State of the Arts: Recent Episodes
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State of the Arts is an all-new, weekly series devoted to coverage of the performing arts in Los Angeles, and beyond... with emphasis on theatre, music, dance events, and stage spectaculars. Michael Sterling and Andrew David James offer astute reviews, insightful discussions, a live arts calendar, and live interviews with celebrity guests, stars of the arts, and the creative teams behind them.
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BROADWAY'S SANDY BAINUM AND SOUTHLAND FAVORITE ADRIENNE VISNIC DISCUSS THEIR CO-STARRING ROLES IN BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW Featuring Sterling Knight and Khylin Rhambo. DIRECTED BY BRANDON BAER, PRODUCED BY CHRISOPHER SEPULVEDA. AT LA's ODYSSEY THEATRE MAY 24 – JUNE 9
“FRESH AND DELICATLY SATISFYING...EMOTIONAL MOMENTS BY HONEST MEANS.” - NEW YORK TIMES
GRACE MCLEOD, a twenty-four-year-old chicago based playwright and screenwriter, discusses her achievement as the youngest recipient of a national new play network rolling world premiere of her fascinating work HERLAND about coming of age and coming out May 30 – June 23 at LA’s Greenway Court theatre.
LISA BLAKE RICHARDS not only talks about her theatre career and her co-starring role in HERLAND but her veteran status at the Greenway Court theatre, her television career and successful son Alex Ebert of IMA Robot and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
Musical Theatre’s Michael Starr and Kimberly Immanuel discuss their starring roles in the classic McCoy Rigby production of Broadway’s Singin’ in the Rain at the La Mirada Performing Arts Theatre. From The Voice, Raed Saade of the Walter Fox Singers also guests to talk about his upcoming May 4th engagement in the Verdi Chorus’ Love is Timeless at Santa Monica’s First United Methodist Church.
Join us as we talk to BLAKE BOYD and MARLENE GALIN who star in THE THINGS WE DO Writter by former Attorney General-turned playwright GRANT WOODS (uh-oh), a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre April 6 - May 12.
From Meatballs to Aria, who could ask for anything more ? Listen in as we discuss THE MEATBALL CHRONICLES with DEBRIANA MANSINI opening March 29 - April 14 at Hollywood's Hudson Guild Theatre and THE VERDI CHORUS' L'AMORE E LA VITA (LOVE AND LIFE) with Mezzo Soprano DANIELLE MARCELLE BOND, April 6-7 at the First United Methodist Church / Santa Monica.
Join us as we talk to ADAM HUSS (co-star of the STARZ hit series POWER) and TIM McKERNAN about the World Premiere Comedy ATTACK OF THE SECOND BANANAS on stage at West Hollywood's Zephyr Theatre now through March 31st.
Join us as we talk to Larry Eisenberg and Jackson Kendall, the two stars of the off-Broadway hit play TUESDAY'S WITH MORRIE now on stage at the Sierra Madre Playhouse through March 31st. "Unforgettable! No matter how well you tell the story, the play makes it more vivid, more shattering, more humorous. What you, the audience, learns from Morrie will stay with you for a long time." - New York magazine
Micah Cover who'll also be joining us talk about his latest adventure... an upcoming project titled DUNGEON MASTER on March 10 at The Vortex in Los Angeles. He's also an actor, magician, playwright and Theater aficionado. That's all we can tell you without being sent to our rooms without any supper.
"WAKE" - About a widowed mortician who receives a life-size male doll named Pedro, which unexpectedly complicates her life in ways. Join us as we talk to the film’s star Myndy Crist, featured actor Paul Stroili and Director Cyrus Mirakhor. The film also stars James Denton and features Jo Koy, Caroline Lagerfelt and Paige Searcy
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BROADWAY MUSICAL THEATRE STAR VALERIE PERRI discusses her brilliant stage career and current co-starring role in RAGTIME at the Pasadena Playhouse through March 3.
Great American Standard Music’s Newest Concert Sensation D. SCOTT EADS talks about LOVE AND OTHER GAMES inspired by classic night club acts and iconic 60’s TV variety music series at Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in the NoHo Arts Distrtict February 17.
JESS LePROTTO and KRISTEN HAHN talk about their careers on Broadway and on tour (as Barnaby Tucker and Minnie Fay) with one of the greatest musicals ever written!
ON STAGE NOW THROUGH FEBRUARY 17 AT HOLLYWOOD’S MAGNIFICENT PANTAGES THEATRE
Academy Award-winning Producer JOHN WALKER (Best Animated Motion Picture - The Incredibles, Tomorrowland) returns to the theatre stage to co-star with wife and actress PAMELA GAYE WALKER in THE EMPTY NESTERS, a new comedy-drama directed by Richard Seyd and written by celebrated playwright Garret Jon Groenveld on stage now through February 17th at Hollywood’s Zephyr Theatre.
DISTINGUISHED ACTORS: ALFRED MOLINA AND STEVEN WEBER
Talk about their journeys from Broadway to Hollywood and everything in between, including their association with LA THEATRE WORKS and their current co-starring project in Lee Blessing’s brilliant and witty play A WALK IN THE WOODS, for radio broadcast and online streaming at UCLA’s James Bridges Theatre, January 25 and 26 Four Performances Only)
Nina Whitaker in "Finding My Voice". Nina Whitaker is a singer, actress and producer, performing on stage, TV and movies.She performed for Oprah Winfrey, President Bill Clinton, sang duets with Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Michael Buble and Chris Botti. Nina recently published her book: "Finding my voice: My journey through grief to grace".
Tonoccus McClain in "Living a why not life" : Tonoccus performed on both stage and TV, anchoring news, performing in Beauty and the Beast at the Hollywood Bowl, Disneyland resort performances, The Lion King and LA Opera's Porgy and Bess. He can be heard singing on almost 50 television and film soundtracks: The Good Wife, Glee, Once upon a time, Avatar, A Wrinkle in Time and Smallfoot among many others.
Both Nina and Tonoccus will be performing at Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal, North Hollywood,CA during January 2019.
Guests Michael Leoni and producer Michelle Kaufer In promotion of the new play titled “Famous” at the 11.11 Theater in West Hollywood.
Margaret Laurena Kemp is interviewed about her internationally acclaimed career as an
actress and playwright with emphasis on the worldwide hit A Negro Speaks of Rivers.
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Benny Aguayo (Marketing Manager and Director of Public Relations and Communication –Nederlander’s Broadway
LA) discusses Broadway LA’s 2013 Season at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan;
Jekyll & Hyde starring American Idol’s Constantine Maroulis and R&B Grammy Award nominee Deborah
Coxto; Mike Tyson – Undisputed Truth; Catch Me if You Can; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; West Side Story;
Rain; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Sister Act. Kemp and Aguayo share awkward but amusing career
moments.
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Longtime star of Wicked... Eden Espinosa (Elphaba/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Broadway)
discusses her musical theatre career and her debut CD/album Look Around which embodies a contemporary pop
approach to songs from the Broadway stage. The Live Arts Calendar features The Morini Strad starring
Mariette Hartley at The Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA; and Rogue Machine’s A Bright New Boise at LA’s Theatre
Theatre. Ms. Espinosa’s manager Joseph Abate joins the conversation with Sterling & Stroili. Espinosa
shares an embarrassing moment while performing on stage.
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Chris Kauffmann, star of the LA smash hit Avenue Q talks about his experience with the Doma
Theatre Company’s production of the Tony Award winning musical at the Met Theatre in Hollywood. Award
winning director Richard Israel also joins the panel to discuss his direction of Avenue Q and other
directorial ventures. From Season 5 of American Idol, popular nightclub star Bobby Bennett shares his
thoughts about Idol and his upcoming headlining return to Sterling’s Upstairs at the Federal in North
Hollywood.
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Broadway’s Heather Lee (Guys and Dolls, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Gypsy,) is
interviewed about her life in musical theatre and her co-starring role in Christmas My Way: A Sinatra
Holiday Bash at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. Lee’s Christmas My Way co-star Luca Ellis
talks about his career in music and his lifelong fascination with the legendary crooner’s distinct vocal
style. The Live Arts Calendar features Brian Henson’s and Patrick Bristow’s year-end and New Year’s Eve
adult (Muppet-like) puppet show Stuffed and Unstrung at Irvine’s Barclay Theatre in Irvine, CA. Lee and
Ellis recall embarrassing moments while performing.
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From the Best of State of the Arts (Originally broadcast December 12, 2011) - Stroili is
sans Sterling, as Michael takes the day off to cough, among other things. Paul is joined by TV, Film and
Cabaret star Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere) and actor/writer/critic Jason Rohrer (stagehappenings.com,
bitterlemons.com). Ilene discusses her recent headlining gig at Kritzerland at the Gardenia, and Jason leads
a discussion on all things theatrical in Los Angeles, good and bad.
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TV and stage star Paolo Andino (LOGO TV’s The Big Gay Comedy Sketch Show) is interviewed
about his starring role in the Blank Theatre production of David Sedaris’ Santaland Diaries at the Stella
Adler Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling gives mini reviews of Silence! The Musical at the Hayworth Theatre in
Los Angeles, and the Donny & Marie Christmas in Los Angeles spectacular at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre.
The Live Arts Calendar features the Orange County Men Alive Chorus’ A Winter Spectacular with Special Guest
Liza Minnelli at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA; and the State of the Arts Sweepstakes
sponsored by Breakdown Services. 2012 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award Winning Director Michael
Matthews (The Color Purple at Hollywood’s Celebration Theatre) discusses a bountiful year of directing which
also includes the hit world premiere musical Justin Love/Celebration Theatre, and the Santaland
Diaries/Stella Adler Theatre. Andino and Matthews recall embarrassing career moments.
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Multiple Golden Globe nominated film and television star Harry Hamlin (Shameless, Army
Wives, LA Law) is interviewed about his co-starring role in One November Yankee with TV star Loretta Swit
(M.A.S.H.) at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood. One November Yankee playwright and director Joshua
Ravetch is also interviewed. The Live Arts Calendar features The Snow Queen, a world premiere musical at
South Pasadena’s Fremont Center Theatre. Broadway’s Cortes Alexander also guests to talk about his concert
career with Liza Minnelli, his Swell CD and his upcoming Have a Swell Holiday show at Sterling’s Upstairs at
The Federal in North Hollywood. Hamlin and Alexander share awkward career moments.
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From the Best of "Sterling & Stroili" (originally broadcast November 22, 2010)
Broadway, television and film stars Vicki Lewis (NewsRadio) and John Lloyd Young (Tony Award Winner – Jersey
Boys) join Sterling & Stroili to promote their 26th edition of State of the Arts. The foursome discuss
pre-holiday travel security making the day’s headlines: Scanner-proof Undies Keep Passenger’s Secrets. Lewis
and Young are interviewed about their multi-dimensional careers. Composer Randy Newman’s new musical Harps
and Angels at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is featured in the Live Arts Calendar; as is Broadway Rocks
Anaheim in benefit of the Anaheim Performing Arts Center Foundation. Guest critic Don Grigware expounds on
Tony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams in Uptown, Downtown at the Pasadena Playhouse. Lewis and Young
recall their worst moments while performing.
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Multiple Tony Award nominee and Broadway leading man Raul Esparza (Rocky Horror Show,
Cabaret, Company, Leap of Faith) is interviewed about his stage career; his new recurring role on Law &
Order: SVU; and his November 17th solo headlining concert Raul Esparza Sings Sondheim at the Valley
Performing Arts Center on the campus of California State University at Northridge (California). Broadway’s
Davis Gaines (Phantom of the Opera) and The Color Purple’s and American Idol’s LaToya London discuss their
respective wins at the LA Stage Alliance’s 2012 Ovation Awards held November 12th at the Los Angeles Theatre.
The two stars also discuss their current roles in the west coast premiere of the Off-Broadway hit parody
Silence! The Musical (based on the motion picture Silence of the Lambs) at the Hayworth Theatre in West Los
Angeles. The Live Arts Calendar features readings of two new comedies: Cops on Drugs and Rapunzel at the
Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA. Gaines and London share occurrences of embarrassing moments
while performing.
