Today’s Highlights:
My First Ex-husband, by Joy Behar, featuring Joy Behar, Susan Lucci, Veanne Cox, and Jackie Hoffman, opens at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre.
Night Cities staged reading, by Roger Q. Mason, directed by Karl Hawkins, featuring J Harrison Ghee, Kalonji Gallmore, Ashton Muñiz, and Kamal Sehrawy, at 6 PM at Fire Island’s Cherry Gove Community House & Theater (180 Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, NY, 11782).
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GRACE NOTES 
Oh, Henry! by Jim Bernhard
Match these characters named Henry with the plays or musicals they are in.
| 1. General Henry Waverly | A. Man and Superman |
| 2. Henry Antrobus | B. Pygmalion |
| 3. Henry Bolingbroke | C. The Cocoanuts |
| 4 . Henry Drummond | D. King Henry IV, Part 1 |
| 5. Henry Higgins | E. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| 6. Henry Percy | F. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas |
| 7. Henry Spofford | G. Teddy and Alice |
| 8. Henry Straker | H. The Skin of Our Teeth |
| 9. Henry W. Schlemmer | I. I nherit the Wind |
| 10. Henry Cabot Lodge | J. Richard III |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Samuel D. Hunter’s Clarkston will run This Fall (dates TBA)at a London theatre TBA, directed by Jack Seria. Additional information TBA.
Joe Locke (Heartstopper), Ruardih Mollica (Cebastian), and Sophe Melville (Iphigenia), with Ruaridh Mollica, and Jack Serio.
On a journey West to rediscover himself, Jake unexpectedly meets Chris – a kindred soul hiding in a night shift at a Costco in a rural American town. As their bond deepens, so does their sense of adventure. Maybe they could finally give life new meaning by chasing something more – like the intrepid explorers Lewis and Clark before them.
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Diana Ross & Jon Batiste in concert will take place Thurs. Aug. 28 at 8 PM at the St. Louis Muny.
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Masquerade, an immersive spin-off of The Phantom of the Opera, will continue through Sept. 30 at multi-floor space at NYC’s 218 W. 57th St., directed by Diane Paulus.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Gypsy Snider & Marc Kimelman,
Baby Byrne, Nicholas Edwards, Gabriella Enriquez, Haile Ferrier, Nkrumah Gatling, Cooper Grodin, Maxfield Haynes, Bryan Hernandez-Luch, Satomi Hofmann, Kody Jauron, Francisco Javier González, Maree Johnson, Tia Karaplis, Nathan Keen, Joe Kerr, Jeff Kready, Jacob Lacopo, Eryn LeCroy, Raymond J. Lee, Telly Leung, Claire Leyden, Francesca Mehrotra, Georgia Mendes, Betsy Morgan, Riley Noland, Charles Osborne, Hugh Panaro, Chris Ryan, Kyle Scatliffe, Paul Adam Schaefer, Clay Singer, Phumzile Sojola, Jeremy Stolle, Kaley Ann Voorhees, Nik Walker, Andrew Wojtal, Kevin Zambrano, and Anna Zavelson.
The production, modeled after the seminal immersive Shakespeare production Sleep No More, which ran for 14 years at NYC’s McKittrick Hotel, seeks to immerse audiences by planting them right into the plot of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera—of course, within the lens of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running 1986 West End-Broadway musical. Once you have entered the Opera House, you will join in on the “ghost hunt,” tracing the steps of the infamous Opera Ghost, who has been terrorizing the theatre’s performers and management. As the story unfolds, you learn of the Opera Ghost’s mentorship over Christine Daae — a young soprano who has become the object of his obsession.
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5-Star Theatricals production of Hairspray will will run Oct. 10-26 at CA’s Thousand Oaks Scherr Forum Theatres, directed by Marissa Jaret Winokur.
Casting and creative team TBA.
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The 5th Annual Little Shakespeare Festival will run July 31 – Aug. 17 at Theatre Under St. Marks, curated by Conor Mullen.
A celebration of independent theatre and performance that takes inspiration from the immortal bard, William Shakespeare. This year’s theme is “Not Your English Teacher’s Shakespeare.” Remember that English teacher you had? No, not the good one. The one that told you not to split your infinitives, that comic books weren’t real books, and that kids say “like” too much. That English teacher. This year we’ll present Shakespeare that would make that English teacher tell you to “see me after class!”
As You Wish It or The Bride Princess or What You Will, (July 31 – Aug. 9), by Michael Hagins. A Shakespeare parody of The Princess Bride! The fair maiden Buttrcup is betrothed to the evil Prince Humperdinck, but she is forlorn since her true love Westley has died at sea. Before she can make it to her ill-fated wedding day, three thieves and a man in black will change everything, and become the proof that true love conquers all. Hamlet: La Telenovela (Aug. 1-10), adapted by Federico Mallet (adapted by Federica Mallet), Hamlet couldn’t possibly get more dramatic… or could it? Hamlet couldn’t possibly be funny…or could it? Are Shakespeare and Telenovelas a match made in heaven? With Hamlet: La Telenovela audiences experience Hamlet like never before, with an adaptation that heightens the melodrama innate in the story… The Mousetrap (various dates Aug. 2-15). Two men talk the performers into following them to the capital, Elsinore, where they are pressed into service by the prince, Hamlet, who believes the king, also his Uncle Claudius, is corrupt. The actors grapple with the call of duty, and discuss the pros and cons of speaking truth to power.**********************
The Monsters, written & directed by Ngozi Anyanwu, will begin previews Jan. 23 at NY City Center Stage 2.
Aigner Mizzelle and Okieriete Onaodowan.
For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar… until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep.
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Video: Maltese Orchestra
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GRACE NOTES ANSWERS: Oh, Henry!
10-G. Henry Cabot Lodge – Teddy and Alice