May 1, 2009
THEATER REVIEW | '9 TO 5'
Sisterhood vs. Boss, on a New Battlefield
By BEN BRANTLEY

Give some credit to “9 to 5” — the overinflated whoopee cushion lodged at the Marquis Theater — for bucking this spring’s fashion trends. Can this gaudy, empty musical really be part of the same Broadway season that gave us the minimally decorated, maximally effective “Exit the King,” “God of Carnage,” “Next to Normal,” “Hair,” “Mary Stuart” and “Norman Conquests”?

Those shows strip down to modest sets (three of them use brick walls as backdrops) and, in many cases, small casts, the better to show off their considerable natural assets. But if ingenious austerity has replaced mindless opulence on main-stem stages, no one bothered to alert “9 to 5.”

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Night Music Concert Will Now Play Studio 54; Socha, Currie and More Join Cast

By Andrew Gans
December 11, 2008

The Roundabout Theatre Company's gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music, scheduled for Jan. 12, 2009, will now be presented at Studio 54 rather than the previously announced Nokia Theatre Times Square.

Scott Ellis (She Loves Me, 1776, Curtains) will direct the 7:30 PM performance, which will boast the talents of the previously reported Natasha Richardson (Desirée Armfeldt), Victor Garber (Frederick Egerman), Christine Baranski (Countess Charlotte Malcolm), Laura Benanti (Anne Egerman), Marc Kudisch (Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm), Vanessa Redgrave (Madame Armfeldt), Steven Pasquale (Henrik Egerman) and Kendra Kassebaum (Petra).

Newcomers to the evening include Alexandra Socha (Fredrika), Maija Lisa Currie (Mrs. Nordstrom), Steven Goldstein (Mr. Erlandson), Leena Chopra (Mrs. Segestrom), Julianne Borg (Mrs. Anderssen) and Philip Cokorinos (Mr. Lindquist).

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I'm dying of repressed squee's here. Finally, the possibility of hearing Ms K sing The Millers Son on this side of the continent (she'd previously played Petra in the Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre production). Oh! Oh! Oh! :DDDDDDDD

Wicked's Kassebaum Cast in Starry Little Night Music Concert

By Andrew Gans
November 7, 2008

Kendra Kassebaum, who is currently playing the curly locked Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, has been cast in the Roundabout Theatre Company's gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music, which will be presented Jan. 12, 2009, at the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

Kassebaum, the actress' spokesperson told Playbill.com, will play the maid Petra, who sings the tongue-twisting "The Miller's Son." Kassebaum has also been seen on Broadway in Rent and Assassins, and Off-Broadway in The Receptionist.

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Maye, Cooper, Cavenaugh, Murney, Noll and More Join Broadway Unplugged Line-Up

By Andrew Gans
November 7, 2008

As previously reported, the fifth annual Broadway Unplugged concert — featuring Broadway stars performing without microphones — will be presented Nov. 17 at Town Hall.

Created and hosted by Scott Siegel, the evening will feature tunes from the American musical theatre. Those performers who had previously been announced to lend their unamplified voices to the 8 PM event include Ashley Brown, Jeff McCarthy, Marc Kudisch, William Michals and Bill Daugherty.

They will be joined by Marilyn Maye, Chuck Cooper, Matt Cavenaugh, Julia Murney, Christiane Noll, Cheryl Freeman, Lorinda Lisitza, Ron Bohmer and Erin Denman; the latter will "lead a small troupe of Broadway gypsys who will also sing and dance unplugged," according to a press release.

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Because the one-night concert reading is this cast on the East Coast...

A Little Night Music [LA Opera 2004.07.14]
156MB | zip

hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/cu8au7

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Richardson, Garber, Baranski, Benanti, Kudisch and Redgrave Set for Night Music Concert

By Andrew Gans
October 14, 2008

The Roundabout Theatre Company will present a one-night-only gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music Jan. 12, 2009, at the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

Scott Ellis (She Loves Me, 1776, Curtains) will direct the 7:30 PM performance, which will boast the talents of Natasha Richardson (Desirée Armfeldt), Victor Garber (Frederick Egerman), Christine Baranski (Countess Charlotte Malcolm), Laura Benanti (Anne Egerman), Marc Kudisch (Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm) and Vanessa Redgrave (Madame Armfeldt). Additional casting will be announced shortly.

