Today’s Highlights:
Our Class, by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, directed by Igor Golyak, featuring Gus Birney (Dora), Andrey Burkovskiy (Menachem), Jack DiFalco (Zygmunt), José Espinosa (Rysiek), Tess Goldwyn (Zocha,) Will Manning (Heniek), Stephen Ochsner (Jakub Katz), Alexandra Silber (Rachelka/Marianna), Richard Topol (Abram), and Ilia Volok (Władek), opens at Brooklyn’s BAM.
The Journals of Adam and Eve, world premiere by Ed Weinberger, directed by Ben Donenberg, featuring Ben Donenberg, opens at Burbank’s Garry Marshall Theater.
Anything Goes, directed by Michael Weber, featuring Meghan Murphy (Reno Sweeney), Luke Nowakowski (Billy Crocker), Jack Evans (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh), Emma Ogea (Hope Harcourt), J. Steve McDonagh (Moonface Martin), Tommy Bullington (Ship’s Purser), Rachel Dec (Charity), Nick Dorado (Ship’s Captain), Emily Ling Mei (Chastity), Tafadzwa Diener (Erma), Josiah Haugen (Henry T. Dobson), Ciara Hichey (Dippy), Hannah Revian (Virtue), Nataki Rennie (Purity), and Anthony Whitaker (Elisha J. Whiteny) , with Logan Becker+ (Ensemble);, (Henry T. Dobson, Ensemble); Christian Hill+ (Ensemble); Kelsey MacDonald, Jenna Schoppe, Gabriel Solis, Jerod Turner, Genevieve VenJohnson.Gabriel Solis, Mack Spotts, Jerod Turner, opens at Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre.
Days of Wine and Roses performance & conversation, featuring Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James, at 8 PM at NYC’s 92NY.
Musical Theatre Guild‘s Live Laugh Love: A Sondheim Celebration benefit concert, directed by Lewis Wilkenfeld, featuring Eydie Alyson, Eileen Barnett, Jennifer Bennett, Doug Carfrae, Barbara Carlton Heart, Will Collyer, Susan Edwards Martin, Melissa Fahn, Joshua Finkel, Tal Fox, Julie Garnye, Ron Christopher Jones, Melissa Lyons, Tonoccus McClain, Kevin McMahon, Dana Meller, Lisa Picotte, Teri Ralston, Glenn Rosenblum, Brent Schindele, Leslie Stevens, Mary Van Arsdel, Paul Wong, Robert Yacko and David Zack, at 7 PM at Rancho Mirage’s Galen PAC.
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Red Bull Theater will present a reading of Edward Young’s The Revenge ,both live and livestreamed, on Mon. Jan. 22 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, directed by Nathan Winkelstein.
John Douglas Thompson, Sarin Monae West, Christian Coulson, Merritt Janson, Ismenia Mendes, and Matthew Rauch.
This pot-boiler tells a tale that Shakespeare audiences will recognize – a general and his new bride manipulated to tragic ends – but in the context of Spain’s conquests in North Africa. In this tale the revenger is the Moor– Zanga, an enslaved prince–who wreaks righteous vengeance on his oppressor. The fiery Zanga, a favorite role of both Ira Aldridge and Edmund Kean, finally gets his return to the spotlight.
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The recent Paper Mill production of Kait Kerrigan, Jason Howland & Nathan Tyson’s The Great Gatsby will transfer to Broadway, with previews beginning Mar. 29 and an opening set for Apr. 25 at the Broadway Theatre, directed by Marc Bruni, with choreography by Dominique Kelley, and music directed by Daniel Edmonds.
Jeremy Jordan (Gatsby), Eva Noblezada (Daisy), and more TBA.
This Gatsby is unrelated to the musical written by Florence Welch, Thomas Bartlett, and Martyna Majok, which will play a pre-Broadway run at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theatre beginning May 25.**********************
Message in a Bottle, a new dance/theater show offering the iconic songs of Sting, will run Feb. 6-11 at the Pantages Theatre, directed & choreographed by Kate Prince.
Casting not announced.
The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive.
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Readings of James Caverly & Andrew Morrill’s Trash will take place Feb. 5 (7 PM), Feb. 6 (1 PM), and Feb. 8 (7 PM) at NYC’s 154 Christopher St. (formerly the New Ohio Theatre), directed by Nathaniel P. Claridad. 
