This Week on Broadway for October 21, 2012: Virginia Woolf, Cyrano, Lear and Barbara Cook
Summary: Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, The Other Josh Cohen, Barbara Cook, 85th Birthday Concert @ Carnegie Hall plus other events and news from around the Broadway community. 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 BroadwayStars The Sondheim Review Notes and links for the podcast. Reviews: PF + MP: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at The Booth Theatre • 222 West 45th Street • Between Broadway and 8th Avenue Steppenwolf Theatre Company MP + PF: Cyrano de Bergerac MP: King Lear American Bard Theater Company at the St. Mary’s, Times Square, Third Floor Theatre, 143 W. 46th St., NYC. Oct. 18–Nov. 4. (212) 352-3101 PF: The Other Josh Cohen SoHo Playhouse 15 Vandam Street, New York, NY Through November 11 MP: Barbara Cook, 85th Birthday Concert @ Carnegie Hall MP: Broadway Originals Ryan Silverman & Jill Paice perform at Broadway Originals (photo by Michael Portantiere) Rebecca performers Jill Paice & Ryan Silverman MP: Alan Menken tribute at National Arts Club w/Angela Lansbury Julia Murney, David Zippel, Lindsay Mendez and Tituss Burgess Honor Alan Menken at National Arts Club Oct. 21 By Adam Hetrick News: Feds Arrest Middle Man Financier for Rebecca Show by William K. Rashbaum In recent weeks, officials had begun scrutinizingMark C. Hotton his role in the deal and the show’s collapse. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION ‘Rebecca’ producers to file $100 million lawsuit against LI businessman by Mitchel Maddux “Rebecca the Musical’’ had to cancel its Broadway opening — but the behind-the-scenes drama is booked in two Manhattan courtrooms. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST SUBSCRIPTION Theatre Communications Group Releases 32nd Annual Report; Not-For-Profit Theaters Add $1.94 Billion to Economy by BroadwayWorld Not-for-profit theatres contributed nearly 1.94 billion to the U.S. economy and attracted 34 million attendees, according to Theatre Facts 2011. Released by Theatre Communications Group TCG,… LINKED FROM BROADWAYWORLD Horizon Theatre Rep Cancels The Balcony After Bedbugs Discovered Backstage By Adam Hetrick 19 Oct 2012 Horizon Theatre Rep’s production of The Balcony, which was slated to run Oct. 11-Nov. 4, has been indefinitely postponed due to a bedbug infestation backstage at the ArcLight Theatre on the Upper West Side, producers announced Oct. 19. Theater News: Barry Edelstein Named Artistic Director of Old Globe by Brian Scott Lipton Barry Edelstein has been named Artistic Director of San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, and will assume the position on November 1. He will work together with Managing Director Michael G. Murphy … LINKED FROM THEATERMANIA Theater News: Follies, The Iceman Cometh Take Top Honors at Chicago’s Jeff Awards by David Gordon The Goodman Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s musical Follies took the top honors a… LINKED FROM THEATERMANIA Philadelphia Barrymore Awards gone? Broadway’s Bring It On Cuts Extension Short; Sets New Closing Date by Beth Stevens Bring it On: The Musical has set a new closing date at the St. James Theatre. The musical will now play its final performance on December 30, 2012 instead of the previously announced January… LINKED FROM BROADWAY.COM How is Chaplin Doing? Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber calls on Go[...]
