Maxamoo's New York City Theater Podcast

Jose, Nicole, and Ben discuss shows and other things from the theater community that have gone online during the pandemic.

Introductions (0:00)

Contagious Closet Dramas, presented by Two Headed Rep on Instagram (1:39)

It’s True, It’s True, It’s True by Breach Theatre (6:13)

The Shows Must Go On, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new YouTube channel (9:08)

The New York Neo Futurists’ Hit Play podcast (12:35)

The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral by The Neo Futurusts (13:25)

The Schaubuehne in Berlin (15:25)

Subway Plays and Ferry Play by This Is Not a Theatre Company (21:26) (We also mention this previous Maxamoo episode featuring an interview with Artistic DirectorErin Mee!)

#PipelineOnline by WP Theater (26:41)

HERE@HOME (32:28)

you have to forgive me… by Brian Lobel (36:04) (We also mention this previous Maxamoo episode featuring an interview with Brian Lobel!)

Outro (47:23)

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Jose and PennyMaria are joined by author Warren Hoffman to discuss the newly published second edition of his book The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical. Their conversation includes a closer look at West Side Story, both historically and through the lens of the revival Ivo Von Hove directed for Broadway this season.

The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical (second edition) is available wherever books are sold, including from Rutgers University Press or your local independent bookstore.

If you’d like to hear the couple of songs cut from West Side Story during its development that we discuss, you can find them in this YouTube video.

This is our first episode recorded with all the participants in different spaces – yay social distancing! – and while it’s pretty good, there are some moments of roughness in the audio. Please bear with us as we adapt to our new circumstances. We’re learning as we go! It was produced by David, so if you have helpful advice, feel free to reach out to him.

Incidentally, if you are a theater artist with creative approaches to making work or caring for other theater artists during this time, and you’d like to chat about it on a future episode, please slide into our DMs or email us at [email protected] (but if you can slide into our DMs, we’ll see that faster).

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All 9 of our regular contributors have gathered: Aurin, Ben, David, Jack, Jose, Liz, Nicole, Patty, and PennyMaria! We’re back together for our year-end spectacular, our annual episode in which we discuss the best and worst theater of the year.

If you have trouble telling any voices apart, we’re seated in a circle and the order we answer questions in is, roughly: Liz, Nicole, Jose, Jack, PennyMaria, Aurin, Ben, David, Patty. (Jack had to leave early, so don’t get freaked out when he disappears half-way through the episode.)

See below for timecodes of the questions we answer:

(0:40) What, to you, was the most impactful theater moment of the decade?

(13:56) The Isaac Butler Honorary Question: What performer/performance this year moved your Kinsey number?

(22:10) What was the worst case of Theater FOMO (fear of missing out) you suffered this year?

(29:21) What show do you wish more audiences had a chance to see?

(37:10) What made you cry at the theater this year?

(46:46) Did anyone leave any shows early? What did you leave?

(53:31) If you were hosting a panel at BroadwayCon (or Off-BroadwayCon, if you’d prefer), what would it be?

(1:02:22) What performer in a small role in 2019 would you like to see as the lead of a smash-hit star vehicle in 2020?

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Aurin, Nicole, and PennyMaria discuss 2 shows shows on Broadway and 2 shows Off-Broadway.

Introductions (0:00)

The Inheritance on Broadway (1:10)

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf at the Public Theater (16:10)

Fires in the Mirror at Signature Theatre (37:41)

Tina on Broadway (51:59)

Things we’re excited for (1:05:18)

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Liz, David, and Jack talk about what they’re excited to see in December and January! We talk about:

Virgo Star by Pioneers Go East Collective at La Mama (1:13)

Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés at Theatre for a New Audience (2:49)

The Thin Place by Lucas Hnath at Playwrights Horizon (9:37)

Conway by Rory McGregor at Theaterlab (16:16)

Greater Clements by Samuel D. Hunter at Lincoln Center Theater (19:29)

One in Two by Donja R. Love at The New Group (22:48)

King Lear Project by William Shakespeare, adapted by Bryan Doerries at Theater of War (26:09)

Sing Street – Book by Enda Walsh, Music & Lyrics by John Carney & Gary Clark at New York Theatre Workshop (31:07)

Endlings by Celine Song at New York Theatre Workshop (34:37)

The Conversationalists by James & Jerome at The Bushwick Starr (37:57)

The María Irene Fornés documentary Jack mentions is The Rest I Make Up.

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Jose talks to musical theatre composer Jaime Lozano about his career, and how he went from disliking Jesus Christ Superstar when he was growing up in Monterrey, Mexico, to becoming one of the most prolific composers living in the United States. Lozano shares insights about his process and shares exclusive tracks from his upcoming album A Never-Ending Line.

If you’re in NYC don’t miss Jaime Lozano at The Green Room 42 on November 24, where he will present Songs by an Immigrant, featuring special guests like Mauricio Martínez.

All songs in this episode are property of Jaime Lozano and have been included with his permission.

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David is joined by Rachel Godfrey of Ludus NYC to discuss our first Official Maxamoo Book Club Selection:

Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts – For Actors, Performers, Writers and Artists of Every Kind by Anna Deavere Smith.

Visit the book’s official website for more information.

We hope you enjoy the discussion. Share you thoughts about the book – or about other books you’d like us to discuss on future book club episodes – with us on Twitter and Facebook.

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Nicole, Ben, and newcomer Linda talk about 2 immersive shows and 2 shows Off-Broadway.

Introductions (0:00)

Theatre In The Dark at TheatreLab (2:21)

Our Dear Dead Drug Lord at WP Theater (17:13)

Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizons (31:22)

Found at the cell (45:59)

Things we’re excited for (59:34)

• Little Shop Of Horrors at the Westside Theatre Upstairs

• Soft Power at the Public Theater

• Scotland, PA at Roundabout Theatre Company

• Hamnet at BAM

• The Rose Tattoo at Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway

• The Sound Inside at Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway

• Is This A Room at the Vineyard Theatre

• The 2019 New Masculinities Festival at New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center

• My Brother, My Brother and Me: Become the Monster Tour at the the Kings Theatre

And don’t forget: our next episode, on October 24th, is our first Maxamoo Book Club! So pick up a copy of Anna Deavere Smith’s Letters to a Young Artist wherever books or audiobooks are sold. If you have anything you’d like us to talk about on that episode, tweet it at us or email it to us by October 20th!

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Aurin, David, and Ben come together to talk about shows that’re coming up in the next few months.

Introductions (0:00)

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven at Atlantic Theater Company (1:24)

Fires in the Mirror at Signature Theatre (9:41)

Is This A Room at the Vineyard Theatre (15:01)

Quick mention of Looking at You at HERE Arts Center (20:40)

Soft Power at the Public Theater (21:23)

Scotland, PA at Roundabout Theatre Company (28:11)

Georgia Mertching Is Dead at Ensemble Studio Theatre (36:52)

The Underlying Chris at 2nd Stage (39:09)

Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation at the Triad Theatre (44:02)

The 2019 New Masculinities Festival at New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (49:24)

Things we’re excited for (52:07)

• The Lightning Thief on Broadway

• The Trade Federation: Or, Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels at IRT Theater

• Everybody Rise: A Resistance Cabaret at Birdland Theater

And don’t forget: our October 24th episode is our first Maxamoo Book Club! So pick up a copy of Anna Deavere Smith’s Letters to a Young Artist wherever books or audiobooks are sold. If you have anything you’d like us to talk about on that episode, tweet it at us or email it to us by October 20th!

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