Category: Theater
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Smoke and Mirrors
It’s Tony time! The celebrash is always around my birthday, or even on that very day some years. I would huddle around the console tv …with well, some of my family, in Waukesha Wisconsin ..when I was a kid and feed my dreams with every moment. The only way I could experience Broadway from Waukesha…
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How Lucky Can You Get
For the very few who know that song, it’s from “Funny Lady”..the sequel to “Funny Girl”… great song in a kinda weird movie. Another brilliant Kander and Ebb soliloquy… Satin on my shoulder how lucky can you getMoney in my pocket how lucky can you getEvery night’s a party where the fun never endsYou can…
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Dear Velveeta
Velveeta is about to join Actors Equity. Not the processed cheese food.. evidently they have to call Velveeta cheese food because there are not enough elements in it to actually call it cheese. Like, just cheese. Velveeta is a stripper. It’s not lost on me her name indicates she doesn’t have the ingredients to call…
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You’ve Been Shit Schmeared
I shall be writing today of being shit schmeared. Yes, that’s right. Shit smeared. A schmear of shit rubbed in your face. Last week, a critic in Germany was attacked with a dog schmear by a choreographer who I suppose felt angry that she didn’t like his busta moves. The pair had a tense discussion,…
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Stuck in Tár
So, I watched Tar… I’m not gonna use the slash thingy.. for our purposes it’s Tar without the à because… Tar is easier. I watched the film in installments.. it took me a week of a half hour at a time.. I have a feeling if I watched it in a theater I would have…
Robert DuSold 