Benjamin Scheuer and Melissa Li and Kit Yan
Lyricist Benjamin Scheuer and co-librettists Melissa Li and Kit Yan have been selected as the winners of the 31st annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre. While the award celebrates the artists career work overall, all three winners recently created works that center the transgender community and experience.
The 2021 prizes will be presented March 16 during a free virtual ceremony at 10 AM on
NewDramatists.org. The event will feature musical performances from this year s recipients; Tony winners and Kleban board members Richard Maltby, Jr. and Maury Yeston will host.
Scheuer, who won Most Promising Musical Theatre Lyricist, created
Conrad Ricamora steps into the spotlight in Signature’s “Simply Sondheim”
The LGBTQ actor talks about his time on How to Get Away with Murder and why he d like to see more roles for both gay and Asian-American actors.
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Audiences craving the all-too-distant thrill of live musical theater should lose their minds over Signature’s new production of
Simply Sondheim. Filmed over three days on the company’s Max main stage, without an audience, the theatrical concert transcends the bounds of its digital presentation to capture the genuine feeling of a live event.
Blazing through a spirited revue of over 30 Sondheim songs, the 16-piece orchestra and 12 talented singers performing director-choreographer Matthew Gardiner’s production transmit such excitement, perhaps because they too have been missing that live thrill. Certainly, one of the show’s stars, Conrad Ricamora, of Broadway’s
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Concluding its fall run with a devastating plot turn, All Rise completed its recovery from a misstep early in the season and majorly raised the stakes. The closing moments of the midseason finale, The Perils of the Plea,” wouldn’t have been such an effective gut punch if the preceding episodes hadn’t been as strong as they were. In its debut season, the show was comfort food with its assortment of charismatic, sharp characters fighting the good fight for love, friendship, justice, and all that. All Rise still brings plenty of comfort to the table, but it’s also serving up a strong sense of empathy. Perhaps the behind-the-scenes trouble the show had earlier this year produced this new willingness to tap into the real world heartbreaks it’s so deftly navigating this season.