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Classics 101 Premiere

Classics 101 Premiere

Classics 101, my drama set on a college campus, just closed its first run. As you may recall from previous newsletters, I produced and directed the play myself, with generous support from the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County and a lot of help from assistant director Andrew Mitakides, who also played the heavy in the show. This was my first time as a director, and it was nothing like what I expected. One thing I learned is that I don’t have to think of everything myself. I was blessed with a 13-member cast full of smart and capable actors who had terrific ideas and often saw things in this story that I never saw. It was truly a collaborative process, and I was pleased to share the results with an audience.

The Last Days of Cleopatra

In 1961, after a calamitous start in London, the cast and crew of the film Cleopatra move to Cinecittà Studios in Rome to re-start the film. The dazzling Elizabeth Taylor has stayed on in the role of Cleopatra, but she has a new co-star: Richard Burton, a famed Shakespearean actor, who has joined the cast as Mark Antony. With the largest budget in Hollywood’s history and an acclaimed new director, the production seems to be back on track. But the reality is that this esteemed crew is in the process of making one of the biggest film turkeys of all time—while Taylor and Burton strike up a world-famous adulterous affair that ends Taylor’s marriage and drenches the production in scandal. As Taylor learns hard lessons, though, other troupers meet sunnier fates, finding friendship or true love on the set of this colassal disaster.

Here are a few songs from the show.

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