The largest “award” this previous week was for $83.3 million, however, for the top of January, there was a stunning quantity of stories about entertainment-related awards — together with winners (of Obies, SDCF’s director and choreographer award, On-line Movie Critics), nominees (of Oscars), and timelines for Spring awards (Outer Critics Circle, Chita Rivera Awards.)
The Week in New York Theater Critiques
Days of Wine and Roses
Brian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara return to Broadway for the primary time collectively since 2002 to painting a pair who fall in love with alcohol as a lot as with each other on this musical adaptation of a darkish story that was first a tv drama within the Fifties, then a film….It’s thrilling to see them again collectively for his sixteenth and her thirteenth position on Broadway. The 2 stars carry “Days of Wine and Roses,” their beautiful voices bringing out the brilliance of Adam Guettel’s jazz-inflected, usually operatic rating, and investing the characters’ rocky emotional journeys with a credibility that few different performers might match. They justify bringing to Broadway an adaptation of a narrative that feels dated. Full Overview
As soon as Upon A Mattress Encores
Sutton Foster, attempting her hand at goofy bodily comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comedian patter paying homage to early Barbra Streisand, is an plain draw within the Encores! revival of this oft-produced musical comedy, backed by a starry forged of a few of New York’s most dependable stage actors. This contains two of probably the most persistently hilarious, Michael Urie as a hapless prince and Harriet Harris as his bullying mom the Queen.” Full Overview
Aristotle Thinks Once more
“This hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes… makes use of the tales advised by the eminent artists of Historical Greece to touch upon violence and household and love in trendy occasions – that are expressed by some eminent artists of the American Avant-Garde.” Full Overview
The Week in New York Theater Information
Awards
The 67th annual Obies had been introduced in a TV particular, somewhat than in an in-person ceremony as has been finished beforehand. The reasoning: As an alternative of paying for the price of the ceremony, the successful artists will probably be given “grants” of from $1,000 to $5,000.
Stage Administrators and Choreographers Society’s Joe A. Callaway Awards will go to Pam MacKinnon for excellence in directing for Downstate (Playwrights Horizons) and Orlando Pabotoy for excellence in choreography for The Half-God of Rainfall (New York Theatre Workshop). The Callaway Awards will probably be introduced in a digital ceremony in Spring 2024.
previous recipients of the award, which started in 1989.
The 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, honoring Broadway and Off-Broadway, timeline introduced: Nominations will probably be introduced through press launch through the afternoon of Monday, April 22. The winners of the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards will probably be introduced on Monday, Could 13, adopted by an awards ceremony held on Thursday, Could 23, 2024.
2024 Chita Rivera Awards, honoring dance and choreography, timeline introduced: nominations April 26 the “Meet the Nominees” press occasion, Could 6. Awards, Monday, Could 20 on the NYU Skirball Middle for the Performing Arts
Oscar Nominations 2024: Oppenheimer leads with 13.
Broadway on the Oscars Quiz, 2024
27th annual On-line Movie Critics Awards: 8 wins for Oppenheimer, 4 for Barbie, 3 for Holdovers
BOOP! The Musical, a present impressed by the Nineteen Thirties cartoon character Betty Boop which had a run in Chicago late final yr, is aiming for Broadway in Spring 2025.
Full forged for Lempicka, the brand new musical about artist Tamara de Lempicka, opening on Broadway April 14. The principal forged, as beforehand introduced, will probably be led by main girl, Eden Espinosa as Tamara de Lempicka, and Amber Iman as Rafaela, Andrew Samonsky as Tadeusz Lempicki, George Abud as Marinetti, Natalie Pleasure Johnson as Suzy Solidor, Zoe Glick as Kizette, Nathaniel Stampley because the Baron, and Beth Leavel because the Baroness.
Finishing the forged: Mariand Torres, Alex Aquilino, Lauren Blackman, Stephen Brower, Kyle Brown, Holli’ Conway, Abby Matsusaka, Jimin Moon, Khori Michelle Petinaud, Ximone Rose, Nicholas Ward, Veronica Fiaoni, Michael Milkanin, Mary Web page Nance, and Julio Rey.
“Alan Cumming Is Not Appearing His Age,” will seem one evening solely, March 11, at Studio 54 (the place Cumming most not too long ago appeared on Broadway in “Cabaret”) n night of story blended with track about getting older.
Colman Domingo, newly nominated for an Oscar for his position as civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in “Rustin,” will probably be starring because the legendary singer Nat King Cole in a film musical from a script he co-wrote,in response to Selection. Whereas Domingo hasn’t carried out on Broadway since 2010, when he was nominated for a Tony for his position in The Scottsboro Boys, he’s stored his hand within the theater, writing the libretto for “Summer time,” about Donna Summer time, and final yr producing “Fats Ham,” for which he was nominated for an additional Tony.
Broadway in April is Too Rattling Crowded by Adam Feldman, theater critic of Time Out New York:
“13 Broadway exhibits…are at present slated to open in April. That represents a 3rd of the 39 new productions in your complete 2023–24 Broadway season… However what’s actually bananas this yr is how densely the openings are packed: 11 of these 13 exhibits will open within the final 9 days of the season, jockeying for consideration in a mad sprint to the end line between April 17 and April 25….It’s arduous for anybody to maintain up with so many choices, and that drawback is exacerbated by the end-of-season stampede. Exhibits that may get a good quantity of traction at different occasions of the yr are positive to get trampled.”
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