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

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss Turn Me Loose at the Westside Theatre, Lettice and Lovage, benefit for The Acting Company, The York Theatre Company's production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, North Shore Music Theatre's production of Funny Girl, Cherry Lane Theatre's production of Out of the Mouths of Babes, and Tony Awards Reflections.

Listen: Sorry haters, we talk a Hamil-Ton of #Hamilton news today!

Listen: #BroadwayforOrlando Recording, #SheLovesMe to Stream

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

Listen:@BrightStarBway Sets Closing, @BroadwayBares to Step Up Security

"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)

Listen: #TonyAwards Hit Ratings Highs & @JKCorden Reviews

"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)

Listen: The @TheTonyAwards pull off a great show with no surprises and lots of @HamiltonMusical wins.

“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:

70th Annual Tony Awards (2016)

— Pre: Orlando

— Hamilton / James Corden (Just you wait…)

— James Corden childhood open (That could be me)

— Les Miz spoof

— Phantom

— Lion King

— Grease

— Sweeney Todd

— Jesus Christ Superstar

— Sound of Music

— Music Man

— Barbra

— Guys & Dolls

— WSS

— Annie

— CATS

— A Chorus Line

— Evita

— Fiddler

— Dreamgirls

— 42nd Street / We’re in the Money

— (kids)

— nominees

8:14: Jake Gillenhal – Actress Featured Play – Jane Houdyshell – The Humans

8:17: ALW – Intro School of Rock –

8:23: JC – Ham4Ham | L-MM/ALW/Steve Martin/Edie Brickell/Sara Bareilles

— commercial break —

8:28: H4H – Shuffle Along, Sit down you’re rockin the boat

8:29: Aaron Tveit / ??? Featured – Actress – Musical – Renée Elise Goldsberry, Hamilton (8:32)

8:32: Shuffle Along –

8:37: H4H: School of Rock — Phantom

— commercial break —

8:42: Costume Design (summary)

8:43: Patina Miller/Daniel Day Kim: Featured – Actor – Musical – Daveed Diggs, Hamilton (Broadway Debut)

8:45: Daveed Diggs, Hamilton 8:46

8:46: JC – Cheap Seats. Carole King Best Score – Hamilton

Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda

8:48: Lin-Manuel Miranda / Score – Sonet, no freestyling, too old 8:49

8:49: Meg Ryan (!) She Loves Me (tempos really fast!)

8:55: H4H: Fiddler – Annie Get Your Gun – No business like show business

— commercial break —

8:59: H4H: She Loves Me – Cabaret, Laura Benanti in PJ’s

9:00: Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Lucy Liu – Direction of a Play – Ivo Van Hove, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge

9:01: Ivo Van Hove 9:02

9:02: Direction of a Musical – Thomas Kail, Hamilton

9:04: Thomas Kail, Hamilton

9:06: JC – Josh Groban, Fiddler from High School. Los Angeles County High School of the Arts (got danny’s last name wrong)

9:08: Fiddler presentation

9:12: H4H Bright Star / Damn Yankees

— commercial break —

9:17: Scenic Design

9:17: JC Grant Thornton / Accounting firm?

9:18: Andrew Rannels and Saoirse Ronan (WEIRD VOICE) – Featured – Actor – Play – Reed Birney, The Humans

9:19: Reed Birney, The Humans, actor for 42 years, last 8 great.

9:22: Bright Star / Steve Martin, Edie Brickell (Work hard, or already be famous)

9:26: H4H Color Purple – Lion King – Circle of Life

— commercial break —

9:32: Lighting Design (summary)

9:33: Claire Danes / Billy Porter / et al / Law & Order Segment

9:34: Oprah – The Color Purple

9:40: James Earl Jones / Angela Landsbury – 7 Decades with The Wing. Scholarships. $1.3 million from ALW.

9:42: Nathan Lane – Leading Actress in a Play (Trump joke) – Jessica Lange, Long Day’s Journey Into Night

9:44: Jessica Lange, Long Day’s Journey Into Night

9:46: Emilio Estefan – On Your Feet

9:49: H4H Spring Awakening – Hair

— commercial break —

9:53: JC/LMM in Carpool Karaoke (Why are they showing this?)

9:59: Kate Blanchette – Leading Actor Play – Frank Langella, The Father

10:01: Frank Langella, The Father (Astrologer, late in career: 30, losing his now, losing his reality, his brother andrew going through this, Orlando, when something bad happens, we habe three choices, we let it define us, we let it destroy us, we let it strengthen us.)

10:03: Marlee Matl[...]

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss West Side Story @ Paper Mill Playhouse, Signature Plays (Edward Albee's The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornes' Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro), Michael Feinstein @ The Appel Room, Sin Twisters Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller @ Metropolitan Room, The Taming of the Shrew @ The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Incognito, Turn Me Loose (A play about comic genius Dick Gregory), and Cal in Camo @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. We also discuss the Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction of a Play, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Choreography, and Best Orchestrations Tony Award nominations.

Listen: #NathanLane to Lead #AngelsInAmerica, Inside #Hamilton 360 Vid

“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 Front Page” Fills Out its News Room

2. Nathan Lane Joins National Theatre’s “Angels in America”

3. MTC to Premiere Penelope Skinner’s “Linda”

4. The Long Awaited Return of the HamilSection

— Hamilton’s new five month block of tickets that the show opened for American Express pre-purchase is nearly completely gone, and only the newly premium seats remained at the new, record-obliterating price of $849. 

— Hamilton West End Theatre and Dates Announced

— Chicago Sit-Down Tickets on Sale June 21st

— Toronto to Get in on the Sit-Down Action Too

5. Lin-Manuel Miranda and FreeStyle Love Supreme Coming to Seeso

6. Theatre Stars Join PBS’s “A Capitol Fourth”

7. “She Loves Me’s” Zachary Levi to Host 2016 Jimmy Awards

8. Recommendations: “Hamilton” Cast Rehearse in 360 Degrees

Andrew Asnes (Twitter), president at Round Hill Entertainment, produced the Hamilton 360 Video for CBS and joins us to give the background of how he was in the room where it happened.