In came to the Great White Way in 1965 and became a classic. Now it’s come to Brooklyn.
To close out their 41st Season, the Gallery Players, have put on one of Broadway’s most beloved Classics, THE MAN OF LA MANCHA, and once again they have done commendable things to such a well known show.
MAN OF LA MANCHA, based on the Du Pont Show of the Month original dram, I, DON QUIXOTE, is the story of Miguel de Cervantes’ imprisonment by the inquisition. With a book by Dale Wasserman the audience is thrown into the Spanish Inquisition and a jail cell with the author of one of literature’s most loved fools.
Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen have lent their magical touch to the poetry of Nikki Giovanni, one of Oprah Winfrey’s “25 Living Legends”. They have compiled 13 of her poems into a new music CD entitled “One Ounce of Truth”. Here, they perform “The Moon Shines Down” live in Broadway Bullet’s studios. You can also hear an interview and more live performances in the Broadway Bullet audio podcast, Vol. 209.
SO HERE WE GO for another week of Broadway news and noteworthy people. We’ve got a lot of information in this podcast, so let’s get it started.
This week we have two-time Tony Award Nominee Danny Burstein in the studio to talk about SOUTH PACIFIC and his career. We hear a couple of songs from Mr Burstein. We also have XANADU star Kerry Butler in to give us a little preview of her new cd, and we also hear a couple of tracks from it. Capathia Jenkins drops in to chat about her new cabaret at Joe’s Pub and gives us a live in-studio performance. We have the director and star of CINEPHILIA, the newest production from PossEble Theater Company. The director of THE GREAT AMERICAN ALL-STAR TRAVELING WAR MACHINE comes in to tell us about the new performance piece from the Irondale Theater Project. And we have two of the four women from Coyote Rep’s four one woman shows, The Lone Wolf Series, to talk about creating a one woman show.
We’ve also got all the news you want in the Callboard and Top of the Trades. Unfortunately this week Marty had to sit the show out, but he’ll be back again soon, we promise.
So what are we waiting for, let’s get this show on the road. Hop on board the Broadway Bullet for all destinations on, off and off-off Broadway.
We’ve got some great stuff for you this week, and we’re busting at the seams with new content and a brand new design. So let’s get this show on the road, shall we?
First off we have two of the actors from the new production at Playwright’s Realm, SUBSTITUTION, Brandon Espinoza and Shanna Dowdeswell. Also the guys who brought you TITLE OF SHOW and are bringing it to Broadway, Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen come by. We also get to hear a couple of songs from the show as well. From the double feature CROTHER SPYGLASS and THE RESISTABLE RISE OF FAITLINDA PALOKA, playwrights Timothy Dowd and Marcy Wallabout drop in. And two young performers from the new musical DON’T WORRY, BE JEWISH, Nathan Kay and Jasmine Petrarli, come in with a couple of songs from that show as well.
We’ve also got all the news you love as well as Marty Cooper, who’s not quite On The Positive Side this week..
We’ve got a new design and a great big whopper of a show for you this week, so let’s get started.
Also stay tuned because the Tony Nominations are out on Tuesday, and we’ll be covering the nominations and the press conference on Wednesday. So we’ll have a special all Tony episode coming out next Thursday if all goes well.
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