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Listen: @DramaLeague winners, @OakSmash gets #Frozen, @MjRodriguez7 thanks Telsey

“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. Drama League Award Winners

— The OHenry Report by Oliver Roth & OHenry Productions

2. This Week’s Schedule

— Monday: MTC’s “Incognito” at New York City Center

— Theatre World Awards Tonight

— Obie Awards

— Tuesday: “Peer Gynt” at Classic Stage Company

— “The Total Bent” at The Public

— Thursday: Outer Critics Circle Awards

— “Frozen” Lab News

— Okieriete Onaodowan (Oak)

— St. James renovation

3. Show and Casting Announcements

— Rachel Tucker is “Wicked” good

— “Indecent” Extends

— M.J. Rodriguez Thanks Telsey for “Hamilton” Audition

4. Recommendations

— TEDxBroadway Videos

— “Beauty and the Beast” trailer

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Matt Tamanini talk with composer and sound designer Lindsay Jones.Peter reviews Do I Hear a Waltz? at New York City Center. Michael revisits The King and I, and The Color Purple. Michael also reviews School for Scandal. Matt reviews the HBO production of All The Way.

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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, Kritzerland, 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.

Guest: Lindsay Jones  (begins at 4:30)

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LindsayJones.com

The Collaborator Party, headed by theatrical sound designers Lindsay Jones and John Gromada, announced that their event will return for a second year in New York City, after last year’s party demolished all attendance expectations with a complete and total sell-out crowd. The Collaborator Party is the official Tony night party for the theatre sound community and all of their collaborators. The main party will be held June 12, 2016 at Flatiron Hall (38 W. 26th St. in New York City) from 7pm-11pm.

www.collaboratorparty.com

Lindsay Jones (original music and sound design) – Broadway: Bronx Bombers and A Time to Kill. Off-Broadway: Dry Powder, Barbecue, Wild With Happy, The Brother/Sister Plays (Public Theater), Bootycandy, The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons), Mr. Joy (LCT3), Top Secret (NYTW), Rx, The Morini Strad, Something You Did, String Of Pearls, Boy (Primary Stages) and many others. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Goodman, Old Globe, ACT, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage and many others. International: Stratford Shakespeare Festival (Canada) and Royal Shakespeare Company (England), as well as productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Scotland. Awards: seven Joseph Jefferson Awards and 23 nominations, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, LA Drama Critics Circle Award and three Drama Desk Award nominations, two Helen Hayes nominations as well as nominations for Barrymore, Henry Hewes Design and many others. Film scoring credits include Magnolia Pictures’ The Brass Teapot and HBO Films’ A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award, Best Documentary).

Tug Of War at Chicago Shakespeare, which is a two-part 12 hour rock and roll musical, made up of 6 Shakespeare plays.

The Wiz at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

The Madwoman In The Volvo, starring Sandra Tsing Loh (from NPR) at Pasadena Playhouse

Privacy at the Public Theater in NYC, starring Daniel Radcliffe

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“The Sound of Musicals,” is a monthly podcast devoted to musical theatre recordings of all types, including Broadway cast albums, London cast albums, studio cast albums, and soundtrack recordings of the films of stage musicals.

Hosted by Michael Portantiere

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review 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 KOPLIK is the creator and host of Baking it On Broadway, a popular web series in which Broadway actors discuss the inner workings of Broadway shows, all while baking a dessert. Matt holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Emerson College and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. His Playbill collection is legendary.

 

 

 

Lee Roy Reams photograph by Michael Portantiere

 

Lee Roy Reams in OKLAHOMA!

 

 

5:45 — Sweet Charity: A New Musical Comedy (1966 Original Broadway Cast)

SWEET CHARITY is music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields

 

9:05 — Sweet Charity (1969 Motion Picture Soundtrack)

19:55 — Lee Roy Reams, Bonnie Franklin and Ensemble in “She’s No Longer a Gypsy,” Applause: Original 1970 Broadway Cast

APPLAUSE is music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams

 

28:30 — Lorelei (Original 1973 Broadway Cast Recording)

“I Won’t Let You Get Away” from LORELEI is by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green

 

42:05 — 42nd Street Cast Recording

42nd STREET songs have music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin

 

