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Peter Kellogg (writer)
Peter Kellogg is a musical theater book writer and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics and the book for the 1992 production of the Broadway musical ''Anna Karenina'', for which he received two 1993 Tony Award nominations, one for Best Book of a musical and one for the Best Original Score. He also wrote the lyrics and book for the musicals ''Chasing Nicolette'' (originally titled ''Nicolette and Aucassin''), ''Desperate Measures'', ''Lincoln In Love'', ''Stunt Girl'' (aka ''Front Page Girl''), ''Money Talks'' (originally titled ''Money The Musical''), and ''The Rivals'' which have been read and produced regionally. Kellogg also received the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2006 award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing (Book) for ''Desperate Measures''. On June 3, 2018, Kellogg won the 2018 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics for Desperate Measures. In addition, along with Albert C Todd, Kellogg wrote the English lyrics for ''Unruly Horses'', a musical conceived by Moni and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Theater
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara Davi
Mara Davi (born January 22, 1984, Alameda County, California) is an American actress, singer, and dancer; she made her Broadway debut as Maggie Winslow in the 2006 revival of ''A Chorus Line''. Biography Mara Davi grew up in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. She began dance lessons at three years old at a local studio but later transferred to the Academy of Theatre Arts in Englewood, Colorado. She studied several styles of dance, including ballet, tap, and jazz, but enjoyed tap the most. Her family moved to Folsom, California, where she attended Folsom High School. During high school, Davi shifted her focus away from dance to musical theater. She appeared in numerous regional productions including: '' Annie'', ''The Sound of Music'', ''Gypsy'', ''Baby'', '' Grease'', and '' Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat''. Davi attended California State University, Fullerton where, during her sophomore year, she was chosen for the lead in the U.S. and Japan tour of '' 42nd Street''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as ''The Rivals'', ''The School for Scandal'', ''The Duenna'' and ''A Trip to Scarborough''. He was also a Whig MP for 32 years in the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807), and Ilchester (1807–1812). He is buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the canon and are regularly performed worldwide. Early life Sheridan was born in 1751 in Dublin, Ireland, where his family had a house on then fashionable Dorset Street. His mother, Frances Sheridan, was a playwright and novelist. She had two plays produced in London in the early 1760s, though she is best known for her novel ''The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph'' (1761). His father, Thomas Sheridan, was for a while an actor-manager at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Friedman (composer)
David Allen Friedman is a film and theatre composer, songwriter, author, lyricist and conductor based in New York City. He received a 1997 Backstage Bistro Award for Composer of the Year and a 1997 Johnny Mercer Award for Songwriter of the Year, and a Special Lifetime Achievement Award at the 26th Annual MAC Awards. His oratorio, ''King Island Christmas'', won a Frederick Loewe Award and Dramatists Guild Award. David's musical '' Desperate Measures'' won the 2018 Drama Desk Award for Best Music and Best Lyrics (Peter Kellogg) as well as the Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Off Broadway Musical and the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical. Career Original songs Friedman's original songs include "Listen to My Heart", "Help is on the Way", "We Can Be Kind", "We Live on Borrowed Time", "I'll Be Here With You", "Just in Time for Christmas" (with David Zippel), and "My Simple Christmas Wish". In January 2003, Friedman published the music book ''Listen To My Heart: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Brisbane
Arthur Brisbane (December 12, 1864 – December 25, 1936) was one of the best known American newspaper editors of the 20th century as well as a real estate investor. He was also a speech writer, orator, and public relations professional who coached many famous businesspeople of his time in the field of public relations, particularly Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John D. Rockefeller. Biography Brisbane was born in Buffalo, New York to Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), an American utopian socialist who is remembered as the chief popularizer of the theories of Charles Fourier in the United States. Albert was the author of several books, including ''Social Destiny of Man'' (1840), as well as the Fourierist periodical ''The Phalanx''. He also founded the Fourierist Society in New York in 1839 and backed several other phalanx communes in the 1840s and 1850s. Arthur was educated in the United States and Europe. Career In 1882, he began work as a newspaper reporter and editor in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking circumnavigation, trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an Exposé (journalism), exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of Immersion journalism, investigative journalism. Early life Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born May 5, 1864, in "Cochran's Mills", now part of Burrell Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Her father, Michael Cochran, born about 1810, started out as a laborer and mill worker before buying the local mill and most of the land surrounding his family farmhouse. He later became a merchant, postmaster, and associate justice at Cochran's Mills (which was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Reinders
