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Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere chat with Marc Acito, the book writer of the musical Allegiance. We review Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Pearl, Desire @ 59e59, The New Morality @ Mint Theater Company, and Reasons to Be Pretty @ Sea View Playwrights Theatre. In news, Denzel Washington will direct August Wilson’s plays for HBO.

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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.

Notes and links for the podcast.

Guest: Marc Acito

 

MARC ACITO is the book writer of the musical Allegiance, which opens Nov 8 at the Longacre Theater.

He won the Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play with his comedy Birds of a Feather.

Recently he wrote the concert adaptation of Lerner & Loewe’s 1951 classic Paint Your Wagon for City Center’s Encores.

He also wrote the book to A Room with a View, which played at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle and the Old Globe in San Diego.

Marc’s one-man musical adaptation of his award-winning novel How I Paid for College debuted at the Hub Theater.

His novel won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, was a NY Times Editors’ Choice, and spawned a sequel, Attack of the Theater People.

Other projects in development include Chasing Rainbows, a musical based on the adolescence of Judy Garland; and Relativity, a new play about the relationship between Albert Einstein and Marian Anderson.

He recently became the first writer to receive two NAMT grants in one year.

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/58771/marc-acito/

http://allegiancemusical.com/

http://www.marcacito.com/

https://twitter.com/MarcAcito

 

 

Reviews:

PF: Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Pearl, 555 West 42nd Street, through October 31, 2015

PF: Desire, An Evening of Plays Based on Six Stories by Tennessee Williams @ 59e59, 59 East 59th Street, through October 11, 2015

MP + PF: The New Morality @ Mint Theater Company, 311 West 43rd Street, through October 18, 2015

MP: Reasons to Be Pretty @ Sea View Playwrights Theatre, 460 Brielle Ave, Staten Island, through September 20, 2015

 

 

News: 

Denzel Washington Is Bringing All 10 of August Wilson’s Plays About Black Life to HBO

 

 

Television: 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

29th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction

Sunday, September 27, 10 am – 7 pm

Times Square, Shubert Alley & West 44th Street, NYC

Career Transition For Dancers’ 30th ANNIVERSARY PEARL JUBILEE

Monday, September 28 at 7:00 pm

 

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Lea Salonga – Higher (Allegiance)

 

Allegiance || Telly Leung recording “What Makes A Man”

Contact Info:

Email addresses: see above

Phone / V[...]

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere chat with Rory Max Kaplan. Kris Vire joins us to talk about Time Out Chicago’s 2015 Theater Awards. Reviews this week include Whorl Inside a Loop, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and Desire, An Evening of Plays Based on Six Stories by Tennessee Williams. Peter discusses the press preview for Dames at Sea and Michael attended the Metropolitan Opera’s screening of Il Trittico.

 

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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: Rory Max Kaplan

http://www.rorymaxkaplan.com/

Flashback: Michael reviews Rory in :Nothing But Trash” in this episode:

This Week on Broadway for March 16, 2014: Jason Robert Brown and Sean McDermott

A native New Yorker, and currently performing in Jersey Boys Broadway, Rory Max Kaplan has been a passionate creative since the beginning. Be it classical dance, cartoon voices, acting on screen, picking up a new instrument, or singing in the studios for a new single, Rory seeks only to follow the hunger that propels him forward. An artist to the core, he’ll settle for nothing less in this lifetime than constant growth and expansion working his dharma, his innate calling: creative expression. Rory thrives in the fire of a challenge– transformation and interpretation ignite his spirit.

 

Special: Kris Vire / Time Out Chicago Theater Awards 2015

Time Out Chicago Theater Awards 2015

 

Kris Vire (rhymes with fire) is Senior Editor and Chief Theater Critic at Time Out Chicago and regularly writes for American Theater.

Roche Schulfer, the Goodman Theatre’s Shrewd Steward by Kris Vire

Since joining the theatre’s staff four decades ago, he’s helped guide the Chicago theatre to national flagship status. It wasn’t an easy or inevitable climb.

 

 

Reviews:

PF: Whorl Inside a Loop @ Second Stage Theater, Tony Kiser Theatre, 305 W 43rd Street, through September 27, 2015

Recommendation: Theater People Podcast: Episode 43 (Bonus Episode): Whorl Inside A Loop (interview with Michael Mayer and Dick Scanlan)

MP + PF: MCC’s production of The Legend of Georgia McBride @ Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street through October 4, 2015

MP: Desire, An Evening of Plays Based on Six Stories by Tennessee Williams @ 59e59, 59 East 59th Street, through October 11, 2015

PF: Press preview: Dames at Sea

MP: Met free screening in the plaza of Il Trittico

Only 3,100 free seats available.

http://nycfreeconcerts.com/

 

News: 

Television: 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Three tracks provided by Rory Max Kaplan from his upcoming release:

Fear of Letting Go[...]

