This Week on Broadway for December 20, 2015: Melissa Anelli, the Event Creator of BroadwayCon

Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Carey Purcell chat with Melissa Anelli, the Event Creator of BroadwayCon. We review The Color Purple, West Side Story, Fiddler on The Roof, Once Upon a Mattress, Annie, China Doll, Lazarus, Invisible Thread, School of Rock, and MotherStruck. ---------------------------------- 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. 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, whose play ADAM'S GIFTS: A NEW CHRISTMAS CAROL, opened in Clinton, Iowa at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre this past week! 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. Carey Purcell | Twitter | Website CAREY PURCELL is a staff writer and the features editor of Playbill.com. She can be followed on Twitter @CareyPurcell and at her blog CareyPurcell.com. Notes and links for the podcast. Guest: Melissa Anelli, the Event Creator of BroadwayCon http://www.broadwaycon.com/ From January 22–24, 2016, join fellow fans, performers, and creators from some of your favorite on- and off-Broadway shows as they gather at the famed New York Hilton Midtown hotel to perform, discuss, debate, and celebrate. You’ve seen shows, and festivals, and markets, and benefits, and concerts. BroadwayCon is all of that and more. It’s a chance to get the complete Broadway fan experience, from every angle, all in one incredible weekend. BroadwayCon brings you through the stage door to see and experience what goes on both on stage and behind the scenes. It is a place where Broadway fans can come together to celebrate the shows they love with people who bring them to life.     Reviews: CP + MP + JM: The Color Purple @ Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, 242 West 45th Street MP: West Side Story @ Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, through January 31, 2016 -- Parker Esse CP: Fiddler on The Roof @ Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway PF + MP + CP: Transport Group's Once Upon a Mattress @ Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, through January 3, 2016     PF: Annie @ King's Theater in Brooklyn (Tour) CP: China Doll @ Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 West 45th Street CP: Lazarus @ New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), 79 East 4th Street, through January 20, 2016 CP: Invisible Thread @ Second Stage Theatre (edit @26, track 4), CP: School of Rock @ Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway CP: MotherStruck @ Culture Project, 49 Bleecker Street   News:  Television:  Tours:  Recordings:  Post Script: Next Week:  Coming... Playwrights Horizons production of Marjorie Prime   Explicit: No Music: "The Color Purple" Cast Performs "Push Da Button" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Now on Broadway | THE COLOR PURPLE on Broadway     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)