Monthly Archives: March 2018
RESIDENCY SET LIST 3/12: BLACK WOMEN WILL SAVE THE WORLD
3/18/18Four years ago, I went to Potomac, Maryland, to conduct a concert version of Songs for a New World. Among the 87 instrumentalists and 35 singers involved was a woman named Nova Y. Payton, who sang the most electrifying version of “The Flagmaker” that I had ever heard. I made a mental note that if there were ever a reason to do that song in New York, I wanted Nova there to do it. These are tough times in America. If you pay any attention to politics, and you should, you are aware that the country is adrift, splintered, flailingRead More »
RESIDENCY SET LIST 2/24: SUTTON IMPACT
3/2/18Sutton Foster is a star. Broadway musical performers generally drive me crazy because I find they fall into one of two camps – either they’re insanely proficient, skilled beyond imagining, I-went-to-Carnegie-Mellon kind of dazzling where they can do anything you ask them and more, but they’re strangely cold, like they’re so busy pushing their talent out into the world that they can’t take anything in; or the other version is they walk on stage and somehow you know them, you can’t take your eyes off them, they’re drawing from some deep well of truth that you’ve never seen before, butRead More »