Nickelodeon Germany Renews 'Spotlight' For Season 6; To Premiere on Paramount Plus
Nickelodeon Germany (Deutschland) has renewed its hugely popular locally produced cross-media TV series Spotlight, which follows the lives of a group of young talented students at theatrical school and their dreams to take the stage, for a sixth season!
Season six of Spotlight will bring some big changes to the series - both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. Filming on the new season commenced on Monday 14th March 2022.
Instead of the show's previous supersized seasons comprising of thirty-plus 10-15 minute episodes, season six will be comprised of thirteen 22-minute episodes - a first for the show.
Update (21/6) - Spotlight season 6 will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ in Germany!
Filming for Spotlight season 6 is also moving to a new location. The new setting for the Berlin School of Arts campus is the FEZ-Berlin in Berlin, which is making its premises available for the new season in cooperation with the Landesmusikakademie. With new dance halls, a recording studio, a large concert hall, a cinema and a swimming pool, the new location offers the students - Greta (Chiara Tews), Rocco (Malcom Meckert), Emily (Nevena Schöneberg) and Sam (Jerome Weinert) completely new opportunities to pursue their dreams of success as dancers, singers and actors and have a lot of fun in the process.
The new school year also brings two new students to the BSA: Lenny (German Shulga) has a way with words like no other - perfect for the new Creative Writing course. And with Luna (Carlotta Truman), the school gains a new singing talent and the clique quickly makes a new friend. The teachers also get support: Mina (Shari Gall) takes over the singing lessons and the new dance teacher Anna (Mareike Zwahr) takes over the beginners' dance class.
The group of pupils is completed by Larissa (Leonie Pollok), Mads (Mike Leon Lichtenberg), Milan (Simon Zeller) and Lasse (Esmael Agostinho), who all have their own challenges to overcome in addition to their everyday school life. They have to overcome fears, forgive, trust and admit their own mistakes. Where will my path take me and who will be by my side - that is the big question!
In the sixth season, the students will again be visited and actively supported by numerous guest stars from TV, music and the world of influencers. They include TikTok stars JulesBoringLife and Twenty4Tim, singer Lotte, the band HE/RO and entrepreneur, choreographer and author Nikeata Thompson. GZSZ legend Wolfgang Bahro and Spotlight all-stars Lisa Küppers, HeyMoritz, Luana Knöll and Lea Mirzanli are also returning to the BSA as guest stars.
The new season is being filmed under strict adherence to extensive hygiene measures to minimise risk for cast and crew in relation to COVID-19.
Steffen Kottkamp, Brand Director Kids & Family Central Europe at Paramount: "No matter on which platform, Spotlight is a successful format that will become even more mature in the sixth season. We are looking forward to 13 x 22 minutes full of new impulses, new talents and lots of heart, music, dance and exciting stories."
The new episodes are once again produced by UFA Serial Drama in collaboration with Nickelodeon and ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS). Spotlight is edited by Wiebke Werner (Nickelodeon). Producer is Helga Löbel (UFA Serial Drama), producer is Florian Boesel (UFA Serial Drama).
First looks of the filming can be found at @spotlightdeutsch and @nickelodeondeutsch on Instagram, Nickelodeon Germany on YouTube and the TikTok account spotlightdeutsch.
From March 1, the new Nick Spotlight channel on Pluto TV will take all fans of the series back to the beginnings of the Berlin School of Arts. The five students Jannik, Toni, Ruby, Azra and Mo have passed the entrance exam to Germany's only school that combines performing arts and general education and the students want to turn their dream of show business into reality. All the ups and downs of the first five seasons can be seen daily around the clock on Nick Spotlight on Pluto TV.
Official Paramount (Deutschland), Austria (Österreich) and Switzerland's (Schweiz) press release:
Der Traum geht weiter: Drehstart für die sechste Staffel von Spotlight
Nickelodeon, VIS und UFA Serial Drama produzieren 13 neue Folgen der Erfolgsserie über die Berlin School of Arts
Berlin, 21. Februar 2022 – Mit bekannten Gesichtern, großen Gaststars und neuen Talenten geht Spotlight, die Erfolgsserie von Nickelodeon, VIS und UFA Serial Drama in die sechste Staffel: Schon seit dem 14. Februar läuft der Dreh, derzeit entstehen 13 neue Folgen mit erstmals je 22 Minuten Länge.
