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It's Monday, April 10th, and we are dancing our way into the week as we discuss MICHAEL MEDRANO'S new album LOVESEXDRUGS and how we think it is so great to see a new artist taking risks and gaining fame independently. Then over in Broadway land, we embrace ourselves for "The Lusty Month of May" and discuss Lincoln Center's 2023 revival of CAMELOT in detail. CAMELOT is currently playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and is starring Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo, and Jordan Donica. POP MUSIC DROP (BOP or FLOP) - Playlist updated here. If you liked this episode, don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and leave us a review. Share your thoughts with us on this episode below:On Instagram: @halfhourpodcastOn TikTok: @halfhourpodcastOn our website: www.twoworldsentertainmentllc.com
Triple threat Tony Award® nominee Tony Yazbeck joins the club's Assistant Programming Director, Kevin Ferguson, for a chat about his upcoming Feinstein's/54 Below show. Tony and Kevin talk about dancing with prima ballerina Megan Fairchild, life on and the future of Broadway, and why Tony's solo show at 54 Below will make you smile. Tony Award® nominee Tony Yazbeck has starred in ten Broadway shows, including On The Town, Gypsy, and Prince of Broadway, among may others. Next up, Tony stars as Cary Grant in the highly anticipated new Broadway musical from James Lapine and Tom Kitt, Flying Over Sunset, opening this fall at Lincoln Center Theatre's Vivian Beaumont Theatre. For tickets to Tony's show at Feinstein's/54 Below, visit https://54below.com/events/tony-yazbeck-3/ Watch Tony's sensational performance from On The Town to open the 2015 Tony Awards: https://youtu.be/ljo9h5f5Bl8 The Feinstein's/54 Below podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and Kevin Ferguson, and produced by Bailey Everett and Michael Allan Galvez, with support from the Feinstein's/54 Below marketing staff. Original artwork design by Philip Romano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS (Original Air Date: July 4, 2011) -Regional SoCal actors Victoria Strong and Peter Husmann, co-stars of 1776 The Musical at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA, celebrate Independence Day with Sterling & Stroili. The two musical theatre veterans (who portray history's John Adams and Abigail Adams) are interviewed about the uniqueness of the Tony Award winning musical and its setting in the beautiful 400 seat Glendale theatre in-the-round, now in its 64th year as the longest, continuously running theatre in the U.S. The Live Arts Calendar features reviews of War Horse on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York; and the west coast premiere of Twist at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Strong and Husmann are inducted into Sterling & Stroili's Hall of Shame by revealing their most embarrassing on stage moments. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)
FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS (Original Air Date: July 4, 2011) -Regional SoCal actors Victoria Strong and Peter Husmann, co-stars of 1776 The Musical at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA, celebrate Independence Day with Sterling & Stroili. The two musical theatre veterans (who portray history's John Adams and Abigail Adams) are interviewed about the uniqueness of the Tony Award winning musical and its setting in the beautiful 400 seat Glendale theatre in-the-round, now in its 64th year as the longest, continuously running theatre in the U.S. The Live Arts Calendar features reviews of War Horse on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York; and the west coast premiere of Twist at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Strong and Husmann are inducted into Sterling & Stroili's Hall of Shame by revealing their most embarrassing on stage moments. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)
Regional SoCal actors Victoria Strong and Peter Husmann, co-stars of 1776 The Musical at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA, celebrate Independence Day with Sterling & Stroili. The two musical theatre veterans (who portray history???s John Adams and Abigail Adams) are interviewed about the uniqueness of the Tony Award winning musical and its setting in the beautiful 400 seat Glendale theatre in-the-round, now in its 64th year as the longest, continuously running theatre in the U.S. The Live Arts Calendar features reviews of War Horse on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York; and the west coast premiere of Twist at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Strong and Husmann are inducted into Sterling & Stroili???s Hall of Shame by revealing their most embarrassing on stage moments. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)
The producing team of the 1986 Tony-nominated play "The House of Blue Leaves" - press representative Merle Debuskey, executive producer Bernard Gersten, playwright John Guare, advertising representative James Russek, and director Jerry Zaks - discuss how they came to work on this mid-1960's domestic comedy at Lincoln Center Theatre, first in the off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, then transferring to the much larger Vivian Beaumont Theatre which presented its own challenges, eventually moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway; the economics of producing, subscriber base, and ticket prices at a not-for-profit theater; finding key designers; casting sessions, working with strong actors, and maintaining quality performances in an extended run.
The producing team of the 1986 Tony-nominated play The House of Blue Leaves -- press representative Merle Debuskey, executive producer Bernard Gersten (whose tenure as Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater has scored them numerous Tony Awards including the recent revival of South Pacific, Coast of Utopia and Contact), playwright John Guare (Sweet Smell of Success and Tony Winner for the 1972 musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona), advertising representative James Russek, and director Jerry Zaks (Tony Award winner for Best Direction in 1986 for The House of Blue Leaves, 1989 for Lend Me a Tenor, 1991 for Six Degrees of Separation and 1992 for Guys and Dolls) -- discuss how they came to work on this mid-1960's domestic comedy at Lincoln Center Theatre, first in the off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, then transferring to the much larger Vivian Beaumont Theatre which presented its own challenges, eventually moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway; the economics of producing, subscriber base, and ticket prices at a not-for-profit theater; finding key designers; casting sessions, working with strong actors, and maintaining quality performances in an extended run.
Amy Irving talks about her experience seeing part two of "The Coast of Utopia" when it premiered in England, and her response when director Jack O'Brien asked her to play two roles in the trilogy's U.S. premiere; her homecoming to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where she spent her teenage years as her parents led the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center; her good fortune of working Arthur Miller on the premiere of "Broken Glass" and both acting with and being directed by Athol Fugard in his "The Road to Mecca"; and the experience of having a play, "Celadine", written expressly for her. Original air date – March 9, 2007.
Amy Irving talks about her experience seeing part two of "The Coast of Utopia" when it premiered in England, and her response when director Jack O'Brien asked her to play two roles in the trilogy's U.S. premiere; her homecoming to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where she spent her teenage years as her parents led the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center; her good fortune of working Arthur Miller on the premiere of "Broken Glass" and both acting with and being directed by Athol Fugard in his "The Road to Mecca"; and the experience of having a play, "Celadine", written expressly for her. Original air date – March 9, 2007.