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Why are you excited about Carrie? - Ed Sparan Okay, now we want...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9sr6LTfqGQI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Ed Sparan &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/17552754895</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/17552754895</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:57:24 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>A behind the scenes look at the musical of Carrie, including ...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Taq7c0n0PkM?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A behind the scenes look at the musical of &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, including  interviews with composer &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#MICHAEL" target="_blank"&gt;Michael Gore&lt;/a&gt;, lyricist &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#DEAN" target="_blank"&gt;Dean Pitchford&lt;/a&gt;, book  writer &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#LAWRENCE" target="_blank"&gt;Lawrence D. Cohen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#MARIN" target="_blank"&gt;Marin Mazzie&lt;/a&gt; (Margaret White) and &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#MOLLY" target="_blank"&gt;Molly Ranson&lt;/a&gt; (Carrie White).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/17328741255</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/17328741255</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:52:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Why are you excited about Carrie? - Avenue Q’s Lavinia...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6CTaR9UMuOg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - &lt;a href="http://www.avenueq.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avenue Q&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;’s Lavinia Thistletwat and Rod&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16931182000</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16931182000</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:51:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>

Some great Carrie coverage in the New York Times!“This winter MCC Theater, a respected Off...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytyeiExmF1qatikc.gif"/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some great &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/index.html"&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt; coverage in the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“This winter &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/" target="_self"&gt;MCC Theater&lt;/a&gt;, a respected Off Broadway company, is trying to reclaim &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; from contempt. The creators have rewritten the story into a modern-day tale of bullying, with mean girls mocking notions of ‘equality.’ If the 1988 production is regarded as an apogee of camp, this Off Broadway revival is toned down -way down- and earnest in its portrayals of emotional extremes…” (&lt;a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/theater/carrie-a-huge-stage-flop-is-reinvented-by-mcc-theater.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;ref=theater" target="_blank"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;) -&lt;em&gt;New York Times &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16980669467</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16980669467</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:35:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>BroadwayWorld’s fantastic coverage of last night’s...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="240" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://video.broadwayworld.com/vidupload/np/mediaplayer57.swf" id="myAlternativeContent" style="visibility: visible;"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="file=http://broadwayworld.com/videos/336754.xml&amp;displayheight=300&amp;displaywidth=500&amp;height=300&amp;width=500&amp;adwidth=500&amp;adheight=300&amp;backcolor=0x696969&amp;frontcolor=0xFFFFFF&amp;lightcolor=0x00FF00&amp;overstretch=fit&amp;showicons=true&amp;linkfromdisplay=true&amp;linktarget=_blank&amp;showstop=true&amp;showdigits=total&amp;shuffle=false&amp;repeat=list" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;BroadwayWorld&lt;/em&gt;’s fantastic coverage of last night’s first preview of &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16881551081</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16881551081</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:52:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
Why are you excited about Carrie? - Nicole Wright Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TCO7htnHc9U?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Nicole Wright &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16865359611</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16865359611</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:02:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>THREE QUESTIONS WITH… David Zinn  Scenic designer of MCC Theater’s upcoming Carrie.1....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxra0fp6Jj1qatikc.jpg"/&gt;THREE QUESTIONS WITH… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html"&gt;David Zinn &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; Scenic designer of MCC Theater’s upcoming &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1. Are there any guiding principles to the “look” of this new Carrie?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The space itself always brings both a lot of freedom and a lot of limitations, whatever show you’re doing—that’s only amplified by the size of this space, so i would say that we really started with the empty theater and how to make it feel like an appropriate venue for the scale of our production and what kind of emotional world we wanted it to evoke. I had the luxury of sitting through a bunch of readings and workshops of it— seeing where Stafford’s impulses about revisiting CARRIE were taking him, and i think a lot of inspiration came from the simplicity of those spaces as well. How to set the audiences imagination free in the simplest way possible.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;2. What’s it like to work in a space like the Lortel, vs, a Broadway theater, and how might that apply to the show?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;There’s just a lot of things you have to consider, things that you have to build into your set, that maybe you dont in a bigger space—like, where are all 14 cast members going to change? if you want to take a even a chair, or a table offstage, where is it going to go? Is there even room for a prop table? or a stage manager? We’ve had to create a backstage as well as what the audience sees. But that’s new york, right? we’re always trying to figure out how to utilize small spaces as best we can. This is like having a dinner party for 24 in a studio apartment. It’s a fun challenge, but it’s a challenge.