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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Georgia Stitt. After we review Not Nobody @ 59e59, The Dinosaurs @ Playwrights Horizons, Mother Russia @ Signature Theatre, Rent @ NYU Frederick Loewe Theatre, Meat Suit (Second Stage Theater @ Signature Center), and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay @ The Met.
Georgia Stitt, Credit: Matthew Murphy
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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – is available at finer retailers! Peter also has columns at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select, and many other places.
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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and interviewer. The founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other publications, and he writes reviews of cabaret shows for NiteLifeExchange.com. Additionally, Michael is known as a producer and director of shows at 54 Below, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and other venues.
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Georgia at a recording session with Rebecca Luker and cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf (March 9, 2016)
Guest: Georgia Stitt website | Maestra Music
GEORGIA STITT is a composer/lyricist, music director, pianist, and music producer. Her original musicals include Snow Child, Samantha Spade, Ace Detective , Big Red Sun, The Water, and Mosaic.
Georgia was the music director of 13: The Musical, which was released on Netflix in 2022, and the on-set music supervisor for the Anna Kendrick/Jeremy Jordan film The Last Five Years. She has previously worked in the music department of NBC’s shows America’s Got Talent, Clash of the Choirs, and Grease: You’re The One That I Want, as well as the Disney/ABC TV musical Once Upon A Mattress starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett.
Her New York theatre credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway), Do Re Mi and Can-Can (starring Patti LuPone, both for Encores), Sweet Charity (Off-Broadway, starring Sutton Foster), Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and both the 2000 national tour and the 2023 Broadway revival of Parade. She has performed as music director and pianist with The Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. In 2014 she played a nun on camera and also served of the music team for NBC’s The Sound Of Music Live! with Carrie Underwood and Audra McDonald, and in 2021 she made a cameo appearance (as herself) in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film Tick, Tick… Boom!
Georgia is the Founder and President of Maestra, an organization that provides support, visibility, and community for women and gender-expansive theater musicians, and through that work she has won an Obie Award and has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Playbill, Opera News, and The New York Times. In collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, she and her team at Maestra created the RISE Theatre Directory which seeks to build a more equitable and inclusive theater industry. She is also in leadership at The Dramatists Guild and The Recording Academy’s Songwriters & Composers Wing. Other proud memberships include ASCAP, the American Federation of Musicians (Local 802), and MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity).
AMPLIFY, Maestra Music’s annual fundraising gala concert, returns to New York City on Monday, April 6, 2026 at City Winery New York City (Pier 57) (25 11th Avenue, Pier 57). Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe (Death Becomes Her) and Hannah Cruz (Chess) will host the evening.
Coming up: Kate Baldwin @ 54 Below March 13-15, 2026
Fresh from her acclaimed run as Roxie Hart in Broadway’s Chicago and PBS’s Leading Ladies of Broadway, two-time Tony® nominee Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!, Finian’s Rainbow, Big Fish) returns to 54 Below accompanied by her longtime music director and collaborator, Georgia Stitt, on piano. She’ll share favorite songs by Kander and Ebb, Sondheim, Guettel, Ahrens and Flaherty, and Tesori that celebrate the roles she’s loved and the few that got away. And of course some friends will appear as special guests!
Reviews:
PF: Not Nobody @ 59e59, through March 1, 2026
By Brian Dykstra
Directed by Margarett Perry
With Sheffield Chastain, Brian Dykstra, Kathiamarice Lopez, and Kate Siahaan-Rigg
If you’re not guilty, what are you afraid of?
McAlester Daily is a professor of ethics who finds himself accidentally entangled with the police. After saving an officer’s life, McAlester is hailed as a hero—but as questions mount and his refusal to conform raises red flags, the system begins to see him as something else.
In a society quick to judge and slow to understand, Not Nobody is an intriguing, funny and powerful portrait of one man trying to be heard on his own terms.
MP: The Dinosaurs @ Playwrights Horizons, through March 8, 2026
Playwrights Horizons world premiere production of Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs, directed by Les Waters.
Kathleen Chalfant as Jolly/June, Elizabeth Marvel as Joan, April Matthis as Jane, Keilly McQuail as Rayna/Buddy, Mallory Portnoy as Janet, and Maria Elena Ramirez as Joane. The creative team is dots (Scenic Designer), Oana Botez (Costume Designer), Yuki Link (Lighting Designer), and Palmer Hefferan (Sound Designer).
In The Dinosaurs, every week at the same time, in the same place, a group of women share their stories of recovery. As weeks slip into years and decades spin into eternity, the women keep coming back amidst an ever-shifting, unfamiliar world. The Dinosaurs is a piercingly funny, loving ode to the infinite, innately human battle between holding on and letting go.
PF: Mother Russia @ Signature Theatre, through March 15, 2026
Written by Lauren Yee
Directed by Teddy Bergman
Cast: Steven Boyer, Adam Chanler-Berat, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and David Turner
St. Petersburg, 1992: the Soviet Union has collapsed, McDonald’s has risen, and Evgeny, a young man at a loss, stumbles into a job working surveillance with his old friend Dmitri. Their target: Katya, a former pop singer with questionable allegiances and a mysterious past. As their lives chaotically intertwine, Evgeny finds himself falling in love and losing his bearings, all while grappling with the taste of freedom (and fast food) along the way.
MP: Rent @ NYU Frederick Loewe Theatre (Vocal Performance Program at NYU Steinhardt)
PF: Aya Ogawa’s Meat Suit, produced by Second Stage Theater @ Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center, through March 15, 2026
MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood, written and directed by Aya Ogawa, is a gloriously genre-defying theatrical carnival that plunges audiences into the raw, hilarious chaos of being a mom. Performed by mothers for mothers, or those who love mothers, or simply those who have mothers, this play blends bouffon-inspired physicality, sharp satire, original songs, and total absurdity. Beneath the bedlam and humor, MEAT SUIT confronts a deeper theme: how every birth triggers quiet deaths—the mother’s autonomy, sense of self, and personal desire—and whether anything of the person she was survives. Come laugh, cringe, and cry through the unfiltered mess no one warned you about.
The company will feature Marina Celander (Mermaid’s Howl), Cindy Cheung (Laowang, Bus Stop, The Antiquities), Robyn Kerr (The Great Society, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Lucille Lortel nominee Maureen Sebastian (The Best We Could, Lonely, I’m Not), and Liz Wisan (Other Desert Cities, Gloria: A Life).
MP: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay @ The Met
Composer: Mason Bates
Librettist: Gene Scheer
Dramaturg: Paul Cremo
Production: Bartlett Sher
Choreographer: Mandy Moore
Set, Lighting, and Video Design: 59 Studio
Costume Designer: Jennifer Moeller
Sound Designer: Rick Jacobsohn
C. Graham Berwind, III Chorus Director: Tilman Michael
In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by Jenny Melville and Mark Grimmer of 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Opening Night premiere, and baritone Andrzej Filończyk makes his Met debut as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.
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Peter’s Brainteaser:
This musical that was set in the 1930s has a song whose title someone in the early 1940s might say when greeting a group of people associated with the military. Hint: The musical received only one Tony nomination, but that one nomination did result in a win.
What’s the song and musical from which it came? To whom would it be aptly addressed?
Michael’s Musical Moments
GEORGIA STITT, BELL TOWER
Music Opener: “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed”
Music Closer: “Alan’s Dead,” from “Small Talk: A Very Short Song Cycle”
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