The new album is almost done, and the show opens this weekend! A hybrid #theater/live #music love-letter to #Denver, and a #queer reflection on friendship and change.
If you're in the area, come see what I do offline! :) Tickets are pay-what-you-want.
After an excellent sold-out theatre performance in Bremerhaven-Lehe last night, I was back home at 02.00 this morning and, as my body clock has total control of my waking life, awake, if not up, at 05.00. A theoretical lie-in of an hour.
Sunday is laundry, paperwork, relaxation, all of which are now well and truly underway.
#Biden: "Remember when #Trump was trying to deal with COVID, he suggested injecting a little bleach in your veins… he missed, it all went to his hair (Loud, extended laughter and applause)
(smiling) I shouldn't have said that... You guys are a bad influence on me."
On one Ctrm-Photo one could see the divergent #Contrast, between his pale, chalkcolored Hands and Fingers and his "suntanned" #Face full of #Theater#makeup. Somehow a #Cartoon of his own.
This line in "The Great Gatsby" (as Nick Carraway's riding the train from Long Island into New York City) is a transitional fossil record:
"My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand."
Because the modern verb "commuting" and nouns "commuter" and "commute"....
stem from names for multi-ride railroad/streetcar passes that truncated or "commuted" fare payments ("commute" here being the same verb we use in "commuted their original prison sentence").
New blog post about "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway's struggle to love, multiple new stage adaptations, what's hard about porting a story to another medium, anti-racism tradeoffs, and @jacob being a patient friend
Question for the theater folks: Is there any free open source software that helps manage auditions and casting, including paperwork, headshots, resumes, etc?
Searching for software for "casting" only returns stuff that lets you cast video to your TV.
Searching for software for "auditions" only returns Adobe Audition (an audio suite).
This is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
As an extension of having really gotten into #audiobooks lately as somebody who doesn't drive and walks or rides the bus everywhere, the next nerdy thing I want to get into is radio plays. I found a collection of episodes of the original The Shadow series and have started researching BBC productions and radio play style podcasts too.
If anybody has any recommendations please let me! Especially into like #horror and #scifi
Actor Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar and Emmy winner, has died at age 87, according to his family.
AP reports: "Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries 'Roots,' which depicted the atrocities of slavery on TV." He was the first Black man to win the best supporting actor Oscar for "An Officer and a Gentleman."
@ColinTheMathmo In 1950, the ballet/pantomime "Isotopia" was performed. It was a creation by Muriel Howarth, apparently a radioactivity enthusiast. It featured people portraying protons, neutrons, electrons and a Geiger counter. Apparently, this is what Time magazine wrote about it:
“13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled ‘proton’ and ‘neutron’ while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese.”
Sorry for long absence. My mom was desperately ill this winter and was hospitalized. When she came back, she needed 24h care and still is in poor health. I have been deeply stressed and needed to step back from social media.
Me normally: Fuck capitalism. It's a rigged system that keeps us poor
and it isn't fair. You shouldn't need to work 3 jobs to afford basic necessities.
Me playing Monopoly: Sorry, if you wanted to win you should have tried not being poor.
In the interactive play "World Factory," the audience runs a clothing factory in China and they seem to always veer towards making more money and cutting wages.
Der seit 2021 amtierende Intendant der Berliner Volksbühne, René Pollesch, ist mit 61 Jahren gestorben. Das gab das Theater am Abend bekannt. Pollesch war zudem Autor und Regisseur zahlreicher Theaterstücke.
You would think it's too early in the week to already have a contender for the most randomized-sounding headline of the week, but here we are. A sci-fi jukebox musical based on the music of the Goo Goo Dolls is set to premiere next week....
A Goo Goo Dolls Sci-Fi Musical Is in the Works | Exclaim! (exclaim.ca)
You would think it's too early in the week to already have a contender for the most randomized-sounding headline of the week, but here we are. A sci-fi jukebox musical based on the music of the Goo Goo Dolls is set to premiere next week....