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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Resonance Ensemble’s production of Burning, the 1989 Broadway production of Starmites, Nureyev’s Eyes @ George Street Playhouse, College Colors @ Crossroads Theatre Company, ABC Television’s Madoff, and Fox’s production of Grease Live.

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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

BroadwayStars

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.

 

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Guest:

 

Reviews:

PF: Resonance Ensemble’s production of Burning @ Theatre at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street

Flashback: Starmites @ Criterion Center Stage Right, (4/27/1989 – 6/18/1989)

PF: Nureyev’s Eyes @ George Street Playhouse

PF: College Colors @ Crossroads Theatre Company

 

News: 

 

Television & Film: 

MP: ABC Television’s Madoff

Coming: Robert De Niro coming up as Madoff in The Wizard of Lies (HBO)

MP + PF: Grease Live (FOX)

 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

 

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

“You Wanna Bet” sung by Barbra Streisand

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Matt Tamanini talk about TV and Film projects related to Broadway. Gillian Pensavalle joins us to talk about Grease Live! Shows reviewed include Fiddler on the Roof, Schreiber Shorts, Tappin Through Life and The Foundry Theatre’s production of O, Earth @ 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, Kritzerland, 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, 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.

Guest:

Reviews:

 

PF: Fiddler on the Roof

MP: T. Schreiber’s, Schreiber Shorts, through February 7, 2016

PF: Tappin Through Life

I could sing all night

PF: The Foundry Theatre’s production of O, Earth @ HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, through February 20, 2016

 

 

 

News: 

Sandy Duncan goes into Finding Neverland

 

Television & Film: 

“Galavant” Season Finale

– Quick Season Review

– Chances for third season

– Broadway, Regional future?

“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

– Synopsis

– Quick Season Review

– Awards won

TCA (Television Critics Association) News

– “Hairspray Live!”

– December on NBC

– John Travolta has said he will not reprise his role as Edna

– “The Passion” musical

– Palm Sunday, March 20 on FOX

– Cast: Jencarlos Canela, Chris Daughtery, Trisha Yearwood, Tyler Perry

– “Great Performances: Hamilton”

– This fall PBS

– “Miranda Sings: Haters Back Off”

– Straight-to-Series order on Netflix

New Shows People Might Be Interested In

– “Mercy Street”

– PBS, Sunday night

– Starring Josh Radnor, Norbert Leo Butz, Donna Murphy, Gary Cole

-“Vinyl”

– Debuts Sunday 2/14 on HBO

– Starring Bobby Cannavale, Ray Romano, Max Casella, Olivia Wilde

– Produced by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese

Billions – David Costabile

David Costabile on Billions, Breaking Bad, and Breaking the Rules

Mr. Holland’s Opus – Richard Dryfus

 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Noises Off feedback on the Act 2 staging.

Happy Birthday: Kate Shindle

Getting In Ep 5: Tips for Performing Arts Applicants + Senior Updates

 

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Ute Lemper. We talk about BroadwayCon. Reviews include Our Mother’s Brief Affair, La Boheme @ Met.

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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

BroadwayStars

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.

Notes and links for the podcast.

 

Guest: Ute Lemper

 

 

Ute Lemper’s career is vast and varied, having made her mark in films, recordings and on theater and concert stages around the world. As a recording artist, her discography thus far encompasses more than 30 albums over 30 years, including 2012’s Grammy-nominated Paris Days, Berlin Nights on Steinway & Sons. She has been lauded for her interpretations of Berlin cabaret songs, the works of Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht and the Chansons of Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Leo Ferre, Jacques Prevert and Nino Rota, among many others—not to mention her own compositions. She has recorded the music of Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Philip Glass and Nick Cave, and was named Billboard’s Crossover Artist of the Year for 1993–1994.

THE 9 SECRETS TRACK LIST

After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the answers to questions about life and humanity is unearthed. / Simple questions about our lives torn between happiness and sorrow and defined by hope, intelligence and desire to love as much as the capacity to hate and destroy…

This is not about the absolute truth of life or death. Despite all futile arguments it will stay a mystery. / But it is about knowledge that helps us live and confront the challenges of day to day life. / A simple knowledge of the heart.

