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Me at the show!
It was like a party.
On Wednesday June 9, 2010 I went to Harlem, NY with my mom to see Amateur Night at the legendary Apollo Theater. I had an great time at this show. The performances were exciting. The show was hosted by great comedian, Capone. I also enjoyed was the DJ, named DJ Jess. He was playing really cool songs and everyone was dancing in their seats.
And that was just the pre-show. [click to continue…]
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Just a few steps away from the buzz and excitement of Times Square is Theatre Row’s Kirk Theatre, a newly renovated Off-Broadway stage, situated on 42nd street between 9th and 10th avenue. Presently it has given home to John Gregor‘s musical comedy With Glee. I attended the first preview of this delightful Prospect Theater Company success on July 10th and I was truly amazed to see such energy and excitement exhuming from the stage. Nowadays it is not rare to find talent amongst Off-Broadway shows. However, it is substantially rare when you see that talent put to its full potential. I found that extremely the case in With Glee’s fun cast of seven.
Surely freshman year in high school is no picnic, especially when you’re a teenage boy being sent to a boarding school in a another state. [click to continue…]
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Among the likes of Danielle Steel novels and big boxes of Godiva truffles, Love, Loss, and What I Wore is an all-out guilty yet memorable pleasure. The nearly one-and-a-half-hour show consists entirely of engaging anecdotes showcasing the intricate connections women and their clothing. The monologue-style anecdotes cover the whimsical (a woman’s struggle to move on after her lucky shirt disappears), serious (a homosexual bride-to-be’s struggle to find the perfect wedding outfit), and hilariously realistic (a woman’s misadventures in a lingerie shop) ends of the spectrum, leaving viewers chuckling in amusement, leaning forward in intrigue, and nodding their heads in acknowledgement.
Love, Loss, and What I Wore is delicately balanced in such a way that no single component outshines the other. This understated, elegant performance does not make its mark right away; instead, it leaves a wonderfully light, lingering impact for days after.
Info about the New York run available here.
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If you were going to try and start a religion for under 5 dollars, I would suggest you buy a flashlight.
Keep your iGizmos and your 3-D IMAXIMUM picture shows; at the end of the day, nothing is more primal, or more compelling, than a little bit of good old-fashioned radiance. Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, a new one-man show imported from Australia, uses this principal to tremendous effect as it chronicles a lonely widower’s quest to save a drowned planet from utter extinction. Or at least in theory. Alvin really dons his one-size-fits-all planet-saving suit to follow the light, which is the embodiment of his wife’s departed soul, or companionship, or meaning, or hope.
The last of these things is in very short supply. The disastrous global flood destroyed billions of lives and millennia of technological progress, leaving seemingly nothing behind but a plaintive ukulele, a Monty Python-esque sergeant recruiting heroes, and the sea-dwelling behemoths that were here long before humans ever set to their puny work melting the polar ice caps. [click to continue…]
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