GRACE NOTES: Monday, December 21, 2020

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Wishing everyone a glorious, joyous, healing, and laugh-filled holiday. Despite this past year, we all have much to celebrate. I am particularly grateful for your support over the past 22 years. 

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Holiday Highlights:

Monday, December 21

*Broadway’s Great American Songbook: The Holiday Gala, hosted by Michael Feinstein. directed by Barry Kleinbort, with special guests Jeremy Benton, Kylie & Kaydin Kuioka, Cheryl Stern, Haley Swindal, The Skivvies, Donna McKechnie, and Richard Maltby Jr. & David Shire, and performances by Ben Vereen, Lillias White, Klea Blackhurst, George Abud, Robert Creighton, Karen Mason, Lee Roy Reams, and Alton Fitzgerald White, streams at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.

* A Tennessee Christmas FREE virtual concert, featuring Patrick Cassidy, Jim Caruso, Liz Callaway, Linda Lavin, Lesli Margherita, Julia Murney, and Brandy Inez Sutton, streams at 8 PM ET here.

* Moulin Rouge FREE conversation, hosted by Ruthie Fierberg, featuring Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Danny Burstein, Sahr Ngaujah, and Robyn Hurder, streams at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y.

Tuesday, December 22

* A Christmas Carol, adapted by Theresa Rebeck & Erin Daley, directed by Rebeck, featuring Raúl Esparza (Scrooge), Mary Bacon, Abadi Bacon Leynse, Kimberly Chatterjee, W. Tré Davis, Davis Mason, Krysta Rodrigues, and Matthew Saldivar, concludes FREE streaming here.

Wednesday, December 23

* Holiday Cabaret FREE benefit concert, directed by Lorin Latarro, featuring Kate Baldwin, Beth Malone, Charity Angél Dawson, Aaron Kaburick, J. Harrison Ghee, and Emily Britt, streams at 6 PM MT at Theatre Aspen (also Dec. 27).

Thursday, December 24

* The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus presents (At) Home for the Holidays concert, with special guests Laura Benanti, Bianca Del Rio, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the San Francisco Philharmonic, and more, which streams at 5 PM PT.

* A Christmas Carol, adapted by Jack Thorne, directed by Matthew Warchus, featuring Andrew Lincoln (Ebenezer Scrooge), Melissa Allan, Rosanna Bates, John Dagleish, Tim van Eyken, Sam Lathwood, Eugene McCoy, Myra McFadyen, Gloria Obianyo, Maria Omakinwa, Golda Rosheuvel, Michael Rouse, Clive Rowe, and Sam Townsend, with Rayhaan Kufuor-Gray, Lara Mehmet, Lenny Rush, and Eleanor Stollery sharing the role of Tiny Tim, closes virtually at London’s Old Vic.

Friday, December 25

* Two By Two: The 50th Anniversary Virtual Concert, in support of The Actors Fund, directed by Walter Willison, featuring original Broadway cast members Walter Willison & Karen Ziemba, along with Nikita Burshteyn, Frank Calamaro, Marcy DeGonge Manfredi, N’Kenge, Michael Notartonato, and Sophia Tzougro, begins streaming here (and available through Dec. 28).

* Save West Bank Cafe telethon, featuring Betty Buckley, Debra Messing, Martha Plimpton, Alice Ripley, Joe Iconis, Ian Amritage, Lewis Black, Kevin Chamberlin, Megan Hilty, Kerry Butler, Telly Leung, Ryann Redmond, Leslie Kritzer, Nick Adams, Jacki Cox, Alison Fraser, Diana DeGarmo & Ace Young, Cheri Oteri, BenDeLaCreme, Isaac Mizrahi, Perez Hilton, David Eigenberg, Dylan Baker, Warren Light, and more, streams for FREE ET here.

Saturday, December 26

* Sondheim Unplugged concert, featuring Darius DeHaas, Natalie Douglas, Telly Leung, T. Oliver Reid, Nicholas Rodriguez, and Lucia Spina, streams at 8 PM ET (and available through Jan. 9) at 54 Below.

