tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47680118244098871352024-03-20T01:05:50.486-07:00Let the Show BeginLet The Show Begin, at www.TucsonStage.com, is intended to become the city's online home for professionally written arts reviews.
There will be reviews and feature stories, in theatre, dance, music and film, about dedicated enthusiasts working with non-profit arts groups making a difference by sharing their time, energy, knowledge or money to produce events, expand the venues and generously support Tucson’s amazingly talented artists.Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-63195783040582632422013-12-06T13:37:00.001-08:002013-12-06T13:37:25.056-08:00miracle on south division street<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><b><font size="6"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SWEET PHILOSOPHY IN </span>"MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET"</span></font></b></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><font size="5"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/MIRACLE%20ON%20SOUTH%20DIVISION%20STREET%20invisible%20theatre%20%20nov%2013.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/MIRACLE%20ON%20SOUTH%20DIVISION%20STREET%20invisible%20theatre%20%20nov%2013.jpg" style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center;" border="0"></a></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"> </font><font size="4"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">photo by Tim Fuller</span></font></div><br></div><br><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><b><i><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Shocking news surprises the Nowak family (from left) Beverly (Alida Holguin Gunn), Clara (Toni Press-Coffman), Jimmy (Seth Fowler) and Ruth (Carley Elizabeth Preston).</span></span></i></b></font></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><b><i><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></i></b></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">A lovely warm-up for an ecumenical holiday season is found at Invisible Theatre in its sprightly production of "Miracle on South Division Street" by Tom Dudzick. Not to be confused with Kris Kringle's Christmas shopping "Miracle on 34<sup>th</sup> Street," this miracle of a much different kind is set in Buffalo, New York, in 2010.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Gail Fitzhugh directs a tightly knit cast of four to deliver plenty of laughs while reminding us that family devotion will always be more important than religious differences. Anyone who grew up back east will recognize the spot-on characterizations in three generations of the Nowak clan of Polish-American Catholics who staked their claim to the New World just before World War II.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">First, we are reminded how urban blight has taken its toll on the once prosperous upstate city of Buffalo. Clara (Toni Press-Coffman) has grown up in this house on this street where her deceased father ran a barber shop for 60 years.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Back in 1942, Clara's grandfather was visited by the Virgin Mary shortly after he opened his Buffalo barbershop. To honor this occasion, he had a statue of the Holy Mother erected on the spot. Although the Church has refused to recognize this miracle, Clara has become the keeper of its flame. </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Her grown children – angry Beverly (Alida Holguin Gunn), bitter Ruth (Carley Elizabeth Preston) and genial Jimmy (Seth Fowler) – have not embraced their grandfather's shrine with any particular devotion, which only increases Clara's determination to keep the faith.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">As the neighborhood has deteriorated, the shrine has become ever more important to Clara. Her sincerity and her dizzy grasp of current events are portrayed with smiling sympathy, even as Ruth and Beverly seem to lose patience with their mom. </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Jimmy, the youngest, is the typical little brother in his 20s who always tries to keep balance in the family. All this interplay makes "Miracle on South Division Street" a wonderful ensemble piece that just becomes more buoyant the more complications set in.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Performed in 90 minutes without an intermission, once all the characters have established their identities, Ruth kicks over this house of traditional beliefs with her news of a deathbed confession that rattles this family to the core, but in a humorous way that has a happy ending.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"Miracle On South Division Street" continues through Nov. 24 with performances at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, plus 4 p.m. Saturday Nov. 23, at the Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave. </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Tickets are $28. For details and reservations, 520-882-9721, or visit www.invisibletheatre.com</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><br> <br> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span><br></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> <br> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span><br></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> <br> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> v</font></span></div></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-23777246729250789792013-12-02T14:54:00.001-08:002013-12-02T14:54:13.935-08:00JAZZ LEGENDS CONCERT AND MAX GOLDSCHMID nov 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font size="6"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(12, 52, 61);"><b><span>University music prodigy to perform on stage with Jazz Legends, <span>Oct</span>. 18</span></b></span></span></font></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Elvis Presley once said, "Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."</span></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">In the case of Max Goldschmid, he "has it." This 19-year-old prodigy of music, now attending the University of Arizona, has won awards all over the nation for his extreme talent.</span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">His cache of instruments includes soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet, trombone, trumpet and slide trumpet, electric guitar, upright and electric bass, and whatever else he can get his hands on.</span></span></font></p><table style="width: 178.8pt; margin-top: 1.95pt; margin-bottom: 1.95pt;" width="298" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt; width: 178.8pt;" width="298"><p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="color: black;"><img src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs170/1102271711066/img/1598.jpg" width="288" border="0" height="190"></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div><p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Jazz Legend's 2012</span></i></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">With jazz running through his fingers since age 6, Goldschmid has been invited to perform during this year's Jazz Legends on <span>Friday</span>, <span>Oct</span>. 18 <span>at 7 p.m. - an honorable invitation never bestowed on an emerging artist in the concert's 13-year history.</span></span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Goldschmid will play a trumpet duo with the internationally-acclaimed Byron Stripling, and five additional famed musicians, during Jazz Legends benefit concert at Tucson Country Club, 2950 N. Camino Principal.</span></font></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Millions have heard Stripling's trumpet and voice on television commercials, theme songs ("20/20" and CNN) and soundtracks of beloved movies.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Los Angeles' first-call trombonist Andrew Martin has contributed to albums with Pussycat Dolls, Coldplay, Kanye West and Michael Buble.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Saxophonist Rickey Woodard has performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra and The Temptations as well as toured with Ray Charles Band.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Kenny Drew played a solo piano tribute to Duke Ellington on Ellington's 100th birthday and was winner of the 1990 Great American Jazz Piano.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Drummer Joe La Barbera's first professional appearance was at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas with Frankie Randall and the Buddy Rich band in 1968. He later joined world renowned singer Tony Bennett, recording some of Bennet's finest albums.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Nicki Parrott, on bass and vocals, has worked side-by-side with guitar greats like Paul McCartney, Slash and Steve Miller, performing at major festivals around the globe, in Broadway shows and documentary appearances.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">These memorable musicians will come together for Jazz Legends - a performance invigorating a passion for jazz from listeners, enthusiast to novice, each year.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">With a range of ticket prices, the experience is available for all to attend. Front row seats include a three-course dinner before the show for $125, preferred seating tickets are $60 and general admission is $45. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. and the concert starts at 7 p.m. </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Proceeds raised from the event help SAACA continue free arts education and therapy programs in the schools and the community.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b> </b></span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><img src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs170/1102271711066/img/1600.jpg" vspace="4" width="193" align="left" height="222" hspace="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b>An emerging legend </b></span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Goldschmid received his introduction into jazz music with the Tucson Jazz Institute (TJI) as a youngster. There he learned from Doug Tidaback, Scott Black and other Tucson favorites, and he was quickly absorbed by Tucson's jazz scene. </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">He plays weekly with the Arizona Roadrunners, a traditional Dixieland jazz band that was featured in 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the Jerry Lewis Telethon on live television.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">He has received awards at numerous competitions, including the Outstanding Soloist award at the prestigious Fullerton College Jazz Festival; first chair alto sax in the Arizona All-State Jazz Band; the 2008-2009 Outstanding Musician award from the TJI; soloist awards for alto sax and trombone at the 2010 Next Generation Festival in Monterey, Calif.; the double solo award for clarinet and saxophone at the 2010 Essentially Ellington Competition at Lincoln Center in New York City; and most recently second place in the International Trumpet Guild jazz improvisation competition in Grand Rapids, Mich.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Goldschmid is also a composer. He wrote several original tunes for his studio album, "Maximum Exposure," and participated in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra's Young Composers Project for four years, producing a full-length symphony each cycle.