#ed kleban

[itsdlevy]

She was an unconventional choice to play Diana Morales, but Merman knocked it out of the park.

[elliottwooster]

A Chorus Line. 

Music by Marvin Hamlisch, Lyrics by Edward Kleban, 

Book by James Kirkwood Jr. & Nicholas Dante. 

Director: Ed Hughes. 

Choreographer: Lynne Thomas. 

Musical Director: Wendy Gadian. 

Set Designer: Sara Perks. Costume Designer: Sarah Mercadé. 

Performed by BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre students, working alongside students from the BA (Hons) Theatre Practice.

All photos © Patrick Baldwin & The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2018. 

[edkatz]

A Chorus Line at Ivoryton Playhouse

A Chorus Line at Ivoryton Playhouse

“Welcome to Katz Reviews. This is Ed Katz of Katnip Marketing- marketing consultant by day; theater and film critic by night- bringing my weekly review segment, Katz Reviews, here for you on WICC 600.

I did not recall having been to the Ivoryton Playhouse in Eastern Connecticut. If I was then it was when I was much younger. It’s a charming spot best found with a GPS.

This season they have…

[thestageyshelf]

SOLD 🎭 A Chorus Line @ London Palladium 2013 (#5)

Title: A Chorus Line

Venue: London Palladium

Year: 2013

With ticket for 14th February 2013

Condition: Creasing to edges

Author: Concieved and Originally Choreographed and Directed by Michael Bennett. Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Edward Kleban

Director: Bob Avian

Choreographer: Originall Choreographed by Bob Avian. Choreography Re-Staged by Baayork Lee

Cast: Lucy Jane Adcock, Georgie Ashford, Ed Currie, Frances Dee, Segun Fawole, Harry Francis, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Katy Hards, Simon Hardwick, Rebecca Herszenhorn, James T Lane, Marc Leslie, Daisy Maywood, Alice Jane Murray, John Patridge, Alastair Postlethwaite, Andy Rees, Adam Salter, Alexzandra Sarmiento, Michael Steedon, Scarlett Strallen, Vicki Lee Taylor, Jon Tsouras, Gary Watson, Gary Wood, Leigh Zimmerman, Rebecca Giacopazzi, Genevieve Nicole, Ashley Nottingham

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[roryomolly]

yall mind if i Joseph Peter Philip Iconis (born September 22, 1981) is an American musical theatre writer. Iconis is a 2003 graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. [1] He is a recipient of the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award,[2] the 2007 Ed Kleban Award,[3] and a Backstage Bistro Award. He has written musicals and cabaret-style pieces, collaborating with Robert Maddock and Reza Jacobs on Plastic! The Musical and Robert Maddock on Triumphant Bab

