During a recent performance of Broadway’s new musical Catch Me If You Can, audiences were treated to a special guest appearance, although it’s likely that nobody watching the show had any idea who was stepping into a role for a one-night stint.
Broadway's Nederlander Producing Company of America, Inc. hired me to create its first online media entity, Broadway Direct, a mix of theatrical news and show information. Along with the website, Nederlander also had me design an accompanying bi-monthly newsletter, distributed to its 2-million plus email database.
As Nick Adams left the stage following a matinee performance of Broadway’s La Cage aux Folles last year, he headed to his dressing room and discovered a voicemail message from his agent. He looked at one of his co-stars and said that he knew exactly what the message said.
It started with a Colombian production of a Broadway classic. West Side Story, a beloved musical of both stage and screen, being sung entirely in Spanish. For the location, it was an obvious choice, but for New York City, not as much.
The World's Largest Dinosaurs (April 16, 2011-January 2, 2012), a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, goes beyond traditional fossil shows to reveal how dinosaurs actually lived by taking visitors into the amazing anatomy of a uniquely super-sized group of dinosaurs.
I was tasked with designing a website and logo for the first annual Gershwin Awards, a New York City based event celebrating outstanding achievement in musical theater performance by students attending public and private high schools throughout the New York City Metropolitan Area.
The World's Largest Dinosaurs (April 16, 2011-January 2, 2012), a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, goes beyond traditional fossil shows to reveal how dinosaurs actually lived by taking visitors into the amazing anatomy of a uniquely super-sized group of dinosaurs.
Red hair. Green tights. Cap and feather. It's a getup every child could recognize and quickly pick out as belonging to Peter Pan, that mischievous youth that never seems to grow up. He might be an English character, penned by a Scottish writer, but Peter Pan embodies a timeless personality, one that has remained the focus of popular culture for more than a century.
"I can vividly remember Sammy single-handedly going around to gangs in Chicago asking them to keep the peace," Vereen recalled of a time when the two were performing together. "He was a key mover, and I admired that about him."
Should Playbill, or any Broadway publication, be able to move beyond the mantra of "If you build it they will come," and focus its energy on creating an interactive, visually appealing, and interesting to manipulate iPad publication, future theatergoers will have something to look forward to while attending a show. Not everything Broadway-related has to be targeted towards the blue-haired matinee ladies.
