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...seminar on Leonard Bernstein. “He has a serious, classical side to his composition, but he also has the more free-spirited, musical theatre side.” Wang will have an opportunity to showcase his many talents at “ Leonard Bernstein: Boston to Broadway,” a conference and festival to be held at Harvard, October 12-14. Wang has written original arrangements of Bernstein’s work for the occasion. It’s fitting role for the versatile young composer, given Bernstein’s dual careers as director...
...upbringing for inspiration. Perhaps most notably, he did it again in 1981’s “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You.” The play earned him the prestigious Obie Award, a prize bestowed by New York newspaper The Village Voice to off-Broadway productions. It was also condemned by the Cardinal of Boston.“When you’re taught all these rules, you really accept things as fact,” Durang says of Catholic school and “Sister Mary...
...Footloose” is now being put on by Harvard S.T.A.G.E. This adaptation of the film had a brief stint on Broadway in the late ’90s, but faded out because there was only one good song: “Footloose.” And even though there are several reprises of the title track during the show, it just couldn’t cut loose in the box office...
...musical theater community came when he co-wrote “Get Some,” the 2003 Freshman Musical. He then went on to co-write “As the Word Turns” for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. With his co-writing of the off-Broadway “Snapshots” during his sophomore summer, Mitnick drew new ideas and icons into the language of musical theater. Mitnick later spent two summers working for Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty, the composer for “Ragtime.” From the Currier House musical...
...don’t know if I’ve really gotten that,” she says. “But I like the hybrid that I’ve become.” Altenburg plans to move to New York for the summer and take classes on Broadway and in ballet companies while also balancing a job to pay for the expenses of dancing. She says that time will become the true test of whether she can go back to dancing professionally after she graduates. “Most girls are 17 when they enter ballet companies...