Sunday, December 27

* Holiday Cabaret FREE benefit concert, directed by Lorin Latarro, featuring Kate Baldwin, Beth Malone, Charity Angél Dawson, Aaron Kaburick, J. Harrison Ghee, and Emily Britt, streams mat 6 PM MT at Theatre Aspen.

* A Musical Christmas Carol (2018 filmed production), directed by Scott Evans, featuring Richard Thomas (Scrooge), Allison Cahill (Ghost of Christmas Past/Peg), Justin Fortunato (Fred, Businessman), Daniel Frontz (Tiny Tim), Lisa Ann Goldsmith (Mrs. Cratchit), Ashton Guthrie (Tom Watkins/Dick Wilkins), Luke Halferty (Town Crier/Young Scrooge/Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come), Tim Hartman (Mr. Fezziwig, Ghost of Christmas Present), Jeffrey Howell (Bob Cratchit), Daniel Krell (Marley’s Ghost/Young Marley), Alex Manalo (Alice/Laundress), Julia Paladino (Missy Watkins/Martha Cratchit), Benjamin Kent Pimental (Peter Cratchit), Corwin Stoddard    (School Master/Topper), Erika Strasburg (Belle, Bess)m and Terry Wickline (Mrs. Fezziwig/Mrs. Dilber), with Zanna Fredland, Lara Hayhurst, Gavan Pamer, Allan Snyder, Joe Chufo, Jack Engel, Rachel Grant, and Chloe Griffin, concludes streaming at Pittsburgh CLO.

* The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus‘ Sweet Is the Sound: A Holiday at Home With (Chosen) Family, concludes streaming.

* Merry Christmas Darling: Heidi Kettenring Sings Karen Carpenter concludes streaming on demand at Goodspeed Musicals.

Monday, December 28

“When you choose to lose yourself, who knows what you might find.” (Aladdin)

Tuesday, December 29

“The Lunch Room” FREE talk show, with special guest Norm Lewis, streams at 12 PM ET at Cambridge’s A.R.T.

Wednesday, December 30

“Heart don’t fail me now. Courage don’t desert me.” (Anastasia)

Thursday, December 31

* “United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America” concert & interview, featuring Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Renée Fleming, Anna Deavere Smith, Josh Groban, Morgan James, Jamie Barton, Joshua Bell, Denyce Graves, Soloman Howard, Juanes, Patti LaBelle, Yo-Yo Ma, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, along with The American Pops Orchestra (conducted by Maestro Luke Frazier), and the National Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Maestra JoAnn Falletta), streams at 8 PM ET & 9:30 PM ET on PBS (check local listings).

* A Christmas Carol — An Audio Play, adapted by Jessica Thebus, Neena Arndt & Richard Woodbury, directed by Thebus, featuring Asher Alcantara (Boy Scrooge/Peter Cratchit), Justin Amolsch (Musician), Kareem Bandealy (Jacob Marley), Dee Dee Batteast (Frida), Ariana Burks (Martha Cratchit/Catherine), Thomas J. Cox (Bob Cratchit), Allen Gilmore (Abe), Cindy Gold (Mrs. Fezziwig), Greg Hirte (Dick Wilkins), Susaan Jamshidi (Mrs. Cratchit), Vikram Konkimalla (Tiny Tim), Jennifer Latimore (Belle), Aurora Real De Asua (Ghost of Christmas Past), Christopher Sheard (Young Scrooge), Paris Strickland (Emily Cratchit), Bethany Thomas (Chost of Christmas Present), Penelope Walker (Mrs. Fezziwig), Andrew White (Narrator), and Larry Yando (Ebenezer Scrooge), concludes FREE streaming at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

* Christmas on the Rocks, with plays by John Cariani, Jeffrey Hatcher, Jenn Harris & Matthew Wilkas, Jacques, Lamarre, Theresa Rebeck, and Edwin Sanchez, conceived & directed by Rob Ruggiero, featuring Harry Bouvy, Jenn Harris, Randy Harrison, Matthew Wilkas, and Ted Lange, concludes streaming at TheatreWorks Hartford.

* The Night Before Christmas: In Concert, featuring The Sound of Blackness singers — Jamecia Bennett, Nneka Costantino, Layce Dreamz, Kadejsha Kibble, Lorrie Lean, Ayenna Davis, Bridget Dawkins, Carrie Harrington, Micah Cherina Eubanks, Artisha Knight-Milon, Quintin Brown, Steve Dinkins, Len Jones, Ronnie Allen, Rodney Fair, Graydon Francis, and David Hurst, concludes streaming at St. Paul’s Ordway.

