Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Performance
Actors Blythe Danner and Edward Herrmann both from The Deep Blue Sea, Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime), Alfred Molina (Art), Natasha Richardson (Cabaret), and John Vickery (The Lion King) discuss how their training and first professional jobs, obtaining and preparing for their current role, what has been their biggest break in theatre, the difference between theatre [...]
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Harriet Harris
From Cry-Baby.
Tony-winner Harriet Harris talks about being “the adult” in a company of kids in the Broadway musical Cry-Baby and reveals which of the musical numbers in the show convinced her that she needed to be in the production. She also talks about being sent to theatre school as a child in Texas [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Producing Broadway
What is the role of a producer? That was the question that started the discussion among four of Broadway’s top producers – Roger Berlind, Margo Lion, Jeffrey Richards and Jeffrey Seller – as the conversation turned to whether they produce for profit or passion and how they balance between the two; what the [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Laura Benanti
From Gypsy.
Broadway’s newest Gypsy Rose Lee, Laura Benanti, talks about playing the title role in Gypsy both last summer at City Center and again this year on Broadway, including her thoughts on formidable author and director Arthur Laurents, as well as a few facts about the real Gypsy and Rose that didn’t make it [...]
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