Want to know more about Take Flight? Here are a few more videos from our “Live at the Library” series shot during a discussion with the writers, Richard Maltby Jr. (Lyrics), David Shire (Music), and John Weidman (Book). We’ve broken up the hour long discussion into a few segments, and we’ll be posting a few more clips over the next few days.
Take Flight at the Library: The Nature of Collaboration
Take Flight at the Library: The Three Stories
Take Flight at the Library: The 2007 London Production
Take Flight at the Library: On Director Sam Buntrock
Posted by Lauren Medici, Marketing Intern at McCarter Theatre
Want to know more about Take Flight? Here are some great videos from our “Live at the Library” series shot during a discussion with the writers, Richard Maltby Jr. (Lyrics), David Shire (Music), and John Weidman (Book). We’ve broken up the hour long discussion into a few segments that we’ll be posting over the next few days.
Posted by Lauren Medici, Marketing Intern at McCarter Theatre.
This is the fourth, and final, in our Take Flight In Rehearsal video series.
In this video, shot during rehearsals for Take Flight, Jenn Colella (Amelia Earhart), Michael Cumpsty (George Putnam), Claybourne Elder (Charles Lindbergh), Stanton Nash (Wilbur Wright), Benjamin Schrader (Orville Wright) and director Sam Buntrock discuss the process of creating a new musical.
Posted by Lauren Medici, Marketing Intern at McCarter Theatre.
This is the third in our Take Flight In Rehearsal video series.
In this video, shot during rehearsals for Take Flight, Jenn Colella (Amelia Earhart), Michael Cumpsty (George Putnam), and director Sam Buntrock discuss Amelia Earhart’s role in history and the production.
Posted by Lauren Medici, Marketing Intern at McCarter Theatre.
This is the second in our Take Flight In Rehearsal video series.
In this video, shot during rehearsals for Take Flight, Claybourne Elder, who plays Charles Lindbergh, discusses Lindbergh’s role in history and his role in the production.
Posted by Lauren Medici, Marketing Intern at McCarter Theatre.
This is the first in our Take Flight In Rehearsal video series. We’ll be posting more in the next few days.
In this video, shot during rehearsals for Take Flight, Stanton Nash (Wilbur Wright), Benjamin Schrader (Orville Wright), and director Sam Buntrock discuss The Wright Brothers’ role in history and in the production.
Posted by Lauren Medici, Marketing Intern at McCarter Theatre.
If you’ve ever seen any of McCarter’s marketing materials, you’ve undoubtedly noticed the incisive and revelatory photographs that somehow capture the heart of our productions. Those photos—which we feature on our website, our brochures, our mailings, and throughout the theater—are almost all taken by one man, photographer T. Charles Erickson. Charlie has been the theater’s primary photographer for the last 20 seasons, and by this point even our administrative hallways are peppered with hundreds of his photos.
American Theatre Wing’s “In the Wings” program recently featured Charlie in the short video above—it’s a great-behind-the-scenes-glimpse of this often invisible part of the theatrical ecology. I’m always fascinated by production photographs because our art form is inherently ephemeral. Over time, the memories of a production become hazy, the details fade. The photographs, however, live on—permanently capturing a moment, a glance, a theatrical effect. I wonder that gradually they don’t begin to replace the actual memory of the show, or rather to bolster up the memory of the moment captured, while the other moments slip away. What does that mean for the moments that we’ve chosen to capture, or the images we’ve allowed to be lost? How will our directors, actors, lighting designers, and productions be remembered but by the work of Charlie and his compatriots? If you’ve never thought about this stuff before, I urge you to watch this video. And please feel free to post a comment below to share your thoughts—do you notice production photographs, and do they change your behavior?
Rebecca Brooksher and Veanne Cox in Twelfth Night. Photo by T.Charles Erickson
Evan Parke and Ben Vereen in Fetch Clay, Make Man. Photo by T.Charles Erickson
In this video, Amy Morton (director), Francis Guinan, Tracy Letts (author of August: Osage County and Superior Donuts) and Patrick Andrews discuss the character of Donny in American Buffalo.American Buffalo will be performed at McCarter Theatre from March 9-28.
Posted by Adam Immerwahr, Producing Associate at McCarter Theatre.
