It’s Fall, and that means more of our annual NYMF coverage! NYMF 2010 runs from Sept.27-Oct. 17th. Each year the shows fill up more and more, so get your tickets early or risk being left out of the hottest show of the festival season! Find out more about NYMF at www.nymf.org

In this episode:

• Gary Holmes discusses his journey bringing 30′s Harlem Composer J.C. Johnson’s music to life in a book musical, TRAV’LIN. A mentor to Gary as a young boy, J.C. wish was to have an honest book musical, now brought to life at NYMF.
• Book writer, Chip Zien and Director Nick Corley discuss their (tongue firmly in cheek) desire to have the “most pretentious musical” at NYMF this year. A unique a surreal journey of a 12 year old boy with no regards to the boundaries of time, THE HISTORY OF WAR illuminates the human capacity for violence.
• Ned Massey was prepped by labels to be the “Next Bob Dylan” only to find himself scrapped by the label before his debut album was released. Years later, he turns his story into a fresh contemporary musical, BLOOD TIES. He discusses the show with director Scott C. Embler.
• The downturn in the economy led to Keith Varney getting fired from his office job, which quickly led to the writing of I GOT FIRED: A SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SORT-OF-TRUE REVENGE MUSICAL. He discusses the creation of the show and the challenges of writing and acting at the same time.
  

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It’s time for our season finale! We’ll be back with new episodes in September. Until then, enjoy the episode and dive into back episodes for loads of great interviews!

In this episode:

• Justin Sayre brings his variety show, THE MEETING, satirizing the gay agenda to raise money and awareness for the Ali Forney Center, and organization dedicated to helping Homeless LBGT Youth. He came into the studio to discuss the organization and show.
• The Prospect Theatre Company brings the musical (and 2007 NYMF favorite) WITH GLEE to Theatre Row in July. Director, Igor Goldin and actor Dan Lawler talk about the show and share some recordings of the music.
• The Oberon Theatre Ensemble is bringing two plays to Theatre Row this summer; OTHELLO and new play, ORDER. Artistic Director Brad Fryman and (Former Tony Nominee) Austin Pendleton who is directing ORDER talk about the two play’s connections.
• We’ve got more from the Planet Connections Festivity. Peter Dagger (Writer/Producer) and Matt Britten (Director/Producer) talk about their musical, BJ: A MUSICAL ROMP, and share a recording of one of the songs from the show!
• Marty Cooper shares his predictions for the Tony Awards this Sunday in ON THE POSITIVE SIDE.
• …and one more Planet Connections show… Director Leah Bonvissuto and playwright, Felipe Ossa discuss the play CAKE. Both were involved with the favorite of last year’s festival, Monetizing Emma, and aim for lighting to strike twice.

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Enjoy your long weekend and don’t forget to load up some new podcasts to listen to on your trip!

In this episode:

• Taren Sterry has been performing her one woman show, 180 DAYS, as a tool to help raise awareness and volunteers for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. Here she tells us how that all came to be!
• In the wake of air travel’s recent headaches, Alex Lyras‘ show, THE COMMON AIR, certainly feels timely. Alex and director Robert McCaskill stop by to discuss the show.
• Actors Alysia Reiner and Jack Gwaltney tell us about MODOTTI, and discuss the period and history that inspired the show.
• Clubbed Thumb launches it’s three-show summer “festival” with DOT, and Playwright Kate E. Ryan and composer Mike Iveson tell us about the show and the producing organization.
• More from Planet Connections Festivity, this time, with the “sequel” to a Midsummer Night’s Dream, THE THYME OF THE SEASON, and playwright Duncan Pflaster and co-conceiver/actor Clara Barton Green tell us about it.
• UNCLE SHELBY’S WUNDERPANTRY OF POSSIBILITIES will also grace the stages at Planet Connections Festivity, and writers Dan Moyer, Ben Forster and Producer Nathaniel Kent discuss their hunt for a vanished theme park.

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New York is heating up and so is the show! Check out the new episode.

