Today’s Highlights:
The Skivvies Anniversary Show concert, starring Lauren Molina & Nick Cearley, with special guests Lena Hall, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Andréa Burns, Jackie Cox, Josh Breckenridge, Marissa Rosen, Logan Hart, Roe Hartrampf, and Felicia Boswell, at 9:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Joe’s Pub.
This Bitter Earth, by Harrison David Rivers, directed by David Mendizábal, featuring Tom Holcomb and Damian Jermaine Thompson, begins streaming on demand at Theaterworks Hartford.
Major Attaway with Seth Rudetsky livestream concert, at 8 PM ET here (use code MAJOR5 to save $5).
Abingdon Theatre Company‘s It Happened in Key West concert presentation, by Jill Santoriello, Jason Huza & Jeremiah James, directed by Chad Austin, featuring Bryce Pinkham, Max von Essen, Wade McCollum, Jessica Vosk, Shereen Pimentel, Pierre Marias, Ilda Mason, Mikaela Bennett, and Jonathan Hoover, at 7:30 PM ET at NYC’s Duane Park. 
: broadwayonthebowery@abingdontheatre.org
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GRACE NOTES Quiz: He Said, She Said, by Jim Bernhard
Match these he-she exchanges with the plays or musicals from which they come:
| 1. HE: This is a sorry sight. SHE: A foolish thought to say a sorry sight. | A. The Sea Gull |
| 2. HE: How is your cold? SHE: The same. So the doctor asked me how long I had had it, and I told him for a long time, and I said I thought t was on account of my dancing with hardly any clothes on… | B. Show Boat |
| 3. HE: What does it matter what becomes of you? SHE: You don’t care…I’m nothing to you—not so much as them slippers. | C. Macbeth |
| 4. HE: I’m a conservatory man myself. Gary Indiana Gold Medal Class of ’05. SHE: Even if that should happen to be true, does that give you the right to follow me around wherever I go? | D. Oklahoma! |
| 5. HE: I have tried in every way to help you and the children. It is you who refuse my offers…and for this you will surely suffer. SHE: Please go! I can see you are longing to be with your new sweetheart. Go, and God help you—you may end by regretting this kind of wedding! | E. Guys and Dolls |
| 6. HE: This millionaire from Dallas is not going to interfere with your privacy any? SHE: It won’t be the sort of thing you have in mind. This man is a gentleman and he respects me. | F. Othello |
| 7. HE: Why do you always wear black? SHE: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy. | G. Pygmalion |
| 8. HE: I saw the handkerchief. SHE: He found it then; I never gave it him. | H. A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 9. HE: You think people do talk about us? SHE: Oh, you know how they air–like a swarm of mudwasps. Alw’ys gotta be buzzin’ ’bout sump’n. | I. Medea |
| 10. HE: If you like to make believe things, why can’t we make believe we know each other? SHE: Oh, yes, and we haven’t seen each other for seventy-five years, and you’re my long-lost nephew | J. The Music Man |
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Anthony McCarten’s A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical will run June 21 – July 31 at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre, directed by Michael Mayer, with choreography by Stephen Hoggett.
Will Swenson (Neil Diamond) and more TBA.
The incredible life story of the legendary singer/songwriter, Neil Diamond.
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Old Friends, a salute to the legacy of Stephen Sondheim will take place Tues. May 3 at 8 PM GMT at London’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre, directed by Matthew Bourne & Maria Friedman, with choreography by Stephen Mear, and music direction by Alfonso Casado Trigo. The event will benefit the Sondheim Foundation. 
(available beginning Mar. 15) here.
Bernadette Peter, Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Hannah Waddingham, Elaine Paige, Michael Ball, Petula Clark, Daniel Evans, Bonnie Langford, Adrian Lester, Damian Lewis, Julia McKenzie, Clive Rowe, and more TBA.
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CT’s Goodspeed Musicals has announced its 2022 Festival of New Musicals… and more.
A House Without Windows reading (Mar. 18 at 7:30 PM ET), by Anna Ziegler & Anna Jacobs. Barbara Newhall Follett was the child prodigy author of a celebrated novel about a young girl who runs away from her family and vanished into nature. Twelve years after its publication, on Dec. 7, 1939, Barbara walked out of her apartment with $30 and a light overcoat, and was never seen or heard from again. She was twenty-five years old.
Timothy Huang and Friends cabaret (Mar. 18 at 10 PM ET).
Putting It Together: Little Girl Blue seminar (Mar. 19 at 10 AM PT))
Hot staged reading (Mar. 19 at 7:30 PM ET), by Lynne Shankel & Sara Cooper. A darkly comic, through-composed feminist adaptation of Helen of Troy, featuring an all-female+ cast. It exposes and examines the commodification women face throughout our lifetimes as Helen is first sexualized, then held to unrealistic beauty and gender-based standards, and finally vilified and discarded – until she decides to stand up and take back her power.
