Are we ready for the pandemic musical? Musicals, unlike straight plays, almost always inherently demand that we sit inside the internal experience of a singing character, as song elongates and amplifies each emotion it depicts. Not everyone will be ready to stare into the maw of our memories from four years ago. And if individual mileage for audiences reliving shared horror may vary, the more pressing question may be whether the pandemic musical is ready for us. To judge from Dave Malloy’s Three Houses, by far the most unflinching depiction of life in lockdown on a New York stage yet, the answer is: not quite.
It’s not that Malloy, the multi-hyphenate creator of works like Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 and the a cappella choral-theatrical Octet, is afraid to plunge rawly into the depths of isolation. Rather, Three Houses, in wading through its excesses of ideas and often free-associative images,...
It’s not that Malloy, the multi-hyphenate creator of works like Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 and the a cappella choral-theatrical Octet, is afraid to plunge rawly into the depths of isolation. Rather, Three Houses, in wading through its excesses of ideas and often free-associative images,...
- 5/21/2024
- by Dan Rubins
- Slant Magazine
Today, Margo Seibert and collaborator Alan Steven Hewitt have released their stunning new EP Influence Searcher. The EP features two newsongs, both recorded and mastered remotely during the Covid-19 lockdowns, and showcases impressive and sincere artistry coupled with timely and poignant messages. To get the inside scoop on the EP, we chatted with Seibert about thethrilling EPand how she'll be donating all itsproceeds toThe Actor's Fund for Covid Relief and The Loveland Foundation.
- 9/4/2020
- by David Clarke
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway chanteuse Margo Seibert, star of Rocky and In Transit, may be one of the most underappreciated talents treading the boards of the Great White Way. Across the years, I've never seen her in something where I didn't find her to be captivating and stellar. And, those same superlatives can be easily applied to her truly enchanting forthcoming debut solo album, 77Th Street.
- 10/19/2018
- by David Clarke
- BroadwayWorld.com
Producer Janet B. Rosen announced today that Broadway's first a cappella musical In Transit will star David Abeles Once, 2016 'America's Got Talent' contestant Moya Angela Ghost The Musical, 2012 American Beatbox Vice Champion Steven 'HeaveN' Cantor Broadway Debut, Justin Guarini Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 'American Idol', Telly Leung Allegiance, Erin Mackey Amazing Grace, Gerianne Perez Broadway Debut, Margo Seibert Rocky, Chesney Snow Broadway Debut, James Snyder IfThen, Mariand Torres Broadway Debut, Nicholas Ward On the Town, Adam Bashian Broadway Debut, Laurel Harris Beautiful and Aurelia Williams Broadway Debut.
- 8/30/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The eight new plays in development at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference will featureBroadway actress Ali Stroker Spring Awakening the Deaf West Broadway revival, The Glee Project, Drama Desk Award-nominee Margo Seibert Rocky on Broadway, television's Jeremy Bobb The Knick, House of Cards, Hostages, Luke Macfarlane Brothers amp Sisters, Mercy Street, and Melanie Nicholls King The Wire.
- 7/6/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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