by Mike Haber | Sep 27, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
BREAKING NEWS: Despite not having taken home any
Tony Awards last night, Jeremy O. Harris’ powerful 12 time nominated
Slave Play has gotten an unforgettable overwhelming response from our Theater community. It has just been announced that the play itself will be returning to Broadway this Fall for a limited 8 WEEK ENGAGEMENT!!!!
Under the direction of Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara, SLAVE PLAY will return for a strictly limited engagement at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre (following the 52nd street house current hit
Pass Over). Previews will begin on November 23rd, 2021, the official Opening Night is set for December 2nd, 2021, and will through January 23rd, 2022.
Majority of the play’s casting is still expecting to be the same as it was consisting of its original stars….
Tony nominee Ato Blankson-Wood as “Gary”,
Tony nominee Chalia La Tour as “Teá”,
Irene Sofia Lucio as “Patricia”,
Tony nominee Annie McNamara as “Alana”
and
Paul Alexander Nolan as “Jim”.
No word has been said though if either Tony nominee Joaquina Kalukango or
Teyonah Parris will be continuing with the play as “Kaneisha”.
For those who may not know, SLAVE PLAY tells the story of 3 interracial couples undergoing ASPT (Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy) due to their black partners no longer feel sexual attraction to their white partners. The title refers both to the history of slavery in the United States and to sexual slavery role-play. Told in 3 acts, it deals with the themes of race, sex, power relations, trauma, and interracial relationships.
SLAVE PLAY was first concieved by Jeremy O. Harris while studying at the
Yale School of Drama. He wrote it during his freshmen year of studies back in 2016. It would be performed at the school part of the campus’ Langston Hughes Festival in the Fall of 2017.
With the unforgettable response, the play itself would get noticed and get an Off-Broadway run. The show continued to get developed, expanded, and be performed at the
New York Theatre Workshop in the Fall of 2018. The critics praised the production, it was extended for an additional month and a half.
The Off Broadway run was nominated for various Awards including
The Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award. However, it lost all its categories. It did however win a Drama Desk Award for OUTSTANDING FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY.
With the incredible response of the Off Broadway run, SLAVE PLAY would make its way to midtown and ON Broadway. It transferred to the Golden Theatre the following Fall of 2019 where it ran for a limited engagement of 29 previews and 121 regular performances.
It was nominated for various Awards… of course 12
Tony Awards including BEST PLAY but lost all the categories. The news of the play loosing within the last few hours caused a lot of anger and frustration within the Theater community….. especially how powerful it is.
After the show’s Broadway return, SLAVE PLAY will make its over to the West Coast debuting in LA at the Mark Taper Forum.
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
What a night!!! Congratulations to all the winners for The 74th Annual
Tony Awards!!! What an unforgettable celebration it was to celebrate what we lost for 18 1/2 months and making up for all that lost time. So many standout winners tonight…
Moulin Rouge – 10 including BEST MUSICAL and BEST ACTOR (for Aaron Tviet),
A Soldier’s Play – 2 including BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY and BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY (for David Alan Grier)
Tina – 1 for BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL (for Adrienne Warren)
Bravo to all the hard working shows that won plus the nominees that lost.
So ready for next season coming up!!
In addition, we at New York Broadway Tours cannot wait coming to to start relaunching our Walking Tours as we pass down more Broadway stories with you. BOOK YOUR TICKETS and JOIN US for our Walking Tours starting next month!! See you back on the streets coming up.
Most importantly, GET VACCINATED and GO SEE A BROADWAY SHOW!!!
All of the Winners from the 2020 Tony Awards! (broadwayworld.com)
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Roll up the Red Carpet because BROADWAY’S BACK!!! Everything is gearing underway as the stars, creators, nominees, and performers are slowly starting to prepare to arrive for long awaited 74th Annual
Tony Awards. Which of Broadway’s best are you so excited to see?!!! Who is excited?!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
So much anticipation in the air for Broadway’s biggest night this evening…. The 74th Annual
Tony Awards. Earlier today,
CBS Sunday Morning did a full set of featurettes on 3 of the hottest tickets back on Broadway this Fall. Check out below to see the behind the stories of….
