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January 9, 1930: The final act at the Globe Theatre brought down the house. Three people were killed, several dozen more were seriously wounded, and an uncounted number of people were injured by flying glass that rained down from Philadelphia City Hall.

This long-forgotten story and MORE will be part of our Philadelphia Theater History Walking Tour, October 28th! You can sign up today and join! Email us us at: AITHpodcast@gmail.com

May 2005: Mary Martello was rolling out the pies as Mrs. Lovett in the Arden Theatre's production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." For her work she would later receive Best Actress in a Musical at Philadelphia's Barrymore Awards.

(Top left, as Mama Rose in "Gypsy" - Arden Theatre, 2017. Bottom left, as Gertrude in "Hamlet" with Geoff Sobelle - Lantern Theater, 2009. Right, as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd" with Thom Sesma. )

A clip from our new episode!

It's the final installment of our trilogy about the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia, where as the '66-'67 season begins, there's trouble brewing for director Andre Gregory!

It's also the final episode of our second season, "Drama Is Conflict"! Join us as we wrap up our overall narrative about riots, lawsuits, disputes and in the of theater!

New Episode!

"Philadelphia Theater Scandal" takes us to the swinging years of the early 1960s!

But would what played on Sundays in New York be allowed on Saturdays in sleepy old Philadelphia?

Here's a quick preview soundbite!

Find us on whatever podcasting app you use, and LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE to "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia."

Censorship in the tolerant and sleepy old Quaker City? You betcha. Here are newspaper ads for three plays that stirred up a lot of controversy in Philadelphia back in the 1930's, during the administration of "The People's Mayor" Samuel Davis Wilson.

Hear all about it in our new episode, "Banned in Philadelphia"!

Available today on every podcasting app or platform! Search for "Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia."

In September of 1957, Philadelphia-born actor Iggie Wolfington was unexpectedly cast in "The Music Man" - by fellow native Philadelphia Morton DaCosta.

Wolfington went on to receive a Tony nomination for his work as Marcellus on Broadway - though losing out to David Burns, who played Mayor Shinn in the same show. He can be heard singing the song "Shipoopi" on the original cast album.

May 13, 1911: The company of Dumont's Minstrels pose on the steps of the 11th Street Opera House in Philadelphia.

A onetime church, the building had been a highly popular minstrel theatre for many decades, but now it was being demolished to make room for a Horn & Hardart's automat.

Our episode about the long history of minstrelsy in Philadelphia theater can be found here:
aithpodcast.com/the-last-minst

Feb. 26, 1976: Crowds gather under the marquee of the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, as Leonard Bernstein & Alan Jay Lerner's musical "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" began a pre-Broadway tryout.

The score and the meta-theatrical elements of the book were changed by the producers over the next weeks. Its shake-down run lasted at the Forrest till mid-March, but got poor reviews from Philly critics.

February 12, 1861: James Murdoch was appearing in “Hamlet” at the Walnut Street Theatre.

Murdoch, though this poster from the collection of The Library of Congress does not mention it, was a native Philadelphian, born in 1811. We discuss him in our Episode #33 - "Life & Death in the Theater: More 19th Century Stories."

aithpodcast.com/life-death-in-

"Hammerstein's Opera House, Part Two" tells the story of Oscar Hammerstein's first season in Philadelphia, and how his production of Richard Strauss' "Salome" roiled - and tempted - the Quaker City.

This video gives you a quick sample - but you can use the link below to listen to the whole episode, on whatever podcasting platform you like to get your pods on!

linktr.ee/aithpodcast