New York City based theatre podcast, Your Program Is Your Ticket, was recently in Chargin Falls, Ohio for the benefit performance of Broadway Comes to Chargin! The star-studded gala paid tribute to community theatres with proceeds from the benefit going towards The Chargin Valley Little Theatre (CVLT).
Host and podcast creator Sean Chandler, interviewed numerous Broadway actors and local talent while in Chargin Falls including the benefits Honorary Co-Chairs Casey Cott (Kevin Keller in the hit television series Riverdale/CW), and Corey Cott (Jack Kelly in Newsies/Broadway & Donny Novitski in Bandstand/Broadway). The Cott brothers grew up in Chargin Falls and have strong ties to CVLT.
New Episodes:
Episode 55 features Broadway actors Corey Cott and Robb Sapp (Shrek the Musical/Broadway and Boq in Wicked/Broadway) who discuss their involvement with the benefit Broadway Comes to Chagrin!
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Episode 56 features the performers and creative team of Broadway Comes To Chagrin! In this episode, host Sean Chandler interviews Honorary Co-Chair Casey Cott and Gala Co-Chair Gary Gottfried, along with performers Amy Connolly (Wayne Cilento's One Hot Minute/European Tour), Gina Milo (Les Misérables/Broadway), Greta Rothman (Seusical the Musical/CVLT), Brandi Chavonne Massey(Wicked/Broadway), Clifton Oliver (In the Heights/Broadway), Autumn Key (Rent/Stagecrafters Theatre Ohio), Emily Shipley (The Little Mermaid/Beck Center for the Arts), Sam Fujikawa (Godspell/Rubber City Theatre), Jason Weston (Mamma Mia!/Broadway), Kyle Banks(The Lion King/Broadway), and Johnathan L. Jackson (Independent Film Upstairs).
Episode 57 features Tom Fulton the Founder, Artistic Director and Producing Director of The Academy for the Performing Arts in Chargin Falls, Ohio. Tom discusses his founding of the Academy, his career as an actor and director, and offers some advice to the lifelong students of the theatre.
More information about The Chargin Valley Little Theatre is available at www.cvlt.org
About You're Program Is Your Ticket:
Now in its second year, Your Program Is Your Ticket (YPIYT) has interviewed upwards of 200 theatre artists including Matthew Broderick, Charles Busch, Martin Denton, Shay Gines, David Pittu, Peggy Shaw, Carly Street, New York & Chicago Neo-Futurists, Chicago's Flying Elephant Production, New York's Retro Productions, among others. Each episode features a musical intro by the hip-hop comedy group, North Coast, NYC. Host Sean Chandler's mission is to give a voice to all theatre artists from Indie theatre to Broadway, from National to International Artists. The podcast offers a rare glimpse into the world of theatre from the people who create it. From producers, actors, lighting designers, stage managers, writers, understudy's, and directors.
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Sean Chandler (Creator/Producer/Host) is an award-winning playwright who has been a podcast host since 2012, having co-hosted three prior shows; Lundon Calling, Lundon Calling's Empty Closet Series, and Lundon Calling's Lundon Bridge with the legendary Ace Lundon and YouTube personality Donny Winter. As a writer, Sean's work includes the solo show At The Flash which had a nearly sold-out run at the 2016 New York International Fringe Festival and took home an award for Outstanding Solo Performance. The play also won awards from Pride Films and Plays Great Gay Play and Musical Contest Winner, and played at The Dublin Gay Theatre Festival where it received an Oscar Wilde Best New Work Nomination.
Other writing credits include We The People: A Theatrical Song Cycle, Running: A New Musical, Radical Morality (Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-Finalist, Creative World Awards Semi-Finalist, PFP Great Screenplay Contest Semi-Finalist), Kissing The Frog Prince (Scriptoid Writers Challenge, All Access Screenwriters Competition & The Screenplay Festival Semi-Finalist), and The Pack (Creative World Awards Semi-Finalist). Sean resides in New York City and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild. www.seanwchandler.com
Photos by David Petkiewicz
Corey Cott, Casey Cott
Corey Cott, Casey Cott, Sean Chandler
Gina Milo
Autumn Key, Colleen Longshaw
Kyle Banks, Brandi Chavonne Massey
The cast of Broadway Comes to Chargin!
Corey Cott, Amy Connolly, Casey Cott,
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