Jeffrey Sanzel, Executive Artistic Director of Theatre Three, Port Jefferson, has been with the company since 1989. As a director, his works have includes Les Misérables, The Laramie Project, M Butterfly, next to normal, and Treasure Island (world premiere) as well as eighty-five world premieres in the theatre’s annual Festival of One-Act Plays. His writing credits include Fair Enough, From the Fires: Voices of the Holocaust, Class Dismissed: The Bullying Project (co-authored with Douglas J. Quattrock), and 1968: Rock the World (co-authored with Ellen Michelmore). His performing credits include The Drowsy Chaperone (Man in Chair), I Am My Own Wife (Charlotte, et. al.), Oliver! (Fagin), and The Fantasticks (Henry).He has spent over two decades working on A Christmas Carol as a director/adaptor/actor. To date, he has appeared as Scrooge in over 1,000 performances.
BWW Blog: 'And … Scene' by Jeffrey Sanzel, Executive Artistic Director, Theatre Three
December 30, 2013
December 30, 2013
And so we come to the close of another season of Charles Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Forty-nine performances later.
BWW Blog: 'Another Suitcase' by Jeffrey Sanzel, Executive Artistic Director, Theatre Three
December 24, 2013
December 24, 2013
'God bless us-everyone.' So what happens now? Or-rather-next? Since we've been at Christmas Carol for so long, there is almost always a discussion at some point about what happens after the story. So-Scrooge 'became as a good a man ...' Does he stay that way? What happens to Tiny Tim? We know he does 'NOT'(emphasis Mr. Dickens) die. What about Fred? The rest of the Cratchits. And how do their stories relate? Do they?
BWW Blog: 'Milestones and Millstones' by Jeffrey Sanzel, Executive Artistic Director, Theatre Three
December 17, 2013
December 17, 2013
Sunday, December 15th, at 7:00 p.m. A night that Doug Quattrock will remember for the rest of his career. This night marks his 500th performance in Theatre Three's production of A Christmas Carol. This represents ten years of work, spread out over twenty-five years. It is hours upon hours of rehearsals, long days with double (and, at one time, even triple) performances. It is the lifting of Tiny's of varying shapes, sizes, and, most importantly weights (and don't underestimate the power of the center of gravity).
BWW Blog: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished by Jeffrey Sanzel, Executive Artistic Director, Theatre Three
December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013
In all things, we try to look for lessons and reasons. Things to take away from an experience. Each event hopefully guides us to new insights and introspections, gives us fodder for future choices and perspectives. I guess.
BWW Blog: Jeffrey Sanzel - And Time Continues
December 9, 2013
December 9, 2013
It's Sunday night. We just ended the first of our three ten show weeks of A Christmas Carol.
BWW Blog: Jeffrey Sanzel - 'The Music That Makes Me Dance' or 'Ellen Michelmore: The Spirit of Music Presence'
December 5, 2013
December 5, 2013
It's called A Christmas CAROL.
BWW Blog: 'Why Must the Show Go On?' or 'There's No Crying in Theatre'
November 23, 2013
November 23, 2013
Why must the show go on? It can't be all that indispensable. To me, it really isn't sensible on the whole, To play a leading role, While fighting those tears you can't control. Why kick up your legs When draining the dregs Of sorrow's bitter cup? Because you have read Some idiot has said 'The curtain must stay up!'
BWW Blog: Opening Nights, 'Dear Friends', and Other Necessary Evils
November 18, 2013
November 18, 2013
We opened A Christmas Carol last night.
BWW Blog: Once Upon a Time... On All the Good Days of the Year
November 13, 2013
November 13, 2013
We are in the final rehearsals for THEATRE THREE's thirtieth production of A Christmas Carol. The production opens this Saturday, November 16, at 8 p.m. It is the first of the forty-nine performances that will play on THEATRE THREE's Mainstage.
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