Fame or Famine

Yes. That’s right. For real. They’re taking Spider Man to Broadway as a musical.

"We imagine that no expense will be spared in helping Taymore realize her vision for the project (whatever that may be), and eventually we’ll all be clamoring for tickets to watch superhero movie veteran and Broadway staple Hugh Jackman swinging to and fro on an elaborate system of pulleys created especially for the production, belting out Bono’s musical interpretation of Peter Parker’s trademark one-liners, and battling villains in exquisitely bedazzled spandex"==Defamer

My, what a strange, strange world we live in.
As a tribute, some dancing Venom:

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There’s going to be lots of posts from the theatre this week, as I will be working on making the Proud Theatre’s "Unplugged" show happen. But for today (which was load-in, and a 15 hour day, so I’m really tired…
So all you get is this link to a really good article in Root magazine, a music blog. It’s not about performing artists, per se, but rather about how the roots of performance – i.e., rhythm – are in all of us.

"Drumming and Rhythm help bring us back inside. The Power of Rhythm is the Power of Repetition. When we lock …read more

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Just watch it. And then, that thing you’ve been putting off because you figured it might be too hard to do? Just go do it, please.

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I’ve often felt that my own definition of "art" is simply "the communication of emotion." Whatever medium, art is what makes you feel. (In my opinion, and there are stacks of books of art critique to refute me written by people much smarter than me).
That is kind of the theme of today’s links, both of which I enjoyed more than I can say. First, there is the charming Dance Diary of Ying, where she writes about a different kind of dancing – that is, the ritualized movement of Chinese drumming. I tried to get the neat Google video of the …read more

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