Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Production: Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie’s creative and production team — choreographer Rob Ashford, general manager Nina Lannan, producer Hal Luftig, director Michael Mayer, book writer/lyricist Dick Scanlan and composer Jeanine Tesori — discuss the Tony Award winning musical’s journey to Broadway; obtaining the rights to the 1967 Universal Pictures film written by Richard Morris [...]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Production: Hairspray
The creative team behind the Broadway musical Hairspray, producers Richard Frankel and Margo Lion, co-book writer Thomas Meehan, choreographer Jerry Mitchell, director Jack O’Brien, co-book writer Mark O’Donnell, composer Marc Shaiman and lyricist Scott Wittman outline the journey the piece took from being a John Waters and Divine cult movie to hitting the Broadway [...]
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Production: Urban Cowboy
Musical director, orchestrator and arranger Jason Robert Brown, book writer Aaron Latham, producer Chase Mishkin, director Lonny Price, press representative Pete Sanders and producer Leonard Soloway are the guests on this program which discusses the how this classic movie was musicalized, how it was shepherded to Broadway, and how just enough was changed [...]
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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 by [...]
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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 signing [...]
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