Merrily We…Finish. July heats up. Stageworthy Information of the Week – New York Theater

A buddy writes in regards to the ultimate efficiency of Merrily We Roll Alongside on Sunday:

“The Merrily efficiency was so shifting. Price each penny. The group was excessive power   Noticed some folks with bottles of champagne. Standing ovations after many songs. A humorous second throughout “It’s a Hit” close to profitable a Tony sooner or later the place they handed across the fake Tony to each actor on the stage.” (see video of ultimate bow, under)

I had my very own Merrily encounter over the vacation weekend, an sudden one, after I re-watched  “Woman Hen.” The film is just seven years previous, however I couldn’t assist however see it in another way.  It’s not simply because so many within the forged are higher recognized now – it options Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lois Smith, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen McKinley Henderson (one of many newest Theater Corridor of Fame inductees; see under.) And never simply that the director who was making her solo directorial debut, Greta Gerwig,  has since gone on to helm one of many highest grossing movies of all time (That may be Barbie.)  However do you keep in mind the musical the children are placing on? It’s Merrily We Roll Alongside!

Talking of shock relevance in previous films. I rewatched Independence Day, and stumbled throughout this early scene:

White Home aide: They’re not attacking your insurance policies; they’re attacking your age..
President: Isn’t it superb how briskly everybody can flip towards you

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No one Cares: Laura Benanti in your ear

Laura Benanti’s autobiographical present is way from the primary reside efficiency that Audible has produced on the Minetta Lane Theater in an effort to flip it into an audiobook; the corporate has been releasing “Audible Originals” recorded in entrance of a reside viewers at that theater in Greenwich Village since 2018. However Benanti is definitely the primary to mock Audible for doing so, as she does from the very begin… Full evaluation

Rank 10 Broadway Musicals About American Historical past

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Broadway in Bryant Park 2024 Free Summer time Live performance Schedule
First up, this Thursday: “Again to the Future,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” “The Who’s TOMMY,”“The Wiz,” “Water for Elephants”

Broadway’s Suffs disrupted by protesters (Playbill)

The Theater Corridor of Fame 2024 inductees: actors Elizabeth Ashley (Take Her, She’s Mine; Cat on a Scorching Tin Roof), Boyd Gaines (Gypsy, The Heidi Chronicles), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Between Riverside and Loopy, Fences), and Donna Murphy (Ardour, The King and I); actor and playwright Charles Busch (The Story of the Allergist’s Spouse, Taboo); composer William Finn (Falsettos, A New Mind); playwright David Rabe (Sticks and Bones, Hurlyburly); and, posthumously, producer Todd Haimes, the late creative director of the Roundabout Theatre Firm.

The twenty sixth annual Broadway Barks returns to Shubert Alley on Saturday, August 3, 2024 to learn New York Metropolis animal rescue teams.

In Memoriam

Jon Landau, 63, producer of Titanic and Avatar (and Broadway producer of Springsteen on Broadway)
“His first publicity to filMMAking was by his mother and father, Ely and Edie Landau, who collectively produced bold impartial movies for a mass viewers, together with variations of stage performs by Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee and Bertolt Brecht. Many of those variations had been launched by a subscription service that the Landaus created known as the American Movie Theater”

(John’s sisters: Tina, Broadway director and librettist, and Kathy, govt director of Symphony House)

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