Casts of Broadway's THE VISIT & IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU Set for THEATER TALK This Week

This week's THEATER TALK focuses on two radically different new Broadway musicals, The Visit and It Shoulda Been You, welcoming a host of revered luminaries.

First The Visit, A HAUNTING musical drama, based on the 1958 play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, which originally starred the legendary acting team of Lynn Fontanne as the world's wealthiest woman and Alfred Lunt as the disloyal former lover on whom she seeks revenge. Broadway favorites Chita Rivera and Roger Rees star in this stirring adaptation and appear on THEATER TALK to discuss their roles in it. Joining them are The Visit's innovative director, John Doyle, and composer, John Kander, who wrote the score with lyricist Fred Ebb (the pair's last collaboration before Ebb's death).

Next up, the guests from It Shoulda Been You are its stars, Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris - who portray the comically-overbearing mothers of the bride and groom at a farcical family wedding gone way-wrong. Also on hand are the show's book-writer/lyricist Brian Hargrove and director David Hyde Pierce - the latter's Emmy® and Tony® Award-winning comic timing (Frasier and Curtains) clearly having influenced this entertaining new musical comedy.

Hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post, and Susan Haskins, this episode premieres in the New York metropolitan area Friday, April 24 (2015) at 1 AM (Saturday morning) on Thirteen/PBS, and continues on CUNY TV* Saturday 4/25 at 8:30 PM, Sunday 4/26 at 12:30 PM, and Monday 4/27 at 7:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 7:30 PM.

THEATER TALK is jointly produced by the not-for-profits Theater Talk Productions and CUNY TV. The program is taped in the Himan Brown TV and Radio Studios at The City University of New York (CUNY) TV in Manhattan, and is distributed to 100+ participating public television stations nationwide. THEATER TALK is made possible in part by The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The CUNY TV Foundation and The Friends of THEATER TALK.

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