Today’s Highlights:
Smokey Joe’s Cafe, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, featuring Charl Brown, Michael Campayno, Mykal Kilgore, Tiffany Mann, Haley Pedschun, Dee Roscioli, Christopher Sams, Nasia Thomas, and Jason Veasey, opens at the St. Louis Muny.
“Brian Stokes Mitchell: Crossover Live” new streaming talk show, premieres on Stellar.
57 Chevy, by Cris Franco, directed by Jesse Perez, starring Ric Salina, begins streaming at San Diego Rep.
Judgement Day, by Rob Ulin, directed by Matthew Penn, featuring Patti LuPone, Jason Alexander, Santino Fontana, and Michael McKean, with Loretta Devine, Josh Johnston, Bianca LaVerne Jones, Julian Emile Lerner, Justine Machado, Carol Mansell, Michael Mastro, and Elizabeth Stanley, begins streaming on demand at MA’s Barrington Stage Company.
Linda Kerns FREE Zoom conversation at 7:30 PM PT at LA’s Actors Co-op.
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By Rogers and Who?, by Jim Bernhard
Match these Richard Rogers musical works with their lyricists:
| 1. Rex | A. Lorenz Hart |
| 2. Two by Two | B. Oscar Hammerstein II |
| 3. Do I Hear a Waltz? | C. Richard Rodgers |
| 4. I Remember Mama | D. Martin Charnin |
| 5. No Strings | E. (no lyrics) |
| 6. Allegro | F. Richard Rodgers |
| 7. Too Many Girls | G. Stephen Sondheim |
| 8. Androcles and the Lion | H. Raymond Jessel & Martin Charnin |
| 9. Victory at Sea | I. Sheldon Harnick. |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Emerald Fennell & David Zippel’s Cinderella will resume previews on Aug. 18 and open Aug. 25 at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, directed by Laurence Connor.
Carrie Hope Fletcher (Cinderella), Ivano Turco (Prince Sebastian), Rebecca Trehearn (The Queen), Victoria Hamilton-Barritt (The Stepmother), Georgina Castle (Marie), Laura Baldwin (Adele), Claudie Onitiri (The Godmother), Caleb Roberts (Prince Charming), Georgina Onurorah (Alternate Cinderella), Sam Robinson (Dorian), Giovani Spano (Gawain), and Vinny Coyle (Arthur), with Michael Afemaré, Lydia Bannister, Lauren Byrne, Michelle Bishop, William Bozier, Sophie Campbell, Tobias Charles, Nicole Dion, Jonathan David Dudley, Dominic Adam Griffin, Michael Hamway, Leah Harris, James Lee Harris, Kate Ivory Jordan, Jessica Kirton, Kelsea-Rae Marshall, Andy Rees, Lauren Stroud, Georgia Tapp, Matthew Vinetot, Alexandra Waite Roberts, and Rodney Vubya.
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The cast album of Diana: The Musical will be released Sept. 24 on most platforms. Pre-order the album on iTunes.
Act I
1. “Prologue”
2. “Underestimated”
3. “The Worst Job in England
4. “This is How Your People Dance”
5. “Snap, Click”
6. “Whatever Love Means Anyway”
7. “I Will”
8. “The World Fell in Love”
9. “Happiness/Simply Breathe
10. “She Moves in The Most Modern Ways
11. “Diana (The Rage)”
12. “As I Love You”
13. “I Miss You Most on Sundays”
14. “Pretty, Pretty Girl”
ACT II
15. “Here Comes James Hewitt”
16. “Him and Her (And Him and Her)/Just Dance
17. “Secrets and Lies”
18. “The Main Event”
19. “Whatever Love Means Anyway” (Reprise)
20. “Pretty, Pretty Girl” (Reprise)
21. “The Words Came Pouring Out”
22. “The Dress”
23. “An Officer’s Wife”
24. “If (Light the World)”
Video: “The World Fell in Love,” featuring Jeanna De Waal, Roe Hartrampf, Erin Davie, and Judy Kaye.
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Live Kritzerland Concert, directed & hosted by Bruce Kimmel, will take place Wed. July 28 at 8 PM PT at Studio City’s Feinstein’s at Vitello’s.
Daniel Thomas Bellusci, Jason Graae, Sharon McNight, Adrienne Stiefel, Mary VanArsdel, and Robert Yacko.
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Audio: Barbra Streisand sings “Living Without You” from her new album, “Release Me 2,” which will be released everywhere on Aug. 6. 
on iTunes.
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“Lillias White: Get Yourself Some Happy” is now available here.
1. “When You Wish Upon A Star”
2. “Accentuate the Positive”
3. “Happy Together”
4. “A Brand New Me”
5. “Put on a Happy Face”
6. “The Twist”
7. “A Little Imagination”
8. “You’re May Best Friend”
9. “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”
10. “Yes”
11. “That’s All”
12. “Make Someone Happy”
13. “It’s Not Where You Start”
14. “Get Happy”
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Video: “Bye Bye Birdie,” the 1995 film adaptation, with a screenplay by Michael Stewart, and directed by Gene Saks. (2:11:15)
Chynna Phillips, Tyne Daley, Marc Kudisch, George Wendt, and Sally Mayes.
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Welcome Back! A Starry, Starry Night at the Argyle Theatre will take place Sat. Aug. 14 at 8 PM ET, hosted by Evan Pappas, with music direction by Ethan Andersen.
Joe Iconis and Robert Rokicki
Gina Naomi Baez, Courtney Balan, Inga Ballard, Tiffan Borelli, Elizabeth Broadhurst, Hunter Brown, Todd Buonopane, Eddie Egan, Corrie Farbstein, Katy Geraghty, Angel Harrison, Kimberly Immanuel, Robert Anthony Jones, Jillian Louis, Warren Nolan Jr., Jason Simon, Ryan Gregory Thurman, and Rose Van Dyne.
