Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Shoe Designer
Theatrical Shoe Designer Phil LaDuca worked as a Broadway dancer, choreographer and dance teacher before creating LaDuca dance shoes. He has created character shoes with the needed flexibility to be danceable, as well as the support and security for singers and actors. He works with costume designers, and handles the process from [...]
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Performance
The panel of Broadway actors – Matthew Broderick (Biloxi Blues), Jim Dale (Joe Egg), Charles S. Dutton (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Rosemary Harris (Pack of Lies), Glenda Jackson (Strange Interlude), and theatrical agent Lionel Larner – discuss how they left their various layman jobs to begin performing, their audition experiences, how they became involved in [...]
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Playwright and Director
The panelists – playwright P.J. Barry (The Octette Bridge Club), lyricist Ellen Fitzhugh (Grind), director John Going (Inherit The Wind), playwright Fay Kanin (Grind), playwright Jerome Lawrence (Inherit The Wind), agent Bruce Savin, and director Clifford Williams (Pack of Lies) – talk about their formal training; the relationship between directors, playwrights and casting [...]
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Puppet Designer
Puppet Designer Emily DeCola of The Puppet Kitchen has been designing and building puppets in New York for 7 years. She explains the wide scope of creating characters, sculpting puppets from a variety of materials, and both the possibilities and limitations in performing using puppets. She shares how her puppeteering career began and [...]
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Production: Grind
The producing team of the 1985 Broadway musical Grind – advertising representative Jeffrey Ash, group sales executive Ronald S. Lee, executive producer Ruth Mitchell, and producers Michael Frazier, Kenneth Greenblatt, Mary Lea Johnson, and John Pomerantz – talks about bringing the nearly $5 million production to Broadway after a tryout in Baltimore, working with [...]
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