Today’s Highlights:
* Broadway’s Great American Songbook benefit concert series, hosted by Michael Feinstein, directed by Barry Kleinbort, featuring Ben Vereen, Lillias White, George Abud, Klea Blackhurst, Robert Creighton, Karen Mason, Lee Roy Reams, Alton Fitzgerald White, with special guest appearances by Jeremy Benton, Richard Kind Kylie Kuioka, and more, opens virtually at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.
* Alton Fitzgerald White in concert, with music directed by Doyle Newmyer, opens virtually at Off-Broadway’s York Theatre.
* New York Theatre Barn‘s Ramona and Johnny and the Devil’s Box excerpts and conversation, based on the novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, with music by Nevda Lozano, featuring Shereen Pimentel and Amanda Robless, livestreams at 7 PM ET.
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GRACE NOTES Quote of the Week: “Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.” ~ Constantin Stanislavski, My Life In Art
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“Stars in the House” a “Vote-a-Thon”
Video: Part 1 (3:04:03)
Video: Part 2 (2:58:02)
Video: Part 3 (3:59:34)
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The Actors Fund raised $1.1 million at it’s Nov. 2 virtual gala.
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Donate here to help save Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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Christopher Sieber Live from Birdland will stream Thurs. Nov. 5 at 7 PM ET, with special guest Billy Stritch.
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RIP: Actress Carol Arthur has died at the age of 85.
Carol make her Broadway debut in High Spirits in 1964. Additional Broadway credits include The Music Man (1980 revival) opposite Dick Van Dyke, and Woman of the Year (1981). On the West End, Carol appeared in On the Town (revival).
Film credits include Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles,” “Silent Movie,” “Robin Hood_ Men in Tights,” and “Dracula: Dead and Loving It.”
Arthur was married to Dom DeLuise until 2009 when he died of kidney failure. She appeared in his films “The World’s Greatest Love,” “Hot Stuff,” “The Princess and the Dwarf,” “Driving Me Crazy,” “The Good Bad Guy,” “The Godson,” “Between the Sheets,” and on TV, “The Dom DeLuise Show.”
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Video: Beth Malone sings “On My Own”
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Dael Orlandersmith’s Until the Flood will premiere Sun. Nov. 15 at 8 PM ET here, directed by Neel Keller.
Orlandersmith conducted interviews with dozens of people who were shaken by the 2014 shooting and its turbulent aftermath, which ignited weeks of social unrest and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Jack Thorne’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol will return Dec. 12-24 at the Old Vic, directed by Matthew Warchus. The production will be part of the Old Vic: In Camera series performed live from The Old Vic stage to an empty auditorium.
Andrew Lincoln (Ebenezer Scrooge), Melissa Allan, Rosanna Bates, John Dagleish, Tim van Eyken, Sam Lathwood, Eugene McCoy, Myra McFadyen, Gloria Obianyo, Maria Omakinwa, Golda Rosheuvel, Michael Rouse, Clive Rowe, and Sam Townsend… with Rayhaan Kufuor-Gray, Lara Mehmet, Lenny Rush, and Eleanor Stollery sharing the role of Tiny Tim.
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Video: Hollywood’s Actors Coop Theatre encore presentation of Garrett Botts’s When We Can’t Meet, featuring Garrett Botts, Crystal Jackson, Linda Kerns, Greg Martin, and Nan McNamara. (13:10)
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“Anchors Away” (now available on HBO Max), starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson.
“Guys and Dolls” (now available on HBO Max), starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine.
“High Society” (now available on HBO Max), starring Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, Margalo Gillmore, and Louis Armstrong.
“The Madness of King George” (now available on HBO Max), directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren.
“On The Town” (now available on HBO Max), starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, and Vera-Ellen.
“Sweeney Todd” (now available on Netflix), adapted by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Laura Michelle Kelly.
