Friday, January 20th, 2006
Michael Cerveris From Sweeney Todd. Straddling the worlds of musical comedy and rock and roll, Sweeney Todd‘s Michael Cerveris talks about how his extensive work with Stephen Sondheim makes it hard to sing more conventional musical theatre works, recounts learning how to be a rock star from Pete Townshend of The Who in preparation for [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty Composer and Lyricist of Dessa Rose. With Dessa Rose now in stores, here’s the “Downstage Center” March 2005 interview with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty in which they survey their career from jingle writing to Ragtime and everything in between (including Once on this Island and My Favorite Year), with [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Jerry Herman Composer and Lyricist of “Mack and Mabel” and “La Cage aux Folles”. Legendary composer Jerry Herman plays and sings snippets of some of his most famous compositions as he recalls the creation of such seminal musicals as “Hello Dolly”, “Mame” and “La Cage aux Folles” in this one-of-a-kind interview from November 2004. Original [...]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Doug Hughes Director of Doubt and Defiance. One of the busiest directors in New York, Tony-winner Doug Hughes, talks about revisiting Doubt with a new cast; how he handles the heightened expectations for Defiance, his next collaboration with playwright John Patrick Shanley; and whether, for the child of two actors, becoming a director is the [...]
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Friday, January 6th, 2006
John Cullum and Rosemary Harris From The Other Side. Stage veterans Rosemary Harris and John Cullum talk about meeting for the very first time to play husband and wife in Ariel Dorfman’s The Other Side, discuss their feelings about seeing their children follow in their acting footsteps, and recall the subdued 1966 Tony Awards, when [...]
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