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The Green Room is thrilled to have a wonderful group of bloggers join us this winter. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name:�…
The Green Room is thrilled to have a wonderful group of bloggers join us this winter. For the rest of the week, you can get to know them through our Meet the Bloggers series. Name:�…
As the end of the semester is drawing near, I've often found myself reflecting on the past 4 months and how I have grown as an artist and as a person. Whenever you take on a huge feat (such …
Paramount Pictures' White Christmas is a movie musical that premiered in 1954 starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. With a score by Irving Berlin, White Christm…
Everyone does an end-of-year list, right? Some "top 10" or "best of"- as part of our obsession with ranking things chronologically. Look " I'm not judging. I like a good top 10 list as much …
The reprise is a musical theatre staple " and with good reason. Far more than just repetition, reprises can be crucial to a musical's storytelling. Using the same (or similar) music in a dif…
As soon as I heard about the passing of Mike Nichols I knew who my last post for "Curtain Speech" should be about. For those who have not read his biography or obituary or seen his work, I h…
Let's start with another flashback from Steve Fendrich: "In 1985, I visited this gentlemen who was a teacher in Longmont, Colorado, and his name was Bill Francoeur. He was the music teacher …
As this blog series comes to a close, I hope that I've been able to get your brain a-thinkin' about solo albums in novel and interesting ways. Or perhaps just thinking about them at all. Bec…
Well folks, this is my last post blogging for the NMT Green Room this fall, and it really has been a wonderful experience. I've loved getting to share my musical theatre thoughts and musings…
Let's start with a flashback. This is Steve Fendrich: "So one time Bill Francoeur came to me and he said, I have this idea. He said, you know, we ought to put out a musical with a cassette t…
Hal Prince was born on January 30th, 1928. He began as a producer on The Pajama Game and soon won Tony awards for his work on West Side Story and Damn Yankees, and he also produced the Pulit…
If you were as obsessed with watching Disney channel movies as I was, I'm sure you recognize the quote "don't be shy, be a star" from the movie Life Size featuring Tyra Banks. Â If not, I …
How do you guys feel about theatre criticism? Pro, con? I struggle with it myself. I would guess a large portion of us in the theatre community do, because it's innately a complicated art fo…
I mean, who couldn't love the duo that is Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk? After loving The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown for so long, I recently went into a Kerrigan-Lo…
As the end of the semester approaches, plenty of college students find themselves buried under a seemingly never-ending to-do list of projects and finals. It's tiring enough, but add in the …
Comedy is all about misdirection, and that's why musical theatre is such a great medium for telling funny stories. Music can prepare an audience to hear one story, and then be completely sur…
So far in this series exploring solo albums, I've looked almost entirely at how the composers and lyricists who write the songs included in solo albums enrich the word of contemporary musica…
There are milestone shows in musical theater that we all mark as definitive. Give or take a show or two, most will tell you that certain shows land on that list. Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Fiddle…
For the past couple of months, I have been completely obsessed with "I've Decided to Marry You" from A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. The entire cast recording is fabulous, but that s…
Since the news broke last week that Cafe Edison will close this year, I've seen my social media streams flood with posts in protest. I'm guilty of it too. Cafe Edison was (she writes, as …
"I've averaged about one show per year that I've written and produced. Plus one or two, here and there." Let's go ahead and stop there a moment. We all know that New York is the capital of A…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, or so the saying goes. In this blog series, I have been examining the ways in which musical theatre composers and lyricists use the freedom of th…
This is blog post #6 from me so by now I'd like to think we're all good friends and we're at that point in our relationship where we have a sleepover and tell each other secrets all night. S…
Picture this scenario: You discover a new musical theater piece that you're obsessed with and decide to start working on it for an upcoming audition/performance. The song is absolutely perfe…
