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Listen: The Casting Union Debate Intensifies, Alice Cooper Joins NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar: Live,” and Natalie has 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:

Eva Noblezada on “This Week on Broadway”

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2017/12/10/this-week-on-broadway-for-december-10-2017-eva-noblezada/

Stagecraft: Sarah Gancher “Hundred Days”

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2017/12/09/stagecraft-sarah-gancher-hundred-days/

Spotlight with “The Mad Ones” Writers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2017/12/09/spotlight-kait-kerrigan-and-brian-lowdermilk-the-mad-ones/

1) Casting Union Debate Intensifies

Leaders of 39 Unions Demand Fair Treatment for Casting Directors

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Leaders-of-39-Unions-Demand-Fairness-for-Broadway-Casting-Directors-20171208

Casting Director Fired from Reading to because of Union Support

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/casting-director-booted-norma-rae-musical-union-push-article-1.3688858

2) Show and Casting News

Alice Cooper Cast in NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar: Live”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Rock-N-Roll-Icon-Alice-Cooper-Joins-NBCs-JESUS-CHRIST-SUPERSTAR-LIVE-as-King-Herod-20171208#

Faith Prince to Lead “Cake” at La Jolla Playhouse

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Faith-Prince-and-More-to-Star-in-THE-CAKE-at-La-Jolla-Playhouse-Cast-Creatives-Set-20171208

“Submissions Only” and “Turning the Tables” Unite for BroadwayCon Panel

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Web-Series-Unite-at-BroadwayCon-2018-20171208

3) This Week’s Theatrical Schedule with Natalie Noack

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Eva Noblezada. We review Once On This Island, SpongeBob SquarePants, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? by Terrence McNally, The Parisian Woman, and Meteor Shower.

 

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.

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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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Reviews: Eva Noblezada

Eva is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut! She is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. Eva was spotted by New York casting director, Tara Rubin, during a performance at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (also known as the Jimmy Awards) at the Minskoff Theatre in 2013. Rubin was so moved by Eva’s talent that she set up an audition with Cameron Mackintosh, who was preparing his 2014 London revival of Miss Saigon. Several callbacks later with Mackintosh and the creative team, Eva was chosen to star as Kim, making her professional and West End debut in the show. She garnered unanimous critical acclaim for her performance and received the Whatsonstage Award for Best Actress in A Musical. Eva recently finished playing the role of Eponine in Boublil and Schönberg’s Les Misérables at London’s Queen’s Theatre. Eva is grateful and super excited to be fulfilling a dream of opening a Broadway show! She would like to thank her loving and supportive family in the States and her wonderful lifelong friends that she has made in the UK. Twitter: @EvaNoblezada

https://www.saigonbroadway.com/

Final Broadway Performance January 14th

 

Eva Noblezada – Tony Nominee

Miss Saigon US

Eva Noblezada

Girl No More

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 7:30PM

The Green Room 42

570 Tenth Ave

4th Floor inside YOTEL

New York, NY 10036

42nd Street & Tenth Avenue

 

Reviews: 

PF + MP + JM: Once On This Island @ Circle in the Square Theatre 235 West 50th Street

— BroadwayRecords 100th Recording: Once On This Island (New Broadway Cast Recording)

MP + JM: SpongeBob SquarePants @ Palace Theatre, 47th & Broadway

PF: Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? by Terrence McNally @ The Workshop Theater, 312 West 36th Street

MP + JM: The Parisian Woman @ Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street, through March 11, 2018

PF: Meteor Shower @ Booth Theatre, 222 West 45th Street

 

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Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording (London, 2014)

1-13 Last Night Of The World

1-15 I Still Believe

1-20 I’d Give My Life For You

 

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The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox.

Guest: Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk

Kait Kerrigan (words) and Brian Lowdermilk (music) made their off-Broadway debut in 2006 with their adaptation of Henry and Mudge, still touring nationally. In 2011, they released their first album, Our First Mistake, which charted at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. Their second album, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live, documents a concert tour that resulted from their breakout $35K kickstarter campaign and released in spring 2013. Their sheet music is available digitally at NewMusicalTheatre.com and MusicNotes, and a print songbook, published by Hal Leonard, is available on Amazon. Their other musicals include The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Tales from the Bad Years, The Woman Upstairs, Wrong Number, The Freshman Experiment, Republic, Unbound, and Flash of Time. Their songs have been recorded and performed internationally and their musicals have been produced and developed at the Aurora Theatre, the Kimmel Center, Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, La Jolla Playhouse, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, ASCAP/Disney Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, York Theatre, the Lark, CAP21, and Primary Stages. Together, they received the 2006 Larson Award and 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and they have held residencies at the Orchard Project, Running Deer Lab, the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, and the MacDowell Arts Colony.

