“Some Like It Scorching” received greatest musical theater album at the 66th Grammy Awards, among the many 85 trophies handed out on-line within the afternoon, earlier than the 9 main Grammy classes had been spotlighted through the prime time tv broadcast, an occasion marked by the primary ever Grammys efficiency from Joni Mitchell at age 80, Billy Joel’s first new recorded tune (“Flip the Lights Again On”) in many years, a uncommon efficiency by Tracy Chapman duetting her “Quick Automotive” with Luke Combs, and Taylor Swift’s breaking of a document she had shared with Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, and Stevie Surprise, by profitable the fourth-ever Album of the Yr Grammy Award.
Full record of Grammy nominees and winners within the 94 classes
It’s true that Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel have some Broadway credit (The 2002 musical “Movin Out” was based mostly on Joel’s music, for which he received a Tony for Greatest Orchestrations), and Mitchell’s “further” songs and lyrics had been featured most lately in “Virtually Well-known”); there was additionally an arguably Broadway-adjacent efficiency of “Proud Mary” by Broadway veteran Fantasia Barrino in a tribute to Tina Turner.
However it’s bracing for Broadway lovers to revisit historical past, when “Greatest Authentic Forged Album (Broadway or TV)” was a significant class, considered one of solely twenty-eight on the first annual Grammy Awards in 1959, received by Meredith Willson and the forged of “The Music Man.” To present you a way of the larger weight of Broadway music in well-liked tradition then, Willson was subsequently the host of the second annual Grammy Awards, which was the primary to be televised; it featured each Ethel Merman and Shirley Maclaine selecting up Grammys in a tie for “Gypsy” and “Redhead” within the class renamed as “Greatest Broadway Present Album.” The title of the class has been modified eight instances since then, referred to as Greatest Musical Theater Album since 2012.
Broadway has had a larger presence in a number of the different awards thus far this 12 months, thus my Theater Quiz, Winter Awards Up The Wazoo Version
February 2024 New York Theater Openings
The Week in Critiques
Jonah
Jonah is good, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten – the type of boy you may want for a primary love should you had been Ana, a scholarship pupil at a boarding faculty. After he walks her to her dorm, she lifts her shirt over her head, flashing him.
The subsequent time they meet, he asks her why she did that.
“Did you might have an issue with it?” she replies.
“I—. No. Sure? I don’t know!—I’m simply attempting to determine it out.”
A few quarter of the best way by means of Rachel Bonds’ play “Jonah,” there’s a unusual blitz of sunshine, Jonah disappears, and what appeared such a charming coming-of-age comedy turns right into a drama that’s darkish and sophisticated — one which I spent the remainder of its 100-minute working time simply attempting to determine. Full Evaluation
What first involves thoughts once you consider “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
To Philip Gefter, it isn’t the game-changing play by Edward Albee, however Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton within the film, as Gefter makes clear in “Cocktails with George and Martha: Motion pictures, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? “(Bloomsbury, 359 pages), which devotes ten of its 13 chapters to the making of the film, and solely the primary three to the playwright and the play.
These three chapters are wealthy sufficient intimately, and revelation – or at the very least hypothesis — to intrigue most theater lovers. Full Evaluation
The Week in New York Theater Information
Roundabout Theater Firm formally renamed American Airways Theatre the Todd Haimes Theatre at a dedication ceremony final week. Haimes, who died final April, served as Roundabout’s inventive director and CEO.
Full casting for The Who’s Tommy, opening March 28: Haley Gustafson, Jeremiah Alsop, Ronnie S. Bowman Jr., Mike Cannon, Tyler James Eisenreich, Sheldon Henry, Afra Hines, Aliah James, David Paul Kidder, Tassy Kirbas, Lily Kren, Quinten Kusheba, Reese Levine, Brett Michael Lockley, Nathan Lucrezio, Alexandra Matteo, Mark Mitrano, Reagan Pender, Cecilia Ann Popp, Daniel Quadrino, Olive Ross-Kline, Jenna Nicole Schoen, Dee Tomasetta, and Andrew Tufano.
They be part of beforehand introduced Ali Louis Bourzgui as Tommy, Alison Luff as Mrs. Walker, Adam Jacobs as Captain Walker, John Ambrosino as Uncle Ernie, Bobby Conte as Cousin Kevin, and Christina Sajous as The Acid Queen, all reprising their roles from the run at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago this summer time.
Full casting for “Mary Jane”opening April 23: Becoming a member of Rachel McAdams shall be April Matthis (The Piano Lesson), Susan Pourfar (Tribes), Lily Santiago (“La Brea”) and Brenda Wehle (“The Gilded Age”).
Extra casting for The Nice Gatsby, opening April 25: Becoming a member of the beforehand introduced Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, “Smash”) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (Hadestown, Miss Saigon) as Daisy Buchanan, Noah J. Ricketts (“Fellow Vacationers”, Frozen) as Nick Carraway, Samantha Pauly (Six) as Jordan Baker, Sara Chase (“The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”) as Myrtle Wilson, John Zdrojeski (Good Night time Oscar) as Tom Buchanan, Paul Whitty (Come From Away, As soon as) as George Wilson, and Eric Anderson (Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Waitress) as Wolfsheim. Ricketts, Pauly, Chase, Zdrojeski, and Whitty reprise the roles they originated at Paper Mill Playhouse. Full casting shall be introduced at a later date.
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