All tagged The King and I
On this week’s episode, Rob and Jamie chat with Rob’s high school friend, actor, author, activist, podcaster, and producer Jenna Ushkowitz. Together, they talk about Jenna’s diverse career, from making her Broadway debut at age nine in “The King and I” to her recent Tony Award-winning foray into producing, including her star turn on the hit TV series “glee”.
As we begin a new decade, I look back at my past decade of theatre-going and pick my top 10 favorite plays and musicals.
"Six" will play Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre beginning in February; Harry Connick Jr. will celebrate Cole Porter with a limited-run solo show at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre; Jennifer Laura Thompson and Michael Park leave "Dear Evan Hansen"; Faye Dunaway was fired from the Boston engagement of "Tea at Five"; list of the most produced high school plays and musicals in 2018-2019; PBS airings of recorded live performances; RIP DA Pennebaker
Hugh Jackman to lead fall 2020 Broadway revival of "The Music Man"; "The Humans" to get film adaptation; "Network" recoups; Broadway-aimed Britney Spears jukebox musical books Chicago; "Avenue Q" postpones closing by one month; April Matthis replaces Uzo Aduba in Roundabout's "Toni Stone"; cast set for D.C. concert production of "The Who’s Tommy"; 2016-2017 "Ethnic Representation on New York City Stages" study results; the latest "R&H Goes Pop!" video; RIP George Morfogen
