Episode # 533
Our focus is Newsies, the crowd-pleasing musical nominated for 8 Tony Awards. Joining us at our grand piano are the show's composer Alan Menken, and librettist Harvey Fierstein, who describe the popular show's incubation period, and perform several of the show's best songs, plus a couple of others that didn't make the cut. Menken also shares a tune from the score of the original 1992 movie of Newsies, which won him that year's "Razzie "Award for Worst Song.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 625
We devote the episode to Kinky Boots with Cyndi Lauper and librettist Harvey Fierstein who created the new musical (nominated for 13 TONY Awards).
Friday, May 17, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 535
Our guests are Rick Elice and Roger Rees, the writer and co-director of the Tony-nominated play, Peter and the Starcatcher, Elice's enchanting prequel to the children's classic Peter Pan. The show is nominated for nine Tony Awards (including Best Play) and is now on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 536
We focus on the landmark revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire with our guests, actors Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker, the first African Americans to play Stanley and Blanche on Broadway. Joining them is the show's producer Stephen C. Byrd. Also on the program, comedy great Rob Bartlett, writer and regular on Imus in the Morning, and celebrated Broadway supporting player, who most recently triumphed as Mr. Twimble and Wally Womper in How to Succeed in Businees Without Really Trying.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 537
Producer Emanuel Azenberg explains the business of Broadway from his perspective and gives us a good idea why he was awarded this year's Tony Award for "Life-time Achievement." Also, a "Tony Wrap-Up, 2012" with Jesse Green (New York Magazine), Michael Musto (The Village Voice), and Patrick Pacheco (LA Times) discussing this year's Tony telecast, the big winners, and the major upsets.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 538
Comedian/playwrights and political commentators Lewis Black and Nancy Giles review the Broadway shows Clybourne Park and The Columnist, and discuss the current state of the nation.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 539
A classic interview with the late Simon Gray, taped in 2006 when he was in New York to work on the Broadway revival of his acclaimed play Butley. The prolific British playwright, memoirist and wit wryly discussed the inspiration for the "darkly comic" perspective in his work (including The Common Pursuit and The Smoking Diaries) that made him one of the most revered writers of his generation.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 601
Playwright/screenwriter and essayist Bruce Jay Friedman on developing his successful literary career as a humorist, which is the subject of his latest book Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 602
Our guest is writer Christopher Bram, author of Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, his rich and sweeping chronicle of gay authors, dramatists, and poets in post-WWII America and how they influenced the course of literary history. He discusses the lives of major male homosexual writers including: Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg and others -- men whose work helped change the informed straight world's perception of their sexuality from fear and contempt to acceptance, and now, in many cases, adulation.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 603
We discuss the career of Broadway's all-time greatest star Ethel Merman with Tony Cointreau and James Russo. The close personal friends of the late diva, now archivists of her estate, share stories and keepsakes of the incomparable star.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 604
Jesse Green, of New York Magazine, and Michael Musto, of The Village Voice, join us with critic Adam Feldman of Time Out New York to look ahead to the fall season. We talk about the plays and musicals that are scheduled to open on Broadway and Off, as well as Rebecca, the musical adaptation of the du Maurier novel that now seems to be permanently cancelled due to a mysterious state of affairs among the investors.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 605
Author Ethan Mordden discusses his new book Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, a dual biography about two of the twentieth century's most influential artists.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 627
Critics Ben Brantley of The New York Times and Peter Marks of The Washington Post are joined by fledgling critic Joan Rivers of The Beverly Hills Courier to review some of the top shows of the Broadway Season. Among the new productions they discuss are: Kinky Boots, Lucky Guy, Matilda, The Nance and Pippin.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 531
Our guests are playwright Richard Bean, Tony-nominated director Nicholas Hytner and Tony-nominated actor James Corden - the writer, director and star respectively of the new hit comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors. Based on the Eighteenth Century Goldoni farce, The Servant of Two Masters, Bean's freewheeling adaptation is set in 1960's Brighton. In an interview taped just two days after the British import's triumphant New York opening, the trio discusses the work that made the show a success and share the enthusiasm that comes with being out-of-town artists who have scored on Broadway.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 530
In a classic Theater Talk encore, writer Gore Vidal talks about The Best Man, his timeless political drama, currently being revived on Broadway. The play speaks as relevantly about politics today as it did when it was first produced in 1960. Vidal also discusses his close acquaintance with other political figures ranging from J.F.K. to his "Cousin Albert" (who was about to lose the election when we did this interview with Vidal in 2000).
