Do you remember when Rebecca – The Musical was to open on Broadway and then didn’t? If you remember that you probably also remember that it premiered in Vienna, Austria, in 2006, and has since then played in various cities in Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Ukraine, Hungary, Romania as well as Germany […]
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Before we took our detour into producing specifically for festivals, I wrote about the ground work to do before mounting a show. At this point, if you followed my sage advice (and of course you did), you’ve got a budget, a venue, and an all-star production team. Hopefully you also have rehearsal space and you’ve […]
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With all of the great science fiction out there, from literature, to film, to television, why hasn’t this awesome genre made its mark on Broadway? Or even Off-Broadway, for that matter? They come around every once in awhile, as farce or some ridiculous comedy (and those are delightful, don’t get me wrong), but there hasn’t […]
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Welcome to the Green Room’s newest series, What We’re Reading, in which we’ll share with you some of our favorite articles about theater and performance from all around the internet this week. In “Pursuing the Muse Against the Clock,” the great Lin-Manuel Miranda describes the impact Jonathan Larson’s work has had on his growth as an artist […]
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Hi, everybody! Lyric Lens is back! You know what else is back? Shaksepeare in the Park, and I’m so excited. Much Ado About Nothing is one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies, and the production photos look beautiful. I can’t wait to see it. Walking past the Delacorte the other day, I got to thinking about […]
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I had the pleasure earlier this month of spending time in the company of some of the frontrunners of contemporary British musical theatre. This week I’ll be discussing my conversations with Andy Barnes, Executive Producer of Perfect Pitch, which is ‘the UK’s leading development network for musical theatre.’ They are perhaps best known for co-producing […]
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I recently attended an evening of philosophy and music, led by Professor Bill Brewer of King’s College London, which explored the relationship between music and the mind. The relationship between the two may seem to be self explanatory, but the aim of the discussion was to explore and ask the question why some music is […]
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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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In this series of blog posts, I’m having conversations about the musical theatre BFA, talking with faculty members and graduates of various school about their thoughts of the state of actor training programs today. This week, I spoke with Aubrey Berg, who is the head of the musical theatre program at the Cincinnati Conservatory of […]
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Welcome to the Green Room’s newest series, What We’re Reading, in which we’ll share with you some of our favorite articles about theater and performance from all around the internet this week. “Nine Thoughts on Theater Awards” by Robert Kaplowitz for HowlRound is a great piece written in response to the Tony Committee Ruling Heard ‘Round […]
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I love a good original musical. Many of the writers I talked about in my last post have written them. But if you think about it, original musicals are few and far between. Most – particularly the ones that go onto Broadway or have regular regional productions – are based on preexisting work. Maybe it’s […]
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When you think about Germany, what comes to your mind first? German bread, Angela Merkel, the Oktoberfest or the Nazis? Or maybe something more connected to the arts – Beethoven, Schubert and the famous serious German writers? What I’m trying to say: You probably would not instantly think about comedy. Or Germans being particularly funny. Am I […]
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When NewMusicalTheatre.com asked Drew and me to write a blog post about our upcoming concert and the associated Fresh Pens contest, we decided it would be best to sort of interview each other in a back and forth Q&A style-session. Below is the end result. Your cool key: DO = Drew Overcash; BP = Blake […]
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Last year my cousin Joseph, the other big theatre fan in our family, turned 16. As his self-proclaimed mentor and teacher of all things theatrical, I wanted to get him an amazing gift, and as it so happened, around that time the perfect thing fell into my lap. I was cleaning out my desk in […]
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When we talk about theatre in the UK, we can broadly split the action into two categories: that which is happening in London, and that which is happening regionally. Referring specifically to musical theatre, there are quite a few reasons (mainly money-related) as to why the capital produces the vast majority of the British contribution […]
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My husband, Matthew, came home the other day with a gift for me. One of those “for no reason” gifts that you just kind of happen upon. He brought me home a book, The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson. The only reason, he says, is that it had won a Pulitzer Prize (2013). He […]
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