James Marino talks with Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone, of The Ensemblist Podcast, about their upcoming show at 54 Below. Peter Filichia and Michael Portantiere join in after to review Annie Baker’s, “John” @ Signature, A Delicate Ship, Drop Dead Perfect, The Oresteia @ CSC, Screening of West Side Story (Film) @ Lincoln Center. In the news, we talk about the passing of Kyle Jean-Baptiste and Joshua Park. Looking into the future, Kevin Bacon To Star In ‘Rear Window’ At Hartford Stage, and SpongeBob Musical is coming to Broadway.

[Note: we had a technical issue with sound, which caused the delay in releasing this episode. We apologize for the sound quality and the delay. There is no show for the weekend of September 6, 2015, Labor Day. See you next week!]

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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.

 

Guests: Mo Brady and Nikka Graff Lanzarone

http://theensemblist.com/

The Ensemblist & The Bowery Boys Celebrate Broadway’s St. James Theatre

September 13, 2015 @ 54 Below

 

Reviews:

PF: Annie Baker’s world premiere John @ Signature

PF: The Playwrights Realm production of A Delicate Ship @the Peter Jay Sharp Theater,416 W. 42nd Street, through September 12th, 2015

PF: Drop Dead Perfect @ Theatre at St. Clement’s, 423 West 46th Street

 

Erasmus Fenn

PF: The Oresteia @ Classic Stage Company (CSC), 136 East 13th Street

MP: Screening of West Side Story @ Lincoln Center

http://www.popspotsnyc.com/west_side_story/

 

 

News: 

BroadwayWorld: LES MISERABLES Cast Member Kyle Jean-Baptiste Dies at 21

BroadwayWorld: Broadway Vet Joshua Park Passes Away at 38

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Frank Rizzo: Kevin Bacon To Star In ‘Rear Window’ At Hartford Stage

Jeremy Gerard: Broadway-Bound ‘SpongeBob Musical’ From Aerosmith, John Legend Won’t Be ‘Lion King’

 

Television: 

 

Tours: 

 

Recordings: 

 

Post Script:

Next Week: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Kyle Jean- Baptiste – Bring Him Home

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer “To Hear You Say My Name”

 

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere interview Brian Drutman about his many years in the cast recording business. Peter gives us his review of Hamilton and The New Group’s production of Mercury Fur. Michael reviews a few cast recordings. That plus more.

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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: Brian Drutman

Brian Drutman on Facebook

Brian Drutman on LinkedIn

email: [email protected]

Wall Street Journal: The Economics of Broadway Cast Recordings

LIAISONS

Re-Imagining Sondheim from The Piano

Pianist Anthony de Mare presents a new 3CD set of 36 songs by legendary composer Stephen Sondheim – arranged and reimagined by some of the world’s most exciting contemporary composers.

 

Reviews:

PF: Hamilton @ Richard Rodgers Theatre, 226 W 46th St

PF: The New Group’s production of Mercury Fur @ The Pershing Square Signature Center, The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street

 

News: 

Coming: GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE

A One Night Only All-Star Reading Directed by Moisés Kaufman

October 5, 2015 @ 7:00PM

 

Television: 

Tours: 

Recordings: 

An American in Paris (Sony)

On The Town (PS Classics)

The King and I (Decca)

PINOCCHIO 1967 TV CAST ALBUM STARRING MICKEY ROONEY RELEASED FROM THE #MWBVAULT!

DAMES AT SEA (ORIGINAL LONDON CAST RECORDING)

TWO’S COMPANY, THREE CHEERS (Bette Davis)

AGES OF MAN (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) with Sir John Gielgud

 

 

Judy Kuhn and Jeanine Tesori Celebrate 20 Years of Disney’s “Pocahontas”

Colors of the Wind from Disney’s Pocahontas

 

Post Script:

Next Week: Recording evening Monday, 8/31/15, show released Tuesday or Wednesday

Explicit: No

Music:

Birds of Victorian England — Jason Robert Brown

Johanna in Space — Duncan Sheik

Love is in the Air — David Shire

 

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