Today’s Highlights:
Vanya, radically adapted solo presentation by Simon Stephens, directed by Sam Yates, featuring Andrew Scott, begins previews at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Broadway Backwards benefit concert, in support of BCEFA, directed & choreography by Robert Bartley,Amanda LaMotte & Adam Robers, hosted by Jenn Colella, featuring Tituss Burgess, Len Cariou, Bradley Dean, Dionne Figgins, Jordan Fisher, Lydia Gaston, Joshua Henry, Gregory Jbara, Adam Lambert, Tiffany Mann, Kelli O’Hara, Preston Perez, Kate (Kei) Tsuruharatani (Jagged Little Pill), Remi Tuckman (DRAG: The Musical) and Joy Woods, Bobby Conte, Lorna Courtney,Nikki Renée Daniels, Eden Espinosa, J. Harrison Ghee , Sydney James Harcourt, Dorian Harewood, Manu Narayan, Jessica Phillips, Conrad Ricamora, Ryan Vasquez, and more, at 8 PM at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre.
Broadway Bound Benefit Concert: Raise Your Voice, honoring Josh Groban, featuring Apollo Levine, Major Attaway, N’Kenge, Donnie Kehr, George Abud, and Morgan Reilly, at 8 PM at City Winery NYC.
Broadway’s Leading Ladies: A Musical Celebration concert, hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, featuring LaChanze, Jennifer Holliday, Lindsay Mendez, and Jessie Mueller; and Kate Baldwin, Judy Kuhn, and Jennifer Simard, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Town Hall.
Jamie deRoy & Friends’ The Kleinbort Collection: The Songs of Barry Kleinbort concert, featuring Loni Ackerman, Lewis Cleale, Lorna Dallas, Gregg Edelman, Penny Fuller, Eric Michael Gillett, Judy Kaye, Nicolas King, Karen Mason, Gretchen Reinhagen, Caroline Roelands, and Haley Swinda, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Birdland.
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GRACE NOTES 
Get Lost, by Jim Bernhard:
1. William Inge’s play is A Loss of …Time…Roses…Money…Memory
2. The “Lost Boys” in Peter Pan are boys who fell…off a swing…from A to F in their school grades…out of their prams…into the clutches of a child-snatcher
3. In The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell says, “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like…abduction…foul play…a misunderstanding…carelessness”
4. In Follies Sally Durant Plummer sings a song in which she wonders if she is losing her… sex appeal…husband…mind…memory
5. In a notable monologue, Hamlet laments that “enterprises of great pith and moment…lose the name of…Ophelia…courage…Denmark…
6. In Othello Desdemona loses…a handkerchief…a bracelet…a needle…her wits
7. Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s musical is Lost in the … Woods…Stars… Ocean…City
8. In Guys and Dolls Nathan Detroit loses his bet with Sky Masterson that Sky cannot persuade Sarah Brown to…go to dinner in Havana…guess the number of cheesecakes sold at Mindy’s…have the mission band play ragtime…take off her uniform
9. Neil Simon’s play is Lost in…Hollywood…the Jungle…Manhattan…Yonkers
10. In Annie Get Your Gun Annie Oakley sings of Frank Butler, “I Got Lost in His…Spell…Mind…Arms…Apartment”
Scroll down for the answers….
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Jason Alexander’s 23rd Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament will take place sun. Mar. 23 at 11:30 AM at LA’s Skirball Cultural Center.
Cards in the air at 1 PM.
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The world premiere of Erik Gernand’s The Totality of All Things will run Apr. 15 – May 25 (opening Apr. 18) at North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company, directed by Taylor Nichols.
Laura Gardner, Nancy Fassett, Noelle Mercer, Kris Frost, Rick Shattuck, Tom Knickerbocker, and Michelle Gillette.
When a hate crime rocks a small Indiana town, an act of vandalism escalates into something with potentially deadly consequences, and the search for answers only leads to uncertainty about the very nature of truth itself.
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An open rehearsal of Peter Danish’s Last Call will take place Tues. Mar. 11 at 11:15 AM – 2:45 PM at NYC’s New World Stages (Stage Door), directed by Gil Mehmert. 
Email logan@KSA-PR.Com to confirm your attendance.
The play will begin previews at New World Stages on Mar. 12, with opening set for Mar.16.
Helen Schneider, Lucca Züchner, and Victor Petersen
For half a century, American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan were the world’s most celebrated figures in classical music – and the fiercest of rivals. Their influence transcended music into popular culture, politics, and almost every facet of the modern landscape. Late in their lives these titans of classical music unexpectedly crossed paths one last time at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna. Inspired by true events, Last Call brings us to this meeting as both men struggle to find common ground through their music and their lives over one last drink. The play mixes storytelling and music, giving audience members a glimpse into the complex minds of these two music titans. Von Karajan was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. He helped found the London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in 1948, and in 1955 he became music director of the Berlin Philharmonic. A Nazi Party member from 1933 to 1942, Karajan was exonerated by an Allied tribunal after World War II, but his American debut in 1955 precipitated public protests. Bernstein, on the opposite end of the spectrum, was Jewish, and made his New York Philharmonic conducting debut in 1943. He went on to compose the scores of On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and West Side Story. He made his conducting debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1966, beginning a lifelong relationship with the orchestra.
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Peter Danish’s Last Call , currently in previews, will open Mar. 16 and continue through May 4 at New World Stages, directed Gil Mehmert.
Helen Schneider (Leonard Bernstein), Lucca Züehner ()Herbert Von Karajan)., and Victor Peterson (Michael).
For half a century, American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan were the world’s most celebrated figures in classical music – and the fiercest of rivals. Their influence transcended music into popular culture, politics, and almost every facet of the modern landscape. Late in their lives these titans of classical music unexpectedly crossed paths one last time at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna. Inspired by true events, Last Call brings us to this meeting as both men struggle to find common ground through their music and their lives over one last drink. The play mixes storytelling and music, giving audience members a glimpse into the complex minds of these two music titans.
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Paul Slade Smith’s Theatre People will run Mar. 25 – Apr. 12 at CT’s Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Mark Shanahan.
Joe Delafilield, Mia Dillon, Keir Dullea, Anne Keefe, and Michael McCormick.
The witty comedy is set in 1948 in a Newport mansion populated with characters in love with theater: Charlotte and Arthur Sanders, a married playwright couple; Margot Bell, a celebrated ingénue; Victor Pratt, a narcissistic Broadway baritone; and Oliver Adams, a young, insecure novelist; as well as Olga, an unabashedly unhelpful housekeeper.
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York Theatre Company will present Joseph Church & Jeff Bienstock’s Who is Jimmy Pants? Mar. 22-30 (opening Mar. 23) at Theatre at St. Jean’s, directed & choreographed by Stephen Nachamie, and music directed by Benamin Weiss.
Steven Booth, Jim Conroy, Avery Elledge, David Garrison, Aaron Harrington, Michael Notardonato, Charlette Belle Odusanya, Kirston Scott, and John Wascavage.
A zany, loving satire of bio-jukebox musicals, Who is Jimmy Pants? is both a comical nod to the current epidemic of jukebox shows and an homage to the entertainment value and joy that they bring to audiences. Clever choreography and lively original songs spanning the 60s to the 2000s add to the hilarity. Its Spinal Tap meets The Drowsy Chaperone, with a rocking musical score!
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GRACE NOTES answers: Get Lost
1. William Inge’s play is A Loss of Roses.
2. The “Lost Boys” in Peter Pan are boys who fell out of their prams.
3. In The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell says, “To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
4. In Follies Sally Durant Plummer sings a song in which she wonders if she is losing her mind.
5. In a notable monologue, Hamlet laments that “enterprises of great pith and moment…lose the name of action.”
6. In Othello Desdemona loses a handkerchief.
7. Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s musical is Lost in the Stars.
8. In Guys and Dolls Nathan Detroit loses his bet with Sky Masterson that Sky cannot persuade Sarah Brown to go to dinner in Havana.
9. Neil Simon’s play is Lost in Yonkers.
10. In Annie Get Your Gun Annie Oakley sings of Frank Butler, “I Got Lost in His Arms.”