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Pulling the Audience Onboard
Opening of The Music Man by the Washington Park Playhouse in Albany, NY This is the first post in my Building Blocks of a Musical series,...
Rebecca Burnham
Jan 87 min read
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What Next? The Dream.
Photo by Javardh on Unsplash I have a lot of things on my heart and spinning through my mind today. On Saturday, our 10-day run of...
Rebecca Burnham
Nov 21, 20243 min read
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What's More Important: The Actor or the Show?
Photo by Michael van Gorkum on Unsplash One of the things I find most challenging about building beloved community through musical...
Rebecca Burnham
Nov 14, 20245 min read
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Mightiest Instrument in My Director's Toolkit
Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash I’ve mentioned a couple times in this newsletter that I am co-directing a community production of...
Rebecca Burnham
Nov 14, 20244 min read
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When My Chava Became a Witch
Concept art by Sage Booher for The Princess and the Witch I’m writing this today because last week, we blocked the Chava scene in Fiddler...
Rebecca Burnham
Oct 10, 20247 min read
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Outside the Spotlight
When you are using musical theatre to build Beloved Community, every aspect of putting on a show becomes an opportunity. Even an issue as...
Rebecca Burnham
Oct 3, 20244 min read
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Tevye's Tug-of-War with Tradition
Fiddler on the Roof -- National Tour Photo I’m such a big fan of happy endings, that you might wonder why Fiddler makes my list, despite...
Rebecca Burnham
Sep 12, 20246 min read
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