Friday, January 1

* It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play, adapted by Joe Landry, and filmed & edited by Michael Kushner, featuring Lauren Molina, Nick Cearley, and Debbie Christine Tjong, concludes streaming on-demand at Laguna Playhouse.

* Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure, directed & choreographed by Amber Mak, featuring Johnny Shea (Peter Pan), Elizabeth Stenholt (Wendy Darling), Cameron Goode (John Darling), Carter Graf (Michael Darling), James Konicek (Hook/Mr. Darling), Rengin Altay (Storyteller), Sean Patrick Fawcett (Smee), Roberta Burke (Mrs. Darling/Cecco), Jonathan Butler-Duplessis (Nana/Bill Jukes), Christina Hall (Starkey), Colin Lawrence (Curly), Michael Kurowski (Tootles), John Marshall Jr. (Slightly Soiled), and Travis Austin Wright (Nibs), concludes FREE streaming at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

Saturday, January 2

* A Christmas Carol – The Musical Staged Concert, adapted by Alan Menken, Lynn Ahrens & Mike Ockrent, directed by Shaun Kerrison, featuring Brian Conley (Ebenezer Scrooge),  Jacqueline Jossa (Emily/Ghost of Christmas Future), Matt Jay-Willis (Bob Cratchit), Lucie Jones (The Ghost of Christmas Past), Sandra Marvin (Mrs. Fezziwig), Martyn Ellis (Mr. Fezziwig), Cedric Neal (The Ghost of Christmas Present, Jeremy Secomb (Jacob Marley), Rebecca Lock (Mrs. Cratchit), and Sam Oladeinde (Fred Anderson/Young Scrooge), closes at London’s Dominion Theatre.

* Meet Me in St. Louis — A Holiday Special in Song and On Screen, adapted & directed by Charlotte Moore, featuring Shereen Ahmed, William Bellamy, Rufus Collins, Kerry Conte, Melissa Errico, Ali Ewoldt, Kathy Fitzgerald, Ian Holcomb, Austyn Johnson, Jay Aubrey Jones, Kylie Kuioka, Ashley Robinson, and Max Von Essen, concludes streaming at Off-Broadway’s Irish Rep.

Sunday, January 3

* The Comeback, written by & starring Ben Ashenden & Alex Owen, directed by Emily Burns, closes at London’s Noël Coward Theatre.

* George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, featuring Maria Kowroski (Sugarplum Fairy), Tyler Angle (Her Cavalier), and Megan Fairchild (Dewdrop), with Sophie Thomopoulos (Marie), Adam Hendrickson (Herr Drosselmeier), Kai Misra-Stone (the Nutcracker), Lauren King (Marzipan), Ashley Hod & Peter Walker (Hot Chocolate), Georgina Pazcoguin (Coffee), Spartak Hoxha (Tea), Daniel Ulbricht as Candy Cane, Preston Chamblee as Mother Ginger, Mira Nadon), Unity Phelan (Flowers), India Bradley & Rachel Hutsell (Harlequin & Columbine), Roman Mejia (Soldier), Silas Farley (Mouse King), Ask la Cour (Dr. Stahlbaum), and Marika Anderson (Frau Stalbaum), concludes streaming at NYC Ballet.

* This is Who I Am, by Amir Nizar Zuabi, directed by Evren Odcikin, featuring Ramsey Faragallah (Dad) and Yousof Sultani (Son), concludes streaming at Cambridge’s A.R.T.

* A Christmas Carol, adapted by Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons, Dane Laffrey & Michael Arden, directed by Arden, starring Jefferson Mays (playing over 50 character), concludes streaming at Boston’s Huntington Theatre.

