Here is the sixth in the series: on the subject of LINEAR and NON-LINEAR TIMELINES, PLOT CONFLUENCE, and ACT BREAKS in your musical. Enjoy!
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An all-star presentation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Tony-winning In the Heights will take the stage at the Kennedy Center March 21–25.
Hamilton alum Anthony Ramos takes on the central role of Usnavi, originally created by Miranda. Among those joining him for the Washington, D.C. concert staging are Vanessa Hudgens (Gigi, Grease: Live) as Vanessa, Ana Villafañe (On Your Feet!) as Nina, Eden Espinosa (Wicked) as Daniela, and J. Quinton Johnson (Hamilton) as Benny.
Watch Villafañe’s rendition of “Breathe” in the rehearsal video above.
The production will also feature Mateo Ferro as Sonny, Saundra Santiago as Abuela Claudia, Virgil Gadson as Graffiti Pete, Arianna Rosario as Carla, and three alums of the original production: Blanca Camacho as Camila, Rick Negron as Kevin, and Eliseo Roman as the Piragua Guy.
Rounding out the company are David Baida, Nico DeJesus, John Edwards, Hope Easterbrook, Rosie Fiedelman, Henry Gainza, Carlos Gonzalez, Morgan Marcell, April Ortiz, Khori Petinaud, and Voltaire Wade-Greene.
Stephanie Klemons will direct and choreograph the semi-staged presentation as part of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage series.
Check out a rehearsal clip of “The Club,” led by Villafañe, Johnson, and Hudgens, below.
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Here’s a selection of upcoming auditions in the New York area and around the country.
Upcoming Equity Auditions
NEW YORK
Monday, March 12, 2018
Chautauqua Theater Company 2018 Season - NYC EPA
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Come From Away (SETA) - NYC EPA
Anastasia (SETA) - NYC ECC / Male Dancers
Anastasia (SETA) - NYC ECC / Female Dancers
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
The Ferryman- NYC EPA
City Center Encores Off Center 2018 Season - NYC EPA
Friday, March 16, 2018
Anastasia (SETA) - NYC EPA
City Center Encores Off Center 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Male Singers
City Center Encores Off Center 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Saturday, March 17, 2018
City Center Encores Off Center 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Male Dancers
City Center Encores Off Center 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Female Dancers
Monday, March 19, 2018
Guys & Dolls- NYC EPA
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Anastasia (SETA) - NYC EPA
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Waitress (Broadway) - NYC EPA
Book of Mormon (Broadway) - NYC EPA
Hello, Dolly! (Production Tour) - NYC EPA
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Waitress (Broadway) - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Waitress (Broadway) - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Anastasia (SETA) - NYC ECC /Male Singers
Anastasia (SETA) - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Hello, Dolly! (Production Tour) - NYC EPA
Syracuse Stage 2018-19 - NYC EPA
Friday, March 23, 2018
Anne & Emmett - NYC EPA
Hello, Dolly! (Production Tour) - NYC EPA
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Aladdin (Broadway, Tour) - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Aladdin (Broadway, Tour) - NYC ECC / Female Singers
WEST COAST
No upcoming auditions this week.
MIDWEST
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Coriolanus - Indianapolis EPA Day 1 of 2
Monday, March 12, 2018
Coriolanus - Indianapolis EPA Day 2 of 2
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre 2018 Late Summer & Fall Season - Indianapolis EPA
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
The Little Mermaid - NYC ECC / Male Singers
The Little Mermaid - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Thursday, March 15, 2018
The Little Mermaid - NYC ECC / Female Dancers
Friday, March 16, 2018
Writers Theatre 2018-19 Season - Glencoe EPA Day 1 of 3
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Dat Black Mermaid Man Lady - Minneapolis EPA
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis 2018-19 Season - Webster Groves, MO EPA Day 1 of 2
Monday, March 19, 2018
Legally Blonde - NYC EPA
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf- St. Paul EPA
Sweet Charity - Buffalo Grove ECC/female dancers
Sweet Charity - Buffalo Grove ECC/Male Dancers
Indiana Repertory Theatre 2018-19 Season - Indianapolis EPA Day 1 of 2
Repertory Theatre of St Louis 2018-19 Season - Webster Groves, MO EPA Day 2 of 2
Quality Hill Productions 2018-19 Season - Kansas City, MO EPA / Updated
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Writers Theatre 2018-19 Season - Glencoe EPA Day 2 of 3
Indiana Repertory Theatre 2018-19 Season - Indianapolis EPA Day 2 of 2
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Benevolence - St. Paul EPA
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Skylight Music Theatre 2018-19 Season - Chicago EPA
Monday, March 26, 2018
Writers Theatre 2018-19 Season - Glencoe EPA Day 3 of 3