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Chicago playwright Doug Armstrong shares memories from 1989 about writing his now
nationally, critically acclaimed holiday theatre comedy A Christmas Twist (a parody of Dickens’ A Christmas
Carol and Oliver Twist). Los Angeles stage and television actors Lauren McCormack and Jen Ray (from the hit
ABC series The Middle) are interviewed about their co-starring roles in the Los Angeles revival of A
Christmas Twist at the Victory Theatre Center directed by State of the Arts’ own Paul Stroili who also
co-stars in the production. The State of the Arts/Breakdown Services Sweepstakes claims another weekly
winner. McCormack and Ray recall embarrassing career moments.
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Four-time U.S. National Champion, Four-time World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Scott
Hamilton is interviewed about his 13th Annual cancer Scott Hamilton & Friends fundraising ice and music
spectacular at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena; this year starring Five-Time Grammy Award winner Wynonna Judd
and a skating cast of Olympic Gold Medal legends including Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming. In studio
guests include writer/director/producer/author Bruce Kimmel (The First Nudie Musical, Kritzerland Records,
Out of the Box web series) who discusses his career and monthly Kritzerland concerts at Sterling’s Upstairs
at The Federal in North Hollywood. Standup Comedian, TV, film and theatre actor Richard Tanner talks about
the world premiere of his one-man show Small Parts at the Flight Theatre in Hollywood. Kimmel and Tanner
share awkward career moments.
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Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated actress Virginia Madsen (Sideways) talks about her
latest endeavor as a filmmaker (I Know a Woman Like That), a documentary directed by her mother Elaine
Madsen. Broadway star Melissa Fahn (Wicked) discusses her diversified career as a musical theatre performer,
voice over actress, and light jazz recording artist; as well as her cabaret debut in Grown Up Girl with
distinguished musician/drummer Joel Alpers at Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in North Hollywood, CA.
Broadway’s Mark C. Reis (Fosse) chronicles his professional path as a dancer/singer, a choreographer, a first
time father, an author, a certified Pilates instructor, and his debut in Diapers, Dishes and Dreams also at
Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal. Fahn and Reiss recall embarrassing moments while performing.
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Distinguished Award-winning Los Angeles Theatre Artistic Directors Ron Sossi (The Odyssey
Theatre Ensemble) and Daniel Henning (The Blank Theatre Company) are interviewed about their respective year
end projects: Sossi’s original production titled Theatre in the Dark which is performed in total darkness
(30 short plays combined and rotated on different evenings under the sub titles of Dark and More Dark); and
Henning’s unique fundraising event titled Hollywood on Tap, a craft beer festival complimented by popular LA
food trucks to be held on the “Streets of New York” backlot at Paramount Studios; as well as The
Blank’s annual Christmas holiday show The Santaland Diaries with Paolo Andino, former co-star of LOGO TV’s
Big Gay Sketch Show. Sterling reviews The Beat Goes On at Hollywood’s Arena Stage Theatre. Sossi and
Henning share embarrassing moments during their careers.
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Critically acclaimed original cast member of Saturday Night Live Laraine Newman talks about
her career today in theatre, film, television and animation. Emmy Award nominated Producer/Writer Eugene
Pack discusses his 2009 Off-Broadway Drama Desk Award-winning show Celebrity Autobiography which continues to
sweep the country with a diverse cast of rotating stars such as Newman, Florence Henderson, Roger Bart,
Lainie Kazan and Fred Willard, Brook Shields, etc. who will read and act out jaw-dropping vignettes excerpted
from celebrity tell-all books. The show next plays Hollywood’s Acme Comedy Theatre. The Breakdown
Services/State of the Arts Sweepstakes selects a weekly prize winner; while the Live Arts Calendar highlights
the National Ballet of Canada’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the
Music Center of Los Angeles. Pack shares an embarrassing moment as a performer.
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FROM THE BEST OF STATE OF THE ARTS – OCTOBER 4, 2010 - How do you keep the music playing?
The incomparable Roslyn Kind (younger sister of Barbra Streisand) answersthat question, and more, as she
talks about her life on Broadway, in nightclubs, and as a popular recording artist. It’s another
“No Pants Monday” as Sterling & Stroili share tales of tails. The live Arts Calendar for the
week is read; followed by reviews of 19 year old musical theatre star Derek Klena’s headlining concert debut
at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City; and the world premiere of the New York bound Leap of
Faithat the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, starring Broadway sensation Raul Esparza and Brooke Shields.
Critically acclaimed Los Angeles TV, film and stage actor Ian Vogt talks about his role in SeaGlass Theatre’s
hit comedyOf Grapes and Nutsat the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, CA. Senses are tested as Vogt and Kind
share their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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Theatrical Producer Pink Lady and Broadway/film/TV choreographer and performer Joe Giamalva
discuss the opening of the new variety song and dance show The Beat Goes On at the Theatre Arts Arena Stage
in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar features the State of the Arts/Breakdown Services weekly Prize
Giveaway; and three mini reviews by Sterling: Justin Love at Hollywood’s Celebration Theatre, The Full Monty
at The Third Street Theatre in West Hollywood, and the Los Angeles Musical Theatre Guild’s staged concert
production of Titanic. Pink Lady and Giamalva share embarrassing moments during their careers.
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Filmmaker and member of New York Women in Film & Television Emily Sheskin talks about
her plus-size beauty pageant documentary titled There She Is. Musical Theatre stars Adam Huss and Tyler
LeDon are interviewed about their co-starring roles in the much anticipated new musical Justin Love at the
Celebration Theatre in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar features critiques of Kander and Ebb’s musical
revue The World Goes ‘Round at Hollywood’s Crossly Theatre; and Euripides’ HELEN at the Getty Villa in
Pacific Palisades, CA. Huss and LeDon share embarrassing moments during performances.
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Los Angeles Ovation Award winner Shannon Warne (Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme) and LA Ovation
Award nominee (Having it All) is interviewed about her career and current co-starring role as "Pam" in The
Full Monty at the Third Street Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling and Stroili review the Los Angeles premiere of
The Book of Mormonat Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. Actor/Singer Morgan Reynolds (Life Could be a Dream, All
Shook Up) talks about his career with Disney Entertainment; as well as his co-starring role as "Malcolm" in
Third Street's Full Monty.
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A series of over-the-top one liners fuel this episode’s high stake antics. Sterling
discusses the opening of Euripides’ HELEN at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, CA. Composer, writer,
actor/singer Brett Ryback (the LA Center Theatre Group’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The History Boys)
talks about his acting and music careers and all new nightclub act The Kid with the Keys premiering in Los
Angeles at Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts District. The Live Arts
Calendar highlights All the King’s Men at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood; and the weekly State of
the Arts/Breakdown Services Sweepstakes Giveaway selects another winner. Actor Daniel Sykes is interviewed
about his life on the stage and his starring role in the Group Repertory Theatre’s production of The Paris
Letter at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood. Ryback and Sykes divulge awkward career moments.
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Actor Maxwell Caulfield (Grease 2, Dynasty and The Colbys) is interview about his work on
Broadway and his co-starring role in Euripides’ Helen at the Getty Villa’s outdoor Barbara and Lawrence
Fleischman Theatre in Pacific Palisades, CA. Caulfield’s wife of 30 years, distinguished Tony Award winning
Actress Juliet Mills from TV’s memorable hit series Nanny and the Professor, talks about her past
achievements, her sister Haley Mills, and their late father Sir. John Mills, one of the world’s most
distinguished stage and film actors. The State of the Arts Sweepstakes returns with its giveaway of great
prizes from Breakdown Services. Enter for your chance to win by “liking” State of the Arts” on
Facebook. Caulfield and Mills recall awkward moments while performing.
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Hollywood legend Budd Moss, agent to such stars as Sidney Poitier, Carolyn Jones, William
Shatner, Shelly Winters, Cyd Charisse, Tom Bosley and Mia Farrow, is interviewed about his autobiography And
All I Got was Ten Percent set for a September 1st release. Moss is joined by three time New York Times
bestselling celebrity ghostwriter Julie McCarron who discusses her work on Moss’ book, as well as
autobiographies for pop icons Rick Springfield’s and Gene Simmons. The Live Arts Calendar features the U.S.
National Tour of Mary Poppins at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles; and Euripides’ Helen at Moss shares an
embarrassing story from his past.
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From the Best of State of the Arts (Originally broadcast August 23, 2010) - Sterling shares
tales about the joys (or not) of moving; while Stroili talks of his mother’s move… a slightly different
“tail” which ends up in smoke. Film icon and best-selling author Tab Hunter is interviewed about
life during the 50’s as Warner Brothers #1 Box Office star; co-starring on Broadway with Tallulah Bankhead;
working on television; and his best-selling book Tab Hunter Confidential:The Making of a Movie Star. Child
star Blake McIver Ewing reminisces about own experiences on TV as aStar Searchwinner and series regular on
ABC’s beloved Full House.
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Singing sensation, concert and recording star Roslyn Kind is interviewed by Sterling and
Stroili. Sterling reviews the U.S. National Tour of Memphis at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
Nightclub singer/songwriter Cortes Alexander discusses his career touring the world in concert with Liza
Minnelli. The State of the Arts/Breakdown Services Prize Giveaway spins the wheel in search of its weekly
winner. Screenwriter and playwright Jamie Pachino talks about her critically acclaimed, award-winning play
The Return to Morality at Hollywood's Lex Theatre. Embarrassing career moments are revealed.
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Legendary Grammy Award winning pop recording icon Helen Reddy visits with Sterling and
Stroili to discuss her 2012 return to the concert stage after a self-imposed 10 year retirement. Sterling
does a mini review of the Tony Award winning musical Memphis at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre. The wheel
turns for the new weekly State of the Arts audience prize from Breakdown Services. Nightclub star Jeanne
Page is interviewed about her impressive career and working with Sammy Davis, Jr. Wayne Newton, Gladys
Knight, and others. Page also divulges an embarrassing moment during a performance.
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Sterling and Stroili interview Award-winning actress/singer Sunny Thompson about her
starring role in the critically acclaimed international touring show Marilyn Forever Blonde opening in August
at North Hollywood’s historic El Portal Theatre in the heart of the NoHo Arts District. The Live Arts
Calendar features Susanna Spies’ The Dryer at Hollywood’s Working Stage Theatre in benefit for the Eamon
Cannon Comedy Class at Inner-City Arts Los Angeles. The Breakdown Services/State of the Arts weekly prize
give away is introduced to listeners. Broadway star Raymond Saar (Les Miserables) talks about his diverse
musical theatre career and giving back to youngsters enrolled in the Teenage Drama Workshop summer
conservatory on campus at California State University at Northridge. Saar recalls an awkward moment during a
performance.
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Film and TV star Esai Morales (Star of La Bamba, NYPD Blue, Showtime’s Resurrection Blvd.,
Plays in the Park at the Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica, CA), and two-time Tony Award nominee
Christopher Sieber (Spamalot, Shrek, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Beauty and the Beast, and co-star with George
Hamilton in the current U.S. National Tour of La Cage Aux Follesat Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre) are
interviewed by Sterling and Stroili. The Live Arts Calendar features Komitas, an Armenian love story with
music about historic hero Komitas Vardabet (1869-1935) at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
Morales and Sieber recall embarrassing career moments.
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From The Best of State of The Arts (Originally broadcast July 12, 2010): Sterling and
Stroili salute "Actors as Entrepreneurs." In studio Guests Blair Hickey and Brian Wold discuss the formation
of CastingAbout.com, an online service for actors, with offices in Los Angeles and New York. This week’s live
Arts Calendar is highlighted by top productions in Southern California and Chicago. Tony Award winner Alan
Cumming’s cabaret concert – Alan Cumming: Uncut at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA is reviewed. Los
Angeles Ovation-nominated actress/singer/comedienne and impressionist Cissy Conner discusses her career and
highly successful shoe business, Bare Sole (BareSole.com)
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Veteran stage and screen stars Andrew Prine and Salome Jens discuss their 50+ year careers
in hit television series, major motion pictures, and on Broadway; as well as their co-starring roles in the
Ernest Thompson Tony Award nominated, Academy Award winning family comedy/drama On Golden Pond at the
Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA. The Live Arts Calendar features the Independent Shakespeare Company
and its annual summer festival in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park; this year featuring The Winter’s Tale, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Comedy of Errors. Prine and Jens recall embarrassing moments from their
careers.
