The fantastic blogger Wendi Aarons who keeps my personal blogosphere a rockin’ with laughs, sent me a YouTube video that another incredibly great blogger, Ann Imig, who is from Wisconsin, sent her.  (My sister and her family are moving to WI so I immediately feel like we’re all kin.) 
 
The whole thing was kinda like “The Telephone Hour” from Bye Bye Birdie minus [...]

 
 
Here’s some insight from a group of terrific moms featured on the awesome website Momversation.com.  Watch them share their thoughts on how to encourage our kids to find their passion, an important topic here at StageMama.com.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
 We should want to expose our kids to each and every opportunity and then sit back [...]

Have you been to Broadway.com lately?

If you haven’t, you’ve certainly been missing out on my favorite webisode series in all of theatreland – Side By Side By Susan Blackwell.  She is everything that is wacky and wonderful about theatre-folk.   The star of the beloved [Title of Show], Blackwell interviews Broadway celebs including Gavin Creel, Jonathan Groff, [...]

Here is a fantastic video produced by The Broadway League to share with your kids today.  In it, The Broadway League’s Kids Advisory Board shows theatergoing kids how to go green with the help of tips from the Broadway Green Alliance.

Awww… not only does this video make my heart warm, it reminds me to stop throwing out Eliza’s [...]

 
I’ve been looking forward to this HBO documentary for months now.   Debuting on HBO tonight, Sunday January 31st at 7:00pm EST, plan your day and get the kids in front of the TV with you to share what I am certain will be a beautiful experience for the whole family. 
More on the documentary, visit HBO’s website. [...]

 
Fresh off of Tuesday’s American Idol where we witnessed a less than stellar showing of StageMamas nationwide (oy, that mother who jumped into the camera’s frame and screamed, “WE’RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD!!!” with such fierceness, I gasped), I thought I’d remind us all of some other examples of poor — albeit entertaining– behavior of StageMamas and StagePapas of [...]

Though it is set to shutter its Broadway run on Sunday, the cast and musicians of the wonderful (and surprisingly moving) revival of Finian’s Rainbow recently hit Avatar Studios in Manhattan to record the cast album.  It will be a must buy come February 2, 2010 because Cheyenne Jackson and Kate Baldwin sing their adorable cabooses off.
Take [...]

Here’s a great segment from the PBS series “In The Life” profiling Broadway Impact, the Broadway community’s response to Proposition 8.  Broadway Impact is dedicated — passionately – to supporting the passage of marriage equality in New York state and beyond. 
 
Help make it happen by 1) watching this You Tube clip (below) and, 2) click here for ideas on how [...]

 
I took a break this past week to recharge and am in the jingle bell spirit now!  Before we head into holiday-related fare on Stage-mama.com, here’s a video on YouTube that I’ve been watching so often, I’m dreaming about it now.  
The fabulous Leslie Kritzer (from Livingston, NJ — yes! Another Jersey Girl!) headed to Washington [...]

I am fully prepared to announce now, in writing,  forever “on the record” that my favorite female singer in contemporary theatre is Carolee Carmello.  No contest.  

Carolee Carmello celebrating her portrait at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant in New York City

 
One of my fondest memories of Carolee happened back in January of 2001.  I sat at a [...]