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With tourism seemingly out of mind for most Americans, New York City theaters have been struggling to keep their productions from closing. Broadway shows are playing to a small fraction of the audiences that are normally in attendance. The casts of six musicals have already taken 25 percent pay cuts—the actors in the popular musical comedy “Kiss Me Kate” have agreed to a 50 percent cut—in the hopes that audiences will return and save the show from closing...
...place in the “Britain Choirboy of the Year” competition. At 19, his boy band hit #7 in the U.K. charts with “Man Not a Boy.” And now, after three years of West End (that’s British Broadway to you) performance under his belt, Tom Lowe has finally crossed the Atlantic to join the Class...
...lead in the Freshman Theater Program show, “The Rover,” a seat playing clarinet in the wind ensemble and a spot on the Harvard Veritones. And what’s in store for the future of this British boy wonder? He hopes to do Broadway after graduation, and possibly some “telly” acting. And if nothing else, he can always take out that recorder, warm up those nostrils, and play for cash in Harvard Square...
Transient Days will be performed in Minneapolis in November and an off-Broadway production will go up at the Director’s Theatre in June...
When asked about his influences, Lowdermilk names Jason Robert Brown and his off-Broadway musical Songs for a New World. Other influences have been William Finn, David Shire, Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim and bad country music. “I truly believe in musical theatre and the shows that are coming out now allow us to see its future,” he says of his favorite medium. “And I’m in love with...