GRACE NOTES: Monday, June 9, 2025

Today’s Highlights:

  Irish Rep‘s 2025 Gala: A Marvelous Night, directed by Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O’Reilly, featuring Kate Baldwin, Melissa Errico, Kathryn Gallagher, Peter Gallagher, Kelli O’Hara, Ciaran Sheehan, Gary Troy, Nik Walker, and, more. at 7 PM at NYC’s Town Hall.

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GRACE NOTES :  Music, Music, Music (by Jim Bernhard)

Fill in the missing word in these musical titles about music:

Scroll down for the answers…

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   2025  Tony Awards      

Click here for the complete list of winners.

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   Melissa Errico Sings Sondheim will run June 20 – 21, both  at 7 PM at at NYC’s 54 Below, directed by Tedd Firth.

   Len Cariou (June 21 only)

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   The Darkness:  Goddess Revealed, written by & starring Nick Gillie, and directed by Dwain Perry, continues through June 17 at the Actors Gang Theatre.

  An entrancing spell on everyone, including a young man who has returned home from studying in America. Will the big plans for his life—stepping into a political legacy and marrying his fiancée—be upended?

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   Michael Punter’s  The Lost Gospel of Pontius Pilate will take place Sat. June 28 at  7:30 PM at Beverly Hill’s Theatre Forty, directed by Kristine Lewis.

   Maxwell Caulfield.

  The  play follows the dilemma and fateful decision of a Roman governor. Playwright Michael Punter explains: “For a man at the heart of one of history’s most important events, we know very little about Pontius Pilate. The sources differ: was he a heartless monster or a humanist baffled by the overwhelming historical forces swirling around him? In this play – part-memoir and part-thriller, he is a man born into violence, surviving Rome’s worst defeat in Germany, then taking that experience to his next appointment: Judea. It seems that he must pass on his pain, until his encounter with a strange carpenter from Galilee who shows him another way”

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. A reading of Daniel MacIvor’s In On It will take place Sun. June 22 at 3 PM at LA’s Theatre West, directed by Michael Van Duzer.  Free, with a donation at the door.

 TBA

  A stylized theatrical puzzle, an acting tour de force for two exceptional performers, a witty and knowing deconstruction of a relationship, an exploration of the hairline border between life and death, or a meditation on how artists create art from life? In truth, it’s all these things. Within its meta-theatrical intricacies, it is surprisingly heartfelt, drawing the audience in and delivering a potent emotional wallop. demands that its actors create a world out of themselves, a scant few props, and, most importantly, a gray jacket.

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  Mozart’s Don Giovani – A Rock Opera, performed in English, adapted, translated, orchestrated, & directed by Adam B. Levowitz will  run June 16 – Aug. 26 (opening June 30) at NYC’s The Cutting Room.

  Ryan Silverman, Rachel Zatcoff, and Anchal Dhir.

This brand-new production breathes contemporary energy into Mozart’s timeless masterpiece with an English libretto, a full-throttle rock orchestra, and a stellar cast of Broadway talent, including Ryan Silverman, Rachel Zatcoff, and Anchal Dhir. This accessible production will run 90 minutes, no intermission, and will be performed in English and will feature super titles.

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 The 14 Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards have been announced:

Click here and scroll down for the complete list of winners.

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   London’s National Theater Live will present a screening of its production of Dr. Strangelove, on Sat. June 21 at 3 PM at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre, adapted by Armando Iannucci, directed and co-adapted by Sean Foley.

  Armando Iannucci & Sean Foley

   An explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack

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   Joe DiPietro’s  All Shook Upwill run  June 27 – Aug. 17 at CT’s Goodspeed, directed by  Daniel Goldstein, with  music direction by Adam J. Rineer, and choreography by Byron Easley.

  Kerstin Anderson (Natalie/Ed), Ryan Mac (Chad), Benjamin Howes (Jim), L Morgan Lee (Sylvia), Amy Hillner Larsen (Mayor Matilda), Jessica Crouch (Miss Sandra), Jordan Matthew Brown (Dennis), Jackera Davis (Lorraine), Jackson Reagin (Dean), and Kilty Reidy (Sheriff Earl), with Ian Dominguez Ball, Jenna Bienvenue, Corinne C. Broadbent, Julius Chase, Maddie Garbaty, Michael James, Myles McHale, Keyon Pickett, Sydney Quildon, and Montria Walker. Ben Horsburgh and Eleni Kontzamanys.

   Video:  Preview

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    The 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival has announced its complete schedule HERE.

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  Irish Rep‘s 2025 Gala: A Marvelous Night: Celebrates the Music of Van Morrison will take place Mon. June 9  at 7 PM at NYC’s Town Hall/Bryant Park Grill.

  Kate Baldwin, Reeve Carney, Michael Cerveris, Jonathan Christopher, Melissa Errico, Myles Frost, Kathryn Gallagher, Peter Gallagher, Kelli O’Hara, Ciarán Sheehan, Gary Troy, Nik Walker, and more TBA.

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GRACE NOTES answers:  Music, Music, Music

1-E.  Words & Music, musical by Sammy Cahn

2-I.  Face the Music, revue by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart

3-G.  Music Hath Charms, musical by Rudolf Friml et al

4-B.  Music in the Air, musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II

5-H.  Music Is, musical by George Abbott, Richard Adler and Will Holt

6-A.  Night Music, play by Clifford Odets

7-C.  Revenge With Music, musical by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz

8-F.  Set to Music, musical by Noel Coward

9-J.  The Music Man, musical by Meredith Willson

10-D.  Walk With Music, musical by Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, et al