Road to Opening Week 14: Matt Armet on 1 Weeks to A CHORUS LINE at Stratford
How did we get here already? I'm exhausted! But it's the best kind of exhaustion. I wouldn't have it any other way. We've been having a very busy week. Between...

How did we get here already? I'm exhausted! But it's the best kind of exhaustion. I wouldn't have it any other way. We've been having a very busy week. Between...
Our previews are coming along very well. We've been continuing to rehearse, always in an effort to improve on what we've done before. Our houses keep getting...
It's almost like a Polar Bear plunge - standing in the wings getting ready to make your first entrance. Even though we have been rehearsing for weeks, priming...
We've now completed six previews. I love this time of year because no two shows are alike. After each matinee preview we rehearse on stage from 5:30-9:30p.m...
We are onstage running the show more often than not, with many of the elements that are important. It can be wonderful or all wrong, but just when you think...
BroadwayWorld is pleased to present an exclusive first look at the first ever professional production of A Chorus Line to have approved new choreography at The...
We stood in a rehearsal room with our hearts beating full and hard, and sang with the orchestra for the first time. We listened to the extraordinary beauty of...
Last Saturday was arguably one of the toughest days of rehearsal all year. We started our day with a really great second dress run of the show which started at...
If I need to dance all over the stage, they make sure I can do it. If I need to sing a lot and have extra diaphragm room, they will make that happen. And if I...
The train is going at full steam now and there is really no slowing it down until after Opening Night. This week has been full of a lot of fun things. First...
In 1965, my sisters and I auditioned for summer stock productions of Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy and Finian's Rainbow being done at The Royal Alexandra Theatre...
I fell into an orchestra pit. Just like the Coyote being chased by the Road Runner and ending up in a puff of smoke at the bottom of an endless canyon, I...
The train is going at full steam now and there is really no slowing it down until after Opening Night. This week has been full of a lot of fun things. First...
As I mentioned last week, Actors Never Get Weekends! HA! I'm not really bitter about it. It's something we all signed up for. But that's not what this week's...
I want to stay in the discovery of the character, not in the attitude of her or her life. I want to be completely subjective about her. I want to speak in her...
Today is Good Friday! It's 2:00 p.m. and so far it's been the Best Friday! I keep finding myself wanting to have the process of creating A Chorus Line go...
I feel like Linus in a Peanuts comic strip. My script for A Little Night Music has become my security blanket. For the last month I have walked around the...
Every Thursday night, I sit down at my computer to write these posts. These Thursdays keep coming around so quickly. I feel like I just wrote the last one...
'But if today were the day you had to stop dancing, how would you feel?' It's the heavy question asked by the director, Zach, close to the end of the show...
Starting a new show is a gloriously wonderful, terrifying experience. Everything I think I know about acting gets questioned. My heart races, my mind becomes...
12 Weeks until Opening Night... There are specific milestone days during rehearsal every season. One of my favourite milestones happened this week: first day...
Thirteen Weeks until Opening Night . The Festival has done some amazing things for us this season that will help make the transition from the rehearsal hall to...
BroadwayWorld Toronto is thrilled to announce that following the success of our 'Road to Opening' blog series last year by Stephanie Rothenberg and Sara Farb...
Following last year's recording of CRAZY FOR YOU, this year - the Stratford Festival company of CAROUSEL recorded the festival's second original cast...
It has been reported in The Toronto Star that A CHORUS LINE and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will both play The Stratford Festival next season. Both Broadway musicals...