Einen Neuanfang markiert dabei der neue Schauplatz der Serie, denn das Team taucht für die Dreharbeiten direkt in den Alltag der Zielgruppe ein: Neue Kulisse für die Berlin School of Arts ist das FEZ-Berlin, das in Kooperation mit der Landesmusikakademie ihre Räumlichkeiten für die neue Staffel zur Verfügung stellt. Mit neuen Tanzsälen, einem Tonstudio, einer großen Konzerthalle, Kino und Schwimmbad bietet die neue Location ganz neue Möglichkeiten für die Schüler*innen um Greta (Chiara Tews), Rocco (Malcom Meckert), Emily (Nevena Schöneberg) und Sam (Jerome Weinert), ihre Träume vom Erfolg als Tänzer*in, Sänger*in oder Schauspieler*in zu verfolgen und dabei ganz viel Spaß zu haben.
Das neue Schuljahr bringt auch zwei neue Schüler*innen an die BSA: Lenny (German Shulga) kann wie kein anderer mit Worten umgehen – perfekt für den neuen Kurs Creative Writing. Und mit Luna (Carlotta Truman) gewinnt die Schule ein neues Gesangstalent und die Clique ganz schnell eine neue Freundin. Auch die Lehrer*innen bekommen Unterstützung: Mina (Shari Gall) übernimmt den Gesangsunterricht und die neue Tanzlehrerin Anna (Mareike Zwahr) die Beginnerklasse für Tanz.
Komplett wird die Gruppe der Schüler*innen von Larissa (Leonie Pollok), Mads (Mike Leon Lichtenberg), Milan (Simon Zeller) und Lasse (Esmael Agostinho), die alle neben dem Schulalltag, ihre ganz eigenen Herausforderungen zu meistern haben. Es gilt Ängste zu überwinden, zu verzeihen, zu vertrauen und sich eigene Fehler einzugestehen. Wo führt mich mein Weg hin und wer ist an meiner Seite – das ist die große Frage!
Auch in der sechsten Staffel bekommen die Schüler*innen Besuch und tatkräftige Unterstützung von zahlreichen Gaststars aus TV, Musik und der Welt der Influencer*innen. U.a. mit dabei sind die TikTok-Größen JulesBoringLife und Twenty4Tim, Sängerin Lotte, die Band HE/RO und die Unternehmerin, Choreographin und Autorin Nikeata Thompson. Auch GZSZ-Legende Wolfgang Bahro sowie die Spotlight-Allstars Lisa Küppers, HeyMoritz, Luana Knöll und Lea Mirzanli kehren als Gaststars zurück an die BSA.
Gedreht wird die neue Staffel unter strenger Einhaltung umfangreicher Hygienemaßnahmen zur Risikominimierung für Cast und Team in Bezug auf das Coronavirus.
Steffen Kottkamp, Brand Director Kids & Family Central Europe bei Paramount: „Egal auf welcher Plattform, Spotlight ist ein Erfolgsformat, das in der sechsten Staffel noch mal ein Stückchen erwachsener wird. Wir freuen uns auf 13 x 22 Minuten voller neuer Impulse, neuer Talente und jeder Menge Herz, Musik, Tanz und aufregender Geschichten.“
Produziert werden die neuen Folgen erneut von UFA Serial Drama in Zusammenarbeit mit Nickelodeon und VIS. Die Redaktion von Spotlight liegt bei Wiebke Werner (Nickelodeon). Produzentin ist Helga Löbel (UFA Serial Drama), Producer ist Florian Boesel (UFA Serial Drama).
Erste Einblicke in die Dreharbeiten gibt es bei @spotlightdeutsch und @nickelodeondeutsch auf Instagram, Nickelodeon Deutschland auf YouTube sowie dem TikTok-Account spotlightdeutsch.
Ab dem 1. März bringt der neue Sender Nick Spotlight bei Pluto TV alle Fans der Serie zurück an die Anfänge der Berlin School of Arts. Die fünf Schüler*innen Jannik, Toni, Ruby, Azra und Mo haben die Aufnahmeprüfung an Deutschlands einziger Schule, die Performing Arts und allgemeine Schulbildung verbindet, bestanden und wollen aus ihrem Traum vom Showbusiness Wirklichkeit machen. Alle Aufs und Abs der ersten fünf Staffeln gibt es bei Nick Spotlight auf Pluto TV täglich rund um die Uhr zu sehen.
Über Paramount:
Paramount ist ein führendes globales Medien- und Entertainmentunternehmen, das erstklassige Inhalte und Erlebnisse für ein weltweites Publikum kreiert. Zum Markenportfolio des Unternehmens gehören unter anderem CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV und Simon & Schuster. Mit innovativen Streaming-Angeboten, digitalen Bewegtbildprodukten und den linearen TV-Angeboten erreicht Paramount in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz mehr als 40 Millionen Haushalte und weltweit mehr als 4,3 Milliarden Zuschauer in mehr als 180 Ländern auf fünf Kontinenten. Durch starke Partnerschaften in den Bereichen Consumer Products und Recreation sind die Marken von Paramount außerdem erlebbar auf Events, als Lizenzprodukte und in Freizeitparks.
