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Emmy Winner Yeardley Smith began her career on Broadway as Cynthia Nixon’s understudy in The Real Thing directed by Mike Nichols. She is best know for the voice of Lisa Simpson on the Simpsons, and has also appeared in Herman’s Head, Family Guy, The Big Bang Theory and Mad Men. Yardley is the co-host of popular True Crime Podcast Small Town Dicks with Paul Holes, and Dan & Dave.
Eila and Bruce also share their behind the scenes look at new musical Empire directed by Tony Winner Cody Huffman playing at New World Stages from July 1st - September 22nd. They also discuss Ke Huy Quan’s Oscar win.for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Yeardley Smith is an Emmy Award® winning actress, producer, novelist and playwright who has appeared on television, film and Broadway. She has been the voice of Lisa Simpson on Fox’s hit television show The Simpsons since 1987. She has also appeared in numerous films including All Square (in post production), New Year’s Eve, Miles, Offer and Compromise, As Good As It Gets, Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, City Slickers, and The Legend of Billie Jean. Favorite television appearances include The Mindy Project, The Big Bang Theory, Mom, Fresh Off the Boat, Hot In Cleveland, Mad Men, the sitcom classic Murphy Brown, 5 years as Greg’s crabby secretary ‘Marlene’ on Dharma and Greg, and 3 years as ‘Louise Fitzer’ one of the Fox network’s earliest sitcoms, Herman’s Head. She wrote and performed her one-woman show, “MORE” off-Broadway in 2004, and in Los Angeles in 2005. She published her first novel, I Lorelei, through HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2009. She owned her own women’s luxury shoe line called Marchez Vous for 5 years beginning in 2010. And in 2015, she co-founded the development company, Paperclip Ltd., with Ben Cornwell, for the purpose of developing stories at their earliest stages across all mediums.
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11yr old Tony Winner takes us from The Secret Garden to the The Strange and Unexplained
Daisy Eagan shares the unique experience of being the youngest female winner in Tony history. She recounted working with Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker and John Cameron Mitchell who was writing Hedwig & The Angy Inch at the same time. Daisy was shocked to learn of her impact on Broadway star Sutton Foster, and had no idea that Neil Patrick Harris watched her perform from the wings. Now a podcaster herself, Daisy is the host of the popular Strange and Unexplained as well as Dear Daisy.
Also in this episode - Marissa Jaret Winokur 2003 Tony Award win for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for Hairspray. Eila & Bruce discuss Jenifer Lewis & Marc Shaiman and give their thoughts on The Notebook.
Throughout a multi-decade career, Tony award-winner, Daisy Eagan, has dazzled audiences from the stage to television and film, and award-winning writing, and several podcasts.
At age eleven, Eagan became the youngest female to win a Tony Award for Best Performance by A Featured Actress for playing Mary Lennox in “The Secret Garden,” for which Eagan also received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations.
Eagan also appeared on Broadway in “Les Miserables” and “James Joyce's The Dead,” as well as countless off-broadway and regional plays and musicals, including two stints at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019 (30 Minute Musicals and Steve Yockey’s “Sleeping Giant.”). Favorite productions include world premieres of Christopher Shinn’s “On the Mountain” (South Coast Rep), Annie Weisman’s “Be Aggressive”(La Jolla Playhouse), and Barbara Dana’s “War in Paramus” (HB Studios), as well as Lachuisa’s “Wild Party”(The Blank Theater Company) for which Eagan won an L.A. Weekly award.
Eagan has appeared in several films including “Losing Isaiah,” “Ripe,” and “Tony and Tina’s Wedding.”
On television, most recently, Eagan had a recurring role as one of the first non-binary characters on Network television, in Freeform’s “Good Trouble.” Before that, Eagan starred in HBO’s “Girls” playing a version of Lena Dunham’s character opposite Adam Driver. Additional television credits include HULU’s “The Path,” CBS’ “The Mentalist,” “Without a Trace,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “The Unit” and “Numb3rs.”
Eagan is also an award-winning writer with a loyal and growing audience, and a fierce fighter and activist for women's and LGBTQIA2+ rights. She is a rousing voice in political arenas and continues to fight for change throughout her literary career. She has penned op-eds for publications including HuffPost and Playbill.com, and had a column for USA Today Network’s The Journal News. Eagan is currently adapting her award-winning short screenplay, “Tony and Annette” into a full-length feature by popular demand.
