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Welcome to Today on Broadway for Monday, March 9, 2026. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tamineni.
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And I am Broadway Radio's James Moreno.
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James, before we get into everything happening in the news and everything looking forward to the rest of the week in the theatrical schedule, we do want to mention that we are sponsored this week by Squarespace. James, you are the tech expert amongst us here. How often have you worked with Squarespace over the years?
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I want to tell you that the best part about Squarespace is that you don't have to be a tech expert. So many great websites that I've been involved with have been made on Squarespace. You know, I can't say enough about them. It's so easy to make your own website on Squarespace.
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Well, fortunately, we will say a little bit more about them later in the episode, but we'll get to that. But, James, 10 years ago, I mean, literally almost to the minute, we recorded today on Broadway for the very first, first time. Ten years later, it's a little bit different, but still a lot the same. We've covered a lot of theater news. You and me, me and Ashley, Grace and everybody else we've had on the show over the past decade. But we were talking before we recorded, like 10 years does not seem possible. It doesn't seem like it has been that long.
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You know, I, I think of that Jesus Christ Superstar feels like 90, you know, and I only say that. Yeah, I, I only feel that for you, Matt, because, I mean, I think today on Broadway was, you know, episode one for you and you're.
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No, I done.
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I did done some this week on Broadway. That's right.
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Yes. Yeah. But it was pretty early. Yeah. So I've done over 20, over 2000, easy. Over 2100. Because there was other episodes in there that I've done over the time.
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But yeah, I'm looking at the stats. It says 2,470 episodes of Broadway Radio you've done.
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That's just dumb.
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That's dumb. You're like a thousand ahead of me. And I own the damn thing, you know, and you.
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And you had like a 10 year, 10 year start. Yeah, yeah. Nonetheless, I do want to thank you for the opportunity. This has been a wild ride and something that I still enjoy doing a decade later. So thank you for coming up with this idea and for giving me the platform to talk about theater, talk about news, and to talk to some pretty amazing people over the years.
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I sound like a broken record here, but there would be no Broadway radio if there was not Matt Tammanini.
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So I don't know. It was here before me and it'll be here after me, but. All right, James, let's start not in New York City, but actually in London, because last week the 2026 Olivier Awards announced their nominees. Of course, I will have the complete list in the show notes if you want to check them out. But there were not only a lot of stars nominated that we know the names, of, but a lot of productions that we either have seen in New York and are now in London or that are in London and either are getting ready to come to New York or we believe are getting ready to come to New York. But the nominations were announced this week. The actual Oliviers will happen at Royal Albert hall on Sunday, April 12. So just a little over a month from now, the best musical, best new musical nominees are. Here we are. The David I've Stephen Sondheim musical Paddington the Musical, which James, how much of this have you seen from, like the social media and the videos of Paddington? Have you been as wrapped up in that as so many other theater people have been?
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You know, the thing about Paddington is that, yes, I've seen so many of the videos and things like that. I was like, has it only been a year? Because it seems like so much social media has been done on Paddington that I was like, oh, is that only a year now?
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It hasn't even been that much. I think it was in the fall. So from what I understand, there is a certain musical that is closing on Broadway in July that just announced that they are going to be welcoming a fairly big morning star and that theater is going to be where Paddington is going. That's what I've heard on that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The Richard Rogers. Yes.
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Yeah.
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Hamilton's closing, so Paddington can come in. But here we go. Paddington nominated. Yeah. Breaking news. That's on Patreon. Best new musical nominees. Here we are, Paddington. And then Shocked, which obviously is played Broadway. And then the unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Best revival of a musical went to American Psycho, Evita, which I've also been led to believe we'll be coming to Broadway fairly soon, probably a year from now in a theater that is currently occupied by Nathan Lane. But we'll get to that later at some point. Then into the woods. And speaking of Nathan Lane, the Producers was also nominated for best revival. Best new play are Ava Pickett's 1536, Susie Miller, former Broadway radio guests Enter Alia, Jack Holden and Ed Stamboloan, I believe is how you say the name, Ken Rex that is kind of coming off Broadway this spring. So that's exciting. And then Punch by James Graham, which was just on Broadway this season. Best revival of a play, All My Sons, Arcadia, Much Ado About Nothing, which is coming to Broadway this season, which I believe is also going to be in a theater that is currently occupied by Nathan Lane. And then the Seagull, the Noel Coward award for best new entertainment or comedy play goes to the comedy about spies. Every Brilliant thing currently on Broadway. Oh, Mary. Currently on Broadway and Paranormal Activity.
