ETSU to perform Broadway classics as tribute to Sondheim

ETSU to perform Broadway classics as tribute to Sondheim

ETSU students will take the stage Sunday with a performance to honor one of Broadway’s most famous composers: Stephen Sondheim. More at Tri-Cities Scene.

Beth Leavel unpacks her ‘The Ladies Who Lunch’ performance in ‘Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends’ and reveals the ‘most difficult’ song to memorize

“I’m real late to the Sondheim game, sadly,” Beth Leavel tells Gold Derby as she thinks back to her first memory of a Stephen Sondheim song or show. Part of her tardiness stemmed from her family, who “didn’t really do musicals.” She had seen West Side Story and Gypsy, shows on which the legendary composer wrote the lyrics, but she didn’t know who specifically created those pieces. “The first time I really was cognitive of the fact that this body…

VARIETY 'ACTORS ON ACTORS': Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal on GYPSY and OTHELLO - Tom + Lorenzo

In a new conversation for VARIETY’s first-ever Broadway “Actors on Actors” issue, Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal discuss playing iconic villains in

Audra McDonald & Jake Gyllenhaal Bond Over Stephen Sondheim, Vocal Warmups, & More

In the second of Variety's Broadway edition of Actors on Actors, Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal sat down to discuss their respective turns this season as Mama Rose in Gypsy and Iago in Shakespeare's Othello. Watch the conversation!