Welcome

To
54 Below

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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 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/accompaniment by Michael Lavine.

Featuring:

Tony Award^® nominee Brenda Braxton representing Legs Diamond
Drama Desk nominee Philip Casnoff representing Rockabye Hamlet
Drama Desk nominee Robert Creighton representing Laughing Room Only
Tony Award^® nominee Anita Gillette representing Kelly
Tony Award^® nominee Josie De Guzman representing Nick and Nora
Tony Award^® nominee Willy Falk representing Marilyn
Tony Award^® nominee Beth Fowler representing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Lucia Giannetta (A Bronx Tale) representing Leap of Faith
Tony Award^® nominee Amanda Green representing High Fidelity
Tony Award^® nominee Michael Korie representing Doctor Zhivago
Michael Kubala representing A Broadway Musical
Heather MacRae representing Here’s Where I Belong
Tam Mutu representing Doctor Zhivago
Elena Shaddow representing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Jim Walton representing Merrily We Roll Along
Jack Witham representing 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Tony Award^® nominee Martin Vidnovic representing Home, Sweet Homer
Plus a special video appearance from Tony Award^® winner Alan Menken representing Leap of Faith

Photo credit for Michael Korie: Bronwen Sharp

Live from 54 Below is a new series featuring streams of LIVE performances direct from Broadway’s Living Room! Designed to make more shows accessible to fans from across the globe and to recreate the live experience, all shows will be presented exclusively at the time of performance with an in-house audience and will not be available on demand afterwards.