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Written by Mike Schulz
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 13:08 |
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 Like most professional performers, Chicagoan Nick Semar has a healthy number of musicals on his résumé.
Unlike most professional performers, Semar can boast acting credits in 26 original, hour-long musicals.
Staged over 27 nights.
All of which were made up on the spot.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 07:25 |
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 [Author's note: The following interview with Eddie Staver III was written for TheCurtainbox.com, the Web site for our area's Curtainbox Theatre Company. I'm proud to say that I'm an ensemble member with the theatrical organization, and along with Staver, am a cast member in the company's September 15 – 25 production of Time Stands Still.]
A company member since 2009, Eddie Staver III made his Curtainbox Theatre Company debut as the haunted title character in 2008’s Danny & the Deep Blue Sea, and went on to appear as the amoral salesman Moss in 2009’s Glengarry Glen Ross, the troubled son Eddie in 2010’s Fool for Love, and, later that year, clinical oncology fellow Jason Posner in Wit. And when I mention to people that Staver is returning to the Curtainbox to play James in Time Stands Still – his first role for the company in over a year – the response I get is almost always the same: “Where has he been?”
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Monday, 29 August 2011 06:00 |
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 There’s a common misconception that, once the musical- and comedy-filled summer season is over, our area’s theatrical output becomes a lot more demanding. But that’s absolutely not true. For example, this autumn brings with it the Western charmer Make Me a Cowboy. And the showtune pastiche Give My Regards! And the fairy-tale spoof Honk! And ... .
Hmm. “Make Me”? “Give My”? “Honk”? That all sounds pretty demanding.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Tuesday, 02 August 2011 06:00 |
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 Quad City Music Guild’s new production of The Music Man – the Meredith Willson classic running August 5 through 14 – stars husband and wife Christopher and Erika Thomas as romantic leads Harold Hill and Marian Paroo. And just to be clear: Yes, the couple knows how close to nauseatingly adorable it is for them to be playing these roles opposite one another.
“I’m kind of calling this my nursing-home story,” says Erika with a laugh. “Like when our grandchildren come to visit, it’ll be, ‘You know, your grandfather and I were in Music Man once ... !’”
“And they’ll be, ‘Uh oh ... here comes that Music Man story again ... !’” counters Christopher, also laughing.
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Written by Mike Schulz
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Thursday, 07 July 2011 06:00 |
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 “I think it came from going to church,” says area actor Pat Flaherty of his childhood interest in theatre. “Because I’d go to church, and I’d see this guy who was holding everybody’s interest through the whole service. It was very dramatic – they’d light the candles and ring the bells and everything – and for a while I thought I wanted to be a priest because of that.
“It turned out I just wanted to be on stage.”
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