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 529
Our guest is the revered cabaret performer Marilyn Maye, who reminisces about her lengthy career as one of the most sought-after jazz singers and interpreters of popular song. Beginning as a pre-teen vocalist in Iowa, Maye eventually appeared 76 times on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (his most frequent guest), and she continues to dazzle audiences even now (playing this week at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency in New York City). Ms. Maye is accompanied on piano by Don Rebic.
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 624
We devote this episode to Matilda, Broadway's new musical (nominated for 12 TONY Awards). Taped the day after the show's Broadway gala opening in April, our guests are librettist Dennis Kelly, composer/lyricist Tim Minchin and actor Bertie Carvel, who plays the terrifying Ms. Trunchbull. All three are TONY nominees for their contributions to this show. Topics include, the key to successful musical theater, the amazing working habits of Roald Dahl (whose 1988 children's classic is the inspiration for their show), and differentiating between Ms. Trunchbull's massive boil and wart. Matilda was originally created as a Christmas show in 2010 for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Back then, "we weren't thinking about dollars," says Minchin. That said, the show was already looking at an approximately $17 million advance, the day after it opened.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 527
Actors Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy discuss their roles in David Ives' play Venus in Fur. They talk about working with director Walter Bobbie to stage this drama, which was inspired by the 19th-century novel, Venus in Furs, by Leopold von Sacher-Mason. Also, a conversation with composer Michael Gore and librettist Lawrence D. Cohen, creators of the notorious musical Carrie, another show based on a classic novel, in this case by Stephen King. Joining them is 3-time-Tony nominee Marin Mazzie, star of the current Off-Broadway revival of the show.
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 526
Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan discuss their careers bringing musical theater to film and television. They also discuss their innovative new NBC TV series Smash, a show about the making of a Broadway musical.
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 525
Our favorite knight, the lyricist and librettist Sir Tim Rice joins us to discuss his celebrated shows Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, both of which are currently being revived on Broadway. Rice also talks about his new show, From Here to Eternity, a musical adaptation of James Jones' World War II novel, and shares a few dry observations about Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's new reality TV show in Britain, on which the public will pick "Jesus" for an upcoming UK stadium tour of Superstar (not to be confused with the critically celebrated version directed by Des McAnuff, playing in NYC now).
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 524
Critic and columnist John Heilpern (Vanity Fair) discusses the life and work of the groundbreaking British playwright John Osborne (1929-1994), the subject of Heilpern's outstanding and critically-acclaimed biography, John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man. Osborne transformed the British theater with his 1956 play Look Back in Anger (now being revived in NYC at The Roundabout Theatre). He became one of England's most revered and successful writers, all the while suffering from bouts of depression, self-destructive drinking and hidden anguish. Heilpern shares his insights on the writer's profound influence, as well as his troubled, and sometimes cruel, personality.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 523
We pay tribute to our beloved colleague, the late critic Howard Kissel with a rebroadcast of our award-winning 2009 program, "A Walk through The Players Club." On this show Kissel, a writer, actor and frequent contributor to our program, guided us through The Players Club, a landmark of the American theater and shared stories with us about the people and events connected with it.
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 522
Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer joins us to discuss his revealing memoir In Spite of Myself. Also on board to review Plummer's critically-acclaimed autobiography, is our regular critic and commentator John Simon.
