This Week on Broadway for December 15, 2024: Adam Lambert in Cabaret

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12/15/24

James Marino,Michael Portantiere,Peter Filichia

This Week on Broadway for December 15, 2024: Adam Lambert in Cabaret

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Adam Lambert in Cabaret, Understudies.org, Duality @ A.R.T./New York Theatres, Ben Jones @ Birdland, Bedlam’s production of Music City: A New Musical, The Beautiful Land I Seek @ Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Michael’s YouTube Finds, News on the West Bank Cafe, and Stephen McKinley Henderson in Ted Danson’s new Netflix series: A Man on the Inside.

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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.

Ron Fassler’s new book. The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements

Donny Osmond in Little Johnny Jones

Fred Nathan, Press Representative

http://www.snlarchives.net/Episodes/?19820220

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.

Paul Guest Smith passed away.

James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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Pre:

All the Drama: The Great White Hope, 1969 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama was released for the general public this week.

Reviews:

CABARET Adam Lambert as Emcee photo by Julieta Cervantes

PF: Cabaret @ August Wilson Theatre

Adam Lambert singing John Kander and Fred Ebb’s haunting ballad “I Don’t Care Much” from Cabaret

MP: Understudies.org (by Nate Sykes!)

PF: Duality @ A.R.T./New York Theatres, through December 21, 2024

MP: Ben Jones @ Birdland, December 9, 2024
12/21 Chicago – @epiphanyarts201
1/25 Oakland – @piedmontpiano

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Bedlam’s Music City Photo by Ashley Garrett

PF: Bedlam’s production of Music City: A New Musical @ West End Theatre, through February 2, 2025
Bedlam, the company creating works of theater that reinvigorate traditional forms, presents the New York premiere of Music City: A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Billboard country chart-topping songwriter J.T. Harding and a book by Peter Zinn, staged by Bedlam Artistic Director Eric Tucker (beginning October 27 and opening November 17 at West End Theatre, 263 W. 86th Street). A celebration of country music that pushes against preconceived notions of the genre while rethinking the jukebox musical as a story-and-character-driven form, this new work brings audiences into a revelatory and thrilling take on the world of beers, sawdust, and sunshine.

Through soul-piercing ballads and heart-thumping show-stoppers, Music City draws viewers into a first-hand account of supremely talented unsung songwriters passing their time and sharing their art in an East Nashville watering hole. As their lives unfold around their songs—and their songs reveal the emotional contours of their lives—the musical also tells nuanced stories of America’s drug epidemic, the plights of those who join the military, and one struggling artist’s encounters with both these wars as he seeks success as a songwriter. The musical vitally asks: How is success measured when the journey to stardom is life or death? And: Can dedication and passion overcome the cycle of poverty?

PF: The Beautiful Land I Seek @ Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (aka Pregones/PRTT) through December 29, 2024
Written by Matthew Barbot
Directed by José Zayas
the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) It’s 1950. Oscar and Gris hurtle towards Washington, DC on a mission: strike in the name of Puerto Rican independence. When their trip goes off the rails, the two men confront familiar faces from the past, new questions about the future, and a tough decision to stay the course or get off the train. If only the other passengers would stop interrupting! Loosely based on historical events and definitely based on recent ones, the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) is a funny, gripping rollercoaster ride through Puerto Rico’s relationship to the United States.

The world premiere of the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo) is produced in collaboration with Latinx Playwrights Circle & Fault Line Theatre.

MP: YouTube Finds

ANGEL, Opening night Performance – May 10, 1978
Frances Sternhagen, Fred Gwynne , Don Scardino, Joel Higgins