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So sweet. I love when flying monkeys really “get” each other.
After the Christmas Day performance of WICKED on Broadway, two of the show’s flying monkeys got engagned.
Daniel Robinson proposed to fellow flying monkey, Joshua Green on stage and in costume at the Gershwin Theatre.
With the cast posed for a holiday photo after the curtain went down, Robinson pulled Green in front of everyone to ask for his hand in marriage.
Very sweet moment. And did I mention they’re easy on the eyes?
Stars from Broadway’s Hamilton, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Spring Awakening, Finding Neverland and School of Rock – The Musical share a special holiday message from Broadway Cares.
Alex Boniello from Spring Awakening (on guitar), Carolee Carmello from Finding Neverland, Gavin Creel from The Book of Mormon, Nikki Renée Daniels from The Book of Mormon, Kara Lindsay from Wicked, Dante Melucci from School of Rock – The Musical (on djembe), Leslie Odom Jr. from Hamilton.
I’m happy to admit I’ve known Carolee and Leslie for years 🙂
As regular readers of The Randy Report know I was a Broadway actor for many years and was a part of the Broadway community when Broadway Cares was born. It is always my first charity of choice. If you have any charity dollars to donate this holiday season, please know your money would go to great use if you were to donate.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is one of the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the American theatre community, since 1988 BC/EFA has raised more than $285 million for essential services for people with AIDS and other critical illnesses across the United States.
A big Broadway hit in 1980, Sugar Babies was just before my time in New York City. I never saw the show, and it’s never done in regional theaters because it was really a a showcase specifically built for Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller.
(I understand a national tour of the show went out starring Robert Morse and Carol Channing, and did not fair well).
Watching this, I see the appeal. Rooney, forever a goofball, is right there in step with Annie – who always looked fine.
Darn. Somehow, I missed this airing on Thanksgiving Day, but plan on finding OnDemand somewhere.
Via OUT:
Broadway at the White House follows deserving high school students who were chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend an all-day symposium on careers in theater that recently took place at the White House. The TV event also features Whoopi Goldberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gloria Estefan, Christian Borle, Cicely Tyson, Stephen Schwartz, and other current Broadway performers.
Here’s the promo video below, and there’s more over at TLC’s website.
Ok, this is pretty brilliant.
I’m sure if you are a fan of music theater, you know and adore Liz Callaway already.
But what happens when you forget the lyrics to the song you’re singing live? And it’s Sondheim? I mean, it’s very possible it’s gonna happen.
Watch this. Just watch. Then share 🙂
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Billy Porter’s final bow as Lola. We will always hold him in our hearts! ✨
Posted by Kinky Boots on Broadway on Friday, November 20, 2015
Regular readers of The Randy Report will remember when I interviewed Billy Porter (who I’ve known for over 20 years) for The Candi & Randy Show back in the summer of 2012 when I was choreographing a production of Sweet Charity in Oklahoma and Billy was appearing as our “Daddy Brubeck.”
Billy had just finished the first workshop of Kinky Boots and was headed to Chicago for the out-of-town tryout. He knew then the possibility that was ahead.
You can listen to the interview below.
Congrats Billy on a triumphant run! xoxo
After The Sound of Music Live and Peter Pan Live, NBC “eases down the road” to Oz with a new live production of the 1970s hit musical, The Wiz Live!.
Starring Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Common, Ne-Yo, David Alan Grier, Elijah Kelley, Stephanie Mills, Amber Riley, Uzo Aduba and Shanice Williams as Dorothy.
Airs December 3rd.
On last night’s 60 Minutes on CBS, Charlie Rose went behind the curtain to report on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new original Broadway musical Hamilton, far and away the most acclaimed new show of the year.
Watch the feature in full below, along with ’60 Minutes Overtime’ segments which give viewers a backstage tour of the Richard Rodgers Theatere and go behind-the-scenes of the making of the Hamilton cast recording.
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First teaser for NBC’s The Wiz Live!, starring Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Shanice Williams, David Alan Grier, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Common and more,
Nice to see the network swing into some diversity here with it’s third holiday musical presentation after The Sound of Music and Peter Pan.
Loving the costume design.
Thursday, December 3 at 8/7c on NBC.
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Check out George Takei and Lea Salonga in ALLEGIANCEGeorge Takei, Lea Salonga & Telly Leung pledge ALLEGIANCE to Broadway!Posted by Broadway.com on Thursday, November 5, 2015
Directed by my friend Stafford Arima and starring George Takei in his Broadway debut, alongside Lea Salonga and Telly Leung.