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Broadway musical theatre star Juliana Hansen (Millie in the 1st U.S. National Tour of
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Miserables, Beauty and the Beast) talks about her association with the Walt
Disney Company; The Live Arts Calendar features Rogue Artists’ D is for Dog at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre
in Hollywood. Sterling reviews Million Dollar Quartetat the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, and For the
Record: Boogie Nights at Rockwell: Table and Stage in Los Feliz, CA. Veteran choreographer Jerry Evans
(Reba McIntyre, Paula Abdul, Barbra Streisand) is interviewed about his long career in film, television,
commercials, musical theatre and the concert stage. Hansen and Evans relive embarrassing career moments.
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Michael Sterling (the busiest man in showbiz) is out at a rehearsal, so Christopher Meehan
valiantly steps in to fill his well-polished shoes. Guests include actor, director and author Kevin Theis,
co-author of Confessions of a Transylvanian: A Story of Sex, Drugs and Rocky Horror - Now available on Kindle
and in trade paperback. Also, joining us by phone - American Idol's Bobby Bennett, discussing his upcoming
appearance at Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal on June 24th. We also talk stage fright, and self-tanning
accidents.
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Tony Nominee and Gymnastics legend Cathy Rigby chats about her storied career and reprising
the role of Peter Pan in the limited engagement production at La Mirada Theatre, along with an upcoming,
cabaret-style performance at Sterling's Upstairs at The Federal to benefit a favorite cause of hers:
Discovery Arts. Actor, author and musician James Schneider joins us in studio to discuss his original work:
"Clowns, Goddesses and Tough Guys" currently featured in the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
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Tony Award winner Faith Prince (Guys and Dolls) discusses the LA debut of her upcoming
cabaret concert The Prince and The Showboy (with Broadway’s Jason Graae) at Sterling’s Upstairs at The
Federal; as well as her appearances on Lifetime Television’s hit series Drop Dead Diva. Actor/Writer Mark
Nassar (creator of Tony and Tina’s Wedding) is interviewed about his latest theatrical endeavor Johnny Boy’s
Graduation at various locations throughout Chicago. Actor Peter Husmann talks with Sterling & Stroili
about his role as Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks in the hit musical production of Annie at the Glendale
Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA. Prince and Husmann reveal embarrassing moments while performing.
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From the Best of State of the Arts (Originally broadcast May 30, 2011) Sterling recounts for
Stroili a colorful cast of characters, though not from any play. Funny man Christopher Meehan (TV’s Last
Comic Standing) talks about the opening of his upcoming, self-penned play If Church Walls Could Talk... An
Evening of Catholic Comedy at the Miles Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. Just Imagine, starring Tim Piper as John
Lennon at the Hayworth Theatre in West Los Angeles, and 100 Saints You Should Know at Hollywood’s Elephant
Theatre Company highlight the Live Arts Calendar. Daytime television star Marie Wilson (As the World Turns
and Port Charles) is interviewed about her upcoming, co-starring role in A Flea in Her Ear at the Edgemar
Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA. Wilson and Meehan exchange most embarrassing on stage moments.
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From the Best of State of the Arts (Originally broadcast May 23, 2011) - Something’s rotten
in Denmark! Sterling and Stroili discuss a seasonal mystery scent emanating from the back seat of Paul’s
Camry. Distinguished Broadway, film and television star Alan Blumenfeld (NBC’s hit series Heroes) talks about
his association with the prestigious Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, CA. Fernando Richardson’s
Treacherous Brain at Hollywood’s Openfist Theatre, and Kritzerland Record’s Salute to the Music of Cy Coleman
at the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood… highlight this week’s Live Arts Calendar. Doug Kaback
(Director/Actor/Playwright and Professor of Theatre at Cal State University at Northridge, CA) discusses
directing the classic farce A Flea in Her Ear at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA.
Blumenfeld and Kaback relive their worst moments in theatre.
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George Wendt, talks about his 11 year tenure as “Norm Peterson” on Cheers; as well
as his current starring role in the award winning musical Re-Animator at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles.
Three-time Emmy Award winner Barbara Bain (Mission Impossible) is also interviewed about her co-starring
roles in Love Struck, an evening of 8 short plays at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights the musicals Lucky Stiff at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts...and the 35th anniversary of Annie
at the Glendale Centre Theatre. Wendt shares an embarrassing moment in his performing career.
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Stroili goes it alone, as Michael is off at Suave and Debonaire Expo 2012 - It's a
rollicking jalopy of a ride with accomplished actor/writer/singer/songwriter Oscar Jordan, discussing his two
albums, MR. BAD LUCK and ECLECTIC SOUL. Also in studio, Jim Kalin from the acclaimed band, PILGRIM talking
about their latest release, LATE. The latest Rogue Machine production is featured in our Live Arts Calendar,
and Roger from Thousand Oaks calls in to chat.
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Critically acclaimed author Patty Farmer and celebrated nightclub star Barbara Van Orden
join Sterling and Stroili to discuss Farmer’s new book The Persian Room Presents (Vantage Press), a
collaborative memoir of the (once) most elegant nightclub in New York City. Housed between 1934 – 1975 at
the legendary Plaza Hotel at 5th Avenue and Central Park South, The Persian Room comes back to life in
Farmer’s book through personal stories from such stars as Lainie Kazan, Jack Jones, Michele Lee, Carol
Lawrence, Andy Williams, Julie Wilson, Tony Butala and many others ... including Ms. Van Orden. The Live
Arts Calendar highlights Hello My Baby, a new musical conceived and written by Emmy and Golden Globe Award
winner and Tony Nominee Cheri Steinkellner, presented by the Rubicon Theatre Company at The Lobero Theatre in
Santa Barbara, CA. Ms. Van Orden shares an unusual moment from her performing career.
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Regional Musical theatre stars Bets Malone and Scott Reardon join Sterling and Stroili to
discuss their co-starring roles in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s all new, refreshed production of Once Upon a
Mattress at the Fred Kavli Theatre in the Bank of America Performing Arts Center, part of the Thousand Oaks
Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, CA. Thirteen year old Broadway sensation Melody Hollis (White Christmas)
makes a guest surprise appearance to talk about her upcoming headlining concert engagement at Sterling’s
Upstairs at The Federal in North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts District. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Alain
Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s Miss Saigon at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La
Mirada, CA. Malone and Reardon recall embarrassing moments during past performances.
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Legendary character actor Allan Rich talks about his extraordinary life in film and
television, and his new book A Leap from the Method. The Live Arts Calendar highlights the Los Angeles
opening of distinguished composer Michele Brourman and cabaret sensation Pat Whiteman at Sterling’s Upstairs
at The Federal and the evening’s charitable beneficiary Hope-Net (www.hopenetla.org). Sterling reviews the
Los Angeles premiere of
Billy Elliot the Musical at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Musical Theatre star Daniel Tatar is
interviewed about his participation in The Company Men, one of the hottest, new concert acts sweeping the
country. Rich and Tatar reveal embarrassing career moments.
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LaToya London (former American Idol top finalist) is interviewed about her role as
“Shug Avery” in the current revival of The Color Purple at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood.
Actor Don Swayze discusses his longtime film and television career and how his late brother Patrick’s health
crisis affected the characterization of his starring role in the world premiere of Elizabeth Sarnoff’s Slow
Dance in Midtown at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA. The Live Arts Calendar spotlights William
Shakespeare’s breathless tragedy Antony and Cleopatra at LA’s distinguished A Noise Within classical theatre
company; and The New American Theatre’s world premiere presentation of Bedfellows by Chuck Rose at
Hollywood’s McCadden Place Theatre. Swayze recalls embarrassing performance mishaps.
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Broadway’s Bryonha Parham joins Sterling & Stroili live from New York to talk about her
current co-starring role in the newly reimagined hit Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. In
studio, distinguished award-winning film, television, and musical theatre composer Michele Brourman is
interviewed; along with Los Angeles musical theatre star Stephanie Renee Wall, who also portrays the iconic,
real life “Barbie” for Mattel Toys. Both discuss their upcoming headlining engagements at the all
new Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in North Hollywood’s NoHo Arts District. Stroili does a review of The
Merchant of Venice at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, CA. Brourman and Wall recall embarrassing moments during
their performing careers.
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Gary A. Marsh, creator of Breakdown Services, the Los Angeles based corporation that
universally revolutionized the casting industry for motion pictures, television, commercials, and beyond,
discusses the company’s 40 year history with Sterling and Stroili. Divisions of Breakdown Services such as
Showfax, Casting About, the Virtual Channel Network, Talent Pro, Eco-Cast, and Actors Access are highlighted.
State of the Arts’ new 99-Seat Theatre Spotlight singles out the award-winning Theatre Banshee in Los
Angeles, while the Live Arts Calendar promotes the Tony Award-winning musical American Idiot at the Center
Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Marsh shares an amusingly awkward career moment.
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Broadway, Film, TV, Concert star and popular adult contemporary Recording artist Lainie
Kazan spends an intimate and disarming hour with Sterling & Stroili as she discusses her very diverse and
much heralded career including an upcoming appearance in Celebrity Autobiography: The Music Edition at the
Clive Davis Theatre at LA’s GRAMMY Museum; and her special guest appearance at the April 1, 2012 Grand
Opening of Sterling’s Upstairs at The Federal in Kritzerland Records’ Take Me Along, a tribute to the work of
Broadway and pop songwriter Bob Merrill. The Live Arts Calendar spotlights Broadway’s Liz Callaway and
Cabaret’s Ann Hampton Callaway in “Boom” at The Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University in
Malibu, CA; and Opera superstar Renee Fleming in concert with the San Diego Symphony at the Civic Theatre in
San Diego, CA. Ms. Kazan recalls a humorous, awkward career moment.
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Sterling and Stroili vent about irresponsible parents and child care. Michelle Danner,
Entrepreneur and Artistic Director for the Edgemar Center for the Arts and Edgemar Theatre Group in Santa
Monica, CA is interviewed about the company’s new production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Ghosts. The Live
Arts Calendar highlights LA Opera’s production of Albert Herring at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Los
Angeles Music Center. Sterling’s reviews Bernadette Peters in Concert at the Valley Performing Arts Center
on the campus of Cal State University at Northridge. Artistic Director Greg Shane not only discusses his
involvement with CRE Outreach and the organization’s Theatre by The Blind arts program, but its current
offering of the Steven Dietz comedy/drama Private Eyes. Danner and Shane share embarrassing moments during
performance.
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From the Best of Sterling and Stroili (first broadcast March 7, 2011) - Former teen
heartthrob/pop recording artist and film and television star Rex Smith talks about his life and career in Los
Angeles theatre and on Broadway. Musical theatre star, singer/comedian Perry Lambert shares celebrity
impressions and discusses his touring nightclub act. Stroili gives a toe-by-toe accounting of his first
mani/pedi. The foursome vow not to acknowledge the now so-fired, not-so-winning Charlie Sheen. The Live Arts
Calendar features Tony Award winner Lee Hall’s (Billy Elliot) commedia dell’arte, signed and voiced
adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio produced by the nationally distinguished Deaf West Theatre of North
Hollywood. Reviews include the comedy Play Date at Hollywood’s Theatre Asylum, and the U.S. National tour
stop of the multi-Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q at the Pantages Theatre, also in Hollywood. Lambert
and Smith divulge a few of their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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Sterling and Stroili talk shop with 2012 LA Comedy Award nominee Stephanie Jones
(“Funniest Actress in a Comedy”) about her career and her starring role in the hit web TV series
Good Job, Thanks! Created and written by Ryan Glasgow, and also nominated for an LA Comedy Award as
“Best New Comedy”, Good Job, Thanks! follows showbiz casting diva, Linda Livingston-Black (Jones)
as she struggles to maintain her sanity in a job where day-to-day “normal” is anything and
everything imaginable. The Live Arts Calendar highlights the LA Opera’s production of Albert Herring at the
Los Angeles Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; and Celebrate Dance 2012, an annual, one-night-only
dance festival showcasing the work of nine choreographers and seven dance companies at Glendale’s Alex
Theatre. Jones shares an embarrassing career moment. Note: Bryonha Parham (currently co-starring in Porgy
and Bess on Broadway) was originally set to guest on this edition of State of the Arts. Due to an unexpected
conflict, Ms. Parham will be rescheduled for a near future appearance).
