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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melissa Errico found herself drawn to songs about isolation and the hope of renewal.
The Tony Award nominee ( Amour ), singer and writer recorded and released Alec Wilder’s “Blackberry Winter” and Michel Legrand’s “You Must Believe in Spring” during lockdown.
Now, as we appear to be turning a corner on COVID, that hope she clung to is here, and she intends to have it on full display during Sondheim by the Shore, part of Holmdel Theatre Company s Broadway Outside the Barn series this summer. Now, I’m looking to bust out a little. I may sing some of the more upbeat, driven, crazy Sondheim songs – Everybody Says Don’t! and Getting Married Today of course, and some soaring songs from West Side Story and Into The Woods, Errico wrote in an email to the Asbury Park Press.
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One silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increased reach that many theaters have found through streaming. Herding Cats is taking it one step further combining streaming and live theater for a performance with actors who span two continents.
Jassa Ahluwalia ( Unforgotten, Peaky Blinders ) and Sophie Melville ( Pops, Iphigenia in Splott ) will perform the play by Lucinda Coxonfor an in-person audience on Soho Theatre’s London stage, while Greg Germann ( Assassins, Grey s Anatomy ) will join them via video, performing live from the United States. Herding Cats is a collaboration between OHenry Productions and the streaming service Stellar, in association with Soho Theatre.
How a gala breathed new life, hope into George Street Playhouse, theater No One Else for Me from George Street Playhouse s premiere of Last Days of Summer
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And he paused. He stood there and as he was starting to sing, he just stopped and said, I need a minute, George Street artistic director David Saint said. And he got very emotional and he said, I didn t realize how much it was going to affect me.
It s no wonder.
Coming more than 14 months after the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered performance venues along with the rest of the world, the moment of return, of singing in a theater, on stage, with lights, sound and a baby grand piano topped with a giant bouquet of flowers has a reverence to it.
Fully Committed is a comedy, a laugh-a-minute farce that leaves audiences roaring.
And while George Street Playhouse s production has laughter in spades, what he really connected with, Maulik Pancholy said, is its heart.
Sam, the main character (there are 40, all played by Pancholy, more about that in a minute), is stuck. He wants to see his family for the holidays. He feels his career is not taking off. And that takes him on a journey over the course of the show. This past year, I think a lot of us have taken pause and thought about the things that are really important to us, Pancholy said. That heart behind the show felt particularly meaningful at this time.
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