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b>2013 Jazz Legends benefit concert</b></span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b>When: </b><span>Friday</span>, <span>Oct</span>. 18 - 5:30 p.m. dinner (optional ticket upgrade) and 7 p.m. concert</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b>Where: </b>Tucson Country Club, 2950 N. Camino Principal</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b>Cost:</b> VIP concert seating with three-course dinner $125 per person, $60 for Section B and $45 for Section C (no dinner with Section B and C prices)</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span></span></span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b> Phone:</b> 520-797-3959 (SAACA office)<span></span></span></font></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-19837053555176661252013-11-30T10:55:00.001-08:002013-11-30T10:55:32.706-08:00INEQUALITY FOR ALL loft documentary nov 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div dir="ltr"> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: red;">"INEQUALITY FOR ALL" </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">A MUST-SEE</span></b></p> <div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><b><i><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/film/INEQUALITY%20FOR%20ALL%20doc%20loft%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1383678056523/home/film/INEQUALITY%20FOR%20ALL%20doc%20loft%20oct%202013.jpg?height=208&width=320" width="320" border="0" height="208"></a></i></b></div><b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Robert Reich makes his audience believe in the power of economic forces.</span></i></b> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">If you believe in and stand by Matt Damon's "Inside Job" documentary on the collapse of Wall Street (and the federal government's response), then you will absolutely want to buy "Inequality for All," a newly released documentary studying the causes of America's shrinking middle class, now playing at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Robert Reich, the personable Secretary of Labor during Bill Clinton's first term in office, is the star here. Blessed with the skill for making economics feel as up close and personal as any date on Match.com, Reich uses news clips, animated graphs and catchy photography to takes us through the past 30 years of America's economic history.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">But first take a minute to realize how the nation's major newspapers have failed its readers by providing only superficial coverage of this glacially developing story on the growing income gap and how news entertainers such as Jon Stewart and his "Daily Show" have become the main real-news conduit to a numbed out national audience.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">If Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his famous fireside chats today on any television network, he'd have to include dazzling special effects.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">But back to Reich. He makes the convincing argument that if democracy is to survive in this country, there must be a thriving middle class to facilitate the rise from poverty to wealth that is at the heart of everything American.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Once that dream is dead, says Reich, so is the United States as we know it.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">While prickly Republicans will be eager to shoot down the economist's every basic assumption, and progressive liberals will do the same, there is a progression of logical developments that begins in the late 1970s.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">That's when several technological developments made it possible for large American companies to shift their means of production to other countries.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Thus, iIntricate parts designed in one country could be built in another country, and in yet another country several of these off-shore manufactured parts could be assembled even more cheaply into a new product that could then be sold at a very high price in the country of origin.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Thus the big American company takes in lots of money, though all the jobs to create that product were paid to workers in other countries. Is this sounding familiar?</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Reich pulls in other factors such as the mantra that giving tax breaks to American companies means more jobs for American workers. Nope. That hasn't happened and Reich has the research to prove it.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">The bottom line is that the United States is the richest country in the world, but now has shriveled up public schools that fail its students and unemployment rates worse than many so-called Third World nations.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">Though "Inequality for All" tackles dense subject matter its conclusions are easy to appreciate for any member of the middle class – whether rising, falling or struggling to make that mortgage payment.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 37.9pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: black;">See it now and buy a copy when it's available. 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class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">From left, Connor Foster as Claudio, Joseph McGrath as Duke Vincentio and Marissa Garcia as Isabella</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Marissa Garcia gives the performance of her life in the Rogue Theatre production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure, a play of moral ambiguities and blurred ideals – where standing for something can create a lot of problems for others.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p 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People have barely begun to move about when the Duke, venturing onside his palace, realizes that under his lax reign debauchery has become rampant in the city.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">But lacking the temperament to close the brothels and enforce harsh laws prohibiting sex outside of marriage, the Duke appoints aggressively upstanding Angelo (Matt Bowden), dressed completely in black, to take the Duke's place while he takes a long trip. 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Primary among them is Lucio (the amazingly versatile Lee Rayment), Pompey (Ryan Parker Knox) servant to the delightfully named Mistress Overdone (Cynthia Meier) who runs a brothel and is also delightfully costumed. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">David Morden directs with a sure hand and keeps things moving along as the demands of morality clash with the emotional desires of human nature. The timelessness of conflicts Shakespeare has dreamed up continue to prove his genius. Today's rudderless society filled with its willingness to compromise any issue for financial gain clearly parallels Vienna of that time.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Garcia makes her Isabella quite sympathetic to the ruthless machinations of Angelo, who just can't resist a helpless novice in white. 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No doubt every Catholic priest for centuries has taken to his grave the personal secrets of parishioners that would have completely unraveled the community had these secrets become known. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">But what if this particular counselor wasn't a priest. What if he was just a normal kind of guy, who happened to know lots of other people's secrets but had no particular professional, or moral, obligation to keep these secrets secret? <br> <br> Such is the quandary pondered by playwright Steve Holiday in "Savage Bond," which won the Arizona Theatre Company's 2012 Arizona Playwriting Award. <br> <br> At Beowulf Alley Theatre, Katherine Monberg directs an informal production which seems to gather menace for its folksiness, a sort of this-could-happen-to-anyone air that sounds about right. <br> <br> It is the day before Thanksgiving, ironically enough, when six friends return for the funeral of a departed mutual friend. They feel like a modern-day version of the Magnificent Seven, gathering to protect their friend from threats of outside forces. <br> <br> They also, each in a different way, feel relief that the possibility of a sinister secret being discovered has died, as well. All of them have told something very personal to this fellow at one time or another.<br> <br> Imagine their collective horror discovering this beloved pal now passed away wrote a journal over the years that contained all these secrets. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Ooops.<b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Nobody wants to act too interested in the journal, lest it appear the journal might contain some embarrassing secret about them. 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She was also blessed with timing, in the sense that her career took place between the two world wars.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">As for musical timing, well, she wasn't any better at that than she was at singing on pitch and sustaining a single note for more than a couple of seconds. Some recordings that showcase her lack of talent are posted on YouTube, should you be tempted to think that "maybe Florence Foster Jenkins wasn't all that bad."</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">We also see that Tucson's own actress Carlisle Ellis sounds remarkably like those recordings while performing in the Live Theatre Workshop production of "Souvenir" written by Stephen Temperley and directed by Stephen Frankenfield.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">The only other cast member is pianist/actor Michael Martinez as Jenkins' accompanist Cosme McMoon. There couldn't be a better name for this musical enabler of Jenkins' need to believe she is a great soprano.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Temperley centers his play backstage just before Jenkins is to give her first and only performance at Carnegie Hall in the autumn of 1944. McMoon in his tuxedo sits at a piano reminiscing over the controversial career of his patron.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Through Martinez' subtly shaded performance we easily believe he felt sincerely sorry for Jenkins, even as he rode her unusual popularity to greater heights than he could have expected on his own. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Historically, Jenkins became quite popular for all the wrong reasons. She had no talent for singing, but threw herself into every performance with such unbridled brio that audiences didn't know what to think.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">This being a time when well-educated New Yorkers still valued manners and civil attitudes in public, they did not want to laugh out loud. They felt embarrassed for her, so they applauded outwardly while stifling their laughter.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Jenkins felt vindication in their applause, and interpreted their muffled laughs as the sounds of their pleasure. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">It is Ellis' responsibility to convey all this misunderstanding through her conversation and body language, also while implying such a clueless attitude that she becomes funny – but not in a nice way.