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Taconic Learning Center, Inc.

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Courses for Winter 2021

Location: Zoom

Drama: Hits and Misses

This class will explore the creation of varied theater events. It is the intention to help the student understand why some productions succeed and some do not. Familiarity with the material (available in print, on YouTube and iTunes) will be helpful. I will share my experiences (and probably some gossip) and entertain questions and comments from the class.

January 18: Off-Broadway run followed by tour and return to New York as a stage manager to off-Broadway director: Hamlet, Androcles and the Lion and Dark Lady of the Sonnets.

January 25: Period shifting with 7 productions of As You Like It: University of Wisconsin, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival (2), Berkshire Playhouse, Southern Methodist University, Penn State Festival, University of Connecticut.

February 1: Complete development process through critical and commercial success: Original off-Broadway musical Man with a Load of Mischief.

February 8: From Goodspeed Opera House to Broadway: revival of Take Me Along (the musical adaptation of O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!): Goodspeed to New Haven (Shubert Theater) to Kennedy Center to Broadway.

February 15: Opera: Metropolitan Opera Studio, St. Luke’s Opera (BAM, 92nd St. Y, Alice Tully Hall), Sarasota Opera, Hidden Valley Music Seminars.

Instructor: Tom Gruenewald

Men Plan, the Gods Laugh; but Sometimes the Gods are not Paying Attention.

Sessions One, Two and Three: “Making the Constitution of the United States of America”. This will be a history, certainly not an interpretation.

Sessions Four and Five: “Mr. Madison’s War and the Battle of New Orleans.” A war that few wanted and for which neither side was prepared. The war ended primarily due to lack of interest on either side, and the greatest impact of the war took place af