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--- This episode is available on your local radio station, on PRX and below via The Moth Player. It will be published on iTunes | Spotify | RadioPublic | RSS --- on 6/13/23 ---In this hour, stories of lessons for real life. Navigating young love, learning to live in the moment, and how to drive stick shift. This episode is hosted by Jay Allison, producer of The Moth Radio Hour.Sam Bolen works on Broadway during the "season of the understudy."Meg Ferrill uses h...

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The songs speak volumes in Midnight at the Never Get (★★★★☆), expressing feelings that crooner Trevor Copeland (Sam Bolen) and pianist Arthur Brightman (Christian Douglas) might otherwise never admit to themselves, each other, or the world. Arthur writes the songs and Trevor sings them, but both of their stories, and an era of LGBTQ history, flow through their fateful collaboration. The musical — conceived by Bolen, writer/composer/lyricist Mark Sonnenblick, and Max Friedman, who directed the original Off-Broadway production — depicts a version of Trevor and Arthur’s partners...

Published May 3, 2021 Christian Douglas as Arthur and Sam Bolen as Trevor in Midnight at the Never Get. Photo by Christopher Mueller, courtesy of Signature Theatre The premise is deceptively simple. It is a cabaret show about the fabulous and dramatic lives of a songwriter and a performer at the close of the golden age of Broadway. The performer awaits his lost love in a shadowy, gilded nightclub. The fact that the love is also a man keeps the “theater about the theater” trope from going stale. The audience should sit back and expect entertainment, interaction, strife...

Photo by Christopher Mueller. Signature Theatre’s third production of this season opened virtually this week on Marquee TV. “Midnight at the Never Get” was originally developed in 2015. With book, lyrics and music by Mark Sonnenblick, it was conceived by Sam Bolen, Max Friedman, and Mark Sonnenblick, and Matthew Gardiner directs. Sometimes you see a show that is exactly what you expected. Sometimes it is a disappointment and other times you feel like you saw something really special. “Midnight at the Never Get” is one of those shows that far exceeds your expectations by miles. To s...