Today’s Highlights:
Bonnie & Clyde The Musical concert staging, filmed Live at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, directed by Nick Winston, featuring Jeremy Jordan (Clyde), Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie), George Maguire (Buck), Natalie McQueen (Blanche), Trevor Dion Nicholas (Preacher), Liam Tamne (Ted), Casey Al-Shaqsy (Stella), Simon Anthony (Cop/Bud/Archie/Deputy Johnson, Gillian Bevan (Cummie Barrow/Eleanor), Eloise Davies (Trish), Adrian Grove (Henry Barrow), Debbie Kurup (Governor Miriam Ferguson), Matthew Malthouse (Bob Alcorn), Jeremy Secomb (Judge/Sheriff Schmid), Russell Wilcox (Captain Frank Hamer), and Julie Yammanee (Emma Parker), begins streaming here.
Project Shaw‘s script-in-hand performance of Oscar Wilde’s A Portrait of Mr. WH, directed by Mark Waldrop, featuring Miguel Cervantes, Jenn Collela, Marc de la Cruz, Curtis Holbrook, Stephanie Klemons, Janet Krupin, Tyler McGee, Joseph Morales, Emily Rogers, Gabrielle Ruiz, and James Snyder, at 7 & 9:30 PM at NYC’s Symphony Space.
Red Bull Theater‘s Short New Play Festival 2024: Renewal, by Madeleine George, Robert O’Hara, alongside six plays from up-and-coming playwrights selected through an open submission process: Luke Brett, Amy Jo Jackson, Fleurette Modica, Paloma Nozicka, Emma Schillage, and Madison Stranahan, featuring Shirine Babb, Tina Benko, Jason Bowen, Leovina Charles, Amy Jo Jackson, Paloma Nozicka, Lux Pascal, and SarinMonae West, at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Classic Stage Company.
If Then in Concert, by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey, directed by David Alpert, featuring Miguel Cervantes, Jenn Colella, Marc de la Cruz, Curtis Holbrook, Stephanie Klemons, Janet Krupin, Tyler McGee, Anthony Rapp, Ryann Redmond, Joe Aaron Reid, James Snyder, and Jason Tam, at 7 & 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below.
Emily Goglia: Musical Musings concert, at 8 PM at LA’s The Moon Room (7174 Melrose Avenue, 2nd Floor). No cover charge. Link N/A.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz: The Scottish Players by Jim Bernhard
Match these notable Macbeths with the correct Lady Macbeths:
| 1. Daniel Craig | A. Glenda Jackson |
| 2. Patrick Stewart | B. Helen Mirren |
| 3. Kelsey Grammer | C. Ruth Negga |
| 4. Christopher Plummer | D. Judith Anderson |
| 5. Michael Redgrave | E. Cush Jumbo |
| 6. Maurice Evans | F. Vivien Leigh |
| 7. David Tennant | G. Diane Venora |
| 8. Ian McKellen | H. Flora Robson |
| 9. Nicol Williamson | I. Kate Fleetwood |
| 10. Laurence Olivier | J. Judi Dench |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Jason Graae and his Broadway Gal Pals will take place Sun. July 28 at 7:30 PM at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
Anastasia Barzee, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Heather Lee, Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Marrow, and Valarie Pettiford.
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John Logan & the Avett Brothers’ Swept Away will begin previews Oct. 29 and open Nov. 19 at the Longacre Theatre, directed byMichael Mayer, with choreography by David Neumann, and music direction by Will Van Dyke.
Casting TBA.
The musical follows four survivors of an 1888 shipwreck off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts. As they struggle to stay alive, they must question whether or not they can live with the consequences of their actions, and discover how tragedy can lead to forgiveness.
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The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced upcoming special programming:
The Plastic Bag Store (continuing through Sept. 2), created, written & directed by Robin Frohardt, with music by Freddi Price.
Alex Edelman & Maggie Crane (July 20 at 5 & 8 PM)
Gavin Creel benefit concert (July 28 at 3 PM)
Dragon Mama, Part II (July 2-14), by Sara Porkalob, directed by Andrew Russell.
Pamela Palmer (July 23 – Aug. 10), world premiere by David Ives, directed by Walter Bobbie.
Death, Let Me Do My Show (July 5-14), by Rachel Bloom, directed by Seth Barrish.
WTF Cabaret Series (July 25 – Aug. 10), with music direction by Joel Waggoner, and advisor Christopher Fitzgerald.
What is Next (Aug. 1-4), offering a full slate of experiences and exclusive events that reflect an expansive expression of theater within the breathtaking natural beauty of the Berkshires.
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Poems for Mary, written & directed by Lloyd J. Schwartz, will run July 27-28 at Theatre West.
Kathie Barnes and Alan Schack.
After their father’s death, his two grown children find a box of poetry that they didn’t know he wrote. By reading the poems, they are surprised, moved, and amused to discover things about the man they thought they knew.
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Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater will present its 32nd Annual Summer Gala: Maybe They’re Magic on Sat. July 6 at 7 PM, celebrating Stephen Sondheim, directed by Will Pomerantz, with music direction by James Bassi. Richard Kind will be the auctioneer.
Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, and Dr. Georgette Grier-Key (outstanding community leader).
Richard Kind, Marc Kudisch, Lena Hall, and more TBA.
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54 Sings The Rink will take place Mon. July 22 at 7 PM at NYC’s 54 Below, with music direction by Michael Lavine.
