http://khessman.wordpress.com Broadway & Local Theater News! Tue, 13 May 2008 06:47:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The semester has winded down and my blog posts required for my class have been ceased. However, this does NOT mean that this blog will die, no! I am happy to say that I will be continuing this blog because it truly has opened my eyes to more about the ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/time-to-get-a-little-philosophical/ Let me tell you! The Long Wharf Theatre has had some exciting seasons over the past few years...I've gotten to experience several plays at this theatre, whether performing with the Quinnipiac Theatre for Community group on Stage II, or watching plays on either Stages I or II. This season has had a ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/whats-coming-up-at-the-long-wharf-theatre/ Well some, a definite yes... But others.... Oh my. This week on one of my favorite shows, "American Idol" , contestants were asked to sing from the Andrew Lloyd Webber songbook. At first I was very excited to hear this news. I LOVE Andrew Lloyd Webber's music. He's written some  of the greatest ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/american-idols-take-on-broadway-songsbut-do-they-succeed/ This past Sunday I had the opportunity to experience a newly written play at Quinnipiac. Through the cast members' revealing of their own personal stories to the cast members interviewing others about their lives...Monologues and scenes were written and put together to make up the play "WhiteWashed: The Rough Draft." ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/review-whitewashed/ Tonight I thought I'd write about a person whom I've known for a very long time..and whom I've been meaning to speak about on this blog for a VERY long time. He has grown into an established musical theatre composer in NYC today and I am so very proud of ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/spotlight-justin-paul/ OK. This is starting to bother me. When "High School Musical" came out during my freshman year in college, I was SO excited because as you all can clearly tell, I am a theater person. I was wondering how Disney would take this subject on. Amazingly enough, they pulled off the topics ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/disney-are-you-going-to-keep-going-at-it-until-theres-college-musical/ That, my friends, is your Harry Potter. Harry Potter, HALF NAKED, I may add. =) Excited? I know I certainly am. You may be thinking...why would she put such a gorgeous picture of Daniel Radcliffe on her blog? Well, I'll tell you. I heard last year about this play called "Equus" that was playing ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/ladies-take-a-look-here/ Yes, what you are reading is correct. A show made from entirely new material, which had a very successful Off-Broadway run...is coming to Broadway this July. What is it? " [ title of show ] " ! I heard about this play through my brother. He had seen it awhile back and fell in ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/newsflash-new-musical-coming-to-broadway-this-summer/ This post I thought I would write about something that I can truly say opened my eyes and brought myself into perspective about several aspects of life. This weekend I participated in an event called Relay for Life. If you don't know what this is...it's an overnight event that several groups ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/fight-back/ As I've said before, musicals have been turned into movies several times...And while some turn out amazing...some don't. Tonight, however, I'm going to show you an article on EW.com I found that has the Top 25 best movie-musicals of all time. Cool, right? Well, I definitely agree with some on the list...and some, ... http://khessman.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/top-25-movie-musicals/