Bill Berloni appears in the following:
Nice Work If You Can Get It: The Trainer Behind Broadway's Actor Animals
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Back in the '70s, Bill Berloni wanted desperately to make it as an actor. "But those were teenage dreams," he tells us. While apprenticing one summer at a theater, he was told that he would receive his Equity Card and a stage part -- if he could buy, feed and train a dog for an upcoming production of Annie (all for $35, by the way). "I found the original Sandy," he says. "That's where my career began."
The Disturbing Delight Of Matilda On Broadway; Animal Actors; Bahar Movahed
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
In this episode: The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 book, Matilda, has opened on Broadway, and New York Times Chief Theater Critic Ben Brantley says it’s “the most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain.” We hear why.
Plus: We talk with the trainer behind some of Broadway’s most well known animal actors.
Plus: Iranian singer Bahar Movahed performs songs from her new album, Goblet of Eternal Light.
And: A profile of this week's Check Ahead artist - the slide guitarist and songwriter Luke Winslow-King.