Most recently, Eagan has switched focus to podcasting, with three successful podcasts, “Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan” (named one of Rolling Stone’s top 20 podcasts of 2021), available wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as “Dear Daisy: A podcast about secrets,” and “STFU Nick Lachey” A Love is Blind recap podcast with co-host Broadway sensation Ellyn Marsh, both available either exclusively or early and ad-free on Grab Bag Collab an egalitarian podcasting network on Patreon which Eagan co-founded in 2023 with Pulitzer Prize winner Amber Hunt and Pulitzer and Emmy award winner Amanda Rossmann. Grab Bag strives to provide a platform for voices that may struggle finding a home at big name networks. The network is profit-sharing, and all creators retain ownership of their content.
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Our day at the Tony’s from rehearsal to show…and awards recap.
Eila & Bruce share what it was like to be at the Tony awards rehearsal as well as the big show. Listen to hear the who, what, where and wow of the biggest day for Broadway. Plus, who predicted the winners best from our deep dive episodes.
Also in this episode, Eila & Bruce share one of their favorite speeches of the night. Kecia Lewis winning Featured Actress in a Musical for Hell’s Kitchen.
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Jeff & Rick Kuperman give us a deep dive on the process of creating the choreography for The Outsiders. They discuss their unique collaborative relationship as brothers and how that helped form the framework for The Outsiders, a show about brothers. Eila and Bruce also discuss Jennifer Aniston SAG award for Outstanding Actress for her work on the morning show and how our Friend got her SAG card doing a Bob’s Big Boy commercial.Rick Kuperman & Jeff Kuperman (CHOREOGRAPHY). Upcoming: co-directing & choreographing an immersive show with Emursive of Sleep No More. Recent choreo: Alice by Heart (MCC; Lortel, Chita Rivera, and Callaway Awards), Cyrano (Goodspeed/The New Group), Alien/Nation (Williamstown), Phish at MSG, The Count of Monte Cristo (St. Petersburg, Russia), Peter Pan (Beijing, China), The Light Princess (ART/New Victory). Film: Verona, Dicks: The Musical (A24), Silent Retreat (Miramax). TV: “Living with Yourself” (Netflix). As directors: Roll! (Ars Nova), Dispossessed (HERE), Smile (FringeNYC). Education: B.A.s, Harvard & Princeton. kupermanbrothers.comMake sure to check out Eila's book, "The Tony Awards", and all her other amazing books: https://amzn.to/43WMu5Y.Connect with Eila and Bruce:Instagram @behind_the_awardsEila @eilamellBruce @cominghomewithbruceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Celia discusses working with Jessica Lang and Jim Parsons and having a role created for her in Paula Vogel’s Mother Play. Celia takes us on a journey of her career including The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bell, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Gilded Age. Celia shares what she was doing the morning nominations came out and how she balances being a working actor and motherhood.
Eila and Bruce also discuss Sarah Jessica Parker’s Golden Globe win for Sex and the City and a career that has spanned 50yrs beginning with Annie on Broadway
CELIA KEENAN-BOLGER. Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, Glass Menagerie, The Cherry Orchard, Peter and The Starcatcher, Les Misérables, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: Parallelogram, The Oldest Boy, Merrily We Roll Along, A Small Fire, Bachelorette. Select Film/TV: “The Gilded Age,” “Bull,” “Louie,” “The Good Wife,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Good Behavior,” “Elementary,” Diane, The Visit, Breakable You. Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle, three Drama Desk Award wins. Member of The Actors Center. NYCLU Michael Friedman Freedom Award recipient. UMichigan graduate. Training to be an end-of-life doula.
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Rumors have it that Stereophonic will bring home the Tony
Feature Friday! Eila & Bruce bring you the sixth installment of their Tony deep dive. They are joined by expert Matt Stashin and share who will win and who they want to win in the following categories. Best Musical, Best Play, Scenic Design of a Musical, Lead Actress of a Musical, Lead Actor of a Musical.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Mary Jane, Mother Play, Prayer for the French Republic, Stereophonic, Hells Kitchen, Illinoise, The Outsiders, Suffs, Water for Elephants, Brody Grant, Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along, Dorian Harewood, The Notebook, Brian d’Arcy, Days of Wine and Roses, Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret, Eden Espinosa, Lempicka, Maleah Joi Moon, Maryann Plunket, Kelli O’Hara, Gayle Rankin, Back to the Future, Here Lies Love.
