Backstage Babble: Beyond the Walls of Joe Allen Restaurant
February 19, 2025
This performance will also be livestreamed. For tickets and more information, click here.
What do you think of when you think of Joe Allen? Maybe it’s the great food, or the star sightings any patron is likely to have. But most people associate the restaurant with its legendary “flop wall” featuring posters of Broadway’s shortest-running shows: Moose Murders, Scandalous, Rags, and more. Charles Kirsch, the host of theater podcast Backstage Babble, will take a deep dive into some of these under-appreciated shows as well as other Broadway misses that have yet to make it to the wall, with first hand accounts and performances by the performers who were there. Any die-hard Broadway fan won’t want to miss hearing these stories. Music direction and piano by Michael Lavine.
Featuring:
Ivy Austin representing Raggedy Ann
Tony Award® nominee Charles Busch representing House of Flowers
Philip Casnoff representing Rockabye Hamlet
Danielle Chambers representing Her First Roman
Alma Cuervo representing Is There Life After High School?
Natascia Diaz representing The Capeman
Drama Desk nominee Jerry Dixon representing Bright Lights, Big City
Emmy nominee Jill Eikenberry representing Onward Victoria
Luba Mason representing The Capeman
Jeff McCarthy representing Side Show
Cass Morgan representing The Human Comedy
Tony Award® nominee Lee Roy Reams representing Lorelei
Allen Lewis Rickman representing The People in the Picture
Jenna Lea Rosen representing Rachael Lily Rosenbloom (And Don’t You Ever Forget It)
Stuart Zagnit representing The People in the Picture
Please note that all artists and acts are subject to change at any time.
