At the Junior Theater Festival ’14, Saturday night and all day Sunday are the best times to be in the MTI ShowSpace. After those many events in small breakout rooms, how nice to have all 4,000 of us together. I love walking up to the stage, turning ...
There can’t be many places in the world where an audience applauds after the speaker says, “It’s not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship.”But here at the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, the teachers in a workshop agree with Linda ...
In a way, it’s the musical theater equivalent of speed dating.You do get to see as many as eight musicals in four hours – but only in a manner of speaking. The 93 schools and academies that have come to Atlanta to appear in the Junior Theater ...
In a way, the Junior Theater Festival has the wrong name.Someone not familiar with the magnificent two-day event that occurs each January in Atlanta might assume that the “Junior” means that the festival is a mini-version of a major theater ...
When we last left Nate Foster, we didn’t want to.Tens of thousands who read Tim Federle’s young adult novel Better Nate Than Ever immediately fell in love with the thirteen-year-old native of Jankburg, Pennsylvania.Where?Put it this ...
Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I’m looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four.The Moorestown Theatre Company is offering Thoroughly Modern Millie, the ...
Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there’s one aspect of life on which they all agree.Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too-quickly.So start planning your December 2014 ...
William Goldman said it best in his landmark 1969 book The Season.“It’s hard to be smart.”Yes, it certainly is. And while we have this message hammered home to us in some way or another most every day, I was reminded of it when I saw ...
You may know the song entitled “The Story of My Life” from Shrek, but do you know the musical called The Story of My Life? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s song does. ...
When you mount a musical, you needn’t slavishly follow a Broadway’s production’s template.In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broadway originals. All the lines and songs have been kept ...
