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BroadwayRadio Listeners join Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere to talk about the best of 2023.
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Panel:
Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. His new book, Brain Teasers for Broadway Geniuses, is now available wherever finer books are sold. Peter also has columns at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select, and many other places.
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.
Cast Album of HERE WE ARE, coming from Concord Theatricals Recordings
JERRY ORBACH’S BROADWAY @ 54 Below
Thursday, January 25, 2024 @ 7PM
Back for an encore by popular demand after a sold out show last summer! Join us at 54 as we celebrate Jerry Orbach, the beloved performer who started out Off-Broadway in The Threepenny Opera and The Fantasticks, then went on to become a leading man in such Broadway shows as Carnival, Promises, Promises, Chicago, and 42nd Street before beginning a brilliant final chapter in his career that included work in films and, of course, his iconic television role of Lt. Lennie Briscoe in “Law & Order.”
This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here.
Matt Tamanini | [email protected] | Twitter | Instagram
MATT TAMANINI is a theatre, entertainment, and sports journalist who has been covering theatre for more than a decade. He is the news editor for TheStreamable, the co-managing editor for Land-Grant Holy Land, and is a host and producer for multiple shows on BroadwayRadio.
James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook
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Reviews:
Juliet Green: English @ Berkley Rep (2023)
Previously at Berkley Rep Swept Away (2022)
Looking forward to Galileo Musical MAY 5–JUN 16, 2024
Tony Janicki: The Nacirema Society (by Pearl Cleage) at the Goodman
Jeffrey Hatcher’s revisal of Frederick Knott’s Dial M for Murder at Northlight.
Bright spots in Chicago Theater – Specifically Paramount Theatre (North Aurora) and Timeline Theatre (Chicago), both of which had terrific seasons.
Shawn Logan: A Doll’s House (Jessica Chastain)
Audra McDonald Kansas City Symphony
Shawn is looking forward to coming to NYC in March 2024: Hell’s Kitchen, The Who’s Tommy
Robb Johnston: Come From Away tour in Hershey, PA
All the Sondheim everywhere: Sweeney Todd and the tour of Into The Woods
Peter Filichia: Bohemian Progeny and Appalachian Christmas
Kelli O’Hara & Donna Murphy
The 12 by Neil Berg
Golden Rainbow, Benjamin Pajak
Jennifer Simard
Goin’ Hollywood @ WaterTower Theatre (Addison, TX)
Summer Stock @ Goodspeed
Via Galactica Galt MacDermot
The Doctor (Juliet Stevenson)
Henry IV Part 2 @ PA Shakes
John Tutor @ Sabbath’s Theater
Bob Cuccioli in Tempest
Sarah Paulson Appropriate
Patrick Page All The Devils Are Here
Laura Bell Bundy
Alex Brightman The Shark is Broken
Walter Marks
Cate Murray in Larry The Big Time Broadway Producer
Great Gatsby sets and costumes
Oscar Isaac Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Jeremy Pope in The Collaboration
Charles Kirsch
Skye Papa
Michael:
Marilyn Maye
Liz Callaway
Ben Jones
DC: Ragtime @ Signature, Fun Home @
Sweeney Todd, Josh Groban singing
Merrily We Roll Along
Harmony
I Can Get it for you Wholesale @ Classic Stage Company, Santino Fontana
The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window
The Frogs @ Master Voices
Parade @ Encores and Broadway
Purlie Victorious
Here Lies Love
Just for Us Alex Edelman
Spamalot
David Staller’s Arms and The Man
Prima Facie
Shucked: closing soon! (Jan 14, 2024)
News:
Peter’s Brainteasers:
In the 1976 musical REX, Sheldon Harnick wrote a song called “Elizabeth” in which he noted the many nicknames for that name: Bess, Bessie, Betty, Bessie, Beth, Lizbeth, and Lizzie. That reminded me that two women known as Betty both won Tonys for the same musical in the same year. Who were they and what was the musical?
Michael’s Musical Moments
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Music Closer:
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