Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Brandon Victor Dixon. After talking with Brandon, there is a discussion about Plays that have become Musicals
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PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. His columns appear at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.
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Guest: Brandon Victor Dixon
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Brandon Victor Dixon (WeAre Foundation Co-founder) is a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-nominated Actor, Producer, and Social Advocate. His company WalkRunFly has produced multiple works, including the Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and he is the co-founder of Qurator: The Movie Ratings App. Brandon is a graduate of Columbia University and a recipient of the university’s I.A.L. Diamond Award for achievement in the Arts.
The WeAre Foundation uses the connective power of the arts to amplify voices that emphasize our shared humanity.
PLAYS INTO MUSICALS: THE HITS AND THE MISSES
Michael: Pygmalion –> My Fair Lady
Peter: Chicago (play) –> Chicago
Michael: The Match Maker –> Hello, Dolly!
Michael: Auntie Mame –> Mame
Tony Janicki: The musical TAKE ME ALONG is really based on the film version of AH WILDERNESS rather than O’Neill’s original stage play.
Peter: Two for the Seesaw –> Seesaw
Alan Teasley: Oklahoma! (from Green Grow the Lilacs) and Carousel (from Liliom) were plays first
Michael: Anna Christie –> New Girl in Town
Alan Teasley: Kander and Ebb’s The Visit? I’d love to hear the panelists view on how that translated. I’ve never seen the source play. (Durrenmatt)
Tony Janicki: The Goodman Theatre version of THE VISIT was much different than the Broadway version also. More complex and more grotesquerie in it.
You know me from The Visit
Peter: Porgy –> Porgy and Bess
Peter: The Bad Seed –> Ruthless
Musical version of Harvey
Paul Witte: We can’t forget Merrily (based on the play Merrily We Roll Along). The original production was a miss but after many tries is it still a miss?
Tony Janicki: What about PACIFIC 1860?
Alan Teasley: And Cabaret was from I Am a Camera
Michael: Operas — Of Mice and Men, Regina based on Little Foxes, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Frogs
Peter: The Boys from Syracuse, Twelfth Night, Kiss Me Kate (almost), Shylock
John Rubinstein
Peter’s Trivia Section
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Coming Soon: The best plays and musicals that have focused directly on American politics, such as “The Best Man” and “1776.”
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