Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Kyoto @ Lincoln Center Theater, Out of the Box Theatrics’ production of Beau The Musical, The Queen of Versailles, Messy White Gays @ The Duke on 42nd Street, 44 – The Musical @ the Daryl Roth Theatre, Bat Boy: The Musical @ City Center, and Vape! The Grease Parody @ Theater 555
The Company of Beau the Musical ©Valerie Terranova
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PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers! Peter also has columns at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select, and many other places.
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RAGTIME extended by popular demand through June 14
Scott Siegel presents
All-Star Benefit Concert for Broadway by the Season
Monday | November 10 2025 | 7:30 pm
An Evening with Len Cariou @ The Laurie Beechman Theatre
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Len Cariou is well known and beloved for his indelible performances in musicals and plays on and off Broadway, in classical theater, and in other media.
His major credits include Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, and Applause on Broadway, Blue Bloods on television, etc.
Join us at the Laurie Beechman Theatre as he shares reminiscences of his storied career and the many legends he has worked with in an on-stage interview conducted by theater journalist Michael Portantiere.
The evening will include clips of Mr. Cariou’s greatest roles, plus live performances of a song or two, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Kyoto production photo by Emilio Madrid
PF: Kyoto @ Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (Off-Broadway) through November 30, 2025
Saving the Earth is a filthy business. Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Centre, December 11, 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock. Time is running out and a climate change agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman… Declared “gripping” (The Times), “extraordinarily funny” (Variety), and a “genuinely daring” (Evening Standard) “triumph” (Telegraph), KYOTO asks who gets to decide what’s worth saving when the entire planet is at risk—and what we’re willing to give up so we can move forward, together.
Tony Award nominee Stephen Kunken is reprising his celebrated role as American lawyer and ex-government strategist ‘Don Pearlman,’ KYOTO will also star Jorge Bosch, reprising his Olivier Award-nominated role as Argentinian lawyer and conference leader ‘Raul Estrada-Oyuela,’ Peter Bradbury as climate change skeptic ‘Fred Singer,’ Kate Burton as ‘USA,’ Feodor Chin as ‘China,’ Erin Darke as ‘Germany,’ Natalie Gold as ‘Shirley,’ Daniel Jenkins as ‘Gore/Bolin/Santer/Observer,’ Dariush Kashani as ‘Saudi Arabia,’ Rob Narita as ‘Japan,’ Imani Jade Powers as ‘Secretariat,’ Ferdy Roberts reprising his role as ‘U.K./Prescott/Houghton,’ Roslyn Ruff as ‘Tanzania,’ and Taiana Tully as ‘Kiribati.’ Offstage understudies include Odera Adimorah, Clark Carmichael, Luis Carlos de La Lombana, Paul Juhn, Amelia McClain, and Lianah Sta. Ana.
The creative team for KYOTO includes Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson (playwrights), Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin (directors), Miriam Buether (set design), Natalie Pryce (costume design), Aideen Malone (lighting design), Christopher Reid (sound design), Akhila Krishnan (video design), Paul Englishby (original music), Jim Carnahan, CSA and Alexandre Bleau, CSA (casting), Diana DiVita (stage manager), Ed Burnside (associate director), Julia Horan (original UK casting director) and Gemma Stockwood (Dramaturg).
MP: Out of the Box Theatrics’ production of Beau The Musical @ St. Luke’s Theatre January 4, 2026
PF: The Queen of Versailles @ the St. James Theatre
Sherie Rene Scott will play the role of Jackie Siegel on
November 25 (Tuesday), December 3 – Matinee (Wednesday), December 3 – Evening (Wednesday), and January 20 (Tuesday)
MP: Messy White Gays @ The Duke on 42nd Street, through January 11, 2026
Written by and starring Drew Droege
Derek Chadwick, James Cusati-Moyer, Pete Zias, and Aaron Jackson in MESSY WHITE GAYS at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo Credit Marc J. Franklin)
PF + MP: 44 – The Musical @ the Daryl Roth Theatre
music, lyrics and book by a former Obama campaign staffer Eli Bauman
Barack Obama’s election changed history. 44 is a satirical look at the rise and presidency of Barack Obama, as well as the eccentric political characters he met along the way. It is the story of Obama you won’t read about in history books…because history books are now banned in most states. But also, because 44 is the story of Obama as Joe Biden kinda sorta remembers it…
The cast of this brilliantly funny musical that Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune said, “tickled him purple all night long,” features T.J. Wilkins (NBC’s “The Voice”) as ‘Barack Obama’ and Shanice (award-winning R&B artist – “I Love Your Smile” and OWN’s “Flex & Shanice”) as ‘Michelle Obama’ and Chad Doreck as ‘Joe Biden’ with Larry Cedar (Mitch McConnell), Summer Collins (Sarah Palin), Jenna Pastuszek (Hillary Clinton), Dino Shorté (Herman Cain), Jeff Sumner (Lindsey Graham), and Michael Uribes (Ted Cruz).
PF: Bat Boy: The Musical @ City Center, Oct 29 – Nov 9, 2025
PF: Vape! The Grease Parody @ Theater 555, through January 4, 2026
Written By Catie Hogan With Leanna Adams,
John D. Babcock Iii, Casey Holloway,
Julie Shaer & Brian Troxell
Lyrics & Additional Book By
Billy Recce & Danny Salles
Choreographed By Ashley Marinelli
Directed By Jack Plotnick
Bull Durham @ Paper Mill?
PF + MP: Richard II @ Astor Place Theatre, through November 30, 2025
RED BULL THEATER (Jesse Berger, Founder and Artistic Director; Martin Giannini, Executive Director) presents Emmy nominated actor Michael Urie in a powerful new version of Shakespeare’s Richard II, along with Grantham Coleman, Ron Canada, Kathryn Meisle, David Mattar Merten, Lux Pascal, James Seol, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Ryan Spahn, Emily Swallow, and Sarin Monae West.
This World Premiere is adapted and directed by Craig Baldwin and presented by Red Bull Theater with Mickey Liddell & Pete Shilaimon, in association with Daryl Roth, Tom D’Angora, and Willette & Manny Klausner. The design team will include Arnulfo Maldonado (scenic; Tony Award nominations: Buena Vista Social Club, A Strange Loop; Obie for Sustained Excellence in Set Design), Rodrigo Muñoz (costume), Jeanette Yew (lighting), and Brandon Wolcott (sound). Rick Sordelet will serve as Fight Director & Intimacy Coordinator. Alexandre Bleau serves as casting director.
PF: Manhattan Theatre Club production of Queens, written by Martyna Majok, and directed by Trip Cullman, through December 7, 2025
In the early 1960s, his music and lyrics were heard in three successive musicals, one after the other, at the same Broadway theater.
Who is he, and what were the musicals?
Michael’s Musical Moments
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