Devin takes us backstage and shares the process of designing Broadway dressing rooms for stars such as Lea Michelle, Billy Crystal, and more! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Devin Buchanan! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Devin Buchanan: Devin Buchanan of Devin Sparkles Design is based out of Brooklyn. Pairing his passion for theatre and love of interior design, Devin has been able to curate comfortable and stylish designs for actors across Broadway. Resources from this episode: devinsparkles.com instagram.com/theboycostumer --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Brian breaks down the process and intentions behind arranging and orchestrating Neil Diamond's catalog for the stage. If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT BRIAN USIFER Brian Usifer is a New York City based music director, pianist, orchestrator/arranger, producer and composer. Most recently, he was the Music Director of Disney’s Frozen on Broadway. He is currently the Associate Music Supervisor of The Book of Mormon on Broadway. Prior to that he was the Music Director of Kinky Boots on Broadway, which won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Orchestrations. The cast recording won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album and the West End production won an Olivier Award for Best Musical. He was the Associate Music Supervisor as well for Kinky Boots on Tour, London and in Toronto. Brian has played in the Broadway and off-Broadway orchestras of …Spelling Bee, Avenue Q, Altar Boyz and The Book of Mormon. Other theatre credits also include Chess at the Kennedy Center and more than 5 years of regional theatre including Follies at Barrington Stage Co. Concerts include Bobby and Kristen Lopez: American Songbook at Lincoln Center and Clay Aiken “Tried and True DVD,” for PBS. As an orchestrator, Brian's projects have included The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the catalog of Huey Lewis at the Old Globe, Swept Away with music by the Avett Brothers at Berkeley Rep, Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money with music by Motown legend Lamont Dozier at The Atlantic Theatre, May We All featuring the music of Florida Georgia Line and other country stars, Into the Wild by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, A View From The River by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, Fantasy Football: the Musical?, by David Ingber, Pool Boy by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, The UnCivil War by Rick Kunzi, Barnstormer by Douglas Cohen and The First Snow by Niko Tsakalakos. Shows in development include Hearts Beat Loud featuring music by Niko Tsakalakos with a book by Ngozi Anyanwu, Galileo featuring music by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner with a book by Danny Strong, and A Beautiful Noise featuring the catalog of Neil Diamond opening on Broadway in December 2022 On TV, he wrote additional orchestrations for NBC’s Annie Live, The Wiz Live, and can be heard as a pianist on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. As a composer, Brian’s latest project is a songwriting collaboration with Colin Donnell called The Nineteen Twenty. Their album, Chaos + Cocktails, is available for sale on iTunes and everywhere music streams. As a producer: The First Snow, Archetype, Chaos + Cocktails, May We All He holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from SUNY Fredonia and a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano from NYU and a Specialist Certificate in Orchestration from Berklee Online. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com brianusifer.com @thenineteentwenty --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You'll understand why AnnMarie Milazzo considers her craft a design category by the end of this episode! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT ANNMARIE MILAZZO A.R.T.: Finding Neverland, Prometheus Bound. Broadway (Vocal Designer): Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/Then, Finding Neverland. Off-Broadway: Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, Superhero; (Orchestrator, with Michael Starobin): Once on this Island (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations). Regional: Dangerous Beauty, Some Lovers, Dave, A Walk on the Moon, Almost Famous. Other credits include The Radio City Rockettes’ Summer Spectacular 2016 (co-arranger/lyricist, co-composer); Cirque du Soleil’s Le Rêve and La Perle. Film: Pretty Dead Girl (Composer and Lyricist; Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival). Milazzo is the Grammy-nominated female vocalist for East Village Opera Company on Decca/Universal Records MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kevin Adams shares developments in the craft of lighting, assembling his lighting department, and why he enjoys designing pop rock musicals specifically as it relates to A Beautiful Noise! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT KEVIN ADAMS Four-time Tony winner Kevin Adams has designed SpongeBob SquarePants (Tony nom.), Head Over Heels, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Outer Critics Award), American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring Awakening (Tony Award; Olivier nom for the West End production), Next To Normal (Tony nom), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Hair (Tony nom), Man And Boy, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Take Me Out, A Class Act, Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, solo shows by Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo. Off-Broadway he has worked on the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Scottsboro Boys, Rent, Carrie, new work by Edward Albee, Eric Bogosian, Christopher Durang, Richard Greenberg, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Neil Simon, Anna Deveare Smith and Paula Vogel. His work has also been seen at the Metropolitan Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Donmar Warehouse, and City Center Encores! On screen, he's worked on Mildred Pierce (HBO), Audra McDonald in concert (Town Hall, Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center), staged concerts featuring Patti Lupone (Gypsy, Candide, Anyone Can Whistle, Sunday in the Park with George and Regina) and Blue Man Group in Las Vegas and the Hollywood Bowl. For his work off-Broadway he has received an Obie for sustained excellence and two Lucille Lortel awards. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com ambermylar.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Kathy Fabian shares the process of creating props, set dressing, and researching for A Beautiful Noise. If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT KATHY FABIAN Fabian’s Broadway credits include: The Rose Tattoo, American Son, All My Sons, Burn This, True West, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Pretty Woman, The Parisian Woman, Indecent, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, On Your Feet, Living On Love, The King and I, An American In Paris, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, If/Then, Rocky, The Bridges of Madison County, I’ll Eat You Last, Kinky Boots, Lucky Guy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Anarchist, Chaplin, Nice Work If You Can Get It, A Streetcar Named Desire, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Stick Fly, Relatively Speaking, Chinglish, The Normal Heart, House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, Ghetto Klown, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, A Life in the Theatre, Fences, All About Me, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, Fela!, Bye Bye Birdie, A Steady Rain, Waiting for Godot, You’re Welcome America, Pal Joey, American Buffalo, Speed the Plow, A Man For All Seasons, Les Liasons Dangereuses, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, The Homecoming, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pygmalion, Old Acquaintance, 110 in the Shade, Talk Radio, Prelude to a Kiss, Spring Awakening, High Fidelity, Barefoot in the Park, Souvenir, Steel Magnolias, Sweet Charity, Match, Fiddler on the Roof, Bobby Boland, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and Golda’s Balcony. Recent Off Broadway: West Side Story, Stage Around, Tokyo, Mary Jane and Othello, (NYTW) and Turn Me Loose, (Westside Theatre). Recent TV projects include creations for Fosse Verdon, Samantha Bee, and Sesame Street. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How do you take the "ick" out of the ask? Kel shares her process leading outbound fundraising efforts for non-profit theatres. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Kel Haney! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Kel Haney: Kel Haney, Senior Consultant at Donorly, is a NYC & Maine-based fundraising expert with 17 years of experience in the field, specializing in Outbound Fundraising. She’s consulted with such organizations as MCC Theatre, Signature Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, The O’Neill Theater Center, New York Theatre Workshop, Page 73 Productions, Marin Theatre Company, BroadwayUnlocked, The Glimmerglass Festival, American Composers Forum, and RIP Medical Debt. Kel’s work boils down to “Taking the Ick out of the Ask” and shifting fundraising conversations from transactional encounters to relationship-building opportunities. She spent twenty years as a theatre director and her fundraising methodology is based on how she led a rehearsal room: focusing on what makes each of us unique and engaging. Over her fundraising career, Kel has helped non-profit organizations raise over $11M, primarily in donations under $2K. www.kelhaney.com When not working, Kel's seeking out all kinds of artistic experiences, taking nature walks with her rescue pup, practicing yoga, playing extremely intricate board games, and attempting to recreate the fabulous meals she & her husband (actor Michael Grew) have enjoyed on their various travels. Resources from this episode: www.kelhaney.com instagram.com/kelhaney --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adam takes us into the costume shop and gives us a "first hand" account of working on costumes for some of Broadway's biggest shows! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Adam Stocker! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Adam Stocker: Since moving to NYC from Michigan, Adam's worked steadily in a couple of non-union costume shops. He's made costumes for shows on broadway, off broadway, on cruise ships, and in Disneyland. These works include (but are certainly not limited to) Frozen, Head Over Heels, Diana the Musical, and SIX. Most recently, Adam's been working on Union TV and film gigs, as well as digging into workers rights and researching the history of the NYC garment industry and its respective union/non-union labor efforts. Resources from this episode: theboycostumer.com instagram.com/theboycostumer --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Germán gives us great color to the many hats worn on team sound! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Germán Martínez! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Germán Martínez: Germán Martínez is a freelance Sound Designer and Audio Engineer based in NYC/NJ. He received his degree in Sound Design and Management from Montclair State University in May 2018. As an Engineer, he welcomes challenging musicals to program and run, and unique venues to build sound systems in. As a designer, he seeks original and enticing plays to help develop, and bring forward the stories of bold playwrights. He strives to provide his services in order to make art from the heart. Some of the work that motivates Germán are stories that explore the topics of, but are not exclusive to the LGBTQIA experiences, immigrant and first generation stories, and the POC narrative. Resources from this episode: germanlikethelanguage.com instagram.com/germanthesounddesigner --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, we celebrate a podcast anniversary! We reflect on what year 3 looked like and what's to come for year 4. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! >> Don't forget to check out our brand new WEBSITE. --- Come say hi to us! Website: www.pagetostagepodcast.com Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Adrienne shares her process building a container for her collaborators work to live and breathe. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Adrienne Campbell-Holt! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Adrienne Campbell-Holt: Adrienne is a NY-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. She is the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. Click here to watch video of Adrienne's March 2018 acceptance speech. Adrienne was recently profiled in Women in Hollywood - read on here and featured in American Theatre magazine, click here to read. Current/Upcoming: world premiere: Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theater Center),world premiere of Afterwords, music and lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, book by Emily Kaczmarek, choreography by Ebony Williams (5th Avenue Theater, Seattle). Adrienne was a Time Warner/Women’s Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow, a recipient of the Bill Foeller Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship, the EST/Sloan grant, an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist and Audrey Resident. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, the Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, Women’s Project Theater, IAMA, New Georges, Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, and the Ensemble Studio Theater. Resources from this episode: adriennecampbellholt.com @adriennech @coltcoeur Afterwards at 5thavenue --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
David, who began his career onstage in Merrily We Roll Along, quickly became one of Broadway's most notable music directors working closely with Sondheim, Ahrens & Flaherty, and Kander & Ebb to name a few. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with David Loud! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About David Loud: David Loud (NYC) occupies a unique place in Broadway history. In addition to his distinguished career as one of Broadway’s most respected music directors and arrangers, he originated three Broadway roles as an actor, including his appearance in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary failure (and cult classic) Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Harold Prince. In a career spanning several decades, he served as music director for the original Broadway productions of Ragtime, Curtains, Sondheim on Sondheim, The Visit, The Scottsboro Boys, A Class Act, The Look of Love, and Steel Pier, as well as revivals of She Loves Me, Company, and Sweeney Todd. He also appeared alongside Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning play, Master Class. Resources from this episode: Facing the Music by David Loud --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Van, former programmer, runs a Broadway record label in addition to producing Broadway shows. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Van Dean! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Van Dean: Van Dean is a Tony® Award and Grammy® Award-winning producer of 13 Broadway musicals and plays (including Jagged Little Pill, Anastasia, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, Big Fish, Catch Me If You Can, Evita, The Best Man, The Velocity of Autumn), 260+ musical theater-related recordings (including Matilda, The Color Purple, Anastasia, My Fair Lady, If The Fates Allow: Hadestown Holiday Album, Caroline, or Change, Assassins, The Lightning Thief), as well as numerous Broadway/National Tours, Off-Broadway musicals, concert events, a West End production and a documentary film. Van is President and Co-Founder of Broadway Records and his philanthropic work includes being a producer of “Broadway For Orlando: What The World Needs Now is Love”, Broadway United’s “We Are The World”, “Broadway Kids Against Bullying: I Have a Voice”, “From Broadway With Love” benefit concerts for Sandy Hook, Orlando (Emmy Award winner for sound design) and Parkland as well his work with NewArts in Sandy Hook/Newtown, CT. Resources from this episode: www.BroadwayRecords.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Currently swinging in Tina on Broadway, Michelle has kept up her Fitness/Nutrition Coaching business that she created during the pandemic. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Michelle West! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Michelle West: Michelle West is a dancer, actress, teacher, fitness, and nutrition coach born in Philadelphia, PA and based in Fort Lee, NJ. She is currently a Swing in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway. Other Credits Include; Tours: Disney’s Aladdin (1st Nat’l), Memphis, Sid the Science Kid, Live! NY: Goddess (Berkeley Rep), Carnegie Hall (West Side Story). Regional: Sacramento Music Circus (The Wiz, Legally Blonde, Hello! Dolly), Alliance Theater (The Prom), Walnut Street Theater (The Wizard of Oz) Asolo Repertory Theater (West Side Story). BFA Dance from Temple University. Connect with me: @chelleywest / www.youtube.com/michellewestimi Resources from this episode: Michelle's YouTube Channel @chelleywest michellewest.net --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Find out how this financial analyst founded Broadway's first subscription box, Broadway Boxed Up! