BroadwayRadio This Week on Broadway for October 12, 2009 -- An Uncut Hamlet

This Week on Broadway for October 12, 2009 -- An Uncut Hamlet

Peter Filichia
Michael Portantiere

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher
http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=80327

Irene (her first Broadway show)
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=3182

Censored Scenes From King Kong (at the 22 Steps Theater)
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=3690

Hamlet
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=484340

Jude Law
http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=49073

There was a very good production of Hamlet in NJ last month, at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, (in Madison NJ)
http://www.njshakespeare.org/

Hamlet in Central Park (2008)
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118336-PHOTO_CALL_New_Hamlet_Plays_in_Central_Park

How were Hamlet audiences in comparison to audiences in A Steady Rain?

It was an uncut Hamlet -- 4 hours!

The Royal Family by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=483660

Tony Roberts back in The Royal Family

The Harris Girls:
Rosemary Harris  http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=44269
Julie Harris  http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=44243
Barbara Harris  http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=15039

Rosemary Harris in A Streetcar Named Desire (1973)
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=3190

Uta Hagen
http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=43654

in Charlotte
http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=3689


New York Musical Theatre Festival
http://www.nymf.org/


My Scary Girl
Book and Lyrics by Kyoung-Ae Kang
Music by Will Aronson
http://www.nymf.org/Show-864.html
Girl kills boyfriends by accident
My Scary Girl -- Korean with supertitles


Anjou, A Tale of Horror
Book, Music and Lyrics by Guillermo Mendez and Lupita Sandoval
http://www.nymf.org/Show-1025.html


http://www.nymf.org/Show-716.html
The Cure
Two friends are offered immortality by the last surviving vampires
Story and Songs by Mark Weiser

http://www.nymf.org/Show-1020.html
Marrying Meg
A rollicking Scottish folktale of feuds, faeries and unlikely love.
Book, Music and Lyrics by Mark Robertson
Based on the play The Lass wi the Muckle Mou by Alexander Reid


Arthur Laurents new play at George Street

Come Back, Come Back, Wherever You Are
The Stunning New Play You'll Be Talking About
written and directed by Arthur Laurents
with Jim Bracchitta, John Carter, Alison Fraser, Shirley Knight, and
Leslie Lyles
October 6 - November 1, 2009
http://www.georgestplayhouse.org/calendar/events.php?nID=264


David Saint, Artistic Director


New Brunswick, NJ is a great theater town


The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presents a reading of:

PRONT by Peter Filichia

Those Ghosts who showed up at Ebenezer Scrooge's on Christmas Eve?
They work all year round -- and now one is coming to visit Willard Pront, who makes Scrooge look like Mother Teresa.

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
Produced by Ellen Muir

When: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 at 6 p.m.
Doors open at 5:30; snacks served. No admission charge.

Where: 1100 6th Ave. at 42nd Street.
Please check in at lobby entrance on the first floor.

You can email Peter at: PFilichia@aol.com

Music:
My Scary Girl / Best Friend
Bye Bye Birdie 2009 Roundabout Cast