Playbill Online spotlights Broadway’s incoming “A Catered Affair” today. The new musical, opening March 25, is directed by John (“Company”) Doyle and counts CCM grads Faith Prince and Leslie Kritzer among its stars.

Here’s an excerpt from the the lengthy feature: “The young woman in Catered Affair's white dress, Leslie Kritzer, echoes Prince's enthusiasm for working with Doyle, simply stating, "[He's] the best director I've ever worked with."

"He's made me a better actress," Kritzer adds. "He always reminds me that I don't have to be so big and I don't have to work so hard to be a good actor. That's the essence of all good acting: Come from where you know and come from yourself and be simple, and you can color later."

Well known for her comedic gifts, Kritzer explains the challenges of playing Janie, the bride-to-be: "I usually get to do funny roles, roles that are funny and over the top. This is just a plain simple girl, but it's a very complex role and a hard role to play because she's stuck in the middle of all this chaos. She doesn't want a big wedding, her mother does. . . [She would just like] a City Hall little thing and make it real simple . . . and then the whole family gets involved."

Doyle's real gift, Kritzer says, is his understanding of subtlety. "He also surprises you when you least expect it. In rehearsals he would do things to bring out [our] performances . . . you didn't have to do very much, and they were so powerful. He would shut off the lights all of a sudden in the middle of rehearsal, and it would bring us to a different place. We were in darkness, but just little things like that, little adjustments, helped me so much."