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Talk about a tough assignment.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Frankenfield walks an equally tight rope developing these two characters, avoiding obtuse awareness on one side and artless arrogance on the other.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">The artistic achievements of all three are so strong, it is only after walking out of the theater that one begins to think about people around Tucson right now who have similar blind spots about their own talents.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">"Souvenir" continues through Nov. 16 with performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays, at Live Theatre Workshop, 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. Tickets are $18, with discounts. For details and reservations, 520-327-4242, www.livetheatreworkshop.org</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 34.3pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-36504285395795978232013-11-08T10:26:00.001-08:002013-11-08T10:26:54.997-08:00FIFTH ESTATE loft movie<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="color: rgb(19, 79, 92);"><font size="6"><b><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(12, 52, 61);">"FIFTH ESTATE"</span> AN ESSENTIAL REMINDER</span></b></font></span><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><br></span></font></span></i></font></div><div style="margin: 5px 10px; display: inline; float: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/FIFTH%20ESTATE%20movie%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1382216568950/home/FIFTH%20ESTATE%20movie%20oct%202013.jpg" width="320" border="0" height="213"></a></font><font size="5"><i><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Swashbucklers with laptops, Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and </span></font></span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b>Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) take on the world.</b></span></span></i></font><br></div></div><font size="5"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><br></span></span></i></font></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">"The Fifth Estate" is getting a pretty good pummeling by film critics, which can only mean veteran direct Bill Condon ("Dreamgirls," "The Twilight Saga") is on to something genuine.</font></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Hopefully there is some investigative film critic somewhere who is digging to uncover which censor insured this cinema tribute to the greatest whistle-blower of all time would not be offensive to any government department or official.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Maybe we wouldn't expect the American feds to lionize Julian Assange or Pvt. Bradley Manning, but certainly all United States citizens do need to know the U.S. federal government is suspicious of all its own citizens.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Sure, we sort of knew that. But now we really know it.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"Fifth Estate" begins with the mercurial personality of blond-haired Assange, an Australian visionary who believed the anonymity of the internet would make it a modern day trumpet of the people – a weapon for justice powerful enough to bring down the most arrogant corporation…or government.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his WikiLeaks website are introduced doing good, toppling high powered scoundrels. Assange acquires a devoted disciple, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl), and WikiLeaks becomes an international player of consequence on the digital scene.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">That's when the consequences with content begin. Assange is portrayed giving in to his dark side, being more selfish and less idealistic. Domscheit-Berg begins to see Assange's feet of clay and distances himself from the new schemes of Assange to publish online that massive trove of classified U.S. government documents.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">We all know the story. It was in all the newspapers.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">What we don't get is anything new. All the cinema action comes from dramatizing the race to prevent the release of this information before Assange decides when and how to release it.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"Fifth Estate" doesn't take us too far down the rabbit hole. Laura Linney and Stanley Tucci play a couple of extremely upset mid-level officials in the State Department, wailing about treasonous acts. Army Private Bradley Manning is nowhere to be seen, except for a photo of Manning in a screen tableau of the mainstream media coverage.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><h3 style="margin-left: 40px;"><a name="TOC-So-what-are-we-left-with-A-very-sanitized-version-of-the-affair-based-on-Domscheit-Berg-s-own-book-Inside-WikiLeaks:-My-Time-with-Julian-Assange-at-the-World-s-Most-Dangerous-Website.-"></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">So…what are we left with? A very sanitized version of the affair, based on Domscheit-Berg's own book </span>"<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website."</span></span></font></span></h3><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><h3 style="margin-left: 40px;"><a name="TOC-Whether-or-not-Fifth-Estate-is-a-good-movie-isn-t-the-point.-Everyone-should-see-this-film-just-to-be-reminded-that-powerful-and-omnipotent-and-often-hidden-government-forces-are-at-work-right-now-in-our-native-land."></a><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Whether or not "Fifth Estate" is a good movie isn't the point. Everyone should see this film just to be reminded that powerful and omnipotent (and often hidden) government forces are at work right now in our native land.</span></font></span></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-1335969689604873642013-10-27T14:03:00.001-07:002013-10-27T14:03:01.971-07:00WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THUNDER beowulf alley oct 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">SATIRICAL SOAP OPERA: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THUNDER?"</span></span></b></span></font><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/WHAT%20IS%20THE%20CAUSE%20OF%20THUNDER%20lucille%20petty%20beowulf%20alley%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1381092464080/home/theatre/WHAT%20IS%20THE%20CAUSE%20OF%20THUNDER%20lucille%20petty%20beowulf%20alley%20oct%202013.jpg?height=367&width=400" style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center;" width="400" border="0" height="367"></a></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><b><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Lucille Petty plays Ophelia, Ada's daughter</span></font></b></i></span><b>.</b><br></div></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Open Sans,serif; color: black;"><br></span>There is genuine talent onstage at Beowulf Alley Theatre. The satirical comedy, "What Is the Cause of Thunder?" by Noah Haidle, has had successful productions in other cities.</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But this particular Tucson production doesn't quite make it. There are some extenuating circumstances involved, to be sure.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span> </span>Hearing the actors is often a problem at Beowulf Alley because the theater itself contains a lot of echo. Big voices work much better here than normal conversational voices.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><font size="5"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/WHAT%20IS%20THE%20CAUSE%20OF%20THUNDER%20susan%20arnold%20beowulf%20alley%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1381092213039/home/theatre/WHAT%20IS%20THE%20CAUSE%20OF%20THUNDER%20susan%20arnold%20beowulf%20alley%20oct%202013.jpg" border="0"></a></font></div><b><i><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: black;"> Susan Arnold plays Ada, a soap opera actress</span></span></font></i></b><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But speaking in a loud voice which sounds natural and effortless isn't easy. More rehearsal time would have helped, too.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">At last night's opening performance, the many roles played by Lucille Petty -- and the inability of Susan Arnold's character to tell the difference between real life and her fantasy life -- often made all the characters feel blurred.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There are no other actors in the cast. Leslie Miller is directing.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">At times it was difficult to keep track of all the twists and turns Haidle has written into his story of Ada's (Arnold) battle with mental illness. Or maybe it isn't mental illness. Maybe it is a projection of dreams continually frustrated by reality.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Petty plays Ophelia, the daughter of Ada, and several other women who have an impact on Ada's unsatisfied life. As well as those on the TV stage set who complicate Ada's make-believe life.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Ada is the perennial soap opera actor who can never get into "real" acting. After 27 years in the daytime version of show business, her career stalled out quite some time ago.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Ophelia wants to be supportive, but she has plenty problems of her own – including a twin sister trapped in an off-again, on-again coma for six years. But that may be two of the characters she plays on the soap opera…I think.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">That title comes from a line in "King Lear," and is also the name of the soap opera on which Ada has toiled so loyally for so long.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"What Is The Cause Of Thunder?" continues through Oct. 20 with performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays, at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave. Tickets are $23 general admission, $10 students with ID. For tickets and reservations, 520-882-0555 or www.beowulfalley.com </span></font></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-80198416467384733392013-10-26T18:05:00.001-07:002013-10-26T18:05:25.082-07:00RUSH movie oct 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><font size="6"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"RUSH" <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">TO GET YOUR SEAT</span></span></font></b></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/RUSH%20movie%20sept%202013.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/RUSH%20movie%20sept%202013.jpg" border="0"></a></div></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>James Hunt and Niki Lauda love their red Formula One race cars</b></span></span></i>.<br><br></div></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Although that title "Rush" doesn't tell us much, it refers directly to the adrenaline rush that fueled the</span> <span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">drivers of Formula One cars racing through Europe's twisting road courses in the 1970s – before the annual fatality rate of Formula One drivers finally forced them to face their own suicidal death wish.