Monday, December 14th, 2009
Jim Norton From Finian’s Rainbow. Actor Jim Norton, Tony and Olivier Award winner for The Seafarer and now on Broadway in the notably sunnier current revival of Finian’s Rainbow, discusses how the Irish view that Irish-inflected musical; how he wasn’t entirely unprepared to appear in a musical, even though he’s done extremely few in a [...]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Design The panel – actress Brenda Braxton (Jelly’s Last Jam), Mettawee River Theatre Company puppet/costume designers Casey Compton and Ralph Lee (Wichikapache Goes Walking), producer/lighting designer Jules Fisher (Two Shakespearean Actors), director Michael Greif (Pericles), and costume designer Toni-Leslie James (Jelly’s Last Jam) – discuss the significant roles of lighting and costume design, the relationship [...]
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
James Earl Jones Award-winning actor James Earl Jones talks about portraying the real-life historical actor and political artist in the solo play Paul Robeson which toured before arriving on Broadway. Running time – 03:45. var addthis_pub = “AmericanTheatreWing”; For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to TBL This Is Broadway’s [...]
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Hunter Foster From Ordinary Days. Ordinary Days‘ Hunter Foster talks about performing a musical in such an intimate space (Roundabout Underground’s black box) and why the unusually close proximity makes the audience into the fifth character in this new work. He also talks about his discovery of musicals in high school; his steady and successful [...]
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Dialect Coach Theatrical dialect coach Stephen Gabis talks about his craft and how he started by listening to his Irish-Lithuanian family and early television; why he describes The 39 Steps as “an aerobic dialect event”; Gabis works with actor Eric Hissom on multiple characters; and how a knowledge of phonetics provides a basis for individual [...]
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