The Last Midnight: February

There are several shows closing in February (Not as many as January, but I decided to make this a monthly thing, sort of like a last chance call)

The River
Opened: November 16, 2014
Closing: February 8, 2015
Tony Awards: N/A


A Delicate Balance [Revival]
Opened: November 20, 2014
Closing: February 22, 2015
Tony Awards: N/A


The Elephant Man [Revival]
Opened: December 7, 2014
Closing: February 22, 2015
Tony Awards: N/A


You Can't Take It with You [Revival]
Opened: September 28, 2014
Closing: February 22, 2015
Tony Awards: N/A

Say That Again Sam: Phantom of the Opry

I'm literally crying!

Unkown: Shy

Here's a new segment where I pick a performance by someone in a community theater or school production of a show who did an awesome job!

Watch What Happens

Bernadette Peters as Dot/ Marie in Sunday in the Park with George
When I originally watched Sunday in the Park with George I was so, so, so, so, so confused, but when I watched it again I was still confused. When I watched it for the third time and I actually payed attention I was only confused by the ending. Besides the beautiful and extraordinary sets what stuck out the most was Bernadette Peters she was absolutely perfect in her role. I have never seen anyone near the same heights as miss Peters in the role of Dot/ Marie. Peters knew how to be funny and dramatic at the right moments and gave the right amount of humor or sadness at the time. Peters was robbed of the Tony Award that year.

"Sunday in the Park With George"


"Color and Light"


"Everybody Love's Louis"


"We Do Not Belong Together"


"Children and Art"


"Move On"

Stage to Screen

This years Academy Awards has a lot of Broadway/ stage veterans nominees this year.

• Best Actor
• Bradley Cooper- American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Broadway Revival of Three Days of Rain
• Broadway Revival of The Elephant Man
• Benedict Cumberbatch- The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• London Revival of Hedda Gabler
• 2006 Oliver Award Nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role
• London production of Frankenstein
• 2012 Oliver Award for Best Actor
• Eddie Redmayne- The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking
• Red
• 2010 Oliver Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role
• 2010 Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play
• Best Actress
• Marrion Cotillard- Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Joan of Arc at the Skate in France
• Joan of Arc at the Skate in Spain
• Felicity Jones- The Theory of Everything as Jane Hawking
• The Chalk Garden at Donmar Warehouse
• Luise Miller at Donmar Warehouse
• Rosamund Pike- Gone Girl as Amy Elliot- Dunne
• Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
• Gaslight as Bella Mannigham
• Summer and Smoke as Alma Winemiller
• Best Supporting Actress
• Kiera Knightley- The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• The Misanthrope
• 2010 Oliver Award Nomination for Best Performance in a Supporting Role
• Emma Stone- Birdman as Sam Thomson
• Cabaret as Sally Bowles
• Meryl Streep- Into the Woods as The Witch
• 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
• 1976 Tony Award Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play
•  A Memory of Two Mondays
• 1976 Tony Award Nomination for Best Feautred Actress in a Play

Let Me Be Your Star: Hannah Waddingham

I love Hannah Waddingham! She is amazing and so beautiful. She is a West End (London) star and has massive credits to her name as well as 3 Oliver Award Nominees. Her multiple credits include The Lady in the Lake in Spamalot, Desirée Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, The Witch in Into the Woods, Miss Gulch/ The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate and a lot more as well as being a factory worker in the highly successful Les Miserables movie.


Send in the Clowns


Memory


Diva's Lament (Whatever Happened to My Part)


The Song That Goes Like This


Red Shoes Blue


The Last Midnight


Take Me or Leave Me

Just Be!

That is what theater is about "Just Be! Who you wanna be celebrate your life triumphantly!"  The theater should be the one place where you do not have to question whether you are accepted or not. In order to prove it below are all the pictures I could find (So far) that involve stage actors who have been apart of NOH8 campaign. There is even a photo shoot every year at the Minskoff theater called NOH8 on BROADWAY and tons of Broadway stars show up for it. It's an annual event since 2011.

Brian Gallagher (Jekyll and Hyde)

Brian Gallagher (Jekyll and Hyde) and wife Megan Hilty (9 to 5, Wicked)

Eden Espinosa (Rent, Wicked) and Kendra Kassebaum (Assassins, Rent, Wicked)

Liza Minelli (Cabaret, Chicago, The Rink, Victor/Victoria)
2 Time Tony Winner
Honorary Tony

The Phantom of the Opera Stars Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis

Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, Love Never Dies, Master Class, The Phantom of the Opera)
Oliver Award Nominee

Norm Lewis(The Phantom of the Opera, Porgy and Bess, Side Show)
Tony Nominee

Megan Hilty (9 to 5, Wicked)

Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon, Les Miserables)
Tony Winner

Danny Burnstien (Cabaret, The Drowsy Chaperone, Follies, South Pacific) and his wife Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins, The Music Man, Phantom of the Opera, Show The Sound of Music)
Danny Burnstein: 5 Time Tony Nominee
Rebecca Luker: 3 Time Tony Nominee

Betsy Wolfe (Bullets Over Broadway, Everyday Rapture)

Jason Daniely (Curtains, The Full Monty, Next to Normal) and his wife Marin Mazie (Into the Woods, Kiss Me Kate, Next to Normal, Ragtime)
Marin Mazzie: 3 Time Tony Nominee
Oliver Award Nominee

Jefferson Mays (A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder, I Am My Own Wife)
Tony Winner
2 Time Tony Nominee

Kelli O'Hara (Jekyll & Hyde, The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific)
5 Time Tony Nominee

Joel Grey (Anything Goes, Cabaret, Chicago, Wicked)
Tony Winner
3 Time Tony Nominee

Ann Harada (Avenue Q, Cinderella)

Jonothan Groff (Spring Awakening)
Tony Nominee

To view the NOH8 on Broadway albums click here and here for two of the albums.