Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Performing Musicals
Actors Roger Bart (Young Frankenstein), Brian d’Arcy James (Next To Normal), Priscilla Lopez (In The Heights) and Sherie Rene Scott (The Little Mermaid) — collectively veterans of more than 30 Broadway and off-Broadway musicals — talk about the differences between performing in musicals and straight plays; acting techniques and voice training; how they prepare [...]
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
David Zippel
Lyricist of Pamela’s First Musical.
Lyricist David Zippel discusses the development of Pamela’s First Musical, the challenges posed by the untimely passing of two of his collaborators on the project — composer Cy Coleman and author Wendy Wasserstein, and the upcoming benefit performance which will mark the show’s first public performance. He also talks about [...]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Performance
The panel of performers talk about their training and when they decided to become actors. Power Plays co-stars Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss talk about working together at Northwestern. Both Billy Crudup and Dana Reeve (More To Love: A Big Fat Comedy) pursued Master of Fine Arts degrees in order to teach [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Paul Rudnick
Author of The New Century.
Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses his evening of one-act plays, The New Century, currently playing at Lincoln Center Theatre, including how he came to combine characters originally written for separate plays into a single work and how he hopes they play against their stereotypes; how he announced his plans to be [...]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Unexpectedly Theatre
With backgrounds rooted in rock and roll, television comedy and comics, our 4 guests have made the leap from their day jobs to the stages of Broadway and Off Broadway with their musicals. Ben Katchor (The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island), David Javerbaum (Cry-Baby), Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange) and Stew (Passing Strange) discuss [...]
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