Monthly Archives: July 2013
“L5Y” RELEASE DATE & “BRIDGES” SITZPROBE
7/31/13Two really fun bits of news today. First, we now have announced an official release date for the new Off-Broadway cast recording of The Last Five Years starring Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe – the CD will be available on September 24 in both stores that still sell CDs, as well as on iTunes and other digital shops! But if you want to preorder it, you can do that now by clicking right here and you’ll most likely get your copy before everyone else! It’s a beautiful recording of what was certainly one of the proudest moments of my career,Read More »
“BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” CROSSES OVER TO THE MUSICAL STAGE (Boston Globe, 7/27/13)
7/29/13Click here to read Laura Collins-Hughes’s article. “THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” CROSSES OVER TO THE MUSICAL STAGE By Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe correspondent July 27, 2013 NEW YORK — Robert James Waller is all of three words into his novel “The Bridges of Madison County” when he mentions music. “There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them,” he writes, launching into the slender tale of a torrid love affair between Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife, and Robert Kincaid, the mythic-heroic photographer who rolls upRead More »
FILMING “THE LAST FIVE YEARS”
7/18/13Yesterday, principal photography wrapped on the film version of The Last Five Years, adapted and directed by Richard LaGravenese (the writer of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Fisher King), and starring the luminous Anna Kendrick and the magnificent Jeremy Jordan. (Sadly, I wasn’t around for the end of the shoot, but it’s for a very good reason: I’m up in Williamstown MA, rehearsing the world premiere production of The Bridges of Madison County, for which you can get tickets and info by clicking here.) I’ll be talking about this movie a lot in the next year,Read More »