Broadway was one of the winners of the 86th Academy Awards. Bobby Lopez won the EGOT — only the 12th person in history to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories – for co-writing “Let It Go” from Frozen, with his wife Kristin Anderson Lopez.
Here is Idina Mendez’s performance of Let It Go
(Scroll down to see a video of Bobby Lopez singing it.)
If John Travolta introduced Idina Menzel as ‘Adela Dazeem,” Menzel — better known to her Broadway fans — was just one of the many presenters and performers that were veterans of Broadway, from Samuel Jackson to Bette Midler. So were some of the winners. Catherine Martin, who won a Tony for designing La Boheme on Broadway, won two Oscars for “The Great Gatsby” last night.
And Cate Blanchett, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role, thanked “every single member of the Sydney Theater Company.”
In other theater news: Audra McDonald is coming back to Broadway, Rosemary Harris is going to be in a new Tom Stoppard play
This Week in New York Theater
Monday, February 24, 2014
10 Lessons for Theater, from the third annual TEDxBroadway, my article in Howlround
The theater experience is not just on the stage~ Diane Paulus
Engage the audience in innovative ways
Consider crowdfunding — David Drake
Don’t punish the digitally connected Dexter Upshaw of The Apollo Theater
Make the neighborhood your lobby – Craig Dykers of Snohetta
Collaborate — @LopezBobby, @DoctorYao
Understand the connection between the arts & the sciences~ Ainissa Ramirez
Realize new forms of entertainment have changed would-be audiences~ Gabe Zichermann
Bobby Lopez’s “talk” was a 15-minute concert.
Lopez’s Oscar win for Frozen song makes him only the 12th person in the competitive #EGOT club (people who have won at least one each of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories.)
Dominique Morisseau has won the $100,000 Kennedy Prize for a play inspired by US history, for her “Detroit ’67” about the Detroit riots.
For five dollars, Lorenzo Thione, the producer of “Allegiance,” will give you first dibs on the opportunity to buy tickets to a show that ‘doesn’t really exist,” according to the AP. Thione’s Allegiance Priority Access Pass is one of the producer’s innovations, this one to prove interest in the show.
“Getting back onstage seemed like a good idea….Then Shia LaBeouf showed up.” – Alec Baldwin
Like House of Cards on Netflix? Its creator Beau Willimon has a new play, Breathing Time, performed by Fault Line Theater March 21 through April 13, at Teatro IATI
64 East 4th Street. “Jack and Mike are bankers – one reckless and larger than life, the other responsible and grounded….Fate brings them together on a day in New York that sends shock waves through their lives.”
Fun Home cast, including Judy Kuhn and Michael Cerveris reunite to perform at Barnes and Noble (150 E 86) March 13 to mark the release of their two-disc CD by PS Classics.
Fans of Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor who died four decades ago at age 32, are likely to be delighted at the sheer physical excitement of ”Kung Fu,” which has opened at the Pershing Square Signature Theater starring Cole Horibe, a contestant in 2012 in the TV show “So You Think You Can Dance.” ….Those looking for live theater at a bargain will be similarly pleased: the initial run of “Kung Fu,” as all Signature shows, is just $25. Those of us, however, who are long-time admirers of the playwright, David Henry Hwang, are more likely to be disappointed.
Back on Broadway! Audra McDonald as Billie Holliday in revival of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill opens April 13 at Circle in the Square
Secrets of the Metropolitan Opera ( a door for horses, ceiling covered in gold, room full of guns, forbidden floor, etc) http://bit.ly/1hORCit
New leads for Pippin April 1: Kyle Dean Massey as Pippin, Ciara Renee as lead player.
Profile of “almost a boy genius” Alex Timbers, 35, director of Pee Wee, Here Lies Love, and now Rocky
