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Peter Filichia, James Marino, Carey Purcell, and Matt Tamanini talk with Paige Price. Reviews include Amazing Grace, Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Three Days to See, King Liz. We talk about upcoming productions of American Psycho (Benjamin Walker), and the Broadway revival of Noises Off. Matt gives us a television and film update as well.
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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, Kritzerland, 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, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review and BroadwayStars. 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.
Carey Purcell | [email protected] | Twitter | Website
CAREY PURCELL is a staff writer and the features editor of Playbill.com. Her new column, “A Woman’s World” focuses on covering women’s issues, both on and Off-Broadway by highlighting successful women in the industry and the challenges they have faced. She can be followed on Twitter @PlaybillCarey and at her blog CareyPurcell.com.
Matt Tamanini | Twitter
MATT TAMANINI is BroadwayWorld’s Senior TV and Film critic and writes across other BroadwayWorld sites, including BroadwayWorld Orlando. He is also the site’s Advertising and Database Manager. Matt is a director, producer, and playwright and serves as the Executive and Co-Artistic Director of The Squeaky Wheel Theatre Project in Orlando. You can connect with Matt through Twitter @BWWMatt.
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Guest: Paige Price, Executive Artistic Director at Theatre Aspen, 1st Vice President at Actors’ Equity Association
Paige Price is in her eighth season as Executive Artistic Director of Theatre Aspen, overseeing a capital campaign and the doubling of the organization’s budget. After years spent as a Broadway performer, she began producing events, television shows and theatre. As a producer, Price’s credits include Midlife:The Crisis Musical! and the National Tour of New York Loves America. She co-produced the CBS television shows Broadway Under the Stars, Broadway Meets Country at Jazz at Lincoln Center and many other productions and concerts in the U.S. and abroad. For two years, Price co-produced the CBS special Holiday in Bryant Park.
Since 2006, Price has been the 1st Vice President of Actors’ Equity Association, the national union for actors and stage managers, and is also a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women. She was named by City Speaker Christine C. Quinn to the Theatre Subdistrict Council, a cultural arts granting board headed by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and in 2013 was elected to the board of NAMT, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, where she currently sits on the Membership Committee and co-chairs the Festival Selection Committees.
As a performer, she starred in Broadway’s Saturday Night Fever and was in the original cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as well as Smokey Joe’s Café. She came to Theatre Aspen in 2007, when she starred in TA’s The Last Five Years, and the following season took over as Artistic Director. Her professional career encompasses performances Off Broadway, in regional theatre and on national and international tours. She has shared the stage with stars such as Tony Bennett, Lou Rawls and Gladys Knight. Her film and television credits include roles in All The Right Moves, Newhart and ED among others and she hosted the Tony Awards’ live Red Carpet web casts from 2002-2005.
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We currently have 23 tours out and there will be 2 more during the holidays: White Christmas and Elf.
Non-Equity currently has 16 out and will have Elf and Grinch out during the holidays.
Reviews:
PF + JM: Amazing Grace @ the Nederlander Theatre, 208 West 41st Street
Peter
Dayton, Ohio: FutureFest
Plymouth, Mass: Fiddler on the Roof at Priscilla Beach Theatre (via Ron Fassler)
Wichita, Kansas: Billy Elliot at Music Theatre Wichita
Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey @ Westside Theatre Downstairs, 407 West 43rd Street
Transport Group’s production of Three Days to See @ Theatre 79, 79 East 4th Street
King Liz @ Second Stage Theater, McGinn-Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway at 76th Street, 3rd Floor
Carey
New Broadway Musical Finds Its American Psycho (Benjamin Walker!)
http://www.shubert.nyc/theatres/
Matt
New TV shows with theatre connections:
Best Time Ever: Neil Patrick Harris
Muppets: The Muppets
Supergirl (November): Melissa Benoist (GLEE), Jeremy Jordan, Laura Benanti
Megan Hilty is joining Bravo’s GIRLFRIEND’S GUIDE TO DIVORCE
Aaron Tveit cast as Danny Zuko in “Grease: Live”
Bradley Whitford and others case in HBO’s adaptation of ALL THE WAY
National search for star of new, “grittier” OLIVER! Movie
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