In this episode:

• Dan Butler (“Bulldog” from Frasier) talks about his new Off-Broadway Show, THE IRISH CURSE (now running at the SoHo Playhouse), as well as his career and position as a gay rights activist in this in-depth interview.
• Will and Anthony Nunziata are bringing their cabaret act to Feinsteins with FROM PELLHAM TO PARK AVENUE and they stop by to discuss the show as well as perform two songs live in our studio!
• THE REALM from Down Payment Productions is receiving it’s New York Premiere at the Wild Project, and Director Jessica Fisch and Actor Aaron Simon Gross (Broadway’s “13″) are on hand to discuss this show’s distopian view of the future.
• The Curious Frog Theatre Company is bringing the 1947 French Play, THE MAIDS to the stage for New York Audiences. Director Tracy Cameron Francis and Actor William Alex Runnels discuss the show and the theatre company’s penchant for casting beyond traditional norms.

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Keep warm while waiting for spring with our Jam packed new episode!

In this episode:

• We let you hear James Barbour‘s new single, WALK WITH ME. He recorded the single for Haiti Relief, and it was produced by your host, Michael Gilboe and written by Gary Burton. Make sure you pick up the single at iTunes or Amazon to support a good cause!
• Clare Burt has been a big star on the West End for over a decade, and she is making her New York debut with her cabaret show, NOW YOU KNOW March 9-13. She stopped by the studio to discuss her show, her upcoming CD release and her career on the West End!
• +30 NYC is a collection of shows envisioning New York City in the future. Staged as a benefit for Materials for the Arts, Artistic Director Melanie Moyer Williams and show curator Dominic D’Andrea pop in to tell us about the show and how they pulled it all together.
• Set against the backdrop of WWII, SIGNS OF LIFE is a new musical from AMAS telling the story of nine Jews in a “model” concentration camp. The show has been receiving great notices for how it handles it’s dark subject, and one of the lead actresses, Patricia Noonan, came by to tell us more about the show and the real life inspiration.
• A surreal coming of age story for a young London girl, HANGMAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS tells a universal story in a fresh manner. Writer/Actor Lucy Gillespie and Director Leta Tremblay were here to talk about the show and it’s staging challenges. Also check out the production blog!
• Monologist Frank Blocker is back with his new show, FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY. He came by to talk about his one man-70 character play, as well as to discuss the CD release of his last show, SOUTHERN GOTHIC NOVEL, available on Amazon.
• in ON THE POSITIVE SIDE, Marty Cooper talks about the cavalcade of stars on the Great White Way this season lining up for (hopeful) Tony nominations.

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I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday break, because we are back with our season premiere!

In this episode:

• Jamie Fox stops by to talk about her show, MAZELTOV COCKTAIL, playing from Jan. 26th-Feb 20th and also discusses some of the aspects of her day job as a personal assistant to many celebrities.
• The Original Cast Recording of VANITIES just came out on Sh-k-Boom/Ghostlight, and composer/lyricist David Kirshenbaum stops by to talk about the show and let us hear two songs from the CD!
• 3 Graces Theatre Company is presenting POWER OF BIRDS from Feb. 19th-Mar. 13th, and co-artistic directors Annie McGovern (also acting in the show) and Elizabeth Bunnell (director) stop by the studio to discuss the show, their company, and also offer tips from their day jobs respectively as an Industrials Producer and Commercial/VO Casting agent!
• James Barbour’s One to Watch: James launches a new regular segment with a song from the young singer, Daniel Zorovich

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Get ready for the holidays with our Season Finale packed with extra stuffing!

In this episode:

• J. Bernard Calloway and James Monroe Iglehart have both traveled a long journey with MEMPHIS, the new Broadway hit. They stop by to tell us about the journey, their Broadway debuts, and to share a couple songs from the just-released cast album with us!
• GLORY DAYS may have only lasted one day on Broadway, but how many Broadway shows are on *your* resume? The cast album was just released, and composer/lyricist Nick Blaemire is here to tell us about the release, and the show’s history and journey to it’s Glory Day.
• Michael Tester wanted you to know how teens really talk and feel, and his exploration led to the new musical, MOST LIKELY TO: THE SENIOR SUPERLATIVE MUSICAL. He stops by to talk about the show opening in January, and brings by three members of the cast; Melissa Rapelje, Katie Hoffman and Alexander Greif, to perform a number from the show, live in our studio!
• GREAT MUSIC! – You’ll hear a new song, “My Sky” sung by Stephanie Block which is from the upcoming CD NO MORE REVIVALS, VOL. 1, “I’ve Got the World on a String” from Ashley Brown‘s new solo CD, SPEAK LOW, and Sierra Boggess singing “I’ve Got the World on a String” from the new NEW YORK CITY CHRISTMAS CD.

