Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Sidney Poitier, Marilyn Maye @ Birdland, Wit @ Seeing Place Theater, and what we are looking forward to this Spring on Broadway.
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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. His columns appear at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select, Encore Monthly, 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 the founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. 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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Pre:
Steven Pasquale: The Daily reading Transcript from January 6th
Jan. 6, Part 1: ‘The Herd Mentality’
Inside an F.B.I. interview with one of the Capitol rioters.
Matt, Jena, Jennifer took first TWOB of 2022:
This Week on Broadway for January 2, 2022: Looking forward to 2022, remembering Betty White
Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94
The first Black performer to win the Academy Award for best actor, for “Lilies of the Field,” he once said he felt “as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made.”
Sidney Poitier: Wikipedia | IBDB | IMDB
Betty White, a Television Golden Girl From the Start, Is Dead at 99
Among the many highlights of a career that began in 1949 were star turns on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in the 1970s and “Saturday Night Live” in 2010.
She left the stage years ago. Then ‘Wicked’ needed an understudy by SCOTT SIMON (NPR)
Vulture: What It’s Like to Drop Into Wicked As an Emergency Elphaba
Amid the Omicron spike, software engineer Carla Stickler flew to New York to play the role for the first time in seven years.
Cancellations
Mrs Doubtfire
Reviews:
MP: Marilyn Maye @ Birdland
Marilyn Bergman, Half of an Oscar-Winning Songwriting Duo, Dies at 93
With her husband, Alan, she wrote the lyrics to “The Way We Were” and “The Windmills of Your Mind,” as well as a number of memorable TV themes.
PF: Wit @ Seeing Place Theater
Spring Preview:
PF: American Buffalo
MP: The Music Man
MP: Paradise Square
Tony Janicki gave us a mini review on Paradise Square in Chicago
Juliet Green: I agree with Tony – I saw it at Berkeley Rep. It needs some editing, but the dancing is amazing
JM: Plaza Suite
MP + PF: The Skin of Our Teeth (LCT @ Beaumont)
A Strange Loop transfer from Woolly Mammoth Theatre
MP: Sing Street?
PF: Funny Girl
Kimberly Akimbo?
MP: Macbeth
MP: Beetlejuice
Palace Theater being lifted one inch per hour
Wintergarden not enough bathrooms at The Music Man
PF: Birthday Candles
MP: Take Me Out
Skeleton Crew
Jan 19, 2022
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
MJ The Musical
Feb 1, 2022
Neil Simon Theatre
The Music Man
Feb 10, 2022
Winter Garden Theatre
The Little Prince
Mar 17, 2022
Broadway Theatre
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Mar 24, 2022
Booth Theatre
Plaza Suite
Mar 28, 2022
Hudson Theatre
Mr. Saturday Night
Mar 31, 2022
Nederlander Theatre
Paradise Square
Apr 3, 2022
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Take Me Out
Apr 4, 2022
Hayes Theater
The Minutes
Apr 7, 2022
Studio 54
Beetlejuice
Apr 8, 2022
Marquis Theatre
Birthday Candles
Apr 10, 2022
American Airlines Theatre
American Buffalo
Apr 14, 2022
Circle in the Square Theatre
How I Learned to Drive
Apr 19, 2022
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Funny Girl
Apr 24, 2022
August Wilson Theatre
The Skin of Our Teeth
Apr 25, 2022
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
Macbeth
Apr 28, 2022
Longacre Theatre
Peter’s Trivia Section
Michael’s Musical Moment
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Music:
Opening:
76 Trombones London Cast The Music Man
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Closing:
Beatles recording of Till There Was You
Other Music: The Lounge from www.bensound.com
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