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Television star and Tony Award nominated Broadway star Craig Bierko (Sex and the City, The
Music Man) is interviewed by Sterling and Stroili about his participation with Celebrity Biography in benefit
of the Loma Linda California Children’s Hospital. Chelsea Emma Franko, winner of LA’s coveted, annual
musical theatre competition LA’s Next Great Stage Star is interviewed along with three of Stage Star’s top
five finalists Tyson Pyles, Carrie St. Louis, and David Michael Laffey. Sterling does a shout-out to Man of
La Mancha starring Broadway’s Davis Gaines and international musical theatre star Leslie Margherita at
Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA.
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TV, film and theatre heartthrob Lorenzo Lamas (Renegade and Falcon Crest) talks about his
co-starring role as the Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (a benefit for Musical
Theatre of Los Angeles and Josh Grobin’s Find Your Light Foundation); Distinguished Broadway star Davis
Gaines (Phantom of the Opera) and the vivacious, award-winning musical theatre star Lesli Margherita
(London’s Zorro: The Musical and Reprise’s Kiss Me Kate) join Sterling & Stroili for a rollicking hour.
Gaines discusses his beginnings on Broadway, and taking on the starring role of Don Quixote (Cervantes)
opposite Leslie Margherita’s portrayal of Aldonza in Man of La Mancha for Musical Theatre West in Long Beach,
CA at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center. The Live Arts Calendar highlights a stage
adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Ghosts at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA.
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A February 15th fundraising concert version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
for Musical Theatre of Los Angeles (MTLA) and Josh Grobin’s Find Your Light Foundation (starring heartthrobs
David Burnham from Broadway’s Wicked and Light in the Piazza; and television and film star Lorenzo Lamas at
the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA,) is discussed with MTLA’s Bonnie McMahan and Aaron Jacobs. The Live
Arts Calendar highlights Sidetracked, a timeless murder mystery (Hollywood style) at the Macha Theatre in
West Hollywood, CA. Jacobs and Stroili share some embarrassing showbiz related social moments.
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Broadway‘s Roger Bart (The Producers, Young Frankenstein) and Kim Huber (Disney’s Beauty and
the Beast) join Sterling & Stroili for a frothy, fast moving hour. Bart discusses his career and his
starring role in celebrated playwright Yasmina Reza’s Art at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA.
Sterling gives a mini review of It’s a Wonderful Life at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA; and
announces "Tutu Day” (February 2nd) on behalf of Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre and the upcoming west coast
premiere engagement of Broadway’s Billy Elliot The Musical. Huber also elaborates on her career, and taking
on the iconic role of "Maria Von Trapp” in 3D Theatricals’ extravagant production of The Sound of Music at
the historic Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA.
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Shtick around for the jokes, folks… Suzanne Whang, standup comedienne and longtime host of
Home & Garden TV’s House Hunters and House Hunters International, returns to State of the Arts to not
only share the trials and joys of her life on stage in Cracked Open: Let Go & Gook at Beyond Baroque in
Venice, CA; but her much publicized bout with breast cancer. Journalist, jazz enthusiast and filmmaker
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn talks about her first full length documentary But Can She Play? which focuses on
the lives and music of female sax and brass players. The Live Arts Calendar features Art written by
award-winning playwright Yasmina Reza (God of Carnage) at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Whang
shares an embarrassing moment on stage.
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Sterling and Stroili talk Golden Globes and 3 year old YouTube film critic Jack Porter.
Librettist Elizabeth Yng-Wong and songwriter Joel Henry Stein are interviewed about their current,
collaborative work-in-progress… The Demise, a rock opera about a tormented young musician (Broadway’s Doug
Kreeger) whose spiritual quest in New York City seemingly takes him into isolation, despair and suicide for
one night only (January 19, 2012) in On the Rox at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. The Live Arts
Calendar highlights a groundbreaking new version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town starring Academy Award winner
Helen Hunt at The Broad Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. Yng-Wong and Stein share embarrassing performance
moments.
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Back in full form for the New Year, Sterling and Stroili welcome film star and Emmy
Award-winning actor Leslie Jordan (The Help; Will & Grace); and Michael Orland - Associate Musial
Director/Pianist/Arranger for American Idol. The Live Arts Calendar features Zanna Don’t, a hip musical
fairytale at Theater Theatre in Los Angeles, and the 2009 Tony Award winning comedy God of Carnage at
International City Theatre in Long Beach, CA. Jordan and Orland share fun moments during live performances.
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From the "Best of Sterling and Stroili - 2011" - A Special Repeat: It’s a laugh-a-minute as
Sterling and Stroili welcome Broadway and television stars Jenny O’Hara (Promises, Promises; My Sister Sam)
and Nick Ullett (Me and My Girl; Loot). The foursome discuss the 65th Annual Tony Awards Broadcast. O’Hara
and Ullett are interviewed about their marriage, their careers, and their co-starring roles in Steven Sachs’
world premiere comedy Bakersfield Mist at the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The Live Arts Calendar
features the Pasadena Playhouse’s west coast premiere of Twist, An American Musical directed by Debbie Allen;
and the Long Beach Opera’s presentation of The Difficulty of Crossing a Field at the Terrace Theatre in
California’s Long Beach Performing Arts Center. O’Hara and Ullett recant their most embarrassing moments on
stage.
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From the "Best of Sterling and Stroili" - A special holiday repeat from December 27, 2010:
Stroili flies alone, while Sterling stays home with a holiday cold. Stroili makes an (unannounced) on-air
singing debut. Ryan Eggold and Gillian Zinser, co-stars of the CW’s iconic, revitalized hit TV series Beverly
Hills 90210, guest in-studio to discuss their roles in Amy and Elliot, a world premiere comedy (written and
directed by Eggold) opening at the Stella Adler-Gilbert Stage in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar highlights
New Year’s Eve with Broadway star Kristen Chenoweth at the Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown Los Angeles;and
the Jim Henson puppets with guest comics in Stuffed and Unstrung at the Irvine Barclay Theatre at the
University of Irvine, CA. Sterling makes a surprise phone call into the program. Eggold and Zinser are
coerced into sharing their worst moments during a performance.
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From the "Best of Sterling & Stroili" - A special holiday repeat from December 20, 2010:
‘Tis the season to be jolly. Stroili recites The Nightmare Before Martha (Stewart),a self-penned parody of
The Night Before Christmas), while Sterling and guests James Roday (star of USA Network’s hit TV series
Psych), and Brad Raider (TV and film actor and Co-Artistic Director of LA’s Red Squadron Theatre Company)
provide backup vocals to underscore the reading. Roday and Raider are interviewed about their friendship and
careers, Red Squadron’s history, and its west coast premiere of Karl Gajdusek’s comedy/drama greedy at
Hollywood’s El Centro Theatre. The Live Arts Calendar highlight’s The Nutcracker’s Journey from the Arts in
Review Repertory Players at LA radio station KPFK (90.7 FM). Sterling reviews the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los
Angeles and Comfort and Joy, their annual holiday extravaganza at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. Roday and
Raider relive their worst moments in theatre. Crooner Antony Field’s latest CD You and Me on Christmas Eve is
also highlighted.
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Stroili is sans Sterling, as Michael takes the day off to cough, among other things. Paul
is joined by TV, Film and Cabaret star Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere) and actor/writer/critic Jason Rohrer
(stagehappenings.com, bitterlemons.com). Ilene discusses her recent headlining gig at Kritzerland at the
Gardenia, and Jason leads a discussion on all things theatrical in Los Angeles, good and bad.
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Showtime television star, film star and singer Thea Gill (Queer as Folk) and Broadway Tony
Award winner Sammy Williams (A Chorus Line) are interviewed. The Live Arts Calendar features The Slap and
Tickle Holiday Show at Hollywood’s Lillian Theatre; and Kritzerland Records’ A Broadway/Hollywood Christmas
at the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood. Gill discusses her debut in Body and Soul at Sterling’s Upstairs at
Vitello’s in Studio City, CA. Williams tells of his beginnings in New York and on the Broadway stage.
Embarrassing on stage moments are divulged.
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Hold your hats and hallelujah... the holiday season shifts into full gear with crooner Erich
Bergen (Jersey Boys) and television and stage star Paolo Andino (LOGO’s Big Gay Sketch Show) as they discuss
their respective holiday projects (Erich Bergen’s Holiday Party at The Coteri in Hollywood, and A Snow White
Christmas at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood; and Andino’s solo starring role in the Blank Theatre
Company’s annual production of The Santaland Diaries at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. The Live
Arts Calendar highlights Sister Bernie’s Bingo Bash at the Greenway Court Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling
reviews the Glendale Centre Theatre’s 47th annual production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and
singer Lyn Stanley’s headlining debut at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City, CA. Andino shares
an embarrassing moment during a performance.
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Hilarity ensues when Sister Bernie Wyjakenowsinetski (Mary McHale) of Chicago’s St. Dymphna
Church gives a stern interview about her traveling Sister Bernie’s Bingo Bash at Los Angeles’ Greenway Court
Theatre. The Live Arts Calendar features the poignant 2010 Tony Award-winning drama Next Fall at the Geffen
Playhouse in Los Angeles; and a lavish production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Glendale
Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA. U.S. Pro/Am Ballroom Dance Champion Lyn Stanley talks about her foray into
singing and her Los Angeles cabaret debut in Makin’ Whoopie at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s. Sister
Bernie and Ms. Stanley share embarrassing career moments.
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TV heartthrob James Denton (Desperate Housewives) and uber talented recording artist and
television actress Caitlin Crosby (MTV’s The Hard Times of RJ Berger) discuss their roles in Karaoke Man, the
new, critically acclaimed feature film collecting distinguished awards at top festivals throughout the
country. The live arts calendar spotlights The Playground, a new musical inspired by true stories of LA’s
homeless youth at Hollywood’s Met Theatre. Sterling reviews the U.S. National Tour opening of Bring it On:
The Musical (based on the film of the same name) at the Ahmanson Theatre downtown Los Angeles. Crosby and
Denton share awkward moments while performing live on stage.
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Obie and Peabody Award winning actor/writer Roger Guenveur Smith (A Huey P. Newton Story)
discusses his latest work Juan and John at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles. Sterling
coerces Stroili to talk about his weekend road trip to Arizona and a close encounter of the fudge kind.
Popular radio show host Sheena Metal (LA Talk Radio.com) is interviewed about her co-starring role in Last
Summer at Bluefish Cove and its reopening at the Lounge Theatre in Los Angeles. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights the Blank Theatre Company’s hilarious holiday offering of The Santaland Diaries. Sterling reviews
A Sentimental Journey, The Story of Doris Day at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Smith and
Metal divulge awkward on stage moments.
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Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Anne Archer (Fatal Attraction) is interviewed by
Sterling and Stroili about her career and latest stage endeavor: Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion
at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA. Broadway and television star Jim J. Bullock (Too
Close for Comfort) laughs it up as he talks about his return to Hairspray the Musical as Edna Turnblad at
Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA. Sterling reviews the Twyla Tharp/Frank Sinatra hit Broadway musical
Come Fly Away, at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood; and a new production of Sweet Charity at the
Knightsbridge Theatre in Los Angeles. Bullock and Ms. Archer recant embarrassing on stage moments.
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Figure Skating icon and Olympic Champion Scott Hamilton calls Sterling and Stroili to remind
listeners about his annual cancer fundraising event Scott Hamilton & Friends, this year featuring 9-time
Grammy winner Sheryl Crow and Olympic Champs Dorothy Hamill and Kristi Yamaguchi. Sirena Irwin and Bill
Mendieta are interviewed about their roles as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo in the smash LA hit, world premiere
comedy (with music) I Love Lucy Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles.
“…Lucy…” Producer Stephen Kahn also calls in to discuss the project. The weekly live arts calendar
features Four Foot Productions’ Seascape with Sharks and Dancer at the Sherry Theatre in North Hollywood; and
the west coast premiere of Dolly West’s Kitchen at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, CA. Irwin and Mendieta reveal
embarrassing moments while performing.
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Fasten your seatbelts… it’s going to be a bumpy ride! Recording artist, Broadway and
concert star Roslyn Kind; and stage, film and TV comedian Chris Meehan (Last Comic Standing) are part of a
high speed chase with Stroili behind the wheel and Sterling riding shotgun. Kind discusses her annual
headlining engagement at Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz Club, while Meehan chats about his latest motion picture
(Gratitude) in film festivals throughout the U.S. The Live Arts Calendar features Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA, and Musical Theatre West’s production of Hairspray
at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, CA. Kind and Meehan share their most embarrassing
moments on stage.