1. Beauty

2. Love

3. Movimento

4. The Story of Accra*

5. Solitude

6. Sex

7. Success

8. The Word and the Virtue

9. Fire

10. Change

11. Paulo’s Story*

12. A Thought

*featuring Paulo Coelho

www.utelemper.com

facebook.com/UteLemperOfficialPage

youtube.com/utelempersmusic

IMDB

IBDB

Paulo Coelho

 

Reviews:

PF + JM: BroadwayCon

JM + PF + MP: Our Mother’s Brief Affair

MP: La Boheme @ Met

MP: Japanese Ambassador’s home Trip of Love @ Stage 42

 

News: 

Hello Dolly with Bette Midler

 

Television & Film: 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Ken Billington on Ken Davenport’s podcast

 

Next Week: 

PF: Atlantic Theatre Company Skeleton Crew

PF: Irish Rep Burial of Theives

 

Explicit: No

Music:

Chicago, Original London Cast Recording

02 All That Jazz

12 My Own Best Friend

 

THE 9 SECRETS

01 Beauty

 

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666

Broadw[...]

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Billy Porter. We re-review Spring Awakening, Something Rotten, and The King and I. New reviews include Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life and Noises Off. We are getting ready for BroadwayCon!

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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

BroadwayStars

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.

 

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest: Billy Porter

BILLY PORTER Broadway: Kinky Boots (Tony Award), Miss Saigon, Five Guys…, Grease, Smokey Joe’s…, Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway/regional: Angels in America, The Merchant of Venice, Radiant Baby, Birdie Blue, Songs for a New World, Ghetto Superstar (one-man show), Topdog/Underdog, King Lear, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler. Film/TV: The Broken Hearts Club, Noel, “Shake, Rattle and Roll,” “Law & Order,” “The Big C.” Recording: Untitled, At the Corner of Broadway & Soul.

“INSPIRATIONAL BROADWAY”

WITH PREVIOUSLY-ANNOUNCED GUESTS

BILLY PORTER, RENEE ELISE GOLDSBERRY, JOSHUA HENRY & MARCUS PAUL JAMES

AT

B.B. KING BLUES CLUB & GRILL – FEBRUARY 15, 2016

INSPIRATIONAL BROADWAY – an evening of Broadway, R&B, Gospel, and Pop classics featuring Broadway’s brightest lights and an ensemble of uplifting voices – has added special guest stars Adam Pascal, Eden Espinosa, Telly Leung and Jarrod Spector. The concert takes place at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on February 15, 2016 at 7:30 PM (Doors at 6:00 PM). Michael McElroy and The Broadway Inspirational Voices will be joined by previously-announced performers Billy Porter, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Joshua Henry and Marcus Paul James. The music will be performed with the signature soul and innovative musical arrangements of the Grammy-nominated Broadway Inspirational Voices. This event will help benefit the BIV Outreach Program. Tickets begin at $30, and can be purchased by visiting http://www.bbkingblues.com.

http://shufflealongbroadway.com/

http://www.ibdb.com/Production/View/499865

 

Reviews:

PF: Spring Awakening

PF: Something Rotten

— Brian d’Arcy James, Jonathan Groff, and Andrew Rannells on Playing Hamilton Fan Favorite King George III

MP: King and I

MP: Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life

MP: Noises Off

 

News: 

 

Television & Film: 

 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

BroadwayCon — meeting?

Saturday, 11am: Peter book signing of The Great Parade, at Drama Book Shop’s booth (1006/1008) in the BroadwayCon Marketplace

 

Next Week: Monday night recording 1/25/16

Explicit: No

Music:

2015 Broadwa[...]

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Matt Tamanini talk about Noises Off, Fiddler on the Roof, Red Bull Theater’s production of The Changeling, Peter goes back to King Charles III, Michael reviews The Pearl Fishers @ The Metropolitan Opera, Marilyn Maye @ The Metropolitan Room, and Matt check in with The National Tour of The Sound of Music @ The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. That plus a TV and Film roundup.

