D.C. Anderson is an actor – Broadway, Steppenwolf, Northlight, Guthrie, Transport Group, Goodspeed, Ogunquit, Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater, Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival – singer/songwriter – 9 CD’s commercially available featuring originals and ‘covers’ and photographer/blogger – www.lookslikeyouphotography.com
He created/produced the first Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS holiday benefit recording series – CABARET NOEL in 1993 as well as created/produced 2010’s IN MY ROOM a 20 artist CD to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
He is also featured on the original cast recording of Michael John LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist
visit www.dcanderson.net to listen to D.C.’s original songs.
A song from the first musical you saw/heard
’76 Trombones’ from The Music Man
A song from your latest musical obsession
‘It All Fades Away’ from The Bridges of Madison County
A song demonstrating how underrated you think a musical is
‘To Build a Home’ from The Bridges of Madison County
A song which can make you cry
‘Dividing Day’ from The Light in the Piazza
A song which makes you laugh
‘The Grass is Always Greener’ from Woman of the Year
Marilyn Cooper and Lauren Bacall were hysterical together
Would love to watch Jackie Hoffman and Marin Mazzie do it today
The musical you’d kill to be in
Sweeney Todd
I’ve got a ‘Sweeney’ in me. There, I said it.
A song sung by your favourite female character in a musical
I admit to being partial here but Mary Testa singing ‘The Fall’ in Queen of the Mist
A song sung by your favourite male character in a musical
‘Finishing the Hat’ from Sunday In The Park With George
A song from the musical you know all – or nearly all – the lines to
‘Marian’ from The Music Man
Your guilty pleasure musical
Hair
The musical which made the most impact on you
The Sound Of Music film version
When it came out – it was booked into theaters that took reservations like a Broadway theater – you ordered tickets months in advance and received your tickets in the mail. All seats reserved.
The Sound Of Music played for three years like this in downtown Cleveland. My family went only twice as the $ 3.50 price was ‘road show pricing’!!
I have seen it countless times since.
A song you could listen to all day.
‘Somewhere’ from West Side Story
A song by your favourite musical composer
Hello Young Lovers by Rodgers and Hammerstein
The character you’d kill to play
Sweeney Todd
The character you’d kill to play – if you were the opposite sex
‘Francesca’ in The Bridges of Madison County
A song which inspires you
‘Fable’ from The Light in the Piazza
The musical you’ve seen over and over
A Little Night Music
The character in a musical you can most relate to
‘Pippin’ from Pippin – his optimism, his passion, his disillusion and his conclusion that the only thing that matters is love – honest to goodness, through the trenches love.
A song from your favourite musical
‘Beautiful’ from Sunday In The Park With George
Fragile. Touching. Pure.
Your favourite song NOT from a musical
Teresa Tudury’s Such Fine Things
Such Fine Things by Teresa Tudury
It once was clay in an artist’s hands
It once was mud mixed with sand
But the fire turned it blue and singed it gold
Now it can hold such fine things.
Like blood red plums and hot mulled wine
Rocks and rings and balls of twine
And the deepest trace of the artist’s soul
in that bowl
Now it can hold such fine things
It once was mud mixed with sand
But the fire turned it blue and singed it gold
Now it can hold such fine things.
Like blood red plums and hot mulled wine
Rocks and rings and balls of twine
And the deepest trace of the artist’s soul
in that bowl
Now it can hold such fine things
I am an old man now and I’ve had my day
The great loves that were are all gone away
And the dreams I knew that should all come true
Never did.
I’m left instead with such fine things
Like the morning light through the redwood trees
And my friend’s young son who often walks with me
Across the ridge to the Willow Creek bridge
Holding hands
His little hands are such fine things
The great loves that were are all gone away
And the dreams I knew that should all come true
Never did.
I’m left instead with such fine things
Like the morning light through the redwood trees
And my friend’s young son who often walks with me
Across the ridge to the Willow Creek bridge
Holding hands
His little hands are such fine things
I once was clay in an artist’s hands
I once was mud mixed with sand
But the fire turned me blue and singed me gold
Now I can hold such fine things
Such fine things.
I once was mud mixed with sand
But the fire turned me blue and singed me gold
Now I can hold such fine things
Such fine things.
Bryce Kulak’s setting of the WH Auden poem ‘Funeral Blues’ runs a close second.
Big thanks to David for taking the Actor Hub Musical Theatre Challenge.
DC sings the beautiful ‘Tin Can Telephone’
If you want to take the Actor Hub Musical Theatre Challenge please get in touch
