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Listen: Pasek & Paul to Whistle While they Work, “Indecent” Finds a Home, & Debbie Gibson Apologizes.

“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) Pasek and Paul to Work on Live-Action “Snow White”

2) “Indecent” Gets an Opening Night and a Home

3) Ben Brantley Weighs in on “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”

4) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

5) Debbie Gibson Walks Back Broadway “Performance Enhancing Drugs” Comments

6) Special Interview with Rachel Eskenazi-Gold

Listen: “The Color Purple” Announces Closing, “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” Opens, Ars Nova Gets Litigious, & Actors Want #FairWageOnstage!

“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 Color Purple” Made a Big Announcement on Sunday Night

2) “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” Opened on Broadway Last Night, What Did the Critics Have to Say?

3) Ars Nova Votes to File Law Suit Against “Great Comet” Producers

4) This Week’s Theatre Schedule

Wednesday, 11/2:

“Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway” Opens on Broadway

“Sweet Charity” Begins Performances at the New Group Off-Broadway

Thursday, 11/3: “Sweat” Opens at the Public Theatre Off-Broadway

Sunday, 11/6: “Finian’s Rainbow” Opens at the Irish Rep Theatre Off-Broadway 

5) Actors Post Videos for #FairWageOnstage

Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Jennifer Ashley Tepper about her new book  The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 3. In reviews, we discuss Sunday in the Park with George, A Life, Encompass Opera Salutes Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens, Kelli O’Hara at Carnegie Hall, Rocky Horror on Fox, the Hamilton Doc, Tick, Tick… BOOM!, and Plenty.

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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, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim 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 TAMANINI 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.

Jena Tesse Fox | Twitter

Jena is a theater writer and reviewer whose articles have appeared online at TimeOutNewYork.com, Playbill.com, BroadwayWorld.com and NewYorkTheaterGuide.com. She has interviewed Jennifer Ashley Tepper four times, and the fifth interview will be on HowlRound.com early next year.

 

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest: Jennifer Ashley Tepper

 

 

Reviews: 

MP: Things That Made Michael Cry:

— Sunday in the Park with George @ City Center Encores

— A Life, starring David Hyde Pierce @ Playwrights Horizons

— Encompass Opera Salutes Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens

— Kelli O’Hara

 

JF:

— Rocky Horror on Fox

— Hamilton Doc

— Tick, Tick… BOOM!

— Plenty

 

Discussion: 

Television, Film and Streaming: 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

BroadwayRadio Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666

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We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact [email protected].

Listen: JLo to Play “Spanish Rose” in “Bye Bye Birdie: Live!” on NBC in 2017, and “Falsettos” Revival Earns Raves!

“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) NBC Teams with JLo for “Bye Bye Birdie Live” in 2017

2) Critics have their Say as “Falsettos” Opens on Broadway

3) Mel Brooks to Bring “Pared Down” “Young Frankenstein” to England

4) “Great Comet” Saga Rages On

5) Marsha Norman Departs “King Kong” Creative Team

6) Show and Casting News

–Kara Lindsay to Return to “Wicked” Next Week

–Full Cast Announced for Second Stage Revival of “Man from Nebraska”

–Lucas Hedges to Lead “Yen” at MCC

6) Grand Ole Opry Coming to Times Square

Listen: Broadway’s About to Get “Indecent,” “Tick, Tick…Boom!” Extends, and Patti LuPone Heads to “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.”

“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) “Indecent” Will Open on Broadway This Spring

2) Show and Casting News

Lilli Cooper Will Join Extended “Tick, Tick… Boom!”

Rosie O’Donnell to Lead One-Night Only “Love, Loss, and What I Wore”

Paul Alexander Nolan Heads to “Chicago” Next Week

3) Multimedia Theatre News

Patti LuPone to Guest Star on “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

“Hamilton’s America” Drew 3.6 Million Viewers on PBS Over the Weekend

“Jeopardy” Airs “From Screen to Stage” Category

“Falsettos” Revival to Get Show’s First Full-Fledged Recording

WFMT Radio to Broadcast Glimmerglass “Sweeney Todd” this Weekend

–WFMT website

Lopezes to Debut New Song on this Weekend’s “This American Life”

–“This American Life” website

4) American Theatre Publishes Hal Prince Speech Transcript

Listen: Norma’s Back Again on Broadway, Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Sunday in the Park” has Brantley Giddy, & More!

“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)

BroadwayRadio on Twitter | Facebook

Notes:

1) It’s Official: “Sunset Boulevard” is Coming Back to Broadway

2) “Sunday in the Park with George” Earns Rave Reviews at New York City Center

3) Laura Osnes and Will Swenson to Lead Frank Loesser Lost Musicals, “Blueprint Specials”

4) “Roman Holiday” Musical Finds a Direct for San Francisco Tryout

5) “She Loves Me” to Hit Movie Theatres in December

6) Harvard Economics Professor Pays $2,500 for “Hamilton” Tickets and Like It

Listen: Broadway Faves Join Site-Specific “Sweeney Todd” and “Frozen” Starts a Month Long Lab!

“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) Last Week’s Broadway Grosses

2) Show and Casting News

Broadway Favorites Join Site-Specific “Sweeney Todd”

“Frozen” Starts Month-Long Lab with New Director

3) Oxford University Press to Credit Christopher Marlowe as Shakespeare’s Co-Author

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Oh, Hello, The Cherry Orchard, Mamma’s Boy @ George Street Playhouse, Heisenberg, Sell/Buy/Date, The Broadway Prince Party @ 54 Below, and Funny Face @ Musicals Tonight

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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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If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below.

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, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim 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 TAMANINI 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: 

MP+PF+JM: Oh, Hello

MP+PF+JM: The Cherry Orchard

PF: Mamma’s Boy @ George Street Playhouse

MP: Heisenberg

PF: Sell/Buy/Date

MP: The Broadway Prince Party @ 54 Below

MP: Funny Face @ Musicals Tonight

Discussion: 

MP: Florence Henderson Picture

 

 

Television, Film and Streaming: 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

Recordings: 

Post Script:

 

Next Week: 

Jennifer Ashley Tepper

Explicit: No

Music:

 

 

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

BroadwayRadio Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666

BroadwayRadio: Twitter | Facebook

Subscribe:

iHeart Radio, iTunes, Google Play, and anywhere that you can listen to finer podcasts

Stitcher: Stitcher App

iPhone/iPod: iTunes

Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm

We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact [email protected].

Listen: Gyllenhaal Not Burning Broadway This Season, “The Front Page” Reviews, “13 Going on 30” to Get Musical Adaptation

“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) Jake Gyllenhaal Led “Burn This” Postponed

2) Critics Race to Review “The Front Page”

3) Show and Casting News

Sopie Okonedo to Join Damien Lewis in the West End’s “The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?”

“13 Going on 30” to Get Musical from Writing Team Behind “17 Again”

4) “Rocky Horror” Ratings Down Compared to “Grease Live”

5) This Week’s Theatrical Schedule

Monday: Playwright’s Horizons’ “A Life” Opens | LCT3’s “The Harvest” Opens

Tuesday: Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Vietgone” Opens 

Thursday: Falsettos Opens | Classic Stage Company’s “Dead Poet’s Society” Begins Previews

Sunday: Les Liaisons Dangereuses Opens

6) Matt’s “Hamilton’s America” Review

Matt’s Interview with “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s” Donna Lynne Champlin

Listen: “Bandstand” and Donna Murphy are Coming to Broadway & Matt Reviews Fox’s “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

“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)

BroadwayRadio on Twitter | Facebook

Notes:

1) “Bandstand” Finally Coming to Broadway this Spring

2) “Hello, Donna!” Donna Murphy Named Bette Midler’s “Hello, Dolly!” Alternate

3) Matt’s “Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Fox Review

4) Show and Casting News

Alistair Brammer Will Join his West End Castmates in “Miss Saigon” on Broadway

Boyd Gaines Joins Kate Burton in “The Dead, 1904” at Irish Rep

Charity Angel Dawson to Take Over as Becky in “Waitress”

MTC Extends Sarah Jones’ “Sell/Buy/Date”

5) Curbed Looks at the Palace’s Haunted History

6) “Hamilton’s America” to Be Streamed Tonight