Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Production: Ragtime
Lyricist Lynn Ahrens, producer Garth Drabinsky, composer Stephen Flaherty, director Frank Galati, book writer Terrence McNally, and advertising representative Jon Wilner discuss the journey of the American musical Ragtime — from adapting E.L. Doctorow’s novel, to comparisons with the 1981 film, through numerous workshops, to the full-scale Toronto and Broadway productions.
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Harold Prince
Tony Award-winning Producer & Director.
Legendary producer and director Harold Prince surveys his career from his start in 1948 working for another legendary theatrical figure, George Abbott, to his newest project, the musical Paradise Found, which was presented in a workshop in New York just last week. Over the course an hour, Prince […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Production: The Civil War
The production team for The Civil War — producer Pierre Cossette, producers Gary Gunas and Scott Zieger of Pace Theatrical, lyricist Jack Murphy, composer Frank Wildhorn, and marketing representative Norman Zagier — cover the musical’s journey from inception at Houston’s Alley Theatre, through two studio albums, readings and workshops, to the […]
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Production: Contact
Producer/Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater André Bishop, Marketing Director and Director of Special Projects for Lincoln Center Theater Thomas Cott, Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater Bernard Gersten, director/choreographer Susan Stroman and playwright John Weidman discuss the Tony Award winning Contact; from Lincoln Center Theater’s invitation to Stroman and Weidman to […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Off-Broadway Companies
The Artistic Directors of four off-Broadway not-for-profit theatre companies — Douglas Aibel of Vineyard Theatre, Charlotte Moore of Irish Repertory Theatre, Tim Sanford of Playwrights Horizons and Jim Simpson of The Flea Theater — share their thoughts about attracting audiences to their shows, the cost of keeping their theaters going, the challenges […]
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