I saw this on Pinterest and couldn't think of a better place to share it. This is an animatic, which is a moving storyboard used in the creation of some animated films. This one …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:45PMWhen I was teaching eighth grade, the number one rule was that kids couldn’t acknowledge they liked something. No one wanted to step out and be un-cool because he or she liked something t…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 08:36PMI found Andrew Gans' Playbill interview with A Little Night Music's Leigh Ann Larkin to be insightful and inspirational.Andrew Gans: When did you get to New York?Leigh Ann Larkin: I got to N…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:00PMI was so excited to see the tour cast of In the Heights perform on So You Think You Can Dance. I loved that show so much, it was like a mini reunion with some beloved friends. A big "I Miss…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:10PMI hate country music. Let me say that again. I hate country music. I bought a Johnny Cash CD after seeing Walk the Line and never finished listening to it. This, however, impresses me. …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 11:39AMI forgot my flash drive at home and cannot work on my next query letter over lunch at work, so I'm on for a minute with an update.TwitterYou may have noticed that I have a Twitter account no…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:31PMI have to admit that I wanted to be the first to bring hip hop to Broadway. I own very little of anything that could be called hip hop, but when it’s used as part of a song or with the ri…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:21PMLet me start with an update.I got my first request for a complete copy of my manuscript.That's very exciting! As many of my readers know, I have been working on getting a novel published, wh…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 07:35PMIn the wake of seeing the tour of Mary Poppins, I thought I would share favorite songs from three of my favorite Sherman Brothers scores. “Are We Dancing”Here we have John Davidson wooi…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 10:00AMThe Mary Poppins tour is one of the few shows that came through town where a lot of people I know attended. I know people who want to see The Lion King or Wicked and aren’t able to get ti…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 11:08AMHere's sweetie Fantasia talking about her time as Celie (with footage from The Color Purple):Embedded video from CNN Video
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 08:49PMIt was a surefire hit. Dolly Parton. Allison Janney. Joe Mantello. An adaptation of a well-known movie. It even had a music video for one of the songs.Oh, wait. I got that wrong. It s…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 02:05PMMy 3 ½ year-old niece gets carsick. As evidence, she’s gotten sick in my car twice. Recently, I was driving her about two hours from home to a family wedding party. She slept for the f…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:38PMThere’s a story Betty Buckley tells in the bonus features of Rick McKay’s documentary Broadway: The Golden Age that is also told in Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer’s oral history…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:58PMI’m a 32 year old straight man. What the heck do I want with a cheap vinyl/plastic/whatever backpack with Legally Blonde: The Musical written on it? Honestly. What am I supposed to do w…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:43PMI one time counseled someone in a Broadway chat room not to write off Hello, Dolly! after they had seen a community theatre production of it and thought it was only okay. Hello, Dolly! with…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:59PMBefore embarking on a three-day drive to California several years ago, a friend said, "And you're bringing some audio books?""No.""You don't get audio books?" she said with astonishment. "I …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:50PMWhile I don’t think there is anything revolutionary about how music is used in Legally Blonde, I’ve learned immensely from the show through repeated viewings of the MTV broadcast and the…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:00PMAs I mentioned in a previous column, the Legally Blonde Original Broadway Cast Recording is probably destined to be one of my most-played new Broadway scores. The biggest reason for that is…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:39PMLegally Blonde librettist Heather Hach has an almost annoying history. She was accepted into the Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship, parlayed that (courtesy of some sweat and talent, I’…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 09:11PMLike, prior to seeing the tour of Legally Blonde, my experiences with the show were totally limited to the original movie (which I think I last saw in the theater), seeing “Omigod You Guys…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:38PMTo kick off Legally Blonde week, I share with you footage from the national tour. Look for more coverage of the show all this week!
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:28PMKen Davenport, producer of Blithe Spirit, Altar Boyz, 13, and a number of other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.What makes Davenport amazing? It's not because he held a Broadway blogger soci…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 08:48PMI recently saw Grey Gardens for the first time, and its use of narration (or maybe a better term would be a character addressing the audience) for half the story had me intrigued. Here are s…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 01:59PMLately I've been having dreams of New York City, reliving the thrill of being in the city of my dreams. My second musical is a ode, of sorts, to the New York I know, the New York of the tour…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 12:00PMHere we have a 3 for 1 special:AnnieCasting a play is a little like Christmas as a kid. Growing up, we’d always get the Christmas catalogue from JCPenney and Sears, then page through it, …
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 06:10PMIt's been a year since I originally wrote this, and I'm still not great at networking. I'm just now getting the hang of not shutting down when someone wants me to describe a project I'm wor…
SOURCE: broadwaymouth.blogspot.com at 05:59PMIn her autobiography My Heart Belongs, Mary Martin writes: A fine libretto, wonderful music, a role full of vitality can make milestones in the careers of entirely different personalities i…
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