Über VIS:
Seit 2018 produziert VIS Inhalte für Paramount-Marken und -Plattformen, darunter Paramount+, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, Channel 5, Network 10, Telefe und Chilevisión, sowie für Dritte. Zum Studio gehören auch Ananey und Porta Dos Fundos sowie die neue, auf gesellschaftliche Themen ausgerichtete Abteilung VIS Social Impact. Die Inhalte von VIS decken alle Genres ab: Kinder, junge Erwachsene, Live-Action und Animation, Seifenopern, Dramen, kurze und lange Comedy-Formate und Spielfilme.
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Official UFA press release:
SPOTLIGHT: Sechste Staffel der UFA Serial Drama Serie exklusiv bei Paramount+
UFA produziert erstmals für Paramount+
Potsdam, 20. Juni 2022. Paramount+ gab heute bekannt, dass die sechste Staffel von SPOTLIGHT, der erfolgreichen Nickelodeon-Serie über die talentierten Schauspiel-, Tanz- und Gesangsschüler:innen der Berlin School of Arts, exklusiv bei Paramount+ zu sehen sein wird. Die 13 neuen 22-minütigen Episoden, die von UFA Serial Drama im Auftrag von VIS und Nickelodeon produziert werden, befinden sich derzeit in der Postproduktion. Ein konkreter Sendetermin steht noch nicht fest.
Helga Löbel, Produzentin UFA Serial Drama: „Wir freuen uns ganz besonders, dass wir für die neue SPOTLIGHT-Staffel mit Paramount+ einen neuen Partner haben, der uns direkt nach dem Launch das Vertrauen schenkt, uns mit auf die Reise zu nehmen, um unsere junge Zielgruppe dort zu erreichen, wo sie unterwegs ist – bei den Streaminganbietern. Die SPOTLIGHT-Community wächst von Jahr zu Jahr und unsere Serie ist der Beweis dafür, dass es sich lohnt, in Deutschland Marken für Kinder aufzubauen. Wir haben uns zum Ziel gesetzt, die Wünsche der jungen Zuschauer:innen ernst zu nehmen, die nach lokalen Inhalten verlangen, die universell erzählt werden und sich international anfühlen. Wir haben gegenüber dieser Zielgruppe eine ganz besondere Verantwortung, denn es geht um viel mehr als Programm. Es geht um ein Lebensgefühl bei dem jungen Publikum. SPOTLIGHT ist unsere Möglichkeit, den Kids zu zeigen, dass sie mit ihren Fragen und Themen nicht allein sind.“
Im Mittelpunkt der neuen Staffel stehen Greta (Chiara Tews), Rocco (Malcom Meckert), Emily (Nevena Schöneberg) und Sam (Jerome Weinert), die ehrgeizig ihren Träumen von der großen Bühne folgen, dabei aber den Spaß nicht aus den Augen verlieren. Im neuen Schuljahr stoßen der kreative Lenny (German Shulga) und das Gesangstalent Luna (Carlotta Truman) zur Gang, die von Larissa (Leonie Pollok), Mads (Mike Leon Lichtenberg), Milan (Simon Zeller) und Lasse (Esmael Agostinho) komplettiert wird. Neben dem Schulalltag müssen sie dabei alle ihre ganz eigenen Herausforderungen meistern und ihren Weg finden.
Dabei bekommen sie erneut Besuch und tatkräftige Unterstützung von zahlreichen Gaststars aus TV, Musik und der Welt der Influencer:innen. U.a. mit dabei sind die Sängerinnen Lotte und Madeline Juno, die TikTok-Größen JulesBoringLife und Twenty4Tim, sowie Unternehmerin, Choreographin und Autorin Nikeata Thompson. Auch GZSZ-Legende Wolfgang Bahro sowie die SPOTLIGHT-Allstars Lisa Küppers, HeyMoritz, Luana Knöll und Lea Mirzanli kehren als Gaststars zurück an die BSA. Als Produzentin für UFA Serial Drama zeichnet Helga Löbel verantwortlich, Producer ist Florian Boesel. Die Redaktion von SPOTLIGHT liegt bei Wiebke Werner und Maleen Haug (Nickelodeon).