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Kenny Leon and his victorious revival!
Director Kenny Leon opens up about the hit revival of Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious starring Leslie Odom Jr and Kara Young. Kenny gives us the scoop on his busy upcoming season including Home at the Roundabout Theater, Our Town lead by Jim Parsons & Katie Holmes, and Othello with Denzel Washington & Jake Gyllenhaal. Kenny gives listeners a glimpse into his cinematic directing process for the stage and how he turned the play American Son starring Kerry Washington into a movie for Netflix in 4 days.
Eila and Bruce also discuss Audra McDonald’s Best Featured Actress Tony win for Raisin in the Sun and the Breaking News of her Mama Rose in Gypsy at the newly renovated Majestic Theater.
Kenny Leon is a Tony Award-winning Broadway and television director. His Broadway credits include the Tupac musical Holler If You Hear Me, A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington (Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play), The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, Stick Fly, August Wilson’s Fences (which garnered ten Tony nominations and won three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play), Gem of the Ocean and Radio Golf. He also directed Smart People for Second Stage. Leon's recent television work includes "Hairspray Live!", and "The Wiz Live!" on NBC. He is the recipient of the 2016 Mr. Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing and the 2010 Award for Excellence in Directing from the Drama League. Mr. Leon serves on the board of New York's Public Theater and is Artistic Director of Atlanta's Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company.
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Jessica Lang is the “Mother” to beat this Tony season?
Feature Friday! Eila & Bruce bring you the fifth installment of their Tony deep dive. They are joined by expert Matt Stashin and share who will win and who they want to win in the following categories. Director of a Musical, Costume Design of a Musical, Lead Actress of a Play, Lead Actor of a Play
Maria Friedman, Merrily We Roll Along, Michael Greif,, Leigh Silverman, Suffs, Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants, Danya Taymor, The Outsiders, Hells Kitchen, The Great Gatsby, Cabaret, William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya, Leslie Odom Jr, Purlie Victorious, Liev Schreiber, Doubt, Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People, Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots, Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic, Jessica Lang, Mother Play, Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane, Sarah Paulson, Appropriate, Amy Ryan
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Take a sharp left at Avenue Q and that’s how you get to Sesame Street!
John Tartaglia’s journey from a 16 year old puppeteer on Sesame Street to originating the first ever puppet sex scene on Broadway. John talks about the new season of Fraggle Rock on Apple TV and his full circle experience with Jim Henson.
Also in this episode - Jackee Harry’s historic Emmy win in 1987 when she became the first Black Actress to win Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for 227.
Eila & Bruce discuss seeing Lempicka during previews and its new ending debut.
At the age of 16, John Tartaglia began his professional career as a puppeteer for Sesame Street. He earned a Tony award nomination for his Broadway debut in the dual roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q". Other Broadway roles include Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and originating Pinocchio and the Magic Mirror in Shrek the Musical. John went on to create, executive produce and star in his own preschool series Johnny and the Sprites, for Disney Junior, nominated for 8 Emmy awards, including a nomination for “Outstanding Performance in a Children’s Series” followed by creating the acclaimed Off-Broadway and international touring musical "ImaginOcean" that was re-imagined for television on PBS Kids called "Jim Henson's Splash and Bubbles” (Creator, Co-Executive Producer and starring as "Splash"). John also stars as Kip the Wallaby on Jim Henson's Word Party and as Hank in Julie’s Greenroom(starring Dame Julie Andrews) both on NETFLIX.
John’s theatrical directing credits include both Stephen Schwartz's The Secret Silk and Jim Henson's Inspired Silliness for Princess Cruises, Kinky Boots(3d Theatricals), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Maltz Jupiter Theater), Claudio Quest(NY Musical Theatre Festival- Winning 6 awards including "Best in Fest” and Best Director), Shrek The Halls(Dreamworks Theatricals), Because of Winn Dixie (Arkansas Rep and Goodspeed Operahouse development) and Jim Henson’s Musical World (Carnegie Hall).
