is a touching, heartwarming, emotional, and often hilarious look at a dysfunctional Jewish family in the late 1970's and early 1980's. The book is by James Lapine ("Into the Woods," "Sunday in the Park with George") and the score is by William Finn ("25 Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" and "A New Brain.") 
ATP's rehearsal for Avenue Q, a video shot May 7 with Matthew Charles Burnett, Eric Antonio Meo, Ashley Laverty and David Blackburn, using rehearsal puppets (not the final look!):Event
AVENUE Q
The Tony-winning musical AVENUE Q is the hilarious and heartfelt story of a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York with big dreams and little money. He can only afford to live on Avenue Q but (good news!) his neighbors turn out to be a remarkably funny bunch of characters.Imagine an adult version of "Sesame Street," with the preschool banter replaced with irreverent songs such as "It Sucks to Be Me," "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist," "The Internet Is For Porn," and "If You Were Gay." But don't let the light-hearted melodies and adorable puppets fool you... This is NOT your child's favorite street! STARRING: Michelle Alexander Isaac Arrieta Matthew Burnett Rmichael Clinkscales Marett Hanes Rachel Hoovler June Julian Ashley Laverty Eric Meo DIRECTED BY: Marco Bazan MUSIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR: David Blackburn LIGHTING DESIGN: Taylor Whitmire SOUND DESIGN: Sam Kokojko SET DESIGN: David Blackburn |
Austin Theatre Project Awarded Workshop Production of Broadway-Bound 'National Pastime'
Tony Sportiello, the musical’s author, recently visited Austin and spent the day with ATP founders Blackburn and Barbara Schuler and took in their production of Edges at the Dougherty Arts Center. After his visit to Austin, Sportiello remarked, “I thought everyone involved was terrific and the production values first class. I really look forward to working with such an amazing group of people on National Pastime."
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Black Box Theatre • 98 seats in an intimate setting • State-of-the-Art Lighting and Sound Systems • Three different options for stage flooring • Spacious Dressing Rooms & Restrooms • Large, Comfortable Green Room • Full Scene Shop and Storage Space • Available for meetings and private parties Our intimate black box theatre will be one of the premier performance spaces in Austin featuring great sight lines, comfortable seating and state-of-the art lighting and sound systems. In addition to the six shows produced each season by Austin Theatre Project, we will make our space available to other theatre companies in the city so there will be performances throughout the year. You can be a permanent part of our new theatre! One lucky person (or company) will have this theatre named after them. You can also find your name at the entrance to one of our dressing rooms or the green room. Each of our theatre seats will also be available for sponsorship! This can only become a reality with YOUR generosity |
Cabaret Lounge • 60 Seats at 15 tables • Grand Piano • State-of-the-Art Lighting & Sound • Live performances after evening shows • Beer and Wine License (to be applied for) • Grand Piano • Local and National performers • Available for meetings and private parties Our Cabaret Lounge will be a unique performance space for Austin theatre-goers! After Friday and Saturday night performances, you will be invited to stick around, enjoy a cold brew or a glass of wine and listen to some wonderful live performances by local, regional and even national artists! You can be a permanent part of our Cabaret Lounge! Would you like to have the Cabaret Lounge named after you or your company? The grand piano can be named for you as well as one of the table and chair sets. This will be Austin's first performance space designed and created for regular, live cabaret performances. This can only happen with the generosity of our friends and supporters. Won't you give today? |
On March 28 ATP organizers announced their season through 2013, featuring The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the musical Baby, Love Letters, Avenue Q, Edges - A Song Cycle, The House of Yes, Falsettos, and the 2013 Austin Holiday Project. They also discussed with Lisa Scheps the origins of their new initiative. Click below to listen to them on KOOP-FM's 'Off Stage and On the Air.' (9 minutes)
City Theatre's production of the 1968 musical Hair is easy to look at, lively, familiar and loud, all of which qualities I consider to be virtues. For someone who knew every note of the 1967 cast album but had never seen it on stage, City's Hair was like a binge on vanilla Oreos.
