Those of you who have followed my blog over the last year have gotten to read about my return to live theatre. I ended last summer uncertain of what the future would hold. I knew I wanted to do another musical. I didn’t know if I would get the chance. Outside of the local universities, […]
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I still remember my first experience of live theatre. I was 12 years old. One evening my mom took me to see the local high school musical production of Annie. The show was shockingly good. I developed a platonic theater crush on the actor who played Daddy Warbucks, an extremely talented high school junior named
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Well, it’s my birthday. I turned 51 today. It is a strange feeling, knowing that I am a half century old but feeling like I’m living my best life right now. It’s been almost a year since my last blog post. I began this blog in Fall 2022 as a way of chronicling my Oxford
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We are now in week three of rehearsals for Sweeney Todd. As I become familiar with the libretto I am continually struck by the subversive humor of Sondheim’s lyrics, the dark turns that the music takes, the shocking juxtaposition of beauty and grotesquery evident in some of the finest moments of the show. Several lyrics
“And though I’ll think of you, I guess, until the day I die…” Read More »
In the classic children’s novel The Cricket in Times Square there is this lovely moment near the end of the story when Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat are saying goodbye to Chester Cricket, who after many great adventures in New York decides to return to Connecticut, his true home. As the friends make their way
The end of the semester is looming, so a lot of my attention has turned toward the important but unglamorous work of wrapping up courses with students, preparing them for finals, and girding myself to grade large batches of final papers. Even though the Thames River Ramble is behind me, I am still thinking a
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