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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Charles Busch. Reviews include The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical @ 59e59, Job @ Hayes Theater, and Summertime: Awa Sal Secka Sings Ladies of Jazz @ Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
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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] | Facebook
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Guest: Charles Busch
photo by Eric Stephen Jacobs
https://www.charlesbusch.com/biography
CHARLES BUSCH has forged a unique place in the world of entertainment as playwright, actor, director, novelist, cabaret performer and drag icon. He is the author and star of over twenty-five plays including The Divine Sister, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, The Tribute Artist, The Confession of Lily Dare and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; one of the longest running plays in the history of Off-Broadway. His play The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife ran for 777 performances on Broadway, won the Outer Circle Critics’ John L. Gassner Award for playwrighting, received a Tony nomination for Best Play and is the longest running Broadway comedy of the past twenty-five years.
He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. For two seasons, he appeared as Nat Ginzburg on the HBO series OZ and is the author of the auto-biographical novel Whores of Lost Atlantis. He has directed two films; the Showtime short subject, Personal Assistant, and a feature, A Very Serious Person, which won an honorable mention at the Tribeca Film Festival. His most recent film is the comedy caper The Sixth Reel starring Charles along with Julie Halston, Margaret Cho and Tim Daley. In 2003, Mr. Busch received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright and was given a star on the Playwrights Walk outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre. He is also the subject of the documentary film The Lady in Question is Charles Busch.
He is a two-time MAC award winner, a Bistro Award Honoree and has performed his cabaret act in many cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, London, Paris, Barcelona and New York. In winter of 2016, his show The Lady at the Mic premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series.
His autobiography Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy was published by BenBella Books.
Charles was among the 2024 inductees in New York’s Theater Hall of Fame.
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Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy by Charles Busch
A film Charles loves: Make Mine Mink
Story about Julie Andrews
Chat about Cole Escola
Previously on BroadwayRadio: This Week on Broadway for December 25, 2016: Charles Busch
Reviews:
PF + MP: The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical @ 59e59, through September 1, 2024
Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director/Andrew M. Horn, Managing Director) invites you and a guest to attend a press performance of the Off-Broadway premiere of A Sabbath Girl: A New Musical, with book by Cary Gitter, lyrics by Neil Berg and Cary Gitter, music by Neil Berg, and conceived and directed by Joe Brancato at 59E59 Theaters – Theater A (59 East 59th Street between Madison and Park Aves).
In The Sabbath Girl, Angie Mastrantoni has a lot going for her: her own art gallery, a new apartment, but not much time for romance … until a neighbor unexpectedly knocks on her door. A sparkling new musical about big-city life and the possibility of finding love when you’re least looking for it – maybe even right down the hall.” The Sabbath Girl had its world premiere at Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, NY this past May.
PF + MP: Job @ Hayes Theater, through September 29, 2024
MP: Summertime: Awa Sal Secka Sings Ladies of Jazz @ Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
News:
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Peter’s Brainteaser:
She was in the original casts of musicals composed by Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Loesser, and Irving Berlin –
in that order.
One of the creators of one of these musicals was her husband, at least for a few years.
Who is she and, more to the point, what does she have in common with Audra McDonald?
Michael’s Musical Moments
Penguin Rep Theatre presents THE SABBATH GIRL: A NEW MUSICAL
Book by Cary Gitter
Lyrics by Neil Berg & Cary Gitter
Music by Neil Berg
Conceived and Directed by Joe Brancato
With Marilyn Caserta, Diana DiMarzio, Rory Max Kaplan, Lauren Singerman, and Max Wolkowitz
Angie Mastrantoni has a lot going on: her own art gallery, a new apartment, but not much time for romance… until her divorced Orthodox Jewish neighbor, Seth, unexpectedly knocks on her door.
A sparkling new musical about big-city life and the possibility of finding love when you least expect it – maybe even right down the hall.
Video by Zanni Productions
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