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Notes:

1. Bright Star Reviews

2. Casting

“I Am Anne Hutchinson/I am Harvey Milk”

Rebecca Eichenberger and John Easterlin join the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera on April 4th

3. Openings

“Waitress” begins previews tonight at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre

“Dear Evan Hansen” begins previews at Second Stage

Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of KING AND COUNTRY

RAIN at the Old Globe

4. Shuffle Along Schedule Update

5. John Legend will be producing his second Off-Broadway play

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Emmy and Tony winner Ken Howard Passes Away

2. Casting

New York’s Signature Theatre announced casting for “Daphne’s Dive.”

Manhattan Theatre Club announced casting for “Incognito” Off-Broadway this spring.

3. Openings

The original Broadway production of American Psycho begins performances today at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

4. Shuffle Along Schedule Changes

5. Roman Holiday musical

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Sondheim and Lloyd Webber Birthdays

2. Shuffle Along Cancels Performances

3. Openings: first Broadway performance of Florian Zeller’s play THE FATHER, DRY POWDER had it’s opening night at the Public Theatre

4. Closing: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME announced that it would close on September 4th

5. Tommy Tune signed with a new talent agency and is at work on a top-secret new musical. (via Deadline)

— This Week on Broadway for February 21, 2016: Tommy Tune

6. Broadway Backwards Raises Record Total $480,287 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City.

Edward Albee finally gets on the wall at Sardi’s by Michael Riedel

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in a movie of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard?

2. Grosses: We’re telling you now — get your tickets to Shuffle Along.

3. Barbara Cook: Then and Now began rehearsals today

4. FAIL: The Passion

5. Big Ten! Big Story! Big Ten Theater Improves Percentages for Women by Martha Steketee (via Clyde Fitch Report)

 

We’re sorry this podcast is so long; We didn’t have time to make a shorter one.

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Stage, TV, and film star Shawn Elliott passed away at 79.

2. Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Hamilton’

3. This Week’s Major Openings

THE EFFECT at the Barrow Street Theatre

Dry Powder at The Public Theater

4. Casting

The SpongeBob Musical announces more composers

Aladdin’s seven stars have again extended their contracts through February 19th of 2017.

5. Feature

Rap: Broadway’s New Jazz? by John McWhorter

From ‘Shuffle Along’ to ‘Hamilton,’ a look at how black music has shaped the sound of U.S. musical theatre.

Pedagogy Notebook: The Role of Latina/o Adaptations in the Teaching of Classical Theatre by Carla Della Gatta

In this installment of the Pedagogy Notebook series, professor Carla Della Gatta writes about how she integrated Latina/o artists into a critical studies class on Greek and Roman theatre.

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Matt Tamanini review She Loves Me, DISASTER!, The Robber Bridegroom, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s production of Ironbound, Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Hold On To Me Darling, and Third Rail Projects’s production of The Grand Paradise. In Television & Film: HBO: All The Way, Pilots. Podcasts: Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Hamilton’

Leslie Kritzer and company in The Robber BridegroomPhoto by Joan Marcus

 

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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, Kritzerland, 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, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review 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 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:

PF: She Loves Me @ Studio 54,

MP + JM: DISASTER! A 1970’s Disaster Movie Musical @ Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st Street, through July 03, 2016

PF + MP + JM: Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Robber Bridegroom @ The Laura Pels Theatre, 111 West 46th Street, through May 29, 2016

— Leslie Kritzer, IBDB

Flashback: This Week on Broadway for March 8, 2015: Tom Kirdahy, Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox

MP: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s production of Ironbound, 224 Waverly Place, through April 10, 2016

— Marin Ireland, IBDB

PF: Atlantic Theater Company’s production of Hold On To Me Darling, Linda Gross Theater, 336 West 20th Street, through April 17, 2016

MP: Third Rail Projects’s production of The Grand Paradise, 383 Troutman Street, Brooklyn, through May 29, 2016

 

News: 

Television & Film: 

HBO: All The Way

Broadway performers in TV pilots

 

Tours: 

Podcasts:

Pop Culture Happy Hour: ‘Hamilton’

NPR: the record

Being Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.) by DAOUD TYLER-AMEEN from December 21, 2015

 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

The Robber Bridegroom – Montage

The Robber Bridegroom – Steal With Style

The Robber Bridgegroom – Goodbye, Salome

 

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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook

MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review 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.

