Playbill: Wicked's Kassebaum Cast in Starry Little Night Music Concert

I'm dying of repressed squee's here. Finally, the possibility of hearing Ms K sing The Millers Son on this side of the continent (she'd previously played Petra in the Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre production). Oh! Oh! Oh! :DDDDDDDD

Wicked's Kassebaum Cast in Starry Little Night Music Concert

By Andrew Gans
November 7, 2008

Kendra Kassebaum, who is currently playing the curly locked Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, has been cast in the Roundabout Theatre Company's gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music, which will be presented Jan. 12, 2009, at the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

Kassebaum, the actress' spokesperson told Playbill.com, will play the maid Petra, who sings the tongue-twisting "The Miller's Son." Kassebaum has also been seen on Broadway in Rent and Assassins, and Off-Broadway in The Receptionist.

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Idina Menzel

I'm back from Ms Menzel's concert at the Music Hall. There is audio, although I suspect that there should be more than one version of the evening available, having met absinthelisa and madgeorge and friends before going into the building. The bass and the band were quite heavy this time, so the audio will reflect that. Even though cameras were supposed to be checked (i.e., no cameras inside), there was at least one person with an SLR taking photos (no flash), and any number of cellphone photo takers.

I liked the evening, although it's been trumped by the Kassebaum/A Little Night Music news for the moment. I need to sleep, and try to figure out how to stop my internal machinations that want to be in NYC on January 12.

First cuts

From last night's concert:

Idina Menzel

02 Don't Let Me Down
6.43MB | mp3 (256kbps)
h++p://www.sendspace.com/file/cgwcgl

Idina Menzel at the Danforth Music Hall 2008.11.07

So. While I dither about ALNM/January 12, I did do something constructive this morning - and that would be tracking this audio. I also have the Chris Mann segment (30 minutes of opening act), hence the time that Idina started was really 9PM. A two hour show, yeah :)

Let me know if you're snagging - just because. :)

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