Category: Theater
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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…
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The Greatest Showdown
For the last few years, I was wondering if, or when, someone would file a lawsuit against Actors Equity for defamation, or interfering with employment, or maybe intentional infliction of emotional distress. Frankly, I thought it would be an actor. Of course, the irony is not lost on me, and hasn’t been for quite a…
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Miss Otis Regrets…..
When the mob came and got her and dragged her from the jail,Madam,They strung her from the old willow cross the way.And the moment before she died,She lifted up her lovely head and cried,Madam.Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today. Cole Porter wrote “Miss Otis Regrets” in 1934… it’s been widely recorded and performed…
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On Broadway, Weighing the Risks and Rewards of Staging ‘Some Like It Hot’ | Vogue
If the idea of transformation is not the heart of Some Like It Hot, it is one of them. “The movie”—with its gangsters, its moonshine makers, its down-and-out jazz musicians, its struggling girl band, its lonesome heroine, its accidental cross-dressers, its unconventional millionaire—“seemed to me about people who are nonconformist in their nature,” says López.…
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No Whammies
It really has been a bad week for Broadway, but extra super-duper bad for Actors Equity. Like anybody needed it with dwindling box office and Covid-19 taking another curtain call. First, Patti LuPone withdraws from the union, and yesterday Garth Drabinsky sues AEA for 50 million bucks for defamation. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/theater/patti-lupone-broadway-labor-union.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare To save you the work,…
Robert DuSold 