Wednesday, February 24, 2010

LET US ENTERTAIN YOU!



As one (Blue) Door closes, another opens...and so another theater adventure begins as my next directing project begins. This time it's the musical "Gypsy" at Brecksville Theater on the Square (BTOTS). I love this historic theater because it's a smallspace which forces you to be very creative with staging. I prefer smaller casts anyhow and we will have 20 people in this cast. We've gotten through auditions and the cast is amazing, starring the only person I could envision in this role- the incomparable Monica Olejko as Rose. Meet the cast at: http://geoffreyshort.com/Geoff_Short/Gypsy_CAST.html

GYPSY
APRIL 30TH-MAY 16TH, 2010
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Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Suggested by memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee

DIRECTED BY GEOFFREY SHORT
MUSICAL DIRECTION
BY GEORGIANN BODLE

CHOREOGRAPHY BY KIM BUSH
COSTUMES BY DAVID GLOWE


STARRING MONICA OLEJKO AS ROSE

with
ROB GIBB as Herbie

BRIDGET CHEBO as Louise
KATIE O'CONNOR as June
TIA KARAPLIS as Baby Louise
EMILY TABAR as Baby June
KIM BUSH as Tessie Tura
HEATHER HERSH as Mazeppa
JEANETTE LULI as Electra
SHANE SINISCALCHI as Tulsa
LUKE SCATTERGOOD as L.A.
DEBBIE LENARZ as Angie
NICK ROYAK as Yonkers
THERESA PEDONE as Marjorie May/Miss Cratchitt
BOB KENDERES as Pop/Goldstone/Cigar
MICHAEL PITT as Jocko/Weber/Kringlein/Pastey
JOEY STEFANKO as Young Tulsa
JORDAN STEFANKO as Young Yonkers
MEGHAN JOYCE as Young Angie
CAROLINA MANFREDI as Young Yonkers

NEW "STAGES" EPISODE - PT.13: Broadway Star Comes Back Home!



STAGES: Stories from the BW Music Theater Program - Pt. 13: Broadway star and Baldwin-Wallace Music Theater Graduate Steel Burkhardt (currently starring in "HAIR" on Broadway) comes back to campus for a visit with current MT students.

Produced by Geoff Short (www.geoffreyshort.com)

A "Blue Door" Closes...But so many have opened!

Thanks so much to everyone at Dobama Theater for the wonderful experience of "Blue Door". We closed the show last weekend and doing a show like this can be a really life changing experience. I learned so much from our Director Scott Plate and from my amazing co-star Rod Ingram, a performer over 20 years my junior but one taught me so much about depending on just one other actor on a stage. Of course we couldn't have done any of it without our incredible Stage Manager Sarah Nicholas - our "3rd cast member"! This truly was the most challenging theater experience of my life and one I'm definitely so grateful for.




Here's a cool audio recording of a scene from "Blue Door" heard on WCPN's Around Noon with Dee Perry - Scene starts at 26:22: http://bit.ly/c9oNfe

NEW "STAGES" EPISODE - PT.12: Call-Backs for "CHESS"!

STAGES: Stories from the BW Music Theater Program - Pt. 12: A look at the Call-Backs for the Spring musical "Chess", including observations about the show from Conservatory Director Peter Landgren.