Cast of Children of Eden at Wellesley PlayersIt’s never been produced on Broadway and its London production was short-lived. But these facts haven’t kept one theater after another from doing CHILDREN OF EDEN.Here in Watertown, ...
"Every moment in life is an audition," writes Tim Federle in Better Nate Than Ever. If that’s true, Federle’s audition as a writer gets him the part as The Country’s Most Promising Young Adult Novelist. This is the finest book for teens that ...
There’ll be a grand finale on the final day of the Junior Theater Festival ’13 in Atlanta. But before the big display of entertainment, the teachers repair to classrooms to learn a little more about theater crafts. Ken Billington, the ...
While Alan Menken and I were having dinner the night before Junior Theater Festival ’13 was to begin, he said to me, “You know, when I was a kid, what I really wanted to be was a rock star.”“You’ll feel like a rock start tomorrow ...
Live! From Atlanta! It’s Saturday afternoon!At Junior Theater Festival ’13, Saturday morning saw 4,200 students head to 11 pods where they performed 15-minute excerpts from their musicals. And now that the teachers have congratulated their ...
Atlanta lost a big NFL football game this past weekend, but it certainly emerged victorious in musical theater.The eighth annual Junior Theater Festival once again took over the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Vinings, Georgia. Last year, around 3,000 ...
What’s the best aspect of this new Encores! production of Fiorello! that’s coming up at the end of the month?It will remind those who have forgotten what a fine show this Bock and Harnick musical is.We shouldn’t need reminding. After all, ...
When you think of it, one aspect of Annie has never made any sense.At the end of the show, everyone is having a wonderful time, and not simply because it’s Christmas Day. Miss Hannigan, Rooster and Lily have been thwarted and captured; Annie ...
The show that was about to be presented was The Boy Friend, but what had happened 30 minutes before the performance turned the show into 42nd Street.Here at Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, there’s a magnificent program for kids ...
“Exciting New Musical 1963.”So said the circular yellow sticker that London Records pasted on the cover of every original cast album of Riverwind. Actually, if we’re going to get technical about it, Riverwind was really “Exciting New ...
