Finally opened on Friday night, and thought I’d share a few images from the show.

{Tateh (Leif Norby) and his daughter (Anna Bishop) get off the boat and greet their new Shtetl in Ragtime. Photo by Owen Carey.}

{Coalhouse (Gavin Gregory) gets the keys to a new car while Henry Ford (Todd A. Horman) extols the virtues [...]

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Moved onstage this afternoon.  A slooooow first session, what with trying to equalize 22 michrophones, and adjust to the period costumes, video monitors, audio monitors, sliding panels, and the general disorientation.

But also really fun to see what it’s going to look like.  Gavin (Coalhouse, above) is getting better at playing our imaginary piano, which is [...]

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Middle of our third week of Ragtime (can that be possible) and we should finish staging this evening.  It is a MOUNTAIN.  About four times more music than the other musicals we’ve tackled.  But it is also glorious.

The work has jumped back and forth between nitty gritty sessions with Rick Lewis on the music itself (has [...]

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Two emails about Crazy Enough I had to share:
First from Daniel Stern, the wonderful film actor (Breaking Away, Diner, Hannah and her Sisters), who is here in town casting American Buffalo for Third Rail:
“I got to see Crazy Enough tonight.  I need to thank you for one of the great nights in the theater that [...]

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The countdown begins.  After our final week in the rehearsal hall we’ve finally landed on stage.  Last week increased everyone’s intensity level, as we tried to nail the harmonies, polish dance steps and drill the overlapping lines that wouldn’t gel.

Rebecca remained calm, but intensely focused on the challenge before her.  She has the toughest show, [...]

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