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Daddy Long Legs (musical)
''Daddy Long Legs'' is a stage musical with a book by John Caird (director), John Caird, and music and lyrics by Paul Gordon (composer), Paul Gordon. It is based on the 1912 Daddy-Long-Legs (novel), novel of the same name by Jean Webster. Set in turn-of-the-century New England, the musical tells the story of orphan Jerusha Abbott of the John Grier Home and her mysterious benefactor who agrees to send her to college, who she dubs "Daddy Long Legs" after seeing his elongated shadow. Under the conditions of her benefactor, Jerusha sends him a letter once a month, describing her new-found experiences with life outside the orphanage. The musical was developed as part of the Ann Deal/Fashion Forms Plays-in-Progress Series at Rubicon Theatre in Ventura County, California in 2007. It was co-premiered by the RubiconTheatreWorks Silicon Valley and Cincinnati Playhouse in 2009–2010. The musical then premiered in London's West End theatre, West End at the St. James Theatre, London, St. Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gordon (composer)
Paul Howard Gordon is an American composer of popular songs and music for the theatre. Career Gordon composed the music and lyrics for the stage musical ''Jane Eyre'' which ran on Broadway in 2000–2001, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Original Score. The musical was later produced by TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, California, in 2003. Of this production, the ''talkinbroadway.com'' reviewer wrote: "The music of Paul Gordon fits this production like a glove, with unbroken strings of music and lyrics that give the audience the mood of the story." The ''Wall Street Journal'' noted the musical has "a lyrical score". His musical ''Emma'' played an engagement at the Old Globe Theatre (San Diego, California) in 2011. The stage musical ''The Front'', for which Gordon wrote the music and lyrics with Jay Gruska, had a reading at the Manhattan Theatre Club in April 2007, and private industry readings in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Understudy
In theatre, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor, actress, or other performer in a play. Should the regular actor or actress be unable to appear on stage, the understudy takes over the part. Usually when the understudy takes over, the theater manager announces the cast change prior to the start of the performance. Coined in 1874, the term ''understudy'' has more recently generally been applied only to performers who can back up a role, but still regularly perform in another role. Similar tasks Performers who are only committed to covering a part and do not regularly appear in the show are often referred to as standbys and alternates. Standbys are normally required to sign in and remain at the theater the same as other cast members, although sometimes they may call in, until they are released by the production stage manager. If there is no doubt about the health of the actor b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Earley
Kevin Earley is an American actor and singer. Biography Earley was born in Chicago, Illinois, one of four brothers, and attended Mundelein High School in Mundelein, Illinois. He trained at the Webster Conservatory of Webster University in the St. Louis, Missouri metro-area where he earned his B.F.A. in 1994. He is married to Julie Ann Emery. Kevin was cast as Ernest Defarge in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''A Tale of Two Cities'' which opened for preview on August 19, 2008 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. Theatre Credits * '' Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends'' (2025) - Broadway * '' Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812'', Pierre Bezukhov (2024) - Pioneer Theatre Company * '' Something Rotten!'', Portia's Father / Brother Jeremiah (2023) - Fulton Opera House * '' The Play That Goes Wrong'', Robert Grove (2023) - Fulton Opera House * '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', Sweeney Todd (2018) - Pioneer Theatre Company * ''Guys and Dolls'', Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny McNamee
Penny McNamee (born 17 March 1983) is an Australian actress, best known for originating the role of Nessarose in the Australian premier of Wicked, playing Dr. Tori Morgan in Home and Away and writing the Stage Stars book series for Scholastic. It was recently announced that Mcnamee will be starring as MTV reporter Rachel in the Australian premiere production of MJ the Musical. Early and personal life Penny McNamee was born in Sydney to Peter and Helen McNamee. She has three sisters, including actress Jessica McNamee, and a younger brother. Through her sister Rebecca, she is the aunt of actress Teagan Croft. Her cousin, Madelaine Collignon, is a news presenter for Prime7. McNamee married Matt Tooker, director of a marketing agency, in 2009. They have a son. McNamee gave birth to their second child, a daughter, in March 2019. Career Theatre In 2025, McNamee will star as MTV reporter Rachel in MJ the Musical. The show will open at the Lyric Theatre in Sydney in March 2025. Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christy Altomare
Christine "Christy" Altomare (born June 23, 1986) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. Altomare played Wendla in the first national tour of the rock musical '' Spring Awakening'', played Sue Snell in the off-Broadway revival of '' Carrie'', and made her Broadway debut as Sophie in '' Mamma Mia!''. She originated the title role in the Broadway premiere of ''Anastasia'', earning favorable reviews. The show closed on Broadway on March 31, 2019, after a total of 808 regular shows and 34 previews. Early life Altomare was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Altomare began performing at age five in community theater productions in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. At Pennsbury High School, she was a part of choirs and school productions before attending University of Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music, where she performed in a number of productions. In 2004, she was a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts winner in the musical theater category. She graduated from CCM i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Studio Theatre
Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is a professional, non-profit theater company located in Sarasota, Florida that represents one of the major cultural institutions in the Gulf Coast region. Founded in 1973 as a touring troupe, FST is currently a Regional theater in the United States, regional theatre specializing in contemporary work and a member of the League of Resident Theatres. According to the Theatre Communications Group, it is the third largest subscription theatre in the country. Each year, more than 225,000 attendees are served by the theatre's diverse programs including the Mainstage Series, Cabaret Series, Stage III, Children's Theatre, The FST School, New Play Development, and FST Improv. FST consists of five theatre spaces: The Keating Theatre, the Gompertz Theatre, Goldstein Cabaret, John C. Court Cabaret, and Bowne's Lab Theatre. All of the spaces are located in a two-block radius in downtown Sarasota, along with production facilities and administration offices. Hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skylight Music Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre, known until January 2012 as Skylight Opera Theatre, is a professional light opera and musical theatre company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1959, Skylight performs in the 358-seat Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center in Milwaukee. Offering a broad spectrum of works, including Gilbert and Sullivan and other light opera, small-scale operas and musicals, the company is known for its all-English repertoire. Description Skylight's artistic director is Michael Unger. The founder of Skylight was Clair Richardson, and Francesca Zambello is a former artistic directors. The company is based at the Broadway Theatre Center, a building that it has owned since 1993, in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward District. It rents space in the building to other arts organizations and offers set-building and other services to these organizations. The company gives over 100 performances each season. One of Skylight's specialties has been the production of Gilbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, United States. Alongside Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, it is one of two traditional county seat, seats of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020 United States census, 2020, it was the List of municipalities in Massachusetts by population, fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Greater Boston, Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area, called Greater Lowell, and of New England's Merrimack Valley region. Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution because of Lowell mills, its textile mills and factories. Many of Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) is a non-profit professional theatre located in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. Known for its productions of contemporary work and world premieres, the company presents a September - May season of seven plays at the Nancy L. Donahue Theatre in the historic Liberty Hall, a 279-seat theatre located adjacent to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. MRT is the only professional theatre company in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and one of three League of Resident Theatres (LORT) members in Massachusetts. MRT operates under the leadership of the Nancy L. Donahue Executive Artistic Director Courtney Sale History Merrimack Repertory Theatre was co-founded in 1979 by Barabara Abrahamian, John Briggs and Mark Kaufman, who had met while working at a New Hampshire summer stock theatre (where a young Michael Chiklis, a Lowell native who went on to appear in several MRT productions before moving on to a film career, was appearing in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gem Theatre (Detroit)
The Gem Theatre is a historic movie theater building located in Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1927, it shares a lobby with the older Century Theatre next door. The National Register of Historic Places listed both theatres together in 1985 and they were relocated in 1997 to prevent demolition. The Gem now serves as a wedding venue and location for other events. History The Twentieth Century Club, a group of prominent local women, built the Century Club on Columbia Street in 1903. In 1927, in order to gain rental income, they built this movie theater next door as part of the Little Theatre Movement. The club closed in 1933 due to the Great Depression, but the adjacent cinema continued. The theater went through a variety of owners who in turn used different names: Little (1928-1932), Rivoli (1932-1934), Drury Lane (1935), Europa (1935-1936), and Cinema (1936-59). From 1960 to 1964, director George C. Scott established a live theater troupe called the Vanguard Playhouse. In 1966, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playhouse Square
Playhouse Square is a theater district in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is the largest performing arts center in the US outside of New York City (only Lincoln Center is larger). Constructed in a span of 19 months in the early 1920s, the theaters became a major entertainment hub for the city for much of the 20th century. However, by the late 1960s, the district had fallen into decline and its theaters had closed down. In the 1970s, the district was revived through a grassroots effort that helped usher in a new era of downtown revitalization. For this reason, the revival of Playhouse Square is often locally referred to as being "one of the top ten successes in Cleveland history." About PlayhouseSquare - History. History Construction Following |
Allen Theatre
The Allen Theatre is one of the theaters in Playhouse Square, the performing arts center on Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally designed as a silent movie theater by C. Howard Crane and opened its doors on April 1, 1921, with a capacity of more than 3,000 seats. The first show was of the motion picture '' Her Greatest Love'' with Theda Bara, and featured Phil Spitalny and his 35 piece orchestra as live performers. The theater was designed in the Italian Renaissance style and was one of the few "daylight atmospheric" theaters in the country, with a ceiling painted to resemble the open daylight sky. In the lobby, a rotunda was built to resemble the Villa Madama in Rome. The ceiling of the rotunda was decorated with Renaissance-style figures from an unknown artist's imagination which greeted cinema patrons for decades. By the mid-1960s, financial troubles plagued both the Allen and the other downtown theaters. These were primarily caused by the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