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Four-time Emmy Award winning actress Ms. Michael Learned (The Waltons) and critically
acclaimed Southland theatre director Robert Marra (Seven Brides…A Chorus Line, Chess, Oklahoma) share the
hour with Sterling and Stroili who open the show with banter about the correct pronunciation of Italian food
dishes and the hazards of driving in the rain. Learned discusses her co-starring role in the romantic comedy
Southern Comforts on stage at the Falcon Theatre in Toluca Lake, CA; while Marra talks about a fresh,
“more edgy” revival of Sweet Charity at the Knightsbridge Theatre in Los Angeles. The Live Arts
Calendar highlights I Love Lucy … Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre in LA, and the world premiere
comedy of Centre Theatre Group’s Poor Behavior at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown Los Angeles. An
embarrassing tongue-twisting, on-stage story is revealed by one of the guests.
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Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sally Struthers (All in the Family), and Norman Large
(Broadway: Les Miserables and The Woman in White) discuss their co-starring roles in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s
production of Annie at the Fred Kavli Theatre in the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza - Thousand Oaks, CA. TV,
Broadway and Musical Theatre performer Cassie Silva is interviewed about her competitive participation in
Legally Blonde - The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods, and her role in the new musical South Street at the
Pasadena Playhouse. The Live Arts Calendar features South Street and a ticket giveaway to listeners of this
broadcast. Large and Silva recall their worst moments on stage.
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Broadway leading man David Burnham (Wicked, The Light in the Piazza) joins Sterling and
Stroili to discuss his history on the Great White Way, and upcoming concert schedule in Los Angeles at
Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s in Studio City, CA … and across the nation. Listeners are treated to a cut
from Burnham’s newest CD One Day. Los Angeles musical theatre star Jim Holdridge (Life Could be a Dream,
Stomp) also joins the panel to talk about his career and current endeavor with South Street, a new musical on
stage at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. The Live Arts Calendar highlights South Street as its pick
of the week with three pair of complimentary bonus tickets for listeners to win (must listen to broadcast for
further details). Burnham and Holdridge tell of their most unusual moments during performances.
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Real, live South Jersey boy and Broadway performer Graham Fenton (“Frankie Valli”
in the Las Vegas production of Jersey Boys at the Palazzo Hotel); and LA’s busiest leading lady Kristin
Towers-Rowles, currently co-starring in Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at The Met Theatre
in Hollywood) are interviewed by Sterling and Stroili. The Live Arts Calendar features Up at Anaheim, CA’s
award-winning Chance Theatre; and South Street, a new musical at the historic Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena,
CA. Fenton treats listeners to his rendition of Billy Joel’s New York State of Mind. Fenton and
Towers-Rowlesreveal their most awkward moments in theatre.
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Sterling and Stroili welcome notable stage and television actors Ian Vogt and Dale Morris -
both of whom are associated with SeaGlass Theatre’s production of Kvetch at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman
Oaks, CA. Vogt talks about directing the hilarious Steven Berkoff comedy which not only features Morris, but
State of the Arts co-host Paul Stroili. Random callers phone in with their own “kvetches” causing
hysteria in the studio. The Live Arts Calendar features reviews of Israeli superstar Mike Burstyn in Jolson
Live at the Winter Garden on stage at North Hollywood’s historic El Portal Theatre; Kritzerland Records’
salute to the music of Frank Loesser at the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood; and The Unauthorized Afterlife
of Eugene O’Neill at the Pasadena Playhouse’s Carrie Hamilton Theatre. Vogt and Morris share embarrassing
performance moments.
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From the Best of the 2010 State of the Arts Series: Sterling & Stroili work while the
rest of the country takes a day off. (What’s wrong with this picture?) An exchange of Stroili’s bizarre trip
to a local library, and Sterling’s chance meeting with a celebrity in a nearby restaurant kick off this Labor
Day show. World Champion Figure Skating legend Tai Babilonia shares a few spins through her well-documented
life. The weekly Arts Calendar is announced. Michael Orland gives insight to his nearly ten-year position as
Associate Musical Director, Pianist and Arranger for TV’s reality/variety, mega hit series: American Idol.
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Comedic actor Monroe Makowsky (AKA "Whopper Sr." in a continuing series of commercials for
Burger King), chews the fat with Sterling and Stroili about his checkered professional life ... from Oprah to
Liza and James (Cameron, that is)... to his current co-starring role in the LA hit comedy drama Dsynomiaat
the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar features SeaGlass Theatre’s fall production of
Steven Berkoff’s hilarious comedy Kvetch at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, and the Deborah Laufer
comedy End Days at The Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. Makowsky shares his most embarrassing moments on
stage.
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Daytime television star Judith Chapman (The Young and the Restless) joins Sterling &
Stroili to discuss her career in television and theatre, including her critically acclaimed performance as
Vivien Leigh in Vivien for Rogue Machine Theatre Co. and Troubadours of Daytime at Theater Theatre in Los
Angeles. Israeli superstar and Broadway performer Mike Burstyn discusses his theatrical history and his one
man concert Jolson at the Winter Garden at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights the Los Angeles Stage Alliance’s "Ovation Recommended" production of Dysnomia at the Lounge
Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews the James Sherman comedy Beau Jest at the Glendale Centre Theatre.
Chapman and Burstyn recall unusual moments during their performances.
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Sterling & Stroili are joined by singer, stage and television star Alison Robertson
(Passions), and veteran theatre actor Mario Di Gregorio. Michael and Paul vent on the technology of texting,
emails and misuse of cell phones. Robertson and Di Gregorio discuss their careers and co-starring roles in
the James Sherman off-Broadway hit comedy Beau Jest at the Glendale Centre Theatre, in Glendale, CA. The
Live Arts Calendar highlights Dancing at Lughnasa on stage at The Complex Theatre in Hollywood and the Lopez
Auditorium in Whittier, CA; Othello at LA’s Lex Theatre; and Ennio at the Pasadena Playhouse. Robertson and
Di Gregorio share awkward moments while performing.
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Ana Gasteyer from Broadway’s Wicked and TV’s Saturday Night Live… joins Tony Award winner
Daisy Eagan (The Secret Garden) for an hour of daffy, goofy fun and laughs with Sterling and Stroili.
Gasteyer discusses her west coast cabaret concert debut in Elegant Songs from a Handsome Woman at Hollywood’s
Catalina Bar and Grill; while Eagan talks about her return to musical theatre in The Real Love: A New
Musical at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium; JERSEY SHORESical at LA’s Bootleg Theatre, and Ghostlight at New
York’s Musical Theatre Festival. Sterling does mini reviews of Hairspray at the Hollywood Bowl, and
Kritzerland’s salute to the music of Broadway composers Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones at the Gardenia
Restaurant in Hollywood. Gasteyer and Eagan share their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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Marion Ramsey, co-star of the classic Police Academy comedy series of movies; and Bart
Braverman, a regular from the former, longtime hit TV series Vega$ starring Robert Urich, join Sterling and
Stroili for an hour of tomfoolery. Ramsey and Braverman discuss their careers and their return to the stage
in the world premiere of Countermen at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA. The Live Arts Calendar
singles out Hairspray, the Hollywood Bowl’s annual summer, star-driven Broadway spectacular; and global
phenomenon Ennio starring Ennio Marchetto - The Living Paper Cartoon at the Pasadena Playhouse. Ramsey and
Braverman recall some of their worst career moments.
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On this very musical Monday, stage and television stars Lisa Marinacci and Will Collyer sit
shot gun as Sterling and Stroili gear up for another wild ride on the air waves. A discussion about Ms.
Marinacci’s career also features musical selections from her new rock musical The Devil and Daisy Jane at
Hollywood’s Terrace Theatre. The Live Arts Calendar highlights On Golden Pond with Hal Linden and Christina
Pickles at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA; and Stroili’s review of Caught at LA’s Zephyr Theatre. Will
Collyer talks about his career and debut with Kritzerland at the Gardenia: The Schmidt and Jones Album.
Tunes from Collyer are also played. Marinacci and Collyer are inducted into MESM (Most Embarrassing Stage
Moments).
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Broadway and television stars Mary Jo Catlett (Hello Dolly; Glee; Diff’rent Strokes) and
Derek Keeling (Grease; NBC’s Grease: You’re the One I Want) find themselves in the fast lane with Sterling
& Stroili as they talk birthdays and martinis, LA’s "Carmageddon" and auto mishaps. Catlett and Keeling
discuss their careers, and their co-starring roles in The Wedding Singer at Musical Theatre West in Long
Beach, CA. The Live Arts Calendar spotlights Come Together - A Beatles Cabaret at the Attic Theatre in
Hollywood. Sterling reviews Shrek The Musical at Hollywood’s historic Pantages Theatre. Catlett and Keeling
share embarrassing moments during live performances.
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Television stars Denise Crosby (Trekkies 1 and 2; Star Trek: The Next Generation, Key West)
and Jamie Rose (Falcon Crest, Lady Blue) join Sterling and Stroili for a rousing conversation about cell
phones and driving; and mistaken celebrity identities. Crosby and Rose are interviewed about their personal
and professional lives; and their co-starring roles in the world premiere of Kari Floren???s Revisting
Wildfire at the Odyssey Theatre in west Los Angeles. Steven Dietz???s contemporary masterpiece Fiction at
The Underground Theatre in Hollywood, highlights the Live Arts Calendar. Sterling reviews Kritzerland at the
Gardenia ??? An Evening of Kander and Ebb; the west coast premieres of Twist the Musical at the Pasadena
Playhouse in Pasadena, CA and Shrek at Hollywood???s Pantages Theatre are promoted. Stroili reviews 1776 the
musical at the Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA; Crosby and Rose share their most embarrassing moments
on stage.
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Regional SoCal actors Victoria Strong and Peter Husmann, co-stars of 1776 The Musical at the
Glendale Centre Theatre in Glendale, CA, celebrate Independence Day with Sterling & Stroili. The two
musical theatre veterans (who portray history???s John Adams and Abigail Adams) are interviewed about the
uniqueness of the Tony Award winning musical and its setting in the beautiful 400 seat Glendale theatre
in-the-round, now in its 64th year as the longest, continuously running theatre in the U.S. The Live Arts
Calendar features reviews of War Horse on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York; and the west
coast premiere of Twist at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, CA. Strong and Husmann are inducted into
Sterling & Stroili???s Hall of Shame by revealing their most embarrassing on stage moments.
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Father???s Day, Family, and a Booze Cruise (that???s right, a Booze Cruise) are discussed by
Sterling & Stroili. Bonnie McMahan, Artistic Director and Founder of Musical Theatre of Los Angeles
(MTLA) is interviewed. The Live Arts Calendar features 1776 The Musical at Glendale Centre Theatre in in
Glendale, CA. Sterling reviews Good, Bad but Beautiful at the Comedy Store in Hollywood; and Cabaret star
Harold Sanditen???s Thoughts ???Round Midnight, a west coast debut at Hollywood???s M Bar. Award-winning
theatre and television actor Eduardo Enrikez is also interviewed. McMahan and Enrikez share their most
embarrassing moments on stage.
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It???s a laugh-a-minute as Sterling and Stroili welcome Broadway and television stars Jenny
O???Hara (Promises, Promises; My Sister Sam) and Nick Ullett (Me and My Girl; Loot). The foursome discuss
the 65th Annual Tony Awards Broadcast. O???Hara and Ullett are interviewed about their marriage, their
careers, and their co-starring roles in Steven Sachs??? world premiere comedy Bakersfield Mist at the
Fountain Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The Live Arts Calendar features the Pasadena Playhouse???s west coast
premiere of Twist, An American Musical directed by Debbie Allen; and the Long Beach Opera???s presentation of
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field at the Terrace Theatre in California???s Long Beach Performing Arts
Center. O???Hara and Ullett recant their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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Sterling is joined by LA Talk Radio Network personality Sheena Metal who sits in for host
Paul Stroili. Former, successful U.K. theatre producer Harold Sanditen talks about his new career as a
cabaret performer. The Live Arts calendar features The Rat Pack Revisited at Fullerton Civic Light
Opera???s Skyroom in Fullerton, CA; and Douglas Carter???s showbiz comedy The Little Dog Laughed at LA???s El
Centro Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews Kritzerland Record???s musical salute to Broadway composer Cy
Coleman at the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood; and iGhost, a new, contemporary musical based on Oscar
Wilde???s The Canterville Ghost at the Lyric Theatre in LA. Disney TV teen star Jennifer Stone (Wizards of
Waverly Place) is interviewed about her career and participation in the Young Playwright???s Festival
produced by the LA???s Blank Theatre Company. Stone shares her most embarrassing career moment.
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Sterling recounts for Stroili a colorful cast of characters, though not from any play.
Funny man Christopher Meehan (TV???s Last Comic Standing) talks about the opening of his upcoming,
self-penned play If Church Walls Could Talk... An Evening of Catholic Comedy at the Miles Theatre in Santa
Monica, CA. Just Imagine, starring Tim Piper as John Lennon at the Hayworth Theatre in West Los Angeles,
and 100 Saints You Should Know at Hollywood???s Elephant Theatre Company highlight the Live Arts Calendar.
Daytime television star Marie Wilson (As the World Turns and Port Charles) is interviewed about her upcoming,
co-starring role in A Flea in Her Ear at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA. Wilson and
Meehan exchange most embarrassing on stage moments.
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Something???s rotten in Denmark! Sterling and Stroili discuss a seasonal mystery scent
emanating from the back seat of Paul???s Camry. Distinguished Broadway, film and television star Alan
Blumenfeld (NBC???s hit series Heroes) talks about his association with the prestigious Theatricum Botanicum
in Topanga Canyon, CA. Fernando Richardson???s Treacherous Brain at Hollywood???s Openfist Theatre, and
Kritzerland Record???s Salute to the Music of Cy Coleman at the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood... highlight
this week???s Live Arts Calendar. Doug Kaback (Director/Actor/Playwright and Professor of Theatre at Cal
State University at Northridge, CA) discusses directing the classic farce A Flea in Her Ear at the Edgemar
Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA. Blumenfeld and Kaback relive their worst moments in theatre.
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Sterling takes one last bite of Meat Loaf on the Donald???s Celebrity Apprentice. Stroili
injects a botoxicating headline from the news of the day. Multi-talented Broadway star Leenya Rideout (from
the current 2011 Tony Award nominated play War Horse and Broadway productions of Company, Cabaret and Cyrano
De Bergerac )is interviewed. LA???s SeaGlass Theatre highlights the Live Arts Calendar. Sterling reviews
the West Coast Theatre Ensemble???s production of Gypsy (Stripped) ??? the Arthur Laurents, Jule
Styne/Stephen Sondheim classic musical at Hollywood???s Theatre of Arts Arena Stage; and Jason Graae in
Perfect Hermany: The Songs of Jerry Herman at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA. Award-winning star tenor
of the New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles Opera Companies Dennis McNeil is interviewed about his
career and cabaret concert debut in Los Angeles. McNeil gets inducted into the State of the Arts Hall of
Horror when recalling his most embarrassing career moments.
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Grammy, Emmy, Tony and Webbie Award nominee/winner Allee Willis joins Sterling and Stroili
for an discussion about her career as a composer of some of the most iconic pop songs ever written
(September, Neutron Dance, I???ll Be There for You); her success on the Broadway stage with the musical
version of The Color Purple; and her lifestyle as one of LA???s most fascinating residents. The Live Arts
Calendar highlights the annual emerging arts Hollywood Fringe Festival; and the world premiere of The Chinese
Massacre (Annotated) presented by Circle X Theatre at the Atwater Village Theatre. Sterling reviews An
Evening with Shirley MacLaine at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, CA; and the world premiere
musical The Next Fairy Tale at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood. Willis shares a worst career memory.
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An earful and an eyeful rub Stroili the wrong way; while Sterling gets tongue tied with
names in the news. Broadway star Ron Orbach (Chicago and Laughter on the 23rd Floor) returns to State of
the Arts for the hour, as does stage and television star Dan Frischman (Head of the Class and Kenan and Kel).
Stroili reviews The Crucible at Theatre Banshee in Burbank, CA. Sterling discusses Musical Theatre of Los
Angeles and their annual fundraising benefit; followed by a review of the U.S. National Tour/dance and song
spectacle Burn the Floor at Hollywood???s Pantages Theatre. Frischman and Orbach reminisce about their most
embarrassing moments on stage.
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A conversation about how Sterling and Stroili spent their respective Easter holiday, begs
such questions as: Is life just a bowl of cherries or a bowl of 240? Is high flying adored or just plane
crazy? Distinguished musical theatre director Dan Mojica discusses his diverse career on Broadway and in
California. The Live Arts Calendar features Let Me Down Easy on the Lyceum Stage at San Diego Repertory
Theatre in San Diego, CA; and Cirque du Soleil???s U.S. arena touring show Quidam. Sterling reviews Musical
Theatre Guild of Los Angeles??? presentation of Little Me at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. Stage,
television actor, and respected theatre critic Dink O???Neal is interviewed about his dual life on both sides
of the footlights. O???Neal and Mojica recall worst memories during a performance.
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Tony Award nominee John Tartaglia (Avenue Q) and stage and television star JD Cullum
(Wizards of Waverly Place) join Sterling and Stroili to discuss their careers and respective LA theatre
projects (The Tempermentals/Blank Theatre Co., and The Malcontent/Anteaus Theatre Co). Sterling and Stroili
engage the group in a humorous exchange on reality TV shows. The Live Arts Calendar features George Gershwin
Alone at the Pasadena Playhouse; and God of Carnage at the Ahmanson Theatre/Los Angeles. Tartaglia speaks of
an eye-popping incident during a performance, while Cullum recounts a noxious on stage intrusion.
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Tales of lotion and men in motion are told by Sterling and Stroili. Television, film and
stage actor Scott Lowell (Showtime???s Queer as Folk) discusses his appearance in the upcoming motion picture
The Chicago 8. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Arthur Miller???s The Crucible at Theatre Banshee in
Burbank, CA; and The Blank Theatre Company???s production of Jon Marans??? The Temperamentals at
Hollywood???s Second Stage Theatre. Award winning theatre director Richard Israel discusses his endeavors
with the hit musical Having it All at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood, and the classic Broadway
musical Gypsy (Stripped) for West Coast Ensemble at Hollywood???s Egyptian Arena Stage. Lowell and Israel
share embarrassing moments in theatre.
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Sterling and Stroili???s discussion of Meat Loaf (not your mother???s, but the rock singer
also known as Michael Aday on Donald Trump???s Celebrity Apprentice 2011) opens this edition of State of the
Arts. Broadway stars David Engel and Larry Raben discuss their distinguished individual and collective
careers, as well as their co-starring roles in Cabrillo Music Theatre???s presentation of The Producers at
the Kavli Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA. The Live Arts Calendar features the popular hit musical Forever
Plaid at the Costa Mesa Playhouse in Costa Mesa, CA, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson???s Burn This
at the Center Theatre Group???s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Engel and Raben recall their most
embarrassing moments on stage.
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Something???s fishy when Stroili opens the hour with tales of the Sushi, and Sterling
sprechens der Wienerschnitzel. Television, film and stage star Michelle Clunie (Showtime???s Queer as Folk)
is interviewed about her co-starring role in the Los Angeles premiere of Neil LaBute???s The Mercy Seat
presented by Vs. Theatre Company [Inside] at the Ford Theatre in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar
spotlights Performance Riverside???s production of Curtains at the Landis Performing Arts Center in
Riverside, CA; and Shuffle, which utilizes the iPod and Macbook Pro to present a live music production from
the National Children???s Chorus at The Eyde Second Space at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. Actor
Mackenzie Astin discusses his career in television and film; his parents actor John Astin and Academy Award
winner and television star Patty Duke; and his co-starring role in Caught by David L. Ray at Hollywood???s
Zephyr Theatre. The world premiere play centers around the upcoming wedding of a gay couple living in Los
Angeles. Astin and Clunie share awkward moments during live performances.
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Tiny Bubbles? Or Tea for Two? Sterling and Stroili speculate Boba, a popular Southeast
Asian beverage sweeping the U.S. Guests include Judy Norton and Mary McDonough (respectively known as "Mary
Ellen Walton" and "Erin Walton") from "The Waltons" one of the most renowned television series of all time.
Ms. Norton discusses a diverse career as an actress, writer, director, and musical theatre star. Ms.
McDonough talks about her new book of memoirs Lessons from the Mountain: What I Learned from Erin Walton;
overcoming personal challenges; her dedication to women???s health issues; and her work as a life coach. The
Live Arts Calendar highlights Faith Healer at the Madison Street Theatre in Oak Park, IL., and Layers of
Love, a musical theatre fundraising event for children afflicted with HIV/AIDS at the M Bar in Hollywood, CA.
Ms. Norton and Ms. McDonough share their embarrassing moments on stage.
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Sterling & Stroili forego their usual comedic opening to acknowledge the recent
Tsunami/Earthquake disaster in Japan.
7-time Emmy Award winning, legendary actor Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant) is interviewed
about FDR, his one man tour de force now in its third year of touring the U.S. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights The Loft Ensemble???s 100 Days, a world premiere comedy by Weiko Lin. A new State of the Arts
(SOTA) segment titled Regional Spotlight is introduced with a review by SOTA fan Carrie Bashak of New York.
Bashak reviews Louden Wainwright III and Shawn Colvin at Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. Robert
Bucker, Executive Director of the all new Valley Performing Arts Center at California State University at
Northridge, joins Sterling & Stroili to discuss the spectacular $125 million dollar venue???s diverse
2011 season.
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Former teen heartthrob/pop recording artist and film and television star Rex Smith talks
about his life and career in Los Angeles theatre and on Broadway. Musical theatre star, singer/comedian
Perry Lambert shares celebrity impressions and discusses his touring nightclub act. Stroili gives a
toe-by-toe accounting of his first mani/pedi. The foursome vow not to acknowledge the now so-fired,
not-so-winning Charlie Sheen. The Live Arts Calendar features Tony Award winner Lee Hall???s (Billy Elliot)
commedia dell???arte, signed and voiced adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio produced by the nationally
distinguished Deaf West Theatre of North Hollywood. Reviews include the comedy Play Date at Hollywood???s
Theatre Asylum, and the U.S. National tour stop of the multi-Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q at the
Pantages Theatre, also in Hollywood. Lambert and Smith divulge a few of their most embarrassing moments on
stage.
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Sterling and Stroili exchange quips with actor Jim J. Bullock as their sole guest for the
hour. Best known for his unique sense of comedy and his co-starring role on the 80???s iconic hit TV series
Too Close for Comfort ... a regular celebrity player on Hollywood Squares ... and his former syndicated talk
show Jim J. and Tammy Faye (Tammy Faye (Baker) Messner) in 1996 , Bullock discusses his career in television
and film, as well as the musical side of his life on Broadway and throughout the country. The Live Arts
Calendar features An Evening with Rita Rudner at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego, CA; the Steve Chase
Humanitarian Awards in Palm Springs, CA; and The Insomnia Play at the Lyric Hyperian Theatre in Silverlake,
CA. Sterling reviews The Blank Theatre Co.???s The Cradle Will Rock at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood
and Betty Buckley and Marvin Hamlisch in concert at the new Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, CA.
Bullock shares his worst moment during a performance.
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Sterling and Stroili welcome actress/comedienne Maripat Donovan, star and co-author of Late
Night Catechism; the hilarious, critically acclaimed series of stage productions that have toured the U.S.,
Canada and the British Isles. Donovan is interviewed about her role as "Sister" in the series??? latest
incarnation - Late Night Catechism 3: ???Till Death Do Us Part at the Pasadena Playhouse???s Carrie Hamilton
Theatre. Sterling, Stroili and Donovan discuss everything from theatre presented at Hollywood Forever
Memorial Park, a legendary celebrity cemetery; to some still-living legends and their performances on this
year???s Grammy Awards. The Live Arts Calendar highlights The Mercy Seat, playwright Neil LaBute???s
caustically funny examination of opportunism in the wake of tragedy at "Inside" the Ford Theatre in the
Hollywood Hills. Sterling reviews the U.S. National Tour???s LA engagement of Rock of Ages at the Pantages
Theatre in Hollywood. Miss Donovan recounts her worst nightmare while performing.
