‘The Music Man’ Music and Stagecraft | The BSB Podcast
Do you hear that sound coming down the road? Faint at first but gaining volume with each passing moment, as
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‘The Music Man’ Story and Characters | The BSB Podcast
When’s the last time you hitched a ride on the Wells Fargo wagon and hightailed it out of the big
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Grosse Pointe Theatre’s ‘Cinderella’ Brings Classic Magic Into Their New Home
There is something fitting about Grosse Pointe Theatre opening the doors to a new chapter with Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
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‘Chess’ Music and Stagecraft | The BSB Podcast
If musical theatre is a game of strategy, then Chess is the intermezzo move. It is the rare musical whose
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‘Chess’ Story and Characters | The BSB Podcast
Few musicals have enjoyed a reputation as gloriously complicated as Chess. For decades, it has occupied a peculiar place in
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‘Ragtime’ Music and Stagecraft | The BSB Podcast
I vividly remember reading the novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow in college. It was during an English course focused on
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‘Ragtime’ Story and Characters | The BSB Podcast
There are some musicals that stay with you long after the curtain closes, haunting you in the best way possible.
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‘A Little Night Music’ at Birmingham Village Players: A Lush Waltz Through Love, Regret, and Second Chances
There are shows that entertain, and then there are shows that quietly wrap themselves around your senses, unfolding like a
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Exclusive Interview: Russell Boyle, Rachel Gottlieb Kalmowitz, & Justin Heald of Birmingham Village Players’ ‘A Little Night Music’
A Little Night Music is basically what happens when wealthy, overly dramatic people spend a weekend making terrible romantic decisions
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Exclusive Interview: Laura Nanes of Farmington Players’ ‘Hello Dolly!’
Few musicals burst onto the stage with as much sparkle, swagger, and sheer life-force as Hello, Dolly! From the moment
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Seventy-Six Trombones, Zero Gimmicks: ‘The Music Man’ Plays It Straight
There’s something undeniably comforting about The Music Man. It’s one of those golden-age musicals that doesn’t try to reinvent itself
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Exclusive Interview: Patrick Blashill of ‘The Music Man’
What do you get when you mix a small town from middle America with a charming con man? The Music
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