This Week on Broadway for January 8, 2012: Beauty and the Broadway

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: Beauty and the Beast in 3D PF: Panel audiences have become less sophisticated Spider-Man does $3 million Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway during the 2013-2014 season in the new musical by Aaron Sorkin and Stephen Schwartz -- called Houdini Peter Marks: The Kennedy Center has had to scrap the centerpiece theater event of its 2011-12 season -- a major, reworked revival of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical "Pal Joey" -- after its director, Christopher Ashley, abruptly pulled out of the production. Thursday, January 12 OPENING: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Closing: Billy Elliot Closing: Lysistrata Jones MP: Accidentally Like A Martyr @ Paradise Factory Exit Introductions Explicit: No. Music: Belle from movie version of Beauty and the Beast (Paige O'Hara) If I Can't Love Her from the Original Broadway Cast recording of Beauty and the Beast (Terrance Mann) 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 Direct Link to MP3 File If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. 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: Beauty and the Beast in 3D PF: Panel audiences have become less sophisticated Spider-Man does $3 million Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway during the 2013-2014 season in the new musical by Aaron Sorkin and Stephen Schwartz -- called Houdini Peter Marks: The Kennedy Center has had to scrap the centerpiece theater event of its 2011-12 season -- a major, reworked revival of the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical "Pal Joey" -- after its director, Christopher Ashley, abruptly pulled out of the production. Thursday, January 12 OPENING: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Closing: Billy Elliot Closing: Lysistrata Jones MP: Accidentally Like A Martyr @ Paradise Factory Exit Introductions Explicit: No. Music: Belle from movie version of Beauty and the Beast (Paige O'Hara) If I Can't Love Her from the Original Broadway Cast recording of Beauty and the Beast (Terrance Mann) 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