Summary: Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Dave Lefkowitz about his upcoming show SHALOM DAMMIT. We also discuss NYMF shows, Cabaret film restored, the new Merrily recording, and This Week’s Headlines. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Follow Spot Theatrical Photography Notes and links for the podcast. Topics: PF: New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) – Best: Baby Case – Worst: How Deep is the Ocean – Good: Flambe Dreams – Good: Rio (Outstanding performance by — Tanesha Ross) MP: Cabaret (1972 film restoration at the Museum of Moving Image) MP: Merrily We Roll Along recording from Encores (and the changed ending/beginning for the recording) PF: A Grand Night For Singing @ Bucks County Playhouse Michael Musto doing talk back at End of the Rainbow Michael Feingold review of End of the Rainbow This Week’s Headlines: ArtsBeat: Michelle Obama And Daughters Visit Broadway by Patrick Healy On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Obama and her daughters saw “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Theater legend gets Act 2 by Michael Riedel Ask anybody who works in show business to name his favorite book about the theater, and I’ll lay you 10-to-1 the answer will be Moss Hart’s autobiography, “Act One.” Woody Allen, NEA… LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical ‘Nutty Professor’ by Dave Itzkoff At 86, Jerry Lewis is revisiting his past by directing a musical version of “The Nutty Professor” in Nashville. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Breaking News: The Gershwin’s PORGY & BESS Moves Broadway Closing Up to September 23, 2012 by BroadwayWorld Producers of the 2012 Tony Award Winner for Best Revival of a Musical, The Gershwins PORGY AND BESS, have announced that the show will conclude its limited engagement at the Richard Rodgers … LINKED FROM BROADWAYWORLD Evita’s Ricky Martin Speaks Out: ‘I Would Love to Do Broadway the Rest of My Life!’ by Broadway.com Ricky Martin is having “the time of his life” winning over Broadway audiences as Che in the Tony-nominated revival of Evita at the Marquis Theatre. The Grammy-winning superstar g… LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM Far From Heaven, With Kelli O’Hara, Tests Its Wings in Williamstown Starting July 19 by Adam Hetrick The new musical Far From Heaven, based on the 2002 Todd Haynes film about a 1950s Connecticut housewife whose world is turned upside-down, receives its developmental premiere July 19 at the … LINKED FROM PLAYBILL Bradley Cooper Takes on ‘The Elephant Man’ by Eric Grode Bradley Cooper will be the latest in a line of handsome actors playing the disfigured Elephant Man onstage when he opens in the role in Williamstown, Mass. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ArtsBeat: ‘Scandalous,’ Musical About Aimee Semple McPherson, Sets Broadway Opening by Patrick Healy The production, which originated at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle, has a book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford, and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ArtsBeat: Katie Holmes Will Return to Broadway in ‘Dead Accounts’ by Patrick Healy Ms. Holmes will play a woman who moves back home to take care of her aging parents in Theresa Rebeck’s family comedy. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Guest: Dave Lefkowitz TotalTheater Productions proudly announces the return of “SHALOM DAMMIT! An Evening with Rabbi Sol Solomon,” to NYC. Rabbi Sol will spend two glorious weeks at midtown Manhattan’s Roy Arias Theater Center, 3[...]
