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The following is from Harley Medcalf’s blog “I Just Can’t Dance”
I just can’t ballroom dance. No matter what I try, my two left feet stay firmly planted on the ground. Yet, in just ten years ballroom dancing has changed my life.
Well into the prime of my career as a concert promoter, at a chance meeting [...]
Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Tony-winning composer-lyricist of Broadway’s In The Heights. In The Heights received four 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orchestrations, Best Choreography and Best Musical), with Lin-Manuel receiving a Tony Award for Best Score, as well as a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Off-Broadway, In The Heights received 9 Drama Desk Nominations (including Best Music, [...]
Puppets for the post-puberty set
BY KELI DAILEY, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010 AT 1:18 P.M.
Jeff Dunham and Peanut.
Ordinary 30-somethings were recently lured on stage for puppet karaoke — “puppet-e-oke,” as the Adult Puppet Cabaret organizers dubbed it. They waved paper dolls and foam-sandwich figures in time to 1970s pop tunes like “S.O.S.” They also proved [...]
Lin-Manuel Miranda swaps coasts to be part of the cast of his ‘In the Heights’ at the Pantages. He’s also working on a film version of the musical, among other projects.
Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to know if anyone in L.A. rides the subway: “Driving is kind of lost time, you know?”
Hands-free travel works for the [...]
San Diego’s Own MARY MURPHY
To GUEST STAR In SAN DIEGO For
BURN THE FLOOR 2010-11 US NATIONAL TOUR;
To play SAN DIEGO CIVIC THEATRE ~ OCTOBER 12 - 17, 2010
June 18, 2010 – The producers of BURN THE FLOOR announced today that San Diego’s own Mary Murphy of FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance” will [...]
The Phenomenon: A show starring a cast of fuzzy puppets searching for love, purpose and a decent apartment? Not your typical Broadway fare. Then again, neither is Avenue Q’s remarkable success story. Back in 2003, veteran producers Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman and Jeffrey Seller, with co-producers The New Group and Vineyard Theatre, gambled that [...]
Originally, Elle Woods existed only in the mind of Amanda Brown, who penned the novel LEGALLY BLONDE in 2001 and named her heroine after the vernacular law students use to describe themselves to one another - a “1L” is a first year law student, so Brown named her fictional alter-ego “Elle,” and a cultural icon [...]
BOYD OWEN (Baron Von Owen) Boyd’s love of performing began at an early age and, since finishing his studies at Melba Conservatorium of Music in Australia; Boyd has performed in productions around the world. Boyd’s operatic experience has included understudying the title role in Mozart’s opera, La Clemenza di Tito for the Masterworks Festival in Indiana, USA (2006) [...]
Graham Michael Foote
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
Zodiac sign: Libra
Audition song: ‘What IS it about her?’ from “the wild party” by Andrew lippa
Special skills: piano, conducting
First Broadway show ever saw: oliver!
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? The original production of ‘west side story’
Current show you have been recommending [...]
GRAHAM FOOTE (G-Train) Graham graduated from the University of Ballarat Arts Academy at the end of 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre. Since graduating, Graham has already had a diverse and impressive introduction to performing. Professional credits include: Jesus/Judas Standby - Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar Korean Tour, Chris in Metro Street (both with Arts Asia Pacific), [...]