</span></span> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Actually, it wasn't a death wish so much as it was a fantasy of invincibility in a world of millionaires willing to spend vast sums of money to build race cars that kept getting lighter and faster. Since ordinary safety equipment adds weight without contributing to speed, it wasn't very high on any car owner's list of requirements.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">As for the Formula One drivers themselves, few pursuits in Europe had more cachet. The grounds of Formula Two and Three race tracks were full of bravado and guys willing to risk a fatal crash to win a race. </span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Two of them were English playboy James Hunt and Austrian gear head Niki Lauda. Both came from extremely wealthy families. Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) was the daredevil with lightning reflexes. Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) was the auto analyst who could squeeze more performance from any machine.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Taken together, their fabled duels for dominance in the mid-1970s personified the classic clash in all of art between impassioned intuition and fabled technique.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Howard's most brilliant film yet captures this magnificent conflict in ultra high definition cinematography on giant screens with beefed<span> </span>up theater sound systems able to reproduce the chest-pumping roar of those unrestricted engines.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Yes, race fans, the track scenes of actual racing feel absolutely authentic. And there are lots of them. Eschew the special digital effects and artificially pumped up engine screams. Part of the film's mythology is that several days were reserved for getting in the cars, with cameras mounted all around, and going racing.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The film roughly spans 1975-76 when Hunt and Lauda were rising fast through the Formula One ranks as Howard hones his edge to this high octane duel of RPMs at the redline.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">What's best is the quality of off-track acting as Hemsworth and Bruhl deepen the driven personalities of these two competitors. <span> </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Hunt's easy charm and world class bank account are only the surface of a man determined to show he is worth something more.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Lauda is equally brutal with recognizing his own lack of social skills as he is sizing up an inferior race car. But Lauda also knows he has some genius qualities in setting up and driving these cars. What he lacks in charisma he is determined to make up in racing success.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The stage is set, and history has already recorded the result.<span> </span>If you know who won this competition, keep it to yourself. Screen writer Peter Morgan ("The Queen," "Frost/Nixon," "The Last King of Scotland) does an excellent job putting in enough racing terminology to keep the most unaware audience member up on the importance of this competition.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In the pantheon of sports movies, "Rush" easily secures its place among the front-runners.</span></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-36732395682143738682013-10-25T12:54:00.001-07:002013-10-25T12:54:48.541-07:00WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL loft documentary oct 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(120, 63, 4);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font size="6"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">TAKE MY WIFE...PLEASE</span></font></b></span></span><br></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/film/WHEN%20COMEDY%20WENT%20TO%20SCHOOL%20loft%20doc%20sept%202013.jpg.1379630709000.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/film/WHEN%20COMEDY%20WENT%20TO%20SCHOOL%20loft%20doc%20sept%202013.jpg.1379630709000.jpg?height=400&width=271" style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center;" border="0"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Sure, this lovable doc could include more jokes. Blame the early days of black-and-white television for my love of vaudeville humor. <br><br>But the heartfelt documentary "When Comedy Went To School," now playing at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd., can still fluff up a lot of fondness for those standup comedians who plied their trade in upstate New York's Catskill mountain resorts after World War II.</span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">We learn Grossinger's, for example, was originally a forgotten farmhouse with a lot of rooms, purchased during the early 1900s by Asher Selig Grossinger, who offered guests a kosher kitchen.</span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">And talk about an odd couple, Buddy Hackett and Lenny Bruce were once Catskill busboys who roomed together.</span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Jewish American culture sank deep roots into such mountain hotel giants as Grossinger's, the Flagler, the Concord and the Pines. Colonies of rental cabins added their own unique flavor of camping out under the trees.</span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">But even though the established places put a lot of emphasis on their endless food service and energetic social directors, we are here to celebrate the comedians, especially the Jewish ones.</span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Before Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld there was Sid Caesar and that noisy kid Jerry Lewis. Mort Sahl was there, too, followed after a time by Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield.</span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">These performers and lots more are represented in this 70-minute film. But they aren't telling jokes so much as they are talking about the atmosphere and attitudes of "working in the Catskills" where established comedians could safely experiment with new routines before taking them out in public – and the young guys could learn from the masters. </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">For anyone who has any connection at all to that scene, the manners and the jokes, "When Comedy Went To School" is like thumbing through the high school yearbook, laughing at the clothes as well as the humor while still feeling the comfort of sharing old times again. </span></font></span><br></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"> </span></font></span><br><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><br></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> </span></span><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p> </div></div></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-28024011260496668092013-10-25T12:47:00.001-07:002013-10-25T12:47:29.133-07:00"+1" loft movie oct 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><font size="6"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">"+1"</span> MULTIPLIES THE ODDS</span></b></font></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/film/%2B%201%20loft%20movie%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1380916015344/home/film/%2B%201%20loft%20movie%20oct%202013.jpg?height=240&width=400" border="0"></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b><i>Even frightened teens have metaphorical lives in "+1".</i></b><br></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The oddly titled "+1" is sort of a "Ground Hog Day" for teens combined with a touch of aliens invading from beyond. Lovers of philosophical metaphor, however, can have some deeper fun with this off-kilter pic now playing at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There is the repetition of daily life in every high school, the daily skirmishes between the cool ones who constantly need to prove themselves, and the uncool ones who can't stop striving to prove they are good at something…anything.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">And most fascinating of all, in every one of these hallway conflicts, is the wish of all teens that they could go back and start over, skip that blood-curdling awkward moment, that tongue-tied response to the one person who's been the object of their every fancy since forever.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">What kid hasn't dreamed of a parallel universe where it was just the other people who got caught doing dumb stuff?</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Actually, to tell you the truth, every student who wants to be a filmmaker one day should see "+1." There are the germs of so many terrific ideas planted here like germs cultivating in a petri dish, this movie deserves a special award for idea germination.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span> </span>Rhys Wakefield from Australia plays David, the cute boy everything happens to. Logan Miller is Teddy, the somewhat dufus sidekick of David. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Natalie Hall is the hot girl with no name and </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Jill (Ashley Hinshaw) is David's bitchy girlfriend.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">A little more metaphor arrives in the setting, a wild party full of strangers in a strange house where anything can happen (as well as a couple of curious product mentions for Home Depot).</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">You remember how, when you party with people who don't know you, it is easier to show off a little more, flirt a little more, maybe do other things…. And invariably stumble into a room where you shouldn't be.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">All sorts of things like that happen, as the idea of what every 15-year-old guy thinks goes on at college fraternity parties, is portrayed in full excess.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">So OK, then we get to the sci-fi "Ground Hog Day" part which is, admittedly, somewhat confusing. Our four central characters establish themselves then begin to notice there is a certain repetition going on, like they are caught in a time loop.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> They also notice, after awhile, that this party contains another person who looks exactly like each one of them. Is it a parallel party in a parallel world?<br></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But interestingly, these doubles don't have the same memory bank of new experiences as their "originals." So the originals can share information which the doubles don't know because it hasn't happened to them yet.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">This becomes a key ingredient as the story evolves, but don't worry too much </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">about it</span></span>. Making sense is not the objective here.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Anything that gets you in more of a party mood would be appropriate, though, before buying that ticket and settling down in the theater.</span></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-62757492098716066012013-10-19T13:56:00.001-07:002013-10-19T13:56:51.227-07:00SISTER ACT bwy in tucson oct 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(12, 52, 61);"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">"SISTER ACT"</span> FEELS GOOD</span></b></span></font><font size="5"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/SISTER%20ACT%20bwy%20in%20tucson%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1381439497345/home/SISTER%20ACT%20bwy%20in%20tucson%20oct%202013.jpg" border="0"></a></font></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><b><i>These nuns get the church rockin' to the Seventies in "Sister Act."