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Devin takes us backstage and shares the process of designing Broadway dressing rooms for stars such as Lea Michelle, Billy Crystal, and more! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Devin Buchanan! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Devin Buchanan: Devin Buchanan of Devin Sparkles Design is based out of Brooklyn. Pairing his passion for theatre and love of interior design, Devin has been able to curate comfortable and stylish designs for actors across Broadway.  Resources from this episode: devinsparkles.com instagram.com/theboycostumer --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian breaks down the process and intentions behind arranging and orchestrating Neil Diamond's catalog for the stage. If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT BRIAN USIFER Brian Usifer is a New York City based music director, pianist, orchestrator/arranger, producer and composer. Most recently, he was the Music Director of Disney’s Frozen on Broadway. He is currently the Associate Music Supervisor of The Book of Mormon on Broadway. Prior to that he was the Music Director of Kinky Boots on Broadway, which won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Orchestrations. The cast recording won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album and the West End production won an Olivier Award for Best Musical. He was the Associate Music Supervisor as well for Kinky Boots on Tour, London and in Toronto. Brian has played in the Broadway and off-Broadway orchestras of …Spelling Bee, Avenue Q, Altar Boyz and The Book of Mormon. Other theatre credits also include Chess at the Kennedy Center and more than 5 years of regional theatre including Follies at Barrington Stage Co. Concerts include Bobby and Kristen Lopez: American Songbook at Lincoln Center and Clay Aiken “Tried and True DVD,” for PBS. As an orchestrator, Brian's projects have included The Heart of Rock and Roll featuring the catalog of Huey Lewis at the Old Globe, Swept Away with music by the Avett Brothers at Berkeley Rep, Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money with music by Motown legend Lamont Dozier at The Atlantic Theatre, May We All featuring the music of Florida Georgia Line and other country stars, Into the Wild by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, A View From The River by Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott, Fantasy Football: the Musical?, by David Ingber, Pool Boy by Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard, The UnCivil War by Rick Kunzi, Barnstormer by Douglas Cohen and The First Snow by Niko Tsakalakos. Shows in development include Hearts Beat Loud featuring music by Niko Tsakalakos with a book by Ngozi Anyanwu, Galileo featuring music by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner with a book by Danny Strong, and A Beautiful Noise featuring the catalog of Neil Diamond opening on Broadway in December 2022 On TV, he wrote additional orchestrations for NBC’s Annie Live, The Wiz Live, and can be heard as a pianist on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. As a composer, Brian’s latest project is a songwriting collaboration with Colin Donnell called The Nineteen Twenty. Their album, Chaos + Cocktails, is available for sale on iTunes and everywhere music streams. As a producer: The First Snow, Archetype, Chaos + Cocktails, May We All He holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from SUNY Fredonia and a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano from NYU and a Specialist Certificate in Orchestration from Berklee Online. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: A Beautiful Noise on Instagram: instagram.com/abeautifulnoisemusical A Beautiful Noise on Facebook: facebook.com/ABeautifulNoiseMusical Get Your Tickets: abeautifulnoisethemusical.com brianusifer.com @thenineteentwenty --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David, who began his career onstage in Merrily We Roll Along, quickly became one of Broadway's most notable music directors working closely with Sondheim, Ahrens & Flaherty, and Kander & Ebb to name a few. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with David Loud! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About David Loud: David Loud (NYC) occupies a unique place in Broadway history. In addition to his distinguished career as one of Broadway’s most respected music directors and arrangers, he originated three Broadway roles as an actor, including his appearance in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary failure (and cult classic) Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Harold Prince. In a career spanning several decades, he served as music director for the original Broadway productions of Ragtime, Curtains, Sondheim on Sondheim, The Visit, The Scottsboro Boys, A Class Act, The Look of Love, and Steel Pier, as well as revivals of She Loves Me, Company, and Sweeney Todd. He also appeared alongside Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning play, Master Class. Resources from this episode: Facing the Music by David Loud --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Van, former programmer, runs a Broadway record label in addition to producing Broadway shows. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Van Dean! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Van Dean: Van Dean is a Tony® Award and Grammy® Award-winning producer of 13 Broadway musicals and plays (including Jagged Little Pill, Anastasia, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, Big Fish, Catch Me If You Can, Evita, The Best Man, The Velocity of Autumn), 260+ musical theater-related recordings (including Matilda, The Color Purple, Anastasia, My Fair Lady, If The Fates Allow: Hadestown Holiday Album, Caroline, or Change, Assassins, The Lightning Thief), as well as numerous Broadway/National Tours, Off-Broadway musicals, concert events, a West End production and a documentary film. Van is President and Co-Founder of Broadway Records and his philanthropic work includes being a producer of “Broadway For Orlando: What The World Needs Now is Love”, Broadway United’s “We Are The World”, “Broadway Kids Against Bullying: I Have a Voice”, “From Broadway With Love” benefit concerts for Sandy Hook, Orlando (Emmy Award winner for sound design) and Parkland as well his work with NewArts in Sandy Hook/Newtown, CT. Resources from this episode: www.BroadwayRecords.com --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Currently swinging in Tina on Broadway, Michelle has kept up her Fitness/Nutrition Coaching business that she created during the pandemic. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Michelle West! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Michelle West: Michelle West is a dancer, actress, teacher, fitness, and nutrition coach born in Philadelphia, PA and based in Fort Lee, NJ. She is currently a Swing in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway. Other Credits Include; Tours: Disney’s Aladdin (1st Nat’l), Memphis, Sid the Science Kid, Live! NY: Goddess (Berkeley Rep), Carnegie Hall (West Side Story). Regional: Sacramento Music Circus (The Wiz, Legally Blonde, Hello! Dolly), Alliance Theater (The Prom), Walnut Street Theater (The Wizard of Oz) Asolo Repertory Theater (West Side Story). BFA Dance from Temple University. Connect with me: @chelleywest / www.youtube.com/michellewestimi Resources from this episode: Michelle's YouTube Channel @chelleywest michellewest.net --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Find out how this financial analyst founded Broadway's first subscription box, Broadway Boxed Up! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Anant Das! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Anant Das: Anant Das (He/Him) is a producer, theatre investor, and CEO of Broadway Boxed Up, the longest-running theatre-themed subscription box. He is currently a producer of the new musical, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart, and the Broadway Makers Marketplace, the first Broadway Pop-Up Shop, and has experience as an investor with Fairycakes Off-Broadway and the Museum of Broadway. He also serves as a young patron of the New York Theatre Workshop as part of their 4th Street Bar Association. With a background in financial valuation, computer science, and as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Anant is passionate about the intersection of theatre, tech, and finance, as well as energized to increase access to both theatrical opportunities and theatre education. He also serves as a film screener for the Washington West Film Festival.   Resources from this episode: www.broadwayboxedup.com www.instagram.com/broadwayboxedup --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carole breaks down the basics of voice and speech study and how it can be applied to life onstage and off. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Carole Healey! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Carole Healey: Carole Healey is a teacher, director and actor and has worked at most of the major regional theatres in the country including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Southwest Shakespeare, Great Lakes Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatreworks, CA, Kingshead Theatre, London, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Olney, The Cape Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public and many others. Carole produced an original translation of “The Misanthrope”, and the New York premiere of “The Libertine” with The Hartshorn Theatre, which she founded. Carole received her MFA from The Professional Theatre Training Program at The University of Delaware. --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After establishing a career in stage management, Matt discusses his shift to directing Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Matt DiCarlo! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Matt DiCarlo: Matt is currently the Resident Director for Moulin Rouge! on Broadway and the Associate Director for the show’s upcoming North American Tour. He staged the Off-Broadway production and North American Tour of The Play That Goes Wrong and recently returned from South Korea, where he restaged the Broadway production of Beetlejuice for its run in Seoul at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. Matt was the Associate Director for the first national tour of The Color Purple revival and the second national tour of Rock of Ages. As a Production Stage Manager, Matt helmed the Broadway productions of Beetlejuice, The Play That Goes Wrong, the Tony-winning revival of The Color Purple, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Rock of Ages. He also worked as the PSM for the world premieres of A Walk on the Moon (A.C.T.), Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), and Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story (Off-Broadway). Other stage management credits include Broadway Bares 2017, Broadway Backwards 6, 7 & 8, and over 12 productions at Paper Mill Playhouse, including The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Steel Magnolias, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Full Monty.  Matt’s corporate event experience includes projects with Empire Entertainment, David Stark Design, and Civic Entertainment. Favorites include events with Target, McDonald’s, and the AMC Upfronts. Matt currently is on the faculty at Columbia University and has guest lectured at several universities including Yale and Carnegie Mellon. He graduated with a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Matt currently lives in South Orange, NJ with his financé, Joey, and their sweet little Morkie, Max. Resources from this episode: hwww.matt-dicarlo.com www.instagram.com/mattyd0804 --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the second part of our conversation with Cheryl Dennis, we chat new front of house protocols, making sure aisles are clear during the performances, late entry and so much more! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT CHERYL DENNIS Cheryl Dennis is a general manager, producer, and entertainment executive specializing in taking creative ventures from concept to fruition. Within her experience on broadway, off broadway, in a-list commercial events, and the non-profit sector she has championed creatives, theatre companies, and business partners, creating new, innovative strategies for production, audience, and revenue. CONNECT WITH CHERYL: cheryldennisproductions.com MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Chicken & Biscuits on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Chicken & Biscuits on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first part of our conversation with Cheryl Dennis, we chat working at Circle in the Square, how to prepare the theatre for a new production, and so much more! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! ABOUT CHERYL DENNIS Cheryl Dennis is a general manager, producer, and entertainment executive specializing in taking creative ventures from concept to fruition. Within her experience on broadway, off broadway, in a-list commercial events, and the non-profit sector she has championed creatives, theatre companies, and business partners, creating new, innovative strategies for production, audience, and revenue. CONNECT WITH CHERYL: cheryldennisproductions.com MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Chicken & Biscuits on Instagram: instagram.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway Chicken & Biscuits on Facebook: facebook.com/chickenandbiscuitsbway --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork YouTube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices