Summary: Michael Portantiere, Aileen McKenna and James Marino talk with Marc Kudisch about The Holiday Guys Hanu-Mas Concert. We also discuss The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and the week’s news. 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: Aileen McKenna | the.tacular@gmail.com | Twitter | Facebook The Craptacular BackStage.com 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. Guest: Marc Kudisch http://www.marckudisch.net/ The Holiday Guys 2012 Hanu-Mas Concert Itinerary: Nov 29 – Dec 2 Monmouth University, Monmouth, NJ Dec 6 – 9 (Second year!) MusicalFare Theatre, Buffalo NY Dec 11-16 Signature Theatre, Arlington VA (Wash. DC area) Dec 18-31 (yes, that’s right…New Year’s Eve!) The York Theatre Company, New York City ASSASSINS: One Night Only – December 3, 2012 @ Studio 54 The 2004 Tony Award–winning cast of Assassins returns for a Benefit Concert Reading of the show that gives new meaning to the phrase “killer musical.” With a stylish Stephen Sondheim score and a provocative book by John Weidman, Assassins brings to the stage some of history’s most notorious players—the men and women who attempted to kill American presidents. Reviews: The Mystery of Edwin Drood @ 54 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike @ LCT News: ArtsBeat: ‘Miss Firecracker’ to Open on Broadway by Patrick Healy Beth Henley’s play “The Miss Firecracker Contest” will be mounted on Broadway this spring and star the Emmy-nominated actress Amber Tamblyn. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Samuel French Selects Bruce Lazarus for New Executive Director by Adam Hetrick Bruce Lazarus has been named the new executive director of Samuel French Inc., overseeing company strategy, marketing and business affairs, the play publishing and live performance rights or… LINKED FROM PLAYBILL ArtsBeat: Mike Tyson, ‘Chaplin’ Announce National Tours by Jennifer Schuessler The boxer’s one-man show will begin a 36-city tour in Indianapolis in February. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Merrily We Roll Along – review by Michael Billington Menier Chocolate Factory, London Although it famously flopped on Broadway in 1981, this Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical has been re-evaluated in fine British revivals at Leicester Hayma… LINKED FROM THE GUARDIAN ArtsBeat: ‘King Kong’ Producer Eyeing Spider-Man’s Broadway Lair by Patrick Healy The new musical, based on the famed movie about a rampaging ape, is first scheduled to open in Melbourne, but a New York run could come later. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES SUBSCRIPTION MP correction: Saigon – Chandelier analogy ArtsBeat: ‘Scandalous’ Producers Keep Faith in a Struggling Show by Patrick Healy The show’s creator, Kathie Lee Gifford, and two of the lead producers, Dick and Betsy DeVos, have kept the show running in hopes that it will find a larger audience at the box office. LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES Gangnam (Broadway) Style video? BCEFA Gypsy of the Year Vive ‘Les Miz’: B’way abuzz over film version by Michael Riedel At last Broadway has a hit! The only trouble is, you won’t find it on the stage. The theater world’s buzzing about Cameron Mackintosh’s “Les Misérables” movie. Not since “Chicag… LINKED FROM THE NEW YORK POST Post Script: Dead Accounts Working @ 59e59 Bare Explicit: Yes Music: The Holiday Guys in Happy Merry Hanu-Mas produced by Mike Croiter, Yellow Sound Label God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Peace On Earth by I. Fraser, L. Grossman & A. Kohan Contact I[...]