Kerrigan received the 2009 Kleban Award for libretto-writing. As a playwright, she has written Disaster Relief (developed by Page 73), Imaginary Love (Midtown Direct Rep workshop), and Transit (Chautaqua Theater Company workshop, Lark Playwrights Week 2010) and she was a 2013 member of Interstate 73. She teaches libretto writing at Primary Stages.

Lowdermilk composed music for The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog (with playwright Lauren Gunderson at the Kennedy Center 2011) and Red (with librettist Marcus Stevens), which received the Alan Menken Award and 2005 Richard Rodgers Award. He was the writer-in-residence at Temple Shalom, during which he scored a full Shabbat service.

Both are alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, co-founders of the digital sheet music company NewMusicalTheatre.com, and proud members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.

http://kerrigan-lowdermilk.com/

Prospect Theater Company presents The Mad Ones at 59e59

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

 

Music: Happiness from www.bensound.com

The Stagecraft podcast is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of interviews with playwrights (and musical book writers) of shows opening on Broadway and off-Broadway.

Guest: Sarah Gancher

Sarah Gancher is a playwright who loves epic stories, big ideas, and deep comedy. Her most frequent subject is how history is reflected in individual lives—how places, communities, and debates evolve over time. Her plays have been produced or developed at London’s National Theatre, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, Budapest’s Quarter6Quarter7 Festival, The Public, New York Theater Workshop, The Atlantic, Steppenwolf, New York Stage and Film, Ars Nova, Women’s Project, The Flea, LaMama, P73, PS122, NYC SummerStage, Seattle Rep, Hartford Stage, RoundHouse, Mosaic (DC), the Great Plains Theater Conference, and Telluride Theatre, among others. She has been a Time Warner Fellow at the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, a member of P73’s writer’s group Interstate 73, a Writing Fellow with The Playwrights’ Realm, and a member of the Ars Nova Play Group.

Sarah is the winner of the New York Stage and Film Founder’s Award, the AR Gurney Prize, the Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission, and residencies from the Hermitage, Jewish Plays Project, Tofte Lakes, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. She has been a playwright-in-residence at Budapest’s Quarter6Quarter7 Festival, which presented Hungarian language staged readings of three plays from her 7th cycle (Seder, Klauzál Square, and Five Mothers.)

She frequently collaborates with devising ensembles such as Colorado’s Telluride Theatre, Hand2Mouth from Portland, Oregon, NYC’s The TEAM, and Blue Man Group. She was the collaborating playwright on Mission Drift, a musical about capitalism and the myth of the frontier written with director Rachel Chavkin, composer Heather Christian, and The TEAM (Coimbra, Lisbon, Salzburg, Edinburgh Fringe, PS 122 COIL Festival, Perth, Hong Kong, and London’s National Theatre; winner of Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Award, Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel, Guardian Best of 2011, nom, Drama League for Distinguished Production of a Musical.) She also has an ongoing collaboration with rock band The Bengsons, writing two musicals with them: The Lucky Ones, a commission for Ars Nova, and Hundred Days, which had its New York premiere at the 2017 Under the Radar festival at the Public.

She has worked behind the scenes at The Colbert Report, The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Big Apple Circus, and Norway’s Stellapolaris, among others. As a jazz violinist, Sarah has played in groups from New Orleans to Budapest. A proud Oakland native, she currently lives in Queens. MFA: NYU.

http://www.sarahgancher.org/

New York Theatre Workshop: Hundred Days

 

Host: Jan Simpson | [email protected] | Facebook | Twitter

Broadway & Me

JAN SIMPSON is the Director of the Arts and Culture Journalism program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, and also writes for TDF Stages, American Theater and has her own blog at Broadway & Me.

