tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16334551348006441012024-03-18T19:40:29.775-04:00Upstage-Downstage Current reviews of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off Off-Broadway productions, along with musings by an inveterate and always-hopeful theater buff. 234,000 visitors and growing!Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.comBlogger356125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-49361176945736136282023-12-30T16:09:00.029-05:002024-01-02T21:08:09.944-05:00THEMES EMERGE AND SOMETIMES CONVERGE IN A LOOK-BACK AT THE FIRST HALF OF THE 2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON<div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7ns_Qxom3U1EHGJfACUsda9nobpA9Mj8mfZKjif7znVjlkOXph3Pyo8jjfFYZIoKWe8zV32EZ9ykU1Xlg_JRjtUfEWh3MPJmyFuIKcAzse5GjhvhYulsukltmli2uc8-W4G8Adolu1U/s1600/bway+photo.jpg" style="color: #838383; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="320" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7ns_Qxom3U1EHGJfACUsda9nobpA9Mj8mfZKjif7znVjlkOXph3Pyo8jjfFYZIoKWe8zV32EZ9ykU1Xlg_JRjtUfEWh3MPJmyFuIKcAzse5GjhvhYulsukltmli2uc8-W4G8Adolu1U/w626-h422/bway+photo.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; background: repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(236, 236, 236); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="626" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Rather than rehash all of 2023, I'd like focus on some half dozen of the plays and musicals that have opened since the 2022-2023 Broadway season ended and the 2023-2024 season began.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Interestingly, that period has been bookended by a pair of haunted house tales, one literal, with literary roots, and the other satirical/allegorical, with historical roots – the latter being far more successful in disturbing an audience’s equilibrium and which, as of now at least, sits high on the list for one or more likely Tony nominations when the season ends next April. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The season’s opener was GREY HOUSE, whose seemingly innocuous title was never explained, something that was true of the play itself, which went for atmosphere over substance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Written by Levi Holloway, known mostly for his work as a Chicago-based actor and theater director, GREY HOUSE was an otherworldly excursion built on the familiar trope of travelers stranded during a blizzard, seeking shelter in a mysterious house in the woods. All told, and despite committed performances and excellent direction, this was a</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">mix of predictability and bafflement. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img data-cmp-ab="2" data-cmp-info="10" src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/06_01_23.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">GRAY HOUSE Photo by MurphyMade<br /><p><br /></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">On the other hand, there was the final show of the first half of the season, the Broadway production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ masterful play APPROPRIATE, an Obie Award winner for an Off Broadway run a decade ago. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">This play, too, is set in a sort of haunted house, though without the presence of actual ghosts. Using biting satire, a most unsavory group of characters, and historical references that are far more disconcertedly creepy than anything cooked up in GREY HOUSE, APPROPRIATE makes for a powerful evening of theatergoing. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Without ever overdoing easy weapons of blame, shame, and guilt, the subject matter gets at the heart of issues of our country’s history of slavery, racism, and white privilege. APPROPRIATE, sharply directed by Lila Neugebauer and boasting a solid acting company and outstanding design elements, is still running and comes as close to must-see as any show that opened on Broadway in recent months. (The other is the revival of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, a production I will discuss in an upcoming post, along with Stephen Sondheim's newest and last show, HERE WE ARE, currently having its first run Off Broadway). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img data-cmp-ab="2" data-cmp-info="10" src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/12_18_23.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">APPROPRIATE Photo by Joan Marcus<br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another significant revival of a play with a satirical sting aimed at issues of racism is PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH, written by Ossie Davis and originally produced in 1961. The production, under the discerning direction of Kenny Leon, is</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> an outstanding one, funny, astute, and, unfortunately, still utterly timely. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The play's central character is one Purlie Victorious Judson, an itinerant Black preacher brilliantly played by Leslie Odom Jr., who has returned home to rural Georgia with a grand scheme for buying and revitalizing the community church. Standing in the way is Ol’ Cap'n, the white landowner who runs his cotton plantation as if the Civil War had never occurred, much less been lost by his forebears. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">As good as Odom is, it is Kara Young as his partner-in-crime Luttiebelle who nearly steals the show with her glorious comic timing and the most expressive eyes you're likely ever to see. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Here's another play that is likely to pick up Tony nominations and that sits high on my list of recommendations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img data-cmp-ab="2" data-cmp-info="10" src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/09_27_23.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PURLIE VICTORIOUS Photo by Marc J. Franklin<br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Plays and musicals with themes tied to Judaism and antisemitism have also been occurring with greater frequency, from last season's LEOPOLDSTADT and PARADE to the more recent JUST FOR US and HARMONY.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">JUST FOR US marked the Broadway debut of comic Alex Edelman, who has garnered accolades for his solo show, the central set piece being a story of an evening he spent among a group of antisemitic white supremacists. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">My reaction, which admittedly was an outlier to the general praise the show received, was not enthusiastic. Although I was taken by Edelman's engaging performance style, I was less impressed by the overall content of the evening, which I found to be overly practiced and familar, with stories that reminded me too much of those I've heard from other comics through the years or of situations that I and friends and family experienced growing up in our own Jewish homes. I haven't changed my mind, but I regret my hemming-and-hawing published review in which I failed to adequately explain my rationale. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img data-cmp-ab="2" data-cmp-info="10" src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/06_26_23.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUST FOR US Photo by Matthew Murphy</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="CENTER" class="td-with-image" style="max-width: 400px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">More to my liking was HARMONY (still playing and well worth seeing), the musical by pop icon Barry Manilow and his longtime writing partner Bruce Sussman. It is framed as a memory play about the real world of the one-time Germany-based international performing sensation known as the Comedian Harmonists, made up of a mix of Jewish and non-Jewish members whose fame and fall coincided with the emergence of the Nazis. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Another likely Tony nomination or more for this one, with special kudos to actor Chip Zien, whose character remembers every moment -- the good, bad, and the ugly -- of the group's time together back in the late 1920s and into the 1930s, and to director/choreographer Warren Carlyle, who keeps the show totally focused on the rise and fall of the sextet. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><img data-cmp-ab="2" data-cmp-info="10" src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/11_13_23.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">HARMONY Photo by Julieta Cervantes<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Wrapping up on a final upbeat note, let's recognize the near perfect revival of MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, Eric Idle and John Du Prez's musical about those unforgettable knights and knaves of the Round Table whose rousing non-sequiturs and merriments remain a high point of theatrical delights. The original Broadway production in 2005 ran for close to 1,600 performances, and I would love to see this revival match or exceed that. Fun. Silly. Weird. Wacky. And joyful as they come. SPAMALOT makes a virtue of digressions and tangential meanderings and will send you dancing and whistling out to the street to the tune of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." It seldom gets any better than this.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img data-cmp-ab="2" data-cmp-info="10" src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/11_16_23.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SPAMALOT Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">__________________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Links to my full reviews of these shows:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">GREY HOUSE: </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/GreyHouse.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/GreyHouse.html</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">APPROPRIATE:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Appropriate.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Appropriate.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">PURLIE VICTORIOUS:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/PurlieVictorious.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/PurlieVictorious.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">JUST FOR US:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/JustforUs.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/JustforUs.