Monday, January 11th, 2010
Scott Ellis Roundabout Theatre Company Associate Artistic Director. With Theresa Rebeck’s The Understudy soon to close at the Roundabout and Douglas Carter Beane’s Mr. & Mrs. Fitch beginning rehearsals at Second Stage, director Scott Ellis discusses his attraction to both projects and the delays and opportunities that caused each of them to land in New [...]
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
Orchestrator Orchestrator Christopher Jahnke shares how he creates the way a show musically feels by breaking it down into individual instrumental parts; learned from his mentor William Brohn, orchestrator of Miss Saigon and Wicked; studied ’50s music to give the Grease revival an authentic sound; and works closely with composer David Bryan on Memphis as [...]
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Regional Theatre In January of 1987, noted director, educator and SDC Board Member Mary Robinson met with directors Mark Lamos and Nagle Jackson to discuss running regional theatres. At the time, these two men were the Artistic Directors of Hartford Stage and Princeton’s McCarter Theatre respectively. The conversation begins as many of SDCF’s one-on-one interviews [...]
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Playwright and Director The panel – playwright/director P.J. Barry (A Distance From Calcutta), lyricist Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), playwright/director Horton Foote (The Roads To Home), agent Wiley Hausam (International Creative Management), musical adaptor Luther Henderson (Jelly’s Last Jam), playwright/director George C. Wolfe (Jelly’s Last Jam) – discuss how and why they got started in [...]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Cy Coleman Composer Cy Coleman, during the run of I Love My Wife, talks about how the show slipped into town after appearing out of town, and how he recieved the good news of his rave reviews from almost all of the New York reviewers. Running time – 03:45. var addthis_pub = “AmericanTheatreWing”; For more [...]
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