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Guest: Natascia Diaz, Encores! “Grand Hotel”

Encores! Grand Hotel, The Musical, Mar 21 – 25, 2018

Host: Jena Tesse Fox | Twitter

Jena Tesse Fox has been writing about theater for more than 10 years for numerous publications, including Playbill Magazine, BroadwayWorld.com, Time Out New York and HowlRound.com. She is a voting member of the Drama Desk Awards, and is a contributor to BroadwayRadio

 

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Listen: Aladdin Broadway Carpet Ride Turns 4, Rocktopia Contracts, Hawke & Dano True West, Jagged Little Team, Me and My Laura Michelle Kelly, Goldbergs ALW Tribute

“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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1) ALADDIN Celebrates its 4th Anniversary On Broadway Tonight

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/ALADDIN-Celebrates-its-4th-Anniversary-On-Broadway-Tonight-20180320

2) ROCKTOPIA and Actors Equity Reach Tentative Agreement for Choir Contracts

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/UPDATE-ROCKTOPIA-and-Actors-Equity-Reach-Temporary-Agreement-for-Choir-Contracts-20180320

3) Show and Casting News

Roundabout announces TRUE WEST on Broadway with Hawke & Dano

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Ethan-Hawke-and-Paul-Dano-Will-Lead-Broadway-Revival-of-TRUE-WEST-Opens-January-2019-20180320

JAGGED LITTLE PILL announces full Cast and Creative

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-In-Rehearsal-with-ARTs-JAGGED-LITTLE-PILL-Full-Cast-and-Creative-Announced-20180320

Christian Borle and Laura Michelle Kelly Will Star in Encores! Production of ME AND MY GIRL

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Christian-Borle-and-Laura-Michelle-Kelly-Will-Star-in-Encores-Production-of-ME-AND-MY-GIRL-20180320

4) ABC’s THE GOLDBERGS to Pay Tribute to Legendary Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on March 28

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/ABCs-THE-GOLDBERGS-to-Pay-Tribute-to-Legendary-Composer-Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-on-March-28-20180320

5) New York Stage Review – Reviews from Broadway and Beyond

http://nystagereview.com/

6) Carey Purcell: Get in, Losers: We’re Learning How the Mean Girls Musical Got Made | Vanity Fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/03/mean-girls-musical-lyricist-nell-benjamin

7) Rodger Mullen: Actor on Fayetteville stage fights nuclear threat – The Fayetteville Observer – Fayetteville, NC

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/20180318/actor-on-fayetteville-stage-fights-nuclear-threat

Listen: Nixon Goes to Albany? Chavkin’s Continuity. Hello Mauzey! Musical of Musicals. Miscast. OCC Noms. DEHYA.

“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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1) Tony Winner Cynthia Nixon Announces Candidacy for New York Governor

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Tony-Winner-Cynthia-Nixon-Announces-Candidacy-for-New-York-Governor-20180319

2) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

3) Show and Casting News

Rachel Chavkin to Direct MTC’s World Premiere of CONTINUITY

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Rachel-Chavkin-to-Direct-MTCs-World-Premiere-of-CONTINUITY-20180319

Alli Mauzey Will Take Over as ‘Ernestina’ in HELLO, DOLLY! on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Alli-Mauzey-Will-Take-Over-as-Ernestina-in-HELLO-DOLLY-on-Broadway-20180319

Cast announced for THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE CONCERT!)

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Alli-Mauzey-Stephanie-Umoh-and-More-Lead-Cast-of-THE-MUSICAL-OF-MUSICALS-THE-CONCERT-20180319

Additional stars announced for MCC’s MISCAST

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jeremy-Jordan-Caissie-Levy-Victoria-Clark-Ethan-Slater-and-More-Added-to-MCCs-MISCAST-20180319

4) Jenn Colella & Katrina Lenk Will Announce 2017-18 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jenn-Colella-Katrina-Lenk-Will-Announce-2017-18-Outer-Critics-Circle-Award-Nominations-20180319

5) DEAR EVAN HANSEN Will Be Turned Into Young Adult Novel

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/DEAR-EVAN-HANSEN-Will-Be-Turned-Into-Young-Adult-Novel-Release-Set-for-This-Fall-20180319

Listen: News of the Duncan Sheik and Sara Bareilles’ “Alice in Wonderland,” More TV Pilot News, and this Week’s Theatrical Schedule!

