After 37 seasons running Penguin Rep, Stony Point’s charming barn theater, Joe Brancato knows better than to search for “the great play.” “I always tell my young dire…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:31PMTake 15 minutes. Watch this video. Composer Bobby Lopez and lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez talk with BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop’s Pat Cook about the way they work, abou…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:45PMOver the years, senior Steven DeNardo and junior Emily Goodrich have played more than her share of plum roles at Walter Panas High School. This week, they’re Julian Marsh and Peggy Saw…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:06PM“Billy Elliot” — Elton John’s 10-time Tony-winner about an English miner’s son who prefers ballet to boxing — left Broadway in 2012, after 1,312 performan…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:24PMBrian Hayes, 16, a junior at Pearl River High School, has been in every Pearl River show since eighth grade, from “Don’t Drink the Water” to last fall’s “The Cr…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:54AMThe Cratchits and Scrooge take to the stage at Iona Prep on April 30. Yes, you read that right. Director Jason Summers and the boys at Iona Prep (ably assisted by girls from The Ursuline Sch…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:48AMHastings High School follows up one ground-breaking musical with another. Last year, it was Jonathan Larson’s “Rent.” This year, it’s “A Chorus Line,” the…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 02:12PMThe tech crew at Dobbs Ferry High School is called “The Rat Pack,” and its three seniors—Vincent Laino, Ryan Mitchell and Philip Monteiro—are its leaders, its Frank, …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 01:31PMPeekskill High School’s production of “The Wiz” has all things great and small. The small are 4th- and 5th-graders from Hillcrest Elementary School. At a recent rehearsal, …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:43PMAttending a musical rehearsal at Croton-Harmon High School has always been about seeing double. In an effort to give as many kids as possible the opportunity to try their hand at a role, the…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:14PMHere’s a sign that Mahopac has just the right girl to play Elle Woods in this week’s “Legally Blonde”: Mention her character’s name and Mahopac senior Olivia De…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:55AMAt Woodlands High School this week, the kid playing the jock who loves musicals (despite the fact that his friends give him grief about it) is a jock who loves musicals despite the fact that…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:19AMBefore this week, the biggest role Alex Guzman had ever held in a play at Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers was as the ship captain in “Anything Goes.” Or maybe a businessman i…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 07:00AMWill Youmans (inset) is from a show-business family. His mom is playwright Elizabeth Egloff. His dad builds sets for Broadway, including the Sinatra musical, “Come Fly Away” and …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:59AMThe Yellow Brick Road on the stage at Mount Vernon High School this weekend won’t just be trod by MVHS students. This year’s production, the first on the stage since 2013, will f…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 12:09PMMarianna Ceccatti, 16, sophomore from Croton, is a musical kid. She was in the Ursuline School’s Honors Chorus that traveled to Rome in January and sang for Pope Francis. “One of…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:39AMThe subjects know it. Members of King Sextimus’ court know it. Queen Aggravain knows it. “A genuine princess is exceedingly rare.” New Rochelle High School junior Kaitlyn G…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:26PMFor more than five years, if there’s been a show at Lakeland High School, Declan Moore has had a hand in it, handling all things technical. The Lakeland senior is helping to cook up a …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 10:03PMIn Chappaqua, Horace Greeley has the region’s only seniors-only musical and the Class of 2015 made a memorable choice: “Hair,” the “Age of Aquarius” musical, wi…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:21PMPutnam Valley’s Dr. Gerard Micera has chosen a milestone musical for 2015, the first in which the school is eligible for the Metropolitan High School Theater Awards, to be handed out i…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:25PMZoe Kaplan’s character in Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” was once an evangelist. Now she’s a nightclub singer. She’s Reno Sweeney, and “she’s a…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:10PMWestlake High School opens a two-week run of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” the Stephen Sondheim-Larry Gelbart musical about a slave Pseudolus (senior Joey Tag…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:04PMThe kids at Clarkstown High School South are turning themselves into the hand-jiving students of Rydell High this week, with a production of “Grease.” They’ve got the moves…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:02PMEastchester is chock full of fairytale creatures this week, as director John Gwardyak brings “Shrek: The Musical” to the Eastchester High School stage. The irreverent and wickedl…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 08:00PMIn the middle of a season of high-school musicals across the Lower Hudson Valley comes “A Chorus Line,” presented by Hastings-based Broadway Training Center of Westchester this w…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 11:50AMFor years, people have asked Spring Valley director-choreographer Stacey Tirro when she was going to do “West Side Story.” The dance teacher had an answer. “I would tell th…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:01AMMatthew Quinones loves baseball. And he loves singing. This weekend, the Albertus Magnus High School sophomore gets to combine the two, as he makes his theatrical debut in “Damn Yankee…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:00AMDoesn’t it look like Tappan Zee’s Quiana Iacobellis is saying “Nooooooooo!”? Who could blame her, after snow canceled Friday’s opening night of “Annie Get…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 09:56AM“Shrek the Musical,” which opens at Brewster High School this week, is essentially a buddy musical with the unlikeliest of buddies. There’s Shrek the green ogre, played by …
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:06AMThe kids at Ramapo High School knew they wanted to break out this year, to follow last year’s ground-breaking production of “In the Heights” with another milestone producti…
SOURCE: The Journal News at 06:05AMFor a decade, Ed Steele has chosen out-of-the-ordinary musicals for Fox Lane. Think “Hot Mikado,” “Smile,” “The Boyfriend.” This year, his last as directo…
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