* A Merry Little Christmas Carol, written & directed by Mark Shanahan, featuring Paxton Whitehead (Ebenezer Scrooge), Brian J. Carter (Bob Cratchit), Joel de la Fuente (Fred), Sana ‘Prince’ Sarr (Street Urchin/Peter Cratchit), Triney Sandoval (Jacob Marley), Mia Dillon (Mrs. Dilber), Geneva Carr (The Ghost of Christmas Past), Mark Shanahan (Mr. Creakle), Pear Fan), Richard Henry (Old Fezziwig), Joe Delafield (Dick Wilkins), Danielle Davenport (Belle), Britney Coleman (The Ghost of Christmas Present), Sarah Manton (Mrs. Cratchit), Catherine Shanahan (Martha Cratchit), Theo Adamson (Tiny Tim), John Gromada (The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come), and Mark Lamos (Narrator), concludes streaming at Westport Country Playhouse.

* Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist, world premiere by John Caird & Paul Gordon, directed by Caird, featuring Betsy Wolfe (Estella), Clifton Duncan (Philip ‘Pip’ Nicleby), Lauren Patten (Dawkins), Patrick Page (Mr. Merdle), Carolee Carmello (Maria Havisham), Danny Burstein (Ebenezer Scrooge), Megan McGinnis (Betty Cratchit), Adam Halpin (Bob Cratchit), Sarah Litzsinger (Sissy Jupe), Tom Nelis (Dedlock), Em Grosland (Smike), Phoenix Best (Charity/Mercy), David Bryant (Mr. Podsnap), Gabrielle Reid (Mrs. Pumblechook), Samuel Lee Roberts (Mr. Flopson), Michael Francis McBride (Mr. Dombey), Michele Lee (Mrs. Noggs), Kristen Faith Oei (Ms. Skiffins), Meg Gibson (Molly), William Youmans (Magwitch/Bagstock), Kevyn Morrow (Jasper Jaggers), Joziyah Jean-Felix (Young Pip), Brooklyn Shuck (Young Essy), and Willow McCarthy (Tiny Tammy), concludes streaming at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre.

* Carmen Cusack: Therapy concert concludes streaming at Las Vegas’ The Space.

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  GRACE NOTES Quiz:  Accentuate the Negative by Jim Bernhard

 Supply the missing words in these titles that all express a negative:

1.  No, No, _____  …Never…Nellie…Nanette…Bananas (Musical by Otto Harbach, Frank Mandel, Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar)

2.  No Time for ____   …Love…Make-Believe…Hanky-Panky…Sergeants (Play by Ira Levin)

3.  The Lady’s Not For ____   …Me…You…Burning…Prohibition (Play by Christopher Fry)

4.  I Never____  for My Father   …Sang…Danced…Cooked….Lied  (Play by Robert  Anderson)

5.  Never Too ____   …Much…Late…Old…Drunk (Play by Sumner Arthur Long)

6.  Love Never ____   …Lasts…Disappoints…Dies…Fails (Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber et al)

7.  You Never Can____   …Tell…Succeed…Escape…Help (Play by George Bernard Shaw)

8.  I’m Not ____   ….Nixon…Telling…Going…Rappaport (Play by Herb Gardner)

9.  Not About ____    …Streetcars…Nightingales…Us…Anything (Play by Tennessee Williams)

10.  Nobody Loves An ____  …Albatross…Accountant…Aardvark…Artist (Play by Ronald Alexander)

Scroll down for the answers…

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“All the Girls,” featuring Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert will be released Fri. Dec. 25  in digital & streaming formats, while the CD will be released Fri. Jan. 15 here. The recording celebrates womanhood in all its complexities and expressions.

1. “You Are My Best Friend,” (Rebecca & Sally), by Will Aronson & Kyoung-Ae Kang, from My Scary Girl (2009)

2. “Lovely Lies” (Rebecca), by Jeff Blumenktrantz & Beth Blatt

3. “What Did You Do to Your Face” (Sally), by Susan Werner

4. “Everybody Says Don’t” (Rebecca & Sally), by Stephen Sondheim, from Anyone Can Whistle, 1964

5. “There Are Delicacies” (Rebecca), by Joseph Thalken, poem by Earle Birney

6. “I Have Loved Hours at Sea” (Sally), by Joseph Thalken, poem by Sara Teasdale)

