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Tuesday
Apr302013

2013 TONY AWARD® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

The Tony Award Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 67th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® were announced this morning, April 30, by Tony winning-actress Sutton Foster and star of both stage and screen Jesse Tyler Ferguson, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM. 

Some of the top category nominations included (BEST PLAY):The Assembled Parties, by Richard Greenberg; Lucky Guy, by Nora Ephron; The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang.

For BEST MUSICAL: Bring It On: The Musical; A Christmas Story, The Musical; Kinky Boots; Matilda The Musical

Top nominations went to Kinky Boots with 13, Matilda The Musical with 12, Pippin with 10 nominations, and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella with 9.

Click on the following link to get the complete list of nominations

The 2013 Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 9th, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay)

The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.

LocalTheatreNY.com congrattulates all the nominees.

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Monday
Apr222013

DREAMGIRLS to Open at The Gallery Players April 27.

Monday, April 22, 2013 - Park Slope, Brooklyn | By Roger Gonzalez

This week we welcomed The Gallery Players to LocalTheatreNY.com...but last week I had the opportunity to sit in on a rehearsal of The Gallery Players production of "Dreamgirls" and I can't stop thinking about how good this cast sounds. In fact, allow me to predict that this show will be a huge creative success.

Musically, the numbers I had the good fortune to see were energetic, inspired and vocally brilliant.  Talent seems to be in abundance with this cast. From the little I could see (it was not even a full dress rehearsal), the sets are also shaping up beautifully. Already I can tell this will be an exceptional production all around. I was so impressed that I decided to write a sort of "preview," which can be seen below.

Dreamgirls is being directed by Gallery Players' President and long time member, Mark Harborth and features Charnette Batey as Deena, Kolton Bradley* as Curtis, Charles Browning* as CC, Aisha Curtiss as Lorrell, Frank Holmes* as Marty, Inuka Ivaska* as Michelle, Tunisia Renee* as Effie and Caliaf St. Aubyn* as Jimmy (*denotes member of AEA). Also in the cast are Tamara Pilar Allen, Jennifer Ambler, Troy Anthony Burton, Donald R. King, Derrick Bryant Marshall, Peter McIntosh, Kendra Moore, Janelle Neal*, Ilene Pabon, Alex Pagels and Michael Terry.

I remind you that this was only a rehearsal. Nonetheless, I was impressed enough to produce the following video preview which I share with you today. The show opens Saturday April 27th and runs at The Gallery Players in Park Slope until May 19th.

I strongly urge you to pre-order your tickets online or by phone (https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/104 or call TheaterMania at (212) 352-3101)

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Saturday
Apr132013

HOW GOOD IS YOUR MONOLOGUE?

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I don't usually do this, but in the last few weeks I've wanted to up my game - I've rarely ever auditioned for parts and don't even have a monologue ready for such things and I wanted to change that. So I went to the introductory class last Sunday and was floored!

Fabio Taliercio (actor, manager, director) teaches the course and is incredible! In just a few minutes, he pointed out about four things I immediately need to do to up the ante!

So I am strongly urging my fellow actors and aspiring actors to consider joining me tomorrow at 5PM for an intensive 6 weeks of Monologue training with BO' Acting!(Every Sunday for the next 6 weeks at 5PM, but you have to come tomorrow if you want to do this).

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Reach out to them with any questions and please check it out.I just had to share this...

All the best!

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Monday
Feb252013

Ken Davenport: Why I’m producing Macbeth on Broadway.

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 Remember when I tweeted this?

If you saw last night’s late NY Times or Playbill announcement, then you’ve probably put two and two together and realized that the “#NewShowThisSpring” I was talking about was the National Theatre of Scotland‘s production of Macbeth starring Alan Cumming that I’m producing on Broadway this spring.

So what’s the story behind it?  The Times alluded to it . . . but let me give you a few of the details . . . because isn’t that what this blog is about?

Yes, it’s true, I did get a call about my interest in producing this one-man interpretation directed by John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg that played to sold out crowds at NTS  and last summer’s Lincoln Center Festival.

And when I hung up the phone to think about it, it took me, oh, about 37 seconds to pick the phone back up, and say, “I’m in.”

Why did I decide to do it so fast?

The funny thing was . . . as I told Mr. Healy from the Times . . . I didn’t see it when it was at the festival.  I was out of town and frankly, it was hard to score a seat.

But I wanted to see it.  Badly.

I’m not usually the biggest fan of seeing Shakespeare.  I love to read it.  I love to study it.  But seeing it is another matter. (To Read the full Blog, please CLICK HERE)

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ABOUT KEN DAVENPORT

Thursday
Feb072013

Performing Arts Centers (PACs) Cast a Great White Light Beyond Broadway

2013 is the year of the PAC. And no, we are not talking about Political Action Committees. The national election is over and we couldn’t be happier.