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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

BroadwayStars

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 is an editor at BWW Orlando. He is also the host BroadwayWorld’s “Some Like it Pop” podcast. You can connect with Matt through Twitter @BWWMatt.

 

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest:

 

Reviews:

PF + JM: Noises Off @ American Airlines Theater through March 6, 2016

PF + MP: Red Bull Theater’s production of The Changeling @ The Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street, through January 24, 2016

MP + JM: Fiddler on the Roof @ the Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway

PF: King Charles III, A Future History Play @ the Music Box Theatre, 239 West 45th Street, through January 31, 2016

MP: Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) @ The Metropolitan Opera, through February 4, 2016 (see schedule)

MP: Marilyn Maye @ The Metropolitan Room

MT: The National Tour of The Sound of Music @ The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

— BBC Production of SOM Live

 

News: 

 

Television & Film: 

Spotlight (Spotlight Official Trailer #1 (2015) – Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton Movie HD)

The Big Short (The Big Short Official Trailer #1 (2015) – Brad Pitt, Christian Bale Drama Movie HD)

 

 

Theatre/TV and Film News

1) Boyz II Men cast as the Teen Angel on “Grease Live!”

2) “Rocky Horror TV Show” casting, including Reeve Carney, Victoria Justice, and Ryan McCarten.

— BBC Rocky Horror

3) HBO has announced that their film version of “All the Way” with Bryan Cranston will air in May and “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” with Audra McDonald will air on March 12th.

4) Quentin Tarantino wants to bring his movie “The Hateful Eight” to Broadway this fall.

— Dog Day Afternoon coming

5) Filming is underway on the film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa’s “Hello Again,” starring Audra, Martha Plimpton, Cheyenne Jackson, T.R. Knight, Rumer Willis and more.

Oh, and also I could talk a second about the Catholic Church’s response to Spotlight, which I read about this week.

Spotlight and The Big Short were my third and second top movies of 2015. So, if you want to do a quick hit o[...]

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review The Peccadillo Theater Company’s production of A Wilder Christmas. We discuss Tonya Pinkins Departure from CSC’s Mother Courage, Marin Mazzie’s return to performing, Wayne Rogers passing, and where will we eat with the closing of Angus McIndoe.

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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, Kritzerland, 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, 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.

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest:

Reviews:

PF: The Peccadillo Theater Company’s production of A Wilder Christmas (The Long Christmas Dinner and Pullman Car Hiawatha) @ Theatre at St. Clements, 423 West 46th Street through January 10, 2016

 

News: 

Tonya Pinkins

— Exclusive: Tonya Pinkins Issues Unedited, Full Statement Detailing Abrupt Departure from CSC’s Mother Courage by Andrew Gans

Marin Mazzie

— Marin Mazzie is Leader of the Pack in Zorba! by Michael Portantiere (BroadwayStars: Published on Monday, May 4, 2015)

— Marin Mazzie on Cancer and Songs in the Key of Life by LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES (The New York Times)

— Broadway Leading Lady Marin Mazzie Is Facing Her Most Challenging Role: Cancer Survivor by Robert Viagas (Playbill)

Wayne M. Rogers IBDB

Wayne Rogers, ‘Trapper John’ of ‘M.A.S.H.’ and Leading Investor, Dies at 82

Peter Pan (Mary Martin, 1955)

Breaking News: Theater Hotspot Angus McIndoe to Close

Toys ‘R’ Us in Times Square shuts down: Pictures

 

Television & Film: 

Spotlight (Spotlight Official Trailer #1 (2015) – Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton Movie HD)

The Big Short (The Big Short Official Trailer #1 (2015) – Brad Pitt, Christian Bale Drama Movie HD)

 

Tours: 

 

Recordings: 

 

Post Script:

MP: Trivia question

 

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Peter Pan (Mary Martin, 1955)

 

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666

BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review American Dance Machine for the 21st Century @ The Joyce Theater, Playwrights Horizons production of Marjorie Prime, Kevin Jones in A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House, The Golden Bride @ Museum of Jewish Heritage, Naomi Wallace’s play Night is a Room @ Signature Theatre, and then we reflect a little on 2015.

