Celesta Danger, Bret Brookshire
Jason Neulander (l) and Dave Steakley
Zach Scott's Dave Steakley has an especially deft hand with musicals, but this year he showed his boldness by daring to stage the all-conquering behemoth that is Disney's High School Musical and by presenting two big nonmusicals: Take Me Out and Noel Coward's Present Laughter. Meanwhile, Salvage Vanguard Theater's Jason Neulander started the year by promising it would be the biggest ever for his nurturing home for up-and-coming playwrights and did it in big style with an ongoing national tour of The Intergalactic Nemesis and by finally finding a home for his own itinerant troupe- a permanent place on Manor Road. Both prove bigger doesn't mean blander.
