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

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

    (To listen to the show, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the radio logo)

    Guests:
    Peter Filichia
    Michael Portantiere

    Topics:

    Wishful Drinking

    Carrie Fisher

    Irene (her first Broadway show)

    Censored Scenes From King Kong (at the 22 Steps Theater)

    Hamlet

    Jude Law

    There was a very good production of Hamlet in NJ last month, at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, (in Madison NJ)

    Hamlet in Central Park (2008)

    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

    Tony Roberts back in The Royal Family

    The Harris Girls:
    Rosemary Harris
    Julie Harris
    Barbara Harris

    Rosemary Harris in A Streetcar Named Desire (1973)

    Uta Hagen in Charlotte

    New York Musical Theatre Festival

    My Scary Girl
    Book and Lyrics by Kyoung-Ae Kang
    Music by Will Aronson
    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

    The Cure
    Two friends are offered immortality by the last surviving vampires
    Story and Songs by Mark Weiser

    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

    David Saint, Artistic Director

    New Brunswick, NJ is a great theater town

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    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

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

    Contact Us:
    james@broadwayradio.com
    646-873-7695 voicemail

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