The extended run of Broadway’ Master Class with Tyne Daly, ends its engagement tonight, September 4.
The avalanche of rave reviews for Daly’s virtuosic turn as Maria Callas meant that the Manhattan Theatre Club were able to extend its limited summer run, twice, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
It will have played 26 preview performances and 70 regular performances.
Here’s Playbill‘s video montage of Daly’s extraordinary performance:
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra talks to Paul Arrowsmith ahead of the UK tour of Mariposa – “Adapting opera into non-verbal dance was an exciting, but certainly difficult.”