Musical biographies have become all the rage on screen and onstage. In the past year, jukebox musicals chronicling the lives of Cher, Donna Summer, and… Read More »Keeping it Real: Sound Design for “Ain’t Too Proud” on Broadway
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The latest teen musical sensation to hit Broadway, Be More Chill, found acclaim during its initial 2015 run at the Two River Theater in Red… Read More »“Be More Chill” on Broadway
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The stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 film, Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, had a strong buzz before it arrived… Read More »‘Network’ on Broadway
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New Broadway Production Takes a Bold Audio Approach The year’s runaway Broadway success, Pretty Woman — The Musical, has been packing in audiences since officially… Read More »“Pretty Woman – The Musical”
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The 2018 revival of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic musical, Carousel, recently completed its run at the 1,417-seat Imperial Theatre in New York City. Its sound… Read More »Broadway’s Carousel Takes an Immersive Twist
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Broadway’s Pop Rockin’ Musical You might think a jukebox musical featuring the songs of the Go-Go’s (and a Belinda Carlisle tune) would tell the tale… Read More »Head Over Heels
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Sound Design for Summer: The Donna Summer Musical Broadway’s latest jukebox musical hit, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, undertakes the ambitious task of telling the… Read More »The Sounds of Summer
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The Music of Jimmy Buffett Comes to Broadway Some musicals tackle weighty social issues and seek to inspire change. Some want to raise your spirits… Read More »Mixing Margaritaville
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The Band’s Visit is a refreshingly different type of Broadway musical. While it has some impressive moving scenery courtesy of Scott Pask and moves at a good pace, it eschews flashy song and dance numbers to deliver a heartfelt story about people seeking intimate connections, even fleeting ones, that will excite their ordinary lives. Directed by David Cromer, the show at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre stars Tony Shalhoub as the leader of an eight-piece Egyptian police band that makes an unexpected pit stop in a remote Israeli village after getting the wrong directions to the site of their next concert.
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Every new production of Hamlet must lay to rest the ghosts of its predecessors. With its familiar story, often quoted (and mostly misquoted) lines and contemporary spin offs, it’s among the most accessible of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The director’s skill lies in extracting the story of revenge from the Iambic pentameter and metaphysical musings so unfamiliar to the modern ear.
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Tom Gibbons’ Disruptive Sound Design for Broadway’s 1984
Some plays apply sound design to enhance the performances onstage, to add sonic color to the world being depicted, and perhaps to take us into an alternate state of mind. Tom Gibbon’s jackhammer sound design for 1984 on Broadway does all of those things while also making audiences feel discombobulated and keep them attuned to the grim near future world being depicted. Co-directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, this mind-bending stage adaptation of the famous George Orwell novel has resonated with people in these tumultuous times, perhaps so much so that often times people walk out of the show during its climactic torture and reprogramming scenes.
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Sound Designer Matt Otto and A1 Curt Miller Talk NYMF
A welcome home for adventurous and off-the-wall productions, the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) challenges even the heartiest sound designers and live engineers. The month-long off-Broadway extravaganza celebrated its 14th year this past July with a solid assortment of musicals, workshops and classes within two main venues: Theatre Row and Playwright Horizons, both located on West 42nd Street.
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