This Week on Broadway for January 4, 2015: The Merry Widow at The Metropolitan Opera

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about The Merry Widow at The Metropolitan Opera, Michael's review of Into The Woods movie, and Michael Padgett and Anthony Logan Cole @ 54 Below... plus Peter Filichia's Trivia Challenge! ---------------------------------- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you (mostly) every week since March 16, 2009 and is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more then 300 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews. 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 a new one, "The Great Parade" to be released on April 7th, available everywhere. 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.   Reviews: MP + PF: The Merry Widow @ The Metropolitan Opera (Info & Schedule) The Merry Widow: 2014–15 New Production (Video) A preview of Susan Stroman's new production of Lehár's "The Merry Widow," starring Renée Fleming and conducted by Andrew Davis. Opens December 31, 2014.   MP: Into the Woods (movie) MP: Michael Padgett and Anthony Logan Cole @ 54 Below     News:        Recordings:        Post Script:       Next Week:        Explicit: No       Music: Into the Woods (Movie Soundtrack) 01-03- Hello, Little Girl 02-13- Finale Children Will Listen (Pt 1)   Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666 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.