I'm in love with this tap sequence... someone please teach it to me.
Kthanks.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
It is my pleasure to announce...
... that a musical has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama after a 14 year hiatus! Yes, that is correct. This award has not been won by a musical in 14 years, the previous winner being RENT. Without further ado... the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama is...
NEXT TO NORMAL
Now this is even more amazing to me than it may seem to others because this happens to be one of my favorite new shows. It is a rock musical written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey and opened on Broadway in April of 2009, after a run at the Arena Stage in Crystal City, VA. It is about a married woman's struggle with coping mechanisms, bi-polar disorder and depression as well as a family's despair in the middle of an emotional crisis. The show also won Tony Awards in 2009 for Best Score, while Tom Kitt earned the Best Orchestrations award. The show's star, Alice Ripley, also earned a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical.
Here's a taste of the show.
On another note, my dear friend Kylie Oosterink did a fantastic job in her high school's production of Thoroughly Modern Millie! She portrayed the role of Miss Dorothy Brown as well as anyone I've seen. She is definitely leaving at the top of the playing field and I couldn't be more proud! All in all, the production as a whole was good considering it was a high school group. Of course, you could tell who really wanted to be there and who didn't, but what else can you expect from a large group of hormonal teenagers. Alina Stone played a convincing Millie Dillmount and definitely had the vocal chops for the role, which was surprising considering her age. Another stand-out performer for me was Tony Oblen. He played an adequate Jimmy Smith, and although I did get very nervous for some of the higher parts in his songs, he did pull them off very well (with some modifications, but that's okay, we've all done it).
That is pretty much all I have for today, just decided to stop in with that amazing news about the Pulitzer. Soooooooooo... keep it classy!
NEXT TO NORMAL
Now this is even more amazing to me than it may seem to others because this happens to be one of my favorite new shows. It is a rock musical written by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey and opened on Broadway in April of 2009, after a run at the Arena Stage in Crystal City, VA. It is about a married woman's struggle with coping mechanisms, bi-polar disorder and depression as well as a family's despair in the middle of an emotional crisis. The show also won Tony Awards in 2009 for Best Score, while Tom Kitt earned the Best Orchestrations award. The show's star, Alice Ripley, also earned a Tony for Best Actress in a Musical.
Here's a taste of the show.
On another note, my dear friend Kylie Oosterink did a fantastic job in her high school's production of Thoroughly Modern Millie! She portrayed the role of Miss Dorothy Brown as well as anyone I've seen. She is definitely leaving at the top of the playing field and I couldn't be more proud! All in all, the production as a whole was good considering it was a high school group. Of course, you could tell who really wanted to be there and who didn't, but what else can you expect from a large group of hormonal teenagers. Alina Stone played a convincing Millie Dillmount and definitely had the vocal chops for the role, which was surprising considering her age. Another stand-out performer for me was Tony Oblen. He played an adequate Jimmy Smith, and although I did get very nervous for some of the higher parts in his songs, he did pull them off very well (with some modifications, but that's okay, we've all done it).
That is pretty much all I have for today, just decided to stop in with that amazing news about the Pulitzer. Soooooooooo... keep it classy!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
One Singular Sensation!
As I enter the throws of a new quarter of college, I have so much stuff coming up that I need to start working on. I got my exit portfolio back from pre-assessment and was happy to find to find out that it is a passable book! However, that's not good enough for me, so I have decided to work extra hard on it, as well as my other book, to make them AMAZING by the time I graduate in December. This quarter I will be taking a Conceptual Thinking class which seems like it will be a really interesting class that will get me to think outside the box, as well as a Science of Light class (BOOOOORING) and my exit portfolio class so I can work on my book for graduation. I will still be working on my theatre stuff throughout the quarter in order to have as much prepared as possible for my other book to put up in December with the rest of my show, so please let me know if you know any performances I can photograph or if you're an actor and want to be a character from a show for my series! I need to do as many as possible so I can have a strong collection.