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It???s not all hearts and roses, or what it???s "cracked" up to be. Sterling and Stroili
discuss the tainting of Valentine???s Day. Legendary Broadway star Davis Gaines (Phantom of the Opera)
discusses his illustrious career. Broadway, television, film star and theatre director Ron Orbach (Room
Service) is also interviewed. Sterling reviews the 8-time, 2007 Tony Award winning U.S. Tour production of
Spring Awakening at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Co-Director Bjorn Johnson (Room Service) joins the
group via telephone. Gaines and Orbach tell of unusual situations experienced during live performance.
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Does eating a bag of chips during a theatre performance qualify as audience participation?
Sterling and Stroili sound-off on the don???ts and don???ts of theatre etiquette. Broadway Tony Award
winner Michael Rupert (Sweet Charity, Legally Blonde, Ragtime, City of Angels, Pippin) and Megan McGinnis
(Les Miserables, Little Women, Beauty and the Beast) discuss their co-starring roles in the new musical and
west coast premiere of Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse. The Live Arts Calendar acknowledges the
U.S. Tour of Spring Awakening at Hollywood???s Pantages Theatre. Stroili reviews Shawn Colvin and Louden
Wainwright III, the inaugural performance of the Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State University,
Northridge; and Room Service at the Open Fist Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Sterling reviews The Sherman
Brothers Album, part of a of live (monthly) concert series presented by Kritzerland Records at the Gardenia
Restaurant in Hollywood. Rupert and McGinnis divulge awkward moments while performing.
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Is it Super Bowl or ... Super Bowl? Something???s afoot, as Sterling and Stroili discuss
the difference. Broadway star David Burnham talks about his career from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, to Wicked and The Light in the Piazza. Burnham???s stunning rendition of Flight by composer Craig
Carnelia is featured from his current, self-titled CD. The Drowsy Chaperone presented by 3-D Theatricals at
Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA, and Cats presented by Musical Theatre West at the Carpenter Performing
Arts Center in Long Beach, CA are highlighted in the Live Arts Calendar. Burnham recalls a dangerously
amusing moment during a performance.
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Sterling and Stroili talk high and low tech about computers and the internet. Top TV
producer/writer Maxine Lapiduss (Roseanne, Home Improvement, Foxworthy, Ellen, Dharma & Greg) is
interviewed about her love of singing and stand-up comedy, and her return to performing. The Live Arts
Calendar features the hysterical and stirring adventure Cyrano at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica,
CA. and Traces, an acrobatic spectacle of circus, physical theatre, music and dance at the Ricardo Montalban
Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews Louis Van Amstel???s Ballroom with a Twist at the El Portal Theatre
in North Hollywood. Successful television actor Blair Hickey discusses his entrepreneurial skills as the
co-founder of CastingAbout.com, and gives proactive advice to actors about how to promote themselves during
TV “pilot??? season. Lapiduss and Hickey their reveal worst career experiences.
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Shtick around for the jokes... Is art really in the eye of the beholder? Sterling and
Stroili cite some questionable examples. Broadway star Jason Graae (A Grand Night for Singing, Falsettos),
and television???s Jim O???Heir, co-star of the hit NBC series Parks and Recreation, are not only interviewed
about their careers, but partake in the day???s order of funny business. The live Arts Calendar singles out
Caught at Hollywood???s Zephyr Theatre - which examines America???s contentious debate over same sex
marriage; and Hoboken to Hollywood at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, CA - the
critically-acclaimed, new, big band musical about Sinatra during the early years. Sterling reviews the world
premiere comedy Amy and Elliot at Hollywood???s Stella Adler Gilbert Stage- starring, written and directed by
Ryan Eggold of the hit CW TV series Beverly Hills 90210. Stroili reviews Rogue Machine???s The Sunset
Limited at Theatre Theater in Los Angeles. Graae and O???Heir recall their worst moments while performing.
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Right this way, your laughs are waiting. Sterling and Stroili announce unusual news items
involving human consumption and human kindness. Concert star, musical theatre star, and recording artist
Nita Whitaker is interviewed about her diverse career from Grand Champion of Star Search to working with
legendary record producer David Foster. LA Ovation nominated comedienne, singer/actress Cissy Connor
arrives at State of the Arts with Cher and Katherine Hepburn; and discusses Bare Sole, her chic, Studio City,
CA shoe boutique. The Live Arts Calendar highlights the classic farce Room Service at Hollywood's Open Fist
Theatre; and the critically acclaimed west coast premiere of Dan Via's humorous and provocative Off Broadway
hit Daddy starring CSI's Gerald McCullough at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood. Miss Whitaker and Miss
Connor tell of their worst moments on stage.
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Back to kick off the New Year with a feel-good goal, Sterling & Stroili converse about
the hilarious realities of attending the Annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, CA. Veteran
nightclub star and recording artist Jeanie Brandes charms the husk right off of the corn as the year???s
first in-studio guest; along with Broadway and television star Dean Butler who discusses his multi-faceted
career from theatre to television???s iconic hit series Little House on the Prairie, and his award-winning
film company Legacy Documentaries. The Live Arts Calendar highlights the world premiere of TV star Ryan
Eggold???s Amy and Elliot at the Stella Adler-Gilbert Stage in Hollywood; and Sunset Limited presented by
Rogue Machine at Theatre Theater in Los Angeles. Brandes and Butler recall worst moments during live
performance. Miss Brandes??? latest CD Jeanie Brandes Kisses You Awake is also featured.
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Stroili flies alone, while Sterling stays home with a holiday cold. Stroili makes an
(unannounced) on-air singing debut. Ryan Eggold and Gillian Zinser, co-stars of the CW???s iconic,
revitalized hit TV series Beverly Hills 90210, guest in-studio to discuss their roles in Amy and Elliot, a
world premiere comedy (written and directed by Eggold) opening at the Stella Adler-Gilbert Stage in
Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar highlights New Year???s Eve with Broadway star Kristen Chenoweth at the
Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown Los Angeles; and the Jim Henson puppets with guest comics in Stuffed and
Unstrung at the Irvine Barclay Theatre at the University of Irvine, CA. Sterling makes a surprise phone
call into the program. Eggold and Zinser are coerced into sharing their worst moments during a performance.
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'Tis the season to be jolly. Stroili recites The Nightmare Before Martha (Stewart),a
self-penned parody of The Night Before Christmas), while Sterling and guests James Roday (star of USA
Network???s hit TV series Psych), and Brad Raider (TV and film actor and Co-Artistic Director of LA???s Red
Squadron Theatre Company) provide backup vocals to underscore the reading. Roday and Raider are interviewed
about their friendship and careers, Red Squadron???s history, and its west coast premiere of Karl
Gajdusek???s comedy/drama greedy at Hollywood???s El Centro Theatre. The Live Arts Calendar highlight???s
The Nutcracker???s Journey from the Arts in Review Repertory Players at LA radio station KPFK (90.7 FM).
Sterling reviews the Gay Men???s Chorus of Los Angeles and Comfort and Joy, their annual holiday extravaganza
at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. Roday and Raider relive their worst moments in theatre. Crooner Antony
Field???s latest CD You and Me on Christmas Eve is also highlighted.
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Sterling recalls smoky memories of a long ago Christmas, while Stroili reports
stranger-than-strange medical news from a British tabloid. Legendary motion picture star Malcolm McDowell (A
Clockwork Orange) talks about his 40 year career and his reading of Dylan Thomas??? A Child???s Christmas in
Wales for the Intimate Opera Company of Pasadena, CA at the Pasadena Playhouse. The Live Arts Calendar
highlights holiday performances by the Gay Men???s Chorus of Los Angeles with special guests Sheryl Lee Ralph
and LeAnn Rimes at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA; and recording star Andy Williams with the Pacific
Symphony Pops Orchestra at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, CA. Sterling reviews the nightclub acts of
musical theatre star Leslie Margherita and recording artist Antony Field. Television star Gerald McCullouch
(CSI) discusses his starring role in the west coast premiere of Daddy at Hollywood???s Hudson Theatre.
McDowell and McCullouch account for their embarrassing career moments.
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Sterling & Stroili recall unusually odd memories of Christmas past. Stars of the U.S.
National Tour of West Side Story, Ali Ewoldt ("Maria") and Kyle Harris ("Tony"), are interviewed about their
roles in the classic musical on stage at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Pacific Symphony???s Nutcracker
for Kids at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA; and the U.S. tour of The Radio City
Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes at Anaheim???s Honda Center and LA???s Nokia Theatre, highlights
this week???s Live Arts Calendar. Los Angeles productions of Next to Normal, Harps and Angels, and West
Side Story are reviewed. Nightclub star and recording artist Antony Field discusses his newest CD for the
holidays You and Me on Christmas Eve, and his annual concert with Chip Smith at Sterling???s Upstairs at
Vitello???s in Studio City, CA. Field recalls an awkward on-stage moment.
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Sterling & Stroili talk turkey. George Chakiris (recipient of the Oscar for Best
Supporting Actor/West Side Story); and Best Supporting Actor/Oscar nominee Russ Tamblyn (Peyton Place) -
respectively discuss their roles as "Bernardo" (leader of the Sharks) and "Riff" (leader of the Jets) in the
historic 1961 movie musical West Side Story, winner of 10 Academy Awards. The Live Arts Calendar highlights
The Color Purple at the San Diego Civic Theatre in San Diego, CA, and the U.S. National Tour of West Side
Story at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling & Stroili induct Chakiris and Tamblyn into the
State of the Arts Hall of Shame (the sharing of their most embarrassing career moments).
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Broadway/television and film stars Vicki Lewis (NewsRadio) and John Lloyd Young (Tony Award
Winner ??? Jersey Boys) join Sterling & Stroili to promote for their 26th edition of State of the Arts.
The foursome discusses pre-holiday travel security making the day???s headlines: Scanner-proof Undies Keep
Passenger???s Secrets. Lewis and Young are interviewed about their multi-dimensional careers. Composer
Randy Newman???s new musical Harps and Angels at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is featured in the Live
Arts Calendar; as is Broadway Rocks Anaheim in benefit of the Anaheim Performing Arts Center Foundation.
Guest critic Don Grigware expounds on Tony and Emmy Award winner Leslie Uggams in Uptown, Downtown at the
Pasadena Playhouse. Lewis and Young recall their worst moments while performing.
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Sterling & Stroili exchange quips about facial expressions while looking at one???s
self in a mirror; then go head-to-head with their own (and their guests???) respective crowns of glory.
Leslie Ishii of East West Players (EWP), the nation???s premiere Asian American theatre company, is
interviewed about Beth Henley???s Crimes of the Heart and Ishii???s directorial debut of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning play at EWP???s David Henry Hwang Theatre in Los Angeles. The weekly Live Arts Calendar
highlights two productions. Insanity erupts from stand-up comedian, television and theatre actor Christopher
(stick around for the jokes, folks) Meehan who engages the group in non-stop hilarity. Ishii and Meehan are
initiated into State of the Arts??? worst, must-tell theatre moments.
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Sterling and Stroili, along with guest Dan Frischman ("Arvid Engen" of the hit ABC TV series
Head of the Class; and "Chris Potter" in Nickelodeon???s Kenan & Kel ), crank up the volume with
hilarious memories of their mothers strange and unusual antics. Frischman discusses his early life and
career as a kid magician, a stand-up comedian, working in television; and his current turn as author of the
new comedic action/adventure novel Jackson and Jenks Master Magicians (J.J. Ross Books). The weekly Live
Arts Calendar is highlighted by a review of nightclub star Barbara Van Orden???s debut at Sterling???s
Upstairs at Vitello???s in Studio City, CA. Frischman share???s his most embarrassing (if not "hottest")
moment on stage.
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The day after Halloween prompts Paul to recall creative costumes from the past. Olympic
Champion and figure skating legend Scott Hamilton discusses his 11th annual fundraising gala benefit for the
Scott Hamilton CARES Initiative at the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center. Sterling reviews Barefoot in
the Park presented by The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood, CA; and Musical Theatre
West???s production of Annie starring Andrea McArdle at the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts
Center in Long Beach, CA. Nightclub star Barbara Van Orden is interviewed about her multi-faceted career in
New York, Las Vegas and Hollywood. Hamilton and Van Orden share never-to-be-forgotten performance moments.