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">HARMONY:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Harmony.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Harmony.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">SPAMALOT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Spamalot23.html"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Spamalot23.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="CENTER" class="td-with-image" style="max-width: 400px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><table align="RIGHT" cellpadding="4" style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; float: right; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 3px 3px 0px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table>Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-26403466940875987492023-06-07T22:19:00.001-04:002023-06-07T23:09:02.669-04:00PREDICTING THE 2023 TONYS<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLRgNbh5CsCO2BkA68yyfBWbQVPj08sfXGcLcoX_gtDocGdYYljgPGSQXiok_wc70Vas1_htaE1ytbk83WfKD30xylpBebwoMYcaK-G76Yicj4Wnk43bf-BSwQWvbkyC3pYKHuusIMdOw/s320/masks.jpg" style="-webkit-user-select: none; display: block; margin: auto;" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">From THE KITE RUNNER to NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Broadway saw 40 new productions during the 2022-23 season,<span face="Lato, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(67, 67, 67); color: #434343;">including 15 musicals (9 original, 6 revivals), 24 plays (18 original, 5 revivals, one return engagement), and one special engagement (original). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Lots of competition for awards, to be sure.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Despite my being a voting member of Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk as well as the lead Broadway critic for Talkin' Broadway (talkinbroadway.com), my ability to predict Tony Award winners is more of a matter of guessing and luck. Still, who can resist? No foul, no harm!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So, with no further ado, here are my picks for the winners for the 2023 Tony Awards. Tune in to CBS on Sunday night, June 11, 2023 to see how things pan out!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Book of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Kimberly Akimbo</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Original Score</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Some Like It Hot</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Lead Actor in a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Sean Hayes</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Lead Actress in a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Jessica Chastain</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Best Performance by Lead Actor in a Musica</b>l</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">J. Harrison Ghee</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Lead Actress in a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Victoria Clark</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Featured Actor in a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Jordan E. Cooper</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Featured Actress in a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Miriam Silverman</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Featured Actor in a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Alex Newell</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Performance by Featured Actress in a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Bonnie Milligan</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Scenic Design of a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Tim Hatley and Andrzej Goulding (Life of Pi)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Scenic Design of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Scott Pask (Some Like It Hot)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Costume Design of a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Emilio Sosa (Ain’t No Mo’}</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Costume Design of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Gregg Barnes (Some Like It Hot)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Lighting Design of a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ben Stanton (A Christmas Carol)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Lighting Design of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Natasha Katz (Sweeney Todd)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Sound Design of a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ben and Max Ringham (Prima Facie)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Sound Design of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Kai Harada (New York, New York)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Direction of a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Patrick Marber (Leopoldstadt)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Direction of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Arden (Parade)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Choreography</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Casey Nicholaw (Some Like It Hot)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Orchestrations</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Rosen and Bryan Carter (Some Like It Hot)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Leopoldstadt</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Kimberly Akimbo</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Revival of a Play</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Piano Lesson</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Best Revival of a Musical</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Parade</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">____________________________</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-50775365931413997332022-06-12T12:55:00.000-04:002022-06-12T12:55:20.241-04:00PREDICTING THE TONYS 2022<p style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Prediction. Businesswoman in a black jacket shows a card with the inscription prediction. Selective focus royalty free stock photo" class="dt-image" data-src="https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/prediction-businesswoman-black-jacket-shows-card-inscription-selective-focus-80655955.jpg" data-urt="-1" height="319" src="https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/prediction-businesswoman-black-jacket-shows-card-inscription-selective-focus-80655955.jpg" style="opacity: 1;" title="Prediction. Businesswoman in a black jacket shows a card with the inscription prediction. Selective focus royalty free stock photo" width="479" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>'Tis a foolish thing to try to read the minds of Tony voters. But who can resist? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>In any event, here are my predictions of the winners (plus who I would have voted for if anyone had invited me to do so).</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Best Play: <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span>The Lehman Trilogy</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Personal Choice: <span> </span> Clyde's</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Best Musical: <span> <span> <span> </span>Six</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span>Personal Choice: <span> <span> </span></span>MJ (but close enough to tie with Six)</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span>Play Revival:<span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span> </span>For Colored Girls...</span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Personal Choice:<span> <span> </span>Trouble in Mind</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span>Musical Revival:<span> <span> <span> </span></span>Company</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span>Company</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span>Lead Actor, Play:<span> <span> David Morse</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> David Morse</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Lead Actress, Play:<span> LaChanze</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> LaChanze</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Lead Actor, Musical:<span> Jaquel Spivey</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Jaquel Spivey</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Lead Actress, Musical: Sharon D Clarke</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Sharon D Clarke</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span>Featured Actor, Play:<span> Jessie Tyler Ferguson</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> </span></span> <span> Chuck Cooper</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Featured Actress, Play: <span> </span> Uzo Aduba</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Personal Choice: <span> </span> Uzo Aduba</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Featured Actor, Musical:<span> <span> Matt Doyle</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Matt Doyle</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span>Featured Actress, Musical<span> Patti LuPone</span></span></b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Patti LuPone</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Book of Musical:<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> A Strange Loop</span></span></span></span></span></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> <span> A Strange Loop</span></span></span></span></span> </b></p><p><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Score:<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Six</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Flying Over Sunset</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Scenic Design, Play:<span> <span> <span> Es Devlin</span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> <span> <span> Es Devlin</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Scenic Design, Musical:<span> Beowulf Boritt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> <span> Beowulf Boritt</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Costume, Play:<span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span> Jennifer Moeller</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> Jennifer Moeller</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Costumes, Musical:<span> <span> Gabriella Slade</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> Gabriella Slade</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span>Lighting, Play<span>: <span> <span> <span> Jon Clark</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span>Personal Choice: <span> <span> Jon Clark</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Lighting, Musical:<span> <span> Bradley King</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Bradley King</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Sound, Play:<span> <span> <span> <span> Mikhail Fiksel</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> <span> Mikhail Fiksel</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Sound, Musical:<span> <span> <span> Paul Gatehouse</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Paul Gatehouse</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span>Direction, Play:<span> <span> <span> Sam Mendes</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Camille A. Brown</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Direction, Musical:<span> Marianne Elliott</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Christopher Wheeldon</span></span></span></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Choreography<span> <span> <span> Christopher Wheeldon</span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> Christopher Wheeldon</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span>Orchestrations: <span> <span> David Cullen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Personal Choice:<span> <span> David Cullen</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p>Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-27510791673435883952021-09-27T12:35:00.013-04:002021-09-27T16:58:45.446-04:00THE TONYS: Monday Morning Quarterbacking<p style="text-align: center;"> <img src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/b072519a.jpg" style="text-align: left;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Danny Burstein, Tony Winner for <i>Moulin Rouge</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Matthew Murphy</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It has been a confusing and anxious time for everyone involved in the theater, and the very fact that the Tonys for 2019-2020 were presented last night marks an important milestone in terms of Broadway's return.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">So no recriminations or second-guessing here. Just some observations.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">To begin with, I successfully predicted 15 of the 25 winners, largely owing to my thinking that <i>Moulin Rouge</i> would walk away with a Tony in pretty much every category for which it was nominated. Since the show picked up 10 Tonys, you can see that my crystal ball did me a service.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Regarding musicals, it does seem a shame that all three shows that were up for awards in that category were what we call "jukebox musicals," including the winner. The others were <i>Jagged Little Pill,</i> and <i>Tina -- </i>a show whose star, Adrienne Warren, gave an extraordinarily powerful Tony-garnering performance. <i> </i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately<i>, </i>with no original musicals in the mix, all of the shows that were nominated for Best Original Score were actually non-musicals (though, of course, with supporting music). My thinking is that the category itself should be confined to actual musicals with original scores. Since there were none this go-round, that category should have been eliminated. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And speaking of categories with too few nominees, there was the case of Best Lead Actor in a Musical, in which Aaron Tveit (<i>Moulin Rouge</i>) was the only nominee. The Tony voters were directed to vote yea or nay. Fortunately, enough of them voted yea, so that Mr. Tveit picked up his award, but, really, this category should have been eliminated. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>By the way, for the record and from my perspective, the actual best performance in this category was given by Isaac Powell in </span><i><span>West Side Story</span></i><span>, a show that -- while it did open in February of 2020, prior to the Covid shutdown -- unfortunately did not make the cutoff date for the Tonys. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Overall, there were few surprises, even among those categories where I failed to successfully predict the winner. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I did wonder that the highly touted <i>Slave Play</i>, which garnered a dozen nominations and is returning for another run on Broadway, failed to win any Tonys. I especially admired the performance in that play of Joaquina Kalukango, but I will say that Mary-Louise Parker's performance in <i>The Sound Inside</i> (itself a small, esoteric play) was stunning and deserving of the Tony she won for Best Lead Actress in a Play. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was also very happy to have erred in the category of Best Revival of a Play, since the winner, <i>A Soldier's Play</i>, was my favorite for the season. In that, I especially admired the performance by David Alan Grier, and I was delighted that he, too, won a Tony (for Best Featured Actor). </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>I did have a difficult time choosing between </span><span><i>A Soldier's Play</i> </span><span>and </span><i><span>Betrayal</span></i><span>, which was given a truly stellar production.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apart from the awards themselves, I was somewhat puzzled by the televised two-hour "Celebration of Broadway" show, which seemed geared toward the in-crowd of the industry rather than an audience of potential Broadway theater-goers. There were very few performances from the 2019-2020 season and none from the current season (other than that of <i>David Byrne's American Utopia</i>, which is returning to Broadway for another run). </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have the fondest memories of growing up, watching the performances on the Tony show each year, looking forward to the day when I could get to New York and take in a Broadway show myself. Who knew that someday I would live here and be able to attend Broadway and Off Broadway shows to my heart's content!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">________________</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Here are links to my reviews of all the shows I have mentioned above:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><i>Jagged Little Pill</i></span></span></p><p><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: red; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/JaggedLittlePill2019.html"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/JaggedLittlePill2019.html</span></a></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Moulin Rouge</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/MoulinRouge2019.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/MoulinRouge2019.html</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tina</span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><b><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Tina2019.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Tina2019.html</a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Slave Play</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><b><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SlavePlay2019.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SlavePlay2019.html</a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>West Side Story </i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/WestSideStory.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/WestSideStory.html</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>A Soldier's Play</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><b><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SoldiersPlay.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SoldiersPlay.html</a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>The Sound Inside</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SoundInside2019.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SoundInside2019.html</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Betrayal</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Betrayal2019.html"><b>https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/Betrayal2019.html</b></a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>David Byrne's American Utopia</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><b><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/AmericanUtopia2019.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/AmericanUtopia2019.html</a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-62174166537938964482021-09-26T16:17:00.005-04:002021-09-26T19:44:26.642-04:00TONY AWARDS. Long delayed but here we go...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_QIgXaRxaR8lYWlbiM9MnCZlTISn933dj2wOrF28rU4D6YZ1U_unWYKiu08yDsaJEyKNrhcTpBfvokjoTtUFbky560PKXkZ_yp2h2LYRT8JBY5nB-l2Ojwl8xmQ9CqImvg06QQ2HwlQ/s620/1D0C9725-F662-4FAC-8657-CE291BD63A93.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="620" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW_QIgXaRxaR8lYWlbiM9MnCZlTISn933dj2wOrF28rU4D6YZ1U_unWYKiu08yDsaJEyKNrhcTpBfvokjoTtUFbky560PKXkZ_yp2h2LYRT8JBY5nB-l2Ojwl8xmQ9CqImvg06QQ2HwlQ/s320/1D0C9725-F662-4FAC-8657-CE291BD63A93.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">There has been lots of mischigas about the on again-off again Tony Awards. And, really, it's all understandable under the circumstances. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Now is a time to celebrate the reopening of Broadway and to honor the hard work that went into the productions that did make it into the 2019-2020 Broadway season prior to the shutdown.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So, yes, tonight, it's on, though <i>how </i>it's being presented for public viewing is rather convoluted</span>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">From 7-9 PM, </span> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">eastern time, you'll have to watch all but three of the awards being distributed on a streaming service, Paramount+. To lure people in, they are offering a free week of viewing before the fee kicks in. Up to you. I'm not biting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">But starting at 9 PM, tune in to CBS for "The Tony Awards Presents Broadway's Back," a celebration filled with performances and the final three awards: for best play, best play revival, and best musical.