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You keep mentioning this whole show that Nathan Lane is doing right now, and I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but he dies. He dies.
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Spoiler alert. In the title of the show. Spoiler alert. And also, if you didn't know, He's a salesman. He is a salesman.
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Oh, come on.
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Ruined it. I ruined it for you. Ruined it. Coming up this week, actually Tomorrow, on Tuesday, March 10, Broadway will dim all 41 theater marquees to honor a number of late Broadway actors and directors and choreographers and other people instrumental in creating the theatrical arts over the decades. Some of the names that will be recognized are Robert duvall, Isaiah Whitlock Jr. And John Cunningham, all actors. Another actor who a lot of people were especially connected to because he was younger and bravely and publicly fought cancer and was an avid theater podcaster as well that'll be honored is Brett Hannah Schufford. Longtime theater journalist Harry Hahn will be recognized as well, along with the gin game playwright D.L. coburn. And I mean, legendary iconic choreographer and dancer Carmen de Lavalade will be recognized as well. All of the theater marquees will dim their lights at 6:45pm on Tuesday. And again, you'll remember, this is kind of the new way that Broadway is honoring the passing of members of the community with the Broadway in Memoriam committee trying to pass the buck from the theater owners and producers when they were kind of piecemealing it altogether. So if you want to recognize these people, head over to your Broadway theater of choice tomorrow night at 6:45pm you know, it's interesting.
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They got off to a little bit of a rough start this. This dimming committee, the dim people of Broadway. And we never got an update from the league as to a replacement for Charlotte, did we?
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I don't know.
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The person that was there was just a temporary appointment, right?
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Yeah, maybe that's still ongoing. I'm not sure. And a lot of times when those things happen, I feel like not just with the league, but in general, they're like it's temporary, and then it just kind of molds into full time. So I'm not exactly sure what the standing is of that. But to be quite honest with you, not knowing who the president of the Broadway League is probably better than having to know who the president of the Broadway League is.
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You know, there's something to be said
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for that moving from Broadway to Off Broadway. We have a number of theater news articles that I want to talk about. The first one is if you've been watching this new season of Bridgerton, which I have not, but people seem to love it as much as all the other seasons. One of the stars of this season, Euron Ha, will be coming over and leading a production of the maids at St. Anne's Warehouse. This is a production that is being helmed by Kip Williams, who obviously we talked to here on Broadway radio a couple of seasons ago. He was the director and kind of the envisioner of the Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway with Sarah Snook, and is currently responsible for Dracula in the West End with Cynthia Erivo that is going to play out in Brooklyn from May 17 through June 14. And anything with Kip Williams seems like that is a very strong offering at this. At this point, HA will be joined by Fia Sabin and Olivier Award nominee Lydia Wilson in the production as well. This had originated at the Donmar. It is now coming over to St. Anne's then moving back into Midtown for some Off Broadway news. It was exclusively reported in Variety that there will be two new cast members joining the Off Broadway production of Heathers in April. Over at New World Stages, taking over the role of Veronica Sawyer will be Isabella Essler, who I saw on the national tour of Beetlejuice playing Lydia. And then John Cardoza will be taking over as JD John Cardoza was the original young Noah, younger Noah in the Notebook, and he was in Moulin Rouge on Broadway as well. So this seems like a really cool casting to keep this show going even longer. Up at New World Stages then, James, have you gotten out to see Masquerade? Yet I don't know if this is something that you, I know you have a, A long history with Phantom.
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I was just going to ask you if you. Did you get to see Masquerade?
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I am seeing it in April. I'm going to see it in April for the first time. So I've got my tickets booked and I will be going. I will be going.
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What will you be wearing that.
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I don't, I don't know, man. The whole black tie thing, I mean, maybe, maybe I'll go full. Maybe I'll just rent a Phantom Halloween costume and wear that and see if it confuses everybody as to who was actually in the show and who is just in the audience. What do you think?
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No, I, you know, if you have money to rent an outfit after paying for Masquerade tickets, you have more power to you.
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Well, first off, I was invited. Full disclosure. So I'm not paying for the ticket, but I would definitely go like spirit Halloween costume. I'm not going like, yeah, actual theatrical costume. No, I'm not that foolish. But fortunately, if you haven't had a chance to see Masquerade yet, they've announced a fifth extension. The show will now be playing through September 6th. And honestly, James, it seems like this is going really well. And I don't know when, if ever, they will transition to like, it's open ended and this won't be a thing where they announce extension after extension because they want to create that demand. I understand. But like, it seems like this is something that's going to run for a while. I think this will put it fairly close, if not to over a full year. So, you know, I had my doubts early on about this show being any good at all. A lot of those were, were mitigated when they announced that Diane Paulus was directing. And that made me feel a lot more comfortable with it. But the fact that it's going to be running through the summer into September, which is Labor Day weekend, I guess I was wrong. And this is actually something that has caught on despite, as you were saying, the ticket prices and the black tie demand for people's attire when they come.
