All The Best: ON THE SCENE

Before the cork pops on a new year and the cameras roll on the new interviews we’ll bring you in 2012…we’ll be looking back on 2011 and the year that was ON THE SCENE.

Next week I’ll be working with an editor to put together a best-of reel culled from interviews I’ve done over the past 12 months. You can guess some of the stars who’ll be in it: Darlene Love, Tyne Daly, David Hyde Pierce, Christine Ebersole, (a little Rock ‘n’ Roll, a little Broadway in that bunch), we’ll revisit the great photographer Timothy White,  and many more. Some tremendous talents came on our show this year and allowed me into their studios, rehearsals or performances to share it with all of you.

I’ll let you know when it’s going to air and where it’s posted online.

For now, Merry Christmas and may you have a holiday of peace, love and beauty in all that surrounds you.

Ready To Roll…Another ON THE SCENE Comes Your Way

Marathon. That’s how I describe edit sessions like the past two days. Just me and an editor tucked away in a dark suite where we focus like lasers on the job at hand. In this case editing three segments (interviews with Tyne Daly, David Hyde Pierce and a moving profile of stone sculptor Franco Minervini) and then putting it all together with my taped introductions to each piece.

But now it’s finished. It brings the audience closer to people and places they wouldn’t otherwise experience and closer to art and culture in our own community. That’s what I love most.

Again, if you’re local, check it out Saturday, October 22nd at 8:30 AM and 2 PM or Sunday, October 23rd at 8:30 AM, 11 AM and 2 PM.

 

Hours Spent With Tyne Daly And David Hyde Pierce

I’ve been spending a tremendous amount of time with Tyne Daly and David Hyde Pierce lately.  They don’t know it, of course, because they aren’t actually there. But I’ve spent hours screening the interviews we did last week and watching footage of rehearsal and the performance of “It Shoulda Been You,” the musical she is starring in and he is directing.

My favorite part: watching Pierce direct a scene and seeing him thinking out loud, being there as works out an issue with the actors. A slice of the creative process is what I love showing the “ON THE SCENE” audience the most.

On Monday, we’ll edit each interview. And that’s not all. We’re also scheduled to put together the third segment for next weekend’s “ON THE SCENE,” the artist profile of stone carver, Franco Minervini.

Marathon Monday. It’s going to be a looooong day but we’re excited to bring another fresh episode to life. If you’re local, check us out Saturday, October 22nd at 8:30 AM and 2PM and Sunday, October 23rd at 8:30 AM, 11AM, and 2PM.

 

Interviewing Tyne Daly, David Hyde Pierce

I have watched Tyne Daly and David Hyde Pierce on television for years, so it was interesting to interview each of them the other night. She is starring in a musical comedy being staged for the first time, “It Shoulda Been You” and Pierce is directing.  The show is having its initial run at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Daly plays a pushy mother upset over her daughter’s marriage to a man she has just met and Daly’s character attempts to hijack the wedding. In the process family secrets are spilled, hurts are exposed, lives are questioned, and a few very hummable tunes are debuted.  At least in the first act. I’ve seen it twice, but didn’t have time to stay past intermission either time.

What is most interesting to me is my conversation with Daly about how she finds herself in a character…not finding the character in her…and Pierce describing how he learned from great directors like James Burrows of “Fraser” and how he brought what he absorbed being under their direction to “It Shoulda Been You,” which is his first time out as a director.

The interviews will air in just two weeks on the next ON THE SCENE and I’ll remind you about the scheduled times when we get closer.