Tina: The
Tina Turner Musical featuring its Tony nominated leading lady Adrienne Warren. It features an interview with Warren talking about the process transforming into the iconic QUEEN OF ROCK N’ ROLL and her life within this past year of the pandemic. TINA reopens on Broadway beginning October 8th, 2021 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Warren will stay with the show through October 31st, 2021,
David Byrne’s American Utopia which will be receiving a Special Tony Award tonight. The legendary rock singer talks about the experience of doing the show plus discussing importance of collective rituals, such as concerts, which have been denied us during the pandemic lockdown, and how their return is truly the greatest medicine. The show is currently playing a limited Encore engagement at Broadway’s St. James Theatre through March 6th, 2020
a sneak peak of the long awaited new musical
Diana. It features interviews with the show’s head Tony winning creative team (consisting of director Tony winner Christopher Ashley, composer
David Bryan, Joe DiPietro, and more) and its leading lady Jeanna de Waal. The show was abruptly shutdown after only a week and a half of previews. But it’s set to return this Fall. Previews resume November 2nd, 2021 and will finally reach its official Opening at the Longacre Theatre on November 17th, 2021. Most importantly starting this Friday, the filmed proshot of DIANA will be available to watch on
Netflix.
So happy to be celebrating the return of Live Theater!!!
How amazing was all that?!!!
VIDEOS: Go Inside the Making of DIANA, Adrienne Warren Talks TINA, and More on CBS SUNDAY MORNING (broadwayworld.com)
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Antoinette (Tony) Awards, Blog, Broadway, News, Shows
Time is getting closer to Broadway’s Biggest Night this evening….. The 74th Annual
Tony Awards. Truly gonna be the ultimate party of celebrating the community we love and making up for all that lost time.
Little throwback to another one of our personal favorite TV commercials from
Visa sponsoring the Tonys. In promotion for the 2000 Tony Awards, this 30 second commercial is truly a Broadway showstopper. Here is Tony Award winning legend
Bebe Neuwirth as “Velma Kelly” in the long running revival of
Chicago and a cast of some notable Broadway Characters from shows that were running on the Great Bright Way at the time performing a Broadway Flash mob themed edition of George and Ira Gershwin’s legendary standard I GOT RHYTHM before finding themselves at the Box Office to enter the Tonys. Notable productions represented in the commercial included…
the original Broadway production of
Cats,
and more.
We at New York Broadway Tours are so happy to celebrating this community we love’s triumphant comeback.
The 2020 / 2021 Tony Awards will be coming to you live from Broadway’s legendary Winter Garden Theatre tonight. 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 plus the revealment of the winning shows for BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY, BEST PLAY, and BEST MUSICAL.
PLEASE SHARE AND RETWEET THIS COMMERCIAL!!!
WE NEED A LITTLE BROADWAY RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE!!
Who remembers this commercial?
Who is excited for the the Tonys tonight?
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
With Broadway back, auditions are getting back in full swing. For many aspiring performers, it’s their dream to be in a show 8 times a week on the Great Bright Way. Even for many Broadway veterans, lot of them are anxious to head back to work and perform LIVE again including Tony and Emmy winner
Kristin Chenoweth.
Check out this SWANKIFIED and hilarious set of photos as the 4’11 versatile powerhouse she knocks on the door to various Theaters in attempts to be on stage again.
First stop is her old stomping grounds at the Gershwin Theatre for
WICKED. Not for “Glinda” but another possible role…
Her next step was attempting to be part of THE ROCK at the Award winning groundbreaking 9/11 musical
Come From Away to play “Captain Beverley Bass” (the first female pilot for
American Airlines). There’s totally nothing between HER AND THE SKY until current leading lady Olivier Award nominee (and fellow
Wicked alumni)
Rachel Tucker answers the Gerald Schonefeld Theatre stage door.
Finally, the 4’11 bundle of dynamite attempts to go WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW trying to take over the titular role in the groundbreaking Award winning smash hit
Dear Evan Hansen. Will she BE FOUND by the stage doorman at the Music Box Theatre?!!
Don’t Give Up Kristin!! Don’t give up anyone!!
How funny was that?!!!