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Enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday with an extra stuffing of Broadway Bullet!

In this episode:

• Find out more about Ethel Merman in story and song! Klea Blackhurst is presenting her one woman show, EVERYTHING THE TRAFFIC WILL ALLOW at the Snapple Theatre celebrating the life and music of one of Broadway’s most enduring Divas. She shares two songs with us as well during her interview.
• The Brick Theater is presenting FIGHT FEST from Dec. 1-20. 8 Shows featuring all types of stage combat are featured for the action lovers. 4 of the participants, Alyssa Simon, Jeff Lewonczyb, Kate Wilkerson and Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum,  stop by to discuss the festival and their shows.
• SHE LIKE GIRLS has been building buzz through readings and presentations for three years, and it is finally getting a full production from Dec. 3-29th. Director Jared Culverhouse and lead actress Karen Eilbacher stop by to discuss the history of the show, and the disturbing true-life event the show is based on.
• The Baroque Dance-Theatre Ensemble, Company XIV, is presenting two past audience favorites as well as a new production in Rep, THE APPLE TRILOGY. Performers Gioia Marchese and Lauren Careless stop by to discuss the productions and the company’s unique mission and approach to dance-theatre.
• In this episode’s segment of  LUSH AND LIVELY, Dan Fortune shares with us a rare, Bossa-Nova recording of “Feelin’ Good”.

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Now that NYMF coverage is over, we still have lots of great stuff going on in NY, so don’t miss the new episode!

In this episode:

• Diana DeGarmo (American Idol) stops by to talk about her new show, THE TOXIC AVENGER, as well as her experience during and after American Idol. We also play a song from the Original Cast Recording of the show.
• Gallery Players have won best production of a musical at the NY IT awards for 3 years in a row now, and they are gunning to extend their run with their new production of TOP OF THE HEAP. Director Neal Freeman stops by with Composer Jeffrey Lodin and Book/Lyric Writer, William Squier to talk about the show. Actors Kenny Wade Marshall, David Perlman and Hollis Scarborough also came by to sing two songs from the show live in our Times Square Studio.
• Music from the recession era gets another spin in New York as the musical revue, BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? sets up for a run at the Triad Theatre. Director/Writer/Conceiver Bill Daugherty and Producer Max Weintraub give us the low-down on the 1920′s low-down, and discuss how they brought the show to life.
• Steve Hayes has been a staple on the New York Cabaret scence for over twenty years, and explores his passion for the comedy teams of the 60′s in his new two-man show, STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES. He explains his new take on the Gay Man/Straight Man schtick, and also discusses the gentrification of the Cabaret scene in New York over the past twenty years, and tells us where to find it’s gritty roots being reinvigorated. He also talks about his new YOUTUBE series.

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In part 2 of our NYMF coverage, we hear from five more shows in the NYMF Festival… don’t forget to check them out at www.nymf.org for more information on the festival running from Sept. 28-Oct 18

In our four part NYMF series, you’ll hear from 20 NYMF shows with interviews, music, live performances and more!

In this episode:

• Tod Kimbro (Book/Music/Lyrics) and Julia Granacki discuss a distopian future filled with Rock and Roll in MY ILLUSTRIOUS WASTELAND
• Mark Robertson (Book/Music/Lyrics) and Jim Newman (Actor) discuss musicalizing an old Irish folk tale into the new musical, MARRING MEG
• Will Reynolds (Composer/Conceptualizer) discusses cut and pasting the Bard into a new musical, THE GREENWOOD TREE, which is playing as a concert reading.
• Ryan J. Davis (Director/Co-Producer) and Joe Drymala (Author/Composer) take “Save the Music” to the stage with STREET LIGHTS, focusing on High School Students studying the arts.
• Elizabeth Lucas (Director) and Mark Wiser (Writer) discuss bringing their modern vampire musical, THE CURE, from Stage to Film and back again.

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