Joriah Kwamé concert (Mar. 19 at 10 PM ET)
The Gunfighter Meets His Match staged reading (Mar. 20 at 1 PM ET), by Abby Payne. A Wild West boom town, famous for the legend of a brilliant Gunfighter, is stirred up by the arrival of a young ranch hand on a mission to understand the truth behind the Gunfighter stories. As mysterious past and present meld and the Gunfighter returns to protect his long lost love, he and the townsfolk mu face their ghosts.
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A benefit reading (never heard publicly in NYC) of Terrence McNally’s Unusual Acts of Devotion will take place Mon. Mar. 14 at 7:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, directed by Zachary Quinto.
Niki M. James, Lois Smith, Brooks Ashmanskas, Arian Moayed, Rosie Perez, and Michael Urie.
A group of neighbors celebrate on a hot summer night on a Greenwich Village rooftop to cool down and celebrate a young couple’s anniversary. As the raucous music of the city mingles with the music from their portable CD player, they drink and dance and talk and worry and dream. Through it all, there’s a palpable sense of danger underlying the festivities – bringing with it a heightened awareness of the fragility of human life.
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Video: David Byrne discusses American Utopia on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
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Currently in previews, Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady will open Tues. Mar. 8, and has now been extended through Apr. 10 at Off-Broadway’s The Public Theater, directed by Ralph B. Peña.
Daniel K. Isaac, Shannon Tyo, Cindy Im, and Jon Norman.
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Complete casting has been announced for the world premiere of Lloyd Price & B. Jeffrey Madoff’s Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical, to run Mar. 9 – Apr. 3 at Philadelphia’s People’s Light, directed by Sheldon Epps, with music direction by Shelton Becton and choreography by Edgar Godineaux.
Saint Aubyn (Adult Lloyd Price), Nathaniel Washington (Young Lloyd Price), Stanley Wayne Mathis (Logan), Miles Boone (Little Richard), Donnie Hammond (Sister Rosetta), and Dsireé Murphy (Emma), with Michael Covel, Ben Dibble, Robert H. Fowler, Kyshawn Lane, Todd Lawson, Lizzie Mason, Charlotte McKinley, Iykechi McCoy, and Dony Wright.
From obscure beginnings to overnight teen sensation, the musical celebrates one of the most resilient and influential entertainers of the 20th century.
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“Lyrics and Lyricists” opens its 50th season at NYC’s 92Y:
David Loud: Facing the Music (Mar. 19-21), featuring Heidi Blickenstaff, Laura Darrell, David Garrison, Alex Joseph Grayson, and Matthew Scott. Details here.
You Send Me: The Songs and Soul of Sam Cooke (Apr. 23-25), conceived by & starring Darius De Haas. Details here.
“Isn’t It Bliss?” Sondheim on Love (June 18-20), conceived, written, directed, music directed, and hosted by Ted Sperling, with performers TBA. Details here.
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Jaki McCarrick’s Belfast Girls will run May 11 – June 26 (opening May 19) at Irish Rep, directed by Nicola Murphy.
Casting TBA.
Five young women set out o their own as they sail from Belfast, Ireland to Sydney, Australia in 1850, as they realize they cannot escape the lives they think they left behind.
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Upcoming performers in the Seth Concert Series:
Will Roland (Mar. 13 at 8 PM ET). here.
Derek Klena (Mar. 20 at 8 PM ET). here.
Remembering Steve (Mar. 22 at 7 & 9:45 PM ET). Live only — not on demand, with special guests (7 PM ET) Sarah Rice, Leenya Rideout, Natalie Douglas, Michelle Dowdy, Marquee Five, Rob Maitner, Jennifer Sanchez and Lucia Spina and (9:45 PM ET) Danielle Ferland, Annie Golden, Liz McCartney, Manu Marayan, Sarah Rice, Jim Walton, Marquee Five, Soara-Joye Ross, and Lucia Spina. here.
Liz Callaway (Mar. 26 at 7 PM ET). here.
Lauren Patton (Mar. 27 at 2 PM ET) here.
Bonnie Milligan (Apr. 4 at 8 PM ET). here.
Adrianna Hicks (Apr. 13 at 8 PM ET). here.
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Video: Sutton Foster chats about The Music Man on the Today Show.
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Steven Brinberg’s 80, Girls 80: Celebrating Barbra Streisand’s Birthday will take place Sun. Apr. 24 at 9:30 PM at 54 Below, with music direction by Christopher Denny.
David Shire, and more TBA.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz answers: He Said, She Said
1-C. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth
2-E. Nathan and Adelaide in Guys and Dolls
3-G. Higgins and Eliza in Pygmalion
4-J. Harold and Marian in The Music Man
5-I. Jason and Medea in Medea
6-H. Stanley and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire
7-A. Medvedenko and Masha in The Sea Gull
8-F. Othello and Desdemona in Othello
9-D. Curly and Laurey in Oklahoma!
10-B. Gaylord and Magnolia in Show Boat