Read the full article by Marcus Crowder at The Sacramento Observer
On Jan. 7 as brush fires began spreading in the Pacific Palisades east of Malibu, Scott Klier was in Los Angeles holding auditions for the pending Broadway at Music Circus season opening in March.
“Our last day of Los Angeles auditions, the power went out,” Klier told me. “We ended up having to audition in a supply room at Actors’ Equity Association. It was the only room with the window where we could actually see the talent and the accompanist could read the sheet music.”
That Klier, Broadway Sacramento’s president and CEO (and de facto artistic director), was spending the winter casting for the upcoming slate of new productions was not news — that the season will open in the spring, and not the summer, is historically unprecedented. Klier didn’t really have a choice.
“With the departure of Sacramento Theatre Company we have a contractual obligation to program the site that we shared with them year-round, which created a dilemma for us because we’re not only the producers of Broadway at Music Circus, as you know, we’re also the presenters of Broadway on Tour,” Klier said.