Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams, launched a revival on March 2nd of this year. There was one major change - the entire cast was African-American. Terrence Howard (recently on screen in Iron Man) and Phylicia Rashad joined James Earl Jones and Anika Noni Rose in the critically-acclaimed production. It runs until […]
I often talk about the way that dances evolve, the way that they influence each other. Last night, in fact, I watched an excellent performer named Arielle do a hip-hop/bellydance fusion piece (she was also a competitor in a local So You Think You Can Dance competition, featuring Hok, interview forthcoming). Some dances are meant […]
Again, we’re in the really hokey contrived drama. I appreciate the focus on the hopes and dreams, and Bruno I’m liking - he’s got the kind of aggressive tone that I always have liked in dance coaches.
It’s kind of like Fame, but live (wait, haven’t they actually got a show like that?). The music […]
(sigh) I’m not sure I can handle four nights of this. Well, I write that as the first carol is, again, a soloist and then a backup group. The second two choirs use more of the broadness of talent that is a choir - drawing on the power of the harmonies.
I have to say…as holiday […]
(sigh) Once again, I’m kind of disappointed. Why can’t they have the choirs showcasing really good polyphonic music? Why do we keep having unison singing? And why is everyone just completely being so nice?
The “tense Xmas music” is kind of weird…like a Santa Horror flick. I really, really despise that they try and build up […]
I missed the first bit of the show, and I think that means I missed Blake Shelton’s choir. Listening to Patti’s commentary makes me really think that all the other choirs really are just not going to have a chance compared to her. She’s got so much experience, so much talent, there’s just nothing that’s […]
Last night we performed the Burlesque at the King Club in Madison, WI. There was no real publicity for this event- just some fliers hanging up here and there. As a result the people in the audience were just a couple less than the people on the stage.
This didn’t matter. It was a great show. […]
“…we don’t have a Pavarotti because DANCE DOESN’T RECORD WELL — i.e., it’s not mass-producible, like a Pavarotti CD or video or PBS special, and so there’s no dancer who’ll be viscerally KNOWN to millions of people as Pavarotti was through radio, TV and CDs, and the newspaper headlines generated by his stadium concerts with […]
The Mercury Theatre’s presentation of Reefer Madness the Musical was such an incredible treat, it’s hard to say where to start. Anchored by the narrator played by Jordan Jackson, who (forgive me for the comparison) reminded me of a young Jim Carrey in terms of comic timing, versatility, and physical comedy, the entire cast was […]
Tomorrow night, before going onstage at the Inferno with Foxy Veronica’s Peach Pies, I’m going to the opening of this musical. I’m sure I’ll miss more than half of the jokes, since I missed the optimum pot-smoking years, but from talking to some cast members (and yes, I’m hoping for an interview with one […]
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