Summer entertainment: Florida Stage’s ‘Wonderful’ taps 1960s musical memories
Where do you begin when you want to create a musical that will please a summer audience? Florida Stage started with Bill Castellino and Chris McGovern and a time period – the early 1960s, when most of the theater’s audience was coming of age. “It was an interesting assignment for a couple of reasons,” Castellino said. “They had real thoughts about what they wanted, and they promised we would get a production.” Making that promise was, as producing artistic director Louis Tyrrell said, “working without a net.” But creating new shows is what Florida Stage does. And, “I have such consummate respect,…
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