Today’s Highlights:
LAByrinth Theater Company’s Celebrity Charades 2026! benefit, featuring Lea DeLaria and many more (not reported), at 6:30 PM at NYC’s Pier 57, (25 11th Ave.).
Dreamers on Fire benefit concert, with music direction by Jason Goldston , featuring Alex Newell, Sidney Dupont, Ryann Redmond, Olivia Hardy, Samantha, Pollino , Brett Gray, Ari Groover , Jeff Gorti, Rachel Webb), Grace Slear, Rico LeBron, Jason Goldston, Tristan Hill, Thea Erichsen, Ginna Le Vine, Samantha Gorjanc, Grace Conrad, Sarah Stipe, Ann-Eliza Canning-Skinner, Nicole Hood, and Amy Bransky, at 7:30 PM at NYC’s Cutting Room.
Red Bull Theater‘s Paris, Actors! reading, by Hamish Linklater, directed by Jack O’Brien, featuring Gus Birney, Fred Hechinger, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Jay O. Sanders, Lily Santiago, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Azalea Wolfe, at 7:30 PM at Off-Broadway’s Symphony Space.
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Grace Notes Quiz: Come, Come, by Jim Bernhard
Add the missing phrases in these show songs:
| 1. “Come ____” – Can-Can | A. Fly With Me |
| 2. “Come ____” – Hello, Dolly! | B. Home With Me |
| 3. “Come ____” – On A Clear Day You Can See Forever | C. Rain or Come Shine |
| 4. “Come ____” – Come Fly Away | D. Up to My Place |
| 5. “Come ____” – Barnum | E. Along With Me |
| 6. “Come ____” – Hadestown | F. Back to Me |
| 7. “Come ____” – The Wedding Singer | G. To Me, Bend to Me |
| 8. “Come ____” – St. Louis Woman | H. And Be My Butterfly |
| 9. “Come ____” – Brigadoon | I. Out of the Dumpster |
| 10. “Come ____” – On the Town | J. Follow the Band |
Scroll down for the answers…
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Reviews for Fallen Angels at Broadway’s Todd Haimes Theatre:
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Pamela Gray & Ann Marie Milazzo’s A Walk on the Moon will run June June 15. – Aug. 22 (opening June 29) at the the Laura Pels Theatre , directed by Sheryl Kaller.
Talia Suskauer (Pearl Kantrowitz), Max Chernin (Marty Kantrowitz), Sam Gravitte (Walker), and Andréa Burns (Lillian).
a new musical about dreams differed and one women’s desire for a life that isn’t strictly earthbound. It’s the Summer of 1969. Pearl Kantrowitz, a Brooklyn mother and housewife, takes the annual trip north to a Catskills bungalow colony just as the world begins to shift beneath her feet. The country is reaching for the moon. A new spirit of freedom is sweeping the nation. And an unexpected encounter leads her to a musical festival happening just around the corner. As the countercultural revolution begins, and music starts to change the world, Pearl awakens to a life beyond the one she’s always known.
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Pippin will run May 12 – July 6 at DC’s Signature Theatre, directed by Matthew Gardiner, with choreography by Rachel Leigh Dolan, and music direction by Jon Kalbfleisch.
Cedrick Neal (Leading Player), with Brayden Banbino (Pippin), Eric Hissom (Charles), Maria Rizzo (Fastrada), Naomi Jacobson (Berthe), Awa Sal Secka (Catherine), Ryan Sellers (Lewis), and Ellison Bihm (Theo), with Ben Bogen, Calvin L’mont Cooper, Candice Hatakeyama, Georgia Monroe, Alanna Sibrián, Jacob Taylor Starks, Emily Steinhardt, Hank von Kolnitz, Dylan Arredondo, Alonso Nicolas Waller, Liz Weber, Veronica Quezada, and Ian Rubin.
