#nathaniel stampley

You can now listen to the interview with Nathaniel Stampley (on Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd and more) here:

Nathaniel joins Dannii Cohen to talk Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, The Lion King and Man of La Mancha.

We also discuss his current role in Gypsy as well as the disappearance of the baritone in Musical Theatre.

Playlist:

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd - Signature Theatre featuring Nathaniel Stampley

Pretty Women - Sweeney Todd - Brian Stokes Mitchell and Norm Lewis

He Lives in You - Lion King- Nathaniel Stampley

Dulcinea -Man of La Mancha- Nathaniel Stampley

The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha - Ethan Freeman

Some Enchanted Evening -South Pacific - Brian Stokes Mitchell

Johanna - Sweeney Todd - Nathan Gunn

New musical Paradise Square is set to release an original Broadway cast recording. It will receive a digital release in May and a physical release this summer. The production, directed by  Moisés Kaufman, opened at the Barrymore Theatre on April 3. Exact dates for the album will be announced later.

Within this story of racial harmony undone by a country at war with itself, audiences will meet the denizens of a local saloon called Paradise Square. They include Nelly O'Brien (Kalukango), the indomitable Black woman who owns it; Annie Lewis (Kennedy), her Irish-Catholic sister-in-law and her Black minister husband, Rev. Samuel Jacob Lewis (Stampley); Willie O’Brien (Matt Bogart), Nelly’s Irish husband, who is off fighting for the Union army; Owen Duignan (Shively), a conflicted newly arrived Irish immigrant; Washington Henry (DuPont), a fearless freedom seeker; Frederic Tiggens (Dossett), an anti-abolitionist political boss, and Milton Moore (Fishel), a penniless songwriter trying to capture it all. They have conflicting notions of what it means to be an American while living through one of the most tumultuous eras in our country’s history.

The original recording will feature stars Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Matt Bogart and Kevin Dennis.

Eden Espinosa, Tamara de Lempicka

Amber Iman, Rafaela

Andrew Samonsky, Tadeusz Lempicki

Nathaniel Stampley, The Baron

Barbara Walsh, The Baroness

Jon Jon Briones, Marinetti

Jordan Tyson, Kizette

Natalie Joy Johnson, Suzy Solidor

Along with their ensemble.

30 Day Show Challenge

Day 1:  A musical whose soundtrack you listened to on repeat

Casting Goals: Agwe in Once on This Island

The National Tour of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, winner of the 2012 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, will star original Broadway cast members Alicia Hall Moran  as Bess and Nathaniel Stampley as Porgy. The national tour, which begins in the late fall of 2013 will travel to more than 20 cities in its first season, including Los Angeles (Ahmanson Theatre), Seattle (5th Avenue Theatre), Dallas (Winspear Opera House), Charlotte, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Des Moines, Tampa, Las Vegas, Cleveland, West Palm Beach, Tempe and St. Paul, with additional cities to be announced in the coming days.

For more information, please visit www.porgyandbessthemusical.com