Most recently, he finished filming the second season of the EMMY winning Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock where he performs Gobo Fraggle, Architect Doozer, Gunge, Barry Blueberry and Sprocket the Dog as well as serving as an executive producer, writer and puppet captain.
John has worked many summer seasons at the country's award- winning oldest outdoor theater, the St Louis MUNY, directing such shows as Shrek the Musical, The Wizard of Oz, Tarzan, Annie, Matilda, Mary Poppins and most recently Disney's Beauty and the Beast. the national tours of Jim Henson’s Dinosaur Train Live and Jim Henson’s Sid the Science Kid Live! as well as several shows for Sesame Place, PA.
John can be heard every Sunday on Sirius XM On Broadway on his show “Sunday Funday with John Tartaglia.”
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Is it “Appropriate” for Lila Neugebauer to win the Tony?
Feature Friday! Eila & Bruce bring you the fourth installment of their Tony deep dive. They are joined by expert Matt Stashin and share who will win and who they want to win in the following categories. Director of a Play, Sound Design of a Musical, Lighting Design of a Play, Revival of a Musical.
Cabaret, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Merrily We Roll Along, The Who’s Tommy, Here Lies Love, Hells Kitchen, The Outsiders, An Enemy of the People, Prayer for the French Republic, Stereophonic, Appropriate, Grey House, Daniel Aukin, Anne Kauffman, Mary Jane, Kenny Leon Purlie Victorious, Lila Neugebauer, Whitney White Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
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Water for Elephants swings into Tony season!Shana Carroll and Jesse Robb discuss combining dance and circus choreography to thrill Broadway audiences. We learn how learn how Grant Guston jumps from a train, Isabelle McCalla flies from a trapeze and performers give life to horses and elephants that steal our hearts. Listen to find out how this show operates differently than any other show on Broadway.Eila & Bruce also discuss Eddie Redmayne’s Oliver win for Best Actor in a Musical for Cabaret. Not to be missed is their coverage of the Drama League Awards including Sarah Paulson once in a career win.SHANA CARROLL (Circus Designer & Co-Choreographer).Co-founding artistic director of The 7 Fingers, where she created over a dozen shows including Traces, Sequence 8, Cuisine & Confessions, Passengers. Other directing: Cirque du Soleil’s Crystal; circus component of Queen of the Night; Cirque du Soleil performance on 84th Academy Awards. Other circus design/choreography: Paramour (Broadway); Cirque du Soleil’s Iris; Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony. JESSE ROBB (Co-Choreographer) has worked at The Alliance Theatre, The Stratford Festival of Canada, Theatre Calgary, Ogun[1]quit Playhouse, Opera Philadelphia, Cirque du Soleil and MOMIX, among others. He is the movement director for the Cameron Mackintosh production of Les Misérables (U.S. national and South Korea) and was the associate choreographer for Miss Saigon (Broadway, U.S. tour, Vienna). Thanks and love to MF, PP, KZ, Les and Roberta Robb.Make sure to check out Eila's book, "The Tony Awards", and all her other amazing books: https://amzn.to/43WMu5Y.Connect with Eila and Bruce:Instagram @behind_the_awardsEila @eilamellBruce @cominghomewithbruceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Will Lindsay Mendez Merrily Roll Along to her second Tony win?
Magnificent Monday! Eila & Bruce bring you the third installment of their Tony deep dive. They are joined by expert Matt Stashin and share who will win and who they want to win in the following categories. Featured Actress in a Musical, Book of a Musical, Scenic Design of a Play, Best Revival of a Play.
