This Week on Broadway for January 15, 2012: Pippin, Matilda, and MTI's Junior Theater Festival

Notes and links for the podcast. Panel: Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons, is now available through Applause Books and at www.amazon.com James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook Topics: PF: Pippin @ Menier Chocolate Factory MP: Follies for a 2nd time PF: Atlanta -- Junior Theater Festival (MTI) PF: Matilda (a new musical) NYMag: Approval Matrix The Approval Matrix: Week of January 16, 2012 Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies. HowlRound New York Times Critic Watch Peter Filichia: Will you please attend a (free) reading of a play I'VE written called PRONT AND ADAM? It's a different kind of Christmas Carol, and it stars Jim Brochu, Matthew Gumley, Stacie Lents, David Schmittou and Maureen Silliman, under John Wooten's direction. One night only: Wednesday, Jan. 25 at SEVEN p.m. at St. Luke's, 308 West 46th Street. I'd LOVE to have you see it and tell ME what's good and bad. (I can't stand a critic who can't be criticized!) MP: Dancing at Lughnasa @ Irish Rep Next week, MP: Picture Box @ Negro Ensemble Company MP + PF: will see Porgy on Wednesday Venerable New York City Opera faces its final curtain BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ Musician lockout may scuttle premiere of 'La Traviata' and roster of upcoming shows Exit Introductions Explicit: No Music: Corner of the Sky from Pippin It's The Hard Knock Life from Annie Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: 646-873-7695 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm