I don’t think of the bigger picture of “Oh, I’m going to be this,” or “I have to do that.” I am a working artist. I get up in the morning and I go to work.
Compositions
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Road trip to Mellen’s Whitewater ‘Street Scene’ elicits appreciation of largesse while pondering its future
This past weekend, ChicagolandMusicalTheatre took a road trip to the University of Wisconsin campus in Whitewater, WI to catch a rare production of Street Scene, a high musical drama directed by Chicagoan Kymberly Mellen. A history-maker as the first-ever Tony winner for Best Score, the team behind it is beyond compare.
Lin-Manuel Miranda uses stature, music to aid Puerto Rico rebuilding – “This is the gig for the foreseeable future”
“I’d much rather be telling you about some musical I’m working on, but this is sort of the new full-time gig now, until there is a sense of normalcy on the island, this is family, this is our friends, this is who we are……this is where we’re from, this is the gig for the foreseeable future.”
All-everything star Seth Rudetsky cain’t say no ‘Deconstructing Broadway’ for Chicago Theatre Workshop, Oct. 28
Truth is, Seth Rudetsky is the male Ado Annie: He’s just a guy who “Cain’t say, No.”
Sheri and Josh Flanders’ thoughts on Black Ensemble’s and Steppenwolf’s September forum on -isms
That reflected my perspective also as a straight white guy; ready to stand against racism wherever I see it, yet still learning more sophisticated ways to be an ally.
