The calendar doesn’t lie, but I still can’t comprehend that it was twenty years ago that figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked and injured by someone associated with her arch rival Tonya Harding. Twenty years? That means that most of my voice students at Carthage weren’t even born yet - or were still in diapers
For a long time now, I have been nervously awaiting the Racine Theater Guild’s spring production of the massive, monumental Les Miserables .... a huge undertaking for any community theater and easily the most ambitious project for the RTG since I began directing musicals there. Les Mis loomed in the distance the way Mt. Everest
This weekend was when Carthage finally got to unveil its production of Puccini’s delightful one-act comedy Gianni Schicchi and there’s no question but that this experience has been among the most gratifying of my entire career - at least in part because the opera itself means a lot to me, personally. My very first experience
The last week has been exceptionally fun and interesting for me, as I’ve presided over the final rehearsals of Carthage’s Gianni Schicchi, begun hearing auditions for the Racine Theater Guild’s spring production of Les Miserables, sat in the audience for wonderful performances of Chicago, Avenue Q, and Almost, Maine, conducted the senior choir at Holy
