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Tatianna Córdoba and Real Women Have Curves Company Photos By Julieta Cervantes / @j_cervantes
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Broadway Dream Roles (BroadwayCares), Seth Rudetsky’s The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience: Pippin, Salome @ The Met, Wonderful Town @ City Center, Just In Time, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men @ Theatre at St. Clement’s, and J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company production of Zorba.
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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 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: “Try to Remember” from The Fantasticks
Audra Calendar next year? She has 11 Tony noms…
Theater World Awards announced tomorrow
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.
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
Virtual Admission / Replay Access
James Marino | [email protected] | Facebook
BroadwayStars
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Pre:
All the Drama: “Lost in Yonkers”, 1991 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Reviews:
Real Women Have Curves Company Photos By Julieta Cervantes / @j_cervantes
PF + MP: Real Women Have Curves @ James Earl Jones Theatre
PF + MP: Dead Outlaw @ Longacre Theatre
Minetta Lane transfer from last season
MP: The inaugural Broadway Dream Roles @ Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 28, 2025
MP: Seth Rudetsky’s The Broadway Sitzprobe Experience: Pippin @ the Library for Performing Arts’ Bruno Walter Auditorium, May 2, 2025
MP: Salome @ The Met (Apr 29 – May 24, 2025)
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged heroine, who demands the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Derrick Inouye conducts two performances in May.
PF: Wonderful Town @ City Center, through May 11, 2025
Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical, Wonderful Town tells the story of two sisters in 1935 who move from Ohio to Greenwich Village to pursue their artistic dreams and maybe find love along the way. Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (Caroline, or Change) plays Ruth, an aspiring writer, and Aisha Jackson (Frozen) plays Eileen, an aspiring actress, who encounter an assortment of colorful characters as they strive and sing to delightful tunes by the great Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by legendary musical-comedy duo Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
JUST IN TIME – Gracie Lawrence & Jonathan Groff – Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
MP + JM: Just In Time @ Circle in the Square Theatre
JUST IN TIME – Erika Henningsen – Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman
MP WITH JONATHAN GROFF FOR DRAMA DESK, 2019 AT RIPLEY-GRIER:
Video by Susanna Bowling of Times Square Chronicles:
Photos from the event by Barry Gordin
PF: The Peccadillo Theater Company production of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men @ Theatre at St. Clement’s, through May 18th, 2025
It’s New York in the 1950s. Russell Parker, a ne’er-do-well barber and the widowed father of three adult children, spends his days playing checkers and reminiscing about his life in vaudeville as an old-style song and dance man. His two sons, Theo and Bobby, are dreamers of a different sort – a pair of petty criminals looking for a “score” in the form of ill-conceived and dangerous bootlegging and numbers schemes. Russell’s daughter, Adele, the only gainfully employed member of the family, eventually threatens to walk out, refusing to work herself into an early grave like her mother. When Adele’s long-simmering resentments boil over and the boys’ criminal enterprise falls apart, tragic consequences ensue for the whole family.
Norm Lewis Will Star in Ceremonies in Dark Old Men Off-Broadway by Logan Culwell-Block
Lonne Elder III’s play is returning to New York via Peccadillo Theater Company, Negro Ensemble Company, and Eric Falkenstein.
PF: J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company production of Zorba @ AMT Theater, through May 4, 2025
This powerful show from the creators of Cabaret and Chicago, tells the story of Zorba the Greek, a carefree vagabond, and his chosen friend, the unworldly Nikos, as they journey through the mountains of Crete and into the hearts and minds of that tight knit, yet fractious, community. The powerful score includes “Life Is,” “The Butterfly,” and “I Am Free.”
News:
Next Week:
Drama Desk + Tony Award Nominations
Peter’s Brainteaser:
The title of a song from an Irving Berlin hit is diametrically opposed – the polar opposite – of the title of a song from a Maltby and Shire revue.
What are the songs, and in what musicals did they appear?
Michael’s Musical Moments
MUSIC: REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
Music Opener:
OPENER: “Daydream”
Music Closer:
CLOSER: “Real Women Have Curves”
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