Going to the theatre

[Frances]

Was just looking at Boston and NYC options for 2018.



Will miss Denzel Washington in Iceman by a week. It closes July 1.
Not the biggest Denzel fan, but would go see anybody in an O'Neill play.


O'Neill smiling at an Iceman rehearsal circa 1946. Ha.

Smiling again in Philadelphia's beautiful Walnut Street Theater, 1947.

[Frances]

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is moving from LaJolla to Broadway. Opening in March.

Dim All the Lights is included. Sold.

[Low D]

"Spirit Horse" - a play by Drew Hayden Taylor, being a Native American adaptation of the Irish play ‘Tir Na N’Og’ by Greg Banks. Directed by Greg Banks, A Roseneath Theatre production.

Taylor, an Ojibway from Curve Lake First Nations, in Central Ontario, has seamlessly inserted a story he learned through his family's oral narrative into the ancient Irish tale. Apparently, in Tir Na N'Og he saw parallels to First Nations' experience, and indeed themes of dislocation, separation from the (home)land, death and fractured families are stories universal to colonized peoples. A spirit animal that carries you between worlds was a familiar concept as well.

This play is aimed at a younger audience (9-13 years old), but I went with my 15 year old as part of a school group and we both cried. That said, it says something about the Irish experience that the First Nations version was happier than the original.

http://roseneath.ca/20162017-season/spi ... -the-play/

[Frances]

Limerick write up mentioning Philip, Pogues, Clash and Whitney Houston's music in an Abbey production.

https://www.limerickpost.ie/2018/06/25/the-political-sting-to-jimmys-hall/

[Frances]

So when is the f-ing play opening?
11 or 12/19?

[Frances]

"Guitarist Joe Perry recently confirmed that the band has been approached about the possibility of Broadway musical, although no specific plans are in the works."


I swear to God if a f-ing Aerosmith Broadway show comes out before a Pogues off-Broadway one...

[Frances]

There is a GoFundMe account for actress Valerie Harper's care while fighting brain cancer.

https://www.gofundme.com/the-valerie-harper-cancer-support-fund

I'm posting this here because Medusans (including myself) last saw her perform on Broadway in Looped.

[Frances]

Glancing at broadway openings Dreamgirls, Soul Train and MJ look possible. The same actor is playing David Fucking Ruffin and MJ? 1776 and Sherlock Holmes, maybe. Rupert Everett and Laurie Metcalf in Virginia Woolf sounds like a bad time.

Where are the Williams, O’Neill, Shepard and Wilsons? Aargh.
F-ing Beetlejuice, Mean Girls and Working Girl.

[Frances]

Was scrolling through Philip’s theatre posts.

I suppose after that it depends on whether or not you like André Previn as a composer. I happen to rate him quite highly.

Well, shit. I was canned from a fancy pants job once for making a co-worker (who came in on her day off to commit fuckery) that got very nasty (and picked a fight with little-ol’-me) cry. Waah!

The person they’d fired from the position before they hired and fired me was André Previn’s daughter. She got canned for being a Jesus freak and pestering the fancy as fuck clients. Fancier than Previn’s daughter?, I should think not. LOL.

The employer gave me severance (woo hoo!) and with it being around Christmas I went to Chicago, then Dublin to see the Pogues at the Point, getting back home on Christmas Day. Remember taking the train home from LAX/Union Station and there was a whacked out dude telling me he only travelled by hot air balloon, as I (tired from travel) mumbled under my breath “but you’re on a fucking train.”


There are far less than 6 degrees of separation, I’ve found. Way less. Like two - three, four at the most. 6 is ridiculous.


XO

[Christine]

Well, theatre is over for now. One of the last things I saw was Beckett's Endgame at the Old Vic in London. It was paired with Rough for Theatre II which I have never seen before. As would expect, bizarre, black, quite funny. Endgame itself is fantastic, dark post-apocalypse, and hilarious. Daniel Radcliffe (who clearly was the draw for much of the audience) starred alongside the always delightful Alan Cumming who if I remember correctly was also one of Phil Chevron's favourite actors.

[Frances]

Well, theatre is over for now. One of the last things I saw was Beckett's Endgame at the Old Vic in London. It was paired with Rough for Theatre II which I have never seen before. As would expect, bizarre, black, quite funny. Endgame itself is fantastic, dark post-apocalypse, and hilarious. Daniel Radcliffe (who clearly was the draw for much of the audience) starred alongside the always delightful Alan Cumming who if I remember correctly was also one of Phil Chevron's favourite actors.

Nell and Nagg, amazing.


Was he? (Cumming)
That is quite a lofty achievement.

I saw Mr. Cumming in Cabaret at Studio 54.

Radcliffe drew so many people (hundreds) outside The Cripple of Inishmaan that same week I wondered why they didn’t pay the extra money to stare at him, up close, for two hours. That young man certainly has a boat load of fans who will very politely park themselves for hours just to get a glimpse. I found it odd but then I know fuck all about Harry Potter.

[Frances]

OMG





I just saw pictures of the Oliver! Artful Dodger & Fagin mural in Southwark.
https://flic.kr/p/2gv5jEB

Artist: http://traffordparsons.com/about/

I would die just stumbling across that in person.

[Frances]

Mr. Stacy talking about the Pogues play development on a podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UFgMk2WRh0
@29:00
I vant to go to opening night.

I’ve never heard more than (very effective) two sentence cracks on stage before. What a nice voice, answering all those questions.

[Frances]

Broadway shuttered thru May 2021.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... AKBN26U1PF

[Frances]

Hamilton at Paris, Las Vegas anyone?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/vitalvegas ... ction/amp/