Über UFA SERIAL DRAMA
Das Kerngeschäft der UFA Serial Drama umfasst die Entwicklung und Produktion serieller Formate: Mit GUTE ZEITEN, SCHLECHTE ZEITEN etablierte das Unternehmen 1992 die erste und bis heute erfolgreichste tägliche Serie des deutschen TV-Markts. 1994 folgte UNTER UNS und 2006 ALLES WAS ZÄHLT. Jüngste Formate aus dem Hause UFA SERIAL DRAMA sind u.a. SPOTLIGHT (seit 2016), NACHTSCHWESTERN (2019/20), RAMPENSAU (2019), LENSSEN ÜBERNIMMT 1/2/3 (seit 2020), SUNNY – WER BIST DU WIRKLICH? (2020), VERBOTENE LIEBE – NEXT GENERATION (2020), EVEN CLOSER – HAUTNAH (2021), NIHAT – ALLES AUF ANFANG (2021) sowie LEON – GLAUB NICHT ALLES, WAS DU SIEHST! (2022). Die Langlebigkeit der Serien und die Innovationskraft des Unternehmens machen UFA Serial Drama zum Marktführer in seinem Segment. Die Geschäftsführer sind Markus Brunnemann und Joachim Kosack.
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Below is the complete list of the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed in each of the 27 categories are winners. Multiple honorees include David Henry Hwang (Soft Power book and score) and Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop book and score) The titles are linked to my reviews.
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Grand Horizons
Written by Bess Wohl
Produced by Second Stage Theater
Developed in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Height of the Storm
Written by Florian Zeller
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, Simon Friend, Mark Goucher, Harold Panter, and Scott Landis
The Inheritance
Written by Matthew Lopez
Produced by Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions, Hunter Arnold, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, 1001 Nights Productions, Robert Greenblatt, Mark Lee, Peter May, Scott Rudin, Richard Winkler, Bruce Cohen, Mara Isaacs, Greg Berlanti & Robbie Rogers, Brad Blume, Burnt Umber Productions, Shane Ewen, Greenleaf Productions, Marguerite Hoffman, Oliver Roth, Joseph Baker/Drew Hodges, Stephanie P. McClelland, Broadway Strategic Return Fund, Caiola Productions, Mary J. Davis, Kayla Greenspan, Fakston Productions, FBK Productions, Sally Cade Holmes, Benjamin Lowy, MWM Live, Lee & Alec Seymour, Lorenzo Thione, Sing Out, Louise! Productions, AB Productions/Julie Boardman, Adam Zell & Co./ZKM Media, Jamie deRoy/Catherine Adler, DeSantis-Baugh Productions/Adam Hyndman, Gary DiMauro/Meredith Lynsey Schade, John Goldwyn/Silva Theatrical Group, Deborah Green/Christina Mattsson, Cliff Hopkins/George Scarles, Invisible Wall Productions/Lauren Stein, Sharon Karmazin/Broadway Factor NYC, Brian Spector/Madeleine Foster Bersin, Undivided Productions/Hysell Dohr Group, UshkowitzLatimer Productions/Tyler Mount, and The Young Vic
Linda Vista
Written by Tracy Letts
Produced by Second Stage Theater and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, in association with Center Theatre Group
The Sound Inside
Written by Adam Rapp
Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Lincoln Center Theater, Rebecca Gold, Evamere Entertainment, Eric Falkenstein, Salman Vienn Al-Rashid, Spencer Ross, Filmnation Entertainment/Faliro House, Iris Smith, Jane Bergère, Caiola Productions, Mark S. Golub and David S. Golub, Ken Greiner, Gemini Theatrical Investors, LLC, Scott H. Mauro, Jayne Baron Sherman, Czekaj Productions, Wendy Morgan-Hunter, Kristin Foster, Brian Moreland, Sonia Mudbhatkal, Jacob Soroken Porter, and Williamstown Theatre Festival); Associate Producer: Haley McIntosh
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
Jagged Little Pill
Music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard
Lyrics by Alanis Morissette
Book by Diablo Cody
Produced by Vivek J. Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David, Eva Price, Caiola Productions, Level Forward & Abigail Disney, Geffen Playhouse-Tenenbaum-Feinberg, James L. Nederlander, Dean Borell Moravis Silver, Stephen G. Johnson, Concord Theatricals, Bard Theatricals, M. Kilburg Reedy, 42nd.club, Betsy Dollinger, Sundowners, The Araca Group, Jana Bezdek, Len Blavatnik, BSL Enterprises, LLC, Burnt Umber Productions, Darren DeVerna & Jeremiah Harris, Daryl Roth, Susan Edelstein, FG Productions, Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky, Harmonia, John Gore Theatrical Group, Melissa M. Jones & Barbara H. Freitag, Stephanie Kramer, Lamplighter Projects, Christina Isaly Liceaga, David Mirvish, Spencer B. Ross, Bellanca Smigel Rutter, Iris Smith, Jason Taylor & Sydney Suiter, Rachel Weinstein, W.I.T. Productions/Gabriel Creative Partners, Independent Presenters Network, Jujamcyn Theaters, and The American Repertory Theatre
Moulin Rouge!