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Anant Das! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Anant Das: Anant Das (He/Him) is a producer, theatre investor, and CEO of Broadway Boxed Up, the longest-running theatre-themed subscription box. He is currently a producer of the new musical, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart, and the Broadway Makers Marketplace, the first Broadway Pop-Up Shop, and has experience as an investor with Fairycakes Off-Broadway and the Museum of Broadway. He also serves as a young patron of the New York Theatre Workshop as part of their 4th Street Bar Association. With a background in financial valuation, computer science, and as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Anant is passionate about the intersection of theatre, tech, and finance, as well as energized to increase access to both theatrical opportunities and theatre education. He also serves as a film screener for the Washington West Film Festival. Resources from this episode: www.broadwayboxedup.com www.instagram.com/broadwayboxedup --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Carole breaks down the basics of voice and speech study and how it can be applied to life onstage and off. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Carole Healey! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Carole Healey: Carole Healey is a teacher, director and actor and has worked at most of the major regional theatres in the country including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Southwest Shakespeare, Great Lakes Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatreworks, CA, Kingshead Theatre, London, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Olney, The Cape Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public and many others. Carole produced an original translation of “The Misanthrope”, and the New York premiere of “The Libertine” with The Hartshorn Theatre, which she founded. Carole received her MFA from The Professional Theatre Training Program at The University of Delaware. --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After establishing a career in stage management, Matt discusses his shift to directing Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Matt DiCarlo! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Matt DiCarlo: Matt is currently the Resident Director for Moulin Rouge! on Broadway and the Associate Director for the show’s upcoming North American Tour. He staged the Off-Broadway production and North American Tour of The Play That Goes Wrong and recently returned from South Korea, where he restaged the Broadway production of Beetlejuice for its run in Seoul at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. Matt was the Associate Director for the first national tour of The Color Purple revival and the second national tour of Rock of Ages. As a Production Stage Manager, Matt helmed the Broadway productions of Beetlejuice, The Play That Goes Wrong, the Tony-winning revival of The Color Purple, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Rock of Ages. He also worked as the PSM for the world premieres of A Walk on the Moon (A.C.T.), Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), and Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story (Off-Broadway). Other stage management credits include Broadway Bares 2017, Broadway Backwards 6, 7 & 8, and over 12 productions at Paper Mill Playhouse, including The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Steel Magnolias, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Full Monty. Matt’s corporate event experience includes projects with Empire Entertainment, David Stark Design, and Civic Entertainment. Favorites include events with Target, McDonald’s, and the AMC Upfronts. Matt currently is on the faculty at Columbia University and has guest lectured at several universities including Yale and Carnegie Mellon. He graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Matt currently lives in South Orange, NJ with his financé, Joey, and their sweet little Morkie, Max. Resources from this episode: hwww.matt-dicarlo.com www.instagram.com/mattyd0804 --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the second part of our conversation with Cheryl Dennis, we chat new front of house protocols, making sure aisles are clear during the performances, late entry and so much more! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT CHERYL DENNIS Cheryl Dennis is a general manager, producer, and entertainment executive specializing in taking creative ventures from concept to fruition. Within her experience on broadway, off broadway, in a-list commercial events, and the non-profit sector she has championed creatives, theatre companies, and business partners, creating new, innovative strategies for production, audience, and revenue. CONNECT WITH CHERYL: cheryldennisproductions.com MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Chicken & Biscuits on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Chicken & Biscuits on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first part of our conversation with Cheryl Dennis, we chat working at Circle in the Square, how to prepare the theatre for a new production, and so much more! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT CHERYL DENNIS Cheryl Dennis is a general manager, producer, and entertainment executive specializing in taking creative ventures from concept to fruition. Within her experience on broadway, off broadway, in a-list commercial events, and the non-profit sector she has championed creatives, theatre companies, and business partners, creating new, innovative strategies for production, audience, and revenue. CONNECT WITH CHERYL: cheryldennisproductions.com MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Chicken & Biscuits on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Chicken & Biscuits on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the second part of our conversation with Toni, welcoming theatregoers back to Broadway, reframing the narrative that Broadway is for you, and so much more! