @ Cherry Lane Theater

MP: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical @ Theater works Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street,

MP: Wagner College Completely Student Productions’ of Assassins

PF: Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Assassins

 

Discussion: 

 

Television, Film and Streaming: 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

JM + MP: Indecent

MP: God of Vengeance

Explicit: No

Music:

FIRST LISTEN: Chris McCarrell sings “Good Kid” from THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL

 

Assassins – #1 Everybody’s Got the Right

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We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact [email protected].

Listen: Critics Weigh in on “Oslo,” Betsy Wolfe Heads to “Waitress,” and “Beauty and the Beast” Breaks the Billion Dollar Barrier!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

Any and all feedback is appreciated: [email protected] (James Marino) or [email protected] (Matt Tamanini)

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Notes:

1) Critics Review “Oslo” on Broadway

2) Show and Casting News

Betsy Wolfe to Join “Waitress” this Summer

Alex Brightman to Return to “School of Rock” for Two Weeks

Atlantic Theatre Announces Full Cast for “Animal”

“Escape to Margaritaville” Extends at La Jolla

3) Theatrical Movie News

Marc Platt to Bring Bring “Oslo” to the Big Screen

“Beauty and the Beast” Becomes Highest Grossing Live-Action Musical

4) BroadwayCon Announces 2018 Plans

5) “Hamilton” Crowns a New…Old… King