This Week on Broadway for December 6, 2015: Vivian Reed

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Matt Tamanini chat with Vivian Reed. We review NBC's live broadcast of The Wiz, Al Pacino in China Doll, A Child's Christmas in Wales @ Irish Rep, Gigantic @ Vineyard, Santaisa @ St Lukes, New York Animals @ The New Ohio Theater and talk about upcoming productions and concerts. ---------------------------------- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every week (mostly) 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, whose play ADAM'S GIFTS: A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL, will soon be opening in Clinton, Iowa at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre. PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, "The Great Parade", available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Kritzerland, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select 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 theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com. Matt Tamanini | Twitter Matt is BroadwayWorld's Senior TV and Film critic, and is an editor at BWW Orlando. He is also the host BroadwayWorld's "Some Like it Pop" podcast. You can connect with Matt through Twitter @BWWMatt.   Notes and links for the podcast. Guest: Vivian Reed IBDB Vivian Reed is a two-time Tony Award nominee (Bubbling Brown Sugar and The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club), Drama Desk Award winner, Outer Critics Circle Award winner, and has received an NAACP Award as well. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music and has sustained a dynamic career as an actress, singer and dancer on the stage and screen. In addition to several appearances on “The Tonight Show,” “The Today Show” and the ABC-TV daytime drama “One Life to Live,” Ms. Reed took on the role of Josephine Baker in the film Le Rumba. Selected by People Magazine as one of the “25 Most Intriguing People of the Year,” Vivian Reed has captured the hearts of audiences all over the world and continues to share her wealth of knowledge and experience as a celebrity vocal teacher on the staff of Marymount College, in New York City.   Piaf : A Centennial Celebration Town Hall, New York, NY Sat, Dec 19, 2015 08:00 PM     Reviews: MT + MP + PF: The Wiz LIVE! - NBC.com PF + JM: China Doll @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street PF: Gigantic @ Vineyard, Santaisa  @ St Lukes, New York Animals @ The New Ohio Theater MP: A Child's Christmas in Wales @ Irish Rep MP: Upcoming concerts: Marilyn Maye @ Metropolitan Room, Chita Rivera @ Cafe Carlyle, and Daniel Reichard’s “Under the Mistletoe”   News:  Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! For Dec. 5, 2015 -- Not My Job: We Ask Actor Jeff Daniels About People Named Steve And Their Jobs 2016 Broadway Production Website Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams to Star in Broadway ‘Blackbird’ 2007 MTC Production of Blackbird   Television:  Tours:  Recordings:  Post Script: Next Week:  Explicit: No Music:   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. YouTube Transcript: (Beta)