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT TONI R. ISREAL Toni R. Isreal, is the CEO and Founder of REALEMN Productions LLC, Broadway’s leading multicultural marketing and PR team, run by Black Women. ‘The Real Team’s’ current client list includes Broadway’s leading shows including 8 Time Tony Award Winning HADESTOWN, JAGGED LITTLE PILL, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s "powerful and provocative," PASS OVER, 2021 FIRST Broadway show to open - MJ THE MUSICAL, CHICKEN & BISCUITS, and also, New York Theatre Workshop, Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center, New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse, and the North American HADESTOWN Tour 2021. In addition to being a proud member of New York Women in Film & Television, this co-founding member of The Industry Standard Group is also a consultant with New York’s World-Famous Apollo Theater, where she has secured over a million dollars in sales. Previously, Isreal was the Managing Director of Walker International Communications Group (WICG) where she led a team providing all aspects of marketing consultation to arts organizations including audience development, media support, and socially & technology driven initiatives. A proud member of CTI – Commercial Theater Institute, Isreal was instrumental in multiple projects inclusive of, 2018 Tony Award Winning ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, Disney’s ALADDIN and THE LION KING, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, BABY IT’S YOU and STICKFLY, Boston’s BORN FOR THIS at ArtsEmerson Theatre and Off-Broadway’s SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ, LITTLE ROCK, THROUGH THE NIGHT, ONE NIGHT, BOOTYCANDY, KING LIZ, WHORL, INVISIBLE THREAD, SMART PEOPLE, DOT, and AUTUMN. REALEMN Productions is actively prospecting producing and marketing opportunities for film, television, and/or theater. Proud to state my first of many Producing credit under ReAct; HADESTOWN North American Tour and in Oct 2021 (NEW) Fellow Member of the Broadway League. And as a sincere advocate for BIPOC, Isreal enjoys promoting arts and entertainment to multicultural communities and delivering engaging experiences that encourage audiences to secure their seats and tune in! www.RealemnProductions.com follow @realemnproductions and listen to Callbacks Podcast, that’s powered by Realemn Productions. Connect with Toni! realemnproductions.com MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Chicken & Biscuits on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Chicken & Biscuits on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Get Your Tickets: chickenandbiscuitsbway.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first part of our conversation with Toni R. Isreal, BIPOC Marketing for Chicken & Biscuits, we chat Realemn Productions, finding an audience for the show, ways to dive into the world of the play through marketing and so much more! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT TONI R. ISREAL Toni R. Isreal, is the CEO and Founder of REALEMN Productions LLC, Broadway’s leading multicultural marketing and PR team, run by Black Women. ‘The Real Team’s’ current client list includes Broadway’s leading shows including 8 Time Tony Award Winning HADESTOWN, JAGGED LITTLE PILL, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s "powerful and provocative," PASS OVER, 2021 FIRST Broadway show to open - MJ THE MUSICAL, CHICKEN & BISCUITS, and also, New York Theatre Workshop, Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center, New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse, and the North American HADESTOWN Tour 2021. In addition to being a proud member of New York Women in Film & Television, this co-founding member of The Industry Standard Group is also a consultant with New York’s World-Famous Apollo Theater, where she has secured over a million dollars in sales. Previously, Isreal was the Managing Director of Walker International Communications Group (WICG) where she led a team providing all aspects of marketing consultation to arts organizations including audience development, media support, and socially & technology driven initiatives. A proud member of CTI – Commercial Theater Institute, Isreal was instrumental in multiple projects inclusive of, 2018 Tony Award Winning ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, Disney’s ALADDIN and THE LION KING, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, BABY IT’S YOU and STICKFLY, Boston’s BORN FOR THIS at ArtsEmerson Theatre and Off-Broadway’s SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ, LITTLE ROCK, THROUGH THE NIGHT, ONE NIGHT, BOOTYCANDY, KING LIZ, WHORL, INVISIBLE THREAD, SMART PEOPLE, DOT, and AUTUMN. REALEMN Productions is actively prospecting producing and marketing opportunities for film, television, and/or theater. Proud to state my first of many Producing credit under ReAct; HADESTOWN North American Tour and in Oct 2021 (NEW) Fellow Member of the Broadway League. And as a sincere advocate for BIPOC, Isreal enjoys promoting arts and entertainment to multicultural communities and delivering engaging experiences that encourage audiences to secure their seats and tune in! www.RealemnProductions.com follow @realemnproductions and listen to Callbacks Podcast, that’s powered by Realemn Productions. Connect with Toni! realemnproductions.com MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Chicken & Biscuits on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Chicken & Biscuits on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Get Your Tickets: chickenandbiscuitsbway.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices