I’ve been spending the last few months with Ira Gershwin, and I must say, I have completely enjoyed his company.
Greg MacKellan, the co-artistic director of San Francisco company 42nd Street Moon approached me last year and asked me to contribute a narration script for what is becoming an annual Moon tradition: a salon evening paying [...]
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Ira Gershwin…on several occasions
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Jan 10 - 3 Comments
Broadway by the Bay’s musical man
Archived in the category: Broadway by the Bay, Cy Coleman, David Yazbeck, Gershwin, Jim Gardia, Manoel Felciano, Rodgers and Hammerstein, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 01 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
As someone who has loved musicals since his formative years, Jim Gardia is certainly in the right business. And to think, he could have ended up as a swim coach.
In college, Gardia, who was a competitive swimmer, was seriously considering a career as a swim coach.
“But theater pulled me harder,” he says.
For six years he [...]
Review: `Girl Crazy’
Archived in the category: 42nd Street Moon, Cami Thompson, Dyan McBride, Ethel Merman, Gershwin, musicals, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 03 Nov 08 - 0 Comments
Meghann Reynolds and Jeff Horst croon “Embraceable You” in 42nd Street Moon’s revival of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Girl Crazy at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. Photos by David Allen
42nd Street Moon revives loveable, embraceable `Girl’««« ½
There’s nothing quite like a Gershwin revival to brighten the musical scene.
Ten years ago, 42nd [...]
New seasons: TheatreFIRST, Broadway by the Bay
Archived in the category: Broadway by the Bay, Cy Coleman, Gershwin, Harold Pinter, Jason Graae, L. Peter Callender, Rodgers and Hammerstein, TheatreFirst, local theater, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 22 Oct 08 - 0 Comments
TheaterFIRST, under the new artistic direction of Dylan Russell, has announced its 15th anniversary season, which will run from January to June 2009 and will include a staged reading series and a Harold Pinter revival.
The season opens with a staged reading series from mid-January to mid-February. Plays and location still to be announced, but the [...]
