Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Ted Chapin
Author of Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical “Follies”.
Ted Chapin wears two hats during this interview, one as he discusses his position as head of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, explaining his role in both promoting and defending the work of the great songwriting team, the other as he talks about how [...]
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
The Playwright
Playwrights Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Dark Matters), Douglas Carter Beane (The Little Dog Laughed), Kia Corthron (Breath Boom), Daisy Foote (Bhutan) and Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter) discuss why they, as products of the age of electronic entertainment — and as writers who work in various forms — choose to tell certain stories in the theatre; [...]
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Monday, January 29th, 2007
Rita Moreno
From Little Tributes at Cafe Carlyle.
Rita Moreno reflects on her career, from her Broadway debut at age 13; her efforts to break out of being constantly cast as a Latin spitfire; her arduous preparation for her audition for West Side Story; her experience working on the debut of Lorraine Hansberry’s second Broadway play; her [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Melissa Errico and Tom Hewitt
From Dracula, the Musical.
Melissa Errico and Tom Hewitt discuss their roles in Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula, and separately review their careers — Errico’s as a leading lady in numerous high profile revivals and Hewitt’s as one of the country’s top classical leading men.
Original airdate – October 29, 2004.Running time – 46:45.
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Margot Harley
Co-founder, The Acting Company.
Margot Harley, co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Acting Company, talks about the troupe’s origins as an outgrowth of the acting program at The Juilliard School in the early 70s, the challenges of touring serious drama as an ongoing series of one-night-stands around the country, and the state of actor [...]
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