Shoshana Bean, Amber Iman, Nikki M James, Leslie Rodroguez Kritzer, Kecia Lewis, Lindsay Mendez, Bebe Neuwirth, Hells Kitchen, Lempicka, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Merrily We Roll Along, Cabaret, Suffs, The Notebook, Water for Elephants, The Outsiders, An Enemy of the People, Appropriate, Purlie Victorious, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Stereophonic
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Tom Kitt’s got something cooking in Hell's Kitchen with Alicia Keys.The Pulitzer Prize winning composer of Next to Normal discusses working with everyone from Alanis Morrissette (Jagged Little Pill), The Go Go’s (Head Over Heel), Green Day (American Idiot), and Lin-Manuel Miranda (Bigger). Tom shares the journey of Next to Normal from its infancy as a 10 minute musical class assignment with Brian Yorkey. Tom Kitt recounts working with an array of recording artists to bring Spong Bob Square Pants to Broadway and the thrill he had working with a James Lapine on Flying Over Sunset.Also in this Episodes - Shemar Moore announces Susan Lucci’s iconic Daytime Emmy win for Best Actress after 19 nominations.Eila & Bruce delve into an already packed 2024/2025 Broadway season which they are dubbing the Kenny Leon Season. Highlights include; Othello starring Denzel Washington & Jake Gyllenhall, Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger, and Elton John’s Tammy Faye.Tom Kitt is a two-time Tony, two-time Emmy, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner. As a musical theater composer, he has written the music for six Broadway shows: Next to Normal (Tony Award), If/Then (Tony Nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Tony Nomination), High Fidelity, Bring it On, The Musical, and Almost Famous. His work for the stage has also been seen Off Broadway at 2nd Stage (Next to Normal, Superhero), The Public Theater (The Visitor, Shakespeare in the Park) and he has worked at some of the most prestigious regional theaters including The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, The Signature Theater, and ART. In addition, Tom’s Broadway credits as an orchestrator include: Next to Normal (Tony Award), The SpongeBob Musical (Tony Nomination), Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination), Almost Famous, Head Over Heels, Everyday Rapture, and American Idiot. Tom has also been active in the world of film and TV. As one of the vocal arrangers working on the Pitch Perfect films, Tom most notably helped create the classic “Riff-off.” Tom also served as music supervisor/arranger/orchestrator for Grease Live and contributed songs for Royal Pains and Penny Dreadful. He also provided music supervision for the NBC series, Rise and has written numerous songs for Sesame Street. And he is known for his two original opening numbers for The Tony Awards, Live in 2019, written with David Javerbaum for James Corden, and the Emmy Award winning, Bigger in 2013, written with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Neil Patrick Harris. Tom is also proud that his musical adaptation of Freaky Friday, co-written with Bridget Carpenter and Brian Yorkey was turned into an original movie musical for Disney Channel. Most recently, Tom served as a Supervising Music Producer on the new Bobby Lopez/Kristen Anderson-Lopez/Steven Levenson/Thomas Kail musical television series, Up Here.As a recording artist/producer, Tom has worked on numerous original cast recordings, winning a Grammy award for his work on Jagged Little Pill. In 2019, he was signed to a recording contract with Sony Masterworks, and his debut album, Reflect featured a number of brilliant Broadway artists with whom Tom collaborated to create a song cycle touching on the challenges brought on by the pandemic. One of Tom’s compositions, She Has Hope was co-written with Danny Burstein and his late wife, the brilliant and gifted artist, Rebecca Luker. Featuring Brian D’Arcy James on vocals, a video of She Has Hope was filmed in 2021 in collaboration with Project ALS to bring more awareness and support to finding a cure. Reflect was also chosen by the Library of Congress to be featured in an exhibit showcasing art created during the pandemic. Make sure to check out Eila's book, "The Tony Awards", and all her other amazing books: https://amzn.to/43WMu5Y.Connect with Eila and Bruce:Instagram @behind_the_awardsEila @eilamellBruce @cominghomewithbruceLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Is there a clear winner this Tony Season…Doubt it?
Magnificent Monday! Eila & Bruce bring you the second installment of their Tony deep dive. They are joined by expert Matt Stashin and share who will win and who they want to win in the following categories. Featured Actress in a Play, Lighting Design of a Musical, Costume Design of a Play and Best Original Score..
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Juliana Canfield, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Sarah Pidgeon, Kara Young, Appropriate, Stereophonic, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Purlie Victorious, An Enemy of the People, Illinoise, Cabaret, Hells Kitchen, The Outsiders, Water for Elephants, Days of Wine and Roses, Here Lies Love, Suffs, The Mother Play, Doubt, David Byrne, Fat Boy Slim
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How do you get Clint Eastwood’s attention…Ask a Jersey Boy with a great falsetto
John Lloyd Young told us how to succeed in show business. From seeing Big River as a kid- produced by Dodger Theatricals and directed by Des McAnuff to interning with the production firm and later making his Broadway debut in Jersey Boys helmed by the same director and producers. John Lloyd Young shared what it took to land the role of Frankie Valli in the file version, directed by Clint Eastwood.
