Guests:

Matthew Murray
Peter Filichia

Ave Q heading back off-Broadway to New World Stages
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/132773

Broadway on Broadway
http://www.broadwaystars.com/followspot/2009/09/backstage_at_broadway_on_broad.shtml

Jordan Roth becomes President of Jujamcyn
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/theater/09theater.html

Oooh Ra
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/132773

Life Worth Living
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/132772

Hello, Sweet Prince - Jude Law Brings His Hamlet to Broadway
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/theater/06lyal.html

http://newislandfestival.com/
Direct from Holland, the New Island Festival will set up stakes on New
York City's Governors Island from September 10–13 and again from
September 17–20. The festival will kick off the fall with provocative
theatre, stunning site-specific performance, dazzling visual arts and
exhilarating DJ sets, performed by world class Dutch performers. More
than 150 artists will perform during the festival.


Larry Gelbart
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/arts/12gelbart.html

Music:
You Can't Stop The Beat - Hairspray
The Buddy System - City of Angels

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Discussion: This week journalists were removed from the voting ranks of the Tony Awards. Why? Does it matter? What is next?

Does Michael Riedel's theory that the end goal of commercial producers is to remove non-profits from the Tony Awards make sense?

A Whole New Ballot Game by Michael Riedel
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172009/entertainment/theater/a_whole_new_ballot_game_179648.htm

This just in: Tony Awards nix crix by Adam Feldman
http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/upstaged/2009/07/this-just-in-tony-awards-nix-crix/

Reviewing the Tony Situation by Matthew Murray
http://www.broadwaystars.com/matthew/2009/07/reviewing_the_tony_situation.shtml

Tony Awards anger journalists by David Rooney and Gordon Cox
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006043.html?categoryid=15&cs=1

Tony Awards Committee Trims List of Voters, Citing Conflicts by Patrick Healy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/theater/theaterspecial/16tony.html  

Journalists Will No Longer Be Voting for Tony Awards by Patrick Healy
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/journalists-will-no-longer-be-voting-for-tony-awards/

First-Night Critics Lose Tony-Voting Privileges. Producers Salivate and Sigh by Leonard Jacobs, The Clyde Fitch Report
http://www.clydefitchreport.com/?p=3126

Tonys to Press: Drop Dead by Tom O’Neil, Gold Derby/The Los Angeles Times
http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2009/07/tony-awards-tonys-drop-journalist-voters-news-broadway-2893157406-story.html

Destroying the Credibility of the Tony Awards: Banning Journalists as Voters by Matt Windman, AM New York
http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/stage/blog/2009/07/destroying_the_credibility_of.html

Music:
Keep It Gay from The Producers
Hopelessly Devoted To You from Grease (Movie)

With Peter in Paris, shouldn/'t he be thinking of Leonardo (the musical)

60 Minutes had a story about raising the money

The Little Mermaid announced that it will be closing August 30, after 50 previews and 685 regular performances.

What is next for Disney? Nemo the musical from Orlando park?

Avenue Q announced that it will also be closing September 13, after 22 previews and 2,534 regular performances.

Q couldn/'t replace the George W. Bush line in the show.

Q in the Regions/community?

 Miss Saigon helicopter placement in the show?

Upcoming shows announced:
The Donmar Warehouse production of Hamlet, with Jude Law, opens October 6;

Oleanna (David Mamet), with Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, from the Mark Taper Forum, will open October 11;

The Kennedy Center production of Ragtime is indeed opening November 15;

How would we improve Ragtime from Kennedy Center to it/'s Broadway incarnation? What do we feel about the casting? Is the production too large to make money?

Laura Linney will star in the New York premiere of David Margulies’s Time Stands Still, opening January 28.

Rock of Ages “broke the Guinness World Record for Largest Air Guitar Ensemble

The Off-Broadway production of Ruined extended again; it’s now closing September 6, and will have played 22 previews and 238 regular performances. Go see it for the first tim, or again!

John Lahr suing Elaine Stritch over At Liberty
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/130663

Karl Malden (at 97!) died.

Harve Presnell (75) died.

Neil Patrick Harris will probably host the Emmy Awards.

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Matthew Murray: Chief New York Theater Critic for TalkinBroadway.com and columnist at BroadwayStars.com

Peter Filichia (Rashad): 3 times a week at Theatermania.com and the Star Leger

Michael is a journalist and photographer who's work can be seen on BroadwayStars.com After Elton.com and Followspotphotography.com.

Topics:

-- Overview of the Tony Nominations

-- Who was left out?

-- Who was left IN!

-- Thoughts on The Seagull

-- Carla Gugino, Desire Under the Elms

-- Will Dolly perform at Tonys?

-- Who should be the Tony host?


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This week's episode includes conversations about:

-- Drama Desk Nominations

-- How Billy Elliott nominations are being handled

-- AP On Broadway: The Boys of Billy Elliott

http://podcast.ap.org/data/audio/20090107/20090107045132-950.mp3

-- White Christmas and its nomination

Guests: husband and wife falonted team -- Andrew Asnes, Broadway producer and Anastasia Barzee, Broadway, television and film actress

-- Anastasia will be on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)

-- Anastasia also just booked feature film Fair Game with Academy Award® winner Sean Penn and directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith).

-- TheaterAdvisor.com

-- Spring Awakening and Rock of Ages, the movies?

-- Impressionism strategy?

-- Rock of Ages running costs?

-- Twittering during a show?

-- Drama Desk representative of all theater or just Broadway?

-- Peter's 5 favorite off-Broadway shows that did not go to Broadway

-- Barbara Cook - iSondheim - Michael Riedel

-- Cook v. Stritch?

-- Stritch @ Paper Mill

-- Desire Under the Elms review

-- "But, other than that, it was great."

-- The Norman Conquests review

-- The Philanthropist review

-- Matthew Broderick

-- Bea Arthur

-- Marilyn Cooper

Music clips in the show:

-- In: Bosom Buddies from Mame

-- Middle: The Buddy System from City of Angels

-- Out: As Far as I'm Concerned from Two by Two

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