For a few weeks I’ve been wanting to hop on MattFalber.com to tell you all that I booked a show at the Broward Stage Door in Florida. Everything happened very quickly. One of the Taffeta Wedding’s cast members dropped out and I received a call to head to Florida ASAP. As I’m heading out to Los Angeles from January 25th through July and this show runs to January 17th, I had a very short amount of time to pack up all my belongs and prepare my apartment to for a subletter. I arrived within 24 hours and started catching up as everyone knew the music and choreography before I arrived.
Taffeta Wedding takes place in 1964. The Taffetas, a musical group comprised of singing sisters have decided to marry their crooning beaus, The Cardigans, on national television. It’s presented with the innocence of a Lawrence Welk style show while Rick Lewis’ clever writing pokes fun at the time and is full of hit tunes from the 50s and 60s in four-part harmony. I play Frankie, one of the Cardigans. My character is probably the most wholesome of the guys. He thinks a lot about what it means to be married and be a good husband to his bride-to-be Peggy.
I’ve really enjoyed working with the cast and our creative team is out of this world. Our director Arthur Whitelaw is a Broadway legend and brought a number of very noteworthy productions to The Great White Way including the hit revival of Best Foot Forward, which introduced Liza Minnelli and Christopher Walken to the stage and my all-time favorite musical “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” — the original and the revival which gave Kristin Chenoweth her big break! Our choreographer is Michael Leeds who wrote and directed the Tony nominated musical revue “Swinging On a Star” featuring the music of Johnny Burke. Our music director Sergio Puig, regularly work for the Florida Grand Opera. We’re in very capable hands.
We opened last night to a very appreciative audience. The music sounded great and the cast was electric. If you’re in the area, it’s definitely worth coming to see.
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