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Two-Show Days: The power of theater
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A life at the theater. Monday, February 6, 2012. The power of theater. I am making a big change in my life. It's only fitting that I have theater to. Thank Last summer, The Normal Heart. At the fantastic Drama Book Shop. Please, go back and read what I said after seeing the show. Last June. That feeling I had as I left the theater never went away. What a powerful show! I'm looking forward to taking a trip to D.C. in June to see it on tour. That should wrap this story up perfectly, I think. Hello 2013 (Pi...
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Two-Show Days: Long week in review (11/15-11/20/2011): The Divine Sister / Idiots in concert / The Lyons / Once / Other Desert Cities / Hadestown
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A life at the theater. Friday, December 9, 2011. Long week in review (11/15-11/20/2011): The Divine Sister / Idiots in concert / The Lyons / Once / Other Desert Cities / Hadestown. The theater week started (normally) in Boston on Tuesday, when I went with Lisa and hubby (I suppose I should just start calling him Arthur, yeah? To see Charles Busch's The Divine Sister. At SpeakEasy Stage in Boston. In time to catch the midnight set from the as-yet-unnamed punk trio of (ex- Idiots. Linda Lavin as the mother...
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Two-Show Days: Hello 2013 (Picnic and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
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A life at the theater. Tuesday, January 8, 2013. Hello 2013 (Picnic and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). I have seen two shows already this year, and I liked them both. Last weekend, I saw Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In previews with Arthur and Lisa. We all liked both shows. I had been worried about Picnic because the Huntington's production of William Inge's Bus Stop. Shall we talk about Picnic and beefcake Sebastian Stan? Anyway, Stan is fantastic in the role (though any line that included "baby" sounded a bit off),...
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Two-Show Days: Go see No Room for Wishing / Life update
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A life at the theater. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Go see No Room for Wishing / Life update. Hey Go see No Room for Wishing. It's in Brooklyn Oct. 18, Boston Oct. 19, and Manhattan Oct. 22. More info at the bottom of this post.). And I've connected with so many brilliant and funny theater fans on Twitter. So I've been discussing shows there. The immediacy and interactivity is quite fulfilling, but there's only so much you can say in a series of 140-character posts. I don't have time to make an elegant t...
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Two-Show Days: American Idiot
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A life at the theater. Thursday, April 28, 2011. When is a jukebox musical not a jukebox musical? No one cares much because the songs are damn catchy, and there are a million other details vying for attention. There's also a flying scene. (No, really.) My friend hadn't really considered any of that to be choreography, which I think speaks to how organic it feels to the music and the characters. But, like 3-D for movies, just because you can put something in your show doesn't mean you should. Daniel Radcl...
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Two-Show Days: Leap of Faith
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A life at the theater. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. You're trying to decide whether to see Leap of Faith* * on Broadway? How is that even a question? Ok, it's possible that I can't be even a little bit objective about this show. I love the movie. Esparza as a womanizing, swindling, fake revival preacher? YES PLEASE. Phillips as a jaded sheriff and single mother? Oh yeah. (Seriously, her voice is so amazing in this that I really wish I'd seen her in Next to Normal.) Leslie Odom Jr., Kendra Kasseba...QUICK REV...
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Two-Show Days: Black Watch tour
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A life at the theater. Monday, May 9, 2011. Http:/ www.stannswarehouse.org/current season.php? Http:/ www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/default.asp? I'm not a fan of war drama at all, but I decided to see Black Watch anyway because I was desperately curious about the movement, created by the choreographer of American Idiot. And Peter and the Starcatcher. I came to the show mainly for Hoggett's choreography, and it more than delivered. As I mention in my review of American Idiot. I love how he takes...
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Two-Show Days: Go see Assistance. Now.
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A life at the theater. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Go see Assistance. Now. SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM FOR TWO PHOTOS OF THE ASSISTANCE CAST BEING RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME.]. So, as I mentioned earlier. I'm leaving my awesome publishing job at the end of this month. And this is interfering with my theater life. Wrapping everything up is taking over my life. I suppose leaving a job I love and moving on to a new adventure should be difficult, though. And the end is in sight! CQ/CX, at the Atlantic Theater. As Stockard ...
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Two-Show Days: NYMF plans for the overly ambitious
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A life at the theater. Friday, July 6, 2012. NYMF plans for the overly ambitious. Http:/ www.nymf.org. As I am fantastically (purposely) unemployed this summer, I can finally gorge myself on shows at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The shows seem to range from fetal to adolescent and awful to awesome. It's a very exciting gamble. I endured Fucking Hipsters! Because I love Heather Robb of the band The Spring Standards. So for NYMF 2012. There's some punctuation missing in that title, no? In happier...
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Two-Show Days: The Normal Heart
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A life at the theater. Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Http:/ www.thenormalheartbroadway.com. I was a mess from the moment Barkin began her blistering speech railing against the CDC- or was it the NIH? Ugh, here I am crying about it again.). I love that at the beginning of the show's run, Kramer himself stood outside the theater and handed out this letter. To make people think about the real-life events depicted in the play- to make sure they saw it as more than art, as the crisis it was and still is. I love...