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Friday, May 03, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 521
A conversation about Wit, the searing drama about a woman's struggle with maintaining her self-awareness and sense of humor while grappling with a mortal illness. Playwright Margaret Edson discusses the revival of her 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, along with the current production's director Lynne Meadow, the Artistic Director of The Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 520
A discussion of the new Broadway play, Seminar with its writer Theresa Rebeck, and actors Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater who play an arch writing coach and two of the students struggling to learn from him.
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 519
Broadway Spring Season Preview 2012, with journalists: Jesse Green of New York Magazine, Michael Musto of The Village Voice, and Patrick Pacheco of The L.A. Times.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 518
We interview Kevin Spacey about his portrayal of Richard III in the internationally-acclaimed production, now at BAM. The celebrated actor explains how he devised his stunning way of portraying Shakespeare's evil protagonist. Spacey also discusses his role as Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre in London and why, in the midst of a successful Hollywood career, he took on this responsibility.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:30 AM
Episode # 621
Writer/performer Jesse Eisenberg joins us to talk about his Off-Broadway play The Revisionist in which he co-stars with Vanessa Redgrave. In a freewheeling conversation, the extraordinarily forthright Eisenberg, discusses how he went from being a kid doing children's theater in Queens, to becoming a celebrated and accomplished dramatist and (Academy Award-nominated) actor, now appearing in his own work opposite one of the world's greatest actresses. At the end of the show, we remember actor Richard Griffiths who died in late March. Griffiths joined us twice on our program, once when he appeared on Broadway in his Tony Award-winning performance in The History Boys, and again two years later with Daniel Radcliffe when they co-starred in Equus. He was a great man and a brilliant entertainer, and we will miss him.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 517
Critics Scott Brown (New York Magazine), Jacques le Sourd (WCBS Radio) , David Richardson (WOR), and Elisabeth Vincentelli (New York Post) evaluate the current Broadway season. Among the shows they discuss are: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Road to Mecca and Seminar.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 622
Our guests are actor Michael Urie and playwright Jonathan Tolins of Buyer & Cellar, Tolins's new hit comedy at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, inspired by an unlikely subject, Barbra Streisand's lavish coffee table book, My Passion for Design. In this ingenious and original play, Urie gives a bravura solo performance as the out-of-work actor hired to maintain a private mall of shops Streisand has created for herself in the basement of her barn, containing her vast hoard of fabulous stuff. He spends his days waiting to serve the mall's only customer, Streisand, and then she arrives... Also on the program, we welcome the President of The New York Drama Critics' Circle, Adam Feldman of Time Out New York, and Backstage's Suzy Evans, for a "Broadway Update." As the theater season draws to a close with a "glut" of new openings (15 Tony-eligible shows in the month of April), they survey the terrain and point out the brightest and darkest spots on the horizon.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 516
Actors Patrick Page, Isabel Keating and Michael Mulheren, members of the cast of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, discuss what was really going on behind the scenes during the longest preview period for a show in Broadway history. They talk about working with the musical's original director, Julie Taymor, and how, after 183 previews, (and despite injuries, cast rebellion and mean-spirited press coverage) this production has become a fan favorite and one of the best-selling shows now on Broadway.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 515
We discuss the life of the British playwright/wit and performer Noel Coward as seen through his correspondence, with Coward scholar Barry Day, critic John Simon and actress Elaine Stritch (for whom Coward wrote the musical Sail Away).