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Sterling and Stroili discuss unique to weird marketing approaches for the performing arts in
the U.S. and abroad. Film and television star Stephanie Zimbalist (TV???s hit series Remington Steele) is
interviewed about her stage career and starring role as Katherine Hepburn in Matthew Lombardo???s Tea at Five
at the Falcon Theatre in Los Angeles; the weekly live Arts Calendar is read; Lewis Wilkenfeld, Artistic
Director for Cabrillo Music Theatre housed at the Fred Kavli Theatre in the Bank of America Thousand Oaks
Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, CA - is interviewed about Cabrillo???s 2010/2011 season. Both Zimbalist
and Wilkenfeld share their most embarrassing moments in theatre.
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Double the pleasure, double the fun as Sterling & Stroili interview Andrea McArdle,
Broadway???s original title star of Annie the musical; and former teen heartthrob - turned distinguished
television, film and Broadway star Richard Chamberlain. McArdle and Chamberlain relive their worst moments
on stage. The Live Arts Calendar is read. LA musical theatre star Callie Carson???s debut at Sterling???s
Upstairs at Vitello???s in Studio City, CA is highlighted; Paul Stroili reviews the west coast premiere of
Kurt Vonnegut???s Slaughter House Five (featuring Lily Vonnegut) presented by Action Theatre Company at
Studio Stage Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Location: Supper Club. Question: What???s up with dressing down? Stroili and Sterling
humorously discuss the lack of good taste in clothes when going out on the town. Television and theatre
stars Mike Farrell (MAS*H), and Jim Parrack (HBO???s True Blood) are interviewed about their careers and
starring together in famed fiction writer Edmund White???s hit drama Terre Haute at Hollywood???s Blank
Theatre Company. The weekly live Arts Calendar highlights three productions. Sterling reviews recording
artist Roslyn Kind in concert at Catalina???s Bar and Grill in Hollywood. Farrell and Parrack reveal their
most embarrassing theatrical moments.
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How do you keep the music playing? The incomparable Roslyn Kind answers that question, and
more, as she talks about her life on Broadway, in nightclubs, and as a popular recording artist. It???s
another “No Pants Monday??? as Sterling & Stroili share tales of tails. The live Arts Calendar
for the week is read; followed by reviews of 19 year old musical theatre star Derek Klena???s headlining
concert debut at Sterling???s Upstairs at Vitello???s in Studio City; and the world premiere of the New York
bound Leap of Faith at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, starring Broadway sensation Raul Esparza and
Brooke Shields. Critically acclaimed Los Angeles TV, film and stage actor Ian Vogt talks about his role in
SeaGlass Theatre???s hit comedy Of Grapes and Nuts at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, CA. Senses are
tested as Vogt and Kind share their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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Record-breaking fall temperatures in Los Angeles vs. the cold of winter in Chicago and New
York, spark hilarious stories between Sterling & Stroili. Broadway???s legendary, Tony Award winning
dancer/singer/actress Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line) is interviewed. This week???s Live Arts Calendar is
followed by brief reviews of film icon and nightclub star Debbie Reynolds at the El Portal Theatre in North
Hollywood, CA; and up-and- coming musical theatre star Taylor Tracey at Sterling???s Upstairs at Vitello???s
in Studio City, CA. SeaGlass Theatre???s critically acclaimed production Of Grapes and Nuts at the Victory
Theatre Center in Burbank, CA is congratulated. Sterling & Stroili converse with distinguished stage and
television star Scott Lowell (Showtime???s Queer as Folk). Embarrassing moments in theatre are shared by all.
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It???s a musical Monday when Sterling & Stroili interview Grammy and Emmy Award-winning
composer Charles Fox (Roberta Flack???s Killing Me Softly, Jim Croce???s I Got a Name, the TV theme songs for
Happy Days, Love American Style, the Love Boat and many more.) "Driving in your car" stories are exchanged.
The weekly Live Arts Calendar is read. Reviews of former Jersey Boys star Erich Bergen???s new nightclub
act, and SeaGlass Theatre???s west coast premiere Of Grapes and Nuts are featured. Former Broadway
dancer/choreographer (turned director) Stan Mazin discusses his career on Broadway, in musical variety
television (The Carol Burnett Show), and directing for North Hollywood, CA???s Group Rep Theatre Company.
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A festive episode celebrates State of the Arts??? 16th week on the air, and the ?? something
birthday of Co-Host Michael Sterling. Sterling & Stroili exchange stories about unusual restaurant
experiences. Hilarity ensues with Erich Bergen, recording artist (The Vegas Sessions) and co-star of the Las
Vegas, Los Angeles, and U.S. National Tour productions of Jersey Boys. The weekly live Arts Calendar is
featured. Kimberly Van Luin, actress and Artistic Director of LA???s prestigious SeaGlass Theatre, talks
about the company???s newest endeavor Of Grapes and Nuts, a satirical parody of John Steinbeck???s The Grapes
of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Bergen and Van Luin are initiated into what has become a State of the Arts
tradition: the recounting of one's worst career moments in live theatre.
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Sterling & Stroili entertain while the rest of the country takes a day off. An exchange
of Stroili???s bizarre trip to a local library, and Sterling???s chance meeting with a celebrity in a nearby
restaurant??? kick off this Labor Day show. World Champion Figure Skating legend Tai Babilonia shares a few
spins through her well-documented life. The weekly Arts Calendar is announced. Michael Orland gives insight
to his nearly ten-year position as Associate Musical Director, Pianist and Arranger for TV???s
reality/variety, mega hit series: American Idol.
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Following talk between Sterling & Stroili about over-endowed body parts, longtime
television star Suzanne Whang (HGTV???s House Hunters) discusses her multi-faceted career as a TV host, a
working actress, published author, and equally successful, politically incorrect stand-up comedienne. The
weekly performing arts calendar is revealed, followed by an interview with Tim Dang, actor and Producing
Artistic Director of East West Players ??? the nation???s premier Asian American theatre company at the David
Henry Hwang Theatre in Los Angeles. Dang shares highlights of the company???s 45th - 2010/11 anniversary
season including its opening production Mysterious Skin, a searing adult drama based on the 1996 novel which
later became a motion picture (2004.)
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Sterling shares tales about the joys (or not) of moving; while Stroili talks of his
mother???s move??? a slightly different “tail??? which ends up in smoke. Film icon and
best-selling author Tab Hunter is interviewed about life during the 50???s as Warner Brothers #1 Box Office
star; co-starring on Broadway with Tallulah Bankhead; working on television; and his best selling book Tab
Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star. Child star Blake McIver Ewing reminisces about own
experiences on TV as a Star Search winner and series regular on ABC???s beloved Full House.
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Elvis and a comeback tour (75 years later) is discussed by Sterling & Stroili. Skylar
Astin, (Broadway co-star of the 8-time Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening,) is interviewed about his
career and his co-starring role in the Hollywood Bowl???s production of Rent directed by Neil Patrick Harris.
This week???s Live Arts Calendar is announced; followed by a review of Funny Girl at the Sacramento Music
Circus, courtesy of BroadwayWorld.com???s west coast critic Don Grigware. Sterling & Stroili interview
Producer/Writer/Actress A???da Alison Woolfolk of Breakdown Services??? innovative, multi-channel - Virtual
Channel Network
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Sterling & Stroili share stories of public awkwardness; specifically, Stroili being
verbally abused by the homeless. In-studio guests include filmmaker, Broadway star, and television star Dean
Butler (Little House on the Prairie); and musical theatre star Ryan Castellino - original cast member and
co-star of the Los Angeles mega hit musical Life Could be a Dream. The weekly Arts Calendar is featured.
Butler and Castellino are prompted to share their most embarrassing moments on stage.
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Sterling & Stroili share more nightmares as actors. Broadway star Danny Bolero (co-star
of the In the Heights U.S. National Tour) is interviewed. This week???s Live Arts Calendar sponsored by
PerformingArtsLIVE.com is featured. Sterling reviews Guys and Dolls at the West Valley Playhouse in Canoga
Park, CA. Actor Kevin Farrell talks about his latest role as America???s #1 Sales Star for Tupperware.
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A hair-raising side of Sterling & Stroili is revealed. Theatre and television star
Marcia Wallace (The Bob Newhart Show and The Simpsons) discusses her co-starring role as the Wicked Step
Mother in Rodgers & Hammerstein???s Cinderella at Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA. She is
joined by Derek Klena who portrays Prince Charming, and the production???s title star Melissa Mitchell.
Stage and television actress Megan McNulty is interviewed about her role in The Baby Dance at the Lounge
Theatre in Hollywood.
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Sterling & Stroili share some past audition nightmares. Broadway and television star
Linda Purl (Happy Days) discusses her career as an actress, a vocalist, and Director of the 2010 California
International Theatre Festival; The weekly Arts Calendar reveals diverse productions and events in New York
and Los Angeles; Paul reviews Center Theatre Group???s presentation of The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; French dancer, aerialist, acrobat artist, choreographer, producer and
director Aurelein Roulin converses about his all new cabaret spectacular Beyond at the historic El Portal
Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.
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Sterling and Stroili salute "Actors as Entrepreneurs." In studio Guests: Blair Hickey and
Brian Wold discuss the formation of CastingAbout.com, an online service for actors, with offices in Los
Angeles and New York. This week???s live Arts Calendar is highlighted by top productions in Southern
California and Chicago. Tony Award winner Alan Cumming???s cabaret concert ??? Alan Cumming: Uncut at The
Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA is reviewed. Los Angeles Ovation-nominated actress/singer/comedienne and
impressionist Cissy Conner discusses her career and highly successful shoe business, Bare Sole (BareSole.com)
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Sterling and Stroili recall their week and the July 4th holiday before being joined by
celebrated Broadway and television stars Sally Struthers (All in the Family) and Ilene Graff (Mr. Belvedere).
Six Los Angeles productions are featured in the Live Arts Calendar. Michael and Paul review the National
tour of Broadway???s 2008 Tony and Grammy Award winning musical In The Heights at Hollywood???s legendary
Pantages Theatre.
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Sterling and Stroili interview Tom Viola,2010 Tony Award Honoree andExecutive Director of
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in New York. They are also joined in-studio by celebrated actor, author
and musicianTucker Smallwood, co-star of Tracerspresented by LA???s LOFT Ensemble. Weekly reviews include
All My Sons at The Raven Playhouse in North Hollywood, CA and CHIPS: The Musical presented by the Troubadour
Theatre Company at The Falcon Theatre in Toluca Lake, CA.
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Sterling and Stroili interview TV icon and Broadway star Florence Henderson. This week???s
Live Arts Calendar is announced, along with reviews of Oklahoma presented by Musical Theatre of Los Angeles;
and the World Premiere musical Daddy Long Legs at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. The bi-monthly State
of the Actor informational series is also featured.
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Sterling & Stroili are joined in-studio by Terence McFarland - Executive Director of LA
Stage Alliance, and successful singer/songwriter/recording artist Jeff Phillips, co-host of "LAGenX" on
LATalkRadio.com. Insightful discussion is had about the work of the LA Stage Alliance, McFarland???s
academic and professional history, the arts in Los Angeles, and the failure of the arts-related "Measure E"
on the June 8, Los Angeles, California ballot. This week???s live Arts Calendar, and a colorful review of
the 64th Annual Tony Awards held June 13 at Radio City Music Hall in New York are also included.
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Sterling and Stroili interview three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Carol Channing.
Also featured: The State of the Actor, an ongoing, bi-weekly informational series; this week???s Live Arts
Calendar; Reviews of the Loft Ensemble'sTracers at LA???s Fringe Theatre, The Will Rogers Follies at the
Glendale Centre Theatre, and the National Tour presentation of South Pacific at the Center Theatre Group???s
Ahmanson Theatre. Actor and teacher Jill Holden guests to discuss "Measure E" and its effect on the
performing arts in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Premiere Broadcast: Sterling & Stroili share a little about themselves and their goals
for State of the Arts (SOTA), including non-profit arts organizations LA Stage Alliance and Broadway
Cares/Equity Fights AIDS which will benefit from the show.
Six new productions are featured in the Live Arts Calendar, along with a star-studded benefit to assist in
covering medical expenses for local musical theatre enthusiast and lymphoma cancer patient, Ana Adame.
In-Studio Guest: Broadway legend Carol Lawrence who created the role of "Maria" in the musical theatre
masterpiece... West Side Story.
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