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Theatre Producer Michael Rubinoff

Michael Rubinoff is the Associate Dean of Sheridan College’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

He’s also the creator and a producer of the Broadway hit musical “Come From Away.” If you have ever wondered how an idea becomes a Broadway show you’ll love this episode.

We start out by discussing Michael’s time at the University of Western Ontario where he studied law. Then move into the process behind developing his idea for a musical into a Broadway hit.

Show Notes
Be sure to follow Michael on Twitter
Come From Away official website
The Canadian Music Theatre Project website at Sheridan College
Brantwood, Music & Lyrics by Bram Gielen, Anika Johnson & Britta Johnson
Broadway Success Has a Price: $2,500 NY Times

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Ma-Anne Dionisio, actor

Ma-Anne Dionisio is best known for originating the role of Kim in the Canadian production of “Miss Saigon” and subsequently performing around the world. She currently plays Diana Goodman in the Musical Stage Company’s production of “Next to Normal” in Toronto.

J. Kelly Nestruck wrote this in the Globe and Mail about Dionisio’s performance: “Dionisio performs with so much intensity and emotion that you often feel as if you’re inside Diana’s restless skin, being crammed with mood-stabilizing medications or zapped with brain-jolting electricity….[Dionisio] brings an aching fragility to the role”

In our podcast Ma-Anne shares how she went from being a 17-year-old nerd to an international musical theatre sensation.

Ma-Anne reminds us that actors who portray mental illness on stage need self-care practices off stage to help them cope with the stress.

She is also very candid about her experience as a single mother working in theatre.

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Writer, actor: Bob Martin

Bob Martin interview, performers podcast

For over three decades, Tony Award-winner Bob Martin has worked as an actor and writer. Early in his career, Martin was directing for Second City in Toronto. He’s also written for TV, with the Chicago Tribune calling “Slings and Arrows” “one of the most loving satires to have ever graced television.” He ‘s best known for writing and starring in the hilarious “The Drowsy Chaperone,” for which Martin won the 2006 Tony Award for “Best Book of a Musical.”

His most recent Broadway show, “The Prom,” received 7 Tony Award nominations.
In this episode we talk about:

How the revision process is crucial to a great script.
Working with Broadway’s best comic actors on “The Prom.

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Adapting “The Princess Bride” and “Night at the Museum” for Broadway.
The feelings that Martin experiences when he watches a performance of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

SHOW NOTES
Bob Martin’s website
Bob Martin on Twitter
The Prom website
The Prom on Instagram

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