Energy of the Stage
“King Lear.” “A Trip to Bountiful.” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” These are plays you don’t do unless you have your leads locked in. So, for her “Cuckoo,” the Alliance Theatre’s Susan V. Booth locked in Neal A. Ghant and Tess Malis Kincaid and surrounded them with many of the city’s best character actors.
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Mo Willems has “more fun seeing the world than anybody else,” says the Alliance Theatre’s Rosemary Newcott, who’s directing his “Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical.” “He is one of those people who really lives his art.”
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“We’re not bending poetry to fit theater,” says Alliance Theatre Artistic Director Susan V. Booth. “We’re bending theater to fit poetry.”
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Broadway regular Liz McCartney is often cast in juicy supporting roles — Ursula in “The Little Mermaid” being the latest, and she slurps them up with gusto.
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“The Book of Mormon” is by no means the kind of mainstream musical guaranteed to please all audiences. Its creators built their reputations on irreverent, envelope-pushing satire. Just ask Samantha Marie Ware (Nabulungi), who shares what happened when her grandmother saw the show.
Read MoreWhen South Pacific premiered on Broadway in 1949, Americans were just four years past World War II. Critics called the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about Navy nurses, Seabees, Polynesian beauties …
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