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  • This Week on Broadway for June 27, 2010: The Lion Circumcised
    If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below.Notes and links for the podcast. Panel:Peter FilichiaJames MarinoMatthew Murray Topics: Lion King Changes Scarlett PimpernelLes Miz Is this a revival? Hair Closes Todaywas it the cast change? London?could there have been star casting to save it? can we get rid of the revival category in the Tonys? Bernadette Peters Yahoo Trending Now (Night Music replacements) Race replacements: Denis Haysbert! Eddie Izzard! Ideal by Ayn Rand @ 59e59 Edges White Plains PAC? Last Session BenefitSteve Schacklin on R.A.T.M. Life in the Bonus Round. John Willis passed away TheaterWorld explicit: yes Soon!: Grand Manor, On The Levee, Mechant, Winter's Tale, Race Music:They Live in You / He Lives in You (from The Lion King)
    46 min
  • This Week on Broadway for June 6, 2010: The Tony Awards Predictions

    This Week on Broadway for June 6, 2010: The Tony Awards Predictions

    This is the order of categories in the discussion:

    Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Jude Law Hamlet Alfred Molina Red Liev Schreiber A View from the Bridge Christopher Walken A Behanding in Spokane Denzel Washington Fences Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Viola Davis Fences Valerie Harper Looped Linda Lavin Collected Stories Laura Linney Time Stands Still Jan Maxwell The Royal Family Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Kelsey Grammer La Cage aux Folles Sean Hayes Promises, Promises Douglas Hodge La Cage aux Folles Chad Kimball Memphis Sahr Ngaujah Fela! Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Kate Baldwin Finian's Rainbow Montego Glover Memphis Christiane Noll Ragtime Sherie Rene Scott Everyday Rapture Catherine Zeta-Jones A Little Night Music Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play David Alan Grier Race Stephen McKinley Henderson Fences Jon Michael Hill Superior Donuts Stephen Kunken Enron Eddie Redmayne Red Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Maria Dizzia In the Next Room or the vibrator play Rosemary Harris The Royal Family Jessica Hecht A View from the Bridge Scarlett Johansson A View from the Bridge Jan Maxwell Lend Me a Tenor Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Kevin Chamberlin The Addams Family Robin De Jesús La Cage aux Folles Christopher Fitzgerald Finian's Rainbow Levi Kreis Million Dollar Quartet Bobby Steggert Ragtime Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Barbara Cook Sondheim on Sondheim Katie Finneran Promises, Promises Angela Lansbury A Little Night Music Karine Plantadit Come Fly Away Lillias White Fela! Best Choreography Rob Ashford Promises, Promises Bill T. Jones Fela! Lynne Page La Cage aux Folles Twyla Tharp Come Fly Away Best Direction of a Play Michael Grandage Red Sheryl Kaller Next Fall Kenny Leon Fences Gregory Mosher A View from the Bridge Best Direction of a Musical Christopher Ashley Memphis Marcia Milgrom Dodge Ragtime Terry Johnson La Cage aux Folles Bill T. Jones Fela! Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre The Addams Family Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa Enron Music: Adam Cork Lyrics: Lucy Prebble Fences Music: Branford Marsalis Memphis Music: David Bryan Lyrics: Joe DiPietro, David Bryan Best Revival of a Play Fences Lend Me a Tenor The Royal Family A View from the Bridge Best Revival of a Musical Finian's Rainbow La Cage aux Folles A Little Night Music Ragtime Best Book of a Musical

    Fela! Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones Memphis Joe DiPietro Million Dollar Quartet Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux Everyday Rapture Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott Best Play In the Next Room or the vibrator play Author: Sarah Ruhl Next Fall Author: Geoffrey Nauffts Red Author: John Logan Time Stands Still Author: Donald Margulies Best Musical American Idiot Fela! Memphis Million Dollar Quartet

    The opening music is the overture from the original cast recording of Camelot and the exit music is "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line.

    1 hr 24 min
  • This Week on Broadway for May 30, 2010: Spidey's Back!?
    This Week on Broadway May 30, 2010: Spidey's Back!? by James Marino

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    Notes and links for the podcast.

    Panel: Matthew Murray Peter Filichia James Marino

    News: Spider Man Side: City of Angels discussion.

    West End Hair Cut Short: September 4 Closing Announced Side: Aspects of Love Michael Arden Side: Bare

    Dramatist Guild Contract

    A Little Night Music replacement: Bernadette Peters for Catherine Zeta Jones and Elaine Stritch for Angela Lansbury?

    Tony Awards will open with a pop medley...

    Broadway grosses up a bit, attendance down

    [ NYT ] Why, It's Good Old Reliable Nathan By CHARLES ISHERWOOD I WOULDN'T dare to venture an opinion as to who is the greatest actor to appear on Broadway in the past decade or so. Most accomplished diva? Definitely won't touch that. But the greatest entertainer? That one is easy: Nathan Lane.

