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Carolan Trbovich

Carolan Trbovich is an innovator who used corporate savvy and her considerable creativity to blaze new trails in entertainment industry operations for two powerhouse music companies, Word Entertainment of Warner Brothers Records and Sparrow Records of EMI Music Group. 

Carolan studied at UCLA, The Film Actors’ Workshop, The Hollywood Film Institute, and The American Film Institute where she received extensive professional training in various areas of entertainment operations in theater, film, and music business development. Trbovich has numerous board memberships/affiliations including, the American Marketing Association, National Public Relations Committee Board, The Gospel Music Association, The Country Music Association, The Recording Academy, The Country Connection NYC, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, The National Association of Record Merchandisers, American Theatre Critics Association and the United States Press Agency.
    
Ms. Trbovich has made great strides in increasing productivity and profitability for many clients through inspired marketing and creating trend-setting new standards of operation. Her efforts have made Trbovich a popular speaker at retail trade and arts conventions nationwide. Carolan is the Broadway correspondent, writing reviews and interviews for Nashville's Dish Magazine, and has published articles in various business journals, entertainment blogs, and magazines. 
    
Carolan has impacted the entertainment, education and performing arts industries with groundbreaking new ideas in business operations, media management, and community outreach. From her love of the Arts, she has pioneered MasterClass Guild, Conservatory of the Arts, designed for creative arts students to study with artists and industry professionals. Out of her passion for all things Broadway, Carolan created the first Broadway cabaret in the state of Tennessee, Absinthe, A Broadway Cabaret, bringing Broadway performers and cabaret artists to perform standards from The Great American Songbook repertoire of classics by such beloved composers as Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gershwin, Berlin, and Cole Porter. 

Raised on the Ohio River, in the picturesque pottery town of East Liverpool, Carolan’s upbringing was colored by a rich and diverse heritage. “My mother was Italian and my father was Serbian”, she explains. “They were proud Americans and taught my brothers and me about our European heritage. They also taught us to be passionate in all we do.” That passion can be clearly seen in Trbovich’s life and career, which she approaches with great enthusiasm. Carolan is thrilled to return to Nashville after 7 years of writing for BroadwayWorld Sarasota and affirms, "The Nashville area has so much unparalleled talent and the finest venues for all types of staging. It's an honor and a blessing for me to be "back home" and reporting on all things entertainment in Music City".
 




LEARN MORE ABOUT Carolan Trbovich

First Show:

Man of La Mancha

Favorite Show:

Wicked

Favorite Stories:

  • Oivia Newton-John Meet & Grease, Interview & Book Review - This was one of the longest pieces I have ever written, where I combined a review of a show, a celebrity interview, and a review of a book the celebrity had written. Readers told me it took them down Memory Lane with fond glances back at Olivia's illustrious career. In working on several past projects with Olivia, this article was a tribute to her and a culmination of her influence on my life career and career. This was the most emotional article I have written and it would be the last time I got to see Olivia before she passed away.


BWW Review: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Manatee Performing Arts Center
BWW Review: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY at Manatee Performing Arts Center
February 21, 2017

The Bridges of Madison County is a drama about romance and infidelity that gives us a glimpse into the lives of Francesca Johnson (Dianne Dawson), an Italian war-bride from Naples, her Veteran husband Bud, (Cory Woomert), an Iowa farmer, and her lover Robert Kincaid, (Charles Dugan), a photographer on assignment photographing the covered bridges of Madison County for National Geographic. Robert pulls up looking for directions to the one last bridge he needs to complete his mission; just minutes after Francesca's husband and their two teenagers are out the door to the county fair for several days.

BWW Review: BRENDA WATTY: LIFE AS A MARVELETTE at Westcoast Black Theatre
BWW Review: BRENDA WATTY: LIFE AS A MARVELETTE at Westcoast Black Theatre
February 20, 2017

A Communication Forum, sponsored by the Westcoast Black Theatre titled WBTT Voices, recently spotlighted Brenda Watty, fifteen-year member of The Marvelettes. Watty spent five years in the 60's girl group, The Toys, singing lead vocals on the hit, Lovers Concerto. As a member of Musique she scored another hit titled, Push Push in the Bush. Her management company, Banner Talent, then secured an audition for her as lead vocalist with the Marvelettes, and for the next 15 years she stayed and toured with the group.

BWW Review: BORN YESTERDAY at Asolo Repertory Theatre
BWW Review: BORN YESTERDAY at Asolo Repertory Theatre
February 16, 2017

In its 58th season, the enchanting Asolo Repertory Theatre hit the ball out of the park with its staging of Born Yesterday. Many will remember the 1950 film version staring Broderick Crawford as Harry Brock, the controlling, corrupt business tycoon, playing sugar daddy to love interest Billie Dawn, portrayed by Judy Holliday. Miss Holliday was honored with an Academy Award for Best Actress, reprising her role from the 1946 Broadway production by Garson Kanin.

BWW Review: ELEANOR MERRITT ART EXHIBIT at Arts And Cultural Alliance Of Sarasota County
BWW Review: ELEANOR MERRITT ART EXHIBIT at Arts And Cultural Alliance Of Sarasota County
February 17, 2017

There is a lot to be said about anything that lasts 60 years these days. Eleanor Merritt has been painting in all types of medias for that period of time. The recent showing of her artistry highlights her journey as we stand before each piece and marvel at her artistic growth, diversity of techniques and brilliant use of colors and textures. Two favorites that stood out were a painting of her grandmother and a homage to her mother, an infusion of brush strokes and materials.

BWW Review: WICKED at Straz Center For The Performing Arts
BWW Review: WICKED at Straz Center For The Performing Arts
February 13, 2017

Wicked fans are mounting their bubbles and brooms and navigating the yellow brick road to The Emerald City, (Straz Center, Tampa), to defy gravity with Elphaba and company. For most, this is a yearly pilgrimage to pay homage to their misunderstood heroine. For a very few, it's a first glance at the visually stunning Broadway spectacular.

BWW Review: IDEATION at Urbanite Theatre Sarasota
BWW Review: IDEATION at Urbanite Theatre Sarasota
January 30, 2017

To say this city has a passion for the Arts is an understatement. Just walk into the welcomingly intimate Urbanite Theatre. You may possibly be greeted with a complimentary glass of wine and a thank you for coming, delivered in the form of a warm hug by founder, Harry Lipstein.



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