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This Week on Broadway for July 10, 2022: The Nutty Professor @ Ogunquit Playhouse

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss The Nutty Professor @ Ogunquit Playhouse, BroadwayBarks, A Chorus Line @ Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Jeff Harnar @ The Laurie Beechman Theater, Love Quirks @ AMT Theater, Titanique @ The Asylum Theatre, Hamlet @ Park Avenue Armory, and Scott Siegel’s 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. His new book, The Book of Broadway Musical Debates, Disputes, and Disagreements will be released September 1, 2022 and can now be preordered on Amazon. Peter also has columns at Masterworks BroadwayBroadway 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:

On BroadwayRadio.com: All the Drama: Biographer Mimi Pockross on the 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner “Harvey”

First on Patreon: Stagecraft: Brian Watkins, Playwright of “Epiphany”


Reviews:

The Nutty Professor

PF: The Nutty Professor @ Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, Maine, through August 6, 2022

BroadwayBarks

Weight Watchers is now WW

MP: Between the Lines @ the Tony Kiser Theater, through October 2, 2022
Please note, Between The Lines is a rental at the Tony Kiser Theater. This is not a Second Stage production nor a part of Second Stage’s subscription season.

PF: A Chorus Line @ Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

MP: Jeff Harnar @ The Laurie Beechman Theater

I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim’s Words / Jeff Harnar @ PS Classics

PF: Love Quirks @ AMT Theater, through September 2, 2022

SETH BISEN-HERSH Composer/ Lyricist

MP: Theater Hall of Fame

Lynn Nottage, Mandy Patinkin, and More Will Be Inducted Into the Theater Hall of Fame by Stephi Wild
The inductees also include Christine Ebersole, Frank Galati, Bill Irwin, Abe Jacob, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Ntozake Shange.

PF: Titanique @ The Asylum Theatre, through September 25, 2022

PF: Hamlet @ Park Avenue Armory, through August 13, 2022

‘Hamlet’ Off Broadway Review: Alex Lawther Leads a Brilliant Modern Take on the Bard
Get thee to the Armory! by Thom Geier

MP: Scott Siegel’s 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits @ 54 Below


News:

Cabaret Champion Michael Feinstein Teams With Café Carlyle By Elysa Gardner
The performer and entrepreneur is ending his partnership with 54 Below and will perform his first-ever shows at the Upper East Side venue in October.


Peter’s Trivia Section


Michael’s Musical Moment

Kenward Elmslie

Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 By Neil Genzlinger
He collaborated on operas with Jack Beeson and Ned Rorem and published numerous poetry books. Late in life, he was victimized by theft.

“Yellow Drum” for the opener

and “Floozies” for the closer.


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Other Music: The Lounge from www.bensound.com

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