Fame or Famine

April 16th, 2008

Katie Holmes Escaping to Broadway?

Now, this is an unusual use of a Broadway role: apparently Katie Holmes wants to accept a role on the Great White Way and move to Manhattan - not unusual for an acting couple, but she is claiming it’s the start of a trial separation from her husband Tom Cruise.
It puts an interesting spin on […]

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April 16th, 2008

Dancing with the Stars: Priscilla Goes Back Home

“For an Englishman, he has pretty nice teeth.“- BuddyTV on musician James Blunt
Because of job duties, I’m no longer able to do live, in-the-moment reports on the Dancing with the Stars shows. But I’m very grateful to the bloggers who do - little quotes like the one above make the experience of re-watching it on […]

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April 15th, 2008

Soundtrack of the Day” Goes Broadway

My colleagues over at the Music channel have been running a “Soundtrack of the Day” series, where various music bloggers will list songs that they carry with them through the day. I thought of my iPod, and the things on it that make me think of the Great White Way. Here’s the top 5:

Loathing from […]

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April 13th, 2008

The Pleasure of Planned Performance

“Embrace what frightens you. Get some new experiences.”
– Adam Carolla, Dancing with the Stars
Over the weekend I’ve been in Fort Lauderdale as part of a performing arts  seminar. Part of it was myself and others doing some Japanese-based performance art, something like a cross between butoh and kabuki and a post-modern aesthetic. There were other […]

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April 11th, 2008

Darkness Breaks: A Sequel to Phantom? NO!!!

Say it isn’t so, Andrew.
Looks like Ben Elton, Glen Slater (of the Little Mermaid) and Sir Lloydd-Webber will be teaming up to pen a sequel - yes, that’s right, a sequel - to Phantom of the Opera.
While I have great faith in the talents of all three, this is much like Michael Bolton covering When […]

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April 10th, 2008

Opera for the Masses: Don Giovanni in Chicago’s Millenium Park

CHICAGO OPERA THEATER, HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE, MILLENNIUM PARK, AND MILLENNIUM PARK, INC. TO PRESENT FIRST-EVER FREE LIVE SIMULCAST PRESENTATION OF AN OPERA IN CHICAGO HISTORY, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008
That’s right - Millenium Park, really, is worth visiting even when the Chicago Opera Theater is not there; the architecture, the Bean, the video […]

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April 8th, 2008

Adam Carolla & Marlee Matlin on DWTS: Contrasts in Grace

I will give Adam Carolla props for, well, his props. It’s great to see some circus arts on Dancing With the Stars (come to think of it, anyone remember “Circus of the Stars”? Not as good a concept, apparently).
Still, his actual dancing is clunky, stilted, and you never get the idea that he’s actually doing […]

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April 6th, 2008

No Apologies: Idina Menzel’s Triple Threat

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“I’ve made it a mission of mine to not apologize for these things anymore. I think I’ve been around long enough that I don’t want to hide or suppress my different backgrounds. These are all the different facets of the way I am…“- Idina Menzel
She […]

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April 6th, 2008

Pilobolus at the Oscars

It doesn’t even require talking about - Pilobolus is beyond words. But in another example of pop culture exposing us to the finer arts (see Dancing with the Stars and Alvin Ailey’s Revolutions for another example) here they are at the Oscars…

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April 3rd, 2008

Jennifer Garner & Kevin Kline take Cyrano to TV

This post is just for my friend Karl: After a triumphant Broadway run, Jennifer Garner is currently working with Kevin Kline on a TV version of their 10-week smash hit Cyrano de Bergerac.
While sceptics may roll their eyes at the idea of Edmund Rostand’s classic story of swashbuckling hearts being put on the boob tube, […]

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