52:20 — Bright Star (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

56:35 — The Color Purple (New Broadway Cast Recording)

1:01:35 — Paint Your Wagon (Encores! Cast Recording 2015)

Listen: @ATGTickets Founders Step Down & @PublicTheaterNY Announces Season

“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)

BroadwayRadio on Twitter | Facebook

Notes:

1. Ambassdor Theatre Group Founders Step Aside

2. The Public Theatre Announces 2016-2017 Season

3. The Collaborator Party to Celebrate Sound on Tony Night

Admission is free, but you must register in advance at http://www.collaboratorparty.com

4. Actor’s Equity Elections

5. Show and Casting Announcements

— Radio City Casting

— A Record-Setting Wicked Witch Returns to Oz

— “School of Rock” Sets London Dates

— “Nice Fish” Swimming to London

 

 

— A New Reason to be Pretty Happy

— Douglas Hodge, Kelli Barrett to Star in Arden’s “My Fair Lady”

—Adam and Anthony Extend at 54 Below

6. Recommendations

Vogue Tony Spread

Broadway’s Most Electrifying Productions This Season – Vogue

Broadway Commercials

The musical ads you saw if you grew up in New York in the ‘70s and ’80s by Tom McGeveran

Sound of Musicals

Ensemblist Live Show

NYC PodFest May 22, 2016 8:15 PM, tickets $10 | 21+

John Arthur Greene, Janet Krupin and Douglas Lyons

Cake Shop | 152 Ludlow Street

Listen: @SFosterNYC joins @TheNewGroupNYC & @OffBwayAlliance Awards

“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. If You Could See Sutton Foster Now!

— SCOTT ELLIOTT, Artistic Director, The New Group

2. Off-Broadway Alliance Awards Announced

3. LCT3 Announces Evan Cabnet, New Artistic Director

4. Show Announcements

— Fiasco’s “Into the Woods” to Open in London

— “A Bronx Tale” Musical Posts Equity Casting Notice

— “Anastasia” Adds Another Performance in Hartford

5. Riedel Calls for One of Broadway’s Most Important Homes to be Saved

6. Recommendations

— Patti LuPone #Ham4Ham

Listen: @BetteMidler Matched w/ #DavidHydePierce & @Astaire_Awards Announced

“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. “Hello, Dolly!” Finds Its Match

2. Astaire Awards Announced

3. Show Announcements

— “The Father” Extends

— Goodspeed’s “Bye Bye Birdie”

— “Shining City” with Matthew Broderick Begins Previews at Irish Rep

— Two of London’s Favorite Leading Men Unite for an Album and Tour

4. Odds and Ends

— MSG vs. Barclay’s

Madison Square Garden is larger, with a seating capacity of 20,000

Lilliputian Barclay’s Center seats only 19,000

— This American Life 259: Promised Land

Fans of movie musicals might know about something called the “I Wish” number. In many movies and Broadway shows, it’s the main character’s first song, in which they express the hope that will set the story in motion. Host Ira Glass explains it, and plays a few examples. (7 minutes)

— Wall Street Journal Article on Tony Voters

The Tony Voters: So Many Shows, So Little Time by Pia Catton

Who are the Tony voters, and how do they approach their task?

— Todd Buonopane ’s Broadway Stories @ 54 Below this Friday night at 11:30pm

Listen: @BarbraStreisand’s Coming Back to Broadway (kind of)

“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. Barbra Streisand announced today that she would be going on a nine-city tour

2. MTC to Bring “Jitney” to Broadway; Adds Two Shows to Season

3. Weekly Grosses

4. “Chicago” Has a New Billy Coming to Town: Jaime Camil

— Entertainment Weekly’s Supercut of Rogelio’s Best Season 1 lines

5. “Disaster!” Recorded an Album

6. Fox’s Future Musical Plans

7. Podcast Recommendations:

— Ken Davenport: PODCAST EPISODE 72 – THE PAPA OF PLAYBILL, PHILIP S. BIRSH

— Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone: The Ensemblist Unedited: Polly Baird and Phantom of the Opera

— Patrick Hinds: Theater People Podcast EPISODE 70: CARMEN CUSACK

— Robert W. Schneider and Kevin David Thomas: Behind The Curtain #16 FRANK VERLIZZO (Fraver)

http://fraver.com/

— Gillian Pensavalle and Bianca Soto: The Hamilcast Episode #16: I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!

 

8. THE CURTAIN CALL BOOK

Listen: @NicoleScherzy & #ALW in a #Cats Fight, @DearEvanHansen coming to Bway

“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. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Nicole Scherzinger are in a “Cats” Fight

2. “Dear Evan Hansen” to Broadway

3. This Week’s Theatrical Schedule

— Paula Vogel’s new play “Indecent” at the Vineyard Theatre

— “The Ruins of Civilization” opens at the Manhattan Theatre Club

— Dominique Morisseau’s “Skeleton Crew” will re-open at the Atlantic Theatre’s Linda Gross Theatre

4. New York Times report on new Hamilton tickets

5. More TV Announcements for Theatre Stars

6. Riedel on Heather Headley and Jennifer Hudson

7. Recommendations

— Tony Kushnier interviews George C. Wolfe for “Interview Magazine”

— Leslie Odom Jr. New York Times profile

— Broadway.com “The Tony Beat”

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Jennifer Simard and Kurt Peterson. Michael revisits The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Peter revisits Fun Home. Michael reviews Do I Hear a Waltz? at New York City Center.

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This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week (mostly) since March 16, 2009 and is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more then 300 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews.

Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE.

Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE.

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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, Kritzerland, 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.

Guest: Jennifer Simard (begins at 2:30)

Jennifer Simard as Bernadette Peters in GYPSY, from FORBIDDEN BROADWAY Photo by Carol Rosegg

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IBDB

Tony nominee Jennifer Simard gets some love online

 

Guest: Kurt Petetson (begins at 16:40)

When Everything Was Possible – A Concert (with comments) (Sh-K-Boom)

http://www.wheneverythingwaspossible.com/ (Project website)

Follow Spot: Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory Remember When Everything Was Possible by Michael Portantiere

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS

PRESENTS

“WHEN EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE”

A CONCERT ALBUM CELEBRATING BROADWAY’S GOLDEN AGE

STARRING

KURT PETERSON & VICTORIA MALLORY

ALBUM ONLINE AND IN STORES MAY 13

New York, NY (5/2/2016) – Ghostlight Records will release the concert recording of When Everything Was Possible, an exciting and poignant evening celebrating Broadway’s Golden Age starring Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory, on May 13. The beloved performers – who appeared in the original productions of the classic musicals Follies, A Little Night Music, Dear World and Sondheim: A Musical Tribute, among many others – reunited at New York’s City Center in 2012 and this live album memorializes that special evening, Victoria’s last New York stage appearance. When Everything Was Possible includes songs from shows they appeared in either separately or together between 1966 and 1974, in addition to two new compositions. To pre-order the album, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/when-everything-was-possible.

When Everything Was Possible features selections from landmark works of musical theater, along with hilarious and personal memories from the stars themselves, to offer a walk down Broadway’s memory lane. The concert has new orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, music direction by Michael Rafter, direction by Larry Moss, musical staging by Joshua Bergasse, historical projections by TelegraphicMedia, original songs by Kurt and composer Jesse Wiener, and an introduction by Ted Chapin, President of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. The album is produced by James William Productions and Stephenie Skyllas.

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Listen: @NYCityCenter #DoIHearAWaltz reviews, @AnastasiaStage delay, & 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. “Do I Hear a Waltz?”

2. Speedbumps on the Way to Broadway

“Anastasia” which had to postpone its first preview performance due to a technical issue

Menier Chocolate Factory’s “Funny Girl” Sheridan Smith taking a break from the show due to stress and exhaustion

3. Show Announcements

“School of Rock” planning on opening at the London Palladium

“My Fair Lady” at the Sydney Opera House

West End premiere of “Dream Girls”

Lazarus Rises Again in London

“Daddy Long Legs” to Close Off-Broadway

4. Tour Announcements

“Hamilton” on Washington’s Side

US National Tour of the West End musical “The Bodyguard”

“Mamma Mia!”

5. TV and Movie News

TV Renewals, Cancellations, and Pick-ups

Miss Saigon Film Scheduled for 2018 Start

6. Recommendation

#PutSimardOn