Brian Childers & Kimberly Faye Greenberg Talk About The Journey of "DANNY AND SYLVIA" From DC To St. Luke's Theatre On DC Theatre Scene

[hockeynut2]

Posted: 7/1/09 at 2:35pm

Danny Kaye once said it only took him 10 years to become an overnight sensation, but it took Danny and Sylvia, the bio-musical about Danny Kaye and his wife Sylvia Fine, only 8 years to move from its sensational American Century Theater opening in DC to its Off-Broadway open run. The show has changed subtitles (originally A Love Story and now The Danny Kaye Musical), revised the book, added new music and co-star, but never lost its star, the brilliant Helen Hayes Award winner Brian Childers.

I?ll never forget the first time I saw and heard Brian rattle off all those tongue-twisting Russian composers while performing ?Tchaikovsky? 8 years ago. I instantly became a fan. A few months ago, I received an email from Brian inviting me to see Danny and Sylvia at St. Luke?s Theatre in NYC. He told me the version of the show that opened at American Century Theater in 2001, and transferred to MetroStage a year later, winning him a Helen Hayes Award for his energy-filled performance as the great Danny Kaye, was new and improved.

How exciting! To learn more, I talked with Brian, DC producers Jack Marshall and Carolyn Griffin and Kimberly Faye Greenberg, who now plays Sylvia Fine.


Brian Childers and Kimberly Faye Greenberg Talk About Danny & Sylvia

[MCfan2]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 5:21pm

Great piece!

Do you have any idea if there'll be a cast album? Sorry if this has been asked and answered; I searched the board but couldn't find anything about it.