October 29th, 2007
“Academy Award nominated actor Harvey Keitel will star in the title role in Jerry Springer – The Opera in Concert…Jerry Springer – The Opera in Concert is inspired by America’s most lurid TV talk show host who brought worldwide television audiences episodes including “Pregnant by a Transsexual,” “Here Come the Hookers” and “I Refuse to […]
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October 28th, 2007
Last night was really hectic. Foxy Veronica’s Peach Pies was performing as “entr’acte” numbers between five, count ‘em, five bands at the King Club in Madison. Keep in mind this is Madison’s Halloween weekend, a nationally infamous event. I’m not sure if that made the crowd weirder or more thinned out, as most of the […]
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October 25th, 2007
Not only will I be attending, but I’ll be speaking on a panel for Ethics & Blogging. I know, I already wrote this, but I didn’t have a spiffy “featured speaker” badge to show off then…
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October 24th, 2007
This just in (well, ok, just in my view): They’re turning the Johnny Depp/Traci Lords vehicle “Cry Baby” into the next Broadway hit (a la “Hairspray”). The word off of the NYT rumor mill is that it has serious Tony potential:
“…my Spy-Babies say the show has a catchy score (by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of […]
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October 22nd, 2007
Here’s part of her take on a recent performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato’s modern dance troupe, Compania Nacional de Danza.
She makes me miss NYC, but better, she gives me such a wonderful idea of what it would have been like to be there…
Swan Lake Samba Girl
When the […]
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October 18th, 2007
Special thanks to my friend Nyxx for sending me this link to a great interview/backstage tour given by Lisa O’Hare when she was doing Mary Poppins in London.
Secret confession time: right up there with Eliza’s Dad, the EmCee from Cabaret, and the Pirate King, I’ve always wanted to play Bert…
Question: My daughter tells me […]
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October 15th, 2007
One of the sorrowful parts of my whirlwind trip to Milwaukee last weekend was not getting to stay long enough to see my friend Li Chiao-Ping dance with her company at Danceworks. She has been first a teacher, then a colleague, and now a friend, and I also have done work with her partner Doug […]
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October 14th, 2007
I got to go see “My Fair Lady” thanks to the generosity of a friend in Milwaukee. You can read about the tour here…my own impressions were surprising to me.
When Liza sang her first solo, I realized what an amazing amount of sound quality is lost in recording. Her voice was like a crystalline glass […]
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October 11th, 2007
Well, it’s official; since I’ve been invited by the esteemed Amy Gahran to be on a panel discussing the ethics of blogging, I will be going to Blogworld Expo in Vegas. Any other dance/performing arts bloggers going to be there? At podcast expos there are often “meetups” for themed podcasts; I’m hoping to find […]
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October 10th, 2007
It’s true. When I graduated High School, I came from an immersion in swing choir, summer musicals (Motel the Tailor and Harold Hill), the drama club (four years of Shakespearean adaptations, culminating in playing a rapping Hamlet), and individual voice training that got me 1-stars in the State Vocal Competition.
I was going to be a […]
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