Anything Goes Type Hollywood Musical Director Lewis Milestone Screenplay Guy Bolton and P.G. The Broadway Q&A Series Nice Work if You Can Get It and Anything Goes Director-Choreographer Kathleen Marshall Wants to Answer Your Questions By … She was really influential.”After school, Marshall was on the road as a dance captain in “Cats” when her older bother Rob (of “Chicago” movie fame) invited her to Toronto, where he was choreographing the pre-Broadway engagement of “Kiss of the Spider-Woman.” As Rob’s assistant, she got to watch a number of top-tier directors at work — Hal Prince, Jack O’Brien, Susan Schulman, Michael Blakemore, Jerry Zaks.The director-choreographer education continued when Marshall was tapped to run the influential Encores! He was so incredibly smart. “I’m the vintage girl,” Marshall acknowledges with a laugh.The busy director-choreographer is chatting in a downstairs lobby of the American Airlines Theatre, one of a cluster of stages run by Manhattan’s Her first trophy was for reviving the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green lark “Wonderful Town” in 2003. (Joan Marcus/Joan Marcus)Nelson Pressley covered theater for The Washington Post. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. “The songs are so classic and beautiful, and I thought, “˜This would be a blast to do, really fun.’ Then it was a matter of getting everything lined up””our leading lady and our theater. Her third came in 2011 for the bubbly resuscitation of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” — another Roundabout show — that begins its month-long run Tuesday at the Kennedy Center Opera House.“She’s got the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers thing down,” says Rachel York, who is playing the nightclub chanteuse Reno Sweeney on tour. concert series at Manhattan’s City Center from 1996-2000. But sometimes you’re sitting around a table, and you’re the only woman.”Marshall has recently wrapped a musical workshop of the Barry Levinson film Julio Martinez takes a historical look at Los Angeles open-air theaters.In part II of his ‘Radical Theatre in LA’ series, Julio Martinez unpacks exploratory theatre in the late 1900’s.Julio Martinez examines how Los Angeles theatre responded and survived the 1918 Spanish Flu.
“A lot of times in a production meeting, I’ll be one of the only women, or one of a few women. 2020 | Nominee (Since breaking through as the choreographer of the sassy “Kiss Me, Kate” revival in 1999, Marshall has created her own niche with classic American musical comedies. Kathleen Marshall is an American director, choreographer, and creative consultant. Kathleen Marshall (born September 28, 1962) is an American director, choreographer, and creative consultant. The vogue for more than a decade has been for jokey knockoffs and lampoons — “The Producers,” “Urinetown,” “Spamalot,” “Book of Mormon” — but Marshall’s taste is doggedly old school.“I love musicals that celebrate the form, as opposed to making fun of the form,” says Marshall, whose current Broadway offering is the George Gershwin catalogue musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” That show, which opened with O’Hara and Matthew Broderick, closes next Sunday after a year-long run.Marshall’s nostalgic bent even comes through as she kicks around the idea of directing a straight play for Roundabout.“My problem is that I like big old Kaufman and Hart three-act plays with 25 people in them,” Marshall says. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information.