Today’s Highlights:
* West End Woofs FREE pet adoption event, featuring Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige, Kerry Ellis, Maria Friedman, Ruthie Henshall, Matt Lucas, and Twiggy, streams at 2 PM ET here.
* Boys Don’t Wear Lipstick benefit reading, by Brian Velobitch, directed by Everett Quinton, featuring Lena Hall, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jonny Beauchamp, Margaret Cho, Yuhua Hamasaki, Peppermint, Jacob Tobia, and Mason Alexander Park, streams at 8 PM ET here.
* iHeart Radio Broadway Salutes The 2020 Tony Nominees benefit radio broadcast, with songs & conversations, featuring Adrienne Warren, Aaron Tveit, Celia Rose Gooding, Daniel J. Watts, John Benjamin Hickey, Danny Burstein, Audra McDonald, Blair Underwood, Karen Olivo, Bess Wohl, and Katori Hall, streams at 7 PM ET here.
* Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt: Simple Little Things virtual concert & discussion, offering songs from The Fantastkics, 110 in the Shade, Do! I Do!, and many more, hosted by Beth Malone, featuring Brandon Victor Dixon, Katherine Henly, Telly Leung, Kara Lindsay, Zachary Piser, and Mariand Torres, streams at 7 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y (and available through Dec. 9).
* Rockers on Broadway virtual concert, hosted b Ben Cameron, with special guests Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett and the Heartbreakers, and featuring Michael Cerveris, Isabelle Gottfried, Morgan James, Donnie Kehr, LaChanze, Constantine Maroulis, Rick Negron, Adam Pascal, Ryan Peete, Jen Perry, Ryann Redmond, J. Robert Spencer, streams at 7 PM ET on Broadway On Demand.
* Tomfoolery FREE discussion, by Tom Leher, Cameron Mackintoch & Robin Ray, with special guests Pamela Hunt, Michael Rice, Stephanie d’Abruzzo, Josh Grisetti, Ben Liebert, Michael McCormick, and more, streams at 7 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.
* Keen After Hours FREE conversation, with special guest Adam Gwon, who will discuss his career, artistic process, and take questions from the audience, streams at 6:30 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s Keen Company.
* Richard II, made-for-TV- adaptation (of the 1995 National Theatre production), directed by Deborah Warner, featuring Fiona Shaw (Richard II), Donald Sinden (Duke of York), Richard Bremmer (Henry Bolingbroke), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Duke of Aumerle), Kevin McKidd (Harry Percy), and Paola Dionisotti (Duchess of York), streams for FREE at 2 PM ET here.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz: Who’s Next? by Jim Bernhard
Match these stars with their replacements during the show’s Broadway run:
| 1. Bernadette Peters in Annie Get Your Gun | A. Arlene Dahl |
| 2. Zoe Caldwell in Master Class | B. Fannie Flagg |
| 3. Lauren Bacall in Applause | C. Ann B. Davis |
| 4. Debbie Reynolds in Irene | D. Greer Garson |
| 5. Carlin Glynn in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | E. Patti LuPone |
| 6. Mary Martin in I Do! I Do! | F. Uta Hagen |
| 7. Carol Burnett in Once Upon A Mattress | G. Cheryl Ladd |
| 8. Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame | H. Jane Powell |
| 9. Jessica Tandy in A Streetcar Named Desire | I. Raquel Welch |
| 10. Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year | J. Carol Lawrence |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens, an online revival of the series, in support of BC/EFA, will stream on World AIDS Day — Tues. Dec. 1 at 5 PM ET here (and will be available through Dec. 5).
Brooks Ashmaksas, Laura Bell Bundy, Stephanie Gibson, Lana Gordon, Alan H. Green, Lena Hall, Jayne Houdeshell, Famke Janssen, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Joaquina Kalukango, Tari Kelly, Nathan Lane, Norm , Alyse Alan Luois, Andrea Macasaet, Keving McHale, Jessie Mueller, Royina Patel, Anthony Rapp, Krysta Rodreguea, Seth Rudetsy, JK Simmons, Robin Lord Taylor, Alysha Umphress, Anna Uzele, Marisha Wallace, and Cynthia Nixon, and more TBA.
The event is a celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told in free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz and rock score.
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Craig Thomas, Carter Bays & Nathan Larson’s “Molly and the Moon” is now in development, starring Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff.
Further casting, release date, and additional information TBA.
Bell and Groff play an expectant couple who sing to their unborn chid, and also takes viewers inside the womb as the unborn girl utilizes her parents’ voices to reach “the boom” (birth). The film is inspired by Bays and his wife’s experience with their own newborn, who had a genetic condition that required surgery upon birth.
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The National Veterans Foundation presents Letters From War Veterans, which is available now for streaming here.
Dan Lauria, Jonathan Banks, Kim Brockington, Joe Mantegna, Sam McMurray, Lou Diamon Phillips, James Pickens, and Reno Wilson.
A star-studded cast will read, in quiet settings, letters written by Veterans, some from warzones, some from unfamiliar places, many written during the lonely hours. Their words take on new weight and meaning.