Book by John Logan
Based on the 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Motion Picture written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Produced by Carmen Pavlovic, Gerry Ryan, Global Creatures, Bill Damaschke, Aaron Lustbader, Hunter Arnold, Darren Bagert, Erica Lynn Schwartz/Matt Picheny/Stephanie Rosenberg, Adam Blanshay Productions/Nicolas & Charles Talar, Iris Smith, Aleri Entertainment, CJ ENM, Sophie Qi/Harmonia Holdings, Baz & Co./Len Blavatnik, AF Creative Media International Theatre Fund, Endeavor Content, Tom & Pam Faludy, Gilad-Rogowsky/InStone Productions, John Gore Organization, MEHR-BB Entertainment GmbH, Spencer Ross, Nederlander Presentations/IPN, Eric Falkenstein/Suzanne Grant, Jennifer Fischer, Peter May/Sandy Robertson, Triptyk Studios, Carl Daikeler/Sandi Moran, DeSantis-Baugh Productions, Red Mountain Theatre Company/42nd.club, Candy Spelling/Tulchin Bartner, Roy Furman and Jujamcyn Theaters; By special arrangement with Buena Vista Theatrical
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Book by Katori Hall
With Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins
Produced by Stage Entertainment, James L. Nederlander, Tali Pelman, Feste Investment B.V., David Mirvish, Nattering Way, TEG Dainty, Katori Hall, Mark Rubinstein LTD, Warner Chappell, Peter May, Eva Price, No Guarantees, Caiola Productions, Jamie deRoy, Wendy Federman, Roy Furman, Independent Presenters Network, John Gore Organization, Marc Levine, Carl Moellenberg, Al Nocciolino, Catherine Adler, Tom Perakos, Iris Smith, Candy Spelling, Anita Waxman, Daryl Roth, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group; Produced in association with Tina Turner
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Cambodian Rock Band
Written by Lauren Yee
Produced by Signature Theatre Company
Greater Clements
Written by Samuel D. Hunter
Produced by Lincoln Center Theatre
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven+
Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Produced by Atlantic Theater Company and LAByrinth Theater Company
Make Believe
Written by Bess Wohl
Produced by Second Stage Theatre
Seared
Written by Theresa Rebeck
Produced by MCC Theater
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Darling Grenadine
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik
Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company
Octet
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Dave Malloy
Produced by Signature Theatre Company
The Secret Life of Bees
Book by Lynn Nottage
Music by Duncan Sheik
Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead
Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd
Produced by Atlantic Theater Company
Soft Power
Book and Lyrics by David Henry Hwang
Music and Additional Lyrics by Jeanine Tesori
Produced by the Public Theater and Center Theatre Group
A Strange Loop
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson
Produced by Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 Productions
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Betrayal
Written by Harold Pinter
Produced by Ambassador Theatre Group, Benjamin Lowy Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, Glass Half Full Productions, Annapurna Theatre, Hunter Arnold, Burnt Umber Productions, Rashad V. Chambers, Eilene Davidson Productions, KFF Productions, Dominick LaRuffa Jr., Antonio Marion, Stephanie P. McClelland, Richard Winkler/Alan Shorr, and The Jamie Lloyd Company
Fires in the Mirror
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Produced by Signature Theatre
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Written by Ntozake Shange
Produced by the Public Theater
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Written by Terrence McNally
Produced by Hunter Arnold, Debbie Bisno, Tom Kirdahy, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, Broadway Strategic Return Fund, Caiola Productions, FedermanGold Productions, Invisible Wall Productions, John Gore Organization, Mike Karns, Kilimanjaro Theatricals, Peter May, Tyler Mount, Seriff Productions, Silva Theatrical Group, Cliff Bleszinski/GetterLazarDaly, Jamie deRoy/Gary DiMauro, Suzi Dietz & Lenny Beer/Sally Cade Holmes, Barbara H. Freitag/Ken Davenport, Barry & Kimberly Gowdy/Mabee Family Office, Kayla Greenspan/Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf, John Joseph/Broadway Factor, Tilted Windmills/John Paterakis, and The Shubert Organization
A Soldier’s Play
Written by Charles Fuller
Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Little Shop of Horrors
Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Produced by Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Caiola Productions, Curt Cronin, John Joseph, DDM Productions, DeSantis-Baugh Productions, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, Wendy Federman, Roy Furman, Deborah Green, Kayla Greenspan, Marguerite Hoffman, Sally Cade Holmes, Latitude Link, Seriff Productions, Silva Theatrical Group, Eric Gelb/Oliver Roth
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson
Book and New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan
Based on the Original Book by Richard Morris
Music Adapted by Michael Rafter
Produced by Transport Group
West Side Story
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Arthur Laurents
Based on a Conception by Jerome Robbins
Produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Eli Bush, Adam Rodner, and James L. Nederlander
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Georgia Mertching Is Dead by Catya McMullen
Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer
Paris by Eboni Booth
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Diablo Cody, Jagged Little Pill
David Henry Hwang, Soft Power
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Lynn Nottage, The Secret Life of Bees
Mark Saltzman, Romeo and Bernadette
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Susan Birkenhead and Duncan Sheik, The Secret Life of Bees
Ross Golan, The Wrong Man
Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop
Dave Malloy, Octet
Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang, Soft Power
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance
Kenny Leon, A Soldier’s Play
Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal
John Ortiz, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Stephen Brackett, A Strange Loop
Michael Mayer, Little Shop of Horrors
Diane Paulus, Jagged Little Pill
Alex Timbers, Moulin Rouge!