Quinn Corcoran, Sara Gettelfinger, Ilene Graff, Bruce Landry, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Andrew Leggieri, Stephanie Pope, Karen Ziemba, John Bolton, Ben Davis, Scott Ellis, Mark Jacoby, Bianca Marroguín, Karen Mason, Caroline O’Connor, Stephanie Pope, Mary Testa, Quinn Corcoran, Danny Gardner, Bruce Landry, and Andrew Leggieri.
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Carousel will run Aug. 8-18 (opening Aug. 9) at Skokie’s North Shore CPA, directed by Sasha Gerritson, with choreographed by Andrew Waters, and music directed by Michael McBride.
Maliha Sayed (Julie Jordan), Conor Jordan (Billy Bigelow), Ella Gatlin (Carrie Pipperidge), Will Leonard (Jigger Craigin), Alicia Berneche (Nettie Fowler), Luke Nowakowski (Enoch Snow), Alexander Christie (Enoch Snow, Jr.), Erika Rose (Mrs. Mullin)), Cliff Gabor (Mr. Bascome/Dr. Seldon), Jenny Rudnick (Starkeeper) Starkeeper) Dee Kimpel (Starkeeper), Susannah Harvey (Louise), with Anna Maire Abbate, Andrew John Baker, Ariana Cappucitti, Theresa Egan, Isabella Gomez-Barrientos, Susannah Harvey, Alex Iacobucci, Katie Kotila, and Alex Villasenor.
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LA Theatreworks will present a screening of London’s King Lear, starring Ian McKellen, on Sun. Aug. 18 at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater.
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An Evening with Kelli O’Hara will take place Thurs. Oct. 10 at 7:30 PM at NYC’s 92NY.
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Camelot, directed by Jeffrey B. Moss, has been extended through July 7 at CA’s North Coast Rep.
Nick Apostolina (Squire Dap/Mordred), Jacob Caltrider (Sir Dinadin), Jason Heil (Merlyn/Sir Gareth), Scott Hurst, Jr. (Lionel), Brian Krinsky (Lancelot), Jered McLenigan (Arthur), Eben Rosenzweig (Tom of Warwick), Noah Weibel (also as Tom of Warwick), Lauren Weinberg (Guenevere), and Elias Wygodny (Sir Sagramore), with Cole Fletcher.
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5-Star Theatricals will present The Sound of Music July 19-28 at Thousand Oaks’ Kavli Theatre, directed by Richard Israel, with choreography by Christopher Albrecht, and music direction by Anthony Lucca.
Shannon O’Boyle (Maria), Jon Root (Captain Von Trapp), Cathy Newman (Mother Abbess), Hannah Nicole Sedlacek (Liesl), Brody Tarrant Sitton (Rolf) Christopher Karbo (Ma), Eleen Hsu-Wentlandt (Elsa), Dana Shaw (Frau Schmidt), Sade Ayodele (Sister Berthe), Martha Thatcher (Sister Margaretta), Mollie Navarro (Sister Sophia), Tudor Munteanu (Franz), Jack Cleary (Herr Zeller), Paul McCrillis (Admiral Von Schreiber), Zander Chin (Friedrich), Ivy Kaplowitz (Louisa), Elías De Paula (Kurt), Dia Day (Brigitta), Mikki Schultz (Marta), and Ginny Cary (Gretl), with Georgia Ann Besnilian, Lauren Han, Jonah Sebastien Meyer, Jackson Murrieta, Melissa Musial, Daniel Stromfeld, Jennifer Teague, and Jason Whitton.
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Provincetown Summer 2024 Concert Season:
Claybourne Elder (July 7 at 8:30 PM)
Jinkx Monsoon (July 14 at 9 PM)
Cheyenne Jackson (July 27 & 28 at 7:30 PM)
Denée Benton (Aug. 4 at 8:30 PM)
Bianca del Rio (Aug. 18 at 8:30 PM)
Melissa Errico (Aug. 24 at 8:30 PM)
Marilyn Maye (Aug. 25 at 8:30 PM)
Indigo Girls (Sept. 1 at 6:30 PM)
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The world premiere of Susan Ecker, Harrison David Rivers & Lloyd Ecker’s Last of the Red Hot Mamas will run June 28 – July 27 at PA’s Bucks County Playhouse, directed & choreographed by Shea Sullivan.
Ryann Redmond (Sophie Tucker), Rheaume Crenshaw (Mollie Elkins), DeWitt Fleming Jr. (Bojangles Robinson) and Stephanie Gibson (Nora Bayes), with Willie Clyde Beaton II, Lincoln Belford, Natalie Bellamy, Kelly Bolick, Jonathan Hadley, Jenny Kay Hoffman, Hannah Hubbard, Daniel Lopez, Bobby MacDonnell, Michael Persson, Danny Rutigliano, and Rachel Stern.
From serving up jokes with a side of blintzes in a Hartford Jewish deli to performing for adoring crowds at Broadway’s Palace Theater in seven short years, the unexpected rise of Sophie Tucker to the rank of comic superstar is the subject of the new world premiere musical. She was sassy, she was saucy.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz answers: The Scottish Players
1-C. Daniel Craig – Ruth Negga
2-I. Patrick Stewart – Kate Fleetwood
3-G. Kelsey Grammer – Diane Venora
4-A. Christopher Plummer – Glenda Jackson
5-H. Michael Redgrave – Flora Robson
6-D. Maurice Evans – Judith Anderson
7-E. David Tennant – Cush Jumbo
8-J. Ian McKellen – Judi Dench
9-B. Nicol Williamson – Helen Mirren
10-F. Laurence Olivier 1955 – Vivien Leigh