Fame or Famine

I’m starting to think that opera may be getting a renaissance. Aside from the audacious decision to both broadcast online and also simulcast OUTSIDE the Met, the Metropolitan Opera has apparently also been targeting movie theatres:
“Buoyed by the early response to its decision to make live opera performances available in movie theaters, New York’s Metropolitan Opera will encore two of the high-definition transmissions, this time to a wider selection of outlets. “
Anyone seen one of these? Eugene Onegin is playing on the 24th near me; I suspect I may go. Seeing the Met, on a big screen, for less than …read more

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Don’t get me wrong–I like Tony Danza. I’m glad that he got on Broadway, but I wish that he wasn’t trying to fill the shoes of people like Nathan Lane and Zero Mostel. Check out the preview (the REALLY BIG preview) of the Producers at BroadwayWorld.com:

What I DO love is seeing some good old fashioned athletic belting by the Ulla, played by Angie Schworer. Holding that kind of tone while you’re hanging upside down over the edge of a desk and managing to drape your dress just so…now that’s talent.
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A really neat MP3 of a Public Radio International interview with the producers of "Don’t Quit Your Night Job", a behind-the-scenes fun little show put on by Broadway performers. Chip from Beauty and the Beast playing the Grandfather from Coast of Utopia? As they say, "…it’s bizarre, and people like it."
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