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The 59th New York Film Festival will present the world premiere of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” on Fri. Sept. 24 at Alice Tully Hall.
Denzel Washington (Macbeth), Frances McDormand (Lady Macbeth), and Kathryn Hunter (trio of “Weird Sisters”).
Coen’s tale of sound and fury is entirely his own – and undoubtedly one for your moment, a frightening depiction of amoral political power-grabbing that, like its hero, ruthlessly barrels ahead and into the inferno. An Apple/A24 release.
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Highlights from Broadway at the Kennedy Center concerts:
Video: Barbara Cook (2007), with Laura Osnes, Rebecca Luker, Kelli O’Hara, Glenn Close, Sutton Foster, Patti LuPone, and Audra McDonald
Video: Chita Rivera (2002), with Hal Prince, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Donna Murphy, Valarie Pettiford, and Charlotte d’Amboise.
Video: Jerry Herman (2010), with Angela Lansbury, Carol Channing, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Kelsey Grammer, Matthew Morrison, Christine Ebersole, Christine Baranski, Laura Benanti, Kelli O’Hara, and Matt Bomer.
Video: Julie Andrews (2001), with Kristin Chenoweth, Audra McDonald, Carol Burnett, Robert Goulet, Jeremy Irons, and Rebecca Luker.
Video: Shirley McLaine (2013), with Kathy Bates, Sutton Foster, Anna Kendrick, Karen Olivo, and Patina Miller.
Video: Angela Lansbury (2000), with Glenn Close, Len Carious, Nathan Lane, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy, and Karen Ziemba.
Video: Andrew Lloyd Webber (2006), with Corey Glover, Christine Ebersole, Elena Roger, Josh Groban, and Betty Buckley.
Video: Kander & Ebb (1998), with Alec Baldwin, Alan Cumming, Joel Grey, Bebe Neuwirth, Chita Rivera, and Liza Minnelli.
Video: Carol Burnett (2003), with Julie Andrews, Chita Rivera, Elaine Stritch, Tim Conway, Scott Bakula, John Schneider, Kim Cattrall, Florence Henderson, Reba McEntire, Harvey Korman, Gary Beech, and Bernadette Peters.
Video: Jule Styne (1990), with Tyne Daly, Hal Linden, Maureen McGovern, Jerome Robbins, Tommy Tune, and Ann Reinking.
Video: Stephen Sondheim (1993), with Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Scott Bakula, and Jason Alexander.
Video: Hamilton Creators (2018), with Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Christopher Jackson.
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NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the launch of a $100 million New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, designed to help revitalize the industry that contributed (pre-pandemic) over $14 billion to the NYC economy annually. Since the program was first announced as part of the FY 2022 budget, at least 35 productions have announced opening performance plans for this year.
The tax credit is a 2-year program designed to support the entertainment and tourism industries in NYC, and will offset some of the costs associated with producing a show, including costs for sets, costumes, wardrobes, makeup, technical support, salaries, sound, lighting and staging.
Eligible companies can receive tax credits of 25% of qualified production expenditures. First-year program applicants can receive up to $3 million per production, with second year applications being eligible for up to $1.5 million.
All participants are required to take part in a New York State diversity and arts job training program and expand opportunities for low-income New Yorkers to access productions at low or no cost. Highly profitable participating productions will increase access to art and cultural programs by contributing to a cultural access fund.
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Sami Cannold & Dori Berinstein’s “The Show Must Go On” will premiere in a one-night-only fundraiser for The Actors Fund on Mon. Aug. 9 at 6:30 PM ET, co-directed by Cannolnd & Berinstein. 
here.
The event, with a live audience, will also include appearances and performances TBA.
Special guests and additional information TBA.
The documentary follows the companies of two productions inf South Korea – the world tour of The Phantom of the Opera and the South Korean tour of Cats – as they pushed forward safely during the pandemic when the rest of the industry had shut down worldwide. The film also follows Andrew Lloyd Webber in the U.K. as he used the South Koran companies’ model in his fight for the future of theatre in the West End.
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Video: “Letters,” from the 2015 pre-Broadway run of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 at Cambridge’s A.R.T.
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Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles has announced its GMCLA Gala 2021, which will take place Sat. Aug. 14 at 8 PM PT at a private home in Toluca Lake, CA, hosted by Carson Kressley.
Shoshana Bean, Andra Day, and Aftershock.
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RIP: Jackie Mason has died at the age of 93.
Mason’s 1986 one-man show, The World According to Me!, earned him a Special Tony Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, an Ace Award, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy nomination.
In addition, Mason’s “Jackie Mason on Broadway” won him another Emmy Award (for outstanding writing) and another Ace Award. He was also nominated for an Olivier Award in 1999 for his one man show Much Ado About Everything.
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John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch creators), will offer a new concert, Return to the Origin of Love, to run Dec. 29-31 at NYC’s Town Hall. Proceeds will benefit Burritos Not Bombs! and the Chosen Family Law Center.
Amber Martin.
The concerts will celebrate two decades of Hedwig history, complete with “new highs, new lows, new loves, and new setlists.”
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GRACE NOTES Quiz answers: By Rodgers and…
1-I. Rex lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
2-D. Two by Two lyrics by Martin Charnin
3.-G. Do I Hear a Waltz? lyrics by Stephen Sonheim
4-H. I Remember Mama lyrics by Raymond Jessel & Martin Charnin
5-C: No Strings lyrics by Richard Rodgers
6-B: Allegro lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
7-A: Too Many Girls lyrics by Lorenz Hart
8-F: Androcles and the Lion lyrics by Richard Rodgers
9- E: Victory at Sea (no lyrics).