October 29, 2025 • 9 mins
All the strikes on Broadway in NYC that occurred within the last few weeks have been settled. Mariah Carey is secretly teasing plans for the upcoming holiday season!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Mark sim Own show one wo Well, Roger fan
is the great entertainment reporter. He has a website you
should check every day. There's always news stories, showbizfo one
one dot com, showbizfore one one dot com. Roger Friedman,
how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm really doing great because once mom Donnie is mayor
all tickets to Broadway shows will be free and all
the restaurants around them will be serving free food and empty.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
At the same time. But hey, speaking of speaking of Broadway,
everything is settled, right They had all these strike threats.
That's all settled now.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All the strikes have been settled, which was very smart
because it's a tricky time on Broadway. The last thing
anyone needed was a strike. And things are back to
normal and Broadway is booming right now. Actually, oh, you know,
Hamilton uh is doing incredible business. The last week did
to three point four million dollars, which is insane, and
(01:02):
it's been doing that right along since they brought back
their Tony winning star Leslie Odom Jr. For a run.
That's I guess going through the winter January maybe, and
people are will pay anything to get into the show.
They're premium tickets for fifteen hundred dollars and they're all
sold out. People will pay absolutely anything to get in there.
(01:26):
And other shows are doing great. There's a new show
called Queen of Versailles with Kristin Chenowith that's also doing
great business.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We have what is Queen of ver Size about that
woman with the house in Florida.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes, it's about the woman with the house in Florida,
and yeah, and f Murray Abrahams and I think he
plays her husband and the songs are really good and
that's going to be a big hit.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a lot and Chess
is coming. Did you ever see Chess the first time around?
No Weber? No, oh yeah, one night in Bangkok. It's
a very popular show. And you know, the book was
never good. The songs were great, but the book book
was never good. So they got this great guy, Danny Strong,
to rewrite the whole show. And now that show is
(02:15):
selling out in preview, it's like crazy, I mean totally
sold out. So we have a Broadway is booming. And
I just put up a story on Showbiz for one
one that Daniel Radcliffe is coming from Harry Potter, who
already has a Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along,
And he's going to be in a one man show
(02:36):
this winter that's being imported from England that's supposed to
be terrific. And as long as they don't charge seven
hundred dollars a ticket, I think they'll be Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I know it's good news. I'm glad Broadway's doing so well. Hey,
I welcome by a rocket Fuller Center on Radio City's
Marquee right above it. It was the first Christmas tree
I saw this year. That Christmas tree above the Marquee
is up already. It's a little early.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh is it really it's there already?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah. There's a great story about I'm an editor they
brought into the New Yorker from England, which was like
are in nineteen ninety and they bring this guy in
and he's an older guy and he's never been to
New York before. Somehow he got a job working as
an editor of New Yorker and he comes back after
(03:21):
lunch and he says to the people in the office,
oh my god, we have to do this story. There's
a big tree going up in Rockefeller Center. Well, and
everyone was.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Like, uh huh, ey. So speaking of Christmas though, this
is the we're a little early, but pretty soon that
Christmas music will start everywhere. And then you wrote about
Mariah Carey. But yeah, it's the only time of the year.
A lot of people who don't know who these people
are start to hear Andy Williams and Nat King Cole
and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So it's a great Also, you know, I'm thinking big
Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee. Sometimes her song goes
all the way up to number one during Christmas time.
She's about ninety and they you know, they go and
they wake her up and they tell her what's going on,
and she's shocked. Well, Mariah Carrey had an album out
(04:18):
a few weeks ago that nobody bought, which was a
pretty good album. It was very well sung and had
nice songs, but nobody wanted to hear it, you know,
bad marketing. Also that Mariah doesn't really get out and
push stuff. She expects you to come to her. But
she loves the Christmas season and she has, you know,
(04:41):
the best selling Christmas song of all time. That's all
I really want for Christmas is You or whatever it's called.
Sounds like a Phil Spector song and It's sold about
a billion copies. And every year around this time she
starts putting little messages on social media not yet, not yet,
we're not ready yet. And then she goes out and
she is for big Christmas season. It lasts about six weeks,
(05:03):
so we're about to see Mariah's Christmas season. And that's
how we know.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, Roger Freeman, too many documentaries. That's enough. With these documentaries.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's the cheapest thing to do. It's cheaper than making
an actual move.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Oh. No, documentaries are fabulous. I'll tell you why documentaries
are more important than ever. No, they're more important than ever,
And I'll tell you why. The reason is as funding
gets cut for PBS and national public radio, where we
get a lot of information, and as the networks like
(05:35):
CBS today is laying off a thousand people, as the
networks are contracting and not doing so much documentary work
or news work. Independent documentaries are really a huge source
of information for us, and we're getting to find out
things from around the world that we wouldn't know. Critics
Choice Association, which I'm part of, has a big award
(05:59):
ceremony under him or ninth over at the the Ballroom
on forty seventh Street, And that's a very important thing.
The Gotham Awards just announced their awards coming up, nominations
coming up, and they have five terrific documentaries and then
we'll have the Oscars. You can't. I feel that you
(06:20):
cannot have enough documentaries to illuminate subjects around the world
that we would not have act.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Most of them are about you know, there was there's
a new one Stiller and Mara. Now I love Stiller
and Mara. I know it's great.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Have you watched it?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I knew Stiller and Mara. Yeah, what's like happened dozen off?
Halfway through? What am I watch?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh? No, I watched. I loved it. I loved them.
I knew them too. We were very lucky to live
in New York and know them. And although I never
had Blue Nune Wine, Ben Stiller, their son, has done
a great job documenting their career and it's on Apple TV.
I recommend it for it's so enjoyable to see them again.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, maybe just see I'd rather go to YouTube
and just watch Stiller and Mirror and he Ed Sullivan
show on The Tonight Show, or watch but you.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wouldn't But we would because we're one hundred and fifteen
years old. But for younger people who are Ben Stiller fans,
let's say, and they don't know anything about Stilar Mirror,
they're learning about his parents for the first time through
this documentary. Then they're going to go to YouTube and
look at the clips, but they don't know offhand that
they should be doing that. Do you see what I mean? Yeah, Okay,
this is giving them entry away to that stillar mirror.
(07:31):
So I think that's terrific.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Now you're right about there's another documentary coming or is
it a biopic CCR Creeden's Clearwater Revival?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh well, Creeden's you know, Creeten's Clearwater Revival is huge.
It's so weird that, you know, fifty sixty years after
they had hits, they're bigger than ever. You know that
their greatest hits winds up in the top twenty every
week on iTunes. Wow, no one knows what, no one
knows why. But the songs are great. You know, They'll
Stop the Rain, you ever seen the Rain? Proud Mary,
(08:01):
all these songs and they're being played on the radio constantly.
So now you know this Bruce Springsteen movie is out
called Deliver Me from Nowhere, and the people who made
it really want to make a movie about John Fogerty
and Creeden's because you know, the great story, the crazy
story about them is that in the seventies, John Fogerty
(08:25):
lost the rights to all his songs and it took
him like twenty years to get them back, and in
the meantime he just sort of had to disavow them
and go on and play other songs. He would have
been charged by this company that bought them if he
had played them. Wow, it's a crazy story. And John
Fogerty is one of the good guys of all time
(08:45):
in music. Everyone loves him. So they're waiting to see
if the Springsteen movie gets a lot of awards. I
think it'll have a lot of awards action this winter,
and then they're going to announce that John Fogerty movies.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It'll be a whole new genre. There'll be a Freddie
in the Dreamers movie. They'll be Oh, I hope so
Gilbert O. Sullivan's pick.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It won't stop Jerry and the Pacemakers.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
There you go. Well, Roger Friedman great stuff. Check out
his website showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
one one dot com. This new stuff every day up there.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Oh listen, I have one other thing to tell you ahead,
Tom Hanks Off Broadway show with the Shed begins tomorrow night.
It's already sold at its first two performances. It's called
This World of Tomorrow Kelly o'harrison at Ruben Santiago Hudson,
and everyone's really looking forward to it. Go to the
Shed and try and get tickets.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Tom Hanks new show. All right, all right, sounds good.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thank you, take care.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Hey, we got a lot coming up, and then we'll
get back to the Merrill Race in the next hour.
Don't forget Bucking Clay. It's an excellent show every day
at noon right here on seven to ten WR
The Mark sim Own show one wo Well, Roger fan
is the great entertainment reporter. He has a website you
should check every day. There's always news stories, showbizfo one
one dot com, showbizfore one one dot com. Roger Friedman,
how you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm really doing great because once mom Donnie is mayor
all tickets to Broadway shows will be free and all
the restaurants around them will be serving free food and empty.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
At the same time. But hey, speaking of speaking of Broadway,
everything is settled, right They had all these strike threats.
That's all settled now.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All the strikes have been settled, which was very smart
because it's a tricky time on Broadway. The last thing
anyone needed was a strike. And things are back to
normal and Broadway is booming right now. Actually, oh, you know,
Hamilton uh is doing incredible business. The last week did
to three point four million dollars, which is insane, and
(01:02):
it's been doing that right along since they brought back
their Tony winning star Leslie Odom Jr. For a run.
That's I guess going through the winter January maybe, and
people are will pay anything to get into the show.
They're premium tickets for fifteen hundred dollars and they're all
sold out. People will pay absolutely anything to get in there.
(01:26):
And other shows are doing great. There's a new show
called Queen of Versailles with Kristin Chenowith that's also doing
great business.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We have what is Queen of ver Size about that
woman with the house in Florida.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes, it's about the woman with the house in Florida,
and yeah, and f Murray Abrahams and I think he
plays her husband and the songs are really good and
that's going to be a big hit.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a lot and Chess
is coming. Did you ever see Chess the first time around?
No Weber? No, oh yeah, one night in Bangkok. It's
a very popular show. And you know, the book was
never good. The songs were great, but the book book
was never good. So they got this great guy, Danny Strong,
to rewrite the whole show. And now that show is
(02:15):
selling out in preview, it's like crazy, I mean totally
sold out. So we have a Broadway is booming. And
I just put up a story on Showbiz for one
one that Daniel Radcliffe is coming from Harry Potter, who
already has a Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along,
And he's going to be in a one man show
(02:36):
this winter that's being imported from England that's supposed to
be terrific. And as long as they don't charge seven
hundred dollars a ticket, I think they'll be Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I know it's good news. I'm glad Broadway's doing so well. Hey,
I welcome by a rocket Fuller Center on Radio City's
Marquee right above it. It was the first Christmas tree
I saw this year. That Christmas tree above the Marquee
is up already. It's a little early.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh is it really it's there already?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah. There's a great story about I'm an editor they
brought into the New Yorker from England, which was like
are in nineteen ninety and they bring this guy in
and he's an older guy and he's never been to
New York before. Somehow he got a job working as
an editor of New Yorker and he comes back after
(03:21):
lunch and he says to the people in the office,
oh my god, we have to do this story. There's
a big tree going up in Rockefeller Center. Well, and
everyone was.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Like, uh huh, ey. So speaking of Christmas though, this
is the we're a little early, but pretty soon that
Christmas music will start everywhere. And then you wrote about
Mariah Carey. But yeah, it's the only time of the year.
A lot of people who don't know who these people
are start to hear Andy Williams and Nat King Cole
and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So it's a great Also, you know, I'm thinking big
Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee, Brenda Lee. Sometimes her song goes
all the way up to number one during Christmas time.
She's about ninety and they you know, they go and
they wake her up and they tell her what's going on,
and she's shocked. Well, Mariah Carrey had an album out
(04:18):
a few weeks ago that nobody bought, which was a
pretty good album. It was very well sung and had
nice songs, but nobody wanted to hear it, you know,
bad marketing. Also that Mariah doesn't really get out and
push stuff. She expects you to come to her. But
she loves the Christmas season and she has, you know,
(04:41):
the best selling Christmas song of all time. That's all
I really want for Christmas is You or whatever it's called.
Sounds like a Phil Spector song and It's sold about
a billion copies. And every year around this time she
starts putting little messages on social media not yet, not yet,
we're not ready yet. And then she goes out and
she is for big Christmas season. It lasts about six weeks,
(05:03):
so we're about to see Mariah's Christmas season. And that's
how we know.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, Roger Freeman, too many documentaries. That's enough. With these documentaries.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's the cheapest thing to do. It's cheaper than making
an actual move.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Oh. No, documentaries are fabulous. I'll tell you why documentaries
are more important than ever. No, they're more important than ever,
And I'll tell you why. The reason is as funding
gets cut for PBS and national public radio, where we
get a lot of information, and as the networks like
(05:35):
CBS today is laying off a thousand people, as the
networks are contracting and not doing so much documentary work
or news work. Independent documentaries are really a huge source
of information for us, and we're getting to find out
things from around the world that we wouldn't know. Critics
Choice Association, which I'm part of, has a big award
(05:59):
ceremony under him or ninth over at the the Ballroom
on forty seventh Street, And that's a very important thing.
The Gotham Awards just announced their awards coming up, nominations
coming up, and they have five terrific documentaries and then
we'll have the Oscars. You can't. I feel that you
(06:20):
cannot have enough documentaries to illuminate subjects around the world
that we would not have act.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Most of them are about you know, there was there's
a new one Stiller and Mara. Now I love Stiller
and Mara. I know it's great.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Have you watched it?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I knew Stiller and Mara. Yeah, what's like happened dozen off?
Halfway through? What am I watch?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh? No, I watched. I loved it. I loved them.
I knew them too. We were very lucky to live
in New York and know them. And although I never
had Blue Nune Wine, Ben Stiller, their son, has done
a great job documenting their career and it's on Apple TV.
I recommend it for it's so enjoyable to see them again.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
All right, maybe just see I'd rather go to YouTube
and just watch Stiller and Mirror and he Ed Sullivan
show on The Tonight Show, or watch but you.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wouldn't But we would because we're one hundred and fifteen
years old. But for younger people who are Ben Stiller fans,
let's say, and they don't know anything about Stilar Mirror,
they're learning about his parents for the first time through
this documentary. Then they're going to go to YouTube and
look at the clips, but they don't know offhand that
they should be doing that. Do you see what I mean? Yeah, Okay,
this is giving them entry away to that stillar mirror.
(07:31):
So I think that's terrific.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Now you're right about there's another documentary coming or is
it a biopic CCR Creeden's Clearwater Revival?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Oh well, Creeden's you know, Creeten's Clearwater Revival is huge.
It's so weird that, you know, fifty sixty years after
they had hits, they're bigger than ever. You know that
their greatest hits winds up in the top twenty every
week on iTunes. Wow, no one knows what, no one
knows why. But the songs are great. You know, They'll
Stop the Rain, you ever seen the Rain? Proud Mary,
(08:01):
all these songs and they're being played on the radio constantly.
So now you know this Bruce Springsteen movie is out
called Deliver Me from Nowhere, and the people who made
it really want to make a movie about John Fogerty
and Creeden's because you know, the great story, the crazy
story about them is that in the seventies, John Fogerty
(08:25):
lost the rights to all his songs and it took
him like twenty years to get them back, and in
the meantime he just sort of had to disavow them
and go on and play other songs. He would have
been charged by this company that bought them if he
had played them. Wow, it's a crazy story. And John
Fogerty is one of the good guys of all time
(08:45):
in music. Everyone loves him. So they're waiting to see
if the Springsteen movie gets a lot of awards. I
think it'll have a lot of awards action this winter,
and then they're going to announce that John Fogerty movies.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It'll be a whole new genre. There'll be a Freddie
in the Dreamers movie. They'll be Oh, I hope so
Gilbert O. Sullivan's pick.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It won't stop Jerry and the Pacemakers.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
There you go. Well, Roger Friedman great stuff. Check out
his website showbiz for one one dot com, Showbiz for
one one dot com. This new stuff every day up there.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Oh listen, I have one other thing to tell you ahead,
Tom Hanks Off Broadway show with the Shed begins tomorrow night.
It's already sold at its first two performances. It's called
This World of Tomorrow Kelly o'harrison at Ruben Santiago Hudson,
and everyone's really looking forward to it. Go to the
Shed and try and get tickets.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Tom Hanks new show. All right, all right, sounds good.
Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Thank you, take care.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Hey, we got a lot coming up, and then we'll
get back to the Merrill Race in the next hour.
Don't forget Bucking Clay. It's an excellent show every day
at noon right here on seven to ten WR
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