If you didn’t figure it out from this post of mine, I’m a dramaturg. But there’s very little discussion of what that actually means on this blog, or mostly anywhere. If you google it, you get a lot of dense, academic answers that fail to actually explain in any practical terms what a dramaturg does. […]
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Last week, Sara Bareilles did two sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden. I was in attendance, as were countless others from the NMT community (based on the precise accuracy of Twitter and Instagram posts). It was an incredible show, as it always is when Sara Bareilles is involved, and it made me about five million times more excited […]
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If your only theatre experience is from school, or if you have no experience at all, at what point can you start to call yourself an actor? A director? A designer? A dramaturg? A producer? With other professions, the answer is simple: When you finish medical school, you are a doctor. When you pass the […]
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This past season, thirteen new musicals opened on Broadway. Six of them closed before the Tonys, and of those six, only two received any nominations: A Night with Janis Joplin and The Bridges of Madison County. There is a pattern present in the Tony nomination and voting process that routinely favors still-running shows over those […]
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During my History of Musical Theatre class in college, I was surprised by how few key players there were in New York theatre in the earlier half of the 20th century. It struck me how different it seems to be now, with a website like this thriving, populated by so many awesome, diverse writers who […]
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With musicals, there’s an old (and false) belief that they are impossibly cheerful, unrealistic, and frivolous. We all love a screwball comedy meant purely for entertainment, but it takes a specific and deliberate choice to write a show that fits perfectly into a certain genre, and most shows do not. What do I mean by […]
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