Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2012

The Artist at Work: Meryl Streep’s “Theater of War”

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In the summer of 2006, while The Devil Wears Prada was playing to packed movie houses across the country and Meryl Streep was enjoying the ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Road Show: Les Misérables

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“You only get one cry in life, you’ve chosen well!” – Rip Torn to Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock, upon giving his character a promotion. Original...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The German Opera Project: Wagner's Ring in San Francisco

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Achtung, Ring nuts! It would be remiss of the Blogger not to advise all of you who have been following my self-directed German Opera Pr...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Modern Film Classics: Moulin Rouge!

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There’s a famous anecdote of the first-ever performance of Ravel’s Bolero . This classical piece is comprised of the same syncopated rhythm...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

A Gay Old Time: Vancouver Men's Chorus Spring Concert

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The Artful Blogger is a sucker for a song and a dance, preferably together. He didn’t have a high school glee club to join (it must be an Am...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Verdi, Verdi Good

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Although this blog is dedicated to the finer things in life, and opera is one of them, this writer finds it deliciously, comically ironic t...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Comedy Tonight!

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Everyone, it seems, loves Stephen Sondheim: even lawyers. Here in Vancouver, the legal profession gathers once a year to stage a charity ev...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The German Opera Project: Go Big Or Go Home

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Hyper Smash As a child, I saw the classic Looney Tunes animated short “What’s Opera, Doc?” It was my first introduction to high culture,...