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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #1: Director, Tom Wojtunik
I’m tickled to be writing our first post for APAC’s Blood Brothers Blog! Over the next few months you’ll be hearing from various people connected to our production as we work towards our first...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #2: Set Designer, Stephen Dobay
Well, here it is. My first blog post anywhere, ever… I’m thrilled to be returning to APAC to design for my first musical here. I’ve previously designed scenery for A Hard Wall at High Speed and The...
View ArticleBLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #3: Costume Designer, Caitlin Cisek
In some ways my vision is simple. England. Twins. Destiny. Love. Friendship. Family. Nature. Nurture. But really what it’s about is telling the story. Costumes are one of the theater’s tools. As a...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #4: Production Manager, Annie Jacobs
Today is our first performance of Blood Brothers with a paying audience, our first preview. I came to the theater tonight to complete some finishing touches on the set, to clean up a little masking,...
View ArticleBLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #5: Musical Director Julianne Merrill
When Tom first asked me to Music Direct Blood Brothers, I had never heard of it. As I listened to a few different recordings, I was amazed by the simple, yet expressive and beautiful songs and themes....
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #6: Wardrobe Supervisor Jenny Herdman Lando
No one is more surprised than I am to have been asked, repeatedly, to be the wardrobe supervisor for APAC. (Well, maybe my Mom who is a professional seamstress and knows that I cannot use a sewing...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #7: Actor Rowan Michael Meyer
Never Judge a Basement by Its Color. The night I auditioned for Blood Brothers, the stars could not have been less aligned. I was on the subway… to Queens… for a 9pm audition… in a church basement…...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG # 8 : Audience Member Laura Kellner
I want to see this play 100 times. It devastated me. The beautiful kind like when you were 14 and first realized you were alive. Or wanting to quit your job to live in the Never, Never but realize...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #9: Volunteer Carole Tosiello
It’s just a square, the floor of a gym surrounded on three sides by seats, yet through the magic that is “Blood Brothers”, we are transported to a time and place far from that simple set. In what...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #10: Actress Kayla Wickes
So since Rowan Michael Meyer already wrote a piece that embodies everything I feel about this production of Blood Brothers, I thought I would share something different. I always make playlists for...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #11: Assistant Director Mark Falconer
Tom Wojtunik first told me that he was interested in directing Blood Brothers just about this time last year, when we were working on The Secret Garden together. To be honest, I wasn’t thrilled. My...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #12: Audience Member Jonathan Thompson
I first encountered Blood Brothers twenty years ago as a teenager growing up in a tiny town in Oregon. I saw the Broadway cast of Blood Brothers perform a medley from the show on the Tony Awards and I...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #13: Audience Member Hannah Lewis (Actress, The Secret...
I played Mary in last spring’s APAC performance of The Secret Garden, and I was very excited to come back and see Blood Brothers. I was amazed at how much the space had changed. The first time I saw...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #13: Assistant Stage Manager Jamie Rosler
Thursday night performance of Blood Brothers – an ASM’s point of view Just before 6pm: I arrive in Astoria. Swing by 7-11 for a large coffee (which I rarely drink and therefore fill with sugar,...
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BLOOD BROTHERS BLOG #14: Actress Hannah Lewis (The Secret Garden)
I played Mary in last spring’s APAC performance of The Secret Garden, and I was very excited to come back and see Blood Brothers. I was amazed at how much the space had changed. The first time I saw...
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