    Passings: Gary Coleman

    Music:The entrance music is the prologue from the original cast recording of City of Angels and the exit music ("It Sucks to Be Me" from the original cast recording of Avenue Q.

    41 min
  • This Week on Broadway for May 23, 2010: Awards are Taking Flight
    If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below.Notes and links for the podcast. Panel:Matthew MurrayPeter FilichiaJames Marino News:Outer Critics Circle AwardsOBIESB'way to Reba: Come back by Michael RiedelReba has a private viewing of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" starring Sutton Foster. Reviews:Take Flight by Maltby & Shire at the McCarter Theater, PrincetonThis Wide NightGracelandLaw & Order discussion from last week. Passings:Michael Kuchwara, AP drama critic, dies at 63 Music:The opening music is "I Ain't Down Yet" from the original cast recording of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and the exit music is "Some People" from the original cast recording of Gypsy
    57 min
  • This Week on Broadway for May 16, 2010: The Kid's Got Potential

    If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Matthew Murray Peter Filichia James Marino News: A 2010 Tony nomination for Best Costume Design for Santo Loquasto has been withdrawn. TheatreWorld Awards Johnny Baseball, a new musical, at A.R.T. (American Repertory Theatre) Kristin Chenoweth Sean Hayes, Glee, Newsweek Aaron Sorkin in Huffington Post Newsweek owned by Washington Post and is for sale If Lips Together Teeth Apart was on Broadway, Megan Mullally Miss Saigon Marines Don't Ask, Don't Tell Law & Order, 4000 jobs and $1 billion dollars into NYC economy David Cromer taking over YANK from Igor Golden Bombay Dreams getting a movie Variety, NYT, Newsday -- behind a paywall, would this affect the Broadway community? If there is a review and nobody reads it.... Passings: Doris Eaton Travis Lena Horne Reviews: The Kid Music: The opening music is "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today" from the original cast recording of Jamaica, the closing music is "Beautiful Girls" from the original cast recording of Follies.

    1 hr 22 min
  • This Week on Broadway for May 9, 2010: Enronic
    If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Matthew Murray Peter Filichia James Marino News: Tony nominations Are we taking Nathan Lane for granted? 6 Broadway shows since The Producers and he has not been nominated. Are the nominations where the "art" happens and the voting where the "commerce" happens? tommy tune's mantle of fireplace Enron Does America Hate Satire? Examples of satire in US popular culture: The Office (UK import), Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, The Colbert Report... The New York Times effect on Box Office. Car bomb on Broadway Fences -- no, we can't get you tickets... Fantasticks 50th Kelsey Grammer Revises La Cage Plans (not switching roles) Jo Loesser was on NPR talking about H2$ and Daniel Radcliffe auditioned for her! http://weblogs.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=101533569 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126416716 Lynn Redgrave Bret Michaels is doing much better and is expected to make a full recovery. Music: The opening and closing music is the overture to Funny Girl, from the original cast recording. Direct Link to MP3 File
    1 hr 12 min
  • This Week on Broadway for May 4, 2010: Tony Noms
    Listing of the 2010 Tony Nominations can be read here. Enron the first casualty -- closing Angela Lansbury working on #6. 2 of 4 in Score from Plays Nominating Committee 2009-2010 Tony Awards® Nominating Committee David Caddick - Music Supervisor Ben Cameron - Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Kathleen Chalfant - Actor Hope Clarke - Stage Director/Choreographer/Actor Thomas Cott - Marketing Director, Alvin Ailey Dance Company Jacqueline Z. Davis - Executive Director, The NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Michael D. Dinwiddie - Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Edgar Dobie - Managing Director, Arena Stage Washington, DC Teresa Eyring - Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group Paulette Haupt - Director of the Music Theatre Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center Elena K. Holy - Founder, The International Fringe Festival Geoffrey Johnson - Casting Director (retired) Robert Kamlot - General Manager (retired) Michael Kantor - Television Director/Producer/Writer Robert Kimball - Author Pia Lindstrom - Arts Reporter Howard Marren - Composer Laurence Maslon - Associate Arts Professor, Graduate Acting Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York Donna McKechnie - Actor/Choreographer Jon Nakagawa - Producer, Contemporary Programming - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. Alice Playten - Actor Theresa Rebeck - Playwright Donald Saddler - Choreographer Susan H. Schulman - Director Tamara Tunie - Actor William Tynan - Actor/Reporter (retired) Kimberlee Wertz - Music Contractor Doug Wright - Playwright/Screenwriter Andrew Zerman - Casting Director (retired)
    23 min
  • This Week on Broadway for May 1, 2010: Fencing
    If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Matthew Murray Peter Filichia James Marino Note: Peter is calling in from the road (University of Oklahoma @ Norman). The call quality is not as good as we normally have. ie: it is us, not you! Reviews: Fences Collected Stories Enron Everyday Rapture News: Tony nominations are coming on Tuesday! Tony tip sheet reveals all by Michael Riedel Music: The entrance and exit music is "The Lusty Month of May" from the original cast recording of Camelot.
    59 min

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