</i></b></font></span></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">If you loved the movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, or just love the idea of poking some gentle fun at Catholic nuns who still haunt your memory, you will love the "Sister Act" production Broadway in Tucson has brought to Centennial Hall at the University of Arizona.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Full of energetic performers and vibrant stage sets, this show has the feel of a genuine New York production. The church where much of the second act action takes place wins kudos for its towering Madonna figure and faux stained glass window treatments.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">All the original songs have echoes of the "Philadelphia Freedom" era, with pumped up disco, jumpsuits and bell bottoms…and a mirror ball, for those who remember the Seventies. My personal favorite touch was Monsignor O'Hara (Richard Pruitt) speaking from the pulpit with a sexy Barry White voice.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Ta'Rea Campbell has the Goldberg role of Deloris, singing in a Supremes-type trio on Christmas Eve in Philadelphia, with her show business career as big a dream as getting a nice gift from Santa Claus.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Campbell has a strong voice and packs a lot spunky sass into her role. She isn't a comic performer so much as she is an enthusiastic one, which is plenty good enough.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">At times she is nearly upstaged by Hollis Resnik as the staunchly conservative Mother Superior. Resnik with her older, more mature presence gives her musical moments a more resonant touch that just feels deeper than the others.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The story, of course, sets up Delores as a gangster's moll who accidentally witnesses a murder. For her own protection, Delores is sent by police to hide in local convent. <span> </span></span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The reserved personalities of all the sisters in their drab black robes get a good shaking up when Delores starts to roll. As she turns the staid chorus into a joyful celebration of life, everybody feels lots better.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">All the secondary cast members pitch in on their numbers to keep the energy building. A trio of gangsters sings like the Bee Gees, several of the nuns have engaging turns as they come to life under Delores' influence.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"Sister Act" is a feel-good musical for all the family, flaunting its innocence about life and making you love it. Performances continue evenings at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, matinees are 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd., on the University of Arizona campus.</span></font></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"> </font></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Tickets are $29-$75 through Broadway in Tucson. Details and reservations, broadwayintucson.com, or in person at the Centennial Hall box office.</span></font></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-35242688254959875242013-10-10T14:30:00.001-07:002013-10-10T14:30:06.711-07:00Tucson Meet Yourself, 2nd Saturday, Pride & Much More!<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Downtown Tucson Partnership [mailto:info=downtowntucson.org@mail131.atl21.rsgsv.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Downtown Tucson Partnership<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 10, 2013 1:31 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Tucson Meet Yourself, 2nd Saturday, Pride & Much More!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#D5D5D5'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white;border:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt' id=templateContainer><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white;border:none;border-bottom:solid #442A83 4.5pt' id=templateHeader><tr><td style='border:none;background:#C43817;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:25.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#202020'><img id="headerImage_x0020_campaign-icon" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c/images/logo_header.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in' id=templateBody><tr><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span class=tribe-big-popup><b><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>What's Up Downtown</span></u></b></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>A few selections of upcoming events are below,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>find out more about everything happening </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=521f858842&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self">here</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>.<br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Friday, October 11th</span></strong><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=7be249177f&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>40th Annual Tucson Meet Yourself</span></a> at El Presidio Park<br><img border=0 width=300 height=150 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/TMY-300x150.jpg"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=78536e9b76&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Disney on Ice</span></a> at Tucson Convention Center<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=1255b2cc98&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Art 21 on the Plaza</span></a> at MoCA<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=fc7781d4e3&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Tucson Gay Freedom Day Parade</span></a> near St. Augustine Cathedral<br><img border=0 width=300 height=146 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://purpleroofs.com/gay-travel-blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/tucson-pride.png"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=101ef442fe&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Yo Gotti </span></a>at Rialto Theatre</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=2636637849&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>An Evening of Pink Floyd</span></a> at Fox Tucson Theatre<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=99bafb396b&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>La Cerca, Sleep Like Trees </span></a>at Club Congress<br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saturday, October 12th</span></strong><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=665ad1f27b&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Tucson Meet Yourself</span></a> at El Presidio Park<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=9dc58cbf49&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>2nd Saturdays Downtown</span></a> at Scott Avenue Stage<br><img border=0 width=300 height=155 id="_x0000_i1028" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/belly-dance-tucson.jpg"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=4c46366ca7&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>"How to Kill a Marvin Gaye Song" David Sayre Artist Talk</span></a> at MoCA<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=a934fd1726&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Seeing the Santa Ritas</span></a> at The Drawing Studio<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=cf02f83e9d&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Evening of Play</span></a> at Children's Museum Tucson<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=4da131fac9&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>The Bike-tography Show </span></a>at Borderlands Brewery<br><img border=0 width=199 height=300 id="_x0000_i1029" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/valet-bicycle-parking-199x300.jpg"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=11d983dfd0&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Disney on Ice</span></a> at Tucson Convention Center<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=de08a2eca2&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Monothon 2013</span></a> at The Drawing Studio<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=707182125c&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>World Blues with Taj Mahal</span></a> at Fox Tucson Theatre<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=061146cfbe&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Steve Earle</span></a> at Rialto Theatre<br><img border=0 width=200 height=133 id="_x0000_i1030" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/steveearle.jpg"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=0c148afaef&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Pure Bathing Culture</span></a> at Solar Culture<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=2c3573a47a&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Art in Thunder Canyon</span></a> at Thunder Canyon Brewery Downtown<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=27d893a478&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Tucson PRIDE After Party</span></a> at Club Congress<br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sunday, October 13th</span></strong><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=fe9a714734&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>25th Annual AIDSWALK</span></a> Tucson at Jacome Plaza<br><img border=0 width=250 height=180 id="_x0000_i1031" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c/images/AW_walker_billboard_13.jpg"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=e72ed135ed&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Tucson Meet Yourself </span></a>at El Presidio Park<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=15a72ce51c&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Procession of Little Angels Costume Workshop</span></a> at Maker House<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=88c2710a03&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Jimmie Van Zant </span></a>at Rialto Theatre<br><img border=0 width=300 height=224 id="_x0000_i1032" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/vanzant-300x224.jpg"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=739d87545d&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>All Souls Lantern and Mask Making Workshop </span></a>at Steinfeld Warehouse<br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=ecc4d70ded&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>Trash to Treasure: Plastic Bags with </span></a><span class=summary><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=8a1c33efb0&e=b3e68894f1"><span style='color:#336699'>Adam Bucholz</span></a> at Maker House</span><br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>See a full list of Downtown events </span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=b15d6025f8&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='font-weight:normal'>here</span></a></span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Downtown parking is plentiful with more than <a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=87c478b385&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>15,000 spaces</span></a>.