Stage Grok

I talk with Jennifer Ashley Tepper, author, historian, producer, about her two volume Untold Stories of Broadway (http://www.amazon.com/The-Untold-Stories-Broadway-theaters/dp/0985471867), her concert series If It Only Even Runs a Minute (http://www.ifitonlyevenrunsaminute.com/), and her series of concerts at 54 Below (http://54below.com/) in New York, where she is director of programming.

I talk with Jeffrey Carter, chair of the music department (http://www.webster.edu/fine-arts/departments/music/) at Webster University (http://www.webster.edu/), and resident music director at New Line Theatre (http://www.newlinetheatre.com/), about music directing in the theatre, vocal care and training, and the whole process of bringing a musical theatre score to life, from auditions through the run.

I talk with Steve Woolf, artistic director of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (http://www.repstl.org/), about the duties of an artistic director of a nonprofit regional theatre, including programming the season, hiring artistic staff, and so much more.

I talk with William Finn, Tony Award winning composer and lyricist of The Marvin Trilogy, Romance in Hard Times, Elegies: A Song Cycle, A New Brain, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Miss Sunshine, and other shows. We talk about his work, his teaching, and his artistic influences.

I talk with Judy Newmark, theatre critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the entire process of reviewing theatre, from deciding which shows to review, to getting the review online and in the paper.

I talk with Denny Reagan, president and CEO of The Muny, the largest and oldest outdoor musical theatre in the country, about his job, his long tenure there, and the Muny itself. For more information about the Muny, visit their website, at http://muny.org/