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splotchThis section is our community blog. It's set up for sharing thoughts, ideas, links, ruminations, suggestions and opinions about all things musical theatre and is open to all participants and patrons of the community who come to this site. To contribute a post of any length, please type "Composition Contribution" in the subject line and send it via email to Producer@ChicagolandMusicalTheatre.com. Do include your name and contact information so we may verify authorship, and feel free to include a photo or piece of art to accompany your writing. Contributors are encouraged toward positivity and thoughtfulness, and ChicagolandMusicalTheatre's editors have final say in what's published here. Submissions to this section give ChciagolandMusicalTheatre.com the right to publish the writing.

Accomplished composer/playwright Hershey Felder opens up to ChicagolandMusicalTheatre while restaging ‘Our Great Tchaikovsky’ at Steppenwolf through May 13

April 10, 2018

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.

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Road trip to Mellen’s Whitewater ‘Street Scene’ elicits appreciation of largesse while pondering its future

March 6, 2018

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.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda uses stature, music to aid Puerto Rico rebuilding – “This is the gig for the foreseeable future”

November 2, 2017

“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.”

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All-everything star Seth Rudetsky cain’t say no ‘Deconstructing Broadway’ for Chicago Theatre Workshop, Oct. 28

October 18, 2017

Truth is, Seth Rudetsky is the male Ado Annie: He’s just a guy who “Cain’t say, No.”

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Sheri and Josh Flanders’ thoughts on Black Ensemble’s and Steppenwolf’s September forum on -isms

October 5, 2017

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.

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