Tuesday, November 3, 2009
It's Official
I'm directing The Burnt Part Boys by Mariana Elder (book), Chris Miller (music) and Nathan Tysen (lyrics) at Playwrights Horizons this spring.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Light in the Piazza Casting
Full Cast Announcement Coming Soon
(sorry to be coy but I'm superstitious until all contracts are signed)
The Last Days of Cleopatra Reading
Tomorrow we start rehearsals for the next reading of this show that I'm VERY excited about:

We have an incredible cast!
Gia Mora as Elizabeth Taylor

Clarke Thorell as Richard Burton

John Bolton as Vic-- a reporter

Mark Lotito as Spyros Skouras

Matt Bogart as Rock Hudson

Paul Anthony Stewart as Montgomery Clift

Van Hughes as the ghost of James Dean

Fred Berman as Eddie Fisher

Laura Marie Duncan as Sybil Burton

Nick Spangler as Timmy -- a photographer

And we're blessed with the caliber of performers in the ensemble!
Jill Abramovitz

Marya Grandy

Cristen Paige

Ben Crawford

Craig Waletzko
Sunday, September 6, 2009
A lovely artistic summer home
This is the fourth summer in a row I've spent up at Barrington Stage Company as part of Bill Finn's Musical Theatre Lab.

This year I was only there for a week to work on Memory is the Mother of all Wisdom, a beautiful new musical, by Sara Cooper and Zach Redler. We presented two readings of it.
It starred the amazing Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox who are both amazingly expressive singers and actors.


And when paired together, having never met or worked together before, and having only 4 days of rehearsal, their chemistry and commitment were astonishing.






Thursday, September 3, 2009
Memory is the Mother of all Wisdom
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Last Days of Cleopatra Demo
We recorded the demo for The Last Days of Cleopatra the musical I'm writing the book for with composer/lyricist Charlie Barnett. It's about the making of the 1963 Taylor/Burton film.
Our fantastic music director Christopher D. Littlefield

Chris rehearsing with our Liz and Richard

Jill Paice

Clarke Thorell

Fred Berman

Victor Wallace

Craig Waletzko


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