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Saum featured in new ABC pilot
Kettering native Sherri Saum (Dr. Holland Kemble last season on “Gossip Girl”) has landed a lead in an ABC pilot about a family and the world of professional dance.
The title, “Grace,” is the family’s name and, presumably, also refers to dance, but not necessarily to how family members get along.
Eric Roberts plays the central role of Michael Grace, a choreographer who has three daughters with three different mothers.
Saum plays the middle daughter, an offbeat artist whose mother will be played by Debbie Allen.
Another daughter, played by Abigail Spencer, is a dancer-turned-lawer who buys Dad’s studio when he’s in danger of losing it.
Saum said the Debbie Allen connection is “awesome, because people have said my whole life that I look like I am related to her.”
“Grace” writer Krista Vernoff’s credits also include “Grey’s Anatomy.” Mia Michaels, previously of “So You Think You Can Dance?” will do the choreography.
Saum will also play a role on an upcoming episode of the new series “Body of Proof,” starring Dana Delany. The series premiere will be at 10 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, on ABC.
To read a recent interview with Saum about “Gossip Girl,” go to www.wetpaint.com/gossip-girl/articles/wetpaint-exclusive-sherri-saum-will-take-the-secret-of-gossip-girl-to-her-grave
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La Comedia Dinner Theatre in Springboro now has a connection to the tangled web that extends from the embattled Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
Philip William McKinley, who was hired on Thursday, March 10, to replace Julie Taymor as director of the spectacle, staged several shows at La Comedia during the 1990s, including the local premiere of the Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston version of the musical “Phantom” in 1992.
On Broadway, McKinley directed the musical “The Boy from Oz” in 2003, starring Hugh Jackman.
It’s just a guess, but a director with the creativity and drive to launch a worthy production on the same floor used beforehand to serve dinner (that’s how La Comedia does it) ought to be able to streamline a show that has had numerous delays, injuries and cost overruns.
Dayton actor Scott Stoney played Carriere in that local production of “Phantom,” which smashed La Comedia’s attendance record and went on from there to tour Europe. Choreography was by Broadway veteran Paula Lynn, who was married to then-La Comedia president Kim Klopcic.
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