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Yeah, you know, Peter saw it a couple of weeks ago. We talked about it on this Week on Broadway and Peter had mentioned, I don't know, did you hear this? Or maybe you can check it out with your sources there. It was a $25 million budget. That doesn't surprise me. Also, I haven't heard that number before, so I don't know if you've heard that Number. But I have come, you know, making a $25 million thing pay off. Certainly they need to run for some years.
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Yeah, I would imagine that a lot of that probably has to do with the renovation of the site itself. Just because it wasn't a theater, they had to make sure that they could get everything not only safe, but have it lit and have all of the equipment they need and then to make sure that it was navigable for audiences and everything to move around that space. But $25 million for an off Broadway show, even if it's Phantom and you're charging 250 bucks a ticket, like that's a, that's a lot. Especially when you have so many different casts you have to go through. And obviously it's much smaller than a traditional Phantom cast would be, but you've got six Phantoms and you know, five
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cans or something, you know, because they, they stagger, they stagger it. Yeah. You know, when is your starting time? Do you know yet or.
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I am, I am in the 8pm I'm the 8pm pulse. So I don't know who that is. But 8pm that's who they, they gave me. So we'll see. I mean, telly's still in there, Nick Walker's still in there, Kyle Scatliff is still in there. So some, some great folks, but I'll be excited to see the whole thing and kind of get the, a little bit of a lay of the land as to why this thing has been such a hot ticket in New York. But another off Broadway show that I think a lot of people are really loving is Mother Russia over at the Signature Theater. It opened up last Tuesday and the reviews were very, very good. And now it is, is now going to play through March 22, but with a cast like Stephen Boyer, Adam Chandler Barrett and Rebecca Naomi Jones. You certainly want to check that one out if you have the chance. Now, James, you said that maybe Hamilton might be closing to make room for Paddington. Obviously a joke, but that does not mean that you can't see Hamilton in other places. Because as we are heading out of town for some non New York theater news, last week we found out that following his return run to the role of Aaron Burr on Broadway, Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. Will be making his Western End debut in that role in the West End at the Victoria Palace Theater. He is going to do a nine week engagement from the 3rd of July, kind of appropriate, starting on 4th of July weekend through, through September 5th. So I had a chance to go back and see Hamilton again with Leslie because I didn't see the original cast on Broadway. So having a chance to do that this past October, I can tell you he's still good. He's still got it. In the words of Seth Radecky. So London theater folk jump on those tickets because they are going to be very, very expensive if the New York engagement, if his return is anything like it, is in London. Well, heading out to Chicago, a show that might also be very difficult to get tickets to, playing at the Goodman Theater from June 20 through July 26 is a show we've already knew about and we've talked about it before. It is Ice Boy or the completely untrue story of how Eugene o' Neill came to write the Iceman Cometh. It's playing at the Goodman and we had previously known that Megan Mullally is going to be starring in this show. Last week we found out that her husband Nick Offerman is going to be joining her in the cast of this new musical. It features music by Mark Holman who is most well known for Urinetown and he co wrote the lyrics with Jay Reese, most well known for working on the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. And Rhys co wrote the book with Aaron Quinn Purcell. The work will see Mulally play Vera Vim who adopts a 40,000 year old Neanderthal from the Arctic only to kind of get upset about it when he begins stealing her spotlight. So these two are hilarious individually, James so I can only imagine what they will be like together in a musical. And it's been a while since we've seen Megan Mullally in a musical. So would would love to see this have a future life not only in Chicago but in New York as well.
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You know, Mr. Mullally has been doing the rounds on various podcasts, interviews about his new book. He was on John Lovett's Love it or Leave it this weekend. Very, very funny. And they read some some text messages from Megan to Nick. Zara beach is very funny. Very funny.