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Is there a particular designer from whose work you’ve drawn inspiration?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;There are designers i admire, certainly, but again the space is really the inspiration here—I know the lortel pretty well—it’s a great theater that’s had an extraordinary history but it’s playing space is relatively neutral, which is awesome for a lot of things but for CARRIE i wanted to make a space which feels like it wearing it’s history on it’s sleeve—where you can really feel the sense that people have been there, and where there can be darkness—all the better to tell a ghost story in, i think. I looked at a lot of pictures of abandoned spaces to try and bring some of their essence into it, but i really started from zero with a new architecture that hopefully feels like it’s been there forever.  It’s been a really wonderful challenge to try and create a space which feels natural to the existing theater, but carries an emotional weight that the Lortel’s stage maybe doesnt necessarily on its own.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;For more information about MCC Theater’s upcoming production of &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/" target="_blank"&gt;mcctheater.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15783575825</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15783575825</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:57:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
Why are you excited about Carrie? - Colin Thomas Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gemWSgicw7I?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Colin Thomas &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16761614693</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16761614693</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:47:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Posted by MCC Theater Executive Director Blake West-Great  shots from Sunday night’s Sitzprobe....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyb77gwmR11qatikc.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyb79j3KSd1qatikc.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyb79vsPXt1qatikc.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Posted by MCC Theater Executive Director &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/about/staff.html#west" target="_blank"&gt;Blake West&lt;/a&gt;-&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Great  shots from Sunday night’s Sitzprobe. What’s a  Sitzprobe? We typically  don’t produce musicals at MCC, so Sitzprobe isn’t a usual part  of our  vocabulary. But now we know: it’s German, and essentially  means “seated  exploration.” It’s when the orchestra and cast work through  the score  together for the first time. But mostly, it’s pretty damn magical. On Sunday, the company ran each song, most of them twice. &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#DOUG" target="_blank"&gt;Doug Besterman&lt;/a&gt;’s  orchestrations really give dimension and color to characters and moments in  surprising ways, and music director &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#MARYMITCHELL" target="_blank"&gt;Mary Mitchell Campbell&lt;/a&gt; and her team of  musicians really turned it out. From the start of our  work on &lt;em&gt;Carrie &lt;/em&gt;I’ve been  in love (truly, madly, deeply) with the  show’s opening number, “In,” in all its  iterations, but hearing it at the Sitzprobe was a revelation, a burst of unpredictable  energy and nuance. I  think it’s going to knock people out at the top of the  show. Yesterday, the  orchestra moved into the Lortel, to join the cast and crew. The elements all come together today. Less than a week to go  before  audiences join us!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16409238078</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16409238078</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:41:46 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>3 questions with Stafford Arima, director of MCC Theater’s upcoming musical, Carrie.
1. Are...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 questions with &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html#STAFFORD" target="_blank"&gt;Stafford Arima&lt;/a&gt;, director of MCC Theater’s upcoming musical,&lt;em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx8lanv5hK1qatikc.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Are you a fan of the movie version of &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Absolutely! The film introduced the world to a gifted actress named Sissy Spacek, and created one of the most complex mother/daughter relationships on screen. DePalma’s direction along with Larry’s screenplay created a motion picture that, to this day, raises the hair on the back of my neck.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Do you like working with big casts?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I adore working with casts large or small. The extraordinary cast of &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; has been nothing but sublime. This particular group has been open to exploring the material in unique ways through improvisation, storytelling, theater games, and improvisation, which ignites rehearsals in very exciting ways.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. What do you hope people will take away from the show?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;That we should watch very closely how we treat our fellow man. One of our protagonists, Sue Snell, asks the question, “What does it cost to be kind?” – a somewhat elementary question, but one that deserves consideration. In our schools, homes, and theaters, we must continue to teach our youth (and sometimes ourselves) about acceptance and magnanimity.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Follow Stafford on Twitter: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/fordstaff" target="_blank"&gt;@fordstaff&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For more information about MCC Theater’s upcoming production of &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org" target="_blank"&gt;mcctheater.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15249851583</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15249851583</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:58:38 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
Why are you excited about Carrie? - Sam Doblick Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BaOhXePVxjY?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Sam Doblick &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
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Bowling with Carrie:
MCC Theater’s Young Patrons  and...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqxffTP3X1qaaxe7o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqxffTP3X1qaaxe7o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqxffTP3X1qaaxe7o3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bowling with &lt;em&gt;Carrie:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/supportus/patronprogram.html#understudy"&gt;MCC Theater’s Young Patrons &lt;/a&gt; and members of the cast of &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; had a special night out last Monday. What a fun way to be a part of &lt;em&gt;Carrie &lt;/em&gt; - before previews have even started. And no one used bumpers! Here are a couple of quotes from &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; cast members…
