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This Week on Broadway for June 4, 2017: The Government Inspector

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Red Bull Theater’s production of The Government Inspector, Building The Wall @ New World Stages, The Boy Who Danced On Air @ Abingdon Theatre Company, MCC Theater’s production of The End of Longing, Oklahoma! @ John W. Engeman Theater, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Groundhog Day, and Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley: Broadway & Beyond @ 54 Below.

 


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Panel:

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 MTIMasterworks BroadwayBroadway Select and many other places.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook
BroadwayStars

Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
Michael Portantiere is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim 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.

Matt Tamanini | Twitter
MATT TAMANINI is BroadwayWorld’s Senior TV and Film Critic and the host of the “Some Like it Pop” podcast, which is available on iTunes and Stitcher. You can connect with Matt on Twitter at @BWWMatt.

Notes and links for the podcast.

Pre: 

Tonight: The 62nd Annual Drama Desk Awards, Sunday, June 4, 2017

Monday: Peter Filichia hosts the Theatre World Awards tomorrow, Monday, June 5, 2017 @ the Imperial, 5:30PM

Tuesday: William Daniels at Drama Book Shop, Tuesday, June 6, 2017 @ 5PM

Today on Broadway: Monday, May 29, 2017
Listen: Actor and Writer Ron Fassler Discusses his Book “Up in the Cheap Seats: A Historical Memoir of Broadway.”

 

Reviews: 

MP + PF: Red Bull Theater’s production of The Government Inspector @ The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street, though June 24, 2017

 

PF: Building The Wall @ New World Stages, 340 W 50th St, through July 9, 2017

MP: The Boy Who Danced On Air @ Abingdon Theatre Company, June Havoc Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, through June 11, 2017

MP + PF: MCC Theater’s production of The End of Longing @ at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street, through July 1, 2017

Bill W. and Dr. Bob (mistakenly referred to as “Friend of Bill” by James)

MP: Oklahoma! @ John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main Street, Northport, NY 11768, through June 25, 2017

PF: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 @ Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street

PF: Groundhog Day @ August Wilson Theatre, 245 W. 52nd St.

Recommendation: Tonys Actress Roundtable: 5 Nominees on Pee Breaks, Colorblind Casting and Surviving Eight Shows a Week by Scott Feinberg
Denee Benton, Christine Ebersole, Jennifer Ehle, Sally Field and Laura Linney sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about life on Broadway.

MP: Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley: Broadway & Beyond @ 54 Below, May 29 – June 1, 2017

 

 

Discussion: 

PF: Trip to Arkansas

Arkansas Razorbacks, the University of Arkansas

— 110 in the Shade in Arkansas @ High School
Possibly: South Arkansas Arts Center, El Dorado, AR ?

— Barista at Starbucks at Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport (Little Rock, AR) singing Wicked

 

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Post Script:

Pacific Overtures – 1976 Original Broadway Cast
At long last- recorded on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 9th, 1976 and then broadcast on Japanese public television, this is the original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures.

 

Coming Soon: 

Explicit: No

Music:

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
No One Else by Denée Benton

Back to Before – Marin Mazzie (Ragtime)

 

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