Door Shakespeare 2018 Summer Season - Milwaukee EPA
Monday, April 2, 2018
Milvotchkee, Visconsin - Northville, MI EPA
SOUTH CENTRAL
Monday, March 12, 2018
A D Players 2018-2019 Season - Houston EPA
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Guys and Dolls - Dallas EPA/ECC Singers Day 1 of 3
Friday, March 23, 2018
Guys and Dolls - Dallas EPA/ECC Singers Day 2 of 3
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Guys and Dolls - Dallas EPA/ECC Singers Day 3 of 3
Mamma Mia! - Fort Worth EPA/ECC Singers
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Mamma Mia! - Fort Worth ECC Female Dancers
SOUTHEASTERN
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Born For This - NYC EPA
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Born For This - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Born For This - NYC ECC / Male Dancers
Born For This - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Nashville Children’s Theatre - Nashville TN EPA
FLORIDA
Monday, March 12, 2018
Florida Atlantic University 2018 - FL EPA by Appt
Summer Shorts Festival 2018 - Miami FL EPA
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Bikinis - Gainesville FL EPA
Monday, March 19, 2018
Winter Park Playhouse 2018-19 Season - Winter Park FL Open Call
Woody Guthrie’s American Song - West Palm Beach EPA
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Winter Park Playhouse 2018-19 Season - Winter Park FL Open Call
Monday, April 2, 2018
Woody Guthrie’s American Song - NYC EPA
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe 2018-19 season - Sarasota FL EPA
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe 2018-19 season - Sarasota FL EPA
MID-ATLANTIC
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Surflight Theatre 2018 Season - Beach Haven NJ EPA (Teens and Adults)
Sunday, March 11, 2018
City Theatre Company 2018-19 Season - Pittsburgh PA EPA
Monday, March 12, 2018
Walnut Street Theatre Co. 2018-19 Season - NYC EPA
Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore Area AEA Liaison EPAs
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Totem Pole Playhouse 2018 season - NYC EPA
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Totem Pole Playhouse 2018 season - NYC EPA
Bucks County Playhouse 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Bucks County Playhouse 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Friday, March 16, 2018
City Theatre Company 2018-19 Season - NYC EPA
Open Call for Arena Stage and Signature Theatre’s 2018-19 Seasons
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Saint Vincent Summer Theatre 2018 Season - Latrobe PA EPA
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Saint Vincent Summer Theatre 2018 Season - Latrobe PA EPA
Monday, March 19, 2018
Last Of The Red Hot Lovers - Souderton PA EPA
Philadelphia Theatre Company 18-19 - Philadelphia EPA
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Treasure Island - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
People’s Light and Theatre Co. 2018-19 - NYC EPA
Monday, April 2, 2018
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Columbia MD EPA
Monday, April 23, 2018
The Bridges Of Madison County- Pittsburgh Open Call
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
The Bridges Of Madison County- Pittsburgh Open Call
NEW ENGLAND
Monday, March 12, 2018
Richard III - Babson Park MA EPA
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Huntington Theatre Co. 18-19 Season - Boston EPA
Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival) - NYC ECC / Male Dancers
Weston Playhouse 2018 Season - Weston VT EPA by Appt.
Friday, March 16, 2018
Weston Playhouse 2018 Season - Weston VT EPA by Appt.
Monday, March 19, 2018
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC EPA
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC EPA
Opera House Arts 2018 Season - NYC EPA / Updated
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC EPA
Friday, March 23, 2018
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Male Singers
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Male Dancers
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Female Singers
Maine State Music Theatre 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Female Dancers
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Penobscot Theatre Company 2018-19 Season - Bangor ME EPA
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Penobscot Theatre Company 2018-19 Season - Bangor ME EPA
Monday, March 26, 2018
Lyric Stage Co 2018-19 Season - Boston EPA
Friday, March 30, 2018
Anything Goes And The Music Man - Waltham MA EPA
Sunday, April 8, 2018
A Chorus Line - Waltham MA EPA
This spring, theatre fans will have the opportunity to become familiar with the man behind the melodies that have shaped the musical landscape of Broadway and West End musicals for the past 50 years.
Unmasked, the new memoir by Andrew Lloyd Webber, chronicles his early years as a 22-year-old composer on the brink of international success with Jesus Christ Superstar through Evita to the tantalizing London opening night of his enduring mega-hit The Phantom of the Opera. A second volume is promised.
Lloyd Webber, who turns 70 on March 22, is celebrating a landmark 2018. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, while Phantom enters its record-breaking 30th year on Broadway and 32nd year across the Atlantic. So, how does the man who wrote “The Music of the Night,” “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” and “Memory” know when he’s got it right?
“There’s no firm answer to that question,” he confesses. “I wish I could say that there’s a moment where the show is done, and you say, ‘That’s it.’ You go into the rehearsal room with what you think is the show, and then you discover what you’ve got wrong.”
Read: 5 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE KNOWN ABOUT ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
This maxim is perhaps key to Lloyd Webber’s passion to help up-and-coming writers bring their own musicals to the stage.
“The good news is that Broadway at the moment has got some very successful, very innovative new material. Hamilton, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, and The Band’s Visit—all four of them are the kind of musicals that I immediately like. They have subjects where if you were talking to an investor and said, ‘I’m intending to do a musical about a founding father of America who nobody’s ever heard of and it’s going to be in hop-hop,’ they would probably say, ‘Would you please go and kindly jump out the window.’”
Acting as both composer and producer, Lloyd Webber again defied convention when he workshopped his latest musical School of Rock for three weeks at the Gramercy Theatre in 2015 before opening on Broadway.
Read: HOW THIS CASTING DIRECTOR CONSTANTLY REPLENISHES THE CLASS OF SCHOOL OF ROCK
“It was an incredibly rewarding process,” he says. “We had an audience paying $25 a ticket, and they gave us their opinion. If we had gone out of town, we would have spent far more money, and we would have learned nothing compared to the kind of lessons we learned. It was a brilliant way of doing it, and I wish I had done it before.”
That experience prompted Lloyd Webber to give other up-and-coming musical theatre writers the same opportunity. In 2017, he opened The Other Palace, a West End theatre and creative hub dedicated to discovering and developing new musicals.
“It’s all about new writers coming in and testing material,” he says. “To encourage new writers to come forward, to provide a platform and a place for them to work is a dream.
“I think it’s a very exciting time for musicals.”
Sara Bareilles is set to receive the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Hal David Starlight Award, according to Billboard. The Waitress star and creator, who is currently back on Broadway in the musical, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in June.
The Hal David Starlight Award is given to young songwriters who have made an impact with their original songs. David was a lyricist best known for his collaborations with Burt Bacharach.
Read: WHY CASTING SARA BAREILLES IN WAITRESS WAS A NO-BRAINER
Bareilles, who is a six-time Grammy nominee and a Tony nominee for the score of Waitress, is performing in her hit Broadway musical through March 11. On April 1, she will star as Mary Magdalene in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live opposite John Legend.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Weird Al Yankovic joined Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show March 2 to geek out over the release of Yankovic’s Hamilton parody “The Hamilton Polka,” an accordion-driven medley of the hip-hop score that includes “The Room Where It Happens,” “The Schuyler Sisters,” “My Shot,” “Wait For It,” and more.
Miranda and Yankovic performed a lightning speed lip-sync of the medley during the appearance. Check it out above.
Miranda revealed that he and Yankovic—one of his longtime idols—had been considering making “The Hamilton Polka” for a year before finally releasing it. Fallon and Miranda even got their own shot at lip-syncing a Weird Al classic.
The two discuss the creation of “The Hamilton Polka” below:
The original London cast recording of Stephen Schwartz’s Working is released March 2 by Ghostlight Records. Listen to the track “Fathers And Sons” below.
The musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1978, features a score made up of songs written by Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, and James Taylor. This album is the premiere recording of a 2009 revision of the show, which includes new songs by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
To order the Working original London cast album, click here.
The recording captures Working‘s recent London premiere, which enjoyed an acclaimed run in summer 2017 at Southwark Playhouse. The cast includes Gillian Bevan, Dean Chisnall, Krysten Cummings, Siubhan Harrison, Peter Polycarpou, and Liam Tamne, as well as Patrick Coulter, Nicola Espallardo, Izuka Hoyle, Luke Latchman, Huon Mackley, and Kerri Norville.
The album was recorded live at Southwark Playhouse with additional recordings at Abbey Road Studios. New orchestrations are by Alex Lacaimore (Hamilton) with additional orchestrations by Martin Higgins.
In a statement, composer Schwartz said, “I’m delighted that not only has this superb cast of Working been preserved, but that there is finally an album that includes the wonderful new songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. For me, an album of this new version of the show is long overdue and very welcome.”