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Archive for August, 2008

Rob Lindley, actor playing Stuart Gellman:
“My father is a clarinet” says Noah about my character Stuart Gellman, based on Tony Kushner’s own father, Bill, who was a concert clarinetist. Stuart is often in a practice room playing the clarinet and brings his clarinet with him to the family Channukah party. The [...]

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Doug Peck
August 23, 2008

Hello from Doug Peck, music director of Caroline, or Change.  This is my seventh show at Court (James Joyce’s The Dead revival, Guys and Dolls, The Importance of Being Earnest, Man of La Mancha, Raisin, Carousel), and it gets better and richer and more fulfilling every time.  Collaborating with Charlie and the [...]

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Charlie Newell, addressing the cast of Caroline, Or Change at First Rehearsal:
‘Welcome, everyone!  The start of the season is always a peculiarly exciting time, and this year is my 15th at Court Theatre.  It feels to me like it really took us 15 years to get to this room with this cast doing this show.  [...]

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Tuesday, August 12th, 11:40am
I’m late, as usual.
The parents of the child actors performing in Caroline, Or Change are having a meeting right now, and they’ve all got questions about their kids’ contracts—questions to which I, ostensibly, have answers.
I make it to the rehearsal hall about ten minutes into the meeting—parking was bad, but not as [...]

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