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Virtual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction to Offer One-on-One Video Chats

Source: BroadwayDirect.com | Posted: September 16 2020 @ 3:14 pm

A slate of celebrated Broadway stars will be offering exclusive one-on-one video chats during the virtual version of the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction this Sunday, September 20, 2020. The special guests offering the video meet-and-greets are Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Lilli Cooper (Tootsie), Gavin Creel (Hello, Dolly!), Colin Donnell (Anything Goes, TV’s “Arrow”),Andrew Barth…

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Odds & Ends: A Return for Dana H. Among Vineyard Theatre's Season Announcements

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 16 2020 @ 2:43 pm

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed recently.

Vineyard Theatre Announces 2020-2021 Season
The Vineyard Theatre has announced its upcoming season, which includes digital and outdoor productions, as well as the reopening of the downtown venue when safe to do so with the return of Dana H. by Lucas Hnath and the world premieres of This Land Was Made by Tori Sampson and Sandra by David Cale. The season will officially kick off on September 23 with Tony winner Bill Irwin's Busking Project, an in-person, outdoor, socially distanced live performance. The digital Lessons In Survival, conceived by Marin Ireland, Peter Mark Kendall, Tyler Thomas and Reggie D. White, will begin on October 6. The show features actors channeling historic conversations, interviews and speeches, listening to original broadcasts on an in-ear feed and speaking exactly what they hear to give old words new meaning. The Vineyard has also commissioned five artists—Ngozi Anyanwu, Kirsten Childs, Jared Mezzocchi, Polly Pen and Madeline Sayet—to create new digital or alternative theater works.

Get a Glimpse at Ashley Park in Emily in Paris
As previously announced, Tony nominee Ashley Park is set for Emily in Paris, the new Netflix series …

Director Kenny Ortega Says He Would Love to Bring Hocus Pocus to Broadway

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 16 2020 @ 2:14 pm

Kenny Ortega says he would love to bring Hocus Pocus to Broadway. The 1993 Disney movie, which Ortega directed and choreographed, starred Tony winner Bette Midler, Plaza Suite-bound star Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the witchy Sanderson Sisters.

“I’d love to do Hocus Pocus on Broadway. Perhaps Thomas Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatrical Group, would give me a call, and we could talk about it,” Ortega told Forbes. “He’s a great man, and he’s done an incredible amount of amazing theater work with the Disney company. They put out High School Musical, not as a Broadway production, but toured it all over very successfully on ice and in theaters across America. I mean, look at the success of Newsies, which won Tony Awards for Alan Menken as well as for the choreography. I think a Hocus Pocus musical would be great fun, really great fun.”

Theater fans have previously revealed their dream cast for a stage version of the movie. Watch the trailer below!

Broadway.com #LiveatFive: Home Edition with Margo Seibert

Source: Broadway.com | Posted: September 16 2020 @ 1:49 pm

Margo Seibert stops by #LiveatFive to chat about her new EP, Influence | Searcher, and more! 

How I Directed A Play From 6,000 Miles Away

Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: September 16 2020 @ 1:04 pm

Lindsay Posner writes about how, stuck in London thanks to pandemic travel restrictions, he fulfilled his contract to direct Twelve Angry Men in Tokyo, thanks to Zoom and an ace translator and assistant director. – The Guardian