Today’s Highlights:
* York Theatre‘s “Live Panel: Show (and Tell): Carmelina” FREE discussion, with Michael Leeds (director), Barry Harman (additional lyrics), music directors Michael Lavine (1996) & David Hancock Turner (2019), and cast members Andréa Burns, Timothy Smith, Joey Sorge, Debbie Gravitte, MaryJoanna Grisso, Evan Harrinton, Marla Schaffel, Timothy John Smith, Ray Wills, Eli Zoller, and more, at 7:15 PM ET.
* Broadway Buskers FREE concert, hosted by Ben Cameron, featuring Lauren Elder and Nathan Salstone, streams at 8 PM ET here
* “Stars in the House,” an “LA Law” reunion, with Corbin Bernsen, Susan Dey, Jill Eikenberry, Michele Greene, Harry Hamlin, Alan Rachins, Jimmy Smits,, Michael Tucker, and Blair Underwood, streams at 8 PM ET here.
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Video: “Stars in the House,”with guest host Andréa Burns, and special guests Tracie Thoms and Helen Hunt. (1:03:48)
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LA’s Geffen Playhouse has announced its selection of 6 local writers to participate in the 3rd cycle of The Writers Room 2020-21, a forum for engagement and collaboration between LA playwrights.
Meghan Brown, Diana Burbano, Donald Jolly, Matthew Paul Olmos, T. Tara Turk-Haynes, and Ali Viterbi.
In addition to the feedback from their fellow writers, members will receive dramaturgical support from the Geffen’s artistic staff, and the opportunity to further develop their work with directors and actors, culminating in a reading series that may be open to the public. The Writers’ Room will commence virtually, with plans for participants to also collaborate in person when possible, in accordance with local government health and safety guidelines.
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San Francisco Ballet has announced the premiere of “Dance of Dreams,” a new 6-minute dance film, to premiere Wed. Aug. 12 at Noon PT, directed by Benjamin Millepied, filmed in iconic San Francisco locations including the Palace of Fine Arts and the golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Justin Peck, Dwight Rhoden, Janie Taylor, and Christopher Whelldon.
The film is set to “Scène D’Amour,” by Bernard Hermann from Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 San Francisco-based thriller, played by members of the SF Ballet Orchestra.
Video: Teaser
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Enda Walsh, Gary Clark & John Carney’s Sing Street will open sometime between Winter 2021 and 2022 at a Shubert Theatre TBA, directed by Rebecca Thaichman, with choreography by Sonya Tayeh.
Casting and additional information TBA.
The musical explores the power of first love and music against the backdrop of 1980s Dublin.
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Video: Seth Sikes‘ parody — “The Fire Island Ferry on the Old South Bay”
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Article: Andrew Lloyd Webber talks with London’s Sunday Times about what affect the health crisis has had on his work, updates on his upcoming production of Cinderella, with a brand new score by David Zippel, and the future of the industry.
Cinderella will be directed by Laurence Connor, with choreography by JoAnn Hunter. Casting and additional information TBA.
Video: Carrie Fletcher performs a new song for the musical (scroll down).
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Video: Cheyenne Jackson performs “Teenage Dream”
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BC/EFA presents is first (rescheduled) Broadway Cares Virtual 5K on Aug. 22-23.
Participants can run, walk, hike, bike, leap, or even jeté to reach the distance goal. Anyone venturing outdoors is encouraged to wear a mask, remain at least 6 feet apart from others, and follow all local health and safety directives. The non-competitive sporting fundraiser can be completed anywhere, on socially distant streets and trails or even in living rooms. There is no fee to register, although each participant has a suggested minimum fundraising goal of $250.
here.
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Video: Ann Hampton Callaway performs “A Quiet Thing”
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* Broadbend, Arkansas (through Aug. 16) here, starring Justin Cunningham & Danyel Fulton. A Black family grapples with decades of inequality, violence, and suppression in the South.
