And then there's Fugitive Songs

In March I'll be directing Chris Miller's and Nathan Tysen's (the best song writing team around if you ask me) Fugitive Songs for Dreamlight Theatre Company at the 45th Street Theatre.



It's an evening of their thrilling, spectacular, one of a kind songs. Don't miss it!

Butterfly Begins

We started rehearsals today. What a joy it is to be rehearsing at the Duke Studios on 42nd Street-- all that natural light-- heaven.

Everyone got their first chance to see the design.

Below a couple of Helen Huang's beautiful costume renderings of Song.

M. Butterfly casting

And what a cast it is! (more pictures of the full cast to come)

As Gallimard- Christopher Innvar


As Song- Telly Leung


As Helga-- Susan Wilder
As Marc-- Jared Delaney
As Comrade Chin (et al)-- Doan Ly
As Renee (et al) -- Anne Marie Nest
As Toulon (et al)-- Larry Petersen

The Burnt Part Boys

We had a very successful reading of a new draft of The Burnt Part Boys for the Vineyard yesterday. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures.

Our incredible cast (Kelli Barrett, Struan Erlenborn, Jeremy Jordan, Jesse Swenson, Will Swenson, Bubba Weiler, and Brynn Williams) was led by musical director Vadim Feichtner.


Below is the amazing team that wrote this beautiful piece: Lyricist Nathan Tysen, Book Writer Mariana Elder (doing her best Veronica Lake), and composer Chris Miller.

The Picnic

Well it went amazingly well. An amazing writer, amazing cast. It was a perfect two weeks.

Below Whitney Bashor as Miranda, Megan McGinnis as Irma, and Emily Walton as Sarah.

The Rock

Well it's here: the "reading" of Daniel Zaitchik's Picnic At Hanging Rock. I had meant to post progress and pictures from rehearsal but the process has been so all consuming that I haven't had time. It's been absolutely thrilling. As you can see from the post below, we have a super star cast, and Daniel has been really using the workshop time doing cuts and rewrites-- an extraordinary amount of work in less than two weeks time. Deb Abramson taught all the music in the first week which freed me to do a lot of staging. Actually the entire piece is staged--- this is no reading really. The cast dove in head first and accepted all the challenges we threw at them. Amazing!

Here is a our little home away from home at Lincoln Center. Some rehearsal spaces can leave me cold and can take a few days to get used to. Not this one! Artistic heaven.


And here is a picture of some of our cast. I hope to take some pictures during the reading tomorrow...