The Renaissance Podcast

Renaissance President and CEO Mike Miller and Chairman of the Board of the Renaissance, Rand Smith, sit down to discuss the highlights of 2016, some exciting plans for 2017, and make a BIG announcement!

Maestro Carl Topilow reveals what made him fall in love with music, confesses his most embarrassing on-stage moment, and his secrets to creating successful symphonies.

Renaissance Director of Development Jessica Dulle and Colleen Cook, Director of Marketing, discuss why the Renaissance needs to raise money, the programs supported by the Annual Fund Campaign, and the exciting $100,000 Annual Fund Campaign with $50,000 in Matching Grants. 

Produced by the Renaissance Performing Arts Association. Theme music is "Hope of Something Different" by the band Trouper. You can learn more about the Renaissance by visiting MansfieldTickets.com.

Actor Stephen Joshua Thompson is one of Mansfield's local favorites, having portrayed characters like Marius in Les Miserables, Burt in Mary Poppins, and Rum Tum Tugger in Cats, he's on our stage agin, this time playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Take a deep dive as Stephen and Colleen discuss his influences, life as a NYC-based actor from Mansfield, what it's like to play someone so opposite of yourself, and more.

Renaissance Artistic Director Michael Thomas sits down with Colleen Cook to discuss his career with the Second City in Chicago, as a writer for shows like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and about the upcoming Renaissance production of A Christmas Carol: The Musical (Menken), performing November 12-13, 19-20, 2016 at the Renaissance Theatre in Mansfield, OH.

Music historian and all-around Renaissance man Mark Sebastian Jordan offers insights on the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra Musical Diversity in the Americas concert program, featuring Ginastera's Four Dances from Estancia, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto, Dvorák's New World Symphony.(Live Recording)

The Mansfield Symphony Orchestra (Mansfield, Ohio) is in a year-long search for their next Maestro. In this episode, Colleen sits down with the first of three candidates for the Music Director position, Maestro Theodore Kuchar, to discuss his world-wide career as the most recorded conductor in classical music, his love for baseball and fishing, and his childhood in northeastern Ohio.

Production credits:

Production by DRM Productions, Inc.

Colleen Cook, host

Theodore Kuchar, guest

This is a production of the Renaissance Performing Arts Association in Mansfield, Ohio.