We've all been to open-mic nights because a friend was performing or we felt some other reason to be there. But there's one open-mic night that I have been to that I can recommend.
Jim Caruso's Cast Party is a...
Imagine being a six-year-old asked to watch an opera. Let’s be honest, how many six-year-olds want to do that? But if your mother is singing in the production you are probably a bit more motivated. And how lucky would...
When I think of one Oscar-winning Best Picture it may perhaps be because of its rather glib assessment of Los Angeles. “I don’t want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is the ability to make...
"David Bowie was a hero of mine, as he would be to anybody who is a little out of the ordinary in the entertainment industry."
"I think, unfortunately, as long as people act our of hatred, Cabaret will always be pertinent."
"I’m at that time of my life when I look at my so-called bucket list, and there are places I want to go. I better travel while I’m able to do it. I won’t put myself through this again.”
"I still owe money on the first film. I did the second because I was worried that someone would make it, and now I’m afraid someone wouldn’t."
After making a name for herself playing Sally Bowles in a French production of Cabaret in 1987, singer-actress Ute Lemper was encouraged to make an album featuring songs from that show and other pop and Broadway tunes. The CD was...
"I’m represented so well by the things I’ve put into the world. It will always drive me crazy that I don’t have a show that is Book of Mormon or Hamilton."
"To really give yourself over to that world is a really big commitment. I read it twice through before we started writing. All the chapters that irritated me at the beginning are now my favorites—those side chapters not involved in the plot.”