Tumgik
#Raleigh little theatre auditions
trustwashington · 2 years
Text
Raleigh little theatre auditions
Tumblr media
Side By Side received five 1977 Tony Award® nominations - for Best Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (David Kernan and Ned Sherrin), and Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Millicent Martin and Julie N. The show made its Broadway debut, directed by Ned Sherrin, with musical staging by Bob Howe, on Apat the Music Box Theatre, later transferred to the Morosco Theatre, and played for 384 performances before closing on March 19, 1978. Subtitled “A Musical Entertainment,” Side By Side By Sondheim features the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim as well as the music by Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers, and Jule Styne. Musical gems from the Sondheim songbook include: “Comedy Tonight” (from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) and “Love Is in the Air” (dropped from Forum) “If Momma Was Married” (with music by Jule Styne, from Gypsy) ““Send in the Clowns” (from A Little Night Music) “I Never Do Anything Twice (from the film The Seven Percent Solution) “Losing My Mind” and “I'm Still Here,” and “Could I Leave You?” (from Follies) and many, many more. “I almost wore it out, memorized it, made up scenarios to go with the songs.” Wilson saw touring production of Side By Side in late 19. “I first became of this show when I heard the original Broadway cast album in summer of 1977,” recalls RLT guest director Brent Wilson. The 79-year-old Sondheim also received the 2008 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, as well as the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Sunday In The Park With George and Kennedy Center Honors in 1993. New York City-born composer and lyricist Stephen Joshua Sondheim is a seven-time Tony Award® winner - for Best Score and Best Lyrics for Company (1971) and for Best Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973 Best Score), Sweeney Todd (1979), Into The Woods (1988), and Passion (1994 - who also took home the 1990 Academy Award for Best Song for “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)” from Dick Tracy. Raleigh Little Theatre's presentation of Side By Side By Sondheim, performed under the stars on May 8-9 and 15-16 in RLT's Louise “Scottie” Stephenson Amphitheatre, showcases the best of the best of Broadway's best contemporary songwriter. Side By Side By Sondheim showcases the best
Tumblr media
0 notes