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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, Kritzerland, 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, 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.

 

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest:

 

 

Reviews:

MP: American Dance Machine for the 21st Century @ The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue through January 3, 2016

— Jack Lee and Charlie Kakatsakis’s Musical Theatre Workshop (1980-1990’s)

MP + PF: Playwrights Horizons production of Marjorie Prime,  416 West 42nd Street, through January 24, 2016

MP: Kevin Jones in A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House, Charles Dickens in New York, 1867, 29 East Fourth Street, already concluded its run.

PF: The Golden Bride @ Edmond J. Safra Hall at Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl, in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles, through January 3, 2016

PF: Naomi Wallace’s play Night is a Room @ Signature Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street, already concluded its run.

 

News: 

Television: 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

The Wiz LIVE! Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event

 

Post Script:

Peter Filichia’s Best in 2015 (in no particular order):

Liberty Smith

Hamilton

Merman’s Apprentice

A Little Night Music

Big Fish @ Nebraska

First Daughter’s Suite

Dames At Sea

King Charles III

A View from the Bridge

Whorl Inside a Loop

John

 

MP: Patricia Elliott, Tony Winner and ‘One Life to Live’ Actress, Dies at 77 by Jacob Bryant

 

JM: Hamilton Broadway Cast Album to Hit #1 on Billboard Rap Chart by Robert Viagas

JM: Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) on Google Play for $1.99!

 

Next Week: 

 

 

Explicit: No

Music:

The Wiz LIVE! Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event

05 Soon As I Get Home

07 Ease On Down The Road

17 Believe In Yourself

 

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666

BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook

Subscribe:

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iPhone/iPod: iTunes

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Carey Purcell chat with Melissa Anelli, the Event Creator of BroadwayCon.

We review The Color Purple, West Side Story, Fiddler on The Roof, Once Upon a Mattress, Annie, China Doll, Lazarus, Invisible Thread, School of Rock, and MotherStruck.

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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.

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

Peter Filichia, whose play ADAM’S GIFTS: A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL, opened in Clinton, Iowa at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre this past week!

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

BroadwayStars

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.

Carey Purcell | [email protected] | Twitter | Website

CAREY PURCELL is a staff writer and the features editor of Playbill.com. She can be followed on Twitter @CareyPurcell and at her blog CareyPurcell.com.

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest: Melissa Anelli, the Event Creator of BroadwayCon

http://www.broadwaycon.com/

From January 22–24, 2016, join fellow fans, performers, and creators from some of your favorite on- and off-Broadway shows as they gather at the famed New York Hilton Midtown hotel to perform, discuss, debate, and celebrate.

You’ve seen shows, and festivals, and markets, and benefits, and concerts. BroadwayCon is all of that and more. It’s a chance to get the complete Broadway fan experience, from every angle, all in one incredible weekend.

BroadwayCon brings you through the stage door to see and experience what goes on both on stage and behind the scenes. It is a place where Broadway fans can come together to celebrate the shows they love with people who bring them to life.

 

 

Reviews:

CP + MP + JM: The Color Purple @ Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, 242 West 45th Street

MP: West Side Story @ Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, through January 31, 2016

— Parker Esse

CP: Fiddler on The Roof @ Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway

PF + MP + CP: Transport Group’s Once Upon a Mattress @ Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, through January 3, 2016

 

 

PF: Annie @ King’s Theater in Brooklyn (Tour)

CP: China Doll @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street

CP: Lazarus @ New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), 79 East 4th Street, through January 20, 2016

CP: Invisible Thread @ Second Stage Theatre (edit @26, track 4),

CP: School of Rock @ Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway

CP: MotherStruck @ Culture Project, 49 Bleecker Street

 

News: 

Television: 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Coming… Playwrights Horizons production of Marjorie Prime

 

Explicit: No

Music:

“The Color Purple” Cast Performs “Push Da Button” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Now on Broadway | THE COLOR PURPLE on Broadway

 

 

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere chat with Paul Hodge, writer-composer of Clinton The Musical.

We review School of Rock, The Color Purple, Lazarus @ New York Theatre Workshop, A View from The Bridge, China Doll, Rose @ Nora’s Playhouse, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum @ Two River Theater.

