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Liberace!
June 8, 2007 | Filed Under Main | No Comments
Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Liberace Strip Mall! (or museum…) Be sure to buy all his cookbooks and the fabulous Lemon Drop Mix.
long week…
May 27, 2007 | Filed Under Main, Theater | No Comments
I think most people don’t take a full vacation because of how long it takes to catch up when you come back. After five days in Vegas, that is where I found myself last week. And I had my leg iron (my Treo) with me so I could respond to ALL of my email. Since I had nearly 30 emails a day, imagine if I didn’t have that leg up on the situation. The mind boggles…
(As for Vegas – see it once. Otherwise, I can think of better things to do on vacation. Thank god I WASN’T on vacation…)
Then ever night was filled so I was only home once – Monday – and that was to do a bit of re-financing (and watch the Heroes finale – which rocked!) Tuesday was off to my second job. Wednesday I had an audition for this amazing play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh called The Pillowman (which I didn’t get). Thursday was my boss’s 70th Birthday party with the principals and associates. And Friday was the A.H. PBA Ball – what my wife calls our local prom. Everyone dresses up, drinks a bit, dances to a wedding band and just hangs out together for a while. Then we all get involved in a fun “Chinese auction” (and, of course, the obligatory 50-50). It’s actually a lot of fun and the money goes to a different cause each year. And we get to dress up and get drunk together as a town. Why not?
So now we are at the holiday weekend and now – Sunday – I am free to sit on my ass and watch whatever DVD I want for a few hours. Late last night, I finally got to my NetFlix movie, Stranger Than Fiction – which has sat undisturbed on the table for about three weeks. Pretty good. Not a world beater but charming and I appreciated Will Ferrell’s very understated work in the picture. Plus the music is by Spoon! Plus Maggie Gyllenhaal – who is always just adorable.
On to horror movies!
Love
May 18, 2007 | Filed Under Main, Music, Theater | No Comments
Okay - I finally won some money. About $100 on one of those video poker machines. In the Irish casino no less. (Coincidence?) I am now ahead. Still think that kind of gambling is dumb.
Last night, I saw the only show I signed up for - Love by Cirque du Soleil at the Mirage. All I really knew about Cirque was that they did acrobatics and went from a strange circus act to a McDonalds franchise all over the world. Then I heard they had “remixed” a bunch of Beatles tunes for the show. None of this really sounded hopeful. But someone gave me the CD of the music (remixed by George Martin and son) for my birthday and I loved it! It all works. What is more interesting is that the music maintains a reverence while making everything sound fresh. in essence, it rescued some of these old Beatles songs from history and made them sound alive again. So I thought - let’s give it a shot.
wow
I was totally blown away. The show is Theater and dance and aerial work and rock and spectacle. Don’t bother waiting for the DVD to come out. It won’t work and you won’t get it. The show moves all around you and over you. The sets, lighting and special effects were the best. There were characters and storlines and recurring themes throughout. It was about the Beatles and about the times (though some numbers were just about the song - “Octopuses Garden” for one). There were also a couple of revolving storylines that just pertained to the show itself.
And - of course - the music. It is a Beatles’ fan wet-dream. But even if you only vaguely know the music, the entertainment value of the show is immense. I know I was in tears a couple of times and it really was all about how the stage picture and the music melded. Hard to describe really. But an amazing experience.
What with seeing Coast of Utopia and Love, I have been blessed with seeing - in six months - the best theater I think I have seen in decades. Not bad….