y’all mind if i Andrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American actor, voice actor, and singer. He is best known for his work as Elder Price in the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. As a featured soloist on the musical's Original Broadway Cast Recording, he won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. His other Broadway credits include Jersey Boys, Hairspray, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He portrayed King George III in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, temporarily replacing Jonathan Groff in the role on Broadway.Contents  [hide] 1 Early life1.1 Career2 Personal life3 Filmography3.1 Film3.2 Television3.3 Video games3.4 Theater4 Awards and nominations5 References6 External linksEarly lifeRannells was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Charlotte and the late Ronald Rannells.[1] Rannells' father had a heart attack very suddenly in 2001 when Rannells was 22.[2] He is the fourth of five siblings, with three sisters and an older brother.[1] His family has an Irish and Polish background.[2]Rannells attended Our Lady of Lourdes grade school and then Creighton Prep,[1] an all-boys Catholic school in Omaha.[2][3] His family lived in the Hanscom Park neighborhood in Omaha.[1]As a child, Rannells took classes at the Emmy Gifford Children's Theater and performed at the Omaha Community Playhouse and the Firehouse Dinner Theatre and the Dundee Dinner Theatre.[1][4] Rannells was 11 when he did his first play. He did community theater with Conor Oberst.[5] Rannells also did voice-over work and commercials, including a 1996 Grease spoof with Amy Adams.[2]Rannells moved to New York City in 1997 after high school, studying theater at Marymount Manhattan College for two years before he started auditioning full-time and was landing roles.[6]CareerFor about three years, from 2001–04, he worked with 4Kids Entertainment, a New York City animation production company, where his Omaha voice-over work served him well. He also directed a couple of video games, "Kirby" and "Sonic the Hedgehog."[1]As a voice actor, Rannells appeared in several 4Kids and DiC television programs and video games, such as Yu-Gi-Oh![5] Before winning his first Broadway role, Rannells took part in a number of regional theater productions, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Miss Saigon, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.[7] For his turn as Hedwig at the Zachary Scott Theater Center in Austin, Texas, in 2002,[8] Rannells was nominated for and won for best actor in a musical at the B. Iden Payne Awards in September 2002, which honor outstanding achievements in Austin theater.[9] In 2006, he won the role of Link Larkin in the Broadway production of Hairspray.[10] This was his first Broadway show, what he considers his big break. Rannells followed this with some regional performances.[2]Rannells played Bob Gaudio in the First National Tour of Jersey Boys. His last performance with the tour was on December 6, 2008, in Toronto. In January 2009, he reprised the role of Gaudio in the musical's Broadway production.Rannells originated the role of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, a musical written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx. For his performance, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for his performance in the musical's Original Broadway Cast Recording. His last performance was June 10, 2012.[11]Rannells (left) with The New Normal co-star Justin BarthaRannells played a stripper in the 2012 film Bachelorette[12] and played a lead character, Bryan Collins, in the 2012–13 television series The New Normal.[13][14]Rannells currently plays the recurring role of Elijah on the HBO television series Girls.[15]Rannells temporarily replaced Jonathan Groff in the role of King George III in Hamilton on Broadway from October 27 to November 29, 2015, while Groff fulfilled pre-arranged filming commitments.[16]Rannells played the role of "Whizzer" in the Broadway revival of Falsettos directed by James Lapine. He was joined by Christian Borle and Stephanie J. Block who play Marvin and Trina, respectively.[17] The musical ran from September 29, 2016 (previews) to January 8, 2017.[18][19]Personal lifeRannells is openly gay.[20] He knew he was gay since high school.[2] Rannells said he came out to his family when he was 18, but by then they had already figured it out.[21] He also came out to his theater friends but not the people at his all-boys Catholic school.[2] Rannells currently lives in New York City after temporarily relocating to Los Angeles to film The New Normal.[2] He shares his life with actor Mike Doyle.[22][23][24]

[political-fluffle]

“Appears that - despite popular belief - some people in Serbian intel/law enforcement is not too happy with GRU's activities in Serbia. This video of a GRU officer allegedly bribing an unnamed Serbian official was leaked to news media today

https://t.co/QcIHkFWOIn”

The video - which was shot from multiple angles and appears to have been part of a sting or well-prepared surveillance op - does show a person exchanging bags with another person. Indeed, the person in the video is RU deputy military attache Georgiy Kleban.

(...)

Microsoft's Azure face ML comparison tool, which is incredibly precise even in low-quality/non en-face enviroments, confirmed a match

His residential address in Moscow is the address of the General Military Academy - not surprising given he is a military (deputy) attache. No proof there he's GRU either. However, checking *his wife's* registered address shows something slightly more interesting.

She's registered at the dormitory of а spetznaz airborne assault military unit. We've found that often, GRU officers that are trained for future deployment under diplomatic cover, are "spared" registration at GRU addresses. Not so careful with their spouses though.

Radio Free Europe followed up on this story and was told by the Serbian Foreign Ministry that Georgiy Kleban indeed served as deputy military attache in Belgrade until June 2018. The Russian embassy has not yet responded to their queries https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slobodnaevropa.org%2Fa%2Fruski-obavestajac-sastanak-srpski-agent%2F30278590.html …

A review of archived versions of the Russian embassy website shows that lt. col Kleban joined as assistant military attache around the beginning of 2016. That would make his departure after 2.5 years somewhat premature, compared to other asst. attaches. Possibly silently PNG-ed?

Seems indeed that he was PNG-ed. I found his son's social media profile. In August of this year, his Serbian friends wrote to him: "When are you coming back to Belgrade?" He responded, in Serbian: "I am afraid never"

If this is true, Russia had two GRU officers caught bribing officials and PNGed from what it considered traditionally "friendly" countries in the last 6 months - Serbia and Bulgaria. Not a good year for GRU.