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

Peter Filichia, whose play ADAM’S GIFTS: A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL, will soon be opening in Clinton, Iowa at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre.

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.

 

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Guest: Paul Hodge

Paul Hodge is a writer-composer from Brisbane, Australia. His most recent work, Clinton The Musical, was performed Off-Broadway at New World Stages in 2015, at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, London’s King’s Head Theatre, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will have its Australian Premiere in 2016 with the Black Swan State Theatre Company of Western Australia. Off-Broadway, Clinton received a nomination for Best New Musical from the Off-Broadway Alliance, a New York Times Critics Pick, and nominations for Best New Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His musical, Terra Australis, was shortlisted for the QLD Premier’s Drama Award 2012-13. He is completing a PhD in Music Composition and received the Dalley Scarlett Memorial Scholarship to complete a Masters in Music Theatre Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Awards include the Margaret Nickson Prize and 4MBS Sid Page Musica Viva Chamber Music Prize.

http://clintonthemusical.com/

http://sh-k-boom.com/clinton-the-musical-original-cast-recording

 

Reviews:

PF + MP + JM: School of Rock @ Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway

— Alex Brightman On His Unlikely Casting, Gaining Weight and Being Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Homie” by Michael Gioia

 

PF: The Color Purple @ Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, 242 West 45th Street

PF + MP + JM: Lazarus @ New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), 79 East 4th Street, through January 20, 2016

PF: A View from The Bridge @ Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Street, through February 21, 2016

MP: China Doll @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street

PF: Rose @ Nora’s Playhouse, The Clurman Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, through December 13, 2015

— This Week on Broadway for November 22, 2015: Kathleen Chalfant

MP: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum @ Two River Theater, 21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank, NJ 07701, through December 13, 2015

 

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Matt Tamanini chat with Vivian Reed.

We review NBC’s live broadcast of The Wiz, Al Pacino in China Doll, A Child’s Christmas in Wales @ Irish Rep, Gigantic @ Vineyard, Santaisa @ St Lukes, New York Animals @ The New Ohio Theater and talk about upcoming productions and concerts.

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Panel:

Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook

Peter Filichia, whose play ADAM’S GIFTS: A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL, will soon be opening in Clinton, Iowa at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre.

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

BroadwayStars

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 is an editor at BWW Orlando. He is also the host BroadwayWorld’s “Some Like it Pop” podcast. You can connect with Matt through Twitter @BWWMatt.

 

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Guest: Vivian Reed

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Vivian Reed is a two-time Tony Award nominee (Bubbling Brown Sugar and The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club), Drama Desk Award winner, Outer Critics Circle Award winner, and has received an NAACP Award as well. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music and has sustained a dynamic career as an actress, singer and dancer on the stage and screen. In addition to several appearances on “The Tonight Show,” “The Today Show” and the ABC-TV daytime drama “One Life to Live,” Ms. Reed took on the role of Josephine Baker in the film Le Rumba. Selected by People Magazine as one of the “25 Most Intriguing People of the Year,” Vivian Reed has captured the hearts of audiences all over the world and continues to share her wealth of knowledge and experience as a celebrity vocal teacher on the staff of Marymount College, in New York City.

 

Piaf : A Centennial Celebration

Town Hall, New York, NY

Sat, Dec 19, 2015 08:00 PM

 

 

Reviews:

MT + MP + PF: The Wiz LIVE! – NBC.com

PF + JM: China Doll @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street

PF: Gigantic @ Vineyard, Santaisa  @ St Lukes, New York Animals @ The New Ohio Theater

MP: A Child’s Christmas in Wales @ Irish Rep

MP: Upcoming concerts: Marilyn Maye @ Metropolitan Room, Chita Rivera @ Cafe Carlyle, and Daniel Reichard’s “Under the Mistletoe”

 

News: 

Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! For Dec. 5, 2015 — Not My Job: We Ask Actor Jeff Daniels About People Named Steve And Their Jobs

2016 Broadway Production Website

Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams to Star in Broadway ‘Blackbird’

2007 MTC Production of Blackbird

 

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