Listen: “Travesties” Announces Full Broadway Cast, Casting Changes in the “Aladdin” Family, and a New A. Ham Preps for Broadway

“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) Roundabout Announces Cast for Broadway Revival of “Travesties”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.php?colid=1763413&preview=on

2) Show and Casting News

“Aladdin” Stars to Reunite in Los Angeles

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Adam-Jacobs-Courtney-Reed-and-Michael-James-Scott-Will-Reunite-for-Arabian-Nights-in-ALADDIN-in-Los-Angeles-20171207

Another Jacobs Set to Return to “Aladdin”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Adam-Jacobs-Courtney-Reed-and-Michael-James-Scott-Will-Reunite-for-Arabian-Nights-in-ALADDIN-in-Los-Angeles-20171207

Michael Luwoye to Return to Broadway’s “Hamilton”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Michael-Luwoye-to-Take-His-Shot-in-HAMILTONs-Title-Role-on-Broadway-20171207

“Vampire Diaries” Star Joins Robert Fairchild in “Frankenstein” Off-Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VAMPIRE-DIAIRIES-Star-Paul-Wesley-Joins-Robert-Fairchild-in-FRANKENSTEIN-Off-Broadway-Cast-Complete-20171207

Anna Deavere Smith’s “Notes from the Field” to Debut on HBO in 2018

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/HBO-Presents-Adaptation-of-Anna-Deaveres-NOTES-FROM-THE-FIELD-224-20171207

3) Recommendations

Jeffrey Seller and Hal Luftig Talk Ticketing Issues on “Freakonomics”

http://www.wnyc.org/story/why-live-event-ticket-market-so-screwed/

4) Kaitlin’s “Off the Stage”

Listen: “Hamilton” Begins Performances in London, Equity Inks New Deal with BroadwayCon, and the Latest 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:

“Hamilton” Begins Performance in London’s West End

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Non-Stop-HAMILTON-Brings-the-Revolution-to-London-20171206

1) Actors’ Equity Reaches Three-Year Deal with BroadwayCon

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Actors-Equity-Reaches-New-Agreement-with-Organizers-of-BroadwayCon-20171206

2) A Service Dog Chased the Cast of “Cats”

https://pagesix.com/2017/12/05/service-dog-causes-chaos-at-cats-performance/

3) The New York Times Releases its Best Theatre of 2017 List

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/theater/best-theater.html

NYT Also Unveils Best (Mostly) TV and Film Performances

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/arts/best-film-tv-performances.html

4) Daniella’s Theatre Throwback

Listen: Casting Agencies Respond to Broadway’s League’s Lawsuit, Gypsy of the Year’s Record Total, and Sam Shepard’s Final Work Released

“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:

“Farinelli and the King” Begins Previews on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Cast-Complete-for-Mark-Rylance-Led-FARINELLI-AND-THE-KING-on-Broadway-20171204

Part One of “A Broadwaysted Carol Channing” Debuts

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-Broadwaysted-Podcast-Announces-Star-Studded-CHRISTMAS-CAROL-Radio-Play-Benefiting-BCEFA-20171204

1) Casting Agencies Fire Back at Broadway League

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Casting-Agencies-Fire-Back-at-Broadway-League-Lawsuit-Fake-Facts-Bullies-Files-Lawsuits-20171205

2) Gypsy of the Year Raises a Record-Breaking Total

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Just-In-GYPSY-OF-THE-YEAR-Raises-5609211-for-Broadway-CaresEquity-Fights-AIDS-20171205

3) Show and Casting News

Jayne Houdyshell to Lead MCC’s “Relevance” World Premiere

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jayne-Houdyshell-to-Star-in-JC-Lees-RELEVANCE-at-MCC-Theater-20171205#

Jimmy Buffett to Help Open “Escape to Margaritaville” Box Office

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/ESCAPE-TO-MARGARITAVILLE-Box-Office-Opening-Sales-Going-to-Hurricane-Relief-Jimmy-Buffett-to-Appear-20171205

Kids’ Night on Broadway Announce Participating Shows

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Take-Your-Tots-to-the-Theatre-Tickets-on-Sale-for-KIDS-NIGHT-ON-BROADWAY-2018-20171205

The Keenan-Bolgers to Star in Marvel’s First Podcast

http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/wolverine-podcast-the-long-night-marvel-richard-armitage-ben-percy/

4) Sam Shepard’s Final Work Provides Insight into his Final Months

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/arts/sam-shepard-novel.html

Listen: “SpongeBob” Opens to Great Reviews, Stars to Lead “Straight White Men,” and an all #Ham4Ham LA Performance!

