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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Stephen McKinley Henderson. Reviews include EMPIRE: The Musical @ New World Stages, Oh, Mary!, Much Ado About Nothing @ The Gene Frankel Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Compagnia de’ Colombari: KING LEAR @ La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
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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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Stagecraft: Mario Correa on “N/A” available on Patreon yesterday 7/13/24. It will be available to the general public next week.
Guest: Stephen McKinley Henderson
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This Week on Broadway for January 17, 2021: Stephen McKinley Henderson
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Donna Murphy, Stephen McKinley Henderson, William Finn, More Among 2024 Theater Hall of Fame Inductees by Andrew Gans
The 53rd anniversary induction ceremony will be held in November at the Gershwin Theatre.
Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship – Ten Chimneys Foundation
Reviews:
The Company of EMPIRE. Photo by Matthew Murphy
PF + MP: EMPIRE: The Musical @ New World Stages, through September 22, 2024
Told through the lens of three generations of dreamers and doers spanning New York City in the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the Bicentennial Year of 1976, this original story shines new light on one of history’s greatest feats of will and desire. With a desperate city pinning its hopes on this seemingly impossible project, only skyscraper-high levels of grit and determination could keep it climbing. In EMPIRE, audiences will take the thrilling ride to the sky with the brave Mohawk Skywalkers, industrialist visionaries, and can-do immigrants, all of whom had the guts to go up when everyone else was down.
Book, Music & Lyrics by Caroline Sherman & Robert Hull
Directed by Cady Huffman
The cast of EMPIRE includes Danny Iktomi Bevins, Monique Candelaria, Devin Cortez, Morgan Cowling, Kaitlyn Davidson, Joel Douglas, Joseph Fierberg, Alexandra Frohlinger, Matt Gibson, Albert Guerzon, Julia Louise Hosack, Kiana Kabeary, Howard Kaye, TJ Newton, April Ortiz, Kennedy Perez, Paul Salvatoriello, J Savage, Robbie Serrano, and Ethan Saviet.
The creative team includes choreography by Lorna Ventura, scenic design by Walt Spangler, costume design by Tina McCartney, lighting design by Jamie Roderick, sound design by Shannon Slaton, music supervision & orchestrations by Lena Gabrielle, arrangements by Robert Hull & Lena Gabrielle, music direction by Gillian Berkowitz, props design by Brendan McCann, casting by tbd casting co. General Management is Visceral Entertainment, Company Manager is Tim Sulka for Visceral Entertainment, Production Management is by Tinc Productions. EMPIRE is produced by Gayla Merle Fossett & William G. Dean Theatricals and YuGu Productions, in association with The Rivet Gang (Lynne Walder, Esq., Katy Kinney.
Cole Escola and Bianca Leigh in Oh, Mary! — credit Emilio Madrid
MP: Oh, Mary! @ Lyceum Theatre through September 15, 2024
PF: Three Shakespeare productions around NYC
Much Ado About Nothing @ The Gene Frankel Theatre
Directed by Thomas G. Waites
A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ The Classical Theatre of Harlem, through July 28, 2024
Directed by Carl Cofield
Choreographed by Dell Howlett
Starring Russell Peters as Nick Bottom
Compagnia de’ Colombari: KING LEAR @ La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Compagnia de’ Colombari’s KING LEAR is a primal, physical, and potent “paper crown” Lear that strips the Shakespearian classic to its essence.
Directed & Adapted by Karin Coonrod with Original Music by Frank London
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Peter’s Brainteaser:
This 1970s film was a sequel to a film that had won a Best Picture Oscar in an earlier decade.
If you look within the title of the sequel, you’ll find a number of consecutive words that precisely spell out the name of a successful 1940s Broadway revue that also became a film.
What’s the film? What’s the revue?
Michael’s Musical Moments
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