Podcast: Vol. 203 – February 28, 2008

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This episode we get up close with composer-lyricist Carol Hall (Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) as she discusses her career and new CD, Hallways. We also have interviews with the shows "Night of the Iguana" and "Life in a Marital Institution" and hear a song from the new cast album release, "Gone Missing". We also have news and more!

 

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Review: The Blue Flower Blossoms on the Upper West Side

Posted by admin on February 15, 2008 under Reviews | Be the First to Comment

THE BLUE FLOWER
West End Theatre
Review by John Delamar
IT’S A LITTLE BIT country… It’s a little bit Kurt Weil?
It’s not the famous country song, but it had elements of the Grand Ole Opery in it. What I’m talking about is the new (but not so new, it debuted at the New York Musical Theatre Festival back in 2004) musical, The Blue Flower, by Jim and Ruth Bauer. It’s hard to explain what exactly the show is about, without seeing the piece as a whole. But, here is the low down: Three friends, one is an artist, the other a ladies man, and the other a female scientist. They embark on a journey of Dadaesque proportions across the Weimar controlled country of Eastern Europe. So there you go. It’s a post World War I, Pre World War II, Dada inspired performance piece.
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Podcast: Vol. 202 – February 14, 2008

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We've got a great big ole show for you this week, since it's been a couple of weeks since we last chatted a lot has been going on.  So let's get the show rolling…

 

This week we have Alan Palmer and Curtis Jerome of Fabulous Diva's of Broadway, making it's off Broadway premiere this week, as well as getting two in studio performances from the show.  Also Paul Stroli of Straight up with a Twist comes in to chat about his new production.  Producer Roy Arias comes in to talk about his wonderful rehearsal spaces for rent as well as chatting with Robert Harrelson about the Roy Arias' production of Knock 'Em Dead.

Actor Stephen Plunkett and Composer John Mercurio come in to talk about their new production, Glimpses of the Moon, also performing a song from the show live in our studio.  John Ahlin, writer of Gray Area, comes by to talk about his new play running at the Barrow Group.  And finally, Kathryn Ekblad and Douglas Scott Sorenson com by to chat about Maieutic Theatre Works new production, Providence.

 

 

We've also got all the news that you love in the Top of the Trades and the Callboards, as well as Marty Cooper, always On the Positive Side.  So what are you waiting for, hop on board the Broadway Bullet for all destination on and off Broadway! 

 

 

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Video: Rehearsal Footage from “Passing Strange” – Part II

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Passing Strange on Broadway

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Video: Rehearsal Footage from “Passing Strange” – Part I

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Scenes and songs from an open media rehearsal for the new Broadway show, “Passing Strange”

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Review: The Gallery Players Are Having A Wild Party!

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Review by John Delamar

Welcome to the roaring twenties. Kander and Ebb said, “There’s booze everywhere, jazz everywhere, men everywhere…” And Andrew Lippa said it was a “Wild, wild party”, and it was. Brooklyn’s own Gallery Players, making great theatre Off Broadway for forty-one years, have brought Lippa’s wild and crazy twenties back to life in a production of The Wild Party to write home about. The Gallery Players have never been one to shy away from issues that verge on the profane, and this indulgent musical about the golden age of American prohibition is no exception.

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