http://dctheatrescene.com Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website Fri, 25 May 2012 19:37:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website DC Theatre Scene no Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website http://dctheatrescene.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://dctheatrescene.com http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/12/spidermusical-a-second-chance-for-awesome/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/12/spidermusical-a-second-chance-for-awesome/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:06:09 +0000 Hunter Styles http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=34070 http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/12/spidermusical-a-second-chance-for-awesome/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/04/spidermusical-at-landless/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/04/spidermusical-at-landless/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:31:02 +0000 Joe Brack http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=33829 http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/04/04/spidermusical-at-landless/feed/ 1 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http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/18/perez-hilton-writers-check-out-their-show-at-landless/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/18/perez-hilton-writers-check-out-their-show-at-landless/#comments Tue, 18 May 2010 17:47:44 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=16117 http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/18/perez-hilton-writers-check-out-their-show-at-landless/feed/ 4 http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/17/perez-hilton-saves-the-universe-2/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/17/perez-hilton-saves-the-universe-2/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 14:28:48 +0000 Hunter Styles http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=15861 http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/05/17/perez-hilton-saves-the-universe-2/feed/ 2 http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/25/high-fidelity-interviews-andrew-baughman-stephen-greg/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/02/25/high-fidelity-interviews-andrew-baughman-stephen-greg/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:32:16 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=13139 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http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/13/spooky-dog-and-the-teen-age-gang-mysteries-2/#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:23:21 +0000 Ben Demers http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=6916 http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/06/13/spooky-dog-and-the-teen-age-gang-mysteries-2/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/17/walmartopia-3/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/17/walmartopia-3/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:44:47 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=5767 http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/17/walmartopia-3/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/05/walmartopia-2/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/05/walmartopia-2/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:52:03 +0000 Tim Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=5500 http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/04/05/walmartopia-2/feed/ 4 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/15/andrew-baughman-as-president-harding/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/15/andrew-baughman-as-president-harding/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:04:02 +0000 Joel Markowitz 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http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/21/gutenberg-the-musical-2/feed/ 2 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/19/gutenberg-the-musical/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/19/gutenberg-the-musical/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:45:43 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/19/gutenberg-the-musical/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/03/19/gutenberg-the-musical/feed/ 2 Interviews,landless,musicals 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, 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.  Except, Bud and Doug have only seen one Broadway show, back in '97, so confusion ensues as Joel tosses out suggestions and puns.  And yes, Matt and Andrew can sing, as you can hear here with  'I Can't Read', 'Gutenberg', and Tomorrow Is Tonight', backed by Charles Johnson on piano. Landless Theatre's Gutenberg! The Musical! plays through April 6th at DCAC, 2438 18th St NW, Washington, DC Ready to hear one very funny show?  Click here. DC Theatre Scene no http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/24/a-very-merry-unauthorized/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/24/a-very-merry-unauthorized/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:52:12 +0000 Tim Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/24/a-very-merry-unauthorized/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/24/a-very-merry-unauthorized/feed/ 2 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/18/a-very-merry-landless/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/18/a-very-merry-landless/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:08:16 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/18/a-very-merry-landless/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/12/18/a-very-merry-landless/feed/ 1 landless 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, 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. DC Theatre Scene no http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/28/flowers-for-algernon/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/28/flowers-for-algernon/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:41:19 +0000 Tim Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/28/flowers-for-algernon/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/28/flowers-for-algernon/feed/ 8 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/03/bat-boy-the-musical/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/03/bat-boy-the-musical/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:36:03 +0000 Gary McMillan http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/03/bat-boy-the-musical/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/03/bat-boy-the-musical/feed/ 2 landless Bat Boy: The Musical Story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe Directed by Melissa Baughman Produced by Landless Theatre Company Reviewed by Gary McMillan - Bat Boy: The Musical Story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe Directed by Melissa Baughman Produced by Landless Theatre Company Reviewed by Gary McMillan Bat Boy is ripped from the pages of Weekly World News.  Landless whips it up with a frothy, fun-filled production which milks every laugh by playing the story straight. Well, as straight as you can play a show with a homicidal veterinarian, a hoedown about dead cows, an inter-species animal puppet orgy, and a half-chiroptera, feral adolescent with a proper English accent and moves like Fred Astaire. I can't say I was familiar with Weekly World News. Growing up in the Midwest, the major supermarket tabloids were The National Enquirer and The Star.  Nevertheless, the same standard of journalistic excellence prevails, I'm sure.  Now, if co-authors Farley and Fleming had put Sasquatch in the lead role they could have avoided those pesky WWN licensing fees. Bigfoot Boy: The Musical?  No, definitely not as catchy.  Despite the burden of newspaper royalties, composer Laurence 0'Keefe helped support Bat Boy workshops with proceeds from his many awards. O'Keefe won an ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, an award created by daughter Mary Rodgers, a successful composer herself, to encourage promising young musical theater composers.  He's also been recognized with Jonathan Larson and Ed Kleban awards for his songwriting. O'Keefe finds himself in the company of two of my favorite Rodgers honorees Adam Guettel (Floyd Collins, Myths and Hymns, and Tony-winning Light in the Piazza) and Jeanine Tesori (Violet, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical; Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie; and the revolutionary and critically acclaimed Caroline, Or Change with Pulitzer winner, Tony Kushner). O'Keefe has chosen quirkier books than Tesori and Guettel, but his current Broadway show, Legally Blonde, had me and the rest of the audience giddy with surprise and delight and roaring with laughter. Bat Boy also touched a nerve as well as a vein among audiences, resulting in a cult following surrounding the cast recording and the over one hundred productions staged around the country, including a Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics' Circle award-winning run off-Broadway and a well-received DC premiere at Studio Theatre five years ago. Internationally, the show was a London success and reportedly is quite popular in Japan and Korea, presumably for its faithful portrayal of American rural life. (I'm assuming North Korea.) Landless performs in a postage stamp-sized theater in the heart of Adams Morgan. The cast includes some veteran performers with a bevy of young, enthusiastic actors who nicely ramp up the campy humor. Director Melissa Baughman sticks by the playwright's casting guidelines: six men and four women cover the 25 roles (some productions have used 20+ actors). Elizabeth Reeves was charged with costuming the crowd; she has chosen items of clothing to signify each character in the ensemble, enabling actors to make lightening swift changes off stage and some on stage in hilarious fashion. Actor Josh Speerstra is poor dead Ricky Taylor sprawled on the ground one minute and the shocked and grieving church lady, Lorraine, the next. Kristina Granados transforms from Ron Taylor to Mayor Maggie faster than Hyde sidesteps into Jekyll. Matt Macis is uncannily good as Batboy. Equally comfortable in a deep cavern, a dog cage, and a business suit (I'll bet he found the cage less confining), Macis acts as though he's studied countless newsreels of animal behavior and read extensively about the rescue of abused household pets. In fact, he moves like a gymnast in a Cirque Du Soleil extravaganza to create this precious, wounded animal. Twisting, turning, scrambling across the floor, shielding his eyes from blinding daylight, he's brittle, broken, scarred and scared. Ultimately, he's My Fair Batboy, DC Theatre Scene no