This Week on Broadway for June 23, 2024: Follies in Concert @ Carnegie Hall

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06/23/24

James Marino,Michael Portantiere,Peter Filichia

This Week on Broadway for June 23, 2024: Follies in Concert @ Carnegie Hall

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Follies in Concert @ Carnegie Hall, Cats: The Jellicle Ball @ PAC NYC, American Popular Song Society’s Tribute to Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire at The Cutting Room, National Asian Artisist Project’s production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and 13th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards Winners

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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, 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.

James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook
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Reviews:

MP: Follies in Concert @ Carnegie Hall, June 20, 2024 (One Night Only)
Transport Group presents the one night only, Broadway-style concert of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall. This next installment in the Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series will feature a cast of 50 performers, representing 223 Broadway credits, 14 Tony Awards, and 38 Tony Award Nominations.

This talented cast will be backed by a full 30-piece orchestra performing the original Jonathan Tunick orchestrations of Follies. The evening will be hosted by Kurt Peterson and Ted Chapin, directed by Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III, and music directed by Joey Chancey. Transport Group’s concert series features favorite musical theatre scores presented with the original full-scale orchestrations sung by Broadway stars, and behind-the-scenes theatre lore of the original productions and creative teams.

Photos: Norm Lewis, Kate Baldwin & More Perform FOLLIES Concert at Carnegie Hall by Chloe Rabinowitz
The evening also featured Santino Fontana, Beth Leavel and more.

The Collection of Stephen Sondheim
Date: Jun 18, 2024 10:00 EST
Sale type: Live auction

Two volumes of T.S. Eliot poems annotated by Stephen Sondheim

Cats PAC NYC Cast (Photo Credit: Marc J. Franklin)

PF: Cats: The Jellicle Ball @ PAC NYC (Perelman Performing Arts Center) through July 28, 2024
A radical reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Inspired by the Ballroom culture that roared out of New York City over 50 years ago and still rages around the world. Staged as a spectacularly immersive competition by Zhailon Levingston (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Chicken & Biscuits) and PAC NYC Artistic Director Bill Rauch (All the Way), with all-new Ballroom and club beats, runway-ready choreography, and an edgy eleganza makeover that moves the action from junkyard to catwalk.  Come one, come all, and celebrate the joyous transformation of self at the heart of Cats and Ballroom culture itself.

MP: American Popular Song Society’s Tribute to Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire at The Cutting Room, June 17, 2024 (One Night Only)

Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From American Popular Song Society By Margaret Hall
Established in 1980, the American Popular Song Society is a New York based not-for-profit social organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the American songbook.

PF: National Asian Artisist Project‘s production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying @ New World Stages, June 18, 2024 (One Night Only)

National Asian Artisist Project Presents
Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows’
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Based Upon the Book by Shepherd Mead
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
New World Stages / Stage 3
Directed by Cassey Kikuchi Kivnick
Music Direction by Sean Cameron
Choreography by Kyle Garvin
Featuring: Delphi Borich, Cáitín Burke, Ariel Estrada, Rona Figueroa, Kennedy Kanagawa, Darren Lee, Whit K. Lee, Jay Paranada, Herman Sebek, David Shih, Anne Fraser Thomas

MP + PF: David @ AMT Theater, through July 13, 2024
DAVID is the story of the biblical King David, nearing the end of his life, looking back at the decisions he made, good and bad, bemoaning the fact that history may only remember him as ‘the kid with the slingshot.” With the prophet Nathan they recount the dramatic events that led to his rise from obscure soldier to warrior to lover to eventual king of the entire land. Told with humor and poignancy, the musical peels away at the myth to reveal the actual man. A man capable of jealousy, heroism, passion, and leadership.

PF: 13th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards Winners @ Sardi’s, June 18, 2024

News:

Tony Awards thoughts

Jack O’Brien | 2024 Tony Awards Acceptance Speeches

Jack O’Brien accepts the 2024 Special Tony Award For Lifetime Achievement In The Theatre at the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday June 16, 2024.

Closings: The Heart of Rock and Roll

Next Week:

PF: N/A, a new play by Mario Correa starring Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe, directed by Diane Paulus. Previews began on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center (150 W. 65th St.).

Peter’s Brainteaser:

He appeared in a Broadway revival of a Sondheim musical.

His first name is the same as the surname of someone famous mentioned in the last scene of a Sondheim musical.

His last name is the same as a place where a scene occurs in a different Sondheim musical. In fact, the name of the place is included in the title of a song in this musical.

Both of the Sondheim shows alluded to above opened long before the revival in which this actor appeared.

Who is he? What was the revival? Who was the famous person mentioned in the last scene of one Sondheim musical? What is the name of the place and the song title in the second-named Sondheim musical.

Michael’s Musical Moments

Follies

Music Opener: