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Notes:

1. Casting

“Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812”

2. Casting 2

“You Can’t Take It With You”

3. Head of Passes Reviews

4. Buried Child on BroadwayHD

5. Hairspray Casting Open Call

Preview for Tomorrow: The hosts of the fantastic podcast “The Hamilcast” Gillian and Bianca visit

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Nathan Lane will lead an all-star cast in a Broadway revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s semi-autobiographical play THE FRONT PAGE in late September at a theatre to be named later.

2. Grosses

American Psycho $365 K, 4 performances

Waitress $426 K, 3 performances

Shuffle Along $359 K, 4 performances

Three shows, “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” and “Wicked,” took advantage of the Easter holiday and added a ninth performance, pushing each up over $2 million dollars at the box office last week.

3. Barbara Cook Cancellation

4. Hamilton stories

— Rory O’Malley as King George

— Lin-Manuel Miranda, taking a week off and writing NY Times Op-Ed: Give Puerto Rico Its Chance to Thrive

— Christopher Jackson balancing Broadway superstardom with being dad to an autistic son

5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Bright Star Review Update

2. Jeremy Gerard & Jordan Roth: A New Partnership?

Gerard & Roth: Broadway’s ‘Nerds’ Fiasco Doesn’t Compute; Off-Broadway Gets The Business With ‘The Effect’

3. Openings

— Sir Cameron Mackintosh is aiming to bring Hamilton to the West End sometime next year.

— October Sky will have its West Coast premiere this fall at the Old Globe theatre in San Diego.

4. Casting

— Paul Slade Smith taking over the role of Charles Frohman/Captain Hook I Broadway’s “Finding Neverland”

5. Blackbird movie Update

6. NY Post Weirdest Jobs on Broadway

These are the weirdest jobs on Broadway by Barbara Hoffman

‘Waitress’ Is Making Broadway History With Its All-Female Creative Team by JOANNA KAO

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Bryce Pinkham. Ron Fassler joins us to remember Ken Howard, who passed away this week.

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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, 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 Tamanini | [email protected] | Twitter

Matt 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: Bryce Pinkham

Bryce on Instagram

Bryce on Twitter

Bryce on IBDB

Encores! production of 1776, coming up on March 30 – April 3, 2016

 

Reviews:

None this week!

 

News: 

Ron Fassler: writer, actor, director, and long time friend of Ken Howard.

George Clooney Remembers Ken Howard’s Help in Early Acting Days by Dave McNary

 

Television & Film: 

 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Peter revisits Something Rotten. Michael and James review She Loves Me. (plus a lot more!)

Explicit: No

Music:

Knickerbocker Holiday Cast Recording: Introduction & Washington Irving Song

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Cast Recording: Sibella

 

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“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Bright Star Reviews

2. Casting

“I Am Anne Hutchinson/I am Harvey Milk”

Rebecca Eichenberger and John Easterlin join the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera on April 4th

3. Openings

“Waitress” begins previews tonight at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre

“Dear Evan Hansen” begins previews at Second Stage

Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of KING AND COUNTRY

RAIN at the Old Globe

4. Shuffle Along Schedule Update

5. John Legend will be producing his second Off-Broadway play

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Emmy and Tony winner Ken Howard Passes Away

2. Casting

New York’s Signature Theatre announced casting for “Daphne’s Dive.”

Manhattan Theatre Club announced casting for “Incognito” Off-Broadway this spring.

3. Openings

The original Broadway production of American Psycho begins performances today at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

4. Shuffle Along Schedule Changes

5. Roman Holiday musical

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Birthdays

2. Shuffle Along Cancels Performances

3. Openings: first Broadway performance of Florian Zeller’s play THE FATHER, DRY POWDER had it’s opening night at the Public Theatre

4. Closing: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME announced that it would close on September 4th

5. Tommy Tune signed with a new talent agency and is at work on a top-secret new musical. (via Deadline)

— This Week on Broadway for February 21, 2016: Tommy Tune

6. Broadway Backwards Raises Record Total $480,287 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City.

Edward Albee finally gets on the wall at Sardi’s by Michael Riedel

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in a movie of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard?

2. Grosses: We’re telling you now — get your tickets to Shuffle Along.

3. Barbara Cook: Then and Now began rehearsals today

4. FAIL: The Passion

5. Big Ten! Big Story! Big Ten Theater Improves Percentages for Women by Martha Steketee (via Clyde Fitch Report)

 

We’re sorry this podcast is so long; We didn’t have time to make a shorter one.

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Stage, TV, and film star Shawn Elliott passed away at 79.

2. Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Hamilton’

3. This Week’s Major Openings

THE EFFECT at the Barrow Street Theatre

Dry Powder at The Public Theater

4. Casting

The SpongeBob Musical announces more composers

Aladdin’s seven stars have again extended their contracts through February 19th of 2017.

5. Feature

Rap: Broadway’s New Jazz? by John McWhorter

From ‘Shuffle Along’ to ‘Hamilton,’ a look at how black music has shaped the sound of U.S. musical theatre.

Pedagogy Notebook: The Role of Latina/o Adaptations in the Teaching of Classical Theatre by Carla Della Gatta

In this installment of the Pedagogy Notebook series, professor Carla Della Gatta writes about how she integrated Latina/o artists into a critical studies class on Greek and Roman theatre.

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Matt Tamanini review She Loves Me, DISASTER!, The Robber Bridegroom, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s production of Ironbound, Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Hold On To Me Darling, and Third Rail Projects’s production of The Grand Paradise. In Television & Film: HBO: All The Way, Pilots. Podcasts: Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Hamilton’

Leslie Kritzer and company in The Robber BridegroomPhoto by Joan Marcus

 

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This episode of THIS WEEK ON BROADWAY is sponsored by SEATGEEK. To get $20 rebate on tickets, download the SEATGEEK app and enter the promo code: BR20. SeatGeek will send you $20 dollars after you’ve made your first ticket purchase.

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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, 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 Tamanini | Twitter

Matt 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: She Loves Me @ Studio 54,

MP + JM: DISASTER! A 1970’s Disaster Movie Musical @ Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st Street, through July 03, 2016

PF + MP + JM: Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Robber Bridegroom @ The Laura Pels Theatre, 111 West 46th Street, through May 29, 2016

— Leslie Kritzer, IBDB

Flashback: This Week on Broadway for March 8, 2015: Tom Kirdahy, Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox

MP: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s production of Ironbound, 224 Waverly Place, through April 10, 2016

— Marin Ireland, IBDB

PF: Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Hold On To Me Darling, Linda Gross Theater, 336 West 20th Street, through April 17, 2016

MP: Third Rail Projects’s production of The Grand Paradise, 383 Troutman Street, Brooklyn, through May 29, 2016

 

News: 

Television & Film: 

HBO: All The Way

Broadway performers in TV pilots

 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Hamilton’

NPR: the record

Being Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.) by DAOUD TYLER-AMEEN from December 21, 2015

 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

The Robber Bridegroom – Montage

The Robber Bridegroom – Steal With Style

The Robber Bridgegroom – Goodbye, Salome

 

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