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Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical — John Fisher Interview

May 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical — John Fisher Interview

John Fisher is a busy man. Actor, playwright, and Executive Director of Theatre Rhinoceros, the longest running queer theater in the world. Simultaneously. Such a workload prompted me to ask him when he found time to sleep when we spoke on May 12, 2017. The larger subject was Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of Priscilla, Queen of… Read More »

Tagged With: ACT, African-American artists, American Conservatory Theater, amnesia, art, art and commerce, art and culture, Bohemian Grove, Charles Ludlum, commerce, David Mamet, Disco, Donald Trump, Humphry Slocombe, LGBTQ, marketing, marriage equality, musical, Priscilla’s Tim Tam Slam, queer theater, Shakespeare, The Anarchist, The Iceman Cometh, theater, Theatre Rhinoceros, transgender, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

THE LURE (Córki dancingu)

February 19, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LURE (Córki dancingu)

THE LURE is a wickedly feminist revision of the Little Mermaid story, though our heroines are sirens, not mermaids. Sirens as in those enticing creatures that would lure sailors to their doom with their irresistible songs. In Homer’s The Odyssey, it was to see them shipwrecked, in THE LURE, it’s to dine on them.  These hybrid… Read More »

Tagged With: cloacal slit, dancing, legend, musical, myth, nightclub, objectification of women, sexual exploitation, sirens

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

The word “safe” comes up over and over again in MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN, Lloyd Kramer’s elegiac yet emotionally gripping documentary about the aftereffects of the Sandy Hook Massacre on the survivors. As in, the sense of being safe has been taken from everyone involved forever. The question becomes how to deal with it. Kramer’s film… Read More »

Tagged With: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna Grace Project, catharsis, Connecticut, musical, outreach, PTSD, Sandy Hook Massacre, theater, therapy, Trauma

LONDON ROAD

September 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LONDON ROAD

LONDON ROAD brilliantly uses the unreality of ordinary people breaking into song to evoke the unreality of a serial killer on the loose on the otherwise unremarkable eponymous street in the otherwise unremarkable small town of Ipswich, England.  Based on the Royal National Theatre production, original cast intact, that was, in turn, based on the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, fear, from stage to screen, Ipswich, musical, paranoia, Royal National Theatre, serial killer, xenophobia

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff Bring MR PEABODY & SHERMAN to Glorious Life

January 26, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Tiffany Ward & Rob Minkoff Bring MR PEABODY & SHERMAN to Glorious Life

You better be careful when you take on a classic.  For more than one generation, Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman were must-see television, as were the other denizens of the Jay Ward animation world, which includes Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right. Other adaptations for the big screen of Ward’s work have not been successful,… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, cinema, comedy, Dreamworks, fantasy, film, history, Jay Ward, kids, movie, Mr. Peabody, musical, narrative, nostalgia, Rob Minkoff, Sherman, Tiffany Ward, time travel

John Lloyd Young, Michael Lomenda and Erich Bergen ARE the JERSEY BOYS

January 15, 2015 By Leave a Comment

John Lloyd Young, Michael Lomenda and Erich Bergen ARE the JERSEY BOYS

It would, perhaps, be more of a surprise if, in the course of an interview, no one from JERSEY BOYS did an impression of their co-star Christopher Walken. I may have forced the issue just a little by asking John Lloyd Young, Michael Lomenda, and Erich Bergen if being in Walken’s proximity prompted them to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, biography, biopic, Bob Gaudio, Christopher Walken, cinema, Clint Eastwood, Erich Bergen, film, Four Seasons, Frankie Vallie, John Lloyd Young, Michael Lomenda, movie, musical, Nick Massi, pop music

CHICAGO

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHICAGO

Just when you thought we’’d lost the knack for producing a live-action musical film here in the States, along comes CHICAGO. Set in 1920s in that toddling town, this hard-as-nails tale of sex, politics, fame, and most of all jazz, is a big, splashy, brassy confection wrapped up in a bow with enough bugle beads… Read More »

Tagged With: courtroom, director, lawyers, murder, musical, opening up a play for the screen, rhinestone dangers, Rob Marshall, stage to screen

THE SINGING DETECTIVE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE SINGING DETECTIVE

Translating a first-rate concept from one medium to another is always a risky business, even a remake of a film carries with it the seeds of its own destruction as iconic stars and situations are recreated only to be endlessly compared to the original. Thus it is that THE SINGING DETECTIVE, so superb as a… Read More »

Tagged With: adaptation, BBC series, hospital, musical, psoriasis, skin disease

CRIMINAL

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CRIMINAL

Greed makes the world go around, at least it does in the seedy world of CRIMINAL. This re-make of the Argentinian film, NINE QUEENS, has been re-imagined by writer/director Gregory Jacobs as a quirky daylight noir with a plot that spins on a dime as its twists and turns on its way to proving that it’s… Read More »

Tagged With: actor, caper, con man, crime, CRIMINAL, director, drama, John Ce. Reilly, MARTY, musical, mystery, narrative, NINE QUEENS, pact with Satan, remake, scam. thriller

DREAMGIRLS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DREAMGIRLS

If Jennifer Hudson never makes another movie, if she never sings another song, if she drops off the radar tomorrow, her place in cinematic history will nonetheless be cemented forever by her acting debut in DREAMGIRLS. It’s as though fate has conspired to keep the Broadway hit loosely based on the rise of Diana Ross… Read More »

Tagged With: 60s music, based on a true story, Beyonce Knowles, Bill Condon, civil rights, girl groups, Jennifer Hudson, musical, Oscar-winner, stage to screen

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