12/23/2023 0 Comments Songbird review two river theater![]() ![]() Also “Days of Wine and Roses,” “Charade,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “That Old Black Magic,” “Skylark,” “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.” He won an Oscar for Best Song four times and was nominated 18 times. He wrote songs for 100 movies and 23 musicals. Odds are, if you’re familiar at all with the Great American Songbook, you’ve heard a Johnny Mercer tune or two, or three … or likely more. It’s a line from Johnny Mercer’s song “One For My Baby (And One More For the Road).” And it’s a perfect description of the man who wrote more than 1,500 songs and sold more than 12 million records, at one point rivaling Bing Crosby as America’s Greatest Singer. ![]() Songbird runs at Two River's Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater June 9th through July 1st.Ĭlick above to hear the entire interview with Lauren Pritchard.The writing on the theater wall says it all: “Buddy, I’m a kind of poet and I’ve got a lot of things to say.” You can see the powerful performer's videos at That "after" includes her singing career as LOLO. "It was a life-altering thing, so there's sort of like my life before Ilse and then everything else after." Pritchard admitted the role was a tremendous part of her life. " Yeah, probably, but it would be different." ![]() The soulful singer paused for a brief moment. "It was really amazing watching people our own age come and feel as connected to the story we were telling as we were telling the story."ĭoyle asked Pritchard "Without Ilse, is there a Songbird?" Pritchard says it was encouraging to see younger audiences show up to watch smash musical Spring Awakening. ![]() We lived in just a different world than we do know. Facebook was still for only college students. Twitter didn't even exist except in semi-beta form in 2006. "It's interesting to think about Spring Awakening and what happened with the show in 2006 because I think about what on earth the experience would be like if it had happened now with all the social media. The singer-songwriter fondly remembers those days at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. How we are still dealing with all the same issues that we've been dealing with all these years: love, loss, desire, heartbreak, wanting, yearning,"Ĭredit Cassie Galasetti for WBGO News Lauren Pritchard and WBGO's Doug Doyle at Two River Theater in Red Bankĭoyle saw Pritchard in Spring Awakening on Broadway, a show that won eight Tony Awards. "Michael has done a beautiful job of keeping very true to the text of the play, but also making it feel very modern, relevant, understandable and translatable to how it completely applies to us right now and also how things have not changed. The musical is based on Chekhov's The Seagull. So it was interesting to begin the process, there was something very cathardic about working on this piece and really being able to show my love and appreciation for the place I came from that really ultimately taught me everything I know about music, life and love and loss and all those kinds of things we talk about in this show." I was born and raised in Tennessee, so country music was something I've known my entire life and loved, listened to, appreciated and have a deep understanding of, but as a writer, it's not something I've naturally done. She spoke about the how the show developed. Pritchard was born in Jackson, Tennessee. Credit Two River Theater for WBGO "Songbird" debuted Off-Broadway in 2015 ![]()
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