James Marino: The Bottom Line
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2010-07-18T09:51:55-05:00This Week on Broadway for July 18, 2010: The Devil & Eve
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With rumors of trouble in Phantom's Love Never Dies and the creative team (director Jack O'Brien and choreographer Jerry Mitchell) now focused on Catch Me If You Can, will this be an opportunity for Aspects to come to New York?
]]>James Marino2010-07-18T09:51:55-05:00This Week on Broadway for July 11, 2010: Hot (Outdoor) Theater
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Music:
The opening music is "We Open In Venice" from the original cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate; the exit music is "Moving Uptown" from the original Broadway cast recording of The Wild Party (LaChiusa).
]]>James Marino2010-07-11T09:42:31-05:00This Week on Broadway for July 4, 2010: Broadway's Supermen
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On The Levee
@LCT3 (Lincoln Center) at The Duke on 42nd Street
What shows or songs should we be listening to today?
Explicit: No
Possible topics next week: The Grand Manner, Merchant of Venice, Winter's Tale, Race
NYMF $ (New York Musical Theatre Festival)
Trevor Nunn and the new London production of Les Miserables
Music:
The opening music is "You've Got Possibilities" from the original cast recording of It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, and the exit music is "The Egg" from the 1997 revival cast recording of 1776.
]]>James Marino2010-07-04T09:51:50-05:00This Week on Broadway for June 27, 2010: The Lion Circumcised
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]]>James Marino2010-06-27T09:54:18-05:00This Week on Broadway for June 20, 2010: Father Knows Best
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Matthew and Peter will be seeing The Merchant of Venice & The Winter's Tale @ Delacorte Theater in Central Park soon!
Music:
"Nunsense Is Habit-Forming" from the original London cast recording of Nunsense used as the entrance music and "Six Months Out of Every Year" from the original Broadway cast recording of Damn Yankees used as the exit music.
]]>James Marino2010-06-20T20:03:46-05:00This Week on Broadway for June 14, 2010: The Tony Awards Postmortem
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]]>James Marino2010-06-14T21:15:59-05:00This Week on Broadway for June 6, 2010: The Tony Awards Predictions
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This is the order of categories in the discussion: Following each category is a time code so that you can skip to the category.
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (2:48)
- Jude Law (Hamlet)
- Alfred Molina (Red)
MP - Liev Schreiber (A View from the Bridge)
- Christopher Walken (A Behanding in Spokane)
KD, PF, MM - Denzel Washington (Fences)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (5:17)
KD, PF, MM - Viola Davis (Fences)
- Valerie Harper (Looped)
MP - Linda Lavin (Collected Stories)
- Laura Linney (Time Stands Still)
- Jan Maxwell (The Royal Family)
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (7:08)
MM - Kelsey Grammer (La Cage aux Folles)
- Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises)
KD, MP - Douglas Hodge (La Cage aux Folles)
- Chad Kimball (Memphis)
PF - Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (10:23)
- Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow)
MM - Montego Glover (Memphis)
- Christiane Noll (Ragtime)
- Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture)
PF, KD, MP - Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (12:45)
MM - David Alan Grier (Race)
PF - Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences)
MP, KD - Jon Michael Hill (Superior Donuts)
- Stephen Kunken (Enron)
- Eddie Redmayne (Red)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (15:32)
- Maria Dizzia (In the Next Room or the vibrator play)
MM - Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family)
- Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge)
KD, MP, PF - Scarlett Johansson (A View from the Bridge)
- Jan Maxwell (Lend Me a Tenor)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (18:10)
- Kevin Chamberlin (The Addams Family)
KD, MP - Robin De Jesús (La Cage aux Folles)
MM - Christopher Fitzgerald (Finian's Rainbow)
- Levi Kreis (Million Dollar Quartet)
PF - Bobby Steggert (Ragtime)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (20:40)
MM - Barbara Cook (Sondheim on Sondheim)
KD, PF, MP - Katie Finneran (Promises, Promises)
- Angela Lansbury (A Little Night Music)
- Karine Plantadit (Come Fly Away)
- Lillias White (Fela!)
