An unusually slow news weekend, even for a holiday, so I’ve provided as many videos as I could find…
Today’s Highlights:
* Rubicon Theatre‘s Drive-In Hits concert, featuring Christian Hoff, Travis Cloer, and friends from Jersey Boys and Million Dollar Quartet, opens at Ventura’s Fair Grounds.
* “American Experience The Vote,” a new four-hour, two-part documentary series that tells the story of the campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, narrated by Kate Burton, and featuring the voices of Mae Whitman (Alice Paul), Audra McDonald (Ida B. Wells), Laura Linney (Carrie Chapman Catt), and Patricia Clarkson (Harriot Stanton Blatch), premieres at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings).
* “Live Panel: Show (and Tell): Big: The Musical,” with Richard Maltby, Jr, David Shire, and cast members, at 7:10 PM ET here.
* Red Bull Theater‘s “I AM I” online podversation, featuring featuring Matthew Rauch and Nathan Winkelstein discussing Richard III, streamed at 7:30 PM ET.
* Our Leading Men concert, featuring Ben Davis, Davis Gaines, Mykal Kilgore, and Jay Armstrong Johnson, streamed at 8:15 PM CT at The Muny (also June 9).
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RIP: Nick Cordero, died last night from COVID-19 at the age of 41.
Nick made his Broadway debut in 2012 when he stepped into the roles of Dennis and Record Company Man in Rock of Ages. He subsequently created the role of Cheech in Bullets Over Broadway in 2014 (for which he received a Tony nomination, a Drama Desk nomination, and a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance). He also appeared on Broadway in Waitress (as Earl), opposite Jessie Mueller.
In 2018, Nick played Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors at the Kennedy Center, opposite Josh Radnor, Megan Hilty, and James Monroe Iglehart. Additional credits include Off-Broadway’s The Toxic Avenger and Brooklynite, the first national tour of Rock of Ages, and regional productions of Pippin and The Toxic Avenger.
Television credits include “Blue Bloods,” “Mob Town,” “Inside Game,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Going in Style,” “A Stand Up Guy,” “Lilyhammer,” “Don Juan,” “Apartments at 254,” and “Queer As Folk.
Plans for a celebration of his life are forthcoming.
Video: Wedding dance with Amanda Kloots.
Video: “A Home of Their Own”
Video: Talks about Bullets Over Broadway
Video: “The Moment is Right”
Video: “One of the Great Ones”
Video: “You Matter to Me,” with Drew Gehling and Zach Braff
Video: Discussion of A Bronx Tale
Video: In rehearsal for A Bronx Tale
Video: On “Side by Side by Susan Blackwell”
Video: Bullets Over Broadway at the 2014 Tony Awards
Video: Clips from Bullets Over Broadway
Video: “You Should Be Mine”
Video: “You Will Still Be Mine” from Waitress
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Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, the world’s longest running play (which opened in 1952), will resume performances on Oct. 23 at the St. Martin’s Theatre, directed by Ian Talbot, with social distancing in place.
Casting TBA.
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Video: Randy Rainbow pays tribute to the 2016 Tony Award nominees.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” with special guest Andrea Martin. (1:10:36 )
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Video: “Stars in the House,” with comics Rebecca Drysdale, Colette Hawley, and Wendy Liebman. (1:13:50)
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Video: “A Capital Fourth” concert, conducted by Jack Everly, co-hosted by John Stamos & Vanessa Williams, featuring Kelli O’Hara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Renee Fleming, Patti LaBelle, John Fogerty, Renée Fleming, The Temptations, Trace Adkins, Andy Grammer, Yolanda Adams, Brantley Gilbert, Lauren Alaina, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kelli O’Hara, and Mandy Gonzalez. (1:34:19)
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Black Theatre United‘s inaugural event, “Activating Black Artists and Allies for Racial Justice,” will take place Thurs. July 9 at 6:30 PM ET.
Audra McDonald and Sherrilynn Ifill (President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund).
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Video: Rubicon Theatre‘s Voices of America FREE event, featuring Noel Paul Stookey and Paul Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary), Brian Stokes Mitchell, Stephen Schwartz, Voices of Service, Lauren Patten, and many more, livestreamed through 5 PM PT today. (1:44:56)
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Video: Molière in the Park’s Tartuffe, directed by Lucie Tiberghien, featuring Raúl Esparza, Samira Wiley, Kaliswa Brewster, Toccarra Cash, Christopher Henry Coffey, Naomi Lorrain, Jared McNeill), Jennifer Mudge, Rosemary Prinz, and Carter Redwood, is now available through July 12. (2:10:13)
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Article: The U.K. offers Hollywood actors and crew an exemption from quarantine rules.
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Video: Highlights from Encores’ 1776 (2016), with Santino Fontana, John Larroquette, John Behlmann, Christianne Noll, Nikki Renée Daniels, and Bryce Pinkham.
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“Hamilton In-Depth with Kelley Carter,” a special program that discusses and examines the show with some of its creators and stars, is now available on Disney+ as well as The Undefeated.com. (33:05)
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Video: And So We Come Forth — The Apple Family” A Dinner on Zoom, written & directed by Richard Nelson, featuring Stephen Kunken (Tim Andrews), SAlly Murphy (Jane Apple), Maryann Plunkett (Barbara Apple), Laila Robins (Marian Apple Platt), and Jay O. Sanders (Richard Apple). (1:09:30)
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Video: Hamilton “Mask Up” parody
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Patrick Stewart reads Shakespeare:
Video: Sonnet 72 (scroll down)
Video: Sonnet 73 (scroll down)
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Video: “Bring Him Home,” with Alfie Boe, John-Owen Jones, Barricade Boy, and more. Stunning.
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Video: “CBS Sunday Morning” explores London’s Globe Theater.
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Video: Highlights from the “John Wayne 1970 Variety Show” celebrating America’s history. (2:24)
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Lesley Manville will play Princess Margaret in the fifth and final season of “The Crown,” opposite Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, which will premiere in 2021 or 2022.
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Video: Liz Callaway sings “I Remember” and “Take Me to the World” (2008). Gorgeous
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Video: Randy Rainbow, “Sorry You’re Not Hamilton”
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Video: Cynthia Erivo, “Summertime”
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Video: Highlights from Spamilton at LA’s Kirk Douglas Theatre (2017)