Ivo van Hove, West Side Story
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Sidi Larbi Cherakoui, Jagged Little Pill
Raja Feather Kelly, A Strange Loop
Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge!
Anthony Van Laast, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Travis Wall, The Wrong Man
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill
Alex Lacamoire, The Wrong Man
Justin Levine, with Matt Stine, Katie Kresek, and Charlie Rosen, Moulin Rouge!
Christopher Nightingale, A Christmas Carol
Duncan Sheik and John Clancy, The Secret Life of Bees
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Ian Barford, Linda Vista
Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements
Raúl Esparza, Seared
Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal
Will Hochman, The Sound Inside
Jonathan Pryce, The Height of the Storm
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Eileen Atkins, The Height of the Storm
Judith Ivey, Greater Clements
Joaquina Kalukango, Slave Play
April Matthis, Toni Stone
Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside
Portia, Stew
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
David Alan Grier, A Soldier’s Play
John Benjamin Hickey, The Inheritance
Paul Hilton, The Inheritance
Samuel H. Levine, The Inheritance
John-Andrew Morrison, Blues for an Alabama Sky
Chris Perfetti, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
Montego Glover, All the Natalie Portmans
Marsha Mason, Little Gem
Krysta Rodriguez, Seared
Lois Smith, The Inheritance
Jennifer Van Dyck, The Confession of Lily Dare
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
David Cale, We’re Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time
Laura Linney, My Name Is Lucy Barton
Aedin Moloney, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom
Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.
Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Jonathan Groff, Little Shop of Horrors
Joshua Henry, The Wrong Man
Adam Kantor, Darling Grenadine
Larry Owens, A Strange Loop
Isaac Powell, West Side Story
Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge!
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Janelle McDermoth, We’re Gonna Die
Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge!
Shereen Pimentel, West Side Story
Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Pill
Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors
Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge!
Gus Halper, Sing Street
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
Montego Glover, All the Natalie Portmans
Marsha Mason, Little Gem
Krysta Rodriguez, Seared
Lois Smith, The Inheritance
Jennifer Van Dyck, The Confession of Lily Dare
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
David Cale, We’re Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time
Laura Linney, My Name Is Lucy Barton
Aedin Moloney, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom
Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.
Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Jonathan Groff, Little Shop of Horrors
Joshua Henry, The Wrong Man
Adam Kantor, Darling Grenadine
Larry Owens, A Strange Loop
Isaac Powell, West Side Story
Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge!
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Janelle McDermoth, We’re Gonna Die
Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge!
Shereen Pimentel, West Side Story
Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Pill
Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors
Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge!
Gus Halper, Sing Street
Jay Armstrong Johnson, Scotland, PA
Francis Jue, Soft Power
Daniel J. Watts, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Eisa Davis, The Secret Life of Bees
Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Pill
LaChanze, The Secret Life of Bees
Judy McLane, Romeo & Bernadette
Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill
Saycon Sengbloh, The Secret Life of Bees
OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Tim Mackabee, Seared
Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge!
Clint Ramos, Grand Horizons
Anthony Ward, The Height of the Storm
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Vanessa Leuck, Emojiland
Jeff Mahshie, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Mark Thompson, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Rachel Townsend & Jessica Jahn, The Confession of Lily Dare
Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Isabella Byrd, Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside
Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge!
Hugh Vanstone, A Christmas Carol
Hugh Vanstone, The Height of the Storm
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Luke Halls, West Side Story
Brad Peterson, Broadway Bounty Hunter
Lisa Renkel and Possible Productions, Emojiland
Aaron Rhyne, The Sound Inside
Hannah Wasileski, Fires in the Mirror
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Simon Baker, A Christmas Carol
Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.
Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge!
Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada, Is This A Room
Daniel Kluger, The Sound Inside
Productions with Multiple Honors
11: Moulin Rouge!
8: Jagged Little Pill
7: The Secret Life of Bees, The Sound Inside
5: The Inheritance, The Height of the Storm, A Strange Loop, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, West Side Story
4: A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, Seared, Soft Power, The Wrong Man
3: Greater Clements, Fires in the Mirror
2: Betrayal, The Confession of Lily Dare, Dana H., Darling Grenadine, Grand Horizons, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Linda Vista, Octet, Romeo and Bernadette, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Artists with Multiple Honors:
David Henry Hwang (Soft Power book and score)
Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop book and score)
Hugh Vanstone (lighting for A Christmas Carol and The Height of the Storm)
Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons, Make Believe)
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Outer Critics Circle 2020 Honorees (not nominees) Below is the complete list of the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed in each of the 27 categories are winners.
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As the season heats up, Off-Broadway is showcasing plenty of screen stars — or maybe it’s the other way around. Click on the photographs to learn the show and the theater, then check out details in my guide to the Off-Broadway Spring 2019 Guide ,
Uzo Aduba in Toni Stone Lydia Diamond (Roundabout)
Alan Cumming in Daddy by Jeremy O. Harris (Vineyard and the New Group)
Daveed Diggs in White Noise by Suzan-Lori Parks (Public Theater)
Chris Noth and Isabelle Huppert in The Mother by Florian Zeller (Atlantic)
Debra Jo Rupp in The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter (MTC)
Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal in Sea Wall/A Life by Simon Stephen and Nick Payne respectively (The Public)
The Week in New York Theater Reviews
The Neurology of the Soul
If Edward Einhorn has given his play a title that might prove a tad off-putting to anybody but neurologists who read Scientific American, the playwright has fashioned an accessible plot that is more or less a love triangle, which allows him to weave in neurological observations about his trio of central concerns – love, art and marketing.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
There was one thrilling moment in Manhattan Concert Productions’ one night only concert version of Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton’s “Scarlet Pimpernel” at Lincoln Center last night. Norm Lewis as the evil French revolutionary Chauvelin draws his sword on Tony Yazbeck, who portrays a man with a double identity, the masked hero of the title, and the English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney. Yazbeck, looking for a weapon, grabs the first violinist’s bow. He apologizes, and seeks help next from the conductor of the New York City Chamber Orchestra, who just happens to have a sword handy. Lewis and Yazbeck fight gallantly, Laura Osnes as Sir Percy’s wife Marguerite St. Just gets in on the act — and then suddenly, Yazbeck starts dancing. Yazbeck is one of the best dancers on Broadway, and it’s Heavenly. Then Lewis joins him in a soft-shoe routine.
Otherwise, despite a starry cast with great voices, there is unlikely to be much of a reassessment of this musical that critics called “middlebrow,” “wooden,” “pulpy” and boring when it opened on Broadway in 1997, but whose fans kept it running for more than two years. One thing has changed: It’s easier to see the exaggerated foppishness of Sir Percy and his men (in order to escape suspicion that they are the heroic he-men that do battle against the French) as crossing the line into homophobia.
Books:
Looking for Lorraine
Lorraine Hansberry was just 28 years old when “A Raisin in the Sun” opened on Broadway — 60 years ago next month – and lived only six more years, dying of cancer at the age of 34. Yet her short life was extraordinarily full and varied. She was the privileged daughter of an affluent, politically active Chicago family whose father’s anti-segregation lawsuit was resolved in his favor by the United States Supreme Court. She was a radical activist and anti-colonialist who gave speeches on Harlem street corners… She was an intellectual who studied with the legendary scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois and debated with novelist Richard Wright; a bohemian who lived in Greenwich Village in an interracial marriage; a closeted but active lesbian who wrote short stories about lesbian life under a pseudonym; a celebrity who formed close friendships with both writer James Baldwin and singer Nina Simone…
Fraver by Design: 5 Decades of Theatre Poster Art
Some of the theater posters Frank Verlizzo designed hang on the famous flop wall of Joe Allan’s restaurant. Some hold a prominent place in the homes of grateful Broadway stars. But many are images embedded in various parts of our brain via images in newspaper ads, on the side of buses, t-shirts, album covers, and up and down the Great White Way.
