This Week on Broadway for November 10, 2024: Walden @ Second Stage

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11/10/24

James Marino,Michael Portantiere,Peter Filichia

This Week on Broadway for November 10, 2024: Walden @ Second Stage

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Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk about Second Stage Theater’s production of Walden, DRAG: The Musical, Ragtime @ New York City Center, Teeth @ New World Stages, and Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now.

Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters in WALDEN

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Panel:

Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day wall calendar – A SHOW TUNE FOR TODAY – 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year – will be released soon, but is now available for pre-order on Amazon. 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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Pre:

All the Drama: Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire on ‘Rabbit Hole,’ 2007 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama released on Patreon this week. Released to general public

Reviews:

Zoë Winters, Motell Foster, and Emmy Rossum in WALDEN

PF: Second Stage Theater’s production of Walden @ Tony Kiser Theater

Second Stage Giving Up Its Off-Broadway Space By Logan Culwell-Block (February 23, 2024)
The company is still planning to produce Off-Broadway at a new venue to be determined.

Nick Adams and Alaska Thunderfuck with Nicholas Kraft, Kodiak Thompson and Teddy Wilson in DRAG: The Musical. © Matthew Murphy

MP + PF: DRAG: The Musical @ New World Stages

DRAG: The Musical, written by drag superstar Alaska Thunderf*ck, alongside her longtime musical collaborators: multi-platinum songwriter, Tomas Costanza and chart-topping songstress Ashley Gordon. The production is directed and choreographed by Spencer Liff (Broadway: Falsettos, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Head Over Heels; Television: “So You Think You Can Dance”).

In DRAG: The Musical, two Drag Houses, both alike in indignity, vie for supremacy in a wig-snatching journey of fashion, family, and forgiveness. After a bitter split, two estranged queens bring their already simmering tensions to a boiling point when they open competing clubs. In this queen-eat-queen tale of spite and survival, there’s only one rule: no lip-synching allowed.

The cast of DRAG: The Musical features Alaska Thunderf*ck as Kitty Galloway (through 1/11/25), Nick Adams as Alexis Gillmore, Lagoona Bloo as Tuna Turner, Jan Sport as Savannah St. James, Jujubee as The Tigress, Nick Laughlin as Puss Puss DuBois, J. Elaine Marcos as Gloria Schmidt/Rita LaRitz, Luxx Noir London as Popcorn, Eddie Korbich as Drunk Jerry, Remi Tuckman and Yair Keydar alternate the role of ten-year-old Brendan Hutchinson, and Joey McIntyre (through 11/24/24) plays the straight man, Tom Hutchinson.

Adam Pascal Will Be Drag: The Musical’s Token Straight

Loud: Patti LuPone complaining about noise at Hell’s Kitchen

The Roommate Producers share statement on Hell’s Kitchen sound issue

Nicole Scherzinger backlash for implied Trump support

Nicole Scherzinger Apologizes For Post-Election Social Media Post: “From A Place Of Love”
By Glenn Garner

PF + JM: Ragtime @ New York City Center, through November 10, 2024

MP: Teeth @ New World Stages, through January 19, 2025

PF: Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now @ New World Stages, through December 8, 2024
Tony Award Winner Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray), Tony Nominee Kerry Butler (Xanadu), Tony Nominee Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde) Celebrate 20 Years of Broadway Hits, Motherhood, And Lifelong Friendship.

Discussion:

Next Week:

Peter’s Brainteaser:

A performer won a Tony for playing her in a musical version of a 1980s film.

The character’s initials – not the actor’s, but that character’s — are the same as a famous title character from a very different 1980s film that won four Oscars.
Who won the Tony? Who was the character? What were her initials that are the same as the initials of the famous character from the acclaimed film?

Michael’s Musical Moments

Music Opener: