Honoring Women on Broadway!
Sunday March 8 is International Women’s Day, and next week, in celebration, Disney On Broadway will present their third annual ‘Women’s Day on Broadway: The Decade Ahead and How Women Will Shape It.”
Following their successful launch in 2018, this year the free event serves to create an open dialogue about gender equality in the theatre industry. There will be a series of panels, conversations and dialogue. Broadway stars and women behind the scenes in the theatre industry will participate. Celia Keenan-Bolger and Mandy Gonzalez will co-host the event.
Disney’s Women’s Day on Broadway is happening Tuesday, March 10 from 1-4 PM at the New Amsterdam Theatre on West 42 Street (home of Disney’s Aladdin.)
For more information, go to: Women of Broadway
And to hear my conversation with one of the organizers of this event, Liz Boutros, Manager of Domestic Touring and Planning for the Disney Theatrical Group, listen to the “Bagels and Broadway with Valerie Smaldone” radio show, Saturday, March 7 from 9-10 am on WNYM Radio, or on podcast following the radio show airing here: Bagels and Broadway radio show featuring Women’s Day on Broadway
Valerie Smaldone is a 5-time Billboard Magazine Award winner and is well known for her unprecedented success holding the #1 on-air position in the New York radio market on 106.7 Life-FM, an iHeart station. She has hosted, produced, and created several award-winning nationally syndicated programs featuring in-depth interviews with stars like Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Elton John and Mariah Carey among others. Her radio talk show "Bagels and Broadway" highlighted theatre and food personalities. She is an accomplished interviewer and voice artist heard on commercials, narrations, promos and audiobooks, as well as a sought after live announcer.
Most recently, Valerie produced and directed a film, The Thursday Night Club, featuring pop diva Gloria Gaynor in her movie acting debut. She is one of the creators and producers of a docu-series, Divine Renovation, starring Erik Estrada, on streaming networks soon.
