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The Beat Goes On

  • WV Music Director Brant Challacombe and Rosana Lewis were married on October 8, 2011 in Topeka, Kansas. Congratulations!
  • Charlie Alterman (WV) is music director/conductor of Godspell on Broadway after a great run with Next to Normal.
  • WV Music Director Elaina Cope and Mark Krakauer were married the day after Hurricane Irene swept across the East Coast.
  • THEATRE ROW: Deborah Jean Templin (WV) as Mrs. Segal in Milk and Honey.
  • Leah Hocking (WV) and Cullen Titmas (WV) are on the National Tour of Billy Elliott. Jenifer Shenker (WV) is a stage manager.
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Alumni Weekend Returns to Whitefield PDF Print E-mail
Written by Amanda Brewster   

8th Annual Alumni Show a Success

Taking in the antics on the Weathervane stage from the vantage point of the downstage right "wings" has been an off and on habit of mine since 1990. Original barn to new barn for ten seasons, I have watched my summer family transform into characters of all sorts.  Every Alumni Weekend I have attended, I find myself, at some point during the show, in the downstage right wing, watching a different cross section of those summer families perform, and marveling at what I see and hear.

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The Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Timothy Breese Miller   
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
Drummer Boy, Autumn 2011
 
The Beat Goes On... Twitter! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Timothy Breese Miller   
The Beat Goes On is now available on Twitter and the news updates are available on our site. If you use Twitter you can follow us by searching for wvaa or click on the link at the lower left of the home page.
 
Music Director Charlie Alterman Revisits Weathervane Days PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mary Whithed   
Charlie Alterman and Nicole Lewis
WHERE’S CHRLIE? Charlie Alterman and Nicole Lewis at the Tony Awards.
Photo: C. Alterman
Charlie Alterman was the W’vane’s Assistant Music Director in 1995 and Music Director in 1996.  He is now the Music Director of the TONY Award-winning Next to Normal at the Booth Theatre.  Here is his conversation with Mary Whithed.

How did you end up at the Weathervane? They hired me very last minute.  Most of the big breaks in my career have been at the last minute.  It was through the NETCs.  I didn’t actually meet with anyone from the Weathervane there, but they had my form and realized they needed someone.  They saw that I’d been at Brown with Heather Cousens, and they called her to get the scoop.  She said something really flattering, along the lines of, “Anything that went right in those shows was because of Charlie.”  And then they called me.

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