These PACs (Performing Arts Centers) are all about professional live entertainment, theatre, film, art, and - yes - even training and workshops for local future artist and performers.

If you are not familiar with the many PACs right in your own backyard, then you have clearly been missing out on something exceptional. And we hope to change that!

PACs are everywhere; often on or near campuses, in downtown areas, small communities and towns, in the suburbs and in fringe areas both far and near that epicenter that we so lovingly call "The Great White Way." PACs can be found in Manhattan, out on Long Island, in Purchase, New York and on quite a few of the  major City University of New York (CUNY) campuses in New York City. They are in the boroughs, in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and beyond the tri-state area. They are multi-stage venues, small intimate live theatre companies, and can be found in just about every size and shape. But the thing that makes PACs especially unique is that they attract some of the top names in theatre, comedy, dance, music and travelling Broadway productions around the country. In doing so, PACs manage to bring an incredible abundance of internationally acclaimed talent right into you own backyard...well, at the very least closer than having to drive into Manhattan if you don't live nearby.

Bringing this type of entertainment to the local PACs actually is important because each community is different; different demographics, different tastes, ethnicities and local nuances. For the PACs, having a sense of these differences is critical to their success.

Andrea Rockower, of the Bronx’s Lehman Center for The Performing Arts, for instance, describes her center this way:  “Lehman Center is a community resource in which area residents of all backgrounds, neighborhoods, and income levels come together to celebrate their cultural traditions and the arts.” At Lehman there is a tremendous abundance of choices, ranging from the African Children’s Choir (comprised of Kenya and Uganda young people who have lost one or more parents to poverty or AIDS) to the China National Symphony, to the Slask Song & Dance Ensemble from Poland. Mix into that schedule Patti LaBelle, comedian Paul Rodriguez and a few fully staged, classic theatrical travelling productions like “A Chorus Line” and “Fiddler on the Roof,” and you immediately start to see the caliber of talent coming to you when you can’t get to them!

What is happening in most cases with the PACs is that the show is coming to you before or after it headlines on Broadway or in major venues in Manhattan.

Take the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase College, just North of NYC.  According to them, “performances are presented immediately before or after the same artists make appearances in the major concert halls in New York City. Many of these are artists are generally seen in New York City and our audiences appreciate and embrace seeing them without traveling into the city.” This “We-Come-To-You” approach is not only convenient, but very appealing to the status of the community, helping to stimulate a sense of local cultural pride not usually connected to small towns. 

As an example, at SUNY Purchase, last season saw the World Premiere on one of their stages of Paul Taylor’s witty dance Gossamer Gallants,” prior to its New York City debut at Lincoln Center.

Lobby of Purchase Performing Arts Center In addition to a diverse program and plenty of choices for all age groups, ethnicities and likes, there is the actual venue itself. PACs, from what we have seen over and over again, are modern, multi-stage centers with state-of-the-art facilities that can be used by host campuses, in house productions and rented by outside producers.  They house art galleries, small black box and cabaret spaces, a main stage, and even state of the art cinema houses with brand new seating. Since many of the PACs are independently run non-profit organizations, generating income and maintaining stability during economically challenged times remains an issue. Careful programming planning, grant and corporate fundraising and revenue generating ideas are in constant demand. Major corporations and media entities seem to sponsor some of these PACs, with grants and donations numbering in the millions of dollars annually. With names like Chase, Con Edison, Delta, Time Warner, Verizon and many other multiple corporate supporters backing the PAC’s, it is obvious why the quality of the talent tends to remain relatively high in spite if increasing production costs. Still, the key to success is local audience participation and a healthy box office. 

That’s why we at localTheatreNY.com have come to feel that PACs are so vital to this sense of, well... “Local Theatre.”

When you look around and see names like Whoopi Goldberg and Rob Schnieder mixed in with less produced play titles like the "Rimers of Eldritch," it really get's your attention. But as one PACs' marketing publicist says, "It is also the variety of genre from classical to quartets to children's shows that make a PAC so unique. It's also what makes it so challenging to market...these are drastically different audiences and so the reach has to be wide and far."

With that in mind, this year, we at LocalTheatreNY.com hope to bring more attention to all those PACs in Manhattan, the outer boroughs and the entire tri-state area. Our initial new Performing Arts Directory is just one step in our ongoing mission to highlight the many wonderful local productions available to us in the tri-state area. As this directory continues to grow in the months to follow, we hope you check in periodically to see what’s coming to you. We also hope you consider supporting your nearest PAC. See a show. Tell us about it and share it with friends. Take pictures at the PAC and we will publish them!  If you know of any PACs missing from our directory, please let us know. (email AllianceHM@aol.com)

CLICK HERE to link to our New Performance Arts Center Directory.