Today’s Highlights:
Duels Volume 2: The Genre Game concert, at 9:30 PM at NYC’s 54 Below. Click on the link above for the huge list of performers.
The Typist, world premiere by Shem Bitterman, directed by Jeremy Wechsler, featuring Noah James and Evangeline Edwards, closes at Hollywood’s Hudson Guild Theatre.
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Grace Notes Quiz: Getting Married by Jim Bernhard
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1. In The Sound of Music Maria and Georg are married…in Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral…at Georg’s country estate…at Nonnberg Abbey…at a Salzburg music festival |
A. In The Sound of Music Maria and Georg are married at Nonnberg Abbey. |
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2. In Our Town at the conclusion of George and Emily’s wedding, Mrs. Soames says “I’m sure they’ll be…..in debt before long…happy…divorced in a year…sorry” |
B. In Our Town at the conclusion of George and Emily’s wedding, Mrs. Soames says “I’m sure they’ll be happy.” |
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3. In Li’l Abner Abner marries…Appasionata von Climax… |
C. In Li’l Abner Abner marries Daisy Mae Scragg. |
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4. In I Do! I Do! on their wedding night Michael and Agnes find a pillow on their bed embroidered with the words…Lots of Luck…God is Love…Too Late Now…I Do, I Do |
D In I Do! I Do! on their wedding night Michael and Agnes find a pillow on their bed embroidered with the words “God is Love.” |
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5. In My Fair Lady, on the way to his wedding, Alfred P. Doolittle sings “Get Me to the Church on Time,” in which he mentions, “I’m getting married in …the morning…St. Mary’s…my best suit…the nick of time |
E. In Oklahoma! Laurey and Curly leave for their honeymoon in a surrey with fringe on top. |
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6. In Oklahoma! Laurey and Curly leave for their honeymoon…on the train to Kansas City…in a new-fangled automobile…in a surrey with fringe on top…on horseback |
F. In Oklahoma! Laurey and Curly leave for their honeymoon in a surrey with fringe on top. |
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7. In the finale of Guys and Dolls Nathan and Adelaide are married after being engaged …for fifteen minutes…since they were children…a year…fourteen years |
G. In the finale of Guys and Dolls Nathan and Adelaide are married after being engaged fourteen years |
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8. In Company the song “Getting Married Today” is…a patter song…a romantic ballad…a march…the finale |
H. In Company the song “Getting Married Today” is a patter song. |
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9. In Fiddler on the Roof Tevye objects to his daughter Chava’s marriage to Fyedka because Fyedka is…poor…a Gentile…a gambler…already married |
I. In Fiddler on the Roof Tevye objects to his daughter Chava’s marriage to Fyedka because Fyedka is a Gentile. |
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10. In The Wedding Singer Julia promises to marry Robbie if he will…stop drinking…shave his beard…buy her an ice cream cone…sing at their wedding |
J. In The Wedding Singer Julia promises to marry Robbie if he will sing at their wedding. |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Lincoln Center Theater‘s concert presentation of Ragtime will take place on Mon. May 17 at 7 PM at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Robert Downey Jr. and producer Susan Downey.
Starring Rolando Villazón (Cervantes/Quxiote, and more TBA.
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Open Fist Theatre Company‘s production of Franz Kafka’s Amerika or, The Man Who Disappeared will return Mar. 28 – May 3 at the Atwater Village Theatre, directed by Dietrich Smith.
Oqalile, Tambrie Allsup, Matthew Goodrich, Jade Santana, Jack Sharpe, Grace Soens, Jeremy D. Thompson, Emma Bruno, Maria Mastroyannis, Elliott Moore, Julien Thompson and Pat Towne.
In Kafka’s surreal, darkly comic coming-of-age odyssey, 17-year-old Karl Rossmann finds himself banished from Germany in disgrace following a family scandal. Arriving in New York City on a steamer, he experiences a series of increasingly strange and bewildering misadventures that turn his world upside down. Although Kafka’s novel can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it pulses with youthful energy, unexpected humor and a lively theatricality that makes it uniquely suited for the stage.
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Pearl Cleage’s Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous will run Mar. 20 – Apr. 12 at Boston’s Lyric Stage, directed by Jaqui Parker,\.
Anna Campbell (Patrice Jean-Baptiste), Kate Hughes (Deannah “Drip” Blemur), Inés De La Cruz (Betty Samson), and Yasmeen Duncan (Precious “Pete” Watson).
