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In this week's episode of Broadway Profiles from Broadway.com, Paul Wontorek chats with Raúl Esparza about creating the Drama League Award-winning Take me to The World: A Sondheim 90th birthday celebration, returning to LAW & ORDER: SVU and more.
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 Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration has won the Drama League Award for Best Outstanding Digital Concert Production. The show, which was conceived, produced, and hosted by Raul, brought together some of the biggest names in musical theatre to honour one of its best, most prolific writers, Stephen Sondheim. An in-person concert had been planned but when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down Broadway and put New York and many other US states into lockdown, they needed to find another way to celebrate Sondheim's 90th birthday. So, Take Me to the World was born. Raul accepted the award alongside executive producer, Bill Curren, and director, Broadway.com's Paul Wontorek. You can watch their acceptance speech below: If you missed Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration or just want to watch it again, it is still available on YouTube
Raúl sat down with Eddie Shapiro, author of new book 'A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with Great Men of Musical Theater' (to which he contributed) to discuss what theater may look like when it return, which roles they’d like to re-examine, what they learned from working with Stephen Sondheim, and how it feels to be interviewed in-depth (hint: it’s awkward, but also kind of flattering.) Watch the video from Playbill.com below:  On Saturday, June 5, Berkeley Repertory Theatre invites guests to OVATION: Imagine, an evening to honor the 20th anniversary of its School of Theatre and to celebrate the anticipated reopening of its doors this fall.
OVATION will feature an evening of exclusive performances from Raúl, John Gallagher, Jr, Grammy Award nominees The Avett Brothers and more. Tickets are free, with optional donations. RSVP at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Berkeley Rep have made their opening night conversation about The Waves in Quarantine available on YouTube. Featuring director/writer Lisa Peterson, actor and associate director Raúl Esparza, and composer/lyricist Adam Gwon, and led by Berkeley Rep’s artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer, this conversation is a must for all who are interested in how this project came to be. Photos have been released of Raúl in Sutton Foster's Bring Me to Light concert. The on-demand show will be available from Apr 28 - May 31 and you can purchase tickets for the production on the NY City Center website.     Photo Credit: Christopher Duggan Photography
 Reservations have opened for Raúl's new online project: The Waves in Quarantine. Featuring Raúl, Alice Ripley, Carmen Cusack, Nikki Renée Daniels, Darius de Haas, and Manu Narayan, this film in six movements meditates on friendship, loss, and the making of art in this world-changing year, based on a musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1931 masterpiece. Through a combination of dazzling choral music, text from the novel itself, exquisite visual imagery, and access behind the scenes as these artists imagine, question, explore and experiment, The Waves in Quarantine juxtaposes the majestic with the everyday to forge a truly unique work of interdisciplinary art, made of and for this moment. Raúl has made no secret of the love he has for Virginia Woolf's The Waves and we know this project has a been a passion of his recently. See the trailer below The show will debut on Apr, 29 and you can reserve your FREE ticket by RSVPing at The Berkeley Rep website
New York City Center have released the first look at 'Bring Me to Light' - Sutton Foster's brand-new concert guest starring Raúl. The on-demand show will be available from Apr 28 - May 31 and you can purchase tickets for the production on the NY City Center website.
Raúl has filmed an online concert, Sutton Foster: Bring Me to Light, at NY City Center that will be available online from April 28-May 31.
The new show will feature Sutton and Raul alongside Kelli O'Hara, Joaquina Kalukango, and Wren Rivera sharing stories and singing songs from Violet, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Camelot, Anyone Can Whistle, The Wild Party, and more. Bring Me to Light is directed by Leigh Silverman, with Jeanine Tesori serving as creative producer. The singers will be accompanied by musical director Michael Rafter and guitarist Matt Hinkley. You can purchase tickets for the production on the NY City Center website. **Covid safety protocols were in place throughout filming.  This free, virtual event will bring together a star-studded array of theater legends for performances and conversations exploring the legacy of the timely American musical, Assassins. As well as an appearance by Raúl, participants include the entire cast of our upcoming production, friends and alumni of CSC, as well as cast and creative team members from the 1990 Off-Broadway premiere and 2004 Broadway revival.
The event will take place at 8pm EDT on April 15 with on demand viewing available through April, 19. Register to watch here. |
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