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.

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

Steven Skybell as Joe Mankiewicz

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

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.

Memory is the Mother of all Wisdom

I'm up at Barrington Stage Company working on this beautiful show by

Sara Cooper and Zach Redler

Starring the wondrous Catherine Cox and Leslie Kritzer

Music Direction by Vadim Feichtner

Also a couple off stage. How cute are they?

The Last Days of Cleopatra Demo

Take a listen!

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