Even those super-intellectual students at Harvard University have been known to say on their rare off-hours “Hey, kids! Let’s put on a show!”And so, an intrepid band of undergrads got together to do the musical version of Little Women, just ...
The Pennsylvania Players certainly got the timing right. Just before the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the troupe presented Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s maverick musical ASSASSINS.Because the actors ...
My heart is so full of admiration for John Payonk.Last week, he rescued The Most Happy Fella at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.Bill Nolte, who usually plays Tony -- the aging vintner who desperately wants to be a ...
You want to do a musical that has solid name recognition -- a great big Broadway show -- but you want to challenge yourself and your staff, too.How 'bout Singin' In The Rain? The 1985 stage adaptation of the beloved 1952 film still offers that ...
On Oct. 23rd, more people saw the musical version of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG than at any time in its 32-year-history. No fewer than 465 cinemas around the nation were broadcasting the production that the Menier Chocolate Factory in London had ...
Directors of Parade must cringe numerous times when they witness their production’s first preview.They often see that after many of Jason Robert Brown’s songs end, the audience doesn’t applaud – not right away, anyway. And while those ...
“That girl is brave,” a man said with great admiration permeating his voice.He was sitting behind me in the black-box Shaeberle Studio at Pace University in downtown New York. If a performance hadn’t been in progress, I would have turned ...
glasses onlineThere aren’t too many children's musicals that can advertise “Three Tony nominations, including Best Musical!”A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD can.Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, New Jersey has mounted a nice production that runs ...
Here’s some advice to directors who’d like to do Shrek.Don’t dread the thought of that heavy latex headpiece that your Shrek would wear.Do as Stephen L. Fredericks did in his production of SHREK at The Growing Stage in Netcong, New ...
One hundred and seventy years ago this month, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most beloved stories.It was so beloved, in fact, that bookwriter-lyricist Anthony Drewe and composer George Stiles thought it would make an ideal ...