7. “Marilyn Miller” (Rebecca & Sally), by Joseph Thalken, poem by Dorothy Parker

8. “Shows we could have starred in together” (Rebecca & Sally) — “The Wrong Note Rag” (Wonderful Town), “Marry the Man Today (Guys & Dolls), “Nowadays (Chicago), “Every Day a Little Death” (A Little Night Music),

9. “A QUOI Bon Dire (Rebecca), by Joseph Thalken, poem by Charlotte Mew

10. “War Song” (Sally), by Joseph Thalken, poem by Dorothy Parker

11. “Isn’t This Better” (Rebecca & Sally), by Funny Lady, 1975

12. “Millwork” (Sally) by James Taylor, from Working (1971)/”I Could Have Been a Sailor” by Peter Allen

13. “Not Funny” (Rebecca), by Michael Heitzman & Ilene Reid

14. “Be Careful (Rebecca & Sally), by Patty Griffin/”Dear Theodosia (Hamilton, 2015) by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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  Video: “Help is on the Way,” by David Freidman, featuring Andrea Burns, Kerry Butler, Hailey Kilgore, Norm Lewis, Karen Mason, Howard McGillin, Maureen McGovern, Hugh Panero, Anika Noni Rose, Anne Runolfsson, L. Steven Taylore, and Rachel York, with Jaime Babbitt, Janie Barnett, Emily Bindiger, Dana Calitri, Angela Cappelli, Barry Carl, Amy Englehardt, Annie Etkin, Diane Garisto, Carolee Goodgold, Kyle Gordon, Nikki Gregoroff, Kevin Hayes, Leah Horowitz, Doug Katsaros, Victoria Levy, Sherryl Marshall, Deborah Berg McCarthy, Elise Morris, Tucker Murray, Kevin Osborne, Marcia Pelletiere, Liz Queler, Paul Rolnick, Eugene Ruffolo, and Gavin Spencer.

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  A Merry Little Christmas Carol, written & directed by Mark Shanahan, continues through Jan. 3 at Westport Country Playhouse.

  Paxton Whitehead (Ebenezer Scrooge), Brian J. Carter (Bob Cratchit), Joel de la Fuente (Fred), Sana ‘Prince’ Sarr (Street Urchin/Peter Cratchit), Triney Sandoval (Jacob Marley), Mia Dillon (Mrs. Dilber), Geneva Carr (The Ghost of Christmas Past), Mark Shanahan (Mr. Creakle), Pear Fan), Richard Henry (Old Fezziwig), Joe Delafield (Dick Wilkins), Danielle Davenport (Belle), Britney Coleman (The Ghost of Christmas Present), Sarah Manton (Mrs. Cratchit), Catherine Shanahan (Martha Cratchit), Theo Adamson (Tiny Tim), John Gromada (The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come), and Mark Lamos (Narrator).

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  A filmed performance of David Bowie & Enda Walsh’s Lazarus, directed by Ivo Van Hove, will stream Jan. 8-10, to mark Bowies birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death. Donations will support Theatre Artists Fund and Help Musicians. here.

Michael C. Hall and Sophia Anne Caruso.

  Thomas Newton is an alien who “remains still on Earth — a ‘man’ unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. We follow Newton during the course of a few days where the arrival of another lost soul might set him finally free.

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“The Theatre Channel” will launch Dec. 23 here (scroll down). Each episode includes several standalone performances, filmed on location at London’s Theatre Café.

Episode 1: Welcome To The Café
* Tarinn Callender performs “On Broadway” (Smokey Joe’s Café)
* Carrie Hope Fletcher & Oliver Ormson perform “Suddenly Seymour”
* Matt Henry performs “Let it Sing” (Violet)
* Lucie Jones performs “Maybe This Time”
* Jodie Steele performs “Heaven on Their Minds” (Jesus Christ Superstar)
* Lucie Jones performs “Maybe This Tim”
* Jenna Russell performs “Ladies Who Lunch”
* The Café Four performs “Coffee In A Cardboard Cup”

Episode 2: Musical Horrors
* Aime Atkinson performs “Dead Mom” (Beetlejuice)
* Linzi Hateley performs “When There Is No One” (Carrie)
* Bradley Jaden & Sophie Isaacs perform “Life After Life” (Dracula)
* Ria Jones performs “Last Midnight” (Into The Woods)
* Trevor Dion Nicholas performs “The Time Warp”
* Josh Piterman performs “The Confrontation” (Jekyll and Hyde)
* Jordan Shaw performs “Transylvania Mania” (Young Frankenstein)