Best Choreography (23:40)
- Rob Ashford (Promises, Promises)
PF - Bill T. Jones (Fela!)
MM - Lynne Page (La Cage aux Folles)
KD - Twyla Tharp (Come Fly Away)
Best Direction of a Play (25:50)
KD - Michael Grandage (Red)
- Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall)
MM, PF - Kenny Leon (Fences)
MP - Gregory Mosher (A View from the Bridge)
Best Direction of a Musical (28:29)
- Christopher Ashley (Memphis)
- Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Ragtime)
PF, MM, MP - Terry Johnson (La Cage aux Folles)
KD - Bill T. Jones (Fela!)
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (30:52)
PF - The Addams Family (Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa)
- Enron (Music: Adam Cork Lyrics: Lucy Prebble)
- Fences (Music: Branford Marsalis)
MM, KD, MP - Memphis (Music: David Bryan Lyrics: Joe DiPietro, David Bryan)
Best Revival of a Play (36:55)
KD, MM, PF - Fences
- Lend Me a Tenor
- The Royal Family
MP - A View from the Bridge
Best Revival of a Musical (39:56)
- Finian's Rainbow
PF, MM, MP, KD - La Cage aux Folles
- A Little Night Music
- Ragtime
Best Book of a Musical (42:52)
- Fela! (Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones)
PF, MM - Memphis (Joe DiPietro)
- Million Dollar Quartet (Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux)
MP, KD - Everyday Rapture (Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott)
Best Play (47:35)
- In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Author: Sarah Ruhl)
MP - Next Fall (Author: Geoffrey Nauffts)
PF, KD - Red (Author: John Logan)
MM - Time Stands Still (Author: Donald Margulies)
You heard it here first: Justin Bieber is staring in A Few Good Men.
Music:
The opening music is the overture from the original cast recording of Camelot and the exit music is "The Music and the Mirror" from A Chorus Line.
]]>James Marino2010-06-06T19:08:52-05:00This Week on Broadway for May 30, 2010: Spidey's Back!?
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[ NYT ] Why, It's Good Old Reliable Nathan By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
I WOULDN'T dare to venture an opinion as to who is the greatest actor to appear on Broadway in the past decade or so. Most accomplished diva? Definitely won't touch that. But the greatest entertainer? That one is easy: Nathan Lane.
Music:
The entrance music is the prologue from the original cast recording of City of Angels and the exit music ("It Sucks to Be Me" from the original cast recording of Avenue Q.
]]>James Marino2010-05-30T18:25:20-05:00This Week on Broadway for May 23, 2010: Awards are Taking Flight
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Music:
The opening music is "I Ain't Down Yet" from the original cast recording of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and the exit music is "Some People" from the original cast recording of Gypsy.
]]>James Marino2010-05-23T09:48:46-05:00This Week on Broadway for May 16, 2010: The Kid's Got Potential
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Panel:
Matthew Murray
Peter Filichia
James Marino
News:
A 2010 Tony nomination for Best Costume Design for Santo Loquasto has been withdrawn.
TheatreWorld Awards
Peter is off to see "Johnny Baseball" a new musical, at A.R.T. (American Repertory Theatre) directed by Diane Paulis
Kristin Chenoweth, Sean Hayes, Newsweek, Glee, et al
Aaron Sorkin in Huffington Post
Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post and is for sale
Miss Saigon Marines: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Law & Order final season: 4000 jobs and $1 billion dollars into NYC economy
Music:
The opening music is "I Don't Think I'll End It All Today" from the original cast recording of Jamaica, the closing music is "Beautiful Girls" from the original cast recording of Follies.