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Show Notes

Time code: Topic

 

01:30 Interview with Patricia Morison (Happy Birthday Patricia, who is 101!)

— So In Love

— Wunderbar

— Brush Up Your Shakespeare

— Finale from Kiss Me, Kate

 

21:10 Hamilton cast recording review

— Alexander Hamilton

— You’ll Be Back

— Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

 

33:06 Original London Cast recording of Sweet Charity starring Juliet Prowse

— If My Friends Could See Me Now

 

35:15 The Essential Stephen Sondheim by Masterworks Broadway

— Send in the Clowns

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“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Roundabout Theatre Company’s latest revival of Bock and Harnick’s “She Loves Me” opened to unanimously rave reviews.

2. The stage adaptation of the iconic Roald Dahl novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” will make its long-awaited Broadway debut next spring.

3. Beth Behrs from 2 Broke Girls, will make her NY stage debut in the world premiere of MCC’s production of Halley Feiffer’s comedy “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City.”

4. HBO’s production of “All the Way,” with Bryan Cranston, set a May 21st premiere date for their film adaptation of Tony-winning play.

5.

THIS IS A BETA!

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

1. Tony-winner Patina Miller and Tony-nominee Andrew Rannells will be announcing the Tony nominations on Tuesday, May 3rd at 8:30am.

2. “She Loves Me” opens tonight at Studio 54 on Broadway

At The Public, Phylicia Rashad returns to the New York stage tonight in TarellAlvin McCraney’s play “Head of Passes.”

3. San Francisco Symphony presenting Bernstein’s “On the Town.”

Kathleen McNenny will replace Liz Wisan in the role of “Woman” in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production of Florian Zeller’s “The Father” starring Frank Langella and Kathryn Erbe.

4. Hamilton Tickets

The Richard Rodgers announced that they will be capping the stand-by line at 30 people.

Ham App is now available in the iTunes App Store.

THIS IS A BETA!

“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] or [email protected]

Notes:

 

1. Rejoicify! WICKED Brings in Over $1 Billion in Broadway Box Office Sale

2. Openings

The NY Premiere of new play Ironbound opens at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre tonight. By Polish born playwright Martyna Majok and Directed by Daniella Topol, the play stars Tony-nominee with Marin Ireland and is a darkly funny, heartbreaking portrait of a Polish immigrant cleaning lady for whom love is a luxury–and a liability–as she fights to survive in America.

Cagney return engagement begins previews tonight

The musical Cagney’s Off-Broadway return engagement starts previews tonight at the Westside Theatre. The show tells the life story of James Cagney and stars Robert Creighton, who also co-wright the music and lyrics with Christopher McGovern, Peter Colley wrote the book. Bill Castellino directs and Emmy-winner and Tony-nominee Joshua Bergasse choreographs.

3. Casting

Today, composer Jeanine Tesori who is the Encores! Off-Center Artistic Director announced that they will be holding open audtions for the teen cast of the concert production of Elizabeth Swa-dos’ Runaways, which was added to the schedule after her passing earlier this year. The auditions will be open to anyone 13-18 years old and will be held this Saturday, March 19th at Talent Unlimited High School on 6th Street. For more information, visit www.NYCityCenter.org/RunawaysAuditions

Theater People podcast Episode 37: Jeanine Tesori

Garen Scribner Joins AN AMERICAN IN PARIS on Broadway Tonight

4. An audience of morons riled up Whoopi Goldberg by Elisabeth Vincentelli

A New Weapon for Battling Cellphones in Theaters: Laser Beams

5. Q: Is Broadway Outpacing Hollywood On Race And Sex? A: Absolutely Maybe by Jeremy Gerard and Jordan Roth