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 514
Actors Elaine Paige and Ron Raines discuss their roles in the hit Broadway revival of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Follies, now a hit at the Marquis Theatre. Also on the show, The New York Times' Charles Isherwood explains why he is refusing to review the plays of the celebrated writer Adam Rapp any longer, and how his decision could be a boon to both the playwright and his newspaper's readers.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 513
Actors Kurt Peterson and Harvey Evans, two company members of the original 1971 cast of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Follies are joined by producer Ted Chapin (a "gofer" for the original production), author of When Everything Was Possible: The Birth of The Musical 'Follies.' Next up, we toast the New Year with Jackie Hoffman (of Hairspray and The Addam's Family), who starred in the soon-to-be holiday classic Jackie Hoffman's A Chanukah Carol.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:30 AM
Episode # 620
We help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vineyard Theatre with actors Linda Lavin and Colman Domingo, as well as the venerated New York City's not-for-profit's Artistic Director, Douglas Aibel. They discuss some of the many notable productions that have originated at this downtown cultural hotspot, including: the Pulitzer Prize winners Three Tall Women and How I Learned to Drive, the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, and Domingo's one-man show, A Boy and His Soul.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Length : 26 min
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Episode # 512
Forget those premium Broadway ticket prices! We've got Hugh Jackman, Broadway's biggest star. We spend a half-hour with the versatile and popular entertainer. Jackman talks about his love for Broadway, his sellout show, Hugh Jackman -- Back on Broadway and its meaning for him now and in the future. He also discusses his upbringing in a single-parent home in Australia and his beginnings in musical theater.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 621
Writer/performer Jesse Eisenberg joins us to talk about his Off-Broadway play The Revisionist in which he co-stars with Vanessa Redgrave. In a freewheeling conversation, the extraordinarily forthright Eisenberg, discusses how he went from being a kid doing children's theater in Queens, to becoming a celebrated and accomplished dramatist and (Academy Award-nominated) actor, now appearing in his own work opposite one of the world's greatest actresses. At the end of the show, we remember actor Richard Griffiths who died in late March. Griffiths joined us twice on our program, once when he appeared on Broadway in his Tony Award-winning performance in The History Boys, and again two years later with Daniel Radcliffe when they co-starred in Equus. He was a great man and a brilliant entertainer, and we will miss him.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 511
Writer Douglas Carter Beane and composer Lewis Flinn discuss their new Broadway show Lysistrata Jones, a cheeky musical based on the Aristophanes classic. Also, drama critic Jason Zinoman of The New York Times talks about "new horror" films, the subject of his book Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 510
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara talk more about their 57 years together in show business, as well as their separate acting careers in theater. Ms. Meara remembers writing her successful Off-Broadway dramatic comedy, After-Play and Stiller recalls his resistance to creating the character of the bad guy in David Rabe's Hurly Burly on Broadway.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 509
We welcome the great Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who together and separately have had long careers in all aspects of show business. The couple talks about their early career when they first came to national attention as a comedy team on TV's Ed Sullivan Show before moving into successful "legit" careers on stage.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 508
Our guests are writers Moises Kaufman, Jose Rivera and Paul Rudnick, all contributors to Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, which just opened in New York City at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Also on the program, playwright David Henry Hwang who's critically acclaimed new comedy/drama, Chinglish, about the linguistic and cultural difficulties of Americans visiting China, is now on Broadway.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 507
We welcome cast of The Book of Mormon: Josh Gad, Rory O'Malley, Andrew Rannells and Tony-winning Best Featured Actress, Nikki M. James, who detail their participation in the process of creating this Broadway blockbuster. Also on the show, Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon's Tony-winning co-director, and choreographer, who is credited with giving this hit musical "the Broadway magic" it needed.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 620
We help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Vineyard Theatre with actors Linda Lavin and Colman Domingo, as well as the venerated New York City's not-for-profit's Artistic Director, Douglas Aibel. They discuss some of the many notable productions that have originated at this downtown cultural hotspot, including: the Pulitzer Prize winners Three Tall Women and How I Learned to Drive, the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, and Domingo's one-man show, A Boy and His Soul.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 506
Actor Frank Langella, now appearing in Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy at The Roundabout Theatre Company. The master performer discusses playing a sinister financier, the central character of this drama. Although Rattigan wrote this play in 1963, it resonates with modern audiences, evoking the shock of the Madoff scandal, among others. Langella also talks about his upcoming book, Dropped Names, in which he reminisces about many of the interesting eminent people whom he got to know throughout his lengthy career in show business.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 505
Actors Elaine Paige and Ron Raines discuss their roles in the spectacular Broadway revival of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's Follies, now a hit at the Marquis Theatre. Also on the show, New York Times critic Charles Isherwood explains his responsibilities, as he sees them, as one of the most powerful theater critics in the world, and why he has decided to no longer review the plays of the celebrated writer Adam Rapp.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 504
Actors Patrick Page, Isabel Keating and Michael Mulheren, members of the cast of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, discuss what was really going on behind the scenes during the longest preview period for a show in Broadway history. They talk about working with the musical's original director, Julie Taymor, and how, after 183 previews, (and despite injuries, cast rebellion and mean-spirited press coverage) this production has become a fan favorite and one of the best-selling shows now on Broadway.
