The Green Room is thrilled to have a wonderful group of bloggers join us this winter. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name: Sara Jensen What do you do outside of blogging? I am pursuing a career in acting/directing. I’ve moved around a lot the past few years […]
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The Green Room is thrilled to have a wonderful group of bloggers join us this winter. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name: MARC What do you do outside of blogging? I’m a college freshman taking up Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. Favorite musical: I know this sounds cliche […]
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The Green Room is thrilled to have a wonderful group of bloggers join us this winter. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name: Marcelo Henrique Almeida What do you do outside of blogging? I have a law degree and a couple unpublished books. I’m also the founder of World […]
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The Green Room is thrilled to have a wonderful group of bloggers join us this winter. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name: Kevin Jaeger What do you do outside of blogging? When I’m not writing ABOUT New Musical Theatre, I’m trying my hand at writing New Musical […]
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As the end of the semester is drawing near, I’ve often found myself reflecting on the past 4 months and how I have grown as an artist and as a person. Whenever you take on a huge feat (such as going outside your comfort zone and leaving everything you know and love to pursue musical […]
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Paramount Pictures’ White Christmas is a movie musical that premiered in 1954 starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. With a score by Irving Berlin, White Christmas is the definition of a holiday standard. The story follows two World War II soldiers-turned-show biz stunners and a sister act as they try to stage […]
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Everyone does an end-of-year list, right? Some “top 10” or “best of”- as part of our obsession with ranking things chronologically. Look – I’m not judging. I like a good top 10 list as much as the next guy! As this will be my final NMT post for 2014, I wanted to take some time […]
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The reprise is a musical theatre staple – and with good reason. Far more than just repetition, reprises can be crucial to a musical’s storytelling. Using the same (or similar) music in a different context allows writers to emphasize or comment on a shift that has taken place over the course of the show. They’re […]
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As soon as I heard about the passing of Mike Nichols I knew who my last post for “Curtain Speech” should be about. For those who have not read his biography or obituary or seen his work, I highly recommend that you do so as soon as possible. His life, work, and wisdom have set […]
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Let’s start with another flashback from Steve Fendrich: “In 1985, I visited this gentlemen who was a teacher in Longmont, Colorado, and his name was Bill Francoeur. He was the music teacher there, and he had written a musical that a friend and I had gone to see, just to check things out. And when […]
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As this blog series comes to a close, I hope that I’ve been able to get your brain a-thinkin’ about solo albums in novel and interesting ways. Or perhaps just thinking about them at all. Because there they sit in our iTunes libraries, oft listened to, but seldom thought about. We give them many labels […]
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Well folks, this is my last post blogging for the NMT Green Room this fall, and it really has been a wonderful experience. I’ve loved getting to share my musical theatre thoughts and musings with all of you, who definitely appreciate it more than the non-theatre people in my life I usually harass (that’s totally […]
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Let’s start with a flashback. This is Steve Fendrich: “So one time Bill Francoeur came to me and he said, I have this idea. He said, you know, we ought to put out a musical with a cassette tape, and on one side have the lyrics and music to it, and on the other side […]
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Hal Prince was born on January 30th, 1928. He began as a producer on The Pajama Game and soon won Tony awards for his work on West Side Story and Damn Yankees, and he also produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello!. Prince’s career as a director did not start until later and began with a series […]
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If you were as obsessed with watching Disney channel movies as I was, I’m sure you recognize the quote “don’t be shy, be a star” from the movie Life Size featuring Tyra Banks. If not, I highly recommend you go watch the movie or at least listen to the song because there’s no way you […]
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How do you guys feel about theatre criticism? Pro, con? I struggle with it myself. I would guess a large portion of us in the theatre community do, because it’s innately a complicated art form. Theatre reviewing is an art form, not a science, and yet the way it can affect work—especially new work—can be […]
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