What does Barbara Cook, Ertha Kitt and John Lloyd Young have common? The Cafe Carlyle where John Lloyd will be appearing May 14th-18th. John Lloyd Young tells us that he returns to The Cafe Carlyle every year because its a piece of New York City history that is frozen in time.
Also in this episode - Sally Fields Oscar win for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for Places in the Hear in 1985.
Bruce & Eila discuss JT Rogers’ new play Corruption at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
Film, stage and concert artist, John Lloyd Young, is a Tony and Grammy winner, multi-Platinum recording artist and Presidential Appointee. As the original “Frankie Valli” in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, Young garnered unprecedented accolades from the New York and national media, going on to become the only American actor to date to win all four major Broadway Leading Actor in a Musical honors for a Broadway debut: the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award. Young starred in Jersey Boys on London’s West End, and was hand-picked by director Clint Eastwood to reprise his role in the Warner Bros. film adaptation, becoming one of only a select-few actors in entertainment history to take his Tony-winning role to the big screen.
Over the years, Young has sung selections from Jersey Boys several times at the White House, in the halls of Congress, and to Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, Bidens, Trumps, Pences, the Prime Minister and First Lady, Shinzo and Akie Abe, of Japan and the President and First Lady of Finland, Sauli Niinistö and Jenni Haukio.
As a concert artist, Young has taken his expertly-curated repertoire of classic pop and R&B to filled-to-capacity rooms, thrilling his audiences with a “disciplined one-in-a-million high tenor shading into falsetto that he can direct through the stratosphere” (The New York Times). He has played The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Finland, Mar-a-Lago, Clint Eastwood’s Tehama Country Club, New York’s Café Carlyle, Feinstein’s in NY and San Francisco, Radio City Music Hall, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade and New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
Appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities by Barack Obama, Young was sworn in at the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Elena Kagan. As a member of the Committee, Young represented the United States on the first U.S. Cultural Mission to the Republic of Cuba, along with fellow Committee members Kal Penn and Alfre Woodard, guest artists Usher, Smokey Robinson, Dave Matthews, violinist Joshua Bell, playwright John Guare, U.S. arts officials, including the Chairs of the NEA and the Smithsonian Institution, and members of Congress.
A resident of Los Angeles, Young was educated at Brown University and in Spain at the University of Salamanca. He knows fluent Spanish, conversational and written Mandarin, and sings in several languages, including Spanish, Mandarin, Hebrew and Italian. Trained by world championship title holders and Chinese Shaolin monks, Young holds a brown-belt in Shaolin Temple-style kung fu, and is a student and practitioner of Chinese Chan Buddhism.
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Will Harry Potter cast a spell on Tony voters?
Magnificent Monday! Eila & Bruce bring you the first installment of their Tony deep dive. They are joined by expert Matt Stashin and share who will win and who they want to win in the following categories. Featured Actor in a Play, Featured Actor in a Musical, Sound Design of a Play, Choreography and Orchestrations.
Daniel Radcliff, Roger Bart, Brandon Victor Dixon, Steven Skybell, Joshua Boonem Sky Lakota-Lynch, Jim Parsons, Corey Stoll, Will Brill, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Hells Kitchen, Here Lies Love, The Outsiders, Illinoise, Water for Elephants, Merrily We Roll Along, Back to the Future, Cabaret, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Mary Jane, Grey House, Appropriate, Stereophonic, The Mother Play
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Who’s The Witch next door…The Baker gives us the scoop on who he thinks it might be.
In this special live episode from The Museum of Broadway, Chip Zien talks about 50 years on Broadway and his Sardi’s caricature as well as Harmony, Into The Woods, Falsettos, Stephen Sondheim and a film her won’t name with Katharine Hepburn.
Also in this episode - Amber Riley wins Best Actress in a Musical at the 2023 Olivier Awards. Eila & Bruce discuss the Drama League and Outer Critic Circle Award Nominations.
Chip Zien most recently starred as Rabbi in Manilow/Sussman’s HARMONY earning some of the best reviews of his career. He created the role of the Baker in Sondheim/Lapine’s beloved INTO THE WOODS and Mendel in every iteration of William Finn/Lapine’s seminal productions of FALSETTOS. Also: Les Miz (Thenardier), CAROLINE OR CHANGE (Stopnick), GRAND HOTEL (Kringelein), Roundabout’s THE BIG KNIFE and THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE, THE COUNTRY GIRL, etc. Off-Bway: Drama Desk nominations for HARMONY, ISN’T IT ROMANTIC, A NEW BRAIN and many others.
