I am very proud to be a member the producing team for The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess and it was thrilling to take home a Tony Award last week. But this is not a blog about the Tonys. Today’s post is a cautionary tale… One of my friends and Porgy & Bess co-producers called me [...]

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While in London, I had the great pleasure of seeing opening night (or as they call it in London, First Night) of Terence McNally’s Master Class. I know, it’s a play and not a musical but I saw it and loved it anyway. It actually had lots of singing since it’s about opera diva Maria [...]

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In this business of musical theater where talent is hard to definitively quantify and people wear a variety of hats, I have no doubt that at some point you’ve looked across the table at some member of your musical’s creative team be it a writer, director or designer and thought of Irving Berlin’s immortal lyric, [...]

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