In other theatrical news... for those of you who have been keeping track of what I've been doing, we have cast ...Spelling Bee and we could not be happier with our cast. The show will be going up at the end of May/beginning of June so hopefully some of you can make it out to see! The show is being produced by Leslie Luense, directed by Banafsheh Wallace, music directed by KJ Jacks, with choreography by Yours Truly, Scotty Beland. We had a really small turn-out of auditioners, but we were extremelyfortunate to get the exact auditioners we needed to fill the roles. This cast has a really high amount of energy, which is perfect for a show about a bunch of pre-pubescent kids competing in a county-wide spelling bee, and plenty of talent to boot. And without further ado... here is the cast list.
Cast:
Rona Lisa Peretti - Kate Dehnis
Chip Tolentino - Frank Brizzi
Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre - Jennifer Blanton
Leaf Coneybear - Charles Watley
Willam Barfee - Davey Jones
Marcy Park - Aimee Bonnet
Olive Ostrovsky - Samantha Battersby
Douglas Panch - Robert Rausch
Mitch Mahoney - Kenny Waters
For more information go to http://www.tantallonstage.com
I also would like to take this time to announce that I got cast in Wildwood Summer Theatre's production of A Chorus Line! The show will be going up in July/August and I will be playing the role of Zach. Zach is the choreographer/director of the show that all the dancers are auditioning for... So, I pretty much get to be in the entire show and will have tons of lines to learn! The role doesn't sing or dance much, so I still haven't figured out if I got the role because they hate how I sing/dance hahah, but I'd like to think I got it because I'm good at what I do. A good friend of mine also got cast and she will be playing the role of Cassie (who happens to be Zach's ex) so that will make the show about a million times more fun that it's already going to be.
Here is the rest of the cast list... http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/notes/wildwood-summer-theatre/cast-list-a-chorus-line/106788402692216
Anywho, that's pretty much all I have for now that is new... but check back soon for a review of a production of Thoroughly Modern Millie which I will be seeing on Saturday, and hopefully for some new pictures!
In other theatrical news... for those of you who have been keeping track of what I've been doing, we have cast ...Spelling Bee and we could not be happier with our cast. The show will be going up at the end of May/beginning of June so hopefully some of you can make it out to see! The show is being produced by Leslie Luense, directed by Banafsheh Wallace, music directed by KJ Jacks, with choreography by Yours Truly, Scotty Beland. We had a really small turn-out of auditioners, but we were extremelyfortunate to get the exact auditioners we needed to fill the roles. This cast has a really high amount of energy, which is perfect for a show about a bunch of pre-pubescent kids competing in a county-wide spelling bee, and plenty of talent to boot. And without further ado... here is the cast list.
Cast:
Rona Lisa Peretti - Kate Dehnis
Chip Tolentino - Frank Brizzi
Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre - Jennifer Blanton
Leaf Coneybear - Charles Watley
Willam Barfee - Davey Jones
Marcy Park - Aimee Bonnet
Olive Ostrovsky - Samantha Battersby
Douglas Panch - Robert Rausch
Mitch Mahoney - Kenny Waters
For more information go to http://www.tantallonstage.com
I also would like to take this time to announce that I got cast in Wildwood Summer Theatre's production of A Chorus Line! The show will be going up in July/August and I will be playing the role of Zach. Zach is the choreographer/director of the show that all the dancers are auditioning for... So, I pretty much get to be in the entire show and will have tons of lines to learn! The role doesn't sing or dance much, so I still haven't figured out if I got the role because they hate how I sing/dance hahah, but I'd like to think I got it because I'm good at what I do. A good friend of mine also got cast and she will be playing the role of Cassie (who happens to be Zach's ex) so that will make the show about a million times more fun that it's already going to be.
Here is the rest of the cast list... http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/notes/wildwood-summer-theatre/cast-list-a-chorus-line/106788402692216
Anywho, that's pretty much all I have for now that is new... but check back soon for a review of a production of Thoroughly Modern Millie which I will be seeing on Saturday, and hopefully for some new pictures!
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