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Archive for the ‘Singing’ Category

June 20th, 2008

Artistic Fraud: Where Spectacle Meets Story

As we come back to following the progress of July 20th, the GREAT BLOG OFF around the globe, we come to Newfoundland, home of Artistic Fraud. Specializing in “chorus based work,” the group is directed by Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe.
All About Numbers
As the video on their site will tell you, in the past 9 […]

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June 19th, 2008

North Korean Singer

A little bit of live singing from across the globe: we don’t get to hear much of the fine arts from North Korea, but I found this particular YouTube Video strangely compelling as the lovely waitress sang.

As part of the blog off, I think this is a good example of the value of the fine […]

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June 19th, 2008

Free Music from Julianne Hough of Dancing With the Stars

We all know and love Julianne Hough, the champion of Dancing with the Stars twice over. You probably are also aware that she has dipped her toes in the waters of recording stardom, with a debut album with tracks like

That Song in my Head
Jimmy Ray McGee
Hide Your Matches

You can hear excerpts and learn more over […]

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February 10th, 2008

The Ultimate Valentine: Slow Live Jazz

There’s a bit of a theme going in the B5Media entertainment community, where each blogger is supposed to write a valentine post. For people like the LOST and Soap bloggers, it’s a fun exercise of the imagination; you can just aske the question “Who would you like to be your valentine from the show?” The […]

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January 26th, 2008

Roller Derby with Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos

OK, this is stretching the “performance art” umbrella a little far, but I don’t get to do as much with the celebrity thing as my fellow bloggers here at B5Media, so I’ll take what I can get.
Tonight I’m going to be running a video camera for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, the Madison Women’s Flat Track […]

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December 28th, 2007

“The King Lear of Musical Scores”: Behind the Scenes of Sweeney Todd

I’m sure you’ll be able to hear this kind of thing on the DVD when it comes out, but meanwhile, here’s a nice treat: learning about the process of taking Sweeney Todd from stage to screen - including interviews with cast members, and more.
Share This

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December 23rd, 2007

Review: Sweeney Todd

Ok, first things first: Yes, it’s Christmas, and yes, Johnny Depp has played Willy Wonka and Jack Sparrow and even Gilbert Grape and Benny and all manner of likeable characters.
This, however, is not one of them. So unless you are ready to see a musical with the graphic portrayal of a serial killer literally splattering […]

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December 17th, 2007

Clash of the Choirs Tonight!

“‘Clash of the Choirs’ is a live four-night musical event coming to NBC in December 17th. “Clash of the Choirs,” has tapped five musical superstars — Michael Bolton, Patti LaBelle, Nick Lachey, Kelly Rowland and Blake Shelton — to embark on a musical challenge as they return to their hometowns to assemble an amateur choir […]

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October 10th, 2007

At Heart, I’m a Song-and-Dance Man

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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August 26th, 2007

Some thoughts on Burlesque

I’m far behind in my posting to this blog, and at least part of it is the fault of several talented women who comprise Foxy Veronica’s Peach Pies. I performed with one of them (the Betty Wantsme who has been seen in this blog before) for one performance, and the audience and the directors liked […]

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