PARADE - the workshop

Here are some great photos taken by Mark Ramont of the workshop of Parade at Ford's Theatre that I did a few weeks ago. Enjoy!

TGIF

Hey all - WHEW! Busy day - had a callback for a straight play at a very cool and hip downtown theatre this morning, and it went very well. Then went and recorded 6 songs for a composer friend, then went to the gym, then went to do Many Moons at Falls Church Art Space. Very long day.

To the left is a picture of Sean with his dogs, Lady and Albert, along with Buddha. He has been back in the area of late, as Phantom is now in Baltimore. It has been nice as always to see him and spend time with him, and I miss him so very much.

Buddha misses the dogs, and that much is certain. Albert and he go WAY back and Lady is pretty much his new girl.

In other news, this is the last weekend of Many Moons at Falls Church Art Space. We have 2 shows tomorrow - at 2pm and 7:30pm, and 2 shows on Sunday - at 2pm and 4pm. Please come and see this adorable show. It only runs about 35 minutes, and tickets are a mere $10.

Visit www.creativecauldron.org for details.

After this show closes, the next time you will be able to catch me onstage is in a DC Fringe Festival show entitle Claudio World. The premise is a video game musical that mirrors Super Mario Brothers, and I am the Mario, Sam Ludwig is the Luigi, and Lauren Williams is the Princess. This is a multimedia piece, and the script is hysterical. More details will follow as they become available to me. Also forthcoming are photos from the Parade reading and rehearsals.

I hope you all have a great weekend, and I will chat with you soon!

xoxo

SGS

Parade

I had the pleasure of spending my past week participating in a workshop of Jason Robert Brown's Parade at Ford's Theatre. Ford's is looking to produce the show, and wanted to rehearse a group of actors on the piece for a week and present it to some of the theatre's donors to get feedback on the possibility of producing the piece, which had a limited run on Broadway and a brief tour afterwards. This piece has always been a favorite of mine, and the chance to work on this amazing score was impossible to resist. The cast was made up of what we like to call most of the "Usual Suspects" i.e. - Eleasha Gamble, Tom Simpson, Chris Bloch, Amy McWilliams, Lauren Williams, Bligh Voth, Chris Sizemore, among others.

Leo was portrayed by Steve Rosen, and Lucille was played by Jill Paice - both of who are NYC based.

I had the pleasure of playing Britt Craig, the news reporter who starts the sensationalism of the trial via his columns in The Atlanta Georgian.

Parade is based on the true story of the murder of Mary Phagan, and the subsequent trial and lynching of Leo Frank in Atlanta, circa 1915.

The story is very grim material for a musical, some might argue, but I think that it is an important story to be told, and the musical does it so very well. It is truly an American Opera.

The reading went great, and time will tell if the piece gets the go ahead or not, but there seems to be a great deal of excitement around it.

xoxo

sgs