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 503
Peter Gelb, General Manager of The Metropolitan Opera, discusses coordinating this massive cultural organization and his initiative to revitalize the company's repertory with new productions of classic operas, many staged by the most prominent theater directors of today.
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Monday, April 08, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:30 AM
Episode # 619
We focus on the new Broadway musical, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. Joining us are two of its stars, Tony winner Victoria Clark, who plays the Fairy Godmother, and Ann Harada, who has the role of Cinderella's stepsister (whom she emphatically describes as not "mean," but "misguided" and "delusional"). Also on the panel are the show's lead producer Robyn Goodman and dramatist Douglas Carter Beane, who has created a new book for the show, originally written by Oscar Hammerstein II for a 1957 telecast, starring Julie Andrews.
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Sunday, April 07, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 502
Our panel of theater experts, Jesse Green of New York Magazine, Michael Musto of the Village Voice and Patrick Pacheco of the LA Times, look ahead to the new Broadway season. Among the shows they discuss are Follies, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Bonnie & Clyde, Lysistrata Jones, The Mountaintop, Stick Fly, Chinglish and the controversy surrounding The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
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Saturday, April 06, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 619
We focus on the new Broadway musical, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. Joining us are two of its stars, Tony winner Victoria Clark, who plays the Fairy Godmother, and Ann Harada, who has the role of Cinderella's stepsister (whom she emphatically describes as not "mean," but "misguided" and "delusional"). Also on the panel are the show's lead producer Robyn Goodman and dramatist Douglas Carter Beane, who has created a new book for the show, originally written by Oscar Hammerstein II for a 1957 telecast, starring Julie Andrews.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 501
Critics John Heilpern (Vanity Fair) and John Simon, along with British actor Edward Hibbert, discuss and debate the artistry and significance of Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), one of the most prolific and important British playwrights of the 20th century. Rattigan's centenary has been celebrated all year in the UK, and is about to be observed in New York City with the revival of his 1963 play Man and Boy, starring Frank Langella.
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Thursday, April 04, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 602
Our guest is writer Christopher Bram, author of Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America, his rich and sweeping chronicle of gay authors, dramatists, and poets in post-WWII America and how they influenced the course of literary history. He discusses the lives of major male homosexual writers including: Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg and others -- men whose work helped change the informed straight world's perception of their sexuality from fear and contempt to acceptance, and now, in many cases, adulation.
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 601
Playwright/screenwriter and essayist Bruce Jay Friedman on developing his successful literary career as a humorist, which is the subject of his latest book Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir.
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Length : 26 min
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12:00 AM
Episode # 618
We welcome celebrated young playwright Amy Herzog to discuss her new play, Belleville. Herzog talks about the lengthy process it took her to create this work, as well as her other recent stage successes, After the Revolution and 4000 Miles. Next we head to Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to interview legendary restaurateur Joe Allen. Allen opened his eponymous restaurant, Joe Allen, in 1965 on a drug-infested block of the Theater District and by doing so, helped pioneer the highly-successful Restaurant Row, now one of the principle go-to spots for visitors to Broadway.
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Monday, April 01, 2013
Length : 26 min
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