This Week on Broadway for February 18, 2012: Shatner Returns to Broadway




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Summary: Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Shatner’s World, How I Learned to Drive, Godspell Cast Recording, Myths and Hymns, Merrily, Seth Rudetsky’s DISASTER! and Zina Bethune. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Newark Star Ledger Masterworks Broadway: Tuesday Kritzerland: Friday MTI Blog James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook Topics: Peter: Shatner’s World We Just Live In It William Shatner @ IBDB Michael: How I Learned to Drive Michael: Godspell Cast Recording Michael: Myths and Hymns Michael: Merrily We Roll Along Michael: Seth Rudetsky’s DISASTER! Exit Introductions Zina Bethune obituary: Dancer, choreographer and actress dies at 66 by Dennis McLellan And Victoria Kim The animal-loving Zina Bethune was struck by two cars and killed when she apparently got out of her vehicle to check on an injured possum. LINKED FROM LOS ANGELES TIMES Scott Rudin hits the EGOT jackpot by Gold Derby It’s been 10 years since anyone joined the pantheon of people who’ve won the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony), but now Scott Rudin is among the immortals who include Mel Brooks, John Gielgud, Whoopi Gol… LINKED FROM GOLD DERBY List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards Waltzing to get ‘Matilda’ by Michael Riedel A hit musical to producers is like red meat to carnivores. When one comes along, they scrap and claw for a hunk and then tear into it with abandon. The show they’re salivating over right now is “Matilda,”… LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST Leslie Uggam PIPE DREAMS Julie Taymor Reaches SPIDER-MAN Settlement; All the Details! by BroadwayWorld The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society SDC and 8 Legged Productions LLC, the Producer of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, have reached a settlement of all pending litigation between them. LINKED FROM BROADWAYWORLD ArtsBeat: ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ Musical Delayed by Patrick Healy Sheldon Epps, the artistic director of the Playhouse, said in a statement that “our desire to ‘get it right’ led us to the wise decision to give this project additional time for further creative development.” LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES   Next Week: ‘CQ/CX’ dramatizes Jayson Blair scandal at NY Times by Joe Dziemianowicz The title of Gabe McKinley’s new play “CQ/CX” looks like the makings of a lousy Scrabble hand. It’s actually newspaper lingo related to fact-checking and that looms large in this fictionalized … LINKED FROM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Explicit: No Music: Godspell New Broadway Cast Recording   Save The People Day By Day Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: 646-873-7695 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm Direct Link to MP3 File