“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:

“On My Way to a BFA” with Desi Oakley

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2018/03/17/on-my-way-to-a-b-f-a-episode-2-4-chatting-with-waitress-on-tour-star-desi-oakley/

“This Week on Broadway” with Dave Malloy

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2018/03/18/this-week-on-broadway-for-march-18-2018-dave-malloy/

1) Show and Casting News

New Information Revealed about Duncan Sheik and Sara Bareilles “Alice in Wonderland” Collaboration

https://www.broadway.com/buzz/191510/exclusive-sara-bareilles-looks-to-star-in-alice-in-wonderland-musical/

Joel Grey to Direct “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish Premiere

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Joel-Grey-To-Direct-US-Premiere-Of-FIDDLER-ON-THE-ROOF-In-Yiddish-20180316

2) Pilot Season Updates

Andrew Keenan-Bolger Joins New Annaleigh Ashford Sitcom

http://deadline.com/2018/03/suspicion-casts-sadie-calvano-andrew-keenan-bolger-three-rivers-1202339158/

Brian d’Arcy James Joins FOX Legal Pilot

http://deadline.com/2018/03/brian-darcy-james-clare-oconnor-fox-legal-drama-pilot-produced-by-danny-strong-1202339404/

3) Recommendations

Cara Joy David: “Actors’ Equity vs. ‘Rocktopia’”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Industry-Editor-Exclusive-Actors-Equity-Vs-ROCKTOPIA-20180316

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt Release “Found/Tonight” Hamildrop

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Hamildrop-Collaboration-Between-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-and-Ben-Platt-to-Be-Released-Tonight-at-Midnight-20180318

“Once on this Island” Cast Performs “Mama Will Provide” in 3D

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Watch-ONCE-ON-THIS-ISLANDs-Mama-Will-Provide-from-Every-Angle-20180316

4) This Week’s Theatrical Schedule

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Dave Malloy about Moby Dick and his upcoming fundraiser for Jack, a performance space in Brooklyn.

Reviews include Dogs of Rwanda @ Urban Stages, Shakespeare’s Will @ HERE, Escape to Margaritaville, Admissions @ Lincoln Center Theater, Education @ 59e59, Chita Rivera @ Feinsteins 54 Below, West Side Story @ Professional Performing Arts School, Follies @ Westfield High School (NJ), and High Noon @ Axis Theatre Company, One Sheridan Square, through March 24, 2018

 

 

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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

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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist. 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.

 

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest: Dave Malloy

JACK Alive

With Dave Malloy

Monday, April 9, 2018 at 7:00PM

Monday, April 9, 2018 at 9:30PM

The Green Room 42

570 Tenth Ave

4th Floor inside YOTEL

New York, NY 10036

42nd Street & Tenth Avenue

1,2,3,A,C,E,N,Q,R,S

http://www.jackny.org/

JACK is an OBIE-winning 50-seat performance venue led by Alec Duffy and DeeArah Wright. Duffy founded JACK in 2012 in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with several co-founders. We present over 200 theater, music and dance performances a year and hold community forums on racial justice, gentrification, and police/community relations. ​

Our mission is to fuel experiments in art and activism, collaborating with adventurous artists and our neighbors to bring about a just and vibrant society.

JACK’s original co-founders include Duffy, Mimi Lien, Steven Leffue, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Nikaury Rodriguez, Prentice Onayemi, Ike Ufomadu, Amy Laird Webb, Jennifer Kidwell and Andreea Mincic.

Little Bunny Foo Foo @ Actors Theatre of Louisville

Seattle Theatre Group’s Ghost Quartet

 

Reviews: 

PF: Dogs of Rwanda @ Urban Stages, 259 West 30th Street, through March 31, 2018

PF: Shakespeare’s Will @ HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, through April 1, 2018

MP: Escape to Margaritaville @ Marquis Theatre, 210 West 46th Street

— This Week on Broadway for February 9, 2014: Joanna Christie and Paul Nolan – Quad Threats!

Mike O’Malley: O’Malley is a playwright with two of his plays, Three Years from Thirty and Diverting Devotion, having been published and produced Off-Broadway. In 2003, a third play, Searching for Certainty was produced in Los Angeles.

Introducing . . . the Mike O’Malley doorstop

PF: Admissions @ Lincoln Center Theater – Mitzi E. Newhouse, 150 West 65th Street, through April 29, 2018

— Ben Edelman

PF: Sanguine Theatre Company presents Education @ 59e59, 59 East 59th Street, through April 8, 2018

MP: Chita Rivera @ Feinsteins 54 Below, through March 22, 2018

MP: West Side Story @ Professional Performing Arts School

PF: Follies @ Westfield High School (NJ)

PF: High Noon @ Axis Theatre Company, One Sheridan Square, through March 24, 2018

 

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On the latest (slightly delayed) episode of “On My Way to a B.F.A.,” Natalie talks with Desi Oakley, who is currently playing Jenna in the National Tour of “Waitress.” The two talk about Desi’s time as a B.F.A. student at the University of Michigan, some of the lessons she’s continued to learn since, maintaining her vocal healthy in such a demanding role, and so much more.

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“On My Way to a B.F.A.” is hosted by Natalie Noack, a sophomore in the Musical Theatre B.F.A. program at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford.

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Listen: Reviews are in for “Escape to Margaritaville” on Broadway, Gillian Anderson Rumored to Replace Cate Blanchett in “All About Eve,” and Final #FrozenFriday!

“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) Reviews are Coming in for “Escape to Margaritaville” on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-Did-Critics-Find-Paradise-at-ESCAPE-TO-MARGARITAVILLE-20180315

Check Out Highlights from “Escape to Margaritaville”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Waste-Away-Again-with-Highlights-from-ESCAPE-TO-MARGARITAVILLE-on-Broadway-20180315

2) Ivo van Hove Looking for a New Star for his West End “All About Eve”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Cate-Blanchett-Departs-Ivo-van-Hove-ALL-ABOUT-EVE-Gillian-Anderson-in-Talks-to-Star-20180315

3) British Star Dean John Wilson to Join West End “King and I”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Dean-John-Wilson-to-Join-Kelli-OHara-and-Ken-Watanabe-in-THE-KING-AND-I-Three-Week-Extension-Announced-20180315

4) Final #FrozenFriday Release Previews a New Princess Anna Solo

http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/listen-to-the-frozen-musicals-new-solo-for-anna-true-love.html

Listen: Harper Lee Estate Sues Over Broadway-Bound “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” to Get World Premiere, & WHO is Guesting on Sutton Foster’s “Younger”?

“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) Harper Lee Estate Sues to Prevent Broadway-Bound “To Kill a Mockingbird”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/theater/harper-lee-estate-lawsuit-broadway-mockingbird.html

2) Show and Casting News

Disney’s “Bedknobs and Brooksticks” to Receive Chicago World Premiere

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Chicago-Shakespeare-Announces-201819-Season-North-American-Premiere-of-NELL-GWYNN-World-Premiere-of-BEDKNOBS-AND-BROOMSTICKS-and-More-20180314

Creative Team Announced for “The Cher Show”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Pre-Broadway-Premiere-of-THE-CHER-SHOW-Announces-Design-Team-Including-Bob-Mackie-20180314

