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The
Broadsider The Mac-Haydn Theatre online newspaper. Read all about it! News and notes about what Mac-Haydn people are doing, where and when they are performing, designing, directing, and creating shows ... Special items about Mac-Haydn projects and programs ... A little gossip and a little chat - a little Mac-Haydn Theatre talk about this and that ... If you have any news to add, please send it to machaydn@taconic.net and we will pass it on The Broadsider editor. This page was updated on April 28, 2008.
MARY ELIZABETH MILTON (Zelda -Singin’ In The Rain, Zaneeta - The Music Man) was one of many in the background during shooting on the upcoming film Confessions of a Shopaholic (February 2009) when the director, who must have a great eye for talent, pulled her out for the speaking role of a secretary at ‘Successful Saving Magazine’ - complete with lines in the opening shot and her name in the credits. “Very exciting things keep happening,” says Mary. She is also heading for the Dutch Apple Theatre for Footloose for part of her summer and again in the fall.
WHITNEY LEE (Stage Manager - White Christmas, Ching Ho - Thoroughly Modern Millie) is featured in HONOR, a new off-Broadway musical based on As You Like It, transplanted to feudal Japan.
Another Mac-Haydn alumni has hit Broadway!!! Rider Stanton (King & I, Nuncrackers, Gypsy, and more), is on the Great White Way in the just opened revival of Gypsy with Patti LuPone. He's one of the newsboys/farm boys. What got him the role? The producer seeing that he did it at Mac-Haydn!
Seen at the recent auditions in NYC: John Saunders, Kelly Shook, Rob Richardson, Jim Middleton, Renée Brna, Mary Elizabeth Milton, Matt Dengler, Colin Pritchard, Rachael Rhodes-Devey, Tara Young, Emily Franklin, Austin Riley Green, and Thom Caska. Yes, some will be returning to our stage -- stand by for updates on that as we finalize casting. All have been busy with shows and school, and shared a bit of nostalgia for Chatham.
Mac-Haydn performers from throughout the years get together in Arizona! The girls are the leading ladies in the international tour of Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano. From left, Emily Thompson (2007 -- Ado Annie, Oklahoma!, and Lina Lamont, Singin' in the Rain); Karla Shook (2007 -- Laurey, Oklahoma!; Millie, Thoroughly Modern Millie; Marian, The Music Man; 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 ... well, you get the idea!); and Darcie Bender (2000 -- Guenevere, Camelot; 2001 -- George M). A day off in Arizona gave them a chance to see other Mac-Haydn alumni. From left, Jason Paul (2006, 2005), and Michael Hildebrandt (2004) in Jeckyl & Hyde.
Is that an alien actor? Nope, it's THOM CASKA, who has just been cast in a reading of a new musical -- "Far Out" -- at the York Theatre in NYC. It's a rock musical spoof of those good old 1950's sci-fi movies, Thom says.
Director DOUG HODGE (110 In The Shade, White Christmas, etc.) is currently working on a production of The Gondoliers at NYU. He also has started teaching theatre courses at the school -- we’ll be watching for his students for future season’s casting! Costume Designer extraordinaire JIMM HALLIDAY is taking to the high seas, sailing to Barcelona, Spain as he designs two cruise ship shows. He’s taking CLAIRE JOHANSON, one of our smiling box office faces, as an assistant. MARY ELIZABETH MILTON (Velma-Singin’ In The Rain, Zaneeta-The Music Man) is off to the sunny south as well, to become one of the Andrew’s Sisters; then she’ll be indispensable helping with MHT NY auditions.
JIM KIDD (Jud -- Oklahoma!) has been cast as Caleb Thorpe in the revival of The Spitfire Grill for the McGlohon Theatre in downtown Charlotte. The show won "Best Production" in the 2006 AACT Theatre-Fest and is being brought back by popular demand. Jim is the only new cast member in the production.
Costume Intern JILLIAN TULLY gets a turn on stage at City Theatre Company in Wilmington, DE, playing Sheila Franklin in Hair. She just finished a being Wardrobe Supervisor at Prospect Theatre Company in Manhattan.
ROB RICHARDSON (Starbuck -- 110 In The Rain, Sid -- The Pajama Game) is reprising a Mac-Haydn role as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 at the Olney Theatre in Maryland. It’s his third production of this favorite show. Still waiting for word on A Tale of Two Cities being Broadway bound. www.olneytheatre.org
ERICA WILPON (Snooky-110 In The Shade) is in Janesville, Wisconsin to perform at the Armory Dinner Theatre in All Shook Up (March 13 - April 27), understudying the lead Natalie. For more information visit their website: http://www.janesvillearmory.com/home.htm.
REBECCA HERRON (1994, 1995, Mrs. Mullin -- Carousel) is performing in the Washington DC area, most recently in The Hovering, a new play with Odyssey Productions for the Capital Fringe Fest. She is currently playing Essie Miller in Ah, Wilderness! with American Century Theater in Arlington, VA. Also wrapped her first big role, Liz, the Matchmaker, in a feature film in the spring, The Matchmaker's Guide To Controlling The Elements which should hit festival. In addition, she is filming another small independent film as a nurse named Dolores.
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