On the seventy fifth annual Primetime Emmy Awards final evening, Elton John turned the nineteenth individual to realize an EGOT — winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — when he received for “Elton John Dwell: Farewell From Dodger Stadium” on Disney+.
(Right here’s greater than you wish to find out about EGOT, the listing of 19 individuals who have achieved it, its historical past, and its that means.)
John received his Tony for the rating of “Aida” in 2000. If he’s higher recognized for his profession as singer-songwriter/ recording artist (he’s received 5 Grammys), John can be one thing of a bulwark of Broadway, with eleven Broadway credit, and a complete of 4 Tony nominations, together with as a producer of the play “Subsequent Fall” and as composer of the scores of “Billy Elliott” and “The Lion King” (He received one in every of his Oscars for “Can You Really feel the Love Tonight” from the unique film “The Lion King,” which can be within the Broadway present.)
The opposite Broadway veterans who received Emmys final evening:
Jennifer Coolidge, who received supporting actress in a drama for “White Lotus,” carried out on Broadway in The Ladies (2001) and as 4 totally different characters within the short-lived “Elling” (2010).
Kieran Culkin, who received greatest actor in a drama for “Succession” (HBO) appeared on Broadway in 2015 in “This Is Our Youth”
RuPaul, who received his fifth Emmy within the class for Actuality Competitors Program for “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (MTV), now in its fifteenth season, was a producer for each “Ain’t No Mo” and “A Unusual Loop.” A part of his acceptance speech: “If a drag queen needs to learn you a narrative at a library, take heed to her as a result of data is energy and if somebody tries to limit your entry to energy, they’re making an attempt to scare you, so take heed to a drag queen.”
Full listing of Primetime Emmy winners
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The Week in Opinions
Prayer for the French Republic
Within the two years since I first noticed Joshua Harmon’s bold, busy play about antisemitism, wherein 5 generations of a single French household in two totally different eras concern for his or her security, the topic has turn into much more well timed, with a stunning rise in antisemitism in America….Inside the previous two years, there has additionally been an increase in New York productions that depict antisemitism…The larger urgency of the problems within the play most likely explains why it feels much more stirring, enhanced by some sturdy performers… However as well-constructed as most of the scenes are, there may be an excessive amount of happening; an excessive amount of the playwright is making an attempt to do. Full Evaluate
PhysFestNYC: Battle and Play, The Crone Chronicles,Clown Flex
I noticed three reveals that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed because the first-ever pageant in New York Metropolis to showcase bodily theater… Bodily theater doesn’t must characteristic clowning, judging from the pageant line-up: The 16 reveals introduced by some 100 theater artists appear to incorporate mime, dance, efficiency artwork, even puppetry however, sure, a lot of clown reveals (three of which occurred to coincide with my schedule.) This wide-ranging choice provoked some questions concerning the pageant organizers’ working definition of bodily theater: Can it embrace intensive dialogue? Should or not it’s executed by performers extremely educated in bodily motion? That the solutions to these questions appeared to be sure and no, respectively, didn’t hassle me. I used to be glad to encounter an surprising efficiency by Invoice Irwin, and never simply him. Full critiques
10 Imply Women Film Musical Opinions, from Meanest to Nicest
Finest and Worst Hollywood Film to Broadway Musical to Hollywood Musical?
“The Shade Purple” and “Imply Women,” have been each Hollywood motion pictures tailored from books…which have been then tailored into Broadway musicals, which have been roughly the premise for the newly launched film musicals, “The Shade Purple” and “Imply Women.”
These two are amongst ten “mental properties”which have taken related dizzying cultural journeys. Take the ballot: Which of those journeys was most profitable? Which least?
The Week in New York Theater Information
Right here We Are , the brand new musical from David Ives and Stephen Sondheim, will launch an unique forged recording someday in Spring 2024, primarily based on a recording made final week. The present is operating at The Shed by way of January 21.
Casting introduced for The Coronary heart of Rock and Roll, a musical utilizing the hits of Huey Lewis and the Information set to open on Broadway on April 22: Corey Cott (Newsies) and McKenzie Kurtz (Depraved) to staras Bobby and Cassandra.
Josh Breckenridge (Come From Away), F. Michael Haynie (Depraved), Zoe Jensen (Six), Tamika Lawrence (Caroline or Change), Raymond J. Lee (Sweeney Todd), John-Michael Lyles (A Unusual Loop), Orville Mendoza (Swept Away), Billy Harrigan Tighe (Pippin) and John Dossett (Depraved). Mike Baerga (Dangerous Cinderella), Tommy Bracco (Newsies), TyNia René Brandon (Some Like It Scorching), Olivia Cece (Moulin Rouge! The Musical), Taylor Marie Daniel (Pal Joey), Lindsay Joan (Kinky Boots), Ross Lekites (Parade), Robin Masella (Shucked), Kara Menendez (Ladies on Fireplace), Michael Olaribigbe (Elvis at North Shore Music Theatre), Kevin Pariseau (Little Store of Horrors), and Robert Pendilla (A Lovely Noise) spherical out the ensemble, with Joe Moeller (& Juliet), Jennifer Noble (Ghost The Musical), Fredric Rodriguez Odgaard (Moulin Rouge! The Musical), and Leah Learn (Rock of Ages) because the swings.
Roundabout publicizes its 2024-2025 season (the primary with its American Airways Theater being renamed The Todd Haimes Theater, after the Rounabout’s late longtime inventive director):
A jazz-inflected manufacturing of “The Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s Nineteenth-century comedian operetta, starring Ramin Karimloo and David Hyde Pierce.
The primary Broadway productions of two performs: “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s work a couple of group of Iranians making an attempt to be taught English, which received final yr’s Pulitzer Prize in drama, and “Yellow Face,” David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical play sparked by the controversy over the casting of a white performer as a Eurasian character within the unique manufacturing of “Miss Saigon,” which is able to star Daniel Dae Kim
Off-Broadway, it can produce “The Counter” by Meghan Kennedy, directed by David Cromer, and ‘Liberation” by Bess Wohl, directed by Whitney White.
Theater Weblog Roundup: Assessing 2023, Hoping and Fearing for 2024
Posts from Adam Szymkowicz, Scott Miller, Jan Simpson, Philip Boroff, Ken Davenport, George Hunka, Howard Sherman, Jeff Kyler, Lauren Halvorsen, Chris Peterson, Samuel Leiter, Kevin Daly, Brian Eugenio Herrera, Rev Stan and the HowlRound commons.
The seems again and glimpses ahead are full of great points – the rising Broadway ticket costs, the impact on Broadway of the brand new congestion pricing coverage, modifications in theatergoing demographics, the weird banning of performs. However there are additionally present-moment theatrical enthusiasms – which appears a transparent signal that theater, and even theater bloggers, will persist.
In Memoriam
Joyce Randolph, 99, the final of The Honeymooners, performed Trixie Norton on the favored Fifties tv collection. As Joyce Sirola, she made her Broadway debut as each the stage supervisor and a performer within the short-lived 1945 Gloria Swanson automobile, A Goose for the Gander.
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