The Mac-Haydn Theatre online newspaper ... read all about it!
Here you'll find ...
... news and notes about what Mac-Haydn people are doing, where they are performing, designing, creating, and directing shows.
... special items about Mac-Haydn projects and programs.
... a little gossip, 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@fairpoint.net and we'll pass it along to The Broadsider editor.
May 16, 2010
We are saddened to note that Stephen Bolte (Luther Billis: South Pacific, Lutz: The Student Prince, Gus, the Theatre Cat: Cats) has passed away. He was our friend for years, and cheered people on stage in his many, many delightful character roles, as well as off stage with his zany antics. Our condolences to his family and friends.
http://www.shortenandryan.com/index.php?P=30&FILENUMBER=330&ObituaryId=330
May 10, 2010
Kathy Halenda very excited to be in Istanbul, where she will be playing Miss Lynch in Grease, through June 8.
May 9, 2010
Colin Pritchard (Bobby Child in Crazy For You, Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray, Cosmo in Singin’ In The Rain) iscurrently featured as Knuckles Morton in Sugar at Westchester Broadway Theatre, Elmsford, NY (http://www.broadwaytheatre.com/). Long time Mac-Haydn Lighting Designer Andrew Gmoser creating the effects for that show, as WBT resident Lighting Designer
April 18, 2010
Paige Turco (1986: Val, A Chorus Line, Jennifer Owen, Babes In Arms) is starring in the new NBC (channel 13) series Secrets of the Mountain. She’s playing single mom Dana James, taking the kids to an inherited cabin she’s selling for the weekend, where they uncover a mystery someone doesn’t want them to solve.
April 7, 2010
A big round of congratulation to Jimm Halliday and Santo Loquasto for winning the 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production, for their work on the 2009 revival of Ragtime at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center.http://www.helenhayes.org/sub/nr.cfm
March 8, 2010
Give Jamie Grayson (2008: Greg-A Chorus Line, Mr. Pinky, Principal-Hairspray, plus many past seasons) a round of applause for being named by New York Magazine ‘Best Of New York Kids 2010’: We pick Jamie Grayson for Best Baby Gear Guru. http://nymag.com/bestofny/kids/2010/baby-gear/
March 5, 2010
Rob Richardson (Starbuck - 110 In the Shade; Sid – Pajama Game 2008; and many more) joins some impressive company as part of the March 27 fundraiser Some Enchanted Evening: A Lovely Night with Rodgers & Hammerstein! A release in Playbill lists Tony nominee Howard McGillin (Phantom of the Opera), Ron Bohmer (Ragtime), and Kathy Voytko (Oklahoma!), as well as Sandra Joseph (Phantom of the Opera), Gay Willis (Show Boat), Ciaran Sheehan (Phantom of the Opera), Michele Ragusa (Young Frankenstein) and Rob Richardson (A Tale of Two Cities) as being featured in the benefit for Morristown, NJ's Bickford Theatre Guild.
February 27, 2010
Jason Whitfield (2009: George in High Society, Pharoah in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Vittorio Vidal in Sweet Charity) iswinning raves for his singing and acting as Ko-Ko in The Mikado at Cohoes Music Hall, through Feb. 28. Other MHT Alumni in the cast: Ryan LaTour (2005: Jean –Michel in La Cage Aux Folles), and Austin Riley Green (2007: Curly in Oklahoma, Bob in White Christmas, Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie).
February 24, 2010
Overheard on NPR's Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcast: an interview with MHT alumnus Mike Gamborone (1992 and 1993; Arpad in She Loves Me, among others). He's been with the Met for eight years, full time as a staff performer for four years. His roles have included Young Harlequin in Adriadne aux Naxos. He's having a great time, even though some stage appearances are as a "non-singing spear carrier." Work since his MHT days include a national tour of Grease and cruise ship entertaining.
Also found out that Donald Panella (Samuel in Pirates of Penzance, Aggie in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas & more) is also at the Metropolitan Opera. He and Mike Gomborone are enjoying MHT chat as fellow alumni.
February 17, 2010
Jimm Halliday, our Costume Designer Extraordinaire, whose designs make so many of you say ‘"those are beautiful!," has been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Costume Design for the Kennedy Center production of RAGTIME, which played in Washington, DC in spring 2009. The awards are presented on April 5 at the Warner Theatre in Washington. Jimm has also designed, and kept up, the costumes seen in the NETworks tour of Annie, playing its final performance March 14 at Proctors in Schenectady after almost 11 years of performances all across the country. Many MHT alumni have appeared in the cast over the years; the show will take a much needed rest before returning for its 40th year Anniversary Production. Annie is not his only NETworks show, he’s designed a host of the major touring company shows.
Mac-Haydn staff spent three days at the Straw Hat Auditions in NYC, fiding talent for the coming season. Lynne Haydn, Monica M. Wemitt, Karla and Kelly Shook, Rob Richardson and Barbara Peduzzi saw some 600 (!) people sing and dance, including some of your favorites from past seasons. Nothing is finalized yet, but we’ll be keeping you posted on who you’ll be seeing on stage for MHT’s 42nd summer!
More auditions coming up, in Chatham on February 28 and March 28, and New York March 11 through 15. See details on the website.
February 9, 2010
The just closed 42nd Street at noted Westchester Broadway Dinner Theatre was a Mac-Haydn reunion, with Andrew Chartier (Don Lockwood, Singin' In the Rain), Colin Pritchard (Bobby, Crazy For You;Willard, Hairspray; Cosmo, Singin' In The Rain), Andrew Eckert (Alonzo, Cats), Jennifer Cameron (2005 company), Sean Quinn (Smudge, Forever Plaid; Skimbleshanks, Cats) and from out of our past, David Titus (1980's Showboat, South Pacific, Desert Song, Pal Joey and more) as Abner Dillon, in the cast.
