Vineyard Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Irish Repertory Theatre, in association with Jeff Berger, has announced that John Cullum: An Accidental Star is now available on demand for an additional two weeks through Thursday, May 6. The final live watch party event will take place on April 17 at 2:00 pm EDT.
An Accidental Star premiered April 8.
Conceived by John Cullum and Jeff Berger, the 80-minute intimate evening of stories and songs spanning Cullum s illustrious career is told and sung by the 91-year-old two-time Tony Award winner. Directed and filmed earlier this year by Lonny Price (110 in the Shade with Cullum) and Matt Cowart (associate director, 110 in the Shade), An Accidental Star is written by David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys with Cullum), with music supervision by Georgia Stitt and music direction by Julie McBride.
Vineyard Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, and Irish Repertory Theatre in association with Jeff Berger present John Cullum: An Accidental Star, which premiered on April 8 and will be available for streaming on demand through April 22. Streaming tickets are available now at https://www.vineyardtheatre.org/an-accidental-star/.
Conceived by John Cullum and Jeff Berger, the 80-minute intimate evening of stories and songs spanning Cullum s illustrious career is told and sung by the 91-year-old two-time Tony Award winner. Directed and filmed earlier this year by Lonny Price (110 in the Shade with Cullum) and Matt Cowart (associate director, 110 in the Shade), An Accidental Star features a book by David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys with Cullum), music supervision by Georgia Stitt and music direction by Julie McBride.
Theater Review: ‘John Cullum: An Accidental Star’: A Short Glance at a Long, Happy Career
For someone who has been acting in plays since he “was knee-high to a grasshopper,” the 91 years-young John Cullum has lost none of his love for performing. That is evident in “John Cullum: An Accidental Star.”
Conceived by Cullum and Jeff Berger and written by David Thompson, the show is a vehicle for the Tennessee-born Cullum to look back at some of what he calls the lucky accidents which befell him in his career. Offering these recollections with a slightly self-deprecating delivery, these tales both gently envelop and engage the viewer.
At 91, John Cullum is ready to try something new
The actor John Cullum in the musical The Scottsboro Boys, in New York, Oct. 7, 2020. The TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasnt been stopped. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Laura Collins-Hughes
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- On a sunshiny August afternoon in 2019, actor John Cullum stood singing and storytelling beside an upright piano in a rehearsal space off Columbus Circle, inside a building that no longer exists. Hopscotching through reminiscences of his six-decade stage career, tweaking the script as he went along, he was readying for a cabaret show in September that would never come to be.
John Cullum (Photo by Carol Rosegg)
Published April 06. 2021 12:23PM | Updated April 06. 2021 12:24PM Get the weekly rundown Email Submit
Goodspeed Musicals, Vineyard Theatre, and Irish Repertory Theatre, in association with Jeff Berger, will present John Cullum: An Accidental Star, which will be available for streaming on demand through April 22.
Two live watch party events will take place at 7 p.m. April 8 and 2 p.m. April 17.
Conceived by Cullum and Berger, the 80-minute evening of stories and songs spanning Cullum’s illustrious career is told and sung by the 91-year-old two-time Tony Award winner. Directed and filmed earlier this year by Lonny Price and Matt Cowart, An Accidental Star features a book by David Thompson, music supervision by Georgia Stitt and music direction by Julie McBride.