</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><strong><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Event Street Closures</span></u></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Even with many of the great events this weekend requiring street closures, Downtown remains incredibly accessible. Other than Stone Avenue for an hour or so on Friday evening (from around 6 to 7 p.m.), access into Downtown Tucson is available via Stone Avenue from the north, 22<sup>nd</sup> Street and Sixth Avenue from the south, St. Mary's Road from the west and Sixth Street and Broadway from the east.<br><br><b>Tucson Meet Yourself</b> – Beginning Thursday at 6 p.m. until Sunday at midnight, Church Avenue from Alameda Street to Congress Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic to accommodate exhibits and heavy pedestrian traffic attending the Tucson Meet Yourself event. Festival hours are Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 11a.m. to 6 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><img border=0 width=250 height=158 id="_x0000_i1034" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Tucson-MY-street-closure-300x190.jpg" alt="Tucson MY street closure"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=83cf1c0794&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><b><span style='color:#336699'>Tucson Gay Freedom Day Parade</span></b></a> – Beginning Friday at 6 p.m. Stone Avenue will be closed between Ochoa and Alameda Streets. Alameda Street will also be closed from Stone Avenue through Main Avenue. These streets are expected to be open by 7 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><img border=0 width=200 height=273 id="_x0000_i1035" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Tucson-Gay-Freedom-Parade.jpg" alt="Tucson Gay Freedom Parade"><br><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=df9de71d46&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><b><span style='color:#336699'>2nd Saturdays</span></b></a> – Beginning at noon Saturday until midnight, Scott Avenue between Broadway and Congress Street will be closed for 2<sup>nd</sup> Saturdays activities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><img border=0 width=200 height=195 id="_x0000_i1036" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/2nd-Saturday-Oct-2013-Closures.jpg" alt="2nd Saturday Oct 2013 Closures"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=fda758e222&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><b><span style='color:#336699'>AIDSWALK Tucson</span></b></a> – In conjunction with Tucson Meet Yourself, the 25th annual AIDSWALK Tucson will take place beginning Sunday at 8 a.m. at the Joel Valdez Main Library/Jacome Plaza. The walk will take place on the west side of Downtown and will not have any street closures associated with the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=14658cab2c&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:mediumblue'>Streetcar Construction Update</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><img border=0 width=150 height=150 id="_x0000_i1038" src="http://www.downtowntucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SunLinkIcon-150x150.jpg" alt=SunLinkIcon></span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>The first streetcar has arrived and is undergoing testing along the route</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>. Click <a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=bc3d248277&e=b3e68894f1" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>here</span></a> for a full list of projected testing times and activities. During this week, the traveling public may see Sun Link streetcar 101 on the rails for daytime and nighttime testing. Typically the streetcar occupies the same travel lane as vehicles, except for specific 'switch' locations. During testing, please be aware that police officers may be present, streetcar personnel may be walking with the streetcar to monitor tests, motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists are moving in a new transit environment, and new directional signs and pavement markings are in place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>During the week of October 7 through October 11, 2013, eastbound Toole Avenue, between 5th Avenue and Congress Street, will be closed</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>. Traffic will be detoured to southbound 5th Avenue. Access to businesses and parking will be maintained. The contractor will continue with utility adjustments through October 11, 2013, along Broadway, Congress Street and Granada Avenue. Motorists should prepare for lane restrictions in the area of work. At least one travel lane will be maintained at all times.<br> <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The contractor is continuing with adjustments of the overhead contact wire in the downtown area.</span></strong> Motorists should expect temporary lane restrictions in the area. Officers will be on site to direct traffic during this work.<br> <br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The contractor will continue installing sidewalks, curbs and access ramps in the downtown area.</span></strong> Traffic may be shifted to accommodate work in the area. Temporary turn restrictions at intersections may be in place during these activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>This information is provided by the Tucson Modern Streetcar weekly newsletter, also found online at </span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://downtowntucson.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=107e0b9788cdb61f73b64762c&id=30292204de&e=b3e68894f1" target="_blank"><span style='color:purple'>TucsonStreetcar.com</span></a></span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:purple'>.</span></em><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> Schedules are subject to change due to weather conditions and/or equipment failure.</span></em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><em><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>The Downtown Tucson Partnership is a public-private partnership formed to keep our Downtown safe and clean; 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font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(54, 95, 145);">"BLUE CAPRICE"</span></b> <span style="color: rgb(7, 55, 99);"><b><font size="6"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">A DISTURBING DRIVE</span></font></b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5"><br><div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/BLUE%20CAPRICE%20movie%20oct%202013.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1380918152483/home/BLUE%20CAPRICE%20movie%20oct%202013.jpg" border="0"></a></div><b><i>Isaiah Washington (L) and Tequan Richmond play the </i></b><b><i>cold-blooded serial killers.</i></b><br><br>"Blue Caprice" is the description of the car John Allen Muhammed (Isaiah Washington) and 17-year-old Lee Malvo (Tequan Richmond) prepared and used for the Washington DC-area attacks committed by the Beltway Sniper.</font></span></span><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">"Blue Caprice," now playing at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. speedway Blvd., is also the film precisely directed by first time French director Alexandre Moors, based in New York City, using a very deliberate script by R.F.I.Porto.<br><br>Lifting this true-crime narrative to the level of a meditation on the nature of pure evil, Moors and Porto vigorously avoid any hint of melodrama.</font></span><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Sometimes that pace seems more relentless than it feels inspiring, but after 93-minutes one feels oneself in the presence of truth.</font></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">No, we aren't any closer to understanding what creates pure evil, that's what makes this film so powerful. Anybody on any street could be the next killer spilling for no reason whatsoever.</font></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Tucson has been so poignantly touched by this random terror. Evidence points to Muhammed and Malvo having claimed one their earliest victims in Tucson, as well, but that incident is not included in the film.</font></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Instead, Moors spends more than half his screen time developing the father and son relationship between these two, first in sunny Antigua, then in rainy Tacoma.</font></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Both males felt isolated from society and success, having no place to turn for relief from their anger. In desperation they discover the joy of firing firearms when they meet a friend of Muhammed with small artillery of hand guns and high powered rifles in his basement.</font></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Malvo also discovers his natural talent for marksmanship as Moors develops Malvo's need to continue pleasing Muhammed. But even after making Muhammed the burning center of this three-week rampage around the nation's capitol, a kind of free-floating need for revenge is his only motivation.</font></span><br><br><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">If the traumatic case of the Beltway Sniper has always held your fascination, "Blue Caprice" will suit you perfectly.</font></span> </span></div></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-19605063992065674572013-10-06T12:14:00.001-07:002013-10-06T12:14:49.742-07:00IMPORTANCE OF BEINB EARNEST atc sept 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><font size="6"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">"THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST" </span></b><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">IS</span></b></font> <div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/IMPORTANCE%20OF%20BEING%20EARNEST%20atc%20sept%202013.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1379882626761/home/theatre/IMPORTANCE%20OF%20BEING%20EARNEST%20atc%20sept%202013.jpg" border="0"></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><i> <font size="5"> --photo by Tim Fuller--</font></i></span></span><br><div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif;">A spot of tea and a lot of deception between Algernon (Matt Leisy), left, and Jack (Loren Dunn) make for both laughs and insight in "The Importance of Being Earnest." .</span></b></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><br><br>Was the pretense of propriety during Victorian times in England any more artificial than the pretense in America today that there is no more racism?</span></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> It is a matter worth considering, and there would be no better time than while watching the Arizona Theatre Company's lively production of "The Importance of Being Earnest."</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">No less a wily commentator on contemporary cultural matters than Oscar Wilde provides the puncturing of homophobic England's upper crust superiority in 1895 when he wrote this modern classic. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">ATC's own Stephen Wrentmore, who grew up in London, directs this production with the stated aim of making Wilde's observations relevant to right now. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Wilde's own flamboyant lifestyle stretched "acceptable behavior" beyond the breaking point, sending him to prison for two years on charges of being homosexual and, in the experience, effectively destroying his life. In real time Wilde lived out his love/hate relationship with Victorian fashions both moral and material.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Deceit is at the "light-hearted" center of this comedy of manners which Wilde described as treating serious things with triviality and trivial things with the utmost importance.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Tall and stately Jack Worthing (Loren Dunn) lives the responsible life of a landowner in pastoral Hertfordshire and is also guardian to 18-year-old Cecily Cardew (Heather Marie Cox).</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But Jack also has a secret life as Ernest the scandalous pleasure seeker in London. Frequently Jack excuses himself from his straight life in the country to return to London where he must rescue his "brother" Ernest, who is always in trouble.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Of course, while Jack is in London he is living the extreme life he attributes to Ernest. In fact, he is Ernest.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Jack the Victorian stuffed-shirt is also in love with city girl Gwendolen Fairfax (Anneliese van der Pol), the cousin of his best friend Algernon Moncrieff (Matt Leisy).</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But the thing is, cosmopolitan Algernon in London is best friends with playboy Ernest. Algernon doesn't know about Jack the proper property owner who lives in Hertsfordshire.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But that's not so bad because Algernon has created his own double life pretending he must get away to the country now and then to look after an invalid friend named Bunbury. There is no real Bunbury. That is only Algernon's excuse to escape any unpleasant appointments that come up in the city.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Wrentmore nicely accommodates this comparison to modern times by giving Algernon a fey manner which contrasts nicely with the more dashing Ernest/Jack.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The twist gets an added turn when Jack discovers Gwendolyn is convinced the name Ernest describes manly men of tremendous confidence. An echo of this fascination is tossed into Algernon's relationship with Cecily, who also finds the name Ernest appealing.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The interest is compounded when both Algernon and Jack decide to get their names officially changed to Ernest.<span> </span>Oh my…</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">And we still have elaborate comedy scenes to enjoy with Cecily's mother Lady Bracknell (Allyce Beasley), Rev. Chasuble (Mike Lawler) and Miss Prism (Jodie Lynne McClintock). Scenes that contain the most biting sarcasm of Lady Bracknell's classism and hypocrisy.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The casting is remarkably even, with each actor contributing the appropriate demeanor and accent. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Sound in the theater was a problem, however, as much of the dialogue got lost in the seats toward the back of the theater under the balcony. Everything seemed rather muffled there.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Which made the formal set designs and detailed costumes by Yoon Bae more welcomed in sorting through these witty misadventures which Oscar Wilde constructed to frame his observations of trivial importance in Victorian times as well as those important trivialities.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"The Importance of Being Earnest" continues through Oct. 5 at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave., with performances at various times Tuesdays through Sundays. Tickets are $36-$77. For details and reservations, 622-2823, and www.arizonatheatre.org</span></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-33202950286979450432013-10-04T14:16:00.001-07:002013-10-04T14:16:44.703-07:00THE LETTERS invisible theatre sept 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 28pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: red;">"THE LETTERS"</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 28pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"> MUST BE SEEN</span></b></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/THE%20LETTERS%20invisible%20theatre%20sept%202013.jpg.1379027184203.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/theatre/THE%20LETTERS%20invisible%20theatre%20sept%202013.jpg.1379027184203.jpg?height=383&width=400&height=306&width=320" width="320" border="0" height="306"></a></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><b>Anna (Lori Hunt) keeps up her guard talking to The Director</b> <b>(Roberto Guajardo)</b> <b>in "The Letters"</b></span></font></font></span></span><br></div></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5"><br>The most fascinating aspect of Invisible Theatre's production of "The Letters," directed by Susan Claassen, is how two actors – Roberto Guajardo and Lori Hunt – can create such electrical tension on stage using only their words and their body language.</font></span></span> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Without question, "The Letters" is the first must-see event of the new season. It is powerful the way sheer drama is powerful, drawing truth from taut conflicts between willful personalities.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Instead of threatening weaponry, massive explosives hooked up to a ticking timer, agitated suicide bombers or other such special effects, there is a desk and two chairs.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">And talent…there is a lot of talent. Guajardo is The Director and we are in his office, with his title painted on the door. Hunt is simply called Anna, a subordinate. She seems to be a featureless cog in the bureaucratic Soviet machine of some equally faceless Russian city in 1931.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">It doesn't take a historian to know the communist party officials of that time kept tightening their hold on the country. Execution was an unspoken threat hovering over every conversation. Each day brought a new struggle against unknown enemies.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Yet, even in these conditions people still had to live, still had families to care for, still needed to find compelling reasons to keep going. No one was really far enough up the political ladder to feel absolutely safe.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The Director had to stay ahead of others competing for his job. Anna may have had an inferior position, but she wasn't about to cave in.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">All of this combative backstory is efficiently set up in the opening conversations between the two. Anna has been called into The Director's office, but isn't sure why. She looks for hidden agendas in The Director's every word.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The Director, determined to defend himself from any threat in any direction, needs to find out everything he can from Anna without revealing any more than he must. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">It is the shading of nuance as Guarjardo and Hunt tap dance around this Russian bear of uncaring menace that gives the performance its breath-squeezing grip.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Nothing quite like it has been seen on a Tucson stage in many years. In the real world, with a new revelation coming out every day that our own government has been secretly spying on all of us for years, "The Letters" is a reminder that absolute power corrupts absolutely.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Performances continue through Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays (additional matinee 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept, 21) at Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Tickets are $28 general admission, discounts available. For details and reservations, 520-882-9721, or visit www.invisibletheatre.com<span> </span></span></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-49406144159730204532013-10-04T12:16:00.001-07:002013-10-04T12:16:36.625-07:00PATIENCE STONE loft film sept 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><font size="6"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">POIGNANCE FILLS "PATIENCE STONE"</span></b></font></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/film/PATIENCE%20STONE%20loft%20movie.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1380397839128/home/film/PATIENCE%20STONE%20loft%20movie.jpg?height=217&width=320" width="320" border="0" height="217"></a></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><font size="5"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><i>Golshifteh Farahani confesses all to her comatose husband.</i></span></font></b></span><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Symbolism runs deep in the modern Afghan film, "The Patience Stone," directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi, who also wrote the successful novel on which it is based. The performance of Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani is one of the most startling you will ever see.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Though her emotions are largely internalized, we can feel every shiver of helplessness and hopelessness in her deep, dark eyes and tightened jaw. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The film's setting is a desolate and shattered dirt road village, presumably in Afghanistan though it is never identified. War's ravages have taken their toll, with bombed out buildings and only a few villagers scuttling about in the background whenever Farahani (she is only called "the woman") runs between her threadbare apartment and her aunt's better furnished home down the street.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Her aunt, we learn later, runs a charming brothel which takes pride in keeping all the soldiers content.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"Men who don't make love, make war," is the aunt's cynical motto.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But what Rahimi and French co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière really have in mind is dramatizing the injustice, particularly against women, that fills Islamist fundamentalism. Foolish pride takes a beating, too.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">At the very literal heart of the film is Farahani's dilemma. A mother with two small children, she has been deserted by her family and her husband's family. Her husband lies paralyzed and comatose on a pallet, unable to move or speak.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But his injury wasn't from the war, though he was once a fierce soldier. During the calm between battles, he got in a bar fight because someone insulted his dignity. A bullet went into his neck. Now he is helpless.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But Farahani feels it is her responsibility to care for him, even though we learn that he has always been cruel to her.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The story is the wife's own mental struggle in isolation as she begins talking to her husband about daily subjects, but soon finds her talking gathers momentum as she describes her personal struggles at his uncaring hands.