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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. We look back at our favorite things of 2017.

 

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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, 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.

 

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Review: 

MP: Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein @ Signature Center, Irene Diamond Stage, 480 West 42nd Street, through January 6, 2018

— Peter and Michael review The Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s production of Van Gogh’s Ear

 

Discussion: This Year’s Favorites 

Peter (musical):

Jason Graae in Move It And It’s Yours @ The York

Samantha Massell in Rags at Goodspeed

Quinn Mattfeld in Blueprint Specials on the Intrepid, a Frank Loesser Revue

— Under the Radar Festival by The Public

Lindsay Mendez in The Golden Apple

Marie-Pierre de Brienne in THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ @ The York

Ray Roderick director of The Apple Tree at Musicals Tonight

Desperate Measures @ The York

The Band’s Visit at the Atlantic Theater

Brigadoon @ City Center, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Christopher Wheeldon (An American in Paris)

 

Michael (musical):

Desperate Measures @ The York

Brigadoon @ City Center

Titanic @ Signature (DC)

Titanic @ Wagner College

Nine @ Wagner College

Anything Can Happen In The Theater – The Songs of Maury Yeston, Directed by Gerard Alessandrini

The Band’s Visit

Sweeney Todd @ Barrow Street Theatre

The Lightning Thief

Once On This Island

The Golden Apple @ Encores

West Side Story 60th Anniversary Celebration | Feinstein’s/54 Below

 

Peter (plays):

Farinelli and the King

Daniel’s Husband @ Primary Stages

Denise Gough in People, Places & Things @ St. Ann’s Warehouse

Raphael Nash Thompson in Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks at Signature Theatre

Danny DeVito in ‘Arthur Miller’s The Price’

Noah Robbins “Master Harold” … and the boys

David Greenspan in Strange Interlude @ Transport Group

OF HUMAN BONDAGE | Soulpepper

Lesli Margherita in Who’s Holiday

The Play That Goes Wrong with ALEX MANDELL and PRESTON BOYD

Drew Droege in Bright Colors and Bold Patterns

Ping Pong Is Center Stage in John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen’s “ChipandGus” at FringeNYC

Set Design: Eugene Lee, Napoli Brooklyn

Jonathan Fensom (Designer) Farinelli and the King costumes

LORENZO SAVOINI, Set and Lighting Designer, OF HUMAN BONDAGE | Soulpepper

Projection Design by David Bengali in Van Gogh’s Ear

Meet Arthur, the Robot You Want in an Apocalypse: Review of ‘After the Blast’

Klea Blackhurst: 54 Sings Kander & Ebb’s Woman of the Year, No Way To Treat A Lady!

 

Michael (plays)

August Wilson’s Jitney on Broadway

Oslo

Paula Vogel’s Indecent

Indecent on PBS

Signature Theatre – Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train

Billy Crudup stars in HA[...]

Daniella Parcell is back for a very public transit focused Theatre Throwback for December 28, 2017.

Hello Pop Culture Celebrants! On this episode of “Some Like It Pop,” BroadwayWorld’s pop culture podcast, Jenn grills Matt on his first experience seeing “Hamilton,” as well as the rest of his recent New York trip. They argue over recent superhero movies, and wrap up the year with a handful of pop culture items that they are grateful for.

Topics Discussed:

Intro: 00:00:03

“Hamilton” and Other Tales of Matt’s New York Trip: 00:02:28

“Thor: Ragnarok” vs” Justice League: 00:33:36

Other Fall TV and Movies We’ve Seen: 00:52:08

Pop Culture Things We’re Grateful for this Holiday Season: 01:00:17

Outro: 01:17:42

For more information about this episode and the shows and topics discussed, check out the “Some Like It Pop” page on BroadwayWorld. We are also available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play, so, subscribe, download, and share “Some Like it Pop”! If you want to join the conversation, reach out on Twitter @SLIPpodcast. Also, Jenn is @EponineQ and Matt is @BWWMatt.

In this episode of BroadwayRadio’s “#BroadwayAMA,” host Kaitlin Milligan talks with Drew Droege, the writer and star of the Off-Broadway hit “Bright Colors and Bold Patterns.”

​In the show, Josh and Brennan are about to get married in Palm Springs on a lovely Saturday afternoon. However, the night before becomes a drunken, drug-fueled riot, because their friend Gerry has arrived, furious that their invitation says “Please refrain from wearing bright colors or bold patterns.” In the struggle for equality, what do we really want? What do we lose?

And is there any cocaine left?

