MT Shorts and Broadway Unlocked have announced its next original musical short film, HIGH SCHOOL ZOOMSICAL, starring Broadway’s Ryann Redmond Frozen, IfThen, Bring it On, Alan Wiggins Pretty Woman, Beautiful, The Lion King and Social Media Star Kay Brown IG’s Betches.
The latest installment of R&H Goes Pop! - At Home commemorates the 100th anniversary of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s first professional collaboration (1920’s Fly With Me), with Dyllón Burnside performing “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” from Pal Joey. The video will be available to stream above beginning at 1 PM.
Burnside was seen on Broadway as Anthony in Holler If Ya Hear Me. He plays Ricky in Ryan Murphy’s FX drama series Pose, which explores the ballroom culture of NYC in the late ’80s and early ’90s at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
R&H Goes Pop! – At Home (previously R&H Goes Live!) is a spin-off of R&H Goes Pop!, hosted by two-time Tony nominee Laura Osnes (Bonnie and Clyde, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella), featuring contemporary takes on the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalog.
WATCH: Syndee Winters Sings ‘Where or When’ on R&H Goes Pop! – At Home
Previous live editions have included Jelani Alladin and Christiani Pitts dueting on “The Lady Is a Tramp” from Rodgers and Hart’s Babes in Arms, Jeremy Jordan performing “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and Christy Altomare singing “A Cockeyed Optimist” from South Pacific.
Additional performances have included Alladin and Matt Doyle singing “We Kiss in a Shadow” from The King and I (the pair reunited virtually in June to perform live in quarantine), Katrina Lenk performing “Something Good,” and Ashley Park singing “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music.
Wicked star Jessica Vosk will host a panel on integrative health August 25 as part of the Centerstage With Healthcare Heroes series. She’ll be interviewing Alka Gupta, MD, co-founder and co-director of the Integrative Health and Wellbeing program at New York-Presbyterian, in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine, and Jackie Herback, LMSW, LMT.
The event begins at 5:30 PM ET on Playbill.com and its YouTube. Interviews will remain available following the live stream.
The live interview series pairs Broadway favorites like Vosk with physicians from WCM to explore the intersection of health, wellness, and theatre. The streams, presented by Playbill in partnership with WCM, allow audiences to interact with the performers and healthcare professionals via a virtual Q&A. Centerstage with Healthcare Heroes kicked off July 31 with Telly Leung, who spoke with three voice physicians from the Sean Parker Institute for the Voice on vocal care.
Weill Cornell Medicine is an academic medical community that is passionate about improving the health of communities both globally and locally through our innovative, collaborative approach to care. For over a hundred years, Weill Cornell Medicine has been providing care to New York families. With patient care at the forefront of their mission, Weill Cornell Medicine has over 40 locations around the city including Primary Care services and over 1,600 specialists caring for families in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. Recent expansions into Brooklyn have increased access to world-class care for the entire family: Brooklyn Heights practices offer everything from IVF, to pediatrics to ObGyn and much more. In light of recent events, Weill Cornell Medicine has also increased their use of Video Visits and continue to be at the forefront of modernizing remote access to care through their digital health services to ensure that all patients remain connected with their healthcare providers. For more about their services, visit WeillCornell.org
In line with current government advice to prevent the spread of COVID-19, performances ofHarry Potter and the Cursed Childat Melbourne’s Princess Theatre will be suspended for a further seven weeks.
James Lapine will release a new book about the creation of the musical Sunday in the Park with George.
1852 Broadway premiere of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, based on the novel about slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1920 The Bat, the hugely popular thriller by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, opens at the Morosco Theatre and goes on to run 867 performances.
1926 George Burns and Gracie Allen make their vaudeville bow at the Palace in New York.
1928 Birthday of actor Marian Seldes, who appears in nearly two dozen Broadway plays including Deathtrap, Equus, The Chalk Garden, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, and several plays by Edward Albee, including Tiny Alice and A Delicate Balance. Her performance as Julia in A Delicate Balance wins her the 1967 Tony Award as Best Feature Actress in a Play. In 2010, she is honored with a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
1937 Eva Le Gallienne is Hamlet in a new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, opening at the Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts. Also in the cast is future stage legend Uta Hagen, making her professional debut as Ophelia.
1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning stage and screen writer Sidney Howard is killed in a tractor accident. Howard, approximately 48 years old, won the Pulitzer for his 1924 play, They Knew What They Wanted. That play would later be made into the Frank Loesser musical, The Most Happy Fella. Just before his death, Howard had completed the screenplay for the film, Gone With the Wind.
1996 Landmark New York theatre company Circle in the Square declares bankruptcy and goes through years of legal wrangling before reopening in 1999 with the rediscovered, and critically lauded, Tennessee Williams drama, Not About Nightingales.
1999 Ten years and 10 Phantoms down as Howard McGillin becomes Broadway’s 11th The Phantom of the Opera. Hugh Panaro, the preceding Phantom, exits to take the title role in Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg‘s Martin Guerre. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, which opened at the Majestic Theatre in 1988, has also featured Michael Crawford, the originator of the role, Kevin Gray, Mark Jacoby, and Davis Gaines.
Today’s Birthdays: Rags Ragland (1905–1946). Gene Kelly (1912–1996). Lee Roy Reams (b. 1942). Charles Busch (b. 1954). Andrew Rannells (b. 1978).
Watch Andrew Rannells and Stephanie J. Block rehearse for a 2014 New York Pops concert:
Stars in the House continues today 2pm for Regional Theatre Spotlight On Music Theatre Wichita- Wichita, KS. Host Wayne Bryan is joined by Paula Leggett Chase, Vincent Corazza, Thomas W. Douglas, Kim Huber, Damon Kirsche, Brian J. Marcum, Karen Robu and Thom Sesma.
Stars in the House, the daily live streamed concert series created by Playbill correspondent and SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley, celebrates the 2013 Tony-winning revival of Pippin August 22.
Guests include co-stars Tony nominee Charlotte d’Amboise (A Chorus Line), Tony winner Rachel Bay Jones (Dear Evan Hansen), Tony nominee Terrence Mann (Cats), Tony winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year), and Matthew James Thomas (Time and the Conways).
The stream will be available above beginning at 8 PM.
Stars in the House launched March 16 to promote support for The Actors Fund and its services in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. It has also raised funds for the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
New shows—typically streaming Monday–Saturday at 8 PM ET with afternoon shows Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM—feature performances by stars of stage and screen, in conversation and song with Rudetsky and Wesley. Peter Flynn serves as streaming director. Click here to watch previous episodes.
To make a tax-deductible donation to The Actors Fund visit ActorsFund.org/Donate. To donate to the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, visit NAACPLDF.org.
