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Listen: @Lin_Manuel Miranda’s final bow, #AngelaLansbury returns, #JulieAndrews teaches

“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:

Pre: Welcome “Broadway Stories with Todd Buonopane” to the BroadwayRadio “family”

1. Miranda Sets “Hamilton” End Date

1a. Exclusive:  Confirms Broadway Return in Chalk Garden

2. Stars Get in Line at the Hollywood Bowl

3. Julie Andrews Has a New TV Show

4. Old Blue Eyes to Get the Bio-Musical Treatment

5. Susan Stroman to Direct Manhattan Concert Productions’ “Crazy for You”

6. James Corden Carpools to Broadway

7. Next BroadwayRadio Expansion Announcement: “The Theater People Podcast with Patrick Hinds”

Listen: @BarbraStreisand is coming to the Tonys! We add 2 GREAT Shows!

“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) Next BroadwayRadio Expansion: The Hamilcast

2) Babs Is Coming to the Tonys

3) “Anastasia” Opens in Hartford- Reviews

http://www.courant.com/entertainment/arts-theater/hc-review-anastasia-hartford-stage-20160531-story.html

4) Show and Cast Announcements

— Justin Guarini Joins Muny’s “Mamma Mia!”

— MTC Extends “Incognito”

— “Sense & Sensibility” Returns

— Dolly Parton Bio Musical Update

5) Recommendations

— “Shuffle Along” Taps onto “Maya and Marty” Premiere

— The Hollywood Reporter’s Tony Nominee Roundtables: Best Actress Nominees | Best Actor Nominees

— Patti LuPone Has a Webseries! I Repeat, Patti LuPone Has a Webseries

6) Next BroadwayRadio Expansion Part II: Dignified Women and Other Bull$h*t

Listen: No surprise, yesterday was a GREAT day to be @Lin_Manuel Miranda!

“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 Present” Comes to Broadway

2. Weekly Grosses: “Waitress” joined the other Broadway heavyweights in the Million Dollar Club

3. Riedel Says Martin is Keeping “Bright Star” Shinning

4. Hollywood Turns to Broadway

— Michael Grandage to Direct “Guys and Dolls” Movie

— “Mary Poppins” Sequel with Blunt and Miranda Gets Release Date

— Weinstein Company has picked up the screen rights for Miranda’s first Broadway musical, “In the Heights.”

5. Stars in the Alley Performers Announced

6. Next BroadwayRadio Expansion: The OHenry Report with Oliver Henry Roth

7. Broadway Powerhouse Key Brand Entertainment Raises Curtain On New Name, Mission by Jeremy Gerard

Key Brand

8. EverythingSondheim.org: Brilliant Stuff: Len Cariou Saw the Power of SWEENEY TODD from Day One by Michael Portantiere

Listen: @TheBryceCapades & @CorbinBleu Check into @RTC_NYC’s #HolidayInn

“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. Stars Check into Roundabout’s “Holiday Inn”

2. Show and Casting Announcements

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson to Take Reservations for another Week

— Charlotte d’Amboise Heads Back to “Chicago”

Flashback: This Week on Broadway for August 2, 2015: Terrence Mann and Charlotte d’Amboise

— “An Act of God” Finds its Angels and Begins Performances

3. “Miss Saigon” Coming to the Big Screen. Twice.

4. Recommendations

— From Broadway To TV, An Actress’ Death Takes Us Down Cultural Rabbit Hole

Beth Howland died in December at age 74. One of her best known roles, was as the original Amy in Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.” Looking into her past can lead you down a pop culture spiral.

— Joe Posnanski on Hamilton

— Behind the Curtain: Broadway’s Living Legends podcast has joined the BroadwayRadio Network.

Listen: @BWWMatt chats with #JudiDench about Shakespeare, #Grizabella, & More

“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. Matt’s BroadwayWorld article based on this interview

2. Click here to purchase “Shakespeare: Exits & Entrances” featuring Judi Dench,  David Suchet, Jeffery Dench, Emilia Fox, and Oliver Dench

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss The Total Bent @ The Public Theater, Hadestown @ New York Theater Workshop, Chita Rivera at Café Carlyle, The Roger Rees Awards, Fiddler on the Roof @ Broadway Theatre, Mame 50th Anniversary Celebration, Show Boat’s 1936 film. We also discuss the leading actor/actress in a play/musical nominations.

 

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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, Kritzerland, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook

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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.

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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: The Total Bent @ Anspacher Theater (The Public Theater), through June 19

PF + JM: Hadestown @ New York Theater Workshop,  through June 12, 2016

MP: Chita Rivera in An Evening of My Favorite Songs at Café Carlyle, April 19-30

MP: The Roger Rees Awards for Excellence in Student Performance (Formerly The Gershwin Awards) Sarafina Morency and Alexander Pacella won the award and will represent the Greater New York Metro-area at the 8th annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards at the Minskoff Theatre on June 27.

