Things better left unsaid

Transport Group Lines Up Divas Murney, Blazer, Hoty, Walsh and More to Teach Master Classes

By Kenneth Jones
June 11, 2008

Transport Group, the winner of 2007 Drama Desk and Obie awards, will offer Diva Master Classes, its second series of master classes taught by some of the leading singing actresses in Broadway musicals, starting June 30.

The Diva Master Classes will meet each week for four weeks beginning June 30 and running through July 22.

Actresses scheduled to teach in the course are Judy Blazer (Hello Again, LoveMusik, New York City Opera's Candide); Julie Halston (White Chocolate, Red Scare on Sunset, Gypsy, The Women and Hairspray); Dee Hoty (The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Footloose); Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Saved); Julia Murney (The Wild Party, Wicked, Saved); Michele Pawk (Hollywood Arms, Crazy for You, Cabaret and The Paris Letter), Mary Beth Peil (Sunday in the Park with George, The King and I with Yul Brynner); and Barbara Walsh (Falsettos, Big, Company).

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I just wanna say...

Photo Coverage: Ladies Who Sing Sondheim

Raul. :D

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Well. To kill time this afternoon, I re-watched the Company album cast recording session (from 1970)... and this evening, I see the PBS clips for the Company revival... which look very nice. :)
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Oh Raul. :( Seeing the notice on Playbill and BWW was already painful enough, but now the NYT has devoted a bit of e-space...

Despite Honors, Misery for ‘Company’

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So instead of rejoicing and being all sorts of plotty about the upcoming possibilities on vacations, I simply plugged in the MP3 player and listened to another Sondheim show: Do I Hear a Waltz and was amused at the contradiction between Sondheim's lyrics and Rodger's melodies. :: ahem :: Nevermind that. I've been rambling on and on about Company to rysler that she probably will skip reading the next bit. :)

A quick perusal reveals that the MP3 player has songs from the numerous cast recordings: 1970 Original Broadway Cast, 1995 Roundabout revival, 1996 London revival, 2006 Doyle revival; plus the the live recordings - the Cincinnati presentation of the Doyle Cast (2006) [2006-03-17 recording], and the two recordings from the Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre production (with Hugh Panaro, Kendra Kassebaum, and Shelly Burch) [2006-11-03 and 2006-11-05] and the 2002 Sondheim Celebration at DC's Kennedy Center revival (with John Barrowman, Alice Ripley, and Lynn Redgrave).

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