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This Week on Broadway for Sunday, April 25, 2010

Panel Matthew Murray Peter Filichia

James Marino

Sondheim on Sondheim March 19 - June 13, 2010 http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/54/index2.htm Promises Promises La Cage News: 50th Anniversary of Fantastics God Of Carnage Closing Brian D'arcy James goes into N2N Jersey Boys Lawsuit http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuit.asp?id=56413 *** Barry and Fran Weissler taking The Scottsboro Boys to the Guthrie this summer before bringing it to Broadway in the fall. *** No more Cumming Is anyone still attached to Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark besides Julie Taymor and U2? ***

Pre Tony Awards

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138905 The 2010 Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Sir Alan Ayckbourn, and Marian Seldes. The Isabelle Stevenson Award: David Hyde Pierce.

The Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: -- The Alliance of Resident Theatres New York -- B.H. Barry -- Tom Viola. *** Peter in University of Oklahoma @ Norman next weekend Friday night seeing Chorus Line Saturday talk to Students Lortel Awards on Sunday night 50th Anniversary of Fantastics Next Week Collected Stories Fences Enron Music "You Could Drive A Person Crazy" - Barbara Cook & Tom Wopat "Children Will Listen" - Vanessa Williams "Loving You" - Barbara Cook

Explicit Tag: YES This Week on Broadway for Apr. 18, 2010: American Folles Matthew Murray Peter Filichia Reviews: La Cage Aux Folles American Idiot Promenade concert http://www.legacytheoffbroadwaymusicals.com/ Legacy the Off Broadway Musicals http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138656 Promenade Reading, with McArdle, Ackerman, Brochu, Presented April 12 Closer Than Ever @ Queens Theatre in the Park http://www.queenstheatre.org/web/frontends/event/3/0/98 Closer Than Ever Theatre Review by Matthew Murray http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/4_17_10.html News: Pulitzer Prize - N2N http://www.playbill.com/features/article/138796 PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 10-April 16: The Pulitzer Paradox http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/simon_keeps_promises_1huvmUvGou8iJAWMeCTx0O "Reject the offer and make a direct run at the compromised, conflict-riddled Tonys by beefing up your own awards and getting them on TV", says Michael Riedel about the New York Drama Critic's Circle coming back to vote in the Tonys. Twitter bringing up Tony Diane Paulis stuck in london due to Volcano H2$ - Daniel Radcliffe Frank Wildhorn J&H, the movie AND J&H, the revival! http://frankwildhorn.com/ Actors' Equity Withdraws From 'Come Fly Away' ‎http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/actors-equity-withdraws-from-come-fly-away/ American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) will take over representation of actors and stage managers. Enron... (has more producers than actors... 17 actors, 30+ producers) Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, ACT Productions, Caro Newling, Neal Street Productions, Beverly Bartner and Norman Tulchin, Lee Menzies, Bob Boyett, Scott M. Delman, INFINITY Stages, JK Productions, The Araca Group, Jamie deRoy, Mallory Factor, Michael Filerman, Ian Flooks, Ronald Frankel, James Fuld, Jr., Dena Hammerstein, Sharon Karmazin, Cheryl Lachowicz, Ostar Productions, Parnassus Enterprise, Jon B. Platt, Judith Resnick, Daryl Roth, Stein and Gunderson Company, Anita Waxman, The Weinstein Company, Barry and Carole Kaye, Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, Fran and Barry Weissler and The Shubert Organization (Phillip J. Smith: Chairman; Robert E. Wankel: President); Associate Producer: Jeremy Scott Blaustein

This Week on Broadway for Sunday, April 11, 2010 EXPLICIT TAG In this week's conversation we have Peter Filichia can be found three time a week at TheaterMania and also writes for the Newark Star Ledger Matthew Murray is the chief theater critic for TalkinBroadway and also is a columnist for BroadwayStars Reviews: Red http://redonbroadway.com/ Addams Family http://www.theaddamsfamilymusical.com/ Critic Proof? Is it entertaining? Bebe not a lot to do? Anyone Can Whistle http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=4383 Donna Murphy! http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=54096 Can Donna do Mame? Million Dollar Quartet http://www.milliondollarquartetlive.com/ Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson http://publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,1005 The opening music is the theme from The Addams Family, the exit music is "Everybody Says Don't" from the original cast recording of Anyone Can Whistle.