Drew Droege is best known for his online parody videos of downtown indie “it girl” darling Chloë Sevigny, featured in Entertainment Weekly, The Advocate, Huffington Post, Time Out New York, and M.R. Jacobs’ 2016 Spring campaign. He can be seen on Paramount Network’s TV reboot of “Heathers” in early 2018. Other TV credits include Logo’s “Cocktails & Classics,” “Transparent,” “Big Mouth,” “Life In Pieces,” “Nobodies,” “IdiotSitter,” “Bajillion Dollar Properties,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Drunk History,” “2 Broke Girls,” “Comedy Bang! Bang!,” “House Of Lies,” “Kroll Show,” “Key & Peele,” “New Girl,” “Happy Endings,” and “How I Met Your Mother.” He’s appeared in the films Ideal Home, The 4th, The Circle, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, You’re Killing Me, and Eating Out: Drama Camp. He is an alum of The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade theaters in Los Angeles, where he performs regularly. Earlier this year, he starred in Charles Busch’s Ovation-recommended Die Mommie Die! at Celebration Theatre in LA, and recent stage credits include Julie Brown’s The Homecoming Queen’s Got A Musical, The Golden Girlz, and musical parodies of Troop Beverly Hills and The Devil Wears Prada. He’s an Outfest Award winner, one of Out Magazine’s “Out 100,” and host of the podcast “Drew Droege’s Minor Revelations” on Feral Audio. This year he won an Indie Series Award as Best Guest Actor for “#ADULTING.”

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Hundred Days @ NYTW, Cruel Intentions @ (Le) Poisson Rouge, After the Fair @ Urban Stages, A Tribute to Barbara Cook @ Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, Farinelli and the King, Andrew Rannells @ Lincoln Center’s Appel Room, Jason Bishop: Believe In Magic @ The New Victory Theater‎, Desperate Measures @ York Theatre Company, Broadway: A Jewish American Legacy, Honoring Jerry Zaks @ the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Fiasco Theater’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will @ Classic Stage Company

 

This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week since March 16, 2009. It is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more than 400 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews.

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, 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. 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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Reviews: 

PF: Hundred Days @ NYTW, 83 East 4th Street, through December 31, 2017

PF: Cruel Intentions – The 90’s Musical Experience @ (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, through February 19, 2018

PF: The 20th Anniversary Concert of After the Fair, Thursday, December 21, 2017 @ Urban Stages

Stephen Cole and Matthew Martin Ward’s award winning Off Broadway and London musical is back for one-night, with Mary Jo Dugaw, School of Rock’s Jenn Gambatese, Phantom’s Tim Jerome and Joshua Hinck. With the composer at the keyboard, the author directing and the original Off- Broadway costumes designed by Bottari and Case, this romantic musical, based on a Thomas Hardy story, will sweep you away to 19th century England, where a letter can change four lives and “nothing will ever be the same.”

MP: A Tribute to Barbara Cook @ Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, Monday, December 18, 2017

— Bidding Adieu to That Wondrous Songbird Barbara Cook by STUART EMMRICH

— Norm Lewis and Tamyra Gray Joining Broadway’s Once on This Island

PF + JM: Farinelli and the King @ Belasco Theatre, 111 West 44th Street, through March 25, 2018

MP: Andrew Rannells @ Lincoln Center’s Appel Room, December 20, 2017

PF: Jason Bishop: Believe In Magic @ The New Victory Theater‎, 229 W 42nd Street, through December 30, 2017

MP: Desperate Measures @ York Theatre Company, 619 Lexington Avenue, through December 31, 2017

PF: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s 2017 Winter Gala, December 18, 2017

Broadway: A Jewish American Legacy, Honoring Jerry Zaks @ the Museum of Jewish Heritage

American Premiere of Yiddish Fiddler to Play Off-Broadway by Olivia Clement

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will stage the musical in the Museum of Jewish Heritage beginning in July 2018.

PF: Fiasco Theater’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will @ Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, through January 6, 2018

 

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Christmas Bells fro[...]

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to director Anne Kauffman about “Hundred Days,” playing off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop.

Class Notes actively covers New York’s current theater season on, off and off-off Broadway.

Listen: It’s London’s Turn to Officially Rave About “Hamilton,” Kate Shindle Responds to Shocking Miss America Report, and “Mamma Mia 2” Trailer Controversies!

“Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day.

