Posted on September 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am
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Shoe Designer
Theatrical Shoe Designer Phil LaDuca worked as a Broadway dancer, choreographer and dance teacher before creating LaDuca dance shoes. He has created character shoes with the needed flexibility to be danceable, as well as the support and security for singers and actors. He works with costume designers, and handles the process from sketches through manufacturing in Italy to the finished products that end up on Broadway, national tours, and films. LaDuca shows how customized shoes are created for actresses such as Kristin Chenoweth in Promises, Promises and Bebe Neuwirth in The Addams Family.
Original airdate – September 3, 2010.
Running time – 07:25.
For more information, to watch online, or to download the episode go to In The Wings’ Shoe Designer program page.
You can also download directly the Shoe Designer program (mp4).
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Posted on September 1st, 2010 at 7:54 am
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Cora Cahan
President of The New 42nd Street, Inc.
Cora Cahan, president of The New 42nd Street in New York, discusses her 20 years in the role of recapturing what was once the epicenter of Manhattan sleaze for theatre and family audiences. She talks about her early work as a professional modern dancer; her shift into management with the Feld Ballet, having had no prior experience whatsoever in management (despite being married to the Associate Producer of The Public Theater); her discovery of what became Michael Bennett’s fabled 890 Studios; her dual position as the head of the Feld Ballet and the Joyce Theatre, which she and Eliot Feld conceived as a home for dance companies at a time when New York didn’t have an appropriate small venue; the Joyce’s brief effort in the mid-80s to curate an annual festival of the best work from America’s regional theatres — and why it didn’t work; why her first act upon arriving at her 42nd Street job in 1990 was to rename the organization; the chronology of how 42nd Street shifted from Triple XXX to G-rated; the development of The New Victory Theatre as a home for innovative children’s and family programming, and why she felt that was a gap in New York’s cultural life that needed to be filled; what’s on tap for The New 42nd Street now that the environment has changed, the theatres are reclaimed, the rehearsal studios are always filled and even the long-delayed commercial buildings now anchor the corners of the stretch between 7th and 8th Avenues; and what she thinks of nostalgia for the former grit and danger for the street she has reclaimed.
Original airdate – September 1, 2010.
Running time – 59:47.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Cora Cahan program page.
You can also download directly the Cora Cahan program (mp3).
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Posted on August 31st, 2010 at 10:39 am
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Cy Coleman
Sweet Charity composer Cy Coleman discusses his 1977 musical I Love My Wife comprised of 4 characters and 4 musicians performing a “contemporary, eclectic score.”
Running time – 03:43.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to TBL This Is Broadway’s Cy Coleman program page.
You can also download directly the Cy Coleman program (mp3).
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Posted on August 30th, 2010 at 10:46 am
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Performance
The panel of Broadway actors – Matthew Broderick (Biloxi Blues), Jim Dale (Joe Egg), Charles S. Dutton (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Rosemary Harris (Pack of Lies), Glenda Jackson (Strange Interlude), and theatrical agent Lionel Larner – discuss how they left their various layman jobs to begin performing, their audition experiences, how they became involved in their current productions, what they look for in an agent, how they obtained one, and the role of an agent.
Original airdate – April 1, 1985.
Running time – 1:30:00.
For more information, to watch online, or to download the episode go to Working in the Theatre’s Performance program page.
You can also download directly the Performance program (mp4).
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Posted on August 25th, 2010 at 7:42 am
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Kate Mulgrew
From Love, Loss, and What I Wore.
Downstage Center welcomes its second starship captain as actress Kate Mulgrew visits during her stint in the Off-Broadway comedy Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She talks about being raised in an Iowa household that groomed her for an acting career, even though she saw little theatre and had no TV growing up; getting her big breaks in theatre and TV simultaneously, playing Emily in Our Town at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford CT and debuting on Ryan’s Hope; her participation in the first workshop of Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others at the O’Neill Theater Center; playing Desdemona in Stamford CT and Tracy Lord in Anchorage AK; why Hedda Gabler was the hardest role she’s ever tackled, why she wishes she could do it again, and why it was a relief to be performing it in rep with The Real Thing at L.A.’s Center Theatre Group; the particular challenges of the “stew” that is Titus Andronicus, which she did in Central Park; the lonely but rewarding experience of playing Katharine Hepburn in Tea At Five around the country; her joy at having Marian Seldes play her mother in The Royal Family; her feelings about having only appeared on Broadway twice in her 35 year career; and her excitement at finally playing the queen in Antony and Cleopatra, her dream role, this coming season at Hartford Stage.
Original airdate – August 25, 2010.
Running time – 1:01:58.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Kate Mulgrew program page.
You can also download directly the Kate Mulgrew program (mp3).
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