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Flashbacks to her arranged marriage (when he wasn't even present, he was off fighting somewhere), and other customs that seem so arbitrary to our minds, fill in the details of a harsh life for women in this culture.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The resolution of her bleak circumstances is also handled symbolically, though in an artistically satisfying way.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In real life, Farahani is an Iranian exile with a history of running afoul of the Islamic Republic through her art. She fled the country in 2008 and has since settled in Paris. Her film career includes a sizeable role in the Ridley Scott thriller, also about Middle East terrorists, "Body of Lies."</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Director and writer Rahimi fled his native Afghanistan years earlier, during the Russian occupation.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In Persian, with subtitles.</span></span></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-53189350522628631552013-10-04T12:10:00.001-07:002013-10-04T12:10:18.469-07:00MISTAKE OF THE GODDESS rogue play sept 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="6"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93);">MAGIC, MYTHOLOGY FILL </span></b><span style="color: rgb(180, 95, 6);"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"</span></b></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);">MISTAKE OF THE GODDESS"</span></b></font></p></div><div style="margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><font size="5"><font size="4"><b><font size="5"><b><i><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/MISTAKE%20OF%20THE%20GODDESS%20one%20rogue%20sept%202013.jpg.1379461232550.jpg?attredirects=0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1379461232772/home/MISTAKE%20OF%20THE%20GODDESS%20one%20rogue%20sept%202013.jpg.1379461232550.jpg?height=281&width=400" width="400" border="0" height="281"></a></i></b></font></b></font></font></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium none ; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5"><span style="font-style: normal;">From left, Devadatta (Ryan Parker Knox), Padmini (Marissa Garcia) and Kapila (Matt Bowdren).</span></font></span></span></b></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><font size="4"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">--all photos by Tim Fuller--</span></font></div><div style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium none ; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 40px; padding: 0px;"><font style="font-style: normal;" size="5" color="#000000" face="times new roman, serif">If you like to believe in the magic of life and the mythology of love, absolutely see The Rogue Theatre's production of "Mistake of the Goddess (Hayavadana)" adapted from an 11th century collection of Sanskrit tales by the modern playwright Girish Karnad. It is said this is one of India's most celebrated modern plays.</font></blockquote><div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/MISTAKE%20OF%20THE%20GODDESS%20two%20rogue%20sept%202013.jpg.1379464328786.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1379464329274/home/MISTAKE%20OF%20THE%20GODDESS%20two%20rogue%20sept%202013.jpg.1379464328786.jpg" border="0"></a></div><i><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> <font size="5"> David Greenwood as Hayavadana</font></span></span></span></i><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Metaphor reins as the poets of those times so many centuries ago sought ways to portray the complicated psychology of the human heart. Or is it the human head? And what about the human body with its passionate demands for food and love?</span></span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Such mysteries confound understanding as defiantly today as they did a thousand years ago in the equally mystical land we know as India. From time to time gentle recognition of this very timelessness bubbles from the contemporary humor that springs out of the script so naturally.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">A love triangle is at the center of this philosophical adventure, but a love triangle of a different sort. Thomas Mann based his 1940 novella "The Transported Heads" on this same story. He felt the head must rule the body.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span> </span>In Karnad's hands, we learn Devadatta (Ryan Parker Knox) and Kapila (Matt Bowdren) have been best pals forever. Devadatta is the smart, sensitive one. Kapila is the bold and athletic one. Taken together, these qualities create one remarkable man.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/MISTAKE%20OF%20THE%20GODDESS%20three%20rogue%20sept%202013.jpg.1379464669928.jpg?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1379464670179/home/MISTAKE%20OF%20THE%20GODDESS%20three%20rogue%20sept%202013.jpg.1379464669928.jpg" border="0"></a></div><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Patty Gallagher (front) and David Morden team up to portray the goddess Kali.</font></span></i></span><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">So, in a way it isn't unusual that both of them should fall in love with the same woman, Padmini (Marissa Garcia), who couldn't be happier. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Complications ensue when Padmini marries Devadatta (after all, a somewhat predictable man with prospects for a successful future is a much better bet than the spontaneous guy who is really sexy) which crushes Kapila's spirit.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But Padmini can't really give up Kapila. Anguished, Devadatta goes to the temple of Kali and cuts off his own head. Distraught, Kapila goes to the temple and cuts off his own head.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Now Padmini is the anguished one. Enter the goddess Kali (Patty Gallagher) an animated spirit who brings both men back to life. But alas, the heads get mixed up in the process so Devadatta the intellectual returns with Kapila's head, and Kapila the stunning athlete now has Devadatta's head.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There is a subtle implication that Padmini does this on purpose because she wants to enjoy the intelligence of Devadatta as well as the vigorous strength of Kapila.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">All of this happens before intermission, setting up the question both men have about exactly which one is Padmini's legal husband.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">A wise man in the region pronounces the head to be the dominant part of the body, Devadatta with the strong body of Kapila returns home with a very joyful Padmini.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">These re-arranged heads and bodies of Devadatta and Kapila are clearly presented using formal face masks covering all but the actor's mouths and jaws. The masks are exchanged to represent the dueling personalities – for as the second act progresses, they do become rivals.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There is considerable humor in this mismatch of body parts, as well. Clever staging, colorful costume design and westernized forms of Indian music played by a quartet onstage, led by Paul Amiel, enrich the story's atmosphere.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">This folk art exploration of identity is framed by another story in which Hayavadana (David Greenwood), a name translated as "the one with the horse's head," begins the play as a man with a horse's head. His mother, it seems, was on intimate terms with a handsome stallion.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Heyavadana is very unhappy about this. At the end of the story of Devadatta and Kapila, we see the gods have stepped into Hayavadana's life as well, again deciding that the head determines all.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"Mistake of the Goddess (Hayavadana)" continues through Sept. 29 at The Rogue Theatre, 300 E. University Blvd., with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, plus a Saturday matinee Sept. 28.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Tickets are S32. For details and reservations, 520-551-2053, or visit www.theroguetheatre.org</span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 40px;"><br></div></div></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-6701261644792415602013-09-28T14:00:00.001-07:002013-09-28T14:00:57.283-07:00DOWNTOWN TUCSON HAS A LOT ON ITS PLATE<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CChuck1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="Edit-Time-Data" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CChuck1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_editdata.mso"><!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* 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From decades of dust and indifference, downtown Tucson is emerging with a vibrant energy full of busy sidewalks and bustling restaurants.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Even the side streets are popping on new lights as this rejuvenation of Congress and Broadway between the Fox Theatre's bright marquee to the west and historic Hotel Congress to the east turns up the volume.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">On a Wednesday night in August, you needed reservations to get a table in the most popular spots. Just imagine what it will be like when college students and snowbirds are filling the sidewalks every evening.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">"It's starting to feel like a real city," said one veteran watcher of downtown's development. "The streets aren't dark and scary anymore."</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Among those new faces are a variety of ages – along with the wide-eyed families out on their own urban adventures there are plenty of hip older people joining the restless young professionals in this search for new fun in unexpected places.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">And the best part of all in this transformation of creating new restaurants out of old storefronts, everything so far is home grown.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Instead of tearing down the old to make room for something new, it's all about keeping the old buildings and making their insides new again.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Putting a forgotten charm back into the two-story brick walls and cozy corners, hanging chandeliers from lofty spaces and giving everything new air conditioning. Tucson's venerable architecture is getting lots of respect from this new generation of entrepreneurs pushing the Old Pueblo into the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: rgb(56, 118, 29);">LET'S GO DOWNTOWN</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/EacV_69tDzcal3tuBWKb_MAHjjiChryOgwnZqHUmWiPXFka-W_Mdqs6QTuqC5S0UEWd8yhfgPIb5ZKdRKhPQe9tObZqk_y25oFmONK-SZyYsTueU9QH8SMm3" style='width:300pt;height:3in;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Chuck1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" o:title="EacV_69tDzcal3tuBWKb_MAHjjiChryOgwnZqHUmWiPXFka-W_Mdqs6QTuqC5S0UEWd8yhfgPIb5ZKdRKhPQe9tObZqk_y25oFmONK-SZyYsTueU9QH8SMm3"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Chuck1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.jpg" alt="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/EacV_69tDzcal3tