Friday, June 9, 2023
After the musicians’ union raised objections to the show’s plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, the show agreed to use 12 musicians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMOur theater reporter talked to one-fifth of the Tony voters ahead of Sunday’s ceremony. Here’s hoping they steered him right.
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The poor air quality sent a star offstage mid-play and forced the cancellation of one of Broadway’s most popular musicals and the first two performances of Free Shakespeare in the Park.
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Each year we photograph Tony nominees, and talk with them about their craft. This year we focused on actors.
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Roundabout Theater Company’s flagship theater will honor Haimes, the transformational leader who died in April.
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The show is a highlight of the Public Theater’s new season, which will also include plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Itamar Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Ife Olujobi.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThe production, presented by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company, is to begin performances in February.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe play, which is scheduled to open in January 2024, joins a string of Broadway shows that confront antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad.
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The show plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, but a labor union says its contract for the theater requires musicians for musicals.
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The screenwriters’ strike threatened next month’s broadcast, a key marketing moment for the fragile theater industry. That’s when leading dramatists sprang into action.
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The Tony Awards ceremony had been in doubt ever since Hollywood’s screenwriters went on strike earlier this month.
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The Tony Awards, a key marketing opportunity for Broadway, can go ahead in an altered form after the striking screenwriters’ union said it would not picket this year’s broadcast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMThe strike by the Writers Guild of America is endangering the June 11 broadcast of the Tony Awards, one of the biggest marketing opportunities for an industry recovering from the pandemic.
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The Tonys, set to be telecast on June 11, are Broadway’s biggest marketing moment. But the strike by the Writers Guild of America means the show might not go on.
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The show features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who arrived on Broadway in 1971 and has had an unbroken streak of shows since 1979.
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What’s on Jessica Chastain’s mind as she spins onstage? Plus: Ben Platt’s silence, the “Fat Ham” ghost, the “Shucked” corn dance and all that “Sweeney” blood.
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The 31-year-old playwright received the honor for her first produced play, “English,” about a language test-prep class in Iran.
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Garrett began her tenure at the organization in August 2019, and plans to depart at the end of this month.
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The production, a revue celebrating the choreography of Bob Fosse, received no Tony nominations on Tuesday. Its last show will be Sunday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMThe musicals “New York, New York,” “Shucked” and “& Juliet” each got nine and “Kimberly Akimbo” picked up eight. Several major stars earned nominations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMJ. Harrison Ghee of “Some Like It Hot” was nominated in the best leading actor in a musical category, and Alex Newell of “Shucked” was nominated in the best featured actor in a music…
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The show about the Comedian Harmonists, a real-life sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime, was first staged in 1997.
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After rescuing the company from bankruptcy, he turned it into a major player on Broadway and one of the largest nonprofit theater companies in the country.
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The final day of “The Phantom of the Opera” was marked by a combination of nostalgia and celebration at the Majestic Theater. It is closing on an unexpectedly high note.
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We went backstage during one of the final performances before the show’s famous chandelier crashes down one last time. “The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest running show in the histo…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:20AMAs “The Phantom of the Opera” ends its record-breaking Broadway run on Sunday, its most devoted followers, who call themselves Phans, are mourning.
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The annual ceremony, honoring Broadway plays and musicals, is to take place June 11 at the United Palace in Washington Heights.
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