&lt;p&gt;“Bowling night was such an excitingly fun way to get to know the folks really making Carrie possible. We had a ball, figuratively and literally” &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/TheEllyNoble" target="_blank"&gt;Elly Noble&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“As actors, most of the times that we get to meet the patrons are after shows and we are exhausted and covered in sweat.  But it was nice to just relax and get to know them as people. They really love theater and they help us make the show happen.” &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/fmichaelhaynie" target="_blank"&gt;F Michael Haynie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;For  more information or to join MCC’s Young Patron Program, please call  Glenn Grieves at (212) 727-7722 ext.  233, email at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ggrieves@mcctheater.org"&gt; ggrieves@mcctheater.org &lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/supportus/patronprogram.html#understudy"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for more info!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15779234091</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15779234091</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:13:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>THREE QUESTIONS WITH…Matt Williams Choreographer of MCC Theater’s upcoming Carrie.1....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THREE QUESTIONS WITH…&lt;img height="249" src="http://www.princetondance.com/images/Matt.jpg" width="376"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/whoswho.html"&gt;Matt Williams&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Choreographer of MCC Theater’s upcoming &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1. What is your process for developing a movement vocabulary for &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? Or, any show?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;My choreographic process for &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt; started with text from the script and the novel.  Certain words, sentences, or phrases would motivate a gesture.  That gesture would in turn motivate a motif.  Then that motif became a movement phrase.  Creating movement in pre-production rehearsals was also key.  MCC gave us space, time, and workshop labs to throw things up and see what worked.  That was a wonderful luxury.  We also enlisted the help of dancer-friends who donated their bodies and their time to us.  Thanks dancers!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;2. What is your favorite musical and why?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;My favorite stage musical is likely &lt;em&gt;Sweeney Todd&lt;/em&gt;.  Why?  If you’ve seen a good production of it, you know why.  If you haven’t seen it, watch the video with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury.  I also have to mention my favorite movie musical, &lt;em&gt;American In Paris&lt;/em&gt;, because it is why I started dancing.  There may never be another Gene Kelly before the world ends.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Do you have a favorite choreographer? A show that was particularly inspirational to you?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I really love Michael Kidd.  His choreography is contemporary and relevant even today.  His quirky combination of various dance forms made the most interesting and dynamic musical ballets.  Watch his Crapshooter ballet from the &lt;em&gt;Guys and Dolls&lt;/em&gt; film. He won five Tonys and he studied chemical engineering.  Wish I could have met him.  Bonus question:  What was Michael Kidd’s real name?  A) Alphonso D’Abruzzo  B) Milton Greenwald C) Bernard Schwartz&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;For more information about MCC Theater’s upcoming production of &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;, please go to &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/" target="_blank"&gt;mcctheater.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15783595384</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/15783595384</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:31:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
Why are you excited about Carrie? - Erica Lustig Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UA4eRtacWWI?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Erica Lustig &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16074917348</link><guid>http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/post/16074917348</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:49:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
Why are you excited about Carrie? - Gary Alder Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h1VUsOFkKA0?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Gary Alder &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
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Why are you excited about Carrie? - Drew Gasparini Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QQLI-ovH4vs?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Drew Gasparini &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
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Why are you excited about Carrie? - Jay Armstrong Johnson...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/A3hYBjkn3y8?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#13;
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Why are you excited about Carrie? - Jonathan Jones Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JVcJhphqlII?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Jonathan Jones &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
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Why are you excited about Carrie? - Michael Patrick Walker...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BCBvbAZMt1M?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why are &lt;em&gt;you &lt;/em&gt;excited about &lt;em&gt;Carrie&lt;/em&gt;? - Michael Patrick Walker &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Okay, now we want to know why &lt;em&gt;you’re&lt;/em&gt; excited…&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Enter to win &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheater.org/shows/11-12_season/carrie/contest.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.mcctheaterblog.org/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to watch more submissions.&lt;/p&gt;
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Why are you excited about Carrie? - Vince Oddo Okay, now we...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gW5g3shTe1g?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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