[londontheatre]

Geoids Musical Theatre have announced a new production of the iconic musical A Chorus Line which comes to London for a limited run at the Bridewell Theatre from 18 to 23 July 2017.

Set in a Broadway theatre during auditions for a musical, A Chorus Line focuses on the performers hoping to make the cut. Based on true stories, A Chorus Line revolutionised Broadway, becoming the longest running musical in New York theatre history, breaking records, winning nine Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, the New York Critics’ Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Boasting such classics as “One (Singular Sensation)”, “What I Did For Love” and “At The Ballet”, A Chorus Line is an iconic musical masterpiece.

The production is directed by Dominic O’Hanlon, with choreography by Becky East and musical direction by Ed Curry.

Geoids Musical Theatre have recently been represented in London with productions of My Fair Lady, On the Twentieth Century, Hair, Sweet Charity, and the Central London amateur premiere of Sunset Boulevard, which ran at the Bridewell Theatre in October 2015.

The cast includes: Michael Stacey (Zach), Ricardo Castro (Paul), Vanessa Forte (Cassie), Eliza Jackson (Diana), David Meany (Greg), Olivier Namet (Bobby), Kate Winney (Val), Jensen Tudtud (Mark), Paul Brookland Williams (Don), Tom Leonard (Mike), Kaleel Anwar (Al), Vaughan Watts (Kristine), Hannah Parker Smith (Judy), Corin Miller (Sheila), Nathalie Joel-Smith (Bebe), Carrie Wilson (Maggie) and Charlie Welch (Connie).

Listings Information: A Chorus Line Conceived and Originally Directed and Choreographed by Michael Bennett Book: James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Edward Kleban Where: The Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ When: Tue 18th July – Sat 22nd July 2017, 7:30pm. Matinees Sat 22nd and 23rd July, 2:30pm. Tickets: Available at www.geoidsmt.co.uk

Produced by: Blake Klein on behalf of Geoids Musical Theatre Director: Dominic O’Hanlon Musical Director: Ed Curry Choreographer: Becky East Production Design: Blake Klein Lighting Design: Martin Walton Sound Design: Adrian Jeakins Costume Design: Lesley Birch and David Walker-Smith Stage Management: Giles Burden and Kathryn Hyde

Original Broadway Production produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer, in association with Plum Productions, Inc. Presented by arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Limited of New York.

Established in 1930, Geoids Musical Theatre is a leading London amateur theatre company that produces a varied programme of large productions, smaller cabaret shows and its famed 48-hour panto.  Geoids seeks to deliver high-quality shows for its audiences as well as a friendly and collaborative experience for its performers.  Its 2017 season will conclude with the London amateur premier of Top Hat in October.   Further information about Geoids is available at www.geoidsmt.co.uk.  

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[flynnspeaks]

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the Chorus Line score is so great.

[nyphil]

Marvin Hamlisch wore many hats in his life and career, including several fictional caps. In 2000, he became a character in the Broadway show A Class Act. Subtitled "a musical about musicals," the piece assembles songs by A Chorus Line co-writer Ed Kleban with additional work contributed by Linda Kline and Lonny Price. Price himself played Kleban, who died at 48 in 1987. Actor Ray Wills played Hamlisch. You can watch the Tony Awards performance from 2001 here, which features a pre-Grey's Anatomy Sara Ramirez.

As Kleban's character says at one point: "Words and music. I love them. And especially what happens when you put them together in songs, and sing them in a large building, in a central part of town, with a lot of people listening, who have all payed a great deal to get in." If you couldn't, for any deal of money, get into One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch, directed by Price and ushering in 2013 at the Phil on Monday, fret not: you can catch this on Live From Lincoln Center.

[itsdlevy]

In May of 2000, the Library of Congress staged a concert in celebration of Stephen Sondheim, combining some of his own songs with those on his now famous, then new “Songs I Wish I’d Written (At Least In Part)” list. 

Here’s Debra Monk performing “Better” by Edward Kleban, a few months before the song would get a broader audience via its inclusion in the musical A Class Act. 