Kate Reinders (born December 10, 1980) is an American actress and singer, who has performed as lead and understudy in several Broadway shows. Reinders was born in Seattle, Washington, but raised in Spring Lake, Michigan. She attended Western Michigan Christian High School, graduating in 1998. Career Reinders' Broadway debut was in ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' as a swing and understudy for characters Amy Lawrence and Becky Thatcher. She next joined the 2002 Broadway revival of ''Into the Woods'' as an understudy for Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Milky White, and Rapunzel. Her first starring role was in the 2003 revival of ''Gypsy'' as June; she went on to play Caroline in the 2005 jukebox musical ''Good Vibrations''. Reinders played Glinda in the 2005 Chicago production of ''Wicked'', alongside Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba; for this role, she received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Actress in a Principal Role. She and Gasteyer finished their runs in the Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Lawrence
Megan Lawrence (born 1972) is an American actress best known for her roles on Broadway. Among other honors, she has been nominated for a Tony Award. She has also appeared Off-Broadway, in regional theatre and on television. Life and career Lawrence grew up near Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was music professor at Towson University, and her mother taught lower school music. She attended Cincinnati Conservatory for a year and then returned to Baltimore to attend classes at Towson, work as a waitress and consider whether to begin a career in theatre. By the early 1990s, Lawrence began to perform in children's theatre and then adult musicals at a dinner theatre in Maryland.Onofri, Adrienne"Megan Lawrence: On Top of Her 'Game'" BroadwayWorld, April 23, 2006, accessed May 3, 2012 At the Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia) in the 1990s, Lawrence played, among other roles, Marta in ''Company'', Little Red Riding Hood in ''Into the Woods'' and Sally Bowles in ''Cabaret'' (1995), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Stampley
Nathaniel Stampley is an American actor. He has performed in the West End, on Broadway, on tours, and regionally. Roles On Broadway, he was a replacement for Old Deuteronomy in the revival of ''Cats'', he played Mister in the revival of ''The Color Purple'', Mufasa in ''The Lion King'', and was in the opening night cast of original production of ''The Color Purple'' as Buster, Chief, an ensemble member, and an understudy for Harpo. He also played Mufasa in ''The Lion King'' in the West End and on the national tour. He was in the national tour of ''Ragtime''. Regionally, he was The Baron in the world premiere of the musical ''LEMPICKA'' at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, he played Leo in ''Big Love'' at Signature Theatre in NYC, has been Henry in ''First Noel'' at Classical Theatre of Harlem, Lucas in ''Abyssinia'' at the North Shore Music Theatre, Warrior and the Russian Admiral in ''Pacific Overtures'' at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in '' Strike up the Band'' and ''O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Parlato
Dennis Parlato (born March 30, 1947 in Los Angeles) is an American dancer, actor, and singer. Early life and education He is the son of Charlie Parlato, and the uncle of Grammy-nominated jazz singer Gretchen Parlato. Parlato taught high school English in San Francisco before realizing he wanted to perform. He was performing in chamber concert groups and teaching full-time. While on vacation with his first wife, they decided to see the ballet nearby just as something to do. He went to the Nederlands Dans Theater, a premier theatre company that, unbeknownst to him, was putting on a ballet of ''Carmina Burana''. After watching the ballet, it inspired him when he got back home to switch to half-time teaching and study ballet. He met Austin Tichenor (of Reduced Shakespeare Company) when Parlato joined the Metropolitan Ballet of Oakland (not the Oakland Ballet) as a featured solo dancer and Tichenor was stage manager. He moved to New York when he was thirty years old. His fiancée at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Wyman
Nick Wyman (born May 18, 1950) is an American stage, television, and film actor, and is a former president of the Actors' Equity Association. Early life and education Wyman was born in Portland, Maine and raised in Summit, New Jersey and attended Harvard University. Career Wyman received his big break as Freddy in the 1981 revival of ''My Fair Lady'' which starred original Higgins Sir Rex Harrison. He later created the role of Firmin in the Broadway production of ''The Phantom of the Opera''. He featured in ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' as Hungarian terrorist and explosive expert Mathias Targo. In 2008, he was cast as John Barsad in the Broadway musical adaptation of ''A Tale of Two Cities'', at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York. He was elected President of Actors Equity in May 2010 and served until 2015. Personal life He is the older brother of voice actor Oliver Wyman Oliver Wyman is an American management consulting firm. Founded in New York City in 1984 by former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Wyse
Alex Wyse is an American stage and screen actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for playing Kyle in '' Marvel's Iron Fist'', Saul Feinberg in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', Georg Zirschnitz in the 2015 Deaf West Broadway revival of '' Spring Awakening,'' and co-creating the digital serie''Indoor Boys'''.'' Early life Wyse grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated from Beachwood High School, and later graduated from Boston University with a degree in theatre. Career On television, Wyse has appeared in multiple roles since 2010 including ''Bored to Death, Switched at Birth,'' ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', ''Marvel's Iron Fist'', '' NCIS: Los Angeles,'' and ''Masters of Sex'' On film, he appeared opposite America Ferrera in '' X/Y''. With Wesley Taylor, he co-wrote and co-directed his debut feature film Summoning Sylvia' set for release in 2022, and he co-created, wrote, directed, edited, and starred in the digital series Indoor Boys'' which was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
