This Week on Broadway for April 5, 2015: Anika Larsen

James Marino talks with Anika Larsen. Peter Filichia and Michael Portantiere join in to review the Atlantic Theater Company's production of Posterity and Broadway By The Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1941-1965 @ The Town Hall. In the news, we talk about why Honeymoon in Vegas is closing, it looks like Hunchback won't make it across the river, Audra takes to twitter, Cats has a fall 2016 revival, Al Pacino in China Doll and Tommy Tune's Tenth Tony!   ---------------------------------- 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. Guest: Anika Larsen Anika Larsen: Sing You To Sleep This Week on Broadway for May 18, 2014: Anika Larsen   Reviews: PF: Atlantic Theater Company's production of Posterity @ Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street MP: Broadway By The Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1941-1965 @ The Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street JM: The Heidi Chronicles @ The Music Box Theatre, 239 West 45th Street   News:  Broadway Break Up – Honeymoon In Vegas Closes Today by Andrew Gans What's Playing on Broadway (new website in development) Paper Mill Hunchback rumor: no transfer to Broadway in the works. Audra McDonald Rips Indiana Governor Over Law The Broadway singer and actress tweeted her disgust with the newly passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana. Musicals Tonight! Pardon My English by George & Ira Gershwin, April 7-19, 2015 Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats Revival Likely to Arrive on Broadway in Fall 2016 by Andrew Gans Fran Kranz Will Join Al Pacino in David Mamet's China Doll; Broadway Dates & Theater Set by Imogen Lloyd Webber Broadway Legend Tommy Tune Will Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 2015 Tonys by Imogen Lloyd Webber Scott Rudin bringing ‘Groundhog Day’ to Broadway If You Insist on Hearing My Opinion … Brian Stokes Mitchell going into 20th Century for Peter Gallagher?     Television:        Tours:        Recordings:      Post Script:     Next Week:      Explicit: No     Music: Anika Larsen: Sing You To Sleep Summertime Count on Me You Can Close Your Eyes (with Jessie Mueller)     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.