Truer words have never been spoken. It is with great remorse that I have to inform you that the rights for A Chorus Line have been revoked due to a National Tour production. This news came to me and the rest of the cast on Wednesday: Only five days away from our first rehearsal! The board fought extremely hard to re-acquire the rights, but unfortunately could not get anything to come to fruition. However, a substitute production has been chosen.
Wildwood Summer Theatre will now be producing Merrily We Roll Along; a musical modeled after a play of the same name with music and lyrics by the phenomenal Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. The show revolves around Franklin Shepard who was once a talented composer of Broadway musicals, but abandoned his true talent and friends to produce films in Hollywood. The show starts at the prime of his career and works it's way backwards to reveal memorable events which occurred along his journey. I have not had a significant amount of time to research much more into the show, but from what I have heard of cast recordings the music itself is beautifully written and has a similar sound to that of A Chorus Line. The cast has reasonably been asked to re-audition this coming week so that the production staff can best cast the new show. At this point in time, I am a nervous wreck. That is all :-)
In other news, my OTHER show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opened this weekend! In all honesty, I could not have asked for a better opening night! The cast was so charged with energy that it made the production explode with amazing-ness (a word had to be made up to describe this phenomenon). I could not be more proud of my cast! No reviews have been published yet to my knowledge, but I will post them here to be read (if they're good, of course :-) ). There will not be a performance tomorrow in observance of Memorial Day weekend, but there are two more weekends of performances to be done so don't miss out and get your tickets! The show truly is hilarious! Call 301.203.6070 for ticket information!
Here is a little write-up about the show from The Gazette, with a few quotes from yours truly.
http://www.gazette.net/stories/05272010/entepri142233_32548.php
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