Behind the doors of an unassuming office building, City Springs Theatre Artistic Director Shuler Hensley asks an actor what color he hears during his solo. Hensley is directing an early rehearsal for the company’s upcoming Les Miserables and envisions a unique palette to light leading characters in their key moments. Rather than assign the colors…
Picture this: It’s 2016, and you’re sitting in the Aurora Theatre, watching the annual musical revue, Christmas Canteen. A spotlight appears on the stage, and the iconic intro from Hamilton’s opening number begins as Christian Magby enters. He is dressed as Jack Frost, and the whole audience soon dissolves into laughter at the clever lyrics,…
Sitting in the St. James Theatre on Broadway watching Monty Python’s Spamalot in 2023, Delaney Benson had two prevailing thoughts. Number one: She thought it was the funniest show she had ever seen. And two: She would give anything to be in it. In December, the Gainesville native joined the touring company of this same…
As a comic book creator, a major part of Anderson Carman’s life is attending comic conventions. But while the Peachtree Corners resident spends many weekends selling his work at “cons” all over the East Coast, he has never attended the most prestigious con in the world: San Diego Comic-Con. The steep entry fee and multi-year…
When a teenage Jessi Kirtley forgot her song lyrics in front of a panel of judges, she thought she had completely blown her chances at winning an award. “I was so nervous! I didn’t remember any of the words to ‘Practically Perfect’ from Mary Poppins, [a role] I had just played,” Kirtley says. Despite the…
The choice for a play to have an all-female cast is hardly unusual, but when the play is titled The Rocket Men, it captures attention. And playwright Crystal Skillman designed it that way. “From the start, I want the audience to be confronted with the fact that those actors don’t look anything like the [male]…
City Springs Theatre Company’s eighth season is officially underway with the recent opening of The Producers: A Mel Brooks Musical, on stage through September 21. With music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan, the flashy musical is as absurd as it is irreverent. Based on the 1967 movie of…
For Andrew Durand, the community stage led to Broadway. :: If you were a theater kid in Roswell in the 1990s, you knew Roswell Village Playhouse. Tucked in the back of a shopping center on the corner of Highway 9 and Highway 92, it presented full seasons of plays for children and adults with volunteer…
When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he shot for the moon — and even looked up its phases. :: What do you get when you cross a historian with a comic artist? Maybe a clever punchline but definitely an intriguing, genre-crossing work…
In Sandy Springs, there is a mammoth of a musical playing. Billed as City Springs Theatre’s “most ambitious production ever,” the hype around Ragtime has proven to be more than mere marketing language. The Tony Award-winning score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens calls for a large ensemble and numerous featured characters with their own…
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