On the road as a swing and understudy in Rent: The Broadway Tour She wowed DC audiences with her powerful singing and Helen Hayes Award nominated performance as the rebellious and feisty daughter, Emmie
Rent’s Telly Leung and young people do Rent
The Broadway National Tour of Rent, making its brief stop at the Warner Theatre May 26 – 31, includes three original cast members, and the remarkable Telly Leung.
Ragtime’s Christiane Noll and Bobby Steggert
Ragtime is my all-time favorite musical. I fell in love with Stephen Flaherty’s score and Lynn Ahrens’ lyrics the first time I heard them in 1996 when I received the CD as an early Chanukah gift.
Follies then and again
Two directors from the 2009 and 1988 TAP productions of Follies “The roads you never take/Go through rocky ground/Don’t they? The choices that you make/Aren’t all that grim. The worlds you never see/Still will be around/Won’t they!”
Caught in their acts: Bernadette Peters, James Gardiner, James Zemarel and Shannon Wollman
Bernadette Peters: Still a Broadway Baby! How does she do it? On Sunday, April 19th at 4 pm, after an overture played by the National Philharmonic (conducted by Marvin Laird, who wrote Ruthless! The Musical) consisting of songs from Gypsy and Mack and Mabel,
Ten Musical Scene Stealers
From a Swiss orphan and her new playmate, to a young Jewish boy on the verge of becoming a man, to a pitter-pattering Lord Chancellor, to a slow-competing, high-tenor singing barber,
Chicago’s Charlotte d’Amboise
He’s seen her twist and slither across the stage as Roxie Hart five times in NYC, and now Joel Markowitz interviews his favorite Roxie – Charlotte d’Amboise, who is playing the publicity-seeking murderess in Chicago, now on The National Theatre stage.
ROOMS on Opening Night
I am waiting to pick up my ticket for the opening night production of ROOMS a rock romance at New World Stages when I suddenly find that I am nervous. From the moment Carolyn Griffin called me to tell me about this new musical she had just landed for MetroStage,
The Tapioca Miracle Reading at MetroStage
Gone are the days when a producer calls a young Jerry Herman into his office and says ” Kid – Hello Dolly! is yours. Go write it.” Today, getting a new musical written, financed and produced is daunting. Usually DC audiences get their first look at a show in development at a workshop or premiere. […]
A special One Red Flower and a young man you should know
Author Paris Barclay attends a special performance of One Red Flower Saturday, March 7th was an emotional evening for the Vietnam veterans and their families who walked into a former armory – the Kensington Town Center – to see Kensington Arts Theatre’s (KAT) production of Paris Barclay’s One Red Flower, a musical about Vietnam veterans […]
Winter Musical Scene Stealing Moments
Jesse Palmer & Mark Chandler . Joanne Schmoll & Desire DuBose . Roz White . Sandy Bainum & Rowyn Peel. David James . Felicia Curry . Amy Conley, Harv Lester, Katie McManus & Sam Nystrom . Lily Goldberg . Josh Kaufmann & Devin Wrigley . Zachary Conneen . Alice Ripley with comments from director Michael […]
Following The Tapioca Miracle
The Tapioca Miracle – Part Two by Joel Markowitz The musical – that most complex collaborative theatrical form – poses the biggest risks and rewards for its creators. If the creative mix is right, if the show gets constructive feedback and support in its early stages, if the writers make wise decisions in rewrites, and […]