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The big news about Landless Theatre Company is that it’s all grown up! I feel as though I have watched a theatrical bar mitzvah. At the end I wanted to stand up and say “Today, you are a theater company.” Read more

Andrew Baughman as President Harding

an interview with the star of President Harding Is a Rock Star -  Andrew Baughman
By Joel Markowitz

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President Harding Is a Rock Star

President Harding Is a Rock Star
Book, music and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow
Produced by Landless Theatre Company
Directed by Melissa Baughman
Reviewed by Tim Treanor

Full of highly listenable rock with funny lyrics, played by a tight band (Esther Covington, Brett Abelman and the excellent Josh Speerstra), beautifully sung and, best of all, funny because it’s true - who wouldn’t like President Harding is a Rock Star? And when I say “it’s true” I don’t mean that our 29^th President (Andrew Lloyd Baughman) was a burly, bearded keytar-wielding jumpsuited cokehead, or that his wife Florence (Richelle Howie) was an African-American woman with a voice which could make the very songbirds droop their heads in shame and envy; Read more

Debbie Does Dallas

• Debbie Does Dallas The Musical
• Conceived by Susan L. Schwartz . Adapted by Erica Schmidt from the movie “Debbie Does Dallas” by Maria Minestra
• Music by Andrew Sherman
• Produced by Landless Theatre Company
• Directed by Coco McFarlin
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

For those of you who have been anticipating injunctions from the Anti-Sex League, or other manifestations of righteousness, I am obliged to report that Debbie Does Dallas The Musical, is not going to do the job. Unlike the porn classic which inspired it, the musical is a pleasantly cheesy exercise, funny and well-performed. Read more

Gutenberg The Musical

• Gutenberg!  The Musical!
• By Scott Brown and Anthony King
• Directed by John Sadowsky
• Produced by Landless Theatre Company
• Reviewed by Steven McKnight

If you have ever been curious about the formula for a successful Broadway musical, you must attend Landless Theatre Company’s highly entertaining production of Gutenberg! The Musical! During this show, two aspiring authors present a hilarious parody of those ingredients while pitching their work to the audience, which they hope contains a big-time Broadway producer.  Read more

Gutenberg The Musical

by Matt Baughman, Andrew Baughman and Joel Markowitz

Gutenberg characters Bud Davenport and Doug Simon show up for a podcast with Joel and hijack his interview. In the musical, Bud and Doug pitch songs to Broadway producers. Here, they are looking for casting advice for the Broadway production, and ask the one guy in town who sees them all.  Read more

 

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A Very Merry Unauthorized …..

• A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant
• By Kyle Jarrow
• Directed by Andrew Baughman
• Produced by Landless Theatre Company
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

David Sedaris had a routine in which he played a theatre critic who passed judgment on grade-school Christmas pageants. “A cloying, preening stage presence,” he sniffed, dismissing a six-year old playing the Virgin Mary, “her performance seemed based on nothing more than an annoying proclivity toward lifting her skirt and on rare occasions opening her eyes.”

None of that for me. The Very Merry Pageant uses young kids in all of its roles, and thus effectively immunizes itself from criticism - mine or anyone else’s. Read more

A Very Merry Landless

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• A Holiday Pageant, Landless-Style
• By Joel Markowitz

Director Andrew Baughman tells us about Landless Theatre’s holiday show A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pagaent. It’s packed with sweet, sincere kids telling the story of Scientology. With a Hedwig and the Angry Inch-type sound. Or maybe it’s Godspell.

Thanks to Pageant composer Kyle Jarrow, we have backed this interview with snips from his original cast recording of the Obie-winning show.  Listen in here.

 

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Flowers for Algernon

• Flowers for Algernon
• By David Rogers, based on a novel by Daniel Keyes
• Directed by Matt Ripa
• Produced by Landless Theatre Company
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

There are many things wrong with Landless Theatre Company’s production of Flowers for Algernon, but before we get to them let us celebrate the fine performance by Matt Baughman in the role of Charley Gordon.  Charley, as you remember from the Cliff Robertson movie of the same name or from your high school reading, is a mentally retarded man who becomes the subject of an experimental surgery designed to radically increase his intellectual function.  The experiment succeeds and Charley’s IQ soars from 68 to 185, but the change is not permanent, and his summer of light is filled with a wistful poignancy.

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