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James Marino,Michael Portantiere,Peter Filichia

This Week on Broadway for April 13, 2025: BOOP!

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Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, BOOP! The Musical, The Last Five Years, NYTW’s production of Becoming Eve, and Marilyn Maye @ 54 Below

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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. Peter’s new day-by-day desk 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.

Show Tune for Today is:

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.

AN EVENING WITH SANDY DUNCAN at the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Cafe on Tuesday, May 13 at 7pm

The beloved Broadway, television, and film star Sandy Duncan will be the focus of an exclusive interview/audience Q&A program that will feature video clips of some of her greatest performances on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:00pm in the Laurie Beechman Theatre at the West Bank Café (407 West 42nd Street). The event will be moderated by longtime Drama Desk member Michael Portantiere (BroadwayStars.com). Admission for the general public is $19.70 (including service fee) plus a $25 food/drink minimum per person.

Sandy Duncan made some of her earliest NYC appearances in several shows at New York City Center in the 1960s, going on to debut on Broadway in The Canterbury Tales (1969). She won a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1970 Broadway revival of The Boy Friend, and her many other honors include further nominations by those organizations for her critically acclaimed, audience-favorite performance in the title role of Peter Pan (1979). Her TV credits include starring roles in the series Funny Face and The Hogan Family, plus countless appearances in musical specials, variety shows and talk shows, including more than one stint as a guest of The Muppets, while movie audiences love her for her work in The Million Dollar Duck, The Cat from Outer Space, and the animated film The Fox and The Hound.

For more information and/or to reserve tickets, go to https://www.showclix.com/event/lbt25-sduncan-250513

James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
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PF + MP: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends @ Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, through June 15, 2025

BOOP The Musical The Company. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman.

PF + MP: BOOP! The Musical @ Broadhurst Theatre

BOOP The Musical Jasmine Amy Rogers and Ainsley Melham. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

Jasmine Amy Rogers
Betty Boop
Jasmine is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in BOOP! The Musical after receiving rave reviews for her performance in the pre-Broadway Chicago run. Her theater credits include Anita in Jelly’s Last Jam (Pasadena Playhouse), Gretchen Wieners in the National Tour of Mean Girls, Melody Green in The Wanderer (Paper Mill Playhouse), and Francis in the world premiere of Becoming Nancy, directed by Jerry Mitchell (Alliance Theatre). TV credits include “Evil” on Paramount+. She was a Jimmy Awards finalist and appeared in Cabaret as Sally Bowles at the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied musical theater.

The Last Five Years – Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas. Photo by Matthew Murphy

PF + MP + JM: The Last Five Years @ Hudson Theatre, through June 22, 2025

The Last Five Years – Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas. Photo by Matthew Murphy

Tommy Dorfman in BECOMING EVE. Photo by Matthew Murphy.png

PF: NYTW’s production of Becoming Eve @ Abrons Arts Center, through April 27, 2025

Becoming Eve, written by Emil Weinstein (“A League of Their Own”), based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein (Sources of Pride), and directed by Tyne Rafaeli (Spain) at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002) for a limited run through April 27, 2025.

A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised. As we jump through memory—and wrestle with theology—truths and secrets emerge that ensure no one will read the old stories the same way again.

Joining the previously announced Rising Star Award winner Tommy Dorfman (Broadway’s Romeo + Juliet, “13 Reasons Why”) as Chava will be Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn (Fun Home) as Mami, Tedra Millan (Leopoldstadt) as Fraidy, Rad Pereira (“Betty”) as Chesky, Justin Perkins (Shank’s Mare) as Puppeteer, Emmy Award winner Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”) as Tati, Tony Award winner Brandon Uranowitz (Leopoldstadt) as Jonah and Emma Wiseman (Three Houses) as Puppeteer.

Khalifa White, Gabrielle Beckford, and Aveena Sawyer. Photo by Ashley Smith, Wide Eyed Studios.

PF: Dreamgirls @ Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia), through May 4, 2025

Gabrielle Beckford, Aveena Sawyer, Devin L. Roberts, and Khalifa White

Marilyn Maye performing at 54 Below, photo by Michael Portantiere

MP: Marilyn Maye @ 54 Below

News:

William Finn, Tony Winner for ‘Falsettos,’ Is Dead at 73
An acclaimed musical theater writer, he won for both his score and his book and later had a huge hit with “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”