GUEST: Composer David Kirshenbaum 5 pm EST, Feb. 21, 2010

David Kirshenbaum has written the music and lyrics for Vanities, A New Musical (book by Jack Heifner) and Summer of '42 (book by Hunter Foster) off-Broadway, Party Come Here (book by Daniel Goldfarb) at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the holiday musical, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (book by Myles McDonnell).

Regional theatres that have produced his work include Goodspeed Musicals (CT), TheatreWorks (CA), Casa Manana (TX), Round House Theatre (MD), and Pasadena Playhouse (CA). TV: "Johnny and the Sprites" (Disney Channel).

Grants: The Jonathan Larson Foundation and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre.

CDs: The original cast recordings of Vanities (Ghostlight Records) and Summer of '42 (JAY Records), as well as solo albums by Lauren Kennedy, Alice Ripley, and Kate Shindle.

Now: His show Party Come Here is in rehearsal for a March 2010 production at NYU, and he is currently writing his first two (non-musical) plays. David is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.

2nd Guest Confirmed!

This guest is a Professor of Musical Theatre at a prestigious university and Director of its summer theatre program. He is a director and performer in the Cultivated Tradition as well as the Vernacular Tradition. He has performed, conducted, and directed productions at venues all over the United States, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, The White House, in Washington, D.C., and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra Pops Concerts, to name a very few.

Who is he? Tune in on March 11, 2009, at 5:00 p.m. CST/6:00 p.m. EST at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Musical_Theatre_Talk