]]>James Marino2010-05-16T09:51:34-05:00This Week on Broadway for May 9, 2010: Enronic
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Panel:
Matthew Murray
Peter Filichia
James Marino
News: Tony nominations
Are we taking Nathan Lane for granted? He has six Broadway shows since The Producers and he has not been nominated for any of them.
Are the nominations where the "art" happens and the voting where the "commerce" happens?
Jo Loesser was on NPR talking about Daniel Radcliffe auditioning for her for the upcoming "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" revival (#H2$). Word is, he can sing!
]]>James Marino2010-05-09T11:32:51-05:00This Week on Broadway for May 4, 2010: Tony Noms
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Listing of the 2010 Tony Nominations can be read here.
David Caddick - Music Supervisor
Ben Cameron - Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Kathleen Chalfant - Actor
Hope Clarke - Stage Director/Choreographer/Actor
Thomas Cott - Marketing Director, Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Jacqueline Z. Davis - Executive Director, The NY Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
Michael D. Dinwiddie - Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Edgar Dobie - Managing Director, Arena Stage Washington, DC
Teresa Eyring - Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group
Paulette Haupt - Director of the Music Theatre Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center
Elena K. Holy - Founder, The International Fringe Festival
Geoffrey Johnson - Casting Director (retired)
Robert Kamlot - General Manager (retired)
Michael Kantor - Television Director/Producer/Writer
Robert Kimball - Author
Pia Lindstrom - Arts Reporter
Howard Marren - Composer
Laurence Maslon - Associate Arts Professor, Graduate Acting Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York
Donna McKechnie - Actor/Choreographer
Jon Nakagawa - Producer, Contemporary Programming - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Alice Playten - Actor
Theresa Rebeck - Playwright
Donald Saddler - Choreographer
Susan H. Schulman - Director
Tamara Tunie - Actor
William Tynan - Actor/Reporter (retired)
Kimberlee Wertz - Music Contractor
Doug Wright - Playwright/Screenwriter
Andrew Zerman - Casting Director (retired)
Music:
The opening and closing music is the overture from Gypsy.
]]>James Marino2010-05-04T20:27:51-05:00This Week on Broadway for May 1, 2010: Fencing
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Panel:
Matthew Murray
Peter Filichia
James Marino
Note: Peter is calling in from the road (University of Oklahoma @ Norman). The call quality is not as good as we normally have. ie: it is us, not you!
]]>James Marino2010-05-01T10:10:10-05:00This Week on Broadway for Apr. 25, 2010: iSondheim
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Music from Sondheim on Sondheim:
"You Could Drive A Person Crazy" - Barbara Cook & Tom Wopat
"Children Will Listen" - Vanessa Williams
"Loving You" - Barbara Cook
]]>James Marino2010-04-25T23:50:01-05:00This Week on Broadway for Apr. 18, 2010: American Folles
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Note: This episode was recorded on Sunday, April 18th, but was released on Tuesday night, April 20th, so that American Idiot could open before we gave a review of it.
Enron... (has more producers than actors... 17 actors, 30+ producers)
Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, ACT
Productions, Caro Newling, Neal Street Productions, Beverly Bartner
and Norman Tulchin, Lee Menzies, Bob Boyett, Scott M. Delman, INFINITY
Stages, JK Productions, The Araca Group, Jamie deRoy, Mallory Factor,
Michael Filerman, Ian Flooks, Ronald Frankel, James Fuld, Jr., Dena
Hammerstein, Sharon Karmazin, Cheryl Lachowicz, Ostar Productions,
Parnassus Enterprise, Jon B. Platt, Judith Resnick, Daryl Roth, Stein
and Gunderson Company, Anita Waxman, The Weinstein Company, Barry and
Carole Kaye, Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, Fran and Barry
Weissler and The Shubert Organization (Phillip J. Smith: Chairman;
Robert E. Wankel: President); Associate Producer: Jeremy Scott
Blaustein
