SEASON PREMIERE Broadway Fall Preview

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, October 23rd at 8:30
Sunday, October 24th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, October 25th at 7:30, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM

Our panel of theater experts, Jesse Green ofNew York Magazine, Michael Musto of theVillage Voice and Patrick Pacheco of the LA Times, look ahead to the new Broadway season with their insightful and witty banter that has made their group appearances some of our most popular episodes. Among the shows they discussed are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Driving Miss Daisy, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, The Scottsboro Boys, La Bête, and Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice.

Bob Hofler on Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr

 

Allan Carr and Maxwell Caulfield photo courtesy of Robert Hofler

 

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, October 16th at 8:30 PM
Sunday, October 17th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, October 18th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM

Author Robert Hofler of Variety discusses his new biography about the the amazing life and career of Allan Carr, producer of La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway, the movies Grease, and Can’t Stop the Music, plus the most outrageous and scandalously unsuccessful awards ceremony in Oscar history. Hofler describes how Carr, an oddball kid from Highland Park, Il., rose to the height of success in show business and ultimately was reduced to being a recluse shunned by Hollywood until his untimely death.

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

Colman Domingo, Susan Stroman, and John Kander photo by Kalin Ivanov

on Thirteen:
Friday, October 8th at 12:30 AM

on CUNY TV:
Saturday, October 9th at 8:30 PM
Sunday, October 10th at 12:30 PM and
Monday, October 11th at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM

A round table discussion on the new Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys, directed by Susan Stroman. The musical, now at New York’s Vineyard Theater, is based on the tragic 1930’s case in Alabama where nine young black men were arrested and imprisoned, some for the rest of their lives, for crimes they did not commit. Our panel includes composer John Kander (Fred Ebb died in 2004 while working on this musical), director Stroman, and two actors appearing in the production, Colman Domingo and Brandon Victor Dixon, who performs one of the numbers from the show’s beautiful score.

Youtube Preview: Brandon Victor Dixon sings “Go Back Home” from The Scottsboro Boys