Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Benjamin Scheuer. Reviews include Carousel, Mean Girls, The Sting @ Paper Mill Playhouse, and Marilyn Maye: 90 At Last! @ Feinstein’s/54 Below.

 

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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, 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. 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: Benjamin Scheuer

“Tell the truth and make it rhyme.” — John Lennon

THE LION

Monday, April 30, 2018

A one-night-only performance of THE LION, the Drama Desk Award-winning show written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer, with all proceeds benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Benjamin Scheuer is an American songwriter, performer, and playwright.

Scheuer wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed one-man musical THE LION, which toured the US and Europe from 2014-2017. THE LION won the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and the 2015 Off-West End Award for Best New Musical.

Scheuer’s album “Songs from THE LION” debuted in the Billboard top-10. In collaboration with animator Peter Baynton, Scheuer created animated videos for his songs “Cure,” “The Lion,” “Cookie-tin Banjo,” and “Weather The Storm.” These videos garnered two consecutive Public Choice Awards for Best Music Video at the British Animation Awards, the award for Best Commissioned Film at the Annecy Film Festival, and Best Music Video at London’s Encounters Film Festival.

Scheuer is a survivor of Hodgkins Lymphoma. With photographer Riya Lerner, he created the photography-book “Between Two Spaces,” from which 50% of proceeds benefit the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society.

Scheuer is currently working on new album, and writing a new musical. He lives in New York City.

 

www.BenjaminScheuer.com

www.BetweenTwoSpaces.com

@BenjaminScheuer

Reviews: 

PF + MP + JM: Carousel @ Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street

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PF + MP + JM: Mean Girls @ August Wilson Theatre, 245 West 52nd Street

PF + MP + JM: The Sting @ Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ, through April 29, 2018

MP: Marilyn Maye: 90 At Last! @ Feinstein’s/54 Below, April 10 – 29, 2018

 

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PF: Wheelhouse Theater Company‘s production of Happy Birthday, Wanda June @ The Gene Frankel Theatre, 24 Bond Street, through April 28, 2018

Explicit: No

Music:

The Lion

1 Cookie-Tin Banjo

2 Weather The Storm

3 The Lion

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