42nd Street Moon: Classic Broadway in Concert

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42nd Street Moon

42nd Street Moon Blogis a GREAT musical theater blog, with a Blogway Baby-style fanatical devotion to Broadway. It's published by a theater company focused on "Classic Broadway in Concert", based in San Francisco. I wish I'd known about these guys when I lived in Palo Alto!


Here's a bit from theirWeb site on History and Purpose:
42nd Street Moon, based in San Francisco, is one of only four theatre groups in the nation whose mission is to present concert performances of classic Broadway musicals of the 1920s through the 1970s. Since 1993, the organization has mounted five productions every year, and serves a loyal constituency who participate with both regular audience attendance and a solid base of contributed income.

42nd Street Moon contributes to the preservation and evolution of American musical theatre by presenting these classic Broadway shows as "staged concert performances." In staged concerts, actors hold scripts in-hand throughout the performance. There are no sets or elaborate costumes. We do not present our work through digitally engineered sound systems. The material itself is the star. This format allows our audience to hear the work with remarkable clarity, and to use their imaginations. We allow our audience to participate in the here and now, the very essence of LIVE theatre.
By Suzy Conn on March 21, 2005 6:16 PM | | Comments (0)


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