‘Twas the night before Christmas, 1943, and the crew at radio station WOV in Newark, New Jersey are assembled to broadcast a special treat for their war-time audience. Station manager Clifton Feddington (Shawn Rogers) has hired the well-known actor William St. Claire (Tim Blough) to join the Feddington Players as Scrooge for an on-air presentation […]
A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Dan Murphy, David Wohl, Faye Greenberg, Jackson Wells, Jade Tate, Jared Mack, Jeffrey Childs, Joe Theissen, Malia Tippets, musical comedy, on-air radio show, Sarah Maines, Shawn Rogers, Tim Blough, Walton Jones, William Shindler, World War II eraPicture this: Eldest son graduates a good college in Padua, Italy, comes home briefly, and then decides to forsake his fortune and hit the road to find his own “extraordinary”. Sounds like a slacker, right? Only this eldest son is Pippin (Paul Harestad), son of King Charles, or Charlemagne (Dan Murphy), leader of the Christian […]
Bob Fosse, Broadway musical, Charlemagne, Dan Murphy, Erik Montague, Erin Shannon, Jessica Tidd, Joan Freed, Kelly Sina, King Charles, Middle Ages, musical, musical comedy, Paul Angelo, Paul Harestad, Pippin, rock music, Roger O. Hirson, Samie Pfeifer, Stephanie Heuston, Stephen Schwartz, Theo Curl, Valery SaulBroadway Rose Theatre Company kicked off its 27th season with Murder for Two, a riotously manic vaudevillian farce featuring Barney Stein and David Saffert. In this Agatha Christie-esque musical comedy, Saffert plays the 10 suspects who were guests at the famous novelist Arthur Whitney’s birthday party when Arthur was shot dead. Arthur, it appears, had the dirt […]
Barney Stein, Broadway Rose New Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Dan Murphy, David Saffert, Jeffrey Childs, Joe Kinosian, Kellen Blair, Liberace, Liberace tribute artist, Murder for Two, murder mystery, musical comedy, Season of Irresitible Fun, vaudvillian farceThe music’s the thing in Your Holiday Hit Parade, Broadway Rose Theatre’s holiday show that opened Friday November 24 at its New Theatre, 12850 SW Grant Avenue, Tigard. When two teachers from the Midwest become stranded on an isolated, snowy road, they stumble upon the old Aurora’s Borealis Hotel, where they decide to get out of […]
American Christmas songs, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Dan Murphy, Debbie Hunter, Grace Allen, holiday musical, holiday songs revue, Jeffrey Childs, Laura McCulloch, Malia Tippets, Rick Lewis, Robert Head, Ryan Reilly, Your Holiday Hit ParadeWhen Gypsy Rose Lee made her stage debut as a stripper, it was not due to years of planning. She had spent all of her childhood and young adulthood up to that point as a minor player on the vaudeville circuit. Her name was Rose Louise Hovick, she was called Louise, and she performed at […]
Annie Kaiser, Arthur Laurents, Broadway musicals, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Dan Murphy, Gypsy, Jule Styne, Kelly Sina Kailey Rhodes, Sharon Maroney, Stephen Sondheim