The New Group Announces Final Extension for “Good for Otto”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-New-Group-Announces-Final-Extension-of-GOOD-FOR-OTTO-20180314

The Public Extends “The Low Road”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-Public-Theater-Extends-THE-LOW-ROAD-Through-April-8-20180314

Christian Borle to Join Season Five of “Younger”

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/younger-season-5-casting-christian-borle-1202726131/

3) Andrew Lloyd Webber Announces New London Theatre will be Renamed

https://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-Announces-The-New-London-Theatre-Is-To-Be-Renamed-After-Legendary-Choreographer-Dame-Gillian-Lynne-20180314

4) Lin-Manuel Miranda Teases Ben Platt #HamilDrop

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Teams-with-Ben-Platt-for-the-Next-Hamildrop-20180314

5) This Week’s Theatre Throwback

Listen: Musical about the Magic Mop Lady Eyes Broadway, Lortels Find Stars to Host, and The Post Takes Aim at the Times’ Sexual Assault Investigation

“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) Musical About Inventor Joy Mangano Aiming for Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Producer-Ken-Davenport-Acquires-Rights-to-Joy-Manganos-Life-Story-20180313

2) Lucille Lortel Awards Find a Pair of Stars to Co-Host

http://www.vulture.com/2018/03/laura-benanti-and-jason-jones-will-host-lortel-awards.html

3) Details Emerge About the New York Times’ Sexual Misconduct Investigation

https://pagesix.com/2018/03/12/theater-owners-up-in-arms-over-sexual-harassment-survey

4) Show and Casting News

Andy Mientus to Lead Denver “Tommy”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Andy-Meintus-to-Lead-THE-WHOS-TOMMY-in-Denver-20180313

The Muny to Debut Revised “Meet Me in St. Louis”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Muny-Announces-A-New-MEET-ME-IN-ST-LOUIS-For-Muny-100-20180313

BC/EFA Announces Plans for Broadway Bets

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Stars-Will-Play-Fans-in-Poker-at-BROADWAY-BETS-20180313

5) Recommendations

Brandon Uranowitz and Helene Yorke Preview Encores’ “Grand Hotel”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Watch-James-Snyder-Brandon-Uranowitz-Helene-Yorke-More-Sing-from-Encores-GRAND-HOTEL-20180313

The Kennedy Center’s “In the Heights” Performs for the Press

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Just-Breathe-and-Watch-Vanessa-Hudgens-Ana-Villafane-More-in-Rehearsal-for-Kennedy-Centers-IN-THE-HEIGHTS-20180313

Bernadette Petters and Victor Garber Show their Strength on “The View”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Bernadette-Peters-and-Victor-Garber-Share-Pre-Show-Rituals-on-THE-VIEW-20180313

Listen: Unusual Stars Announced for Hollywood Bowl “Beauty and the Beast” Concert, Groban and Menzel Announce Tour Dates, and “Waitress” Plans Pi Day Festivities!

“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 Set for “Beauty and the Beast” Concert at the Hollywood Bowl

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Zooey-Deschanel-Taye-Diggs-Rebel-Wilson-and-More-to-Star-in-BEAUTY-AND-THE-BEAST-at-the-Hollywood-Bowl-20180312

2) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

https://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm

3) Josh Groban and Idina Menzel Announce Fall Dates

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Josh-Groban-and-Idina-Menzel-Announce-Fall-2018-Tour-Dates-20180312

4) Apple Orders Animated Musical “Central Park” with Broadway Favorites

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Apple-Orders-Animated-Musical-Comedy-Starring-Josh-Gad-Tituss-Burgess-Daveed-Diggs-More-20180312

5) “Waitress” to Celebrate Pi Day with Free Pie Jar

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/WAITRESS-Will-Celebrate-Pi-Day-With-Free-Pie-Jar-With-Purchase-On-314-20180312

6) Stitcher Premium Launches Wolverine Podcast Starring Broadway Stars

https://www.wolverinepodcast.com/