High Fidelity interviews: Andrew Baughman, Stephen Gregory Smith and Julie Herber

How do these guys and gals keep putting on these amazing productions of musicals that just didn’t do too well in NYC, and turn them into winners? I saw High Fidelity on Broadway, and loved the music and really disliked the book, and here at the teeny weeny DCAC, where Landless Theatre Company has transformed this High Fidelity into a fun, in-your-face high energy show, all of a sudden I loved the book! Read more

High Fidelity

High Fidelity is an aggregate of great music (Tom Kitt, Next to Normal) with funny lyrics (Amanda Green) hung on a lame story (David Lindsay-Abaire, from the Nick Hornby novel) with unlikeable characters, and Landless plays the hell out of it. Read more

Evil Dead The Musical

So how was your night? Here’s a quick synopsis of mine: I was transported to a haunted cabin in the woods, where I was leered at by demons, subjected to countless cheesy puns, doused in gallons of fake blood, and repeatedly hit in the face by fake intestines. In other words, Read more

Landless gets ready to soak you with Evil Dead

I attended a midnight performance of Evil Dead The Musical at New World Stages in NYC in February 2007, sat in the Splash Zone, and was soaked by fake blood, even through the plastic poncho. I didn’t care – I had a blast! Read more

Spooky Dog and the Teen-Age Gang Mysteries

Ever wonder how your favorite cartoon characters would fare outside their television world? Landless Theatre Company successfully answers that question by giving a certain gang of mystery-solving youths and their hungry pooch a dose of reality Read more

Walmartopia

As tech rehearsals began, Joel Markowitz sat down with husband and wife team, Director Melissa Baughman and actor and Landless Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director Andrew Baughman to talk about their outrageous production of the Off-Broadway musical hit Walmartopia. Read more

Walmartopia

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

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