Jeff Hinkle, his four choreographers and that enthusiastic cast of twenty actor-singers keep the stage full and lively almost non-stop. They out-do Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey by far, a notable achievement given the relatively compact space available to them. As a theatre junkie, I'm always looking for a seat in the front row, but that evening I realized that for Hair I'd made an error of strategic positioning. Not because the performers got into our faces or pulled us up to dance at the end of the show -- that's part of the fun -- but because only from the middle of the house would one have a wide enough field of view.
The stage spectacle connected the 35 musical numbers performed by David Blackburn and the exuberant band into a coherent but thin narrative for me. And yes, it recalled for me the 1960s, when I was just about the age of the performers in front of me. I won't go into any nostalgia kick, but I will point out that things were very different. The Vietnam War was in full swing, a nine-year conflict that killed ten times as many American soldiers as have died in Iran and Afghanistan since the U.S. attack on Baghdad eight years ago. Because of the military draft, teenage men found their futures and perhaps their lives determined by the annual lottery choosing them by birthdates. The media were hovering, fascinated, over the war, over the alluring counter-culture, and over the protests.
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The Actors Coop will be staging Stephen Sondheim’s classic revue
Side by Side by Sondheim
July 8, 9 and 10, 2011 at the Dougherty Arts Center.
directed by Barbara Schuler with music direction by David Blackburn and choreography by Michelle Stuckey
produced by The Actors Coop, Robert Josef Cross Producing Director.
Auditions will be Tuesday May 17 from 5:30p to 9:30p at the Dougherty Arts Center Conference Room A, located at 1100 Barton Springs Road (click for map). Auditions are open to adults 18+.
Please email auditions@theactorscoop.com with your name, contact information and, if possible but not required, attach a bio with previous theatrical experience and a current headshot.
Auditions will consist of singing a prepared song (32 bar cut, accompanist provided, no background tracks allowed) and possibly songs from the show (music cuts provided). Come dressed in comfortable clothes that allow movement with appropriate shoes as there will be a dance combination as part of the audition.
Click to view list of Sondheim numbers presented in the original Broadway production.
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The Fantasticks
50-year-old Show Still Going Strong;
Two Shows Only at Salado Silver Spur, Jan. 14-15
Admissions are $15 for adults; $12 for senior citizens, military personnel and students with ID; and $8 for children aged 12. Group rates are available. For reservations, call the box office at 254-947-3456. For directions or more play info, visit www.saladosilverspurtheater.
When the “Fantasticks” opened at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City in the spring of 1960, little did anyone know that 50 years and 11,000 productions (Not just shows!) later, it would be America’s longest-running musical.
Barbara Schuler Productions of Cedar Park, TX, will reprise its 2010 anniversary production of the popular musical with two performances only at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 14 and 15 at the Silver Spur Theater, (108 Royal St.) in historic Downtown Salado.
“We hope theatre-goers who’ve seen this romantic but bittersweet charmer before will enjoy it again, and those patrons who’ve never seen it will discover the magic that has made it a worldwide success,” said Grainger Esch, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Silver Spur Theater, a seven-year-old professional theater.
“Don’t expect a glitzy Broadway musical,” Esch noted. “At the heart of ‘The Fantasticks’” breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers.” Video clip at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Silver Spur Theater serves wine, beer, cider and expanded food choices at evening shows (only) at The Spuradical Social Club in its lobby. http://www.
“We’ve got a great cast and a brilliant music director” (David Blackburn), said Barbara Schuler, a professional actress and director of the show. “We are all thrilled to have a chance to work together again in this revival of our March production.”
Click to view images and more information at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .
UPDATE: Lisa Schepps of KOOP-FM interviews Musical Director David Blackburn and some of the cast: Derek Smootz (El Gallo), Eve Alonzo (The Girl), Matt Boehm (the Boy), Rebecca Stokinger (Bellemy) and Kirk Kelso (Huckleby) and they sing numbers from the show. "Off Stage and On the AIr," April 5
