Annie | Annie
May.15.2013
Charles Strouse is one of the great living composers and lyricists… And, you probably never heard of him! A favorite son of New York, the Dix Hills Performing Arts Center is committed to celebrating his life with the return of an off-Broadway retrospective. Originally presented in 2011, ...
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Aug.19.2012
Recently I had the honor of introducing Doriot Anthony Dwyer at the Rochester Music Hall of Fame Awards. For 38 years Doriot played principal flute for the Boston Symphony. At the age of 90, she's still got a great sense of humor and she's still got chops, enough to perform a piece by Darius...
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Nov.19.2010
No, I’m not going to start numbering the people in my books, but I am hereby abandoning my obsessive need to give each character a brand new, never before used, name. A couple of years ago, I asked my assistant to go through my books (seventeen at the time) and list all the first names and...
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Nov.24.2008
When I was nine years old I called Debbie Reynolds "Mom." I was in a show with Harve Presnell, an actor my generation would probably most recognize as Mr. Springbrook from "Old School" or as Wade Gustafson from "Fargo."
Long before those films he was my Daddy Warbucks...
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Nov.08.2008
"Well she didn't lick it off a brick!"
Apparently this is what one of my white-trashier relatives proclaimed during my Broadway debut. I was 9 years old. She was using her outdoor voice. No one had any idea what she meant.
Turns out, I'm of minstrel descent. My great-grandfather was in...
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Aug.13.2008
I've been reading The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea. Tea writes about her working class upbringing in Massachusetts and there's a whole chapter devoted to her love for the musical Annie. If I knew Michelle back then, no doubt we would've been friends that exchanged friendship pins and Strawberry...
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