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Where are they Now? Here's an update on some of the recent Landers "alumni" who are out making a living "in the business..."
Connie Pachl (Gypsy, Once Upon a Mattress, etc.) and our former Musical Director Michael Brill are doing thee original cabaret show at "Eighty Eight's" in NYC and recording their first CD. Craig Zuckerman (Cabaret, Singing in the Rain, 42nd Street) - currently in the National Tour of Grease. Rocco Vienhage (Little Shop of Horrors, Funny Girl, Forum, etc.) - Los Angeles - Murphy Brown, Sliders, Nothing Sacred, REO Music Video. Bobby Macer (Cyrano de Bergerac) - Just directed "Park Day" filmed in Springfield. On TV, Homefront, Star Trek, etc. Susie Roelofsz (Lend Me a Tenor, Baby, etc.) works professionally in Florida and has been on Nickelodeon's Adventures of Shelby Woo. Carrie Rosales (Annie Warbucks, Cabaret) - Just finished with Busch Garden, Virginia, now touring Europe. Kendra Kassebaum (Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods) - recently completed National Tour of Grease; now in A Chorus Line in Connecticut. Michelle Potterf (Nunsense, Damn Yankees) - West Coast Touring Company of Chicago. Brian Long (The Secret Garden, Accomplice, Peter Pan) - recently completed National Tour of Grease. Felicia Aichele (The Goodbye Girl, Dance A to Z) - Choreographing Sugar, in New Jersey. Shannon Page (A Few Good Men, The Odd Couple) - Executive Director, Sycamore Arts Council, Mississippi. Tracy Lawrence (To Kill a Mockingbird) - Production Manager, MTV, New York. Annie Meek (Anne of Green Gables, Wind in the Willows) - various productions on New York & New Jersey. Hollie Howard (Guys and Dolls) - touring Germany as Iris in FAME. David DuMortier (Guys and Dolls) - in Cirque Ingenue, which will make a tour stop at Hammons Hall this February. Nicole Van Giesen (Guys and Dolls) - a vocalist with the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular in Branson. Glenn Sneed (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Barnum) - has done several National Tours and now works out of L.A. Dabbs Greer - was the preacher on Little House in the Prairie and was most recently in The Green Mile. Gerry Downey (Guys and Dolls, Singin' in the Rain) - just finished a film in New York City. And of course, Kim Crosby and Kathleen Turner continue to make us all proud! |