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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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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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Performance
The panel of actors – Don Correia (Singin’ in the Rain), Tovah Feldshuh (Springtime for Henry), Glenne Headly (Arms and the Man), Judd Hirsch (I’m Not Rappaport), Barnard Hughes (The Iceman Cometh), Cleavon Little (I’m Not Rappaport), Elizabeth McGovern (Map of the World) – and casting director Vincent G. Liff discuss how they [...]
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Playwright and Director
The panelists – director Clinton Turner Davis (Two Can Play), playwright Herb Gardner (I’m Not Rappaport), playwright/lyricist Tom Jones (The Fantasticks), playwright Shirley Lauro (Open Admissions), lyricist/director Richard Maltby Jr. (Song and Dance), playwright Marsha Norman (Night Mother) and composer Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) – discuss how a playwright chooses a director, the [...]
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