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The Play That Goes Wrong heads to Broadway

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The Play That Goes Wrong

Mischief Theatre’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong is to open on Broadway next year.

It will run at the Lyceum Theatre from March 9, with an opening night on April 2, 2017.

The production is co-written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. The New York production will star the original West End cast, including the writing team and Nancy Zamit, Dave Hearn, Bryony Corrigan and Charlie Russell.

The Play That Goes Wrong is currently running in London at the Duchess Theatre, where it opened in September 2014. Mischief also has two other productions – Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, in the West End.

On Broadway, the show will be co-produced by JJ Abrams, best know for his television and film work, including Lost and Cloverfield.

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The Youngest Woman Conductor In Broadway

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The youngest woman conductor in Broadway

 

Madeline Smith, who recently conducted this summer’s epic Ragtime on Ellis Island concert in New York Harbor, makes her Broadway debut October 14 conducting the Broadway production of Waitress.

At age 24 she is believed to be the youngest woman to conduct in a Broadway pit. Smith has served as rehearsal pianist, music assistant, and copyist on the production.

”I am over the moon to take the stage with the wonderful cast and band of Waitress tonight,” she told Playbill.com. ”I’m so grateful to the mentors and colleagues who have been in my corner and shown me such generous support as a newcomer to this community.”

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‘Marvin’s Room,’ a Wise Comedy About Dying, Is Bound for Broadway

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MARVIN'S ROOM

 

“Marvin’s Room,” a comic play about a dying woman caring for a dying man, will be staged on Broadway for the first time next summer, more than a quarter-century after it was written.

The play, in which a woman with leukemia reaches out to an estranged sister in hopes of finding a bone marrow donor, ran Off Broadway in 1991, at Playwrights Horizons, and was adapted into a film in 1996, starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio.

“Marvin’s Room” was written by Scott W. McPherson, who died from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 33. The production will be directed by Anne Kauffman, in her Broadway debut.

How Will the Age of Attention Deficit Affect Our Art?

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We’re already seeing shorter running times on Broadway, as you may recall from this study we did.  That’s the most obvious repercussion from our new goldfish like brains.

But over the next ten years, we’ll see even greater changes to help satisfy what our new audience needs to get them to focus.  Here are some things that I think will change:

  • Shows will get even shorter.
    • 90 minutes will be the new two hours and twenty minutes.  Same amount of story-telling stuffed into a smaller box.
  • We’ll have more lighting cues.
    • Every time light changes, it’s like a little palette cleanser on the brain, forcing it to reset and start paying attention again.
  • Expect more sets and more spectacle.
    • The days of the “Drawing Room Drama” are coming to an end.  The next audience will need more stuff on the stage to keep them engaged.  And that stuff will have to do stuff.
  • Tech will be key.
    • Tech is practically a food group to the Pesky Whipper-Snapper set.  So the next gen?  They’re going to want it everywhere.
  • Classics will face challenges.
    • How will Death of a Salesman be told to the next gen?  What about Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, any of Shakespeare’s plays?  We’ll need some creative directors for shizzle.
  • Dialogue and direction will get quicker.
    • Expect more Mamet and Sorkin-styled plays in the future.

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What Movie Attendance Has To Do With Broadway Attendance

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I had a feeling this would be the case, but it’s nice to see the data prove it. It’s a great reminder to those people who say “the theater is dying” that they don’t know what the @#$% they’re talking about.  The theater has been around for over 2,500 years.  So if it’s dying, it’s going very very slowly . . . and will outlast just about everything else.  In fact, I believe that as more and more two dimensional, recorded and flat forms of entertainment pop up on your TV, your phone, your tablet . . . the live, in-your-face, “in the room where it happens” experience becomes more and more rare.  And when something is more rare it becomes more valuable.  And when something is more valuable, well, more people want it.

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