As a young artist in the 1990s, actress Anna Campbell sparked a theatrical firestorm with a staging of August Wilson monologues spoken from a female perspective performed entirely in the nude. Decades later, her provocative performance that changed the trajectory of her career, rises like a ghost, when it is to be included at a woman’s theater festival. But there’s a catch. A much younger and inexperienced actress whose credits are less than desirable has been asked to perform, causing Anna to spiral in a whirlwind of insecurity and hesitancy. With support from her manager and long-time friend Betty, Anna grapples with the choice to step aside on a road she helped to pave so that a new generation can continue the journey.
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Akhnaten , written & directed by Phelim McDermott, continues through Mar. 22 at LA Opera, conducted by Dalia Staseveska.
John Holiday, Sun-Ly Peirce, So Young Park, and Zachary James.
Witness the dynasty that transformed Ancient Egypt, brought to life on the grandest scale. We’re pulling out all the stops, from a wardrobe fit for royalty to dazzling jugglers and acrobats, as Philip Glass’s ethereal music transports you to an embattled kingdom and a pharaoh defying tradition. Experience the rise and fall of a dynasty.
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Michael Griffo’s Pen Pals has announced its final cast, which will run through Mar. 15 at the DR2 Theatre, directed by SuzAnne Barabas.
(final) Jodi Benson & Marcia Mitzman (Mar. 4-15)
A true story and charts five decades of friendship through handwritten letters exchanged by two women who never meet in person.
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Eileen Barnet: It’s My Birthday and I’ll Sing If I Want To will run July 11-16 at 8:30 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club.
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The 16th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival will run June 11-28 (opening June 10) at Los Angeles various venues. 
on sale May 1 here.
Click here. for more information.
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East West Players will present and updated version of David Henry Hwang’s Flower Drum Song, with a refreshed 2026 book, to run Apr. 16 – May 31 (opening Apr. 23), directed by Jacqui Parker, at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center’s iconic Aratani Theatre.
Joven Calloway, Ethan Yaheen-Moy Chan, Jay Espinoza, Sierra Goria, Sally Hong, Tony Jin, Esther Lee, Brian Liebson, Emma Park, Gemma Pedersen, Avelina Sanchez, Hillary Tang, Ai Toyoshima, Haoyi Wen, and Paul Wong.
Set against the backdrop of 1960s San Francisco Chinatown, Hwang’s 2026 revision of Flower Drum Song explores themes of immigration, assimilation, tradition, and community with renewed urgency and heart. The story follows Mei-Li, a young Chinese opera performer fleeing communism, as she arrives in America and is drawn into the vibrant world of the Grant Avenue nightclubs. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s classic songs and beloved characters make their long-awaited return to Los Angeles for the first time since the premiere of Hwang’s adaptation at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum over 20 years ago.
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The immersive production of Masquerade has been extended through Sun. Sept. 6 at 218 West 57th St. (formerly Lee’s Art Shop), directed by Diane Paulus.
Raymond J. Lee, Telly Leung, Betsy Morgan, Hugh Panaro, Kyle Scatliffe, Jeremy Stolle, Kaley Ann Voorhees, and Nik Walker.
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Odalys Nanin & Marie Barrientos’s Love Struck will run Apr. 24 – May 3 at the Odyssey Theatre, directed by Odalys Nanin & Angela Nicholas.
Cricia Cruz and Odalys Nanin.
Rachel, the American, and Laura, the Cuban, have been together for three years. The white-hot lust of their early courtship has evolved into a warm domesticity, They energize their love life with role-playing, cosplay, and erotic accessories. Laura, the more successful of the two, has bought a comfortable Los Angeles home where they reside. Rachel wants to become as accomplished as Laura. Rachel is also beginning to feel homesick for her native New York. Will love keep them together?
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Grace Notes Quiz Answers: Getting Married by Jim Bernhard
1. In The Sound of Music Maria and Georg are married at Nonnberg Abbey.
2. In Our Town at the conclusion of George and Emily’s wedding, Mrs. Soames says “I’m sure they’ll be happy.”
3. In Li’l Abner Abner marries Daisy Mae Scragg.
4. In I Do! I Do! on their wedding night Michael and Agnes find a pillow on their bed embroidered with the words “God is Love.”
5. In My Fair Lady, on the way to his wedding, Alfred P. Doolittle sings “Get Me to the Church on Time,” in which he mentions, “I’m getting married in the morning.”
6. In Oklahoma! Laurey and Curly leave for their honeymoon in a surrey with fringe on top.
7. In the finale of Guys and Dolls Nathan and Adelaide are married after being engaged fourteen years.
8. In Company the song “Getting Married Today” is a patter song.
9. In Fiddler on the Roof Tevye objects to his daughter Chava’s marriage to Fyedka because Fyedka is a Gentile.
10. In The Wedding Singer Julia promises to marry Robbie if he will sing at their wedding.