Musical director Paul Gemignani will lead a 27-member orchestra with orchestrations penned by Jonathan Tunick.

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9 to 5 Will Now Begin Broadway Previews April 7, 2009; Tix on Sale Oct. 29

By Andrew Gans
October 14, 2008

Preview and opening dates have been slightly altered for the eagerly awaited 9 to 5: The Musical, which boasts a score by the Grammy Award-winning star of the concert stage and screen, Dolly Parton.

Originally scheduled to begin previews at the Marquis Theatre March 24, 2009, with an official opening April 23, 2009, the new musical — which is currently playing an out-of-town tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles through Oct. 19 — will now arrive at the Marquis April 7, 2009, and officially open April 30, 2009.

Tickets for the Broadway production will go on sale exclusively to American Express Gold Card members Oct. 29. The on-sale date for the general public will be Dec. 1. Tickets, priced $66.50-$126.50, will be available by calling (212) 307-4100 or by visiting Ticketmaster.com.

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Hello, Dolly! 9 to 5 Books Broadway's Marquis; Full Casting Announced

By Kenneth Jones
July 15, 2008

The Marquis Theatre will be the Broadway home of the feisty office workers who are "just a step on the bossman's ladder" in the Dolly Parton-Patricia Resnick musical comedy 9 to 5, producer Robert Greenblatt announced July 15.

Following a fall run at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles (Sept. 3-Oct. 19, opening Sept. 20), the Joe Mantello-directed production will begin Broadway previews March 24, 2009, and open April 23, 2009.

9 to 5: The Musical, based on the 20th Century Fox motion picture, has book by original screenwriter Resnick (who also came up with the film's original story) and music and lyrics by country music legend and seven-time Grammy Award winner Dolly Parton, who also starred in the smash 1980 movie.

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James, Kudisch and Murney Will Sing 1965 Tunes; Ripley, Skinner and Klausner Will Tackle 1979

By Andrew Gans
April 22, 2008

Initial casting has been announced for the next two concerts in Scott Siegel's acclaimed Broadway By the Year series at Manhattan's Town Hall.

The Broadway Musicals of 1965 — featuring songs from musicals that bowed on Broadway during that year — will be presented May 12 and will feature the vocal talents of Brian d'Arcy James, Gregg Edelman, Marc Kudisch, Mandy Gonzalez and Julia Murney as well as the dancing of Kendrick Jones, Shannon Lewis, Melinda Sullivan and Lorin Latarro. The latter will also choreograph and stage the concert.

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Well.

Someone on a community asked for both volume 1 and 2... and I'd only picked up 1 while in NYC, so that's what I have...

Ripped at 320 kbps, since this is unplugged et al, might as well give the best quality of this performance as possible :)

Names of interest - Stephanie J. Block, Nancy Anderson, Cady Huffman, Ludmilla Ilieva, Anna Harada, Bill Daugherty, Marc Kudisch, Barbara Walsh, Michael Cerveris, Chuck Cooper, Alice Ripley, Norm Lewis, A.J. Irvin, Mary Testa, Euan Morton, Darius DeHaas, Christine Andreas, Alix Korey

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L.A.'s Ahmanson Will Premiere Musicals Minsky's and 9 to 5

By Kenneth Jones
March 24, 2008

Minsky's is the new title of the Charles Strouse-Susan Birkenhead musical comedy once known as The Night They Raided Minsky's — and it's aiming for Los Angeles in 2009.

The show, which Playbill.com previously reported has new librettist Bob Martin and new director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw (both of The Drowsy Chaperone) attached, is officially on the 2008-09 season of the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. The season was announced by CTG's artistic director Michael Ritchie on March 24.

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Should I be saying that I'd go see this possible musical if Ms Janney and Ms Neuwirth made it through to the final casting?

That's the two names that'd pull me to the theatre... and Ms Block and Ms Hilty would be the proverbial bonus fruit cocktail surrounding the dessert concoction :)

Janney, Block, Hilty, Neuwirth Will Punch 9 to 5 Musical Workshop Clock )

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