Many of those posters appeared in an exhibition at the New York Library or the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and are now in his coffee table book…
“Just a Homosexual at a Broadway Show”
A passage from Less (Little, Brown), the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Andrew Sean Greer about a middle-aged gay writer living in San Francisco who takes a trip around the world to avoid attending the wedding of his ex-lover. His first stop is New York:
“New York is a city of eight million people, approximately seven million of whom will be furious when they hear you were in town and didn’t meet them for an expensive dinner…It is completely reasonable to call none of them.
You could instead sneak off to a terrible, treacly Broadway show that you will never admit you paid two hundred dollars to see. This is what Less does on his first night, eating a hot dog dinner to make up for the extravagance. You cannot call it a guilty pleasure when the lights go down and the curtain goes up, when the adolescent heart begins to beat along with the orchestra, not when you feel no guilt. And he feels none; he feels only the shiver of delight when there is nobody around to judge you. It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well. By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up
You could instead sneak off to a terrible, treacly Broadway show that you will never admit you paid two hundred dollars to see. This is what Less does on his first night, eating a hot dog dinner to make up for the extravagance. You cannot call it a guilty pleasure when the lights go down and the curtain goes up, when the adolescent heart begins to beat along with the orchestra, not when you feel no guilt. And he feels none; he feels only the shiver of delight when there is nobody around to judge you. It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well. By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up
and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.“
The Week in New York Theater News
Tony Calendar
April 25: Official cut-off for 2018–2019 Tony Eligibility. …
April 30: 2019 Tony Award nominations revealed. …
May 1: Meet the Nominees Press Reception. …
May 21: Tony Nominees’ Luncheon. …
June 3: The Tony Honors Reception. …
June 9: The 73rd Annual Tony Awards, taking place at Radio City Music
.@DontStoponBway, the Michael Jackson musical, has canceled its pre-Bway run in Chicago (due to complications involving the now-settled @ActorsEquity strike) and will now have its world premiere on Broadway in the summer of 2020. pic.twitter.com/DwcV1OhoAK
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 15, 2019
@arsnova kicks off its @GreenwichHouse residency w/ #MrsMurraysMenagerie, created by @the_madones (Miles for Mary) March 26-April 27 A focus group probes the parents of the target audience for a 1970s children’s TV show.
Cast replacements
Frozen: Ryann Redmond as Olaf, Joe Carroll as Hans, and Noah J. Ricketts as Kristoff j
Brian d’Arcy James and Holley Fain lead the new (American) cast of The Ferryman
Aladdin: Ainsley Melham becomes Aladdin and Mike Longo Kassim
Odd Calamities in The Theater
Panic at Hamilton in San Francisco
Manhole explosion on 50th Street
Manholes exploding on 50th Street forced the evacuation of New World Stages, and canceled performances of “Jersey Boys” and “Avenue Q.” ”Puffs” “A Spirited History of Drinking,” and most appropriately, The Play That Goes Wrong.
Heard FIVE manhole explosions on W 50th St. The first one was right outside Avenue Q theatre. #HellsKitchen #NYC pic.twitter.com/oPa8O51v43
— Renee Xiaoyu Wang (@reneexiaoyuwang) February 17, 2019
How Extra Arts Education at School Boosts Students’ Writing Scores — And Their Compassion
How art creates community by Teresa Eyring
Comedy and Theater
Laughing Matters by Matthew McMahan in HowlRound
One can look at almost any comedy, from the irreverence of The Book of Mormon, to the agitprop of the Latino collective Culture Clash, to the philosophic whimsy of playwright Sarah Ruhl, and find a whole host of information about the way a culture thinks and feels and acts….Laughter, then, tells us who we are even when we don’t want it to, and the American theatre would be remiss to ignore it.
Why Comedy Is Eating Theatre’s Lunch by Jason Zinoman in American Theatre
A message to the theatre: Comedy is, if not your enemy, then at least a very formidable rival.
TV was long seen as the enemy of theatre. A common criticism you would often hear of a play is that it was too much like a sitcom. But TV was always fundamentally different than theatre. Comedy, on the other hand, shares a lot. It is a live art form, and the same romantic defenses you often hear of theatre you can also hear from comics—the beauty of its ephemerality, the present-tense nature of the form in a time when everyone is on screens. People who once went into the theatre are now going into comedy.
“I’m Not A Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce” will begin an eight-week engagement at The Box (189 Chrystie Street) March 8th.
Yes, who ARE you? Answer: The art work is by Shantell Martin, part of the New York City Ballet art series.
Screen stars on Off Broadway Stages. Tony Calendar. Comedy and Theater: Why you laughing? Just A Homosexual at a Broadway Show. #Stageworthy News of the Week. As the season heats up, Off-Broadway is showcasing plenty of screen stars -- or maybe it's the other way around.
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