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From The Pit Podcast

By: Christopher King
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  • Christopher King talks musical theatre, from overtures to exit music and everything in between. He and his guests discuss the theatre, they discuss the music. Join us for a view "From the Pit".
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  • Director Choreographer - Valerie Easton

    Director Choreographer - Valerie Easton
    Apr 4 2024
    Every musical needs a steady hand at the wheel, a leader that can shape and guide the production through rehearsals and tech and make opening night a success. The director of the show must wear many hats. Sometimes calm, sometimes fierce, sometimes both, but ultimately they must gather the people onboard the ship, and be responsible for the journey and destination. But there are also directors that add choreography to their plates and have to successfully do the work of 2 people in a production. Today on March 27th, World Theatre Day, we talk about this process with one of Vancouver's most well known director/choreographers Valerie Easton. We will talk about the challenges and rewards of directing and choreographing musical theatre, and also talk about her next show "Anything Goes" with Royal City Musical Theatre, where she must literally get the cast onboard the ship and successfully to opening night April 8th. So join us because there's no cure like travel from the pit.
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    48 mins
  • 11 O'Clock Numbers - Peter Jorgensen

    11 O'Clock Numbers - Peter Jorgensen
    Mar 27 2024
    During the 40s and 50s, the so-called Golden Age of musical theatre, it was common to hear songs from Broadway shows on the airwaves. These songs were the "pop music" of the day. Audiences would know a Rodgers and Hammerstein tune before they even stepped foot in a theatre, since they were often played on the radio or sung at parties. This, however, is not the case today. The songs of musical theatre, while still popular among many, have not become quite as mainstream as today’s pop music. But there are still many, iconic songs over the years that have made it on to the pop charts and into the popular consciousness. Songs like (Till there was You from the Music Man, made famous by the Beatles) and My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music, and One Night In Bangkok. Certain composers, like Jason Robert Brown and his band, get play outside of the genre, but not many. Is it the genre? Is it the writers? Will it ever be the case again that we follow musical theatre songs the same way we listen to pop music? Today on "From the Pit,” we talk about how iconic, pop cross over songs from musical theatre. We speak with Peter Jorgensen, a director, actor, teacher and producer of musical theatre in Vancouver, about these questions and many more. So let's see what's popular today… From the Pit.
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    45 mins
  • Small Spaces - Studio 58

    Small Spaces - Studio 58
    Feb 27 2024
    It seems like in every city there are production companies popping up everywhere that want to produce shows that speak to them. But not every company has the budget, or space to produce a broadway size show. In New York the shows that really bring in the audiences are big budgets in big theatres with big casts and big orchestras. In Vancouver there aren't many companies that have large budgets or spaces to produce such big shows. So there is a movement to rethink or reimagine large broadway shows for the small stage and in some cases just a small room. In Vancouver Studio 58 at Langara College is a well know acting program and they have been successfully staging musicals in their quite famous black box basement theatre for many years. 42nd Street is the next musical opening this February in what is their 51st season of shows. On today's episode we talk to the Associate Director David Hudgins and Artistic Director Kathyrn Shaw about producing musicals in this unique space. Visit fromthepitpodcast.com to view photos of the space!
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    44 mins
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