Guests: Peter Filichia Matthew Murray Reviews: Lend Me A Tenor http://lendmeatenoronbroadway.com/ The Glass Menagerie http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/ March 5 – June 13, 2010 Peter I Never Sang for My Father March 23 - May 1 http://www.keencompany.org/ Everyday Rapture replaces Lips Together Teeth Apart April 19 - July 11, 2010 American Airlines Theatre first four performances are $10 each -- ACCESS10 'Love' labors linger on 'Phantom' folks want play fixed for B'way http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/love_labors_linger_on_gYqRU6tWCjhnogPG6lamcI Michael Riedel Postpone Phantom 2 for the spring, but will butt up against Catch Me If You Can. director Jack O'Brien and choreographer Jerry Mitchell American Idiot advertising on Digg.com? The opening music is "Prima Donna" from the original cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera; the exit music is "Wild" from the original Broadway cast recording of The Wild Party Next Week Red Addams Family

This Week on Broadway for Sunday, March 28, 2010 Peter Filichia Matthew Murray Peter: THE IRISH CURSE (Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street) Matthew: Come Fly Away Peter: FALLEN ANGELS in Philadelphia Matthew: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons) Peter: THE ADDING MACHINE in Boston News: LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/theater/26mullally.html http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=74915 Megan Mullally is best known as Karen Walker on Will & Grace breech of contract Sherie Rene Scott: 'Everyday Rapture' Yank? scotsboro boys Fallen Angels? vanities spiderman Megan Mullally & Jeremy Piven costarring in Annie Get Your Gun? News: TONYS bring back (some) reviewers! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cara-joy-david/tony-awards-update-press_b_515779.html New York Drama Critic's Circle henry miller / sondheim Oscar Hammerstein Andrew Lloyd Webber Miracle Worker Closing. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/theater/29arts-CLOSINGDATEF_BRF.html The opening music is "Another Op'nin', Another Show" from the original cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate, and the exit music is "The Gospel According to Shrdlu" from the original Off-Broadway cast recording of Adding Machine.

This Week on Broadway for Monday, March 22, 2010 Peter Filichia Matthew Murray Both THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS - Kander & Ebb ALL ABOUT ME - Dame Edna & Michael Feinstein Peter Only: THE COCKTAIL PARTY - TS Eliot EQUIVOCATION WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING STOMP in BALTIMORE @ HIPPODROME 10 MONTHS @ DELAWARE THEATER COMPANY Wilmington, DE Laramie Project (Laramie, WY) The Flood (Johnstown, PA) Waiting for Guffman Sondheim Turns 80 Favorite Musical J: Passion P: Sweeney Todd M: Follies Favorite Song J: Comedy Tonight P: M: Opening Doors (Merrily) Favorite Lyric J: They Hear Drums, You Hear Music, As Do I (Passion Garden Sequence) P: Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods (Into The Woods), everybody has to go through stages like that (Follies), Slow Eyed Vamp M:

Books on Sondheim:

Sondheim & Company -- Craig Zadan Citron - Sondheim & Lloyd Webber

This Week on Broadway for Sunday, March 14, 2010 Peter Filichia Matthew Murray Next Fall Elton John... producer? A Tony Award nomination? A Pulitzer? A Nobel? :-) Looped Valerie Harper vs Tovah Feldshuh Variety David Rooney Leonard Jacob's Clyde Fitch Report The intro music is "If Ever I Would Leave You" from the original cast recording of Camelot; the exit music is "What Kind of Man?" from the original cast recording of Curtains.

We are 1 year old!

This Week on Broadway for Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Broadway Openings A Behanding in Spokane http://www.behandinginspokane.com/ The Miracle Worker http://www.miracleworkeronbroadway.com/ Off-Broadway Openings (in roughly reverse chronological order) Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers - A Radio Play (at NYTW) http://www.topsecretplay.org/ When the Rain Stops Falling (at Lincoln Center) http://lct.org/showMain.htm?id=191 News: Love Never Dies opens in London tonight Peter in Cincinnati -- Anything Goes @ CCM Lauren Sprague Matt Densky Ethel Merman Alice Ripley Bernadette Peters / Tom Wopat: Annie Get Your Gun Reba McEntire / Brent Barrett Next Week is our 1 year anniversary! The opening music is "The Coney Island Waltz" from the original cast recording of Love Never Dies; the ending music is "Anything You Can Do" from the 1999 revival cast recording of Annie Get Your Gun.