This Week on Broadway for January 25, 2016: BroadwayCon and Ute Lemper

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk with Ute Lemper. We talk about BroadwayCon. Reviews include Our Mother's Brief Affair, La Boheme @ Met. ---------------------------------- 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. You can also get all of your news for 'This Week on Broadway' by Liking BroadwayRadio on Facebook or following us on Twitter at BroadwayRadio. 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, 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. Notes and links for the podcast.   Guest: Ute Lemper     Ute Lemper’s career is vast and varied, having made her mark in films, recordings and on theater and concert stages around the world. As a recording artist, her discography thus far encompasses more than 30 albums over 30 years, including 2012’s Grammy-nominated Paris Days, Berlin Nights on Steinway & Sons. She has been lauded for her interpretations of Berlin cabaret songs, the works of Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht and the Chansons of Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Leo Ferre, Jacques Prevert and Nino Rota, among many others—not to mention her own compositions. She has recorded the music of Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Philip Glass and Nick Cave, and was named Billboard’s Crossover Artist of the Year for 1993–1994. THE 9 SECRETS TRACK LIST After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the answers to questions about life and humanity is unearthed. / Simple questions about our lives torn between happiness and sorrow and defined by hope, intelligence and desire to love as much as the capacity to hate and destroy… This is not about the absolute truth of life or death. Despite all futile arguments it will stay a mystery. / But it is about knowledge that helps us live and confront the challenges of day to day life. / A simple knowledge of the heart. 1. Beauty 2. Love 3. Movimento 4. The Story of Accra* 5. Solitude 6. Sex 7. Success 8. The Word and the Virtue 9. Fire 10. Change 11. Paulo’s Story* 12. A Thought *featuring Paulo Coelho www.utelemper.com facebook.com/UteLemperOfficialPage youtube.com/utelempersmusic IMDB IBDB Paulo Coelho   Reviews: PF + JM: BroadwayCon JM + PF + MP: Our Mother's Brief Affair MP: La Boheme @ Met MP: Japanese Ambassador's home Trip of Love @ Stage 42   News:  Hello Dolly with Bette Midler   Television & Film:  Tours:  Recordings:  Post Script: Ken Billington on Ken Davenport's podcast   Next Week:  PF: Atlantic Theatre Company Skeleton Crew PF: Irish Rep Burial of Theives   Explicit: No Music: Chicago, Original London Cast Recording 02 All That Jazz 12 My Own Best Friend   THE 9 SECRETS 01 Beauty   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)