This Week on Broadway for March 23, 2014: Robert L. Freedman

Peter Filichia, James Marino and Michael Portantiere talk with Robert L. Freedman from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. We review Rocky, Date of a Lifetime @ NJ Rep, and Stephanie J. Block and Andrew Rannells with the New York Pops.   Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below.   Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, with Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks being his most recent. His columns appear at MTI, Kritzerland, Masterworks Broadway and many other places. James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars   Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review and BroadwayStars. He is also a photographer whose work can be seen at FollowSpotPhoto.com and many other places on the internet.   Notes and links for the podcast.   Guest: Robert L. Freedman ROBERT L. FREEDMAN (Book/Lyrics) Received the Fred Ebb and Kleban awards for the musicals A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Campaign of the Century with Steven Lutvak, and was nominated for Emmy and Writers Guild awards for the television miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. Other teleplays include Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (WGA nomination), HBO’s A Deadly Secret (WGA winner), What Makes A Family (GLAAD Award, Humanitas finalist), Murder In The Hamptons, The Pastor’s Wife, Honor Thy Mother, What Love Sees, Bitter Blood, and Broadway Sings The Music of Jule Styne (PBS). Stage works include The Beast of Broadway: The Life and Times of David Merrick, written with Faye Greenberg, and the musical Grand Duchy, with composer John Bayless. robertlfreedman.com @robertlfreedman www.agentlemansguidebroadway.com   Reviews: MP + PF + JM: Rocky @ Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway PF: Date of a Lifetime @ NJ Rep, Long Branch MP: NY Pops with Stephanie Block Andrew Rannels    News:  Artistic Problems Delay Rockettes’ ‘Heart and Lights’ Until 2015 by LARRY ROHTER and PATRICK HEALY ArtsBeat: A New Phantom and Christine Are Coming to the Opera by Allan Kozinn Norm Lewis will take over as the Phantom and Sierra Boggess as Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera.”   Recordings:  Kiss Me Kate Brigadoon   Post Script: Broadway Backwards Music Man in NJ   Next Week:      Explicit: No     Music:       Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-855-987-8277 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook   Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.