* Carousel in concert (2013), through Sept. 8 here, with the NY Philharmonic, starring Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, John Cullum, Robert Fairchild, and Tiler Peck.
* Much Ado About Nothing (through Sept. 12) here, the 2019 Public Theater production, starring Danielle Brooks, Grantham Coleman, and Chuck Cooper.
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Video: Patrick Stewart reads A Sonnet A Day, complete collection.
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Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre presents a reading of The Letters of Noël Coward on Tues. Aug. 25 at 8 PM ET, directed by Bob Balaban, followed by a Q&A.
Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason
The play features correspondence between Noël Coward, writer Graham Green, and actor Sir Alec Guinness, in the years following their collaboration on the 1959 comedy spy film, “Our Man in Havana,” based on the novel of the same name.
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Video: Renee Fleming performs “O Mio Babbino Caro” from Gianni Schicchi
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Kansas City Actors Theatre (link TBA) is in negotiations to begin a weekly series of radio theatre, “Kansas City: 1924,” in partnership with radio station 90.1FM KKFI this September.
The weekly program will include classic works from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, in rotation with a 10-part original series written by Forrest Attaway. The series will weave local historic figures into storytelling that captures this city at a crossroad.
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A film project (untitled) about Lady Macbeth in currently in development, with direction by John McPhail.
A story about a teenage girl who has to grapple with the consequences of her ambitions.
Casting, timeline, and additional information TBA.
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“Different Stars: A Reckoning With Time, Trauma, and Circumstance,” a new queer song cycle for 4 voices, composed & written by Karl Saint Lucy, and directed by Raquel Cion, will premiere Sat. Aug. 15 at 7 PM ET here. on YouTube.
James Jackson, Jr., Danielle Buonaiuto, Victoria Huston-Elem, and Karl Saint Lucy,
A subset of more than 40 songs written in grief. For this condensed, 40-min. version, 12 of the songs are set in the present day during the events of the pandemic. The performance will benefit QORDS, the music-centered camp for LGBTQ+ youth, focusing on queer and transgendered youth.
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Video: Broadway Bares: Zoom In, featuring Nick Adams, Charles Busch, Lea DeLaria, J. Harrison Ghee, Nathan Lee Graham, Debbi Shapiro Gravitte, Jane Krakowski, Nathan Lane, Beth Leavel, Judith Light, Andrew Lippa, Lesli Margherita, Angie Schworer, Marc Shaiman, Miriam Shor, Christopher Sieber, Wesley Taylor, and more. (1:17:52)
The event includes full performances of numbers never seen before out Broadway Bares’ home at NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
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An outdoor concert of A Little Night Music will take place Sat. Aug. 15 at 8 PM BST at Holland Park, directed by Alastair Knights, with an 8-piece orchestra.
Janie Dee, Joanna Ridings, Fra Fee, Sharif Afifi, Hiba Elchikhe, Danielle Fiamanya, Hilary Harwood, Emma Kingston), Emma Harrold), Nadim Naaman, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Kayi Ushe, and Ella Tronson.
Social distancing measures will be in place. Capacity for the one-night-only event is capped at 200, with allocated, socially distanced seating. Audiences are asked to wear masks and maintain proper public safety protocols.
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Video: “Jim Caruso’s Cast Party,” with special guests Megan Hilty & Brian Gallagher, James Delisco, Rose Colella, Karen Mason, Julie Garnyé, and Danielle Threet. (1:40:46)
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Guess the Tony-winning musicals from the first second of their cast albums here.
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“Christmas Ever After” will premiere this holiday season on Lifetime.
Ali Stroker (Izzi Simmons), Mario Lopez, Betty White, Kelly Rowland, and Daniel DiTomasso.
Izzi, a romance novelist, spends the holiday season at her favorite bed and breakfast suffering from writer’s block. Inspiration comes when she meets a guy who looks suspiciously like the leading man in her popular books.
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Video: Linda Lavin — Matinee at Home Concert, #10 (45:58)
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Video: Linda Lavin interview on “CBS Sunday Morning” (7:09)