Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size (more…)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame to get a cast album
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which played at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse and New Jersey’s Paper Mill may not be officially Broadway bound yet, but it will get a cast album! The American premiere studio recording will be released on November 20, featuring Michael Arden as Quasimodo, Patrick Page as Dom Claude Frollo, Ciara Renée as Esmeralda, Andrew Samonsky as Captain Phoebus de Martin, Erik Liberman as Clopin Trouillefou and more. John Tiffany and Enda Walsh are setting out to create a stage-version of (more…)
New York Times Review Of Amazing Grace
In one of the show’s clunkier transitions, young John’s headstrong nature next displays itself when he hijacks a slave auction that his father has postponed and begins merrily selling the merchandise behind Dad’s back, to the horror of his longtime sweetheart, Mary Catlett (Erin Mackey), who is instantly converted to the abolitionist cause after witnessing the brutal branding of a pregnant slave. John shrugs off her (more…)