A few months ago I went to a women's conference. The music was too loud. I sustained damage to my ears. Hearing loss and fullness that lasted for 2 weeks. I got a miracle! Fully recovered with no more loss!
This is a sketch from my journal while I was waiting for my prayers to be answered.
"When I came across a clip of a song-and-dance number from the 1964 Japanese movie You Can Succeed Too , the MGM musical fangirl in me reawakened. Thus began my foray into an era of Japanese cinema, when entertainers and studios sought to emulate American musical comedies."
Czytam sobie, że „Joker: Folie à Deux” ma być tzw. jukebox musical i przyznam szczerze, że mój entuzjazm opada. O co chodzi? Jukebox musical to taki, w którym większość piosenek to znane i lubiane utwory muzyki popularnej. No ja miałem jednak nadzieję na utwory oryginalne. I jasne, fajnie będzie usłyszeć jak Hildur Guðnadóttir przearanżowuje popowe hity i nadaje im tego swojego niepokojącego stylu. Ale czy nie fajniej byłoby wykorzystać jej muzyczny talent do stworzenia czegoś nowego? Jak sądzicie? Czekacie na drugiego „Jokera”?
Saw the Moulin Rouge #musical at the China Theatre in #Stockholm. It's an amazing production. Extremely lavish. Such an enormous amount of work and talent and stage resources put in by such a huge group of people. And all of this in service of a story that was completely cliché and hackneyed already at the time when the musical is set. You need to be ten years old or less to follow it with interest. I was simply embarrassed.
I'm working on #OpenSource The (sing-along) #Musical ! (working title) for #RedHatSummit in May. Now taking suggestions for parody lyric songs and performers!
it would especially be nice to connect with performers who are not middle aged white men of north american extraction. Enthusiasm is way more important than musical ability. 😃
New instance, new me?!
Probably not, but at least a new #introduction! :prami_contented:
I’m Katy, a #Chicago transplant living near #Louisville. Originally an #opera & #musical singer, I quickly succumbed to the dulcet tones of a steady paycheck & health benefits. 💸Currently a people person trying to make work work better at a SaaS company.
We were invited to an exciting #musical show in a venue near Kansai International Airport with 360° screens and sound. The #performance was by former #stars of the #Takarazuka Revue (宝塚歌劇団), a renowned #theater troupe where #women play all the roles in #musicals adapted from Western and Japanese #mythology, #folktales, movies, novels, and young women's comics.
1st photo: With family friends and staff who look a bit like anime or manga characters. My wife is second from the right.
2nd photo: The star came out from the stage and tapped me on the shoulder as she danced by.
The Berwickshire High School really has an excellent music department. The current production is the seniors' show S4-6, most of the leads actually being S5 students who have just finished their prelims (mock exams). Before Christmas the lower school (S1-3) staged Frozen which was also very good. The last full school show (last June) saw 70 kids on stage, over 10% of the school population, with many more running backstage and tech. #BerwickshireHighSchool#Duns#music#musical
🆕 blog! “Theatre Review: Alan Cumming is not acting his age”
★★★★★
What a treat! Alan Cumming has the amazing gift of making a 2,000 seat venue feel like an intimate little club. The Crown-Prince of Scotland spent two hours regaling us with tales from Hollywood and singing his heart out. The name-dropping is outrageous! The stories scandalous! The singing fabu…
Poster featuring Alan Cumming in a provocative pose.What a treat! Alan Cumming has the amazing gift of making a 2,000 seat venue feel like an intimate little club. The Crown-Prince of Scotland spent two hours regaling us with tales from Hollywood and singing his heart out.
The name-dropping is outrageous! The stories scandalous! The singing fabulous! It feels like the whole performance is in italics with extra exclamation marks.
It feels slightly odd to say this, but it was delightful to hear him sing in his natural accent. If you've seen Schmigadoon or Cabaret or literally anything else he's been in, you'll know what a gift he has for accents. But hearing classic show-tunes done in a rolling burr was magnificent.
The song choice is, I think it is fair to say, eclectic. I've seen a lot of musicals but even I struggled to place them all. Yes, he does some from Cabaret (although probably not the ones you'd expect) and a delicious Disney medley, but the real joy is in the deep cuts and the self-composed number.
His backing band is modest - piano, drums, trumpet, and cello - but it is more than enough to fill the space without being overpowering.
It is a sweet, joyous, flirtatious, and wickedly funny show. Perhaps the only disappointment was that we didn't get to hear a rendition of the theme from "High Life" 😉
Tickets are available for tonight in London, Thursday in Manchester, and Saturday in Glasgow.