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All right, check that one out. Check that one out. Very good. All right. A couple out of town shows that I want to talk about before maybe they come to New York. The first one is the initial casting for the Los Angeles premiere of the new show Millennials Are Killing Musicals. It's going to play the colony theater from April 30 through May 17. It is planning on coming to New York after that. It's directed by Rock of Ages director Kristin Hange and the cast will be led by Emma Hunton John Kraus and Diana Huey. More casting will be announced. And then down in Washington D.C. at the arena Stage, Shay Joey has announced that it will extend. It has added an additional week to its run and it will now play through March 22nd. That show has been trying to make it to Broadway. I mean, for James, it really feels like the entire decade that we have been doing today on Broadway. So maybe it will happen eventually. All right, before we get into this week's theatrical schedule, James, I want to talk about our sponsor for this week's Squaresp. When I started my own company, James, you may not remember this, but I use Squarespace to set up my email and my website. And you actually walked me through it and helped. Well, I'm not going to say you helped me set it up. You actually did the setting up and I just did whatever you told me to do. So you did all the work. That's the other byproduct of Today on Broadway is I have an on call IT expert whenever I have issues. But what's great about it is, is when James showed me how to use Squarespace, I knew how to do it from then on out. Because as you said at the top of the show, James, this does not take a tech expert to use Squarespace's platform. Whether you are setting up email addresses, whether you're doing newsletters, where you're doing a website, it is all super easy and user friendly, no matter what it is that you're trying to do.
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Well, the Word of Brown Town is just as you as you said, it seems to be taking an inside track to at least a nomination. They say there's great performances in here and a little bit, you know, a little bit surprising for those who aren't familiar with Ron Roald all and what's, you know, it's an uncomfortable subject if you go in there thinking that, oh, this is going to be a feel good show. It's a drama. It's a drama.
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Yeah, definitely is. Definitely. Is also happening on Tuesday night down at the Public Theater, they will be opening the world premiere of Anna Ziegler's new play Antigone. And then parenthetically this play I read in high school. It is directed by Tyne Raffaelli and is scheduled to run through April 5th. A wonderful cast including Susanna Perkins playing Antigone, Tony Shalhoub playing Creon, Calvin Leon Smith as playing Heyman and the wonderful Celia Keenan Bulger playing the chorus. So great, great cast. I've heard nothing but good things about this one. Also opening off Broadway on Wednesday from the Vineyard Theater will be Bug House. This is conceived and directed by Martha Clark with a script written by Beth Henley and starring John Kelly. This world premiere will play April 3rd, then on Broadway. James we finally, after like two months have another opening on Broadway and this one will be happening over at the Hudson Theater where every brilliant thing, as we mentioned, current Olivier nominee, will officially open. It was written by Duncan McMillan and Johnny Donahoe and is directed by McMillan and Jeremy Heron. This one person show on Broadway stars Daniel Radcliffe and if you've seen any social media, if you've kind of paid attention, it also stars some audience members. There is some audience participation, but Daniel has been very clear only if you want to. He does not make people. He does not put people on the spot. It is all pre checked to make sure that you would be willing to participate. But I've heard great things about this. I talked with John o' Hurley about this show when he did it down here in Orlando a couple years ago here on Broadway radio. So an incredible show and I've only heard wonderful, wonderful things about this one over at the Hudson. Also happening on Thursday, two off Broadway shows will begin performances. The first comes to us from the York Theater Company. It is a new musical adaptation of Alexandra Dumas iconic the Count of Monte Cristo. This one just called Monte Cristo and it has a really, really good cast. Sierra Boggess, Kate Fitzgerald, Adam Jacobs, Norm Lewis, Alicio Roman, Karen Ziemba, like just an absolutely dynamite group of people. This show is currently playing through April 5th. So excited to hear what this one is all about. And then also on Thursday night over at the Public Theater, we have the first preview performance of the new play by Jalecia Reynoso and Michael J. Chepika called Public Charge. This one is directed by Doug Hughes and is playing through April 12th. Then we'll wrap up the week, James, on Sunday with the opening from the Irish Repertory Theater of their new play, Ulster American. And this one is by David Ireland and directed by Kirian O'Reilly. And it stars this guy, maybe you've heard of him, Matthew Broderick. This one, anytime you get Matthew Broderick, who seems to be in his Off Broadway era right now, as he just finished Tartuffe from the New York Theater Workshop. But he is jumping into this play called Ulster American. It is a, quote, savagely funny play that dissects the intersection of identity politics, ego, privilege, and the Northern Irish troubles with satirical precision. It is currently scheduled to play through May 10th. And then we will close three shows off Broadway. Hold on to your butts over at the Soho Playhouse. Meat Suit or the shit show of Motherhood from Second Stage playing at Signature and then pen pals off Broadway at Dr. 2. So, James, we don't get to talk about this stuff super often, but before we wrap this up, what show are you most looking forward to this season?
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Oh, boy. I'm gonna say Schmigadoon.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Why is that?
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Just Michael Portantier saw it down in. At the. At the Kennedy Center. Rest in peace.