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">For the record, I am posting my predictions here:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Play: SLAVE PLAY</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Musical: MOULIN ROUGE</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Play Revival: BETRAYAL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Book of a Musical: JAGGED LITTLE PILL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Original Score: THE ROSE TATTOO</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Lead Actor, Play: TOM HIDDLESTON</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Lead Actress, Play: JOAQUINA KALUKANGO</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Lead Actor, Musical: AARON TVEIT</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Lead Actress, Musical: ADRIENNE WARREN</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Featured Actor, Play: DAVID ALAN GRIER</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Featured Actress, Play: LOIS SMITH</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Featured Actor, Musical:<span> DANNY BURSTEIN</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Featured Actress, Musical: LAUREN PATTEN</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Scenic Design, Play: CLINT RAMOS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Scenic Design, Musical: DEREK McLANE</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Costume Design, Play: DEDE AYITE (for <i>Slave Play</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Costume Design, Musical: CATHERINE ZUBER</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Lighting Design, Play: JIYOUN CHANG</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Lighting Design, Musical: JUSTIN TOWNSEND (for <i>Moulin Rouge</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Sound Design, Play: Daniel Kluger (for <i>The Sound Inside</i>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Sound Design, Musical: PETER HYLENSKI</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Director, Play: ROBERT O'HARA</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Director, Musical: ALEX TIMBERS</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Choreography: SONYA TAYEH</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Best Orchestrations: KATIE KRESEK, CHARLIE ROSEN, MATT STINE & JUSTIN LEVINE</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Let's all find out together how well my predictions hold up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p>Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-22874520641894390782021-09-26T14:48:00.009-04:002021-09-26T16:18:47.413-04:00WELCOME BACK! A consideration of the start of the 2021-22 New York theater season.<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It's been a while!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">New York theaters are nervously moving forward with a new season that everyone hoped we could call "post-pandemic," or at least "pandemic-under-control."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Alas, neither of these defines the current state of things. So, let's call it "nervously moving forward anyway, with fingers crossed and hoping for the best." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">It's hard to believe, but I have already seen seven shows on and off Broadway. So let's chat a bit about them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Things began for me in April, when I saw a production of <i>Blindness </i>at Off Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre. The theater is named for the producer Daryl Roth, to whom I give a lot of credit for taking this early leap into the unknown. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/ob/Icons/04_06_21.jpg" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Blindness</b> </i><b>at the Daryl Roth Theatre</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo by Helen Maybanks</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Wisely or foolishly, I felt perfectly safe attending. Given all that was at stake, I know that everything that could be done to ensure the health and well-being of all in attendance would be taken care of. Indeed, the theater was super scrubbed, the audience was seated in a socially-distanced space, we were escorted individually to our seats, and everyone was masked. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A little about the play itself: <i>Blindness</i> was adapted by Simon Stephens from José Saramago's 1995 novel of the same title, It is a gripping tale about a plague of sightlessness that spreads rampantly among the inhabitants of an unspecified city and brings social order to its knees. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">So, not exactly a fun topic, but it was very well done nonetheless. If you want to know more, here is a link to my review: </span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/04_06_21.html"><b>https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/04_06_21.html</b></a></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span> _________</span>__________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Next up for me was another Off Broadway show, this one at the Cell Theatre. Now we are into July. Protocol for admission was proof of vaccination -- though after admission, seating was not socially distanced, and masks were not required.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This one was a seriocomic play called <i>Fruma Sarah (Waiting in the Wings). </i>If the name "Fruma Sarah" rings a bell, it's the character of the deceased wife of the butcher Lazar Wolf in <i>Fiddler on the Roof. </i> We never actually meet the real Fruma Sarah in </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Fiddler; </i><span> instead, she appears in an imaginary dream cooked up by Tevye in order to convince his wife that they should break the agreement with Lazar Wolf to let him marry their daughter. Remember? Good.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/ob/Icons/07_08_21.jpg" style="text-align: start;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, "sans serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jackie Hoffman and Kelly Kinsella</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Fruma Sarah (Waiting in the Wings) </i><b>at the Cell </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, "sans serif";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo by Hunter Canning</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Fruma Sarah (Waiting in the Wings) </i>is a two-character play about a community theater actress waiting backstage to go on in the role of the dream version of Fruma Sarah. The part was performed with great </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">élan </span><span style="font-family: arial;">by the comic actress Jackie Hoffman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Written by E. Dale Smith, the play gives us a woman whose own life is on the skids, but who lives for those moments when she can figuratively and literally soar as an actress. If you want to know more, here is a link to my review:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/07_08_21.html">https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/07_08_21.html</a></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> ___________________</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Third show, taking me into August. This one marked the re-opening of the Delacorte Theatre, aka Shakespeare in the Park, the Public Theater's stadium-like open-air performance space in Central Park. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Covid protocol: proof of vaccination and photo IDs to get in. Masks required until and unless seated. Special section set aside, socially distanced, for the unvaccinated and masked.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Before we get into the show itself, a comic romp titled <i>Merry Wives</i>, I want to take a moment to recognize all of the hard work by everyone involved to pull it off. From the start, the production was plagued by a string of delays, canceled performances, an injured lead actor, and storm washouts -- not to mention the nerve-jangling specter lurking in the shadows. And yet, the show prevailed and successfully ran until just last week when it closed on schedule. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/ob/Icons/08_09_21.jpg" style="text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Cast of <i>Merry Wives </i>at the Delacorte</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo by Joan Marcus</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i>Merry Wives </i>is a modern take of Shakespeare's <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i>, adapted by playwright Jocelyn Bioh and removed from England to Harlem among a population of African immigrants. If you want to know more, here's a link to my review:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/08_09_21.html"><b>https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/08_09_21.html</b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> ___________________</span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Then later in August, Broadway saw its first show of the season, and, yes, I was there. It was Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play <i>Pass Over</i>, transferred from its previous Off Broadway production, with a revised ending, still on view at the August Wilson Theatre, with masks, vaccinations, and IDs all around. Now might also be a good time for me to mention that, thus far, audiences I've encountered have been compliant and well-behaved and considerate of one another. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.talkinbroadway.com/sources/world/Icons/PassOver.jpg" style="text-align: start;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><div>Namir Smallwood and Jon Michael Hill</div><div><br /></div><div>in <i>Pass Over </i>at the August Wilson Theatre</div><div><br /></div><div>Photo by Joan Marcus</div></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Pass Over</i> borrows imagery from Samuel Beckett's <i>Waiting for Godot </i>and from the Old Testament Book of <i>Exodus </i>to relate the story of two young Black men who are trapped in a stretch of urban space. If you want to know more, here's a link to my review:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/index.html"><b>https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/index.html</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> ___________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="attachment-medium_2_colonne_4:3 size-medium_2_colonne_4:3 wp-post-image" height="430" src="https://www.lavocedinewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/blackbird-production-620x430.jpg" style="text-align: start;" title="Blackbird Production" width="620" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lenny Grossman and Francesca Ravera </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>in<i> Blackbird</i> at the New Ohio Theatre</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo by <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; text-align: left;">Bjorn Bolinder</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">September saw an off Broadway production at the New Ohio Theatre of David Harrower's disturbing play,<i> Blackbird</i>, which </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">deals with the toxic fallout from a heinous act of pedophilia, a three-month-long sexual relationship between a 40-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl that took place 15 years before the play opens. If you want to know more, here's a link to my review: </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/09_16_21.html"><b>https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/09_16_21.html</b></a></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> ___________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">There are two other plays I have seen since, <i>Sanctuary City</i> at Off Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre and <i>Lackawanna Blues</i>, on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. But I have not yet written those reviews, so you'll have to wait.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-34506188295826678962020-06-14T16:46:00.000-04:002020-06-14T16:46:02.160-04:00DRAMA DESK AWARDS: Honoring the best of the 2019-2020 New York Theater Season<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical</span></i><br />Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Solo Performance</span></i><br />Laura Linney, My Name is Lucy Barton<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Director of a Play</span></i><br />Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Director of a Musical</span></i><br />Stephen Brackett, A Strange Loop<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Book of a Musical</span></i><br />Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Orchestrations</span></i><br />Tom Kitt, Jagged Liittle Pill<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Music in a Play</span></i><br />Martha Redbone, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical</span></i><br />Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Lighting Design for a Play</span></i><br />Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; padding: 0in;">Outstanding Sound Design in a Play</span></i><br />Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid, The Inheritance<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ensemble Award: “To the eight pitch-perfect performers in Dave Malloy’s a cappella musical Octet: Adam Bashian, Kim Blanck, Starr Busby, Alex Gibson, Justin Gregory Lopez, J.D. Mollison, Margo Seibert and Kuhoo Verma proved instrumental in giving a layered look at modern forms of addiction.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sam Norkin Award: “To actress Mary Bacon, who continued her versatile career of compassionate, searing work for such companies as The Mint, Primary Stages, The Public Theater and The Actors Theater Company, with two of Off-Broadway’s most humane performances this season in Coal Country at the Public Theater and Nothing Gold Can Stay presented by Partial Comfort Productions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“To The Actors Fund, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley for connecting members of the theater community and lifting spirits during the coronavirus crisis. The Actors Fund has worked tirelessly to provide financial and health resources to those impacted by the pandemic; Rudetsky and Wesley’s semi-daily Stars in the House webcast is raising funds for The Actors Fund, while providing performances, reunions, and medical updates.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“To The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit, a reinvention of Joseph Papp’s “Mobile Theater” that began in 1957 and evolved into the New York Shakespeare Festival and The Public Theater. The current Mobile Unit tours free Shakespeare throughout the five boroughs, including prisons, homeless shelters and community centers, reminding audiences new and old that the play really is the thing. ”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“To WP Theater and Julia Miles, the company’s founder who died this spring. Formerly known as The Women’s Project and Productions, the company began in 1978 at American Place Theatre, where Miles served as associate to visionary artistic director Wynn Handman, who also died this spring. WP is the largest, most enduring American company that nurtures and produces works by female-identified creators. Over a little more than four decades, it has changed the demographics of American drama through an unwavering focus on women writers, directors, producers, performers and craftspeople.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“To Claire Warden for her pioneering work as an intimacy choreographer in such recent projects as Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune and Linda Vista and her leadership in the rapidly emerging movement of intimacy direction. As part of the creative team of Intimacy Directors & Coordinators and Director of Engagement for and co-founder of Intimacy Directors International, she is helping create theater experiences that are safer for performers and more authentic for contemporary audiences.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">___________________</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-align: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Feel free to share this blog with your friends, and to offer up your own theater stories by posting a comment. </span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></div>
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-89918601009190462582020-06-10T15:01:00.002-04:002024-01-02T21:11:12.523-05:00CONTEXTUALIZING RACISM IN THE THEATER ARTS<br />
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><font>More than 300 theater artists - black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) - <a href="https://www.weseeyouwat.com/" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;">published a letter </span></a>addressed to “White American Theater” decrying racial injustice in their industry <a href="https://www.weseeyouwat.com/" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none;">online</span></a> on Monday.<o:p></o:p></font></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><font>You can read the entire letter below. But before that, I want to comment on the broader context of embedded, institutionalized racism in America. </font></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Talk, even talk filled with outrage and empathy, won’t move this country in another direction if we simply go back to business as usual and suck our teeth and roll our eyes and scream at the TV set. </span></font></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><font size="4">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">One of the best-expressed statements I’ve heard lately is this: It’s not that America is broken. It is functioning the way it is by intent and design, just as it always has, with some but not remotely enough progress over the course of 244 years as a nation, and even before that, dating to 1619 and the arrival of the first known slave ship with a cargo of slaves to sell to the colonist</span></font></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><font size="4">
<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">If you are reading this, I believe it is likely you understand that there are issues of institutionalized racism that encompass political, legislative, governing, financial, educational, housing, jobs, salaries, health, nutrition, the creative and performing arts, and accessibility to all of these and more. I’ll be thinking more about what I can do. </span></font></div><div dir="auto"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="4"><br /></font></span></div><div dir="auto"><font><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, might I suggest watching Oprah’s Town Hall on Race? Part I last night laid the groundwork. Tonight’s focus is on where we go from here.</span>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>Dear White American Theater,<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We come together as a community of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) theatremakers, in the legacy of August Wilson’s “The Ground on Which I Stand,” to let you know exactly what ground we stand on in the wake of our nation’s civic unrest.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We see you. We have always seen you. We have watched you pretend not to see us.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you program play after play, written, directed, cast, choreographed, designed, acted, dramaturged and produced by your rosters of white theatermakers for white audiences, while relegating a token, if any, slot for a BIPOC play. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you amplify our voices when we are heralded by the press, but refuse to defend our aesthetic when we are not, allowing our livelihoods to be destroyed by a monolithic and racist critical culture. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you inadequately compare us to each other, allowing the failure of entire productions to be attributed to decisions you forced upon us for the comfort of your theater’s white patrons. Meanwhile, you continue to deprioritize the broadening of your audiences by building NO relationship with our communities. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you harm your BIPOC staff members, asking us to do your emotional labor by writing your Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statements. When we demanded you live up to your own creeds, you cowered behind old racist laments of feeling threatened, and then discarded us along with the values you claim to uphold. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you discredit the contributions of BIPOC theatres, only to co-opt and annex our work, our scholars, our talent, and our funding. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you turn a blind eye as unions refuse to confront their racism and integrate their ranks, muting the authenticity of our culture and only reserving space for us to shine out front on your stages but never behind them. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you dangle opportunities like carrots before emerging BIPOC artists, using the power of development, production, and awards to quiet us into obedience at the expense of our art and integrity. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you use our BIPOC faces on your brochures, asking us to politely shuffle at your galas, talkbacks, panels, board meetings, and donor dinners, in rooms full of white faces, without being willing to defend the sanctity of our bodies beyond the stages you make us jump through hoops to be considered for. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you hustle for local, federal, foundation and private funding on our backs, only to redirect the funds into general operating accounts to cover your deficits from years of fiscal mismanagement. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you hire the first BIPOC artists in executive leadership, only to undermine our innovations and vision of creating equitable institutions, by suffocating our efforts with your fear, inadequacy, and mediocrity. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you attend one “undoing racism workshop,” espousing to funders you are doing the work, without any changes to your programming or leadership. You’ve been unwilling to even say the words “anti-racism” to your boards out of fear of them divesting from your institutions, prioritizing their privilege over our safety. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you promote anti-Blackness again and again. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you say things like – I may be white, but I’m a woman. Or, I may be white, but I’m gay. As if oppression isn’t multi-layered. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have watched you exploit us, shame us, diminish us, and exclude us. We see you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We have always seen you.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>And now you will see us.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>We stand on this ground as BIPOC theatremakers, multi-generational, at varied stages in our careers, but fiercely in love with the Theatre. Too much to continue it under abuse. We will wrap the least privileged among us in protection, and fearlessly share our many truths.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font>About theatres, executive leaders, critics, casting directors, agents, unions, commercial producers, universities and training programs. You are all a part of this house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy. And this is a house that will not stand.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><i><font><br />We are about to introduce you...to yourself.<o:p></o:p></font></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The last Broadway show I saw was on March 7. My review for that was written and set for publication on its official opening night. Unfortunately for everyone involved, opening night was slated for March 12, the start of the Great Shutdown, which, we are told, has been extended at least until Labor Day. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And so my review is on hold, along with everything else. I will say no more about that particular show until it does make its formal entrance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eventually, along with everything else, theater will return. Many shows that were running will reopen, and new ones will come along. <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I will note that some 200 plays and musicals did open in Broadway and Off Broadway theaters during 2019-2020.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33); color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">While there will be no Tony Awards this go ‘round, organizations like the Off Broadway Alliance, the Off-Broadway League, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, the Drama Desk, and the Outer Critics Circle have found ways to recognize outstanding writers, performers, directors and designers who put everything they had into entertaining and enlightening us during this truncated season.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As a proud member of the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), I am delighted with the process the group used to approach its awards this year, a process that involved the membership and the OCC Board in identifying not one winner, but a group of several honorees in each category. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The honorees were formally announced in a video featuring several big-name stars making the announcements from their individual homes, which gives everything a nice personal touch. So meet Kristin Chenoweth, Bryan Cranston, Patti LuPone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Patrick Stewart as they make the announcements here: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifQPNv1vJY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jifQPNv1vJY</a></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Listed below are a few of the honorees – for outstanding new Broadways play and musicals, for outstanding new Off Broadway plays and musicals, and for outstanding play and musical revivals.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have included links to my reviews, as indicated.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Grand Horizons </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My review at -<a href="https://bit.ly/2X4r2tH"> https://bit.ly/2X4r2tH</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Height of the Storm </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My review at - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2mV42Ph">https://bit.ly/2mV42Ph</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Linda Vista</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My review at - </span><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://bit.ly/2oAI3yr">https://bit.ly/2oAI3yr</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The Sound Inside </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My review at - </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://bit.ly/31r1reB">https://bit.ly/31r1reB</a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Moulin Rouge! </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My review at - <a href="https://bit.ly/3dZw6Xb">https://bit.ly/3dZw6Xb</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am unsure of a great many things, but I am quite certain Broadway and Off Broadway plays and musicals will rise again! Until then, let's be grateful for what we've got: our memories and our record and CD and DVD collections and streaming opportunities that will keep us going. </span></span></div>
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-52037205162227384902020-04-01T20:14:00.004-04:002020-04-07T22:49:53.849-04:00IF THE TONYS WERE AWARDED TODAY...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's suppose that the Broadway season for 2019-2020 has officially concluded, and that the Tony Awards are to be presented based on a consideration of the Broadway plays and musicals that did open since last summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Identifying the winners is not nearly as straightforward a task as you might imagine, not it you dig into the decision-making process. Things can get a bit tricky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Should <b><i>A Christmas Carol</i> </b>be considered a new play? Does <b><i>David Byrne's American Utopia</i> </b>count as a musical, or is it a concert, with Broadway being the last stop on its tour? And what to make of <b><i>Derren Brown: Secret</i></b>, the excellent mentalist act that is plotless but is scripted? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are also questions of categories -- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">who should be considered a lead actor or actress, and who is featured? It's not always obvious, and producers often campaign hard to place performers in the category where they are likely to be more competitive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In any event, I am not going to agonize over these questions. I saw every production that opened on Broadway, with the lone exception of the holiday season return of <b><i>Slava’s Snowshow, </i></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">so I herewith offer my completely biased personal selections. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>West Side Story</i></b>. To be sure, it was the only musical revival of the season. Nevertheless, I want to recognize it here because, and in spite of every attempt by director Ivo van Hove to "reinvent" the classic Sondheim/Bernstein musical, its mostly young cast pushed past the gimmicky video mayhem to breathe new life into this product of the 1950s. Not a lot of shows I'd willingly see again; this is one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mary-Louse Parker </b>is the winner for her performance in Adam Rapp's enigmatic jigsaw puzzle of a play, <b><i>The Sound Inside</i></b>. She gave a richly layered portrayal of a college creative writing professor who lives in a cocoon of books and words, until she is handed a deep conundrum in the form of a manuscript from one of her students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>David Alan Grier </b>wins this one for his role as the troubled sergeant in <b><i>A Soldier's Play</i></b>. His performance was mesmerizing, giving us as psychologically complex a character as you are ever likely to encounter on stage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Karen Olivo</b>. Draw a straight line through time from Dumas's Camille to Verdi's Violetta to Puccini's Mimi to Satine, the female lead in <b><i>Moulin Rouge</i></b>. That's where you'll find the exquisite performance by Ms. Olivo, the only one who was able to stay fully fixed on the elusive heart of this glitzy spinning top of a musical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Isaac Powell </b>as Tony in <b><i>West Side Story</i></b>. When he sings "Maria," it is as if the words were coming to him spontaneously. Last seen in the role of Daniel Beauxhomme in the wonderful revival of <b>Once On This Island</b>, this is one skyrocketing star. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Joaquina Kalukango. </b>She was a standout in <b><i>Slave Play</i></b>, giving a stunning performance in the exceptionally intimate role that leads the play to its breathtaking conclusion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Grantham Coleman</b>. He single-handedly brought Robert Schenkkan's generally by-the-numbers play <b>T<i>he Great Society</i> </b>to life through his terrific portrayal of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Lauren Patten</b>. Her character was rather underwritten and peripheral to the main story, but she brought the audience to its feet with her performance of "You Oughta Know" in <b style="font-style: italic;">Jagged Little Pill. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Arin Arbus</b>, for <b><i>Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune</i></b>, the impeccably performed (by Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon) two-hander by Terrence McNally, about a hot and heavy one-night stand that may or not lead to a more permanent relationship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker</b>, for her work in <b><i>West Side Story</i></b>. She made the dance elements all her own without slighting the memory of Jerome Robbins's iconic choreography, and the strong cast made the most of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Derek McLane</b>, for the dazzling eyeful that is <b><i>Moulin Rouge</i></b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Above my desk at home are three framed images. One is a page from an early edition of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Alice In Wonderland</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It’s John Tenniel’s drawing of the Mad Hatter that I acquired during a trip to London. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A second is a caricature of me, drawn long ago by one of my middle school students. In it, I’m jumping up and down as I perform Pete Seeger’s storysong, “Abiyoyo.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And hanging between these two is a copy of Al Hirschfeld's drawing of Stephen Sondheim, who today celebrates his 90th birthday, hopefully ensconced safely at home and being inundated with cards, phone calls, and other forms of greeting from friends and other well-wishers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">occurred during another visit to London. I attended the premiere production at the pocket-sized Bridewell Theatre of the long-delayed <b><i>Saturday Night</i></b>. As Sondheim fans surely know, the show had been set to open on Broadway way back in the 1954-55 season but never made it, owing to the unfortunate death of its lead producer. </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fast forward four decades to 1997, and here I was, happily awaiting the performance of a new-old Sondheim musical, one that predated <b><i>West Side Story</i></b> and <b><i>Gypsy</i></b>, for which he would serve as lyricist. <b><i>Saturday Night</i></b>, on the other hand, boasted both music and lyrics by Sondheim. So … yes!!! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I assume everyone in the audience had the same feeling of opening a special gift. But what it made even more of a gift was that Sondheim himself slipped into my row, a few seats down from me. He then proceeded to videotape the entire production with a hand-held camcorder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rather than talk about all of the Sondheim shows I have seen, several of them in multiple productions, I thought I might go back a decade to the star-studded 80th birthday tribute that was held at Lincoln Center. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I attended the second of the two sold-out concerts in honor of that occasion. Google “Sondheim 80th birthday concert videos,” and, voila, you will readily find selections from the performance for your home viewing. Still, actually being there was a great treat that has led to years of memories. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Charley Kringas in the short-lived, forever loved original and oft revived-and-tinkered-with 1981 Broadway production </span>of </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Merrily We Roll Along</span></b></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> Price also created a wonderful documentary film about that experience called “Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened,” which came out in 2016. Find it, watch it, and join me in simultaneously laughing and crying for 90 minutes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">For the occasion of the tribute concert, Paul Gemignani, long identified as Sondheim’s musical director, conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The evening was hosted with grace and good humor by David Hyde Pierce, with a single guest hosting spot ceded to orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, another longtime Sondheim collaborator. With friends like these, Sondheim’s birthday celebration could not have been in better hands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">•Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters performing “Move On” from <b><i>Sunday in the Park with George</i></b>. Both of them looked and sounded in top form as they recreated their performance from more than 25 years ago, from what to me is Sondheim’s richest, most emotional and romantic musical score. Patinkin also gave us a beautiful “Finishing the Hat” from <b>Sunda<i>y</i>. </b>“Finishing the Hat” is also the title that Sondheim gave to Volume I of his collected lyrics and commentary (Volume II is “Look, I Made a Hat.”) Now that’s something you might want to read during this enforced downtime. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">•Patti LuPone, who always seems to be having such a wonderful time onstage, teamed with George Hearn and Michael Cerveris to peform “A Little Priest,” a wickedly fun number from <b><i>Sweeney Todd</i></b>. Mrs. Lovett with her two Sweeneys to play against. Hearn and Cerveris also offered up a chilling rendition of “Pretty Women,” climaxing with one Sweeney slitting the other’s throat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">•Patti again, doing an audacious performance of “The Ladies Who Lunch” from <b><i>Company</i></b>, right in front of Elaine Stritch, whose original rendition of the song is legendary; Google it and give it a listen if you don’t already own the recording. Incidentally, a partly gender-switched revival (Bobby is now Bobbie) of <b><i>Company </i></b>had started previews on Broadway before the shutdown, with Patti taking on Stritch’s role. We don’t know yet if it will be able to open when things normalize. Fingers crossed! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-45116235274090478932020-03-16T17:57:00.002-04:002020-03-16T18:02:03.857-04:00BEST OF THE BROADWAY SEASON SO FAR: Revivals and Transfers <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While holed up against the coronavirus invasion, as we await a return to whatever it is that passes for normalcy around here, let's continue our look at the Broadway season's highlights thus far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's couples' therapy for interracial couples in this standout play, a transfer from Off Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop, that is both funny in a do-we-dare-laugh sort of way, and a smartly constructed satire that preaches without being preachy and teaches without being condescending. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This pairing of plays, each of them a solo work, is a matter of both life and death for the men whose stories emerge. Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal worked diligently to deepen their performances since the initial run at the Public Theater downtown, and it made the Broadway production a breathtaking experience. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can read my complete review by linking</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/world/SeaWallALife2019.html">here</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></b></div>
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<br />Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-28324453150440530562020-03-02T11:13:00.002-05:002020-03-02T12:02:27.859-05:00FEBRUARY 2020 - 8 Broadway and Off-Broadway Shows <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are the 8 shows I saw in February - on Broadway, and Off Broadway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fun little musical based on the 1969 satirical film about self-actualization in the age of the "sexual revolution." Here, the satire is muted in favor of focusing more closely on its two middle aged couples who are alternately puzzled, intrigued, and jealous of the youth-oriented free love movement. Duncan Sheik and Amanda Green provide appropriately low-keyed songs that are reminiscent of Bert Bacharach/Hal David tunes of the era. Fans of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" will enjoy seeing Michael Zegen, who plays Joel in that popular Amazon Prime series, while singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega does a nice turn as the narrator. Gotta put in a special mention to Jeff Mashie, who provides the perfect costumes that manage nicely to straddle the line between lampoon and nostalgia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are the 7 shows I saw in January - 4 on Broadway, and 3 Off Broadway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forget anything you may have read that compares </span><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew Lopez's two-play work to Tony Kushner's <b>Angels in America</b>. Whatever publicist thought to suggest that is doing <b>The Inheritance</b> a disservice. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I will confess to having seen only Part I thus far </span><span style="font-size: large;">(each part is treated as a separate play, though the story is a continuous one). If you are sitting on the fence, do what I did and give Part I a shot; it can easily stand on its own. It manages to be both expansive and intimate in scope as it considers the lives of older and younger gay men. It is sometimes a bit messy in its construction, but it is nevertheless thoroughly engaging and often quite moving. </span></span><br />
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-56286326236945092902019-12-25T15:36:00.001-05:002020-01-05T22:46:31.937-05:002019 - A YEAR OF THEATER GOING<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did you ever wonder what a year of theater going looks like for someone who self-describes as "an inveterate and always-hopeful theater buff?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here, in chronological order, is a list of the 108 shows I saw in 2019, on and off Broadway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ones marked with an asterisk are those that I reviewed, either for this blog or elsewhere. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The ones in red are those that I enjoyed most for whatever quirky reasons that keep me going back show after show after show. I'll leave it to you to discern a pattern. </span><br />
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-80864892741067717792019-11-08T10:42:00.000-05:002019-11-08T10:44:12.418-05:00TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL Boasts A Spectacular Performance by Adrienne Warren<br />
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<br />Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-16298528520531033742019-09-06T16:27:00.000-04:002019-09-07T10:14:42.842-04:00DUST: Harrowing Play About a Young Woman’s Death By Suicide and the Aftermath<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't want you to be gobsmacked if you should happen to wander unprepared into the intimate </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next Door @NYTW theater space in New York City's East Village, where Milly Thomas's discomfiting play <b>Dust </b>opened last night. So b</span>efore I get into talking about the quality of the writing and of the solo performance by its creator (both are stunning, in every sense of the word), I feel it is important to let you know that the subject matter is inherently disturbing. It is about a young woman who has taken her own life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To be sure, there have been many other plays in which there is a suicide as part of the plot. From Ophelia's death in <i>Hamlet </i>to Connor Murphy's death in <i>Dear Evan Hansen</i>, we learn of their passing as recounted by others. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But with <b>Dust</b>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">written and acted by London-based writer and performer Milly Thomas, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we spend an uninterrupted 75 minutes with a young woman named Alice who is already dead by her own hand when the play opens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had a blast at the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Dinner at Sardi's this week. This</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> gathering of theater critics, actors, directors, writers, designers, and producers is so much fun because the winners are announced ahead of time. (For the complete list of winners, link <span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="https://upstage-downstage.blogspot.com/2019/05/outer-critics-circle-announces-2019.html">HERE</a>)</b></span>. This does away with the stress of competition and turns it into a truly festive occasion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seated to my right was <b>Benjamin Walker</b>, who won the Best Featured Actor Award for his outstanding performance in the brilliant revival of Arthur Miller's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>All My Sons</i>.</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Previously, he starred in two cheeky musicals on Broadway -- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>American Psycho</i></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">--</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">both of which had him playing outsized, outlandish characters. I was happy to tell him how wonderful it was to see him doing such stellar work as a complex realistic character and for getting deservedly recognized during this awards season. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm betting there's a Tony lying in wait for him as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Joel Grey</b> has been performing and directing since the 1940s. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Master of Ceremonies in </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Cabaret</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But he is still going strong as director of the highly acclaimed Yiddish language production of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Fiddler on the Roof</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, which won the OCC award for Best Musical Revival, against the likes of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Kiss Me, Kate!</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i> </i>and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Oklahoma!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you are familiar with Jesse Eisenberg, it's most likely to be from his acting career, with notable performances in such films as <i>The Social Network</i> in which he played Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But Eisenberg has also established himself as a writer, with pieces published in </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The New Yorker</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">magazine, a collection of short stories, an upcoming novel, and several plays to his credit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He himself does not appear in his latest play, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Talk, </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but the kind of irritatingly self-important, damaged and damaging character that has become a trademark for him lies at its heart, as</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">directed by Scott Elliott for The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It seems at first glimpse as though we might be embarking on a sitcom filled with familiar types. Lorraine appears to be an egotistical suburban matron and community theater goddess, who turns every situation into a grand drama with her in the spotlight. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She is currently in rehearsals for the local Jewish Community Center production of </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">South Pacific</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> in which she most absurdly will be playing the role of Bloody Mary. If you've seen </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Prom</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> on Broadway, Lorraine may remind you of Beth Leavel's character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even though the play is written to be performed straight through its running time of 100 minutes, it does seem that it is divided into three separate acts. Anything I add by way of plot reveal here would be a spoiler, so I will simply say that in each of the acts, our sympathies are manipulated in a different way as we try to decide how we feel about Lorraine. It is all dependent on which side of her personality or piece of her life is shared with us at the time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it comes to Tony predictions, it is not necessarily advantageous to have seen every show and to have analyzed and critiqued most of them during the course of a season. We all bring our personal preferences and prejudices to the task of judging how "good" a play or musical is, and these subjective perspectives undoubtedly color our predictions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The same can be said of the Tony voters, who are not typical theatergoers any more than the critics are. They bring to the decision-making process factors such as how well they think a show will do outside of New York, either in an immediate follow-up tour or over the long run. In addition, most Tony voters have friends and colleagues in the business, and these connections also factor into their voting. And, of course, while they may not be typical theatergoers, they are <i>still theatergoers. </i>They have their likes and dislikes the same as everyone else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ssuming you've been following the Broadway theater scene, I can honestly say that your guess is as good as mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Adam Driver </b>gives a thrillingly unconstrained performance in the revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 play, <b>Burn This</b>. The play itself is overburdened with awkward and vague exposition, and the production is less than stellar, but Driver is a WOW! Still, I think the Tony lies elsewhere. Keep reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">There is quite a bit of conjecture that the characters of The Fool and of Cordelia in <b>King Lear </b>were always intended to be played by the same actor, or even that the Fool is Cordelia in disguise -- disguises being quite prevalent in the play. In any event, it is <b>Ruth Wilson</b> who has been nominated for playing both roles on Broadway. She is the life of the production as the Fool, to be sure. But I do not believe she will receive the Tony for her grand performance. Continue reading. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How wonderful it is that <b>Kristine Nielsen</b> (above) and <b>Julie White</b> (below) were both nominated for their featured performances in <b>Gary</b>, Taylor Mac's wickedly compelling "sequel" to Shakespeare's blood-fest of a play, <b>Titus Andronicus</b>. I imagine you have heard that Ms. Nielsen moved into the role that was supposed to have been played by Andrea Martin, who suffered an injury and had to withdraw. Then Ms. White came in on short notice to take on what had been Ms. Nielsen's role. The opening was postponed briefly, but <b>Gary </b>opened in time for Tony consideration, and truly both of these actresses are just terrific. Sad to say, I do not predict either will win the Tony for her performance in this thoroughly non-mainstream but utterly captivating play. So read on. </span><br />
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-2607680354748560592019-05-13T09:41:00.002-04:002019-05-13T14:58:44.629-04:00OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE Announces the 2019 Winners for the Best of Broadway and Off Broadway<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kudos to the 2019 recipients of the Outer Critics Circle Awards for the best of Broadway and Off Broadway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Robert Horn,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tootsie</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bryan Cranston,</span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </i><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Network</span></i></div>
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Howard Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16112052399453539695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1633455134800644101.post-81918527138647796482019-05-11T10:29:00.000-04:002019-05-13T15:47:25.076-04:00CLOSE LOOK at Tony Nominees for Best Performance in a Musical. Who Will Win Among The Women?<br />
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