A pal writes in regards to the last efficiency of Merrily We Roll Alongside on Sunday:

“The Merrily efficiency was so shifting. Price each penny. The group was excessive vitality   Noticed some folks with bottles of champagne. Standing ovations after many songs. A humorous second throughout “It’s a Hit” with regards to profitable a Tony sooner or later the place they handed across the faux Tony to each actor on the stage.” (see video of ultimate bow, under)

I had my very own Merrily encounter over the vacation weekend, an sudden one, once I re-watched  “Woman Hen.” The film is barely seven years outdated, however I couldn’t assist however see it otherwise.  It’s not simply because so many within the solid are higher recognized now – it options Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lois Smith, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen McKinley Henderson (one of many newest Theater Corridor of Fame inductees; see under.) And never simply that the director who was making her solo directorial debut, Greta Gerwig,  has since gone on to helm one of many highest grossing movies of all time (That will be Barbie.)  However do you bear in mind the musical the children are placing on? It’s Merrily We Roll Alongside!

Talking of shock relevance in outdated films. I rewatched Independence Day, and stumbled throughout this early scene:

White Home aide: They’re not attacking your insurance policies; they’re attacking your age..
President: Isn’t it superb how briskly everybody can flip in opposition to you

The Week in New York Theater Evaluations

No person Cares: Laura Benanti in your ear

Laura Benanti’s autobiographical present is much from the primary stay efficiency that Audible has produced on the Minetta Lane Theater with a view to flip it into an audiobook; the corporate has been releasing “Audible Originals” recorded in entrance of a stay viewers at that theater in Greenwich Village since 2018. However Benanti is unquestionably the primary to mock Audible for doing so, as she does from the very begin… Full evaluation

Rank 10 Broadway Musicals About American Historical past

The Week in New York Theater Information

Broadway in Bryant Park 2024 Free Summer time Live performance Schedule
First up, this Thursday: “Again to the Future,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” “The Who’s TOMMY,”“The Wiz,” “Water for Elephants”

Broadway’s Suffs disrupted by protesters (Playbill)

The Theater Corridor of Fame 2024 inductees: actors Elizabeth Ashley (Take Her, She’s Mine; Cat on a Scorching Tin Roof), Boyd Gaines (Gypsy, The Heidi Chronicles), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Between Riverside and Loopy, Fences), and Donna Murphy (Ardour, The King and I); actor and playwright Charles Busch (The Story of the Allergist’s Spouse, Taboo); composer William Finn (Falsettos, A New Mind); playwright David Rabe (Sticks and Bones, Hurlyburly); and, posthumously, producer Todd Haimes, the late inventive director of the Roundabout Theatre Firm.

The twenty sixth annual Broadway Barks returns to Shubert Alley on Saturday, August 3, 2024 to learn New York Metropolis animal rescue teams.

In Memoriam

Jon Landau, 63, producer of Titanic and Avatar (and Broadway producer of Springsteen on Broadway)
“His first publicity to filmmaking was by means of his dad and mom, Ely and Edie Landau, who collectively produced bold unbiased movies for a mass viewers, together with variations of stage performs by Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee and Bertolt Brecht. Many of those variations have been launched by means of a subscription service that the Landaus created referred to as the American Movie Theater”

(John’s sisters: Tina, Broadway director and librettist, and Kathy, govt director of Symphony Area)

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