[broadwayelevators]

The Mantovani Orchestra “What I Did For Love” from A Chorus Line Music by Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics by Ed Kleban From The Magical Moods of Mantovani 

One of the reasons Mantovani's name has become near synonymous with easy listening music is due to a canny move on the part of his family: after his retirement (and even more so after his death), they continued to license the use of the Mantovani name to other orchestras and arrangers who wished to continue the sound of cascading strings.

Purists will argue that these ghost-arranged/conducted releases lack the heart of true Mantovani recordings, but since the maestro stopped recording in 1975, it's fun to hear his style applied to songs written or popularized later.

Is it tacky? Maybe. Cheesy? Sure. But really, isn't that what we're here for?

[musicaltheatreheritage]

Kelly Bishop leads members of the original cast of A Chorus Line in a rendition of "At the Ballet."

[theatreaficionado]

Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012)

This is the finale of the legendary 3389th performance of A Chorus Line on September 29, 1983, when it became the longest running show in Broadway history. Epic doesn't even begin to describe it.

[doenahld]

"At the Ballet" as heard on Jay Records's Broadway the Concert

music Marvin Hamlisch lyric Ed Kleban

performance Brigid Brady, Carolee Carmello, Debbie Shapiro Gravitte

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Obviously DSG is the perfect Sheila (on disk).  Obviously.

But...Carolee doesn't play Maggie.  

I know.  I know.

 Maggie is sung by a Brigid Brady, whose most notable credit is a stint on Broadway as Phantom's Christine.  She does a very nice job with the Indian Chief monologue.  And she gives the big, climactic, "at the balleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet" the nice, light, heady mix we've all wished we could hear instead of that humdrum thrilling belt we're accostomed to.  

And Carolee Car-fucking-mello was RIGHT THERE.  I mean, I just don't understand how the following conversation DIDN'T happen:

Whoever Made This Decision: Okay, so.  Debbie will do Sheila, OBVIOUSLY.

DSG: Obviously.

WMTD: And Carolee will do Bebe and Brigid will do Maggie.

CAROLEE: Um..

WMTD: Yes Carolee.

CAROLEE: I just--I mean, it's not my place, but--it's just that, well--isn't Maggie the one with the big climactic belty high note?

WMTD: Yes.

BRIGID: Oh.  But then why am I--I mean, I'm like an semi-Operatic Soprano

WMTD: Yes, I know.  I hired you.

BRIGID/CAROLEE: To play Maggie?

WMTD: ...yes.

DSG: Oh for Christ's sake, pull your head out of your ass and switch the damn girls!

 Carolee does have fun as Bebe (especially on "very very personaaaal flair").  And Brigid gives a sincere and endearing performance.  But COME ON.

[thatismyrealjob]

A Chorus Line

Just noticed that Marvin Hamlisch / Ed Kleban uses this technique where everybody says a certain phrase twice right in a row…in almost every single song.

“God, I hope I get it. I hope I get.”

“How many people does he need? How many people does he need?”

“How many boys how many girls? How many boys how many -“

“Look at all the people. At all the people”

“I really need this job, dear God I need this job”

“God, I really blew it, I really blew it”

“Now I’ll never make it. I’ll never make it”

“God, I think I’ve got it. I think I’ve got it”

“I can do that, I can do that”

“That’s what he said, that’s what he said.”

“Thought she was twenty-two, though she was twenty-two”

“It wasn’t paradise, it wasn’t paradise”

“When I grew up, when I grew up”

“Though I was eight or nine, though I was eight or nine”

“At the ballet, at the ballet”

“4’ 10”, 4’ 10”“

“Feel the motion, feel the motion”

“Hear the wind rush, hear the wind rush”

“And I tried, I tried”

“The kids called me nothing, they called me nothing.”

“Send me guidance, send me guidance”

“I’d be hard, I’d be hard”

“Gimme the ball, gimme the ball”

“Scholarship to college, scholarship to college”

“That ain’t it kid, that ain’t it kid.”

“Tits and ass, yes tits and ass”

“What I did for love, what I did for love”

[itsdlevy]

Although really, I will never understand why this wasn't the song that nabbed the Oscar nomination. It doesn't matter, though. It wouldn't have come any closer to winning over "Say You, Say Me."