Weekly News Round-Up

Happenings in the world of Filmed Live Musicals this week: 

• The 76th Annual Tony Awards 
• Sweeney Todd back on BroadwayHD
• RIDE: A New Musical cast album now streaming 
• Last chance to catch Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best on PBS. 
• The top 10 most produced high school plays and musicals 
• Clips from new musicals Some Like it Hot, New York New York, and Hells Kitchen
• Upcoming filmed live musicals, including Waitress at the Tribeca Film Festival!
  

Tony Tony Tony!
The 76th Annual Tony Awards will be livestreamed from the United Palace in Washington Heights, the first time the awards have been held at the gorgeous “Byzantine-Romanesque-Indo-Hindu-Sino-Moorish-Persian-Eclectic-Rococo-Deco” venue.

The ceremony will be hosted by Ariana DeBose (Hamilton, Company) and feature performances from nominated productions Camelot, Into The Woods, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, Parade, Shucked, Some Like It Hot and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The night will also include performances from Joaquina Kalukango (2022 Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical), A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, Funny Girl, and a special number for the Tony Award for the 2023 Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre recipients, Joel Grey and John Kander.

• The Tony Awards Act One (6:30 - 8pm EDT): pre-show hosted by Julianne Hough and Skylar Astin. Watch on Pluto TV (free, no subscription or registration required).
• 76th Annual Tony Awards (8pm EDT): Watch on CBS or Paramount Plus (premium subscribers only).

For viewing outside of the US, check local listings or purchase a VPN (this link will give you and Filmed Live Musicals 30 days free on ExpressVPN).

My Old Friends: Sweeney Todd back on BroadwayHD
The original Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, filmed live in Los Angeles starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn, is once again available to stream on BroadwayHD (US only)!

​Ride: A New Musical Cast Album Out Now!
The cast album of the gorgeous new two-hander musical about Annie Londonderry, the first woman to cycle around the world, is now available to stream.

Watch the world premier on Broadway on Demand.

​Listen to composers Freya Catrin Smith and Jack Williams share the story behind the show, the Garrick Theatre workshop production, and the road to creating a fully fledged musical about an extraordinary woman on the Filmed Live Musicals podcast.

​Last Chance!
You have until 11.59pm EDT on June 9 to stream Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best on PBS. Filmed live at Lincoln Center, the concert is a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Features performances by André De Shields, Chita Rivera, Vanessa Williams and more. Available on demand via PBS. Learn what else is streaming this weekend in the calendar! 

The Top 10
The Educational Theatre Association has released its annual list of the 10 most produced plays and musicals of the 2022-23 season. I think it’s worth noting that every single musical in both the full-length and short musical categories is based on a movie or TV show, or has had a well-known movie adaptation.

Go Behind the Scenes of Some Like it Hot

This is the kind of promotional material I live for.

Multiple camera angles that give us a glimpse into a world we wouldn’t normally wouldn’t get to see as the average audience member, CHECK!

Stage manager calling cues, CHECK!

Glorious tap dancing and quick changes, CHECK!

This minute-and-a-half long clip makes me want to buy a ticket because I feel like I’ve been invited in to the show. This is what filming live theatre is all about. What do you think?

New York, New York

Kick off the weekend with some “Wine & Peaches” from New York New York.

Alicia Keys and Hells Kitchen

Watch 15-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys perform "Like You'll Never See Me Again," from from Hells Kitchen on Good Morning America. Opening at The Public Theater in the fall, Hells Kitchen is a new musical loosely based on Keys’ own life growing up in New York City (New Yooooork, concrete jungle where dreams a made of…) which will be directed by Michael Greif (RENT) and choreographed by Camille A. Brown (Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert).

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This week on the Filmed Live Musicals Calendar: 
Sugar, butter, film festival
Waitress, Sara Bareilles’ musical based on the film of the same name and filmed live on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Tony Tony Tony!
The 76th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from the United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights.

Soul Doctor
A new musical about the untold story of Shlomo Carlebach and Nina Simone will be screened in select cinemas.

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