This Week on Broadway for January 12, 2025: Gypsy

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01/12/25

James Marino,Michael Portantiere,Peter Filichia

This Week on Broadway for January 12, 2025: Gypsy

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum @ Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, Eureka Day, Julie Halston @ Birdland, 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits! @ 54 Below, Book Review: King of Broadway by Dan Elish, and High Spirits: The 60th Anniversary Concert of An Improbable Musical Comedy @ 54 Below

GYPSY – Kevin Csolak & Joy Woods – Photo by Julieta Cervantes

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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 – has been released! 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:

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1992 Pulitzer winner “The Kentucky Cycle”, by Robert Schenkkan

Reviews:

GYPSY – Mylinda Hull, Joy Woods, Lesli Margherita & Lili Thomas – Photo by Julieta Cervantes

MP + JM: Gypsy @ Majestic Theatre

PF: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum @ Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA

Erin Weaver (Prologus/Pseudolus)
SIGNATURE: Private Jones (King), Into the Woods (The Baker’s Wife), Company (Amy, Helen Hayes Award), The Last Five Years (Cathy), Xanadu (Kira). NATIONAL TOUR: Les Misérables. DC AREA: Arena Stage: Newsies (Katherine), Mother Courage (Kattrin, Helen Hayes Award); Folger Theatre: Sense & Sensibility (Marianne, Helen Hayes Award: Ensemble), Romeo & Juliet (Juliet), Comedy of Errors (Luciana), Arcadia (Thomasina, Helen Hayes Award), The Tempest (Miranda); Round House Theatre: Oslo (Mona Juul), Or (Nell Gwynn, Helen Hayes Award), Ordinary Days (Deb, Helen Hayes Award), A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage (Mary), A Wrinkle in Time (Meg); Theatre J: Sheltered (Mrs. Kirsch); Kennedy Center: Me, Jane (Jane); Imagination Stage: You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown (Sally), Wonderland… (Alice). REGIONAL: California Shakespeare Theatre; Arden Theater Company; Two River Theater; People’s Light and Theater Co.

HARRISON SMITH
Protean & Hysterium Understudy
SIGNATURE: Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot, Crazy for You, Jesus Christ Superstar, Passion, Assassins; DC AREA: The Keegan Theatre: Merrily We Roll Along, Elegies (Helen Hayes nomination), Airness, Parade, American Idiot, Dogfight; Imagination Stage: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Round House Theatre: I’ll Get You Back Again, The Kennedy Center: Me, Jane (National Tour); 1st Stage: Floyd Collins, Airness, A New Brain. Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Newsies (Helen Hayes nomination); Prologue Theatre, Constellation, NextStop, and Mosaic. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Assassins; OTHER: One half of the band-baseball hat, hhaarriissoonn.com @hhaarriissoonn

JM: Eureka Day @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Joe Carroll understudy in for Thomas Middleditch

MP: Julie Halston @ Birdland
Photos: OUR TOWN’s Julie Halston Performs at Birdland

PF: Book — King of Broadway by Dan Elish

Peter is taking notes on William Golden’s The Season

MP: 54 Sings Broadway’s Greatest Hits! @ 54 Below
Music direction by Mark T Evans
John Easterlin (5x Grammy Award winner, The Phantom of the Opera)
Savannah Frazier (Amazing Grace)
Ben Jones (Musical theater, opera, & symphony concert star)
Talitha McDougall Jones
William Michals (Parade, South Pacific, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Bright Star)
MOIPEI (Kennedy Center, international concert artists)
William Ryall (13 Broadway shows, including 7 years in Wicked)
and more stars to be announced!

PF: High Spirits: The 60th Anniversary Concert of An Improbable Musical Comedy
January 6, 2025 @ 54 Below

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Next Week:

Peter’s Brainteaser:

He’s a character who was first seen in a play on Broadway during the first decade of the 20th century.

This same character was also in a musical revival in the last decade of the 20th century.

Furthermore, this character could also be found on Broadway in the ‘20s, ‘50s, ‘70s and ‘80s, too.

He lived in a European country, but let’s pretend – we’re pretending now, got it? – pretending! Let’s pretend that he left his family, went to another European country where he learned a different language, and fathered a daughter who took his last name. Her first and last name together would provide the full title of a Tony-losing musical.

No, admittedly nothing like this ever happened, for I’m just being silly. But who are these characters and in what properties can they be found?

Michael’s Musical Moments

Gypsy

Music Opener:

OPENER: “Gypsy” overture (film version), Jack Everly conducting the National Symphony Orchestra