Today’s Highlights:
Light virtual reading, by Jarrin Davis, directed by Angelisa Gillyard, featuring Tamieka Chavis (Peaches), Felicia Curry (Emma), Clayton Pelham, Jr. (Trey), Christopher Michael Richardson (Bobo), Owen Tabaka (Durell), and Dorrian Wilson (Ella), begins FREE streaming at DC’s Signature Theatre.
Rothchild & Sons conversation (revisiting Off-Broadway’s York Theatre 2015 production), with special guests James Morgan, Gerry McIntyre, Charles Wright, Arnold Mittleman, Sheldon Harnick, Sherman Yellen, Jeffrey B. Moss, Glory Crampton, and more, streams for FREE at 7 PM ET here.
RemarkaBULL Podversation: Exploring Cymbeline with Lily Rabe, streams for FREE at 7:30 PM ET Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater.
“Lewis Flinn’s The Curtain Call Mixes” album released on MP3 here.
The Baltimore Waltz virtual benefit production, by Paula Vogel, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, featuring Mary-Louise Parker (Anna), Eric McCormack (Carl), and Brandon Burton (Third Man), concludes streaming at 6 PM ET here.
Home virtual reading, by Samm-Art Williams, directed by Kenny Leon, featuring Rob Demery, Joanquina Klaukango, Brittany Inge, and Christina Sajous, concludes FREE streaming at Roundabout Theatre Company.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz: Eleven O’Clock Numbers by Jim Bernhard
Which characters sing these “eleven o’clock numbers”—those songs near the end of a show that encapsulate its concept?
1. “Cabaret” in Cabaret…The Emcee…the Kit Kat Girls…Sally Bowles…Cliff Bradshaw
2. “Let Me Entertain You” in Gypsy… Rose…Dainty June…Louise…Herbie
3. “What I Did For Love” in A Chorus Line …Cassie…Diana…Paul…Zach
4. “Back to Before” in Ragtime… Mother…Tateh…Booker T. Washington…Coalhouse Walker Jr.
5. “No Good Deed” in Wicked… Glinda…The Wizard…Madame Morrible…Elphaba
6. “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat” in Guys and Dolls… Nathan Detroit…Miss Adelaide…Nicely-Nicely Johnson …Sky Masterson
7. “Last Midnight” in Into the Woods…. Cinderella…Jack…Witch….Little Red Riding Hood
8. “Losing My Mind” in Follies… Buddy…Phyllis…Carlotta…Sally
9. “Without You” in My Fair Lady… Higgins…Pickering…Eliza…Freddy
10. “Something Was Missing” in Annie… Oliver Warbucks…Miss Hannigan…Sandy…Annie
Scroll down for the answers…
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Video: Watch last night’s 2021 Lucille Lortel Awards ceremony. (52:26)
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“Schmigadoon!” will debut on Apple TV+, produced by Lorne Michaels. Two episodes will be available on the July 16 premiere date, followed by one episode every Friday thereafter.
Cecily Strong, Keegan-Michael Key, Alam Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Aarot Tveit, Dove Cameron, Ariana DeBose Fred Armison, Jaime Camil, Jane Krakowski, and Ann Harada, with Martin Short guest starring.
A parody of iconic Golden Age musicals, a couple on a backpacking trip designed to re-invigorate their relationship discover a magical town living in a 1940s musical. They learn that they can’s leave until they fine “true love.”
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NYC’s Symphony Space has announced its 2021 Gala, to take place Thurs. May 13 at 7 PM ET, offering live performances, directed by Annette Jolles & Joel Fram, with music direction by Fred Lassen. Concert-only tickets are $35.
Kate Baldwin, Britney Coleman, Nikki Renee Daniels, Jason Gotay, Jeff Kready, Laura Osness, Rashidra Scott, Nathaniel Stampley, Sally Wilfert, and Tony Yazbeck, along with the world premiere of a new dance work choreographed by Sara Brians, featuring Saki Masuda, Michelle Mercedes, and Devin L. Roberts.
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Christiane Noll: Coming Alive Again will stream May 9-30 at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Rob Ruggiero, with music direction by Mark Waldrop.
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Opera Saratoga has announce its 2021 Summer Festival season, which will take place outdoors.
Quixotic Opera (June 24-25), a concert of scenes from other operas inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, with music direction by Laurie Rogers. Casting TBA.
Man of La Mancha (July 8-10), directed by choreographed by Lawrence Edelson, featuring Zachary James (Cervantes/Don Quixote), Kelly Glyptis (Aldonza).
Don Quichotte at Camacho’s Wedding (July 14-18), directed by Rebecca Miller Kratzer, and conducted by Michelle Rofrano, a one-act comic serenata by Georg Philipp Telemann & Daniel Schiebeler. Taken from an episode from Part 2 of Cervantes’ novel, in which the Knight and his squire Sancho Panza encounter some rather strange wedding celebrations as they roam the world in search of adventure.
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The Secret Garden: Workshop and Livestream Experience, by Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon, will stream May 6 (at 8 PM ET), then available through May 9 on Broadway on Demand, in support of The Dramatist Guild Foundation and The Actors Fund, reimagined, directed & choreographed by Warren Carlyle. The event is dedicated to Rebecca Luker (the original Lily). 
($10) here.
Clifton Duncan (Archibald), Drew Gehling (Neville Craven), Sierra Boggess (Lily), Amber Iman (Martha), Adam Chandler-Berat (Dickon), Brooklyn Shuck (Mary), Cameron Mann (Colin), Matt Doyle (Albert), Sally Ann Triplett (Medlock), Jim Norton (Ben), Anoop Desai (Fakir), and Kuhoo Verma (Ayah).
For an additional donation, viewers can join the livestream experience, which will include an exclusive virtual red carpet event featuring Marsha Norman & Lucy Simon on May 6 at 7 PM ET prior to the premiere. Norman and Simon will chat about their creative process, insider anecdotes, and their continued love of the musical. Purchase includes this pre-show Red Carpet event, workshop stream, and access to the virtual post-show “Come to My Garden” Party, an interactive Q&A with Warren Carlyle, on May 6, after the premiere broadcast.
Video: Sneak peek
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Mark Sonnenblick’s Midnight at the Never Get continues streaming through June 21 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Matthew Gardiner.
Sam Bolen and Christian Douglas.
If life is a rehearsal for your memory, what moment would you replay? It is 1965 in New York City and cabaret crooner Trevor is in love – with Arthur, his songwriters. With their romance outlawed, the two create an act in the back room of illegal Greenwich Village gay bar. However, pressures from a world on the cusp of change expose and ache for what they could have in a wistful and whimsical serenade with tunes reminiscent of the Great American Songbook.
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RIP: Olympia Dukakis has died at the age of 89.
Best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in “Moonstruck, she made her Broadway debut at the age of 30, as an understudy in The Aspern Papers. She also won an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway performance in A Man’s a Man (1963) and The Marriage of Bette and Boo (1985).
Olympia also appeared on Broadway in Abraham Cochrane… Who’s Who in Hell… Security… and Rose, as well in as the Off-Broadway productions of Crime and Crime… Electra… Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry… The Memorandum… Peer Gynt… Baba Goya… Nourish the Beast… Curse of the Starving Class… The Hope Zone… A Mother, A Daughter, and a Gun… 70 Girls 70… The Singing Forest… and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.
The documentary of Dukakis’ life, “Olympia” (2020) is now available on Apple TV, Digital & On Demand.
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A film adaptation of “Borderlands” (a first person shooter video game) is in development. Release date TBA.
Charles Babalola, Benjamin Bryon Davis, Bobbe Lee, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Edgar Ramirez, Haley Bennet, Oliver Richters, and Jack Black.
The film is set in the distant future, in which four “Vault Hunter” travel to the distant planet Pandora to hunt down an alien vault, rumored to contain advanced alien technology. The hunters find themselves battling the local wildlife and bandit population, but ultimately attempt to top the head of a private corporation army from reaching vault first.
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Idris Goodwin’s Blackademics will stream May 22-26 at Cleveland Playhouse, directed by Ansley Valentine.
Mariah Burks, Colleen Longshaw, and Lisa Marie Schueller.
A select table reserved at an exclusive café inspires a ravenous appetite from African-American professors Ann and Rachelle. From seed to slaughter, their host, Georgia, has the evening fully planned, down to the last chair. The play is a comedic culinary celebration that quickly turns from crudité as our scholars banter, debate, and battle each other to claim their literal seat at the table.
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A filmed production of Come From Away will be recorded at Broadway’s Shoenfeld Theatre in May, featuring members of the Broadway production, and will be available on Apple TV + this Fall.
Casting and release date TBA.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz answers: Eleven O’Clock Numbers
1. Sally Bowles sings “Cabaret” in Cabaret.
2. Louise sings “Let Me Entertain You” in Gypsy. (Rose also has an eleven o’clock number, “Roses’s Turn”).
3. Diana sings “What I Did for Love” in A Chorus Line.
4. Mother sings “Back to Before” in Ragtime.
5. Elphaba sings “No Good Deed” in Wicked.
6. Nicely-Nicely sings “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat” in Guys and Dolls.
7. The Witch sings “Last Midnight” in Into the Woods.
8. Sally sings “Losing My Mind” in Follies. (Each of the other three principals also has an eleven o’clock number.)
9. Eliza sings “Without You” in My Fair Lady. (Higgins also has an eleven o’clock number in “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.”)
10. Oliver Warbucks sings “Something Was Missing” in Annie.