Gavin Lee on playing Bert in Mary Poppins
August 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Kennedy Center audiences love Gavin Lee’s heart-warming, lovable performance as Bert, the chimney sweep in the national tour of Mary Poppins. Gavin originated the role in London, performed it on Broadway, and has been playing Bert all around the country on this tour. [Read more...]
The Women of the national tour of Avenue Q
August 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
An interview with members of the Avenue Q national tour: Kerri Bracken, Julianna Lee and Jacqueline Grabois
It was an hour before their call for the evening performance of Avenue Q when cast members Jacqueline Grabois (Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut), Kerri Bracken (Mrs. T. and one of the two Bad Idea Bears), and ensemble member Julianna Lee, who performed the role of Christmas Eve when I saw the show on opening night, sat down with me in their dressing room. [Read more...]
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Charlie Ross on his One Man Lord of the Rings
July 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I saw it with my partner Alex and we still can’t believe how Canadian actor Charlie Ross condensed almost 12 hours of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) trilogy into a little over an hour of non-stop hilarity. Here he was twisting and turning and humming and singing, falling on the stage – and quickly getting up – as he transformed himself into 42 characters, and performed dozens of hysterical sound effects. [Read more...]
Playing Patsy Cline
July 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Tiffany Walker Porta on Always…Patsy Cline
I’m a big fan of Patsy Cline and when I saw Always…Patsy Cline on press night at Toby’s Baltimore, I was amazed how Tiffany Walker Porta’s renditions of many of Patsy’s hit songs - including “I Fall to Pieces”, “Crazy”, and “Walkin’ After Midnight”, had that unique Patsy “sound”. [Read more...]
The men of Legends – John Epperson and James Lecesne
July 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
They are making Studio Theatre audience howl with delight as they dig their claws into each other at Legends!. The actors responsible for the hilarity, John Epperson and James Lecesne, sit down with Joel Markowitz to schmooze about the show, talk about playing Leatrice Monsee and Sylvia Glenn, how John rewrote the original script by James Kirkwood, how James got involved in this production, and what’s next for the show. [Read more...]
Writing and performing Bucky’s song and dance
June 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
A conversation with playwright/director D. W. Jacobs and performer Rick Foucheux
If you haven’t read the work of Buckminster Fuller or seen it explained in R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, you might doubt whether watching one solo performance could totally transform how you see this “Spaceship Earth” [Read more...]
David Ives on Spinoza and New Jerusalem
June 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
“I’D RATHER SLING HASH THAN WRITE THE SAME KIND OF PLAY TWICE”
All right. So you saw Constellation do David Ives’ witty adaptation of George Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear last October. And in April, you went to the Shakespeare to see how Ives reinvented the 1643 Pierre Corneille’s comedy The Liar. And now you’ve noticed that Theater J will be staging Ives’ The New Jerusalem, [Read more...]
Mark Jacoby on playing Tevye
June 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mark Jacoby on playing Tevye in Walnut Street Theatre’s Fiddler on the Roof.
It was so nice to get a second chance to interview Mark Jacoby as he was “Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum-ing” through the role of Tevye in Walnut Street Theatre’s stunning production of Fiddler on the Roof. Mark talks about what he brings to this famous role, and why the show is still so popular more than four decades later after it opened on Broadway. [Read more...]
Jeffrey Coon on playing Georges Seurat
June 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Report from Philadelphia: Jeffrey Coon in the role of Georges Seurat in The Arden’s Sunday in the Park with George.
It’s always an honor and pleasure to watch Jeff Coon perform. He can do it all - musicals, plays, and children’s theatre. He has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard on the stage. A staple in the Philadelphia theatre community, Jeffrey Coon is now portraying painter Georges Seurat in Arden Theatre Company’s sumptuous production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George. [Read more...]
DCTS columnists reveal their Tony favorites
June 9, 2010 By 1 Comment
Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz on the NYC Theatre Season and the Tony Awards
In what has become an annual tradition on DC Theatre Scene, DCTS columnists Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz met in Richard’s penthouse on the Upper East Side of NYC to share their thoughts with you on the current NYC theatre season. [Read more...]
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