Monday, August 11th, 2008
Tony Meola
Sound Designer of Wicked and The Lion King.
Veteran sound designer Tony Meola talks about the many issues involved in designing such musicals as Wicked and The Lion King on Broadway and around the world, dissecting such issues as changes in technology over the course of his 30 year career, whether the theatre has lost [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
While negativity in theatre reviews is hardly anything new, and I’m relatively sanguine about it after a decade as a press agent, I was struck over the weekend by the unanimity of the condescension on display in reviews of a new Off-Broadway show, Flamingo Court. The production, apparently set in a Florida development, is [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Performance
Broadway performers — Chuck Cooper (The Life), Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde), Pat Hingle (1776), Pamela Isaacs (The Life), Jeff McCarthy (Side Show), and J. Smith-Cameron (As Bees in Honey Drown) — talk about how they got their start and have built their careers, the challenge of memorizing lines, the importance of discipline and stamina, [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
John Glover
From The Marriage of Bette and Boo.
Tony-winning actor John Glover talks about the revival of Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Roundabout, and how he grappled with the distinctly unpleasant aspects of his character, based upon Durang’s own grandfather. He also talks about why he found the prospect of [...]
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