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It’s nomination day!! Eila and Bruce dissect the 2024 Tony Award nominations. Everything from who they’re happy about, who was snubbed!
Back to the Future. Cabaret. Days of Wine and Roses. The Great Gatsby. Gutenberg. Harmony. Heart of Rock and Roll. Hell’s Kitchen. Here Lies Love. How to Dance in Ohio. Illinoise. Lempicka. Merrily We Roll Along. Spamalot. The Notebook. Once Upin a One More Time. The Outsiders. Suffs. Water for Elephants. The Who’s Tommy. The Wiz. Appropriate. The Cottage. Doubt. An Enemy of the People. Grey House. I Need That. Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Mary Jane. Mother Play. Patriots. Prayer for the French Republic. Purlie Victorious. The Shark is Broken. Stereophonic. Uncle Vanya.
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Spring Awakening and American Psycho composer and rock star Duncan Sheik recounts how it feels to win two Tony Awards in one night. Ducan give us the scoop on all things Spring Awakening including some advise from Liev Schreiber and the healing effect of the reunion concert. Duncan describes what it’s like to embody American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman while composing the score and future projects.
Also in this episode - John Travola introduces the world to Adele Dazeem…Idina Menzel as we all know her. Eila & Bruce play Casting Director and Dream Cast Jesus Christ Superstar.
Duncan Sheik is an American singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Sheik is known for his 1996 debut single "Barely Breathing", which earned him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He has composed music for motion pictures and Broadway musicals, winning the 2007 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for his work on the musical Spring Awakening.
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A pair of high heels and jumping over Jesse L. Martin’s head helped win Wilson Jermaine Heredia the Tony for playing Angel in Rent. His journey with the show started Off-Broadway and led him to eventually starring in the film version. He gives Behind the Awards a deep dive into the creation of this iconic show. Who would have thought this Tony winner would have to be convinced to even audition for this show?!
We also discuss a medical emergency at a performance of The Outsiders, as well as the show's chances of getting a Tony nomination for Best Musical.
Also included is a throwback to Elaine’s Stritch’s Emmy win in 2004 for Elaine Stritch at Liberty.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Wilson J Heredia was always surrounded by music. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a super. But they were both very musical. He studied medicine, and thought about advertising, but he realized he had to express himself, so he got into acting. He worked at a railway station in NY before he auditioned for the musical, RENT. He said he needed the $300 a week. Unbeknownst to him, his stint with the hit-musical would bring him popularity as a singer, dancer and actor, fans from all over the world and both the 1996 Tony award and Drama Desk award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He has appeared in several films, including his portrayal of Cha-Cha, the drag queen, in 1999's Flawless, where he worked opposite former Rent castmate Daphne Rubin-Vega. The film also stars Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Heredia also appeared in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode “Nocturne".
Along with five other principal members of the original Broadway cast, Heredia appeared in the film release of Rent, directed by Chris Columbus.
On January 9, 2006, he presented an a\ward at the Critics' Choice Awards with Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, and Tracie Thoms, his costars from the Rent motion picture. He appeared along with Dawson and Thoms on the 2007 film Descent, playing the character of Diego. Heredia has also guest starred on Medium and Without a Trace, and in 2009 he filmed a pilot called Three Chris’s. He made his return to Broadway in La Cage aux Folles on February 15, 2011, in the role of Jacob (replacing Robin de Jesús). He starred alongside Harvey Fierstein (who won a Tony Award for writing the Book of the musical) as Albin/Zaza and Broadway veteran Christopher Sieber as Georges. As of 2013, Heredia lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He starred in San Francisco Playhouse's production of Camelot, as Sir Lancelot, and Berkeley Playhouse's production of A Little Princess as Pasko. He made an appearance in the 2021 film Tick, Tick ...BOOM!, which was based on the musical of the same name by Rent creator Jonathan Larson. In 2022, Heredia was cast as the lead in Syracuse Stage's world premiere of the musical How to Dance in Ohio, based on the award winning documentary of the same name by Alexandra Shiva.
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