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At the. At the venue. At the venue that will not be named. Yeah.
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Yes. And. And just raved about it so much on this week on Broadway last year or so when it was down there. And it was one of those things sort of like what you were saying about Masquerade, you know, that you felt better when you heard Diane Paulus was directing Masquerade. And I was like, you know, shmegadoon could be a train wreck. But it seems that they got all the elements together. So I'm really excited about Shmigadoon.
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What I think is interesting is they took a season of television, which I don't remember how many episodes it was eight, ten episodes, and condensed it down to probably a two and a half hour musical. I thought the show was a little slow and dull at times, but if you can pick and choose the best parts of that whole season to put into one show, I think it really probably has the opportunity to even exceed what the show was able to do. On Apple tv. So I'm excited to check that one out as well. And that is certainly going to be one that I will see when I'm in town here in a month or so.
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But there's so much coming.
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There's just, you know, all at one time.
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Are you, are you moving up here in April?
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I'm not moving up there. I will be there for like a week and a half and gonna be. I've started to get some things on my schedule so. But I'm not gonna see everything. There's just no way. And to be quite honest with you, some of these things I'm, I'm a little lukewarm on and I'm just kind of waiting to hear once they start previews what the word of mouth is for me to figure out what I need to see. So I'm trying to keep things open and obviously a lot of the invites haven't come yet for a lot of these shows but I'm just kind of biding my time seeing what everybody thinks is good and what needs to be seen. Not only for me personally because I want to see it and talk about it, but for voting purposes I want to make sure that I'm seeing the things that are going to be the ones that are nominated in contenders and all of that. So looking forward to it and obviously I will keep everybody up to date here on Broadway radio.
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You just quickly on this week on Broadway, Peter spent the week out in Milwaukee and saw three shows at Milwaukee Rep. And I wondered have you ever been to Milwaukee?
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I don't think I've ever been to Milwaukee. No, I have been to Madison, Wisconsin which I don't think is too, too far away from Milwaukee.
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It's a big ten town.
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Yeah, it's big. That's why I was there. When I worked in the Big Ten over 20, when I worked for the Big Ten over 20 years ago, I went up to, I believe the men's golf. No, women's. I covered the women's golf championship at Madison and Andy north, two time US Open winner Andy north who lives on the course was there quite a bit. So I saw him walking around the clubhouse. So. But that's my only time. I think that's the only time I've ever been to Wisconsin.
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So Peter gave two thumbs up for this. Madison, not Madison Rep, Milwaukee Rep. Brand new facilities just built. Great three, they're doing shows in rep. So Peter was able to see three shows in one week. He saw Ain't Misbehaving. What else did he see McNeil ain't misbehaving and August Wilson's the piano lesson. So I was like, you know, might be a summer trip for you. You can head over there.
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Is there. Do cruise ships take you to Milwaukee?
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Yes, there's a lot of cruise ships that go to Milwaukee. Direct.
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Directly up the Mississippi or something. I'm sure there's a river cruise I could take all the way up there. Yeah, that's Madison. I know is. Is an isthmus. So I think. Is that how you say it? So that's. There's a lot of water up there. So. So maybe. Who knows. Who knows if we can get a boat up there, But. All right, everybody, that's all that we have for today. Thanks for listening to today on Broadway. Follow us on all of the social Broadway radio. If you want more Broadway radio, hover to patreon.com broadway radio. James, I don't really do social media anymore. I don't think you do really either, do you?
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No, not. Not really. Not a lot of social media. You know where to find us, you know.
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Yeah, you absolutely do. All right, everybody, thank you for listening, and we will talk to you soon. Sam,
This milestone episode celebrates a decade of "Today on Broadway," as hosts Matt Tamineni and James Marino reflect on highlights from the past ten years and dive deep into the latest theater news. They cover the 2026 Olivier Award nominations, upcoming Broadway and Off-Broadway openings, notable casting, industry events (including Broadway's upcoming In Memoriam), and share personal insights into which shows and venues they're most excited about. The tone is conversational, celebratory, and steeped in theater knowledge and camaraderie.
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James: Schmigadoon! (“…could be a train wreck. But it seems that they got all the elements together. So I’m really excited…”)
Matt: Intrigued by how Schmigadoon! condenses a season of TV into a two-hour musical, possibly improving upon the show’s pacing.
This episode is a spirited blend of celebratory reflection and thorough industry reporting, rich with inside jokes, genuine appreciation between hosts, and actionable information for theater fans. Longtime listeners especially will enjoy the behind-the-scenes camaraderie and insight into the evolving landscape of Broadway and international theater.
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