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  Video: Free stream of NYC’s 92Y’s May 2018 Lyrics & Lyricist’s show, “Lynn Ahrens: A Life in Music,” directed by Jason Danieley, featuring Nikki Renée Daniels, David Harris, Margo Seibert, Brandon Uranowitz, and Alton Fitzgerald White.  (1:55:30)

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   A reading Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 will stream Dec. 6-30 at Stony Point, NYC’s Penguin Rep, directed by Joe Brancato.

Anne Dowd (Nora), Lawrence Arancio (Torvald), Emily Arancio (Emmy), and Angelina Fiordellisi (Ann Marie).

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   Godspell in concert (filmed Aug. 2020 the UK’s Manchester Hope Mill Theatre), directed by Michael Strassen, will begin streaming Dec. 22 on Broadway on Demand.

Ruthie Henshall, Jenna Russell, Sam Tutty, Ria Jones, Jodie Steele, Danyl Johnson, Jenny Fitzpatrick, Natalie Green, John Barr, Sally Ann Triplett, Matthew Croke, Alison Jiear, Shekinah McFarlane, Lucy Williamson, Ronald Brian, and Jerome Bell.

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NYC’s 92Y has offered the following conversations for free through Dec. 26:

* Hugh Jackman and Annette Insdorf  here.

* Anna Deavere Smith  here

* Paul Giamatti reads “Bartleby”  here

* John Lithgow and Alan Alda  here

* Michael J. Fox  here

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Lincoln Center‘s Big Band Holiday is now available to stream through Dec. 26.

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 The national tour of Moulin Rouge! has rescheduled its tour dates. Originally set to premiere in Nov. 2020 in New Orleans, the production will now run tech rehearsals and have its official premiere Feb. 26, 2022 – Apr. 24, 2022 at Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre, with additional dates TBA.

Casting and additional information TBA.

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VA’s Signature Theatre has released Episode 8 of The Signature Show here, directed by Kelly Crandall d’Amboise.

Rachel Barlaam, Kurt Boehm, Kerry Epstein, Mark G. Meadows, Katie Mariko Murray, Inès Nassara, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Nova Y. Paton, David Rowen, and Maria Rizzo.

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Tyrone Davis has been named Associate Artistic Director of LA’s Center Theatre Group.

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 Burbank’s Garry Marshall Theatre has announced encore presentations of Holidaze Harmony, including new, never-before seen bonus material. The event will now stream Dec. 24 at 5 PM PT, with unlimited video on demand through Jan. 2.  Joseph Leo Bwarie directs.

Terron Brooks and Kamilah Marshall

The duo mixes variety show comedy, dynamic arrangements and signature harmonies.

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The 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winners:

Jocelyn Bioh, Ngozi Anyanwu, and Madhuri Shekar, Lucas Baisch, Christopher Chen, Jordan E. Cooper, Nathan Alan Davis, Guadalís Del Carmen, Steph Del Rosso, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, Miranda Rose Hall, Aleshea Harris, James Ijames, Candrice Jones, Hansol Jung, Anna Moench, Diana Oh, Sanaz Toossi, Leah Nanako Winkler, and Rhiana Yazzie.

The $200,000 prize from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust will be split 20 ways to help multiple playwrights during the COVID-19 shutdown, with each recipient getting $10,000.

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  The opening night of You I Like: A Musical Celebration of Jerry Herman, created & hosted by Andy Einhorn, will take place Sun. Jan. 10 at 5 PM PT at Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Danny Feldman.

Performers TBA.

The event features personal and stirring anecdotes from Herman’s life as well as joyful and optimistic songs from Herman’s memorable musicals.

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  GRACE NOTES Quiz answers:  Accentuate the Negative

1. No, No, Nanette
2. No Time for Sergeants
3. The Lady’s Not For Burning
4. I Never Sang for My Father
5. Never Too Late
6. Love Never Dies
7. You Never Can Tell
8. I’m Not Rappaport
9. Not About Nightingales
10. Nobody Loves An Albatross