Monday, April 30th, 2007
Richard M. Sherman and George Stiles
Composers of Mary Poppins.
Richard M. Sherman and George Stiles, the film and stage composers of Mary Poppins, come together for a special program that explores the creation of the original film score and how it was adapted and supplemented for the stage musical. Sharing a piano, they play and […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Jeff Daniels
From Blackbird.
Jeff Daniels talks about his return to the New York stage after a 14 year absence in David Harrower’s Olivier Award-winning Blackbird at Manhattan Theatre Club, including how he works himself up to a performance level of fear and anger for the very first moment in the play; recalls being taken out […]
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Production: The Coast Of Utopia
Four actors from the 42-member The Coast of Utopia company — Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke and Amy Irving — talk about the experience of appearing in Tom Stoppard’s triptych of 19th century Russian intellectual history, including their own trepidation at working with the brilliant Stoppard; adapting language written […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Jeff Daniels
From Blackbird.
Jeff Daniels talks about his return to the New York stage after a 14 year absence in David Harrower’s Olivier Award-winning Blackbird at Manhattan Theatre Club, including how he works himself up to a performance level of fear and anger for the very first moment in the play; recalls being taken out […]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Production: Big River
Director Jeff Calhoun, actor Phyllis Frelich, actor Tyrone Giordano, producer Todd Haimes, actor Daniel Jenkins and producer Bill O’Brien explain how Deaf West Theatre Company, a sign language theatre company, decided to put on the musical Big River; why that is not a bad idea, as many initially thought; the integration of […]
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