“Dash & Lily” (premieres Nov. 10 on Netflix), starring Midori Francis and Austin Abrams, wi.th Michael Park, Troy Iwata, Dante Brown, and Keana Marie. The show follows the title characters as they trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City.
“His Dark Materials” (series premieres on Nov. 16 on HBO), starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ruth Wilson, with Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ruta Gedmintas, Andrew Scott, Terence Stamp, Jade Anouka, and Simone Kirby.
“Between the World and Me” (premieres Nov. 21 on HBO), starring Phylicia Rashad, Courtney B. Vance, Oprah Winfrey, Mahershala Ali, and Angela Bassett.
The work examines what it means to be Black in America.
* Christmas on the Square” (premieres Nov. 22 on Netflix), starring Christine Baranski and Dolly Parton, with Jenifer Lewis, Treat Williams, Josh Segarra, Jeanine Mason, Mary Lane Haskell, Matthew Johnson, and Selah Kimbro Jones.
“Hillbilly Elegy” (premieres Nov. 24 on Netflix), starring Glen Close and Amy Adams. A current Yale Law student is on the verge of landing his dream job when a family crisis forces him to return to the home he’s tried to forget.
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“Not Bloody Likely,” written & directed by Joel Hopkins, is in development. Timeline and additional casting TBA.
Helena Bonham Carter (Mrs. Pat Campbell), and Pierce Brosnan (George Bernard Shaw), and more TBA.
The film chronicles the 1914 West End debut of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Shaw wants to cast Campbell as Eliza Doolittle, although they were previously romantically involved.
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A reading of Howard Emanuel’s Sundogs will take place Sun. Nov. 8 at 7:30 PM ET here, directed by Heather Arnson. Proceeds will support Stop Soldier Suicide and The WDA.
Armie Hammer, Gilbert Owuor, Jordan Bridges, Jenn Gambatese, Tobias Segal, and Grace Porter.
The play explores the emotional and spiritual rebellions of Joe Garnier, a U.S. Army Sergeant who awakens one day hearing the pounding of drums. He believes the drum sounds are key to resurrecting order amid the chaos of his American life.
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The filmed version of The SpongeBob Musical is available on DVD. This release is the full, extended-length taping of the Broadway musical, along with an exclusive sing-along edition only available on this DVD. 
Order here.
Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants), Gavin Lee (Squidward Q. Tentacles), Danny Skinner (Patrick Star), Brian Ray Norris (Eugene Krabs), Wesley Taylor (Sheldon Plankton), Christina Sajous (Sandy Cheeks), and Tom Kenny (Patchy the Pirate), with Kyle Hamilton, Katie Lee Hill, Curtis Holbrook, Jesse JP Johnson, L’ogan J’ones, Jai’len Josey, Kelvin Moon Loh, Lauralyn McClelland, Vasthy Mompoint, Bryonha Marie Parham, Oneika Phillips, Jon Rua, JC Schuster, Abby C. Smith, Robert Taylor Jr., and Allan Washington.
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Until the Flood , written & performed by Dael Orlandersmith, will begin streaming Nov. 15 at 8 PM ET here.
The play is based on interviews following the 2014 shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer.
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The UK’s Hope Mill Theatre will stream its new production of Rent Fridays – Sundays, Nov. 27 – Dec. 20, directed by Luke Sheppard, with choreography by Tom Jackson Greaves, and music direction by Katy Richardson. The production was filmed live on stage and fully edited.
Jocasta Almgill (Joanne), Blake Patrick Anderson (Mark), Tom Francis (Roger), Ahmed Hamad (Benny), Dom Hartley-Harris (Collins), Millie O’Connell (Maureen), Maiya Quansah-Breed (Mimi), and Alex Thomas-Smith (Angel), with Kayla Carter, Allie Daniel, Isaac Hesketh, and Bethany Terry.
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Video: Lucie Jones performs “Find ‘A Way Back to Then” from the upcoming streaming production of [Title of Show]