GRACE NOTES will return Monday April 28.
Thursday, April 24
Roundabout‘s The Pirates of Penzance, adapted by Rupert Holmes, directed by Scott Ellis, featuring Ramin Karimloo (Pirate King), David Hyde Pierce (Gilbert/Major General Stanley), Jinkx Monsoon (Ruth), Nicholas Barasch (Frederic), Preston Truman Boyd (Sullivan/Police Sergeant), and Samantha Williams (Mabel Stanley), with Kelly Belarmino, Maria Briggs, Eddie Cooper, Cicily Daniels, Ninako Donville, Alex Dorf, Rick Faugno, Niani Feelings, Tommy Gedrich, Alex Gibson, Afra Hines, Dan Hoy, Ryo Kamibayashi, Tatiana Lofton, Nathan Lucrezio, Shina Ann Morris, Cooper Stanton, and Bronwyn Tarboton, opens at Broadway’s Todd Haim’s Theatre.
The Great Gatsby, by Nathan Tysen, Jason Howland, Kait Kerrigan & Marc Bruni, directed & choreographed by Dominique Kelley, featuring Jamie Muscato (Jay Gatsby, Frances Mayli McCann (Daisy Buchanan), Corbin Bleu ( Nick Carraway), Amber Davies (Jordan Baker), Joel Montague (George Wilson), John Owen-Jones (Meyer Wolfsheim, Jon Robyns (Phantom of the Opera) as Tom Buchanan, and Rachel Tucker (Myrtle Wilson), with Jordan Crouch, Kiara Dario, Frances Dee, Aimée Fisher, Tom Andrew Hargreaves, Alyn Hawke, Ediz Mahmut, Jamel Matthias, Nevé McGuiness-Dyce, Rose Ouellette, Sophie Pourret, Will Richardson, and Lily Wang, with Liv Alexander, Taylor Alman, Lauren Hampton, Jared Irving, Samuel John-Humphreys, and Millie Mayhew. opens at the London Coliseum.
Furlough’s Paradise, by a.k payne, directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, featuring Kacie Rogers( Mina) and DeWanda Wise (Sade), opens at LA’s Geffen Playhouse.
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Friday, April 25
Scenes from a Repatriation, by Joel Tan, directed by Kaja Chan, Aidan Cheng, Jon Chew, Fiona Hampton, Robin Khor Yong Kuan and Sky Yang, featuring Kaja Chan, Aidan Cheng, Jon Chew, Fiona Hampton, Robin Khor Yong Kuan and Sky Yang, opens at London’s Royal Court Theatre
Hymn, by Lolita Chakrabarti, directed by O J Parson, featuring Chiké Johnson and James Vincent Meredith, opens at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, by Mara Véles Meléndez, directed by Javier Antonio González, featuring Christine Carmela Lolita) and Samora la Perdida (Receptionist), begins previews at Yale Rep.
Legally Blonde, directed by Cynthia Ferre, featuring Kathryn Brunner (Elle Woods), Michael Thhomas Grant (Emmett Forrest), Nicholas James McDonough (Warner Hunington III), anna Mintzer (Vivienne Kensington), Anthea Neri Best (Pauline), Ed Staudenmayer (Professor Callahan), Jane Papageorge (Brooke Wyndham), Ed Staudenmayer (Professor Callahan), Jane Papageorge (Brooke Wyndham), Dahlya Glick Enid), Grace Simmons (Margot), Bella Hicks (Serena), and Aurelia Michael (Pilar), with Cristyn Dang, Grant Hodges, Nathan Madden, Donovan Mendelovitz, Bailey Renee Miller, Taylor Mettra, Davon Rashawn, Anthony Sanchez, Callula Sawyer, Rochelle Scudder (“Bruiser” Handler), Jabari, Krystle Rose Simmons, Rodrigo Varandas, Rianny Vasquez, Emmy J. Lane and Ben Raanan, previews at CA’s La Mirada Theatre. .
Saturday, April 26
Ragtime, directed by Sara Edwards, featuring Mamie Parris (Mother), Michael Wordly (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), David R. Gordon (Tateh), Brennyn Lark (Sarah), Edward Watts (Father), Behr Marshall (Younger Brother), Sawyer Delaney (Little Boy),and Sofie Nesanelis (Little Girl), with Jordan Alexander, Shaunice Maudlyn Alexander, Mia Bergstrom, Tommy Betz, Jodi Bluestein, Yophi Adia Bost, Jonathan Cobrda, Jalyn Crosby, Joseph Fierberg, Mia Gerachis, Blair Goldberg, Nathan Haltiwanger, Benjamin H. Moore, Jeremiah Valentino Porter, Rory Shirley, Stephen Tewksbury, Matt Wall, Henry H. Miller, Xavier Turner, and Robin Louise Mille, begins previews at CT’s Goodspeed Theatre.
Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members, by Mara Véles Meléndez, directed by Javier Antonio González, featuring Christine Carmela Lolita) and Samora la Perdida (Receptionist), begins previews at Yale Rep.