A traveling troupe of performers bring to life the story of Pippin, the restless heir of Charlemagne, on his quest for purpose. Dreaming of greatness, he dives into war, passion, and even murder—only to find himself disillusioned at every turn in this dazzling and provocative coming-of-age parable about what it means to be extraordinary.
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Nora Sorena Casey’s The Censorship of Dreams will run May 1-17 at (opening May 4) at La MaMa, directed by Arthur Makaryan.
Jes dubber, Chris Jaymes, Kat Warnnusz-Steckel and Bryce Michael Wood.
After the mysterious Restart, people awaken without memories, living with strangers they’re told are their families. The Man and the Woman are one such couple: she strives for a happy marriage, he doubts the assurances that this Restart is “for everyone’s safety.” When she takes a job cataloguing problematic dreams at an official Post Office, he begins a dangerous and haphazard journey to rediscover forbidden words and images that might reveal what came before. As dreams become dangerous currency and language is slowly weaponized, their love is tested by a surveillance state, the failures of the past and the decision of what comes next.
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Something Rotten will run May 1 – June 7 at Lyric Stage Boston, directed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz.
Jared Troilo (William Shakespeare), Ryan Mardesich (Nick Bottom), Ohad Ashkenazi (Nigel Bottom), Joy Clark (Nostradamus), Kristian Espiritu (Bea), Kenneth Kelleher (Brother Jeremiah), Lauren Dodds (Portia), Bobbie Steinbach (Shylock), and Brian Miner (Lord Clapham), with Jonah Barricklo, Temma Beaudreau, Danny Hernandez, Elliana Karris, Jennifer Preston, Indijhan Richard, and Colin Welter.
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Billy Barnes Bash will take place Wed.Apr. 22 at 8:30 PM at LA’s Catalina Jazz Club, directed by Kay Cole, with music direction by Michael Orland.
Eileen Barnett, Cheryl Dano, Jane A. Johnston, Jackie Joseph, Jeffrey Polk, Todd Sherry, James Snyder, BJ Ward, Jo Anne Worley and David Zack.
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Twisted, by Chris DiGiovanni, a Writers in Residence Production, continues through May 3 at Theatre West, directed by Marc Antonio Pritchett.
Crystal Yvonne Jackson, Isaiah Frazilus, and Monty Renfrow.
As Scilla begins the journey to uncover the truth of the tragic events that took place to her son on his college campus, the path she’s on not only leads to changes in her life and worldview, but ultimately changes in her relationship with her son, which may turn out to be the biggest tragedy of all.
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Jesus Christ Superstar continues through June 7 at CT’s Goodspeed Musicals, directed by Tatiana Pandiani.
Justin Matthew Sargent (Jesus), Austin Lesch (Judas), Stephanie Zaharis (Mary), Devin Kolluri (Pilate), Nicolette Antonia Shin (King Herod), Jamar Darling (Caiaphas), Jamari Darling (Caiaphas), and Kevin Trinio Perdido (Annas), with Jordan Alexander, Elijah Dawson, Jack Hale, Michael James, Eleni Kontzamanys, Alex Lauren, Kathy Liu, Adam Mandala, Thabitha Moruthane, Mikaela Rada, Matthew Saggiomo, Garrick Vaughan, Dakota Hoar, Selena Robinson.
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Grace Notes Quiz: answers: Come, Come, by Jim Bernhard
1-E. “Come Along With Me” – Can-Can
2-H. “Come and Be My Butterfly” – Hello, Dolly!
3-F. “Come Back to Me” – On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
4-A. “Come Fly With Me” – Come Fly Away
5-J. “Come Follow the Band” – Barnum
6-B. “Come Home With Me” – Hadestown
7-I. “Come Out of the Dumpster” – The Wedding Singer
8-C. “Come Rain or Come Shine” – St. Louis Woman
9-G. “Come to Me, Bend to Me” – Brigadoon
10-D. “Come Up to My Place” – On the Town