Hear audience reaction from the opening night of SPAMALOT! From Kevin Nealon to Samm Levine, Scott Hamilton to JoAnne Worley - everyone is RAVING about SPAMALOT!
Join in on the fun, now at the Ahmanson Theatre through September 6th!!
Over at her blog, actress Julia Stiles offers her thoughts on Opening Night of Oleanna at the Mark Taper Forum. For more Opening Night goodness, check out the video footage from the party and festivities, including some great interviews with the many stars in attendance. David Mamet’s Oleanna plays until July 12 with Julia and Bill Pullman.
Opening night of Oleanna was a star-studded event. Watch reaction from actors and audience-members Chris Noth, Rose McGowan, Robert Loggia, and Jai Rodriguez, as well as interviews with Julia Stiles and Bill Pullman about the challenges in bringing this intense Mamet drama to the stage.
The stars came out in full force for the very special opening night performance of Ain’t Misbehavin’. Watch interviews with Anthony Bell, Telma Hopkins, Victoria Platt and many more and check out the scenes from the party!
Audiences at the opening night performance of Lydia were stunned by the play’s lyricism, rich characters and compelling human drama. Watch their reactions and check out footage from the party with Justin Kirk, Richard Montoya, Lydia playwright Octavio Solis and many more.
Watch exclusive footage from the opening night of Minsky’s – audience reaction, celebrity interviews and more.
And for more about Minsky’s, check out our interviews with the creators of the show, including writer Bob Martin, director Casey Nicholaw, and composer Charles Strouse.
Check out the audience reaction to Danny Hoch’s Taking Over and the vibe from the opening night party last Friday night at the Kirk Douglas Theatre!
Michael Bulger is CTG’s Marketing Coordinator.
It’s that time again in the CTG Marketing Department. The time which we hold near and dear to our hearts. The time we all look forward to for weeks and weeks.
No, not the parking lot cook-out…OPENING NIGHT! And what’s great is this time we’ve got three at once! That’s right, over the next two weeks we’re opening three shows…first Taking Over at the Douglas, then Pippin at the Taper and finally Minsky’s at the Ahmanson.
While openings themselves appear to be lovely evenings with star-studded crowds, making them that way is no easy task! First there are weeks of going through lists, deciding who we’re going to invite which inevitably takes us longer than we hope. Then we scramble to get invites out in time only to get back a deluge of RSVPs on our phone lines as we nervously anticipate overbooking the house.
And that’s how it goes for about week before opening….one moment we’re too full, and the next we’re not full enough…which is when we start the dreaded game of seating.
Our conference room becomes a war room – (imagine your dorm while cramming for finals with empty pizza boxes and scraps of paper on the floor) – while we figure out just the right seat for everyone (and remember, the Ahmanson has almost 2,000 seats!!) We shuffle post-its around on seating charts like crazy people. We check, double check and triple check our lists for accuracy. Last minute cancellations are only slightly less common then last minute additions…and you can guess how much fun those are!
Finishing mere hours before curtain on opening night, we rush to the box office, list in hand, ready to greet our guests. And the best part is: it’s all over in an hour! As they say, the show goes on, and the weeks of pulling our hair out end pretty anti-climactically. Ah well, it was good fun…and hey, there’s always the after party!
