This Week on Broadway for August 25, 2024: Neil Berg

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08/25/24

James Marino,Michael Portantiere,Neil Berg,Peter Filichia

This Week on Broadway for August 25, 2024: Neil Berg

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Neil Berg about his latest show The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical.

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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.

James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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Guest: Neil Berg (website)

NEIL BERG (Composer, Co-Lyricist)
Neil Berg was thrilled to debut The Sabbath Girl at Penguin Rep! His Broadway bound, HENRY Award- winning musical, The 12, was recently produced at The Goodspeed Opera House, directed by John Doyle. Other musicals include Grumpy Old Men: The Musical (Cast Recording on Center Stage Records), Tim and Scrooge (BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Musical), The Prince and the Pauper (Off Broadway/ Lamb’s Theater), The Man Who Would Be King, False Profits. In development for Broadway: My Cousin Vinny (based on iconic movie). Also: Charlie Hustle (opening fall 2024 in Michigan), How My Grandparents Fell in Love (also written with Cary Gitter, opening 2025 at NJ Repertory Theater), and Never Grimm. Neil’s a proud Alum of Binghamton University, and the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Thank you, Susan Gurman, Penguin Rep, Cary, Andrew, and “Uncle” Joe! For Rita & Lucas.

Penguin Rep Theatre (Joe Brancato, Artistic Director/Andrew M. Horn, Managing Director) presents the Off-Broadway premiere of The 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.

This Week on Broadway for February 23, 2020: The Sabbath Girl @ 59e59

This Week on Broadway for October 1, 2023: Purlie Victorious (review of Neil’s “The 12” included in this episode)

Reviews:

MP: Melissa Errico in concert @ Provincetown Theater

Melissa Errico and Marilyn Maye in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Photo by Michael Portantiere

MP: Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Peregrine Theatre Ensemble

Discussion:

My First Book – Part 2, A Producer’s Life Continues by Julian Schlossberg

Julian Schlossberg: Website | Wikipedia | IBDB | IMDB

Next Week:

Peter’s Brainteaser:

The opening words of THE BOOK OF MORMON’s first song are also the opening words of a song that has been dropped from revivals of a Tony-winning musical.

What are the words and what’s the song?

Michael’s Musical Moments