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James Caverly, Andrew Morill, Adelina Mitchell, Vishal Vaidya, Chris Ogren, Christopher Tester, and Joel Orams.
Tim and Jake are deaf roommates sharing an apartment in the city, who are polar opposites, each with different views on what it means to be Deaf in a hearing world.
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A concert presentation of Nick Blaemire & James Gardiner’s Glory Days will take place Mon. Feb. 12 at 7 PM at Off-Broadway’s Keen Company, directed by Jonathan Silverstein, with music direction by Lily Ling.
Derek Klena, Coltan Ryan, Jordan Dobson and George Salazar.
Premiering on Broadway in 2008, Glory Days tells the story of four high school friends who reunite one year after graduation to enact revenge on their former bullies. Though the work has since become a cult favorite, the Broadway bow famously closed on opening night, playing just 17 previews and one single performance.**********************
Carson Kreitzer & Matt Gould’s Lempicka will begin previews Mar. 19 and open Apr. 14 at the Longacre Theatre, directed by Rachel Chavkin, with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly.
Eden Espinosa (Tamara de Lempicka), Amber Iman (Rafaela), Andrew Samonsky (Taduesz Lempi), George Abut (Marinetti), Natlaie Joy Johnson (Suzy Solidor), Zoe Glick (Kizette), Nathaniel Stamply (Baron), and Beth Leavel )Baroness).
Spanning decades of political and personal turmoil and told through a thrilling, pop-infused score, Lempicka boldly explores the contradictions of a world in crisis, a woman ahead of her era, and an artist whose time has finally come.
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Muse/ique has announced its 2024 season at LA’s Mark Taper Forum.
Make Some Noise: Music and Stories of American Defiance and Hope — six concerts that celebrate transformative American artists and thinkers who rejected norms and limitations to forge a new and better future. The season opens Mar. 15, 16 and 17 with “Magic Hour in Los Angeles: America’s Cultural Renaissance of 1974.”
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Latiné Musical Theatre Lab & Prospect Theater Company have announced tje 2024 edition of New Musicals Mixtape, to take place Jan. 22 at 5 & 8 PM at NYC’s Chelsea Factory, hosted by Joel Perez and Ana Vaillfañe.
The concert will feature selections from each new musical, as well as interviews with the writing team discussing their work. Hosts, creative team, and performers TBA.
New musicals showcased:
Fat Girl Starving, by Jessie Field & James Martinez Salem
Brother, by Miranda Holliday, Reginald Bennett Jr. & Justin D. Cook
Harvest of Empire, by Rebecca Murillo
Como Carrer: A Hip Pop Musical, by Nico Raimont
This Old Haunt, by SMJ, Maggie Rodgers & Rebecca Wahls
Next Door, by Paloma de Vega
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David Adjmi & Will Butler’s Stereophonic will begin run Apr. 3 – July 7 (opening Apr. 19) at the Golden Theatre, directed by Daniel Aukin.
Will Brill (Reg), Andrew R. Butler (Charlie), Juliana Canfield (Holly), Eli Gel (Grover), Tom Pecinka (Peter), Sarah Pidgeon (Diana), and Chris Stack (Simon).
Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup — or their breakthrough. Stereophonic invites the audience to immerse themselves — with fly-on-the-wall intimacy — in the powder keg process of a band on the brink of blowing up.
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Joe LoBianco’s musical romantic film adaptation of “Frankenstein” is now available to be streamed on-demand through StreamingMusicals.com on Vimeo. The film is directed by Joe LoBianco.
Daniel Robert Burns (Victor Frankenstein), Marc Christopher (Creature), Grace Hwoang (Elizabeth Lavenza), Tim Bacskai (Henry Clerval), Ren King (Innkeeper), Jay Lucas Chacon (Innkeeper), Daryl Glenn (Victor’s Father) and Lauren Coccaro (Justine), with Julie McNamara, Isaiah Delgado, Rebecca Ponticello and Melissa Cathcart.
The soundtrack album has been released under the name “Frankenstein Cast Album (Movie Musical)” and is available on most music streaming services.
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The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundations 14th annual Broadway Belts for PFF! will take place Mon. Mar. 18 at 8 PM at NYC’s Sony Hall, directed by Carl Andress, with music direction by Christopher McBovern.
Julie Halston, Liza Callaway, Robert Creighton, Jose Llana, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Benjamin Pajak, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Raena White, and more TBA.