PF: Fiddler on the Roof @ Broadway Theatre

MP: Mame 50th Anniversary

MP: Show Boat. 1936 film. Directed by James Whale screening at MOMA

MP: Anita Gillette

 

Tony Awards: Leading Actor/Actress in a Play/Musical 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Gabriel Byrne, Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Jeff Daniels, Blackbird

Frank Langella, The Father

Tim Pigott-Smith, King Charles III

Mark Strong, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Jessica Lange, Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Laurie Metcalf, Misery

Lupita Nyong’o, Eclipsed

Sophie Okonedo, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

Michelle Williams, Blackbird

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Alex Brightman, School of Rock—The Musical

Danny Burstein, Fiddler on the Roof

Zachary Levi, She Loves Me

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton

Leslie Odom, Jr., Hamilton

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Laura Benanti, She Loves Me

Carmen Cusack, Bright Star

Cynthia Erivo, The Color Purple

Jessie Mueller, Waitress

Phillipa Soo, Hamilton

 

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Explicit: No

Music:

Music from “Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” provided by the production.

— 04 Shuffle Along

— 08 They Won’t Remember [...]

Listen: #AmericanPsycho to Close, @LeonaLewis Tops the #GrizList, & More

“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. “American Psycho” to Close on Broadway June 5th

2. “Cats” Get Some “Burning Love”

British pop star Leona Lewis will star in Cats because apparently no Americans can sing by Adam Feldman

3. Cirque du Soliel’s “Paramour” Opens on Broadway

4. Show Casting Announcements

— “Something Rotten” Adds Three Good Eggs

— Brian D’arcy James has exited the CBS pilot based on Tracy Letts’ 2008 play “Superior Donuts.”

— “Phantom” Welcomes Three to the Opera

5. Tonys Announce First round of Presenters

6. Recommendations

— Crosswalk “Lion King”

— BWW Exclusive: Dame Judi Dench Discusses Shakespeare, Her Passion, CATS, Potential Broadway Return by Matt Tamanini

Listen: @DearEvanHansenMakes a Move, @DivaRobbie Recaps #ColorPurple Change

“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. “Dear Evan Hansen” will officially come to Broadway this November

2. Arthur Miller’s “The Price” Coming to Broadway

3. Encores Finds its Runaways

4. Cynthia Erivo Exits “Color Purple” Mid-Show

5. Robbie Rozelle join us!

Guys, @CynthiaEriVo ran a half marathon and then did two shows of @BwayColorPurple the other day. I marathoned THE JINX on my couch.

— Robbie Rozelle (@divarobbie) May 23, 2016

6. Odds & Ends

— “Hamilton” Goes Platinum

— Gyllenhaal’s “George” Sells Out

— Diana Degarmo Gets Marvelous

— Merrily Development

— Nicole Kidman Gets Her Off-Broadway Cuddles

— Big Screen “Little Mermaid”

— “Beauty and the Beast” Trailer Tre-dux

Listen: @LenaHallRocker to tour #Hedwig, #JakeGyllenhaal Sings #Sondheim, and More!

“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.  “Tuck Everlasting” to Close this Sunday

2. James Marino to Move to California for October and November (Lena Hall to reprise her Tony-winning role as Yitzhak opposite Darren Criss in San Francisco and Los Angeles from October 2nd-November 27th)

3. Jake Gyllenhaal to Lead “Sunday in the Park” Concert

4. The West End Finds a New Adelaide in Rebel Wilson

5. Deaf West Raising Funds to Perform on the Tonys

6. Show and Casting Announcements

— Skeggs and Kuhn Return to the Fun Home

— All-Female “Taming of the Shrew”

7. Michael Riedel: Sorry, ‘Hamilton’ won’t break ‘Producers’ Tony record

Listen: @TheBwayLeague Announces New Record, @LeonaLewis for #Cats?

“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.  Record-Braking Season and Weekly Grosses

2. This week was a marked improvement over the previous week with Broadway seeing a ten and a quarter percent increase in tickets sold and a 9.8 percent increase in terms of grosses

3. Obie Award Winners

4. Has ALW Found his New Cat in British pop star Leona Lewis?

5. Atlantic Theater Announces 2016-2017 Season

6. Seller and Suarez Ink Deal with Universal Television

7. Arts for Autism Benefit

8. VIDEO: First Official Teaser Trailer for Disney’s Live Action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is Here!

9. This Week on Broadway for May 22, 2016: Lindsay Jones

— @ 37:20 into This Week on Broadway, Michael Portantiere says that these are the best shows on Broadway.

— How to Keep a Musical Great: Call Heather Headley and Marin Mazzie by BEN BRANTLEY

Opening Music: 42nd Street (2001 Revival Broadway Cast) – 12. We’re In The Money