Vineyard Theatre’s repertory THE LYCEUM PLAYS series kicks off with Previews of IS THIS A ROOM?!

Last night, Off Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre kicked off 1/2 shows part of its new ON BROADWAY Repertory series at the Lyceum Theatre now entitled THE LYCEUM PLAYS.
The first rotational play Tina Satter’s Is This A Room (led by Emily Davis) officially began its preview performances last night. This dark drama will have its official Opening Night on October 11th, 2021.
The other show which is Lucas Hnath’s one woman play Dana H. (led by Deirdre O’Connell) will be starting its previews on October 1st, 2021 and will open October 17th, 2021.
Both plays will play a rotating schedule for 17 weeks and set to close on January 16th, 2022.
Break a leg to the cast, crew, and creative team of IS THIS A ROOM on their first preview last night. Have a wonderful, happy, healthy, and safe run.
Can’t wait to celebrate DANA H. later this upcoming week.
Who is excited?!!
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BROADWAY THROWBACK: WHAT IS BROADWAY Poem VISA commercial

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So much excitement and happiness going on celebrating the triumphant comeback of our Broadway Theater scene all Fall long. The celebration truly will go into full swing tomorrow with the long awaited anticipation of the 2020-2021 edition of The Tony Awards. There seriously has been so much that we’ve missed about the community we call home in these past 18 1/2 months of being dark.
Little throwback to one of our personal favorite TV commercials from Visa sponsoring Broadway’s biggest night over the years. In promotion for the 2001 Tony Awards, this 60 second commercial was captured beautifully in black and white exploring the life of the Big Apple and our Theater backyard. There’s also a voiceover actor sharing a powerful poem on WHAT IS BROADWAY. If you listen very carefully, the words is the ultimate truth about this community we love near and dear.
We at New York Broadway Tours are so happy to celebrating this community we love’s triumphant comeback. At the same time, we are preparing to relaunch our Walking Tours later this year. We cannot wait to see all of you in person and share with you these exact words on our community that we love so much. It was a rough 18 1/2 months (and its still out there) but we’re still ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
WELCOME HOME BROADWAY!!!!
WE LOVE BROADWAY!!!
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be coming to you live from Broadway’s legendary Winter Garden Theatre tomorrow night. It all starts at 7pm EST with Audra McDonald hosting actual ceremony of Awards via Paramount+. Immediately at 9pm EST, transfer to the CBS telecast as Leslie Odom Jr. hosts the 2nd half entitled BROADWAY’S BACK which will be a full concert event.
PLEASE SHARE AND RETWEET THIS COMMERCIAL!!! We all need this reminder about Broadway.
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Who is excited for the the Tonys tomorrow night?

UP, CLOSE, & PERSONAL: Karen Olivo shares life lately since announcing departure from Tony nominated performance in MOULIN ROUGE

Karen Olivo wants something better than Broadway
Tony Award winner Karen Olivo has so much more wanting to fulfil vs. being THE SPARKLING DIAMOND 8 times a week. As previously mentioned earlier this year, the Rent, Brooklyn, In The Heights, and West Side Story star is no longer in the cast of the 14 time Tony nominated smash hit Moulin Rouge. The news was revealed back in April when Olivo (who now goes by She/They pronouns) expressed the frustration and anger the lack of people in the industry’s silence on the horrific, abusive, and tyrannical behavior of former show biz producer Scott Rudin.
However, Olivo has been making the move from Broadway star to being a strong political leader in helping fight for a brighter change within the industry. Acceptance, Diversity, and taking a stand against racism, prejudice, and unacceptable work behavior. Check out what Olivo has been doing since coming out with the news of departing MOULIN ROUGE.
Olivo’s last performance of MOULIN ROUGE was back in March 2020 at the time the show and all of Live Theater was abruptly shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of the show’s return last night, the role of “Satine” is now being played by Natalie Mendoza.
Thoughts?!!

Get your CAN CAN on!! Tony nominated MOULIN ROUGE takes historical Broadway Re-Opening Night bow back after 18 1/2 months!!

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Moulin Rouge!
COME WHAT MAY!! Last night, the 14 time Tony nominated smash hit Moulin Rouge reopened its SPECTACULAR, SPECTACULAR Broadway run. Check out these unforgettable photos of the cast taking their hard working, well deserved, and emotional first-night back bows after 18 1/2 months at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
It includes majority of the show’s original cast back including its Tony nominated leads Aaron Tviet and Danny Burstein. The show also welcomes its new SPARKLING DIAMOND herself original film dancer Natalie Mendoza.
MOULIN ROUGE will be performing tomorrow night during The Tony Awards. Cannot wait to watch their performance.
WELCOME BACK TO THE MOULIN ROUGE!!
How unbelievable is that?!!

Tony Awards to include several reunion performances including WICKED’s Chenoweth & Menzel and RAGTIME’s McDonald and Mitchell!!

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BREAKING NEWS: Tomorrow night’s celebration of Broadway’s biggest night is gonna have an unforgettable lineup of promising legendary reunion performances. It has just been announced that The 74th Annual Tony Awards will also include….
WICKED‘s original Tony winning witches themselves Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel will be reuniting LIVE on stage. You can expect them to sing the powerful 11:00 number from the hit Stephen Schwartz musical FOR GOOD,
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RAGTIME‘s original stars Tony winners Brian Stokes Mitchell and co-host this year Audra McDonald will reunite performing a duet from the show.
The WICKED and RAGTIME performances is part of the lineup of other reunion performances during the Tonys tomorrow. They join the previously announced reunion of the cast of Hairspray (featuring Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, Tony nominees Matthew Morrison and Kerry Butler, Chester Gregory, and the legendary Darlene Love). Most likely, they will be singing YOU CAN’T STOP THE BEAT.
Other performances will include….
Grammy Award winner John Legend as the cast of Ain’t Too Proud,
this year’s Special Tony recipient honorees consisting of the casts of David Byrne’s American Utopia and Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s Freestyle Love Supreme,
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this year’s 3 shows nominated for BEST MUSICAL this year consisting of Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge The Musical, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will be a 4 hour extravaganza from Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. It all begins at 7pm on Paramount+ with the actual ceremony hosted by Audra McDonald. From there, the Tonys will then continue onto CBS as Leslie Odom Jr. hosts the BROADWAY’S BACK concert portion of the show.
Who is excited?