Andy Blankenbeuhler on directing and choreographing 'Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat'
What were the particular challenges of reworking "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"? From the very start it was decided we would not be using a children's choir. Often times the show is told to young children on stage, and that device becomes the ...
'Tell Me' lays bare one woman's quest
The first thing Yojiro Ichikawa said when we sat down for our recent interview in a Tokyo rehearsal studio was, "Shall I speak in English?" For the director of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Tell Me on a Sunday," which has its Japan premiere next ...
Based on "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra," a 1911 novel by the French author of detective fiction, Gaston Leroux, and transformed into a musical composed, co-written and produced by Englishman Andrew Lloyd Webber (now Baron Lloyd-Webber), "The Phantom of the Opera" was first produced in ...