Legally Blonde, directed by Cynthia Ferre, featuring Kathryn Brunner (Elle Woods), Michael Thhomas Grant (Emmett Forrest), Nicholas James McDonough (Warner Hunington III), anna Mintzer (Vivienne Kensington), Anthea Neri Best (Pauline), Ed Staudenmayer (Professor Callahan), Jane Papageorge (Brooke Wyndham), Ed Staudenmayer (Professor Callahan), Jane Papageorge (Brooke Wyndham), Dahlya Glick Enid), Grace Simmons (Margot), Bella Hicks (Serena), and Aurelia Michael (Pilar), with Cristyn Dang, Grant Hodges, Nathan Madden, Donovan Mendelovitz, Bailey Renee Miller, Taylor Mettra, Davon Rashawn, Anthony Sanchez, Callula Sawyer, Rochelle Scudder (“Bruiser” Handler), Jabari, Krystle Rose Simmons, Rodrigo Varandas, Rianny Vasquez, Emmy J. Lane and Ben Raanan, previews at CA’s La Mirada Theatre.
Sunday, April 27
Marilu Henner, Marsha Mason, Benja K Thomas, and Julia Sweeney join the cast of Joy Behar’s My First Ex-Husband at Off-Broadway’s MMAC Theatre.
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Broadway Grosses for the week ending April 20.
Click here for the complete analysis.
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Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical, by Lesette Glododowski & Richard C. Walter, continues through June 8 at at Pittsberg CLO, directed by & choreographed by Laurie Glodowsk.
Victoria Frings (Barb-Nicole Clicquot Pnsardin), Kevi Massey (François Cliquot, and Paolo Montalban (Louis Bohne)
A bold new work celebrating the extraordinary life of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who revolutionized the champagne industry.
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“The Great War & The Great Gatsby,” which recently performed at Carnegie Hall, has just announced that will air this Fall (date TBA), directed by Michael Mayer, and will include equal parts concert, suspense, drama, romance, a tribute, and an exhibition of rare and iconic images and film from the National Archives. with additional musical selections to create a vivid and emotionally powerful journey for this musical and visual exploration of World War I.
John Monsky, Adam Chance. Berat, Nicholas Christofer, Micaela Diamonnd, Grace McGraw, and Diego Andres Rodriguez
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The 25th Annual Broadway.Com Audience Choice Awards will be presented on Thurs. May 20 at a location TBA. The Awards are the only major theatrical prize awarded solely by votes cast online by audience members. Click here to learn more.
Fans will be able to vote to select this year’s nominees at Broadway.com. Mark your calendars with the dates below!
Wednesday, April 23 – Nominee voting opens
Sunday, April 27 – Nominee voting closes
Tuesday, April 29 – Award voting opens
. Friday, May 9 – Award voting closes
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Lisette Glodowski & Richard C. Walter’s Madame Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical will run May 29 – June 8 at the Pittsburg CLO, directed & choreographed by Laurie Glodowski.
Victoria Frings (Barb-Nicole Clicquot Pnsardin), Kevi Massey (François Cliquot, and Paolo Montalban (Louis Bohne),
A bold new work celebrating the extraordinary life of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who revolutionized the champagne industry.
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An industry reading of Matthew Lombardo’s When Playwrights Kill will take place June 19 in NYC, directed by Noah Himmelstein. Interested industry members can email Bryan@BPMTheatrical.com.
Chris Perfetti (Playwright Jack Hawkins), Beth Leavel (Brooke Remington, Kevin Chamberlin Oliver Kendall Walker, Chrsitopher Fitsgerald (Freddie Carlinton), and Bonnie MilliganLiz Jennings), and Tomas Matos (Tobias Deschanel.
The work centers on an aspiring playwright suffering through a disastrous out of town try-out with an insane star leading the cast. When all other options seem untenable, he decides saving this play might just involve murdering its leading lady.**********************
Edith, world premiere by Noah T. Barnes, will continue through June 15 at North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble, directed by Ignacio Navarro.
Bita Arefnia, Isabella Costa, Nicole Craig, Emilie Crotty, Skylar DeShane, Jessica Dowdeswell, Christopher Leon, Asha Nataraj, Olivia Rodriguez, Crismar Chacín Ruiz, and Rosie Ryden.
When a giant pillar of salt crashes into the kitchen, a family is thrown into a chaotic, campy, Biblical fantasy that forces them to reckon with their relationship to disobedience, suffering, and deviant sex to see joy in the carnage!
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Enda Walsh, Gary Clark & John Carney’s Sing Street, will run July 8 – Aug. 23 (opening July 18) at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, directed by Rebecca Taichman, with choreograph by Sonya Tayeh.
Adam Hunter (Brendan), and more TBA.
Adapted from the 2016 film of the same name written and directed by John Carney, the musical played a world premiere run Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in 2019, and was scheduled to transfer to Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre. But then, the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown postponed that Broadway run. Sing Street did return in 2022 but it played Boston’s Huntington Theatre in 2022; no new Broadway plan has yet emerged.