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Notes:

Ron Fassler to Bring “Up in the Cheap Seats” to 54 Below

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Ron-Fassler-Brings-UP-IN-THE-CHEAP-SEATS-To-Feinsteins54-Below-20171219

May’s “Today on Broadway” Episode with Ron Fassler

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BroadwayRadio-Talks-to-Actor-Writer-Ron-Fassler-about-his-New-Historical-Memoir-Up-in-the-Cheap-Seats-on-Today-on-Broadway-20170529

1) London Critics Review the West End Production of “Hamilton”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-HAMILTON-Takes-The-West-End-Updating-LIVE-20171221

Lin-Manuel Miranda Releases Epic British #Ham4Ham

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Joins-the-HAMILTON-London-Cast-for-Ham4Ham-Mashup-in-Honor-of-Opening-Night-20171221

2) Equity President Kate Shindle Responds to Shocking Report about the Miss America Pageant

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Kate-Shindle-Equity-President-Former-Miss-America-Responds-to-Pageant-Scandal-20171221

3) “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” Trailer is Released

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-First-Official-Trailer-Released-for-MAMMA-MIA-HERE-WE-GO-AGAIN-20171221

And People have a lot of Concerns

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Cher-No-Meryl-What-We-Learned-From-the-MAMMA-MIA-2-Trailer-20171221

4) Noah Galvin and Laura Dreyfuss Perform for BuzzFeed

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-DEAR-EVAN-HANSENs-Noah-Galvin-Laura-Dreyfuss-Perform-Only-Us-20171221

A Look Behind the Scenes of “My Fair Lady’s” Photo Shoot

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Take-a-Look-Behind-the-Scenes-of-Lincoln-Centers-MY-FAIR-LADY-20171221 

5) Kaitlin’s “On the Stage” Segment

Alan Cumming Joins “This Week on Broadway” in February 2016

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2016/03/07/this-week-on-broadway-for-february-28-2016-alan-cumming/

Listen: More Tickets are on their Way for “Harry Potter” Fans, is Matt in the Minority on “Greatest Showman,” and Daniella’s Haunted Theatre Throwback!

“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) “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” to Release more Tickets in February

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/HARRY-POTTER-AND-THE-CURSED-CHILD-to-Release-More-Tickets-in-February-2018-20171220

2) Show and Casting News

MCC Completes Cast for “Relevance”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Pascale-Armand-Molly-Camp-and-More-Announced-for-MCCs-RELEVANCE-20171220

Wendell Pierce and Roger Robinson to Lead “Some Old Black Man” Premiere

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Wendell-Pierce-and-Roger-Robinson-to-Star-in-NYC-Premiere-of-SOME-OLD-BLACK-MAN-20171220

3) Andrew Lloyd Webber Slams Lack of Diversity in London Theatre

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-Slams-Lack-of-Diversity-in-British-Theatre-20171219

4) Critics Weigh in on “The Greatest Showman”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-Critics-Weigh-In-On-THE-GREATEST-SHOWMAN-20171220

5) “Mamma Mia 2” to Release Trailer Today

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-MAMMA-MIA-HERE-WE-GO-AGAIN-Teases-First-Trailer-Out-Tomorrow-20171220

6) Daniella’s Theatre Throwback

Listen: “Summer” Confirms Broadway Plans, “Once on this Island” Finds New Leads, John Legend is the Savior in NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and Matt’s “Greatest Showman” Review!

“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:

Class Notes: From “Who’s Holiday,” Lesli Margherita

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2017/12/19/class-notes-from-whos-holiday-lesli-margherita/

1) “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” Confirms Spring Broadway Plans

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-SUMMER-THE-DONNA-SUMMER-MUSICAL-Will-Hustle-to-Broadway-This-Spring-20171219

2) Norm Lewis and Tamyra Gray to Join “Once on this Island” Next Month

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Norm-Lewis-and-Tamyra-Gray-to-Join-the-Cast-of-ONCE-ON-THIS-ISLAND-20171219

3) John Legend will Star in NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/John-Legend-to-Star-in-Title-Role-of-NBCs-JESUS-CHRIST-SUPERSTAR-LIVE-20171219

4) Randy Elfman Says a “Three Amigos” Musical Could be Adapted for the Stage

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Randy-Newman-THREE-AMIGOS-Musical-Could-Very-Possibly-Come-to-Broadway-20171219

5) Recommendations

Anna Kendrick, Darlene Love, and The Roots Join Jimmy Fallon for a Christmas Tradition

https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/VIDEO-Anna-Kendrick-Darlene-Love-Perform-Holiday-Tune-on-Classroom-Instruments-20171219

BWW’s Katie Lynch Interviews the Cast of “The Greatest Showman”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Hear-From-the-Great-Show-People-Behind-THE-GREATEST-SHOWMAN-Hugh-Jackman-Pasek-and-Paul-Zac-Efron-and-More-20171219

6) Matt’s “The Greatest Showman” Review

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Review-Far-More-than-the-Sum-of-its-Parts-THE-GREATEST-SHOWMAN-is-a-Profound-Tale-of-Banding-Together-to-Finally-be-Seen-20171220

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to cast member Lesli Margherita about “Who’s Holiday,” playing off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre.

Class Notes actively covers New York’s current theater season on, off and off-off Broadway.