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Watch: “Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life” (1:30:00)
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Video: Ramin Karimloo performs “I Vow to Thee, My Country” at the 2020 Festival of Remembrance at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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“We the People,” a conversation with theatre artists and community leaders gather to talk personally about our Constitution and what voting means to them, directed by Cameron Watson (30 min.) streams at LA’s Skylight Theatre (available through Nov. 30).
Noah benShea, Brendan Boyle, Dan Bucatinsky, Mary Chieffo, Michael Chieffo, Jacquelyn Fergusson, Liz Frances, Melissa Fitzgerald, Hutchins Foster, Jorge Garcia, Allison Janney, Sophie Kim, Sharon Lawrence, Penelope Lowder, Wendie Malick, Allan Miller, Congressman Patrick Murphy, Vico Ortiz, James Naughton, Christina Pickles, Kacie Rogers, Charles Shaughnessy, Michael A. Shepperd, Joe Spano, Desean K. Terry, JoBeth Williams, Haneefah Wood, and Laura Zucker.
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The Christopher Sieber Special, with music direction by Billy Stritch, is now available on demand here (through Dec. 5)
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Audio: Duncan Sheik and Kathryn Gallagher sing “Touch Me” from Spring Awakening.
The song is from Sheik’s new album, “Live at the Café Carlyle,” which will be released Dec. 4. Pre-save the album here.
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Video: Julie Garnyé performs “Fields of Gold/Both Sides Now”
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Harvey Granat presents Rodgers & Hart, an exploration of the duo’s partnership, on Thurs. Nov. 19 at 12 PM ET at NYC’s 92Y.
Jamie DeRoy, Steve Ross, and Barry Kleinbort.
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Video: Marc Shaiman performs “You Can’t Stop the Count,” a Hairspray parody.
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Selena: A Live Drive-In Experience will run Nov. 20-21 (both at 7 PM ET) at Astoria, Queens’ Hallet Point Play, starring Eva Noblezada.
Noblezada will sing numbers, with a live 6-piece band, from the film (starring Jennifer Lopez ) during a pre-concert and in-time with a screening of the 1997 biopic.
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Hamilton will open Mar. 17, 2021 at Australia’s Sydney Lyric Theatre.
Jason Arrow (Alexander Hamilton), Chloé Zuel (Eliza Hamilton), Lyndon Watts (Aaron Burr), Akina Edmonds (Angelica Schuyler), Matu Ngaropo (George Washington), Victory Ndukwe (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Shaka Cook (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Mary Alix (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Elandrah Eramiha (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), and Brent Hill (King George III), with Kirrah Amosa, Daniel Assetta, Kyla Bartholomuesz, Isaac Bradley, Olivia Carniato, Luca Dinardo, Jeffery Duffy, Keanu Gonzalez, Winston Hillyer, Jimmie “J.J.” Jeter, Julian Kuo, Iosefa Laga’aia, Stefan Lagoulis, Ashton Lash, Loredo Malcolm, Jayme Jo Massoud, James Maxfield, Callan Purcell, Zelia Rose, Tainga Savage, Jas Smith-Sua, Tigist Strode, Kim Taylor, Ramonia Villafranca, and Zachary Webster.
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A re-imagined production of Beauty and the Beast will play the U.K. and Ireland in 2021. Performances will begin at Curve, Leicester May 25, 2021, with additional engagements set for Dublin, Bristol, Liverpool, and Edinburgh.
Casting and additional information TBA.
Though featuring new designs and contemporary theatre technology, the staging will reunite the 1994 Broadway musical’s creative team: director Rob Roth, composer Alan Menken, lyricist Tim Rice, bookwriter Linda Woolverton, choreographer Matt West, set designer Stan Meyer, costume designer Ann Hould-Ward, and lighting designer Natasha Katz.
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Violins of Hope is an internationally renowned collection of over 60 stringed instruments rescued from the Holocaust and restored by second-generation violinmaker, Amnon Weinstein, and his son Avshalom, in their ship in Tel Aviv. Last March, the collection was brought to Los Angeles for a long series of concerts, exhibits, and student educational programming.
Three Violinists — Niv Ashkenazi, Lindsay Deutsch, and Janice Mautner — performed a recorded farewell concert on the instruments they were to play at various LA concerts, taped safely per COVID-19 regulations. Beginning Fri. Nov. 20 at 5 PM PT, the concert will be available at LA’s Saroya.
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GRACE NOTES Quiz answers: Who’s Next?
1-G. Bernadette Peters in Annie Get Your Gun – Cheryl Ladd
2-E. Zoe Caldwell in Master Class – Patti LuPone
3-A. Lauren Bacall in Applause – Arlene Dahl
4-H. Debbie Reynolds in Irene – Jane Powell
5-B. Carlin Glynn in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – Fannie Flagg
6-J. Mary Martin in I Do! I Do! – Carol Lawrence
7-C. Carol Burnett in Once Upon A Mattress – Ann B. Davis
8-D. Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame – Greer Garson
9-F. Jessica Tandy in A Streetcar Named Desire – Uta Hagen
10-I. Lauren Bacall in Woman of the Year – Raquel Welch