“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) The Reviews are in or “SpongeBob SquarePants” on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-Critics-Visit-Bikini-Bottom-for-SPONGEBOB-SQUAREPANTS-ON-BROADWAY-20171204#

2) Show and Casting News

Stars Announced for “Straight White Men” on Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Armie-Hammer-and-Tom-Skerritt-Will-Lead-STRAIGHT-WHITE-MEN-on-Broadway-20171204

Mr. October Joins “Damn Yankees” Concert

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Former-New-York-Yankee-Reggie-Jackson-Joins-DAMN-YANKEES-Benefit-Concert-Full-Company-Announced-20171204

“Chicago” Finds a Real Housewife Star

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Atlanta-Real-Housewife-Kandi-Burruss-to-Make-Broadway-Debut-in-CHICAGO-20171204

Jay Armstrong Johnson to Complete Run of “The Mad Ones”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jay-Armstrong-Johnson-to-Finish-Run-of-THE-MAD-ONES-Off-Broadway-20171204

“Hamilton” to Offer an all #Ham4Ham Performance in Los Angeles

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/HAMILTON-Offering-All-Ham4Ham-Lottery-Performance-in-Los-Angeles-20171204

3) The Broadway League Files Suit Against Casting Agencies

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Broadway-League-Files-Legal-Complaint-Against-Multiple-Casting-Agencies-Over-Health-Insurance-Battle-20171205

4) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

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

5) Recommendations

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Musical Appearance on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Performs-in-Fatwa-The-Musical-on-CURB-YOUR-ENTHUSIASM-20171204#5

PBS Releases Trailer for Lorraine Hansberry Documentary

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-First-Look-PBS-Presents-Documentary-on-A-RAISIN-IN-THE-SUN-Playwright-Lorraine-Hansberry-20171204

In the Recording Studio with the Stars of “Sunday in the Park”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-SUNDAY-IN-THE-PARK-WITH-GEORGEs-Jake-Gyllenhaal-and-Annaleigh-Ashford-Finish-the-Hat-in-the-Recording-Studio-20171204

The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox.

Guest: Jennifer Ashley Tepper

Jennifer Ashley Tepper is a theatre historian and producer who is currently the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein’s/54 Below. She is also the author of “The Untold Stories of Broadway” book series and the creator of the “If It Only Even Runs A Minute” concert series.

JenniferAshleyTepper.com

Feinstein’s/54 Below

The Parisian Woman

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 has been contributing to the Broadway Radio podcast for the last year.

 

Music: Happiness from www.bensound.com

Listen: The Raves are in for “Once on this Island,” is “Titanic” Sailing Back to Broadway? and a Preview of the New “Spotlight”!

“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:

“This Week on Broadway” Chats Paper Mill’s “Annie,” “Junk,” “Who’s Holiday,” “The Parisian Woman,” and More.

https://broadwayradio.com/blog/2017/12/03/this-week-on-broadway-for-december-3-2017-annie-at-paper-mill/

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Vanessa Nadal are Expecting their Second Child

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Confirms-He-and-His-Wife-Are-Expecting-Second-Child-20171203

1) Critics Weigh in on “Once on this Island” Broadway Revival

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-ONCE-ON-THIS-ISLAND-Begins-its-Quest-on-Broadway-Updating-Live-20171203

2) Show and Casting News

Is “Titanic” Coming Back to Broadway?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/South-Koreas-OD-Company-Sets-Course-for-Broadway-with-TITANIC-Revival-20171201

Transport Group Announces Starry “Man of La Mancha”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/John-Cariani-Jason-Danieley-Santino-Fontana-Marc-Kudisch-Julia-Murney-Bryce-Pinkham-and-More-to-Battle-Windmills-in-Transport-Groups-MAN-OF-LA-MANCHA-20171201

“Hot Mess” to Close Off-Broadway

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Romantic-Comedy-HOT-MESS-Sets-December-Closing-Off-Broadway-20171201

3) Saoirse Ronan Sings on “Saturday Night Live”

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-SNL-Parodies-Liza-with-a-Z-in-Saoirse-Ronan-Opening-Monologue-20171203

4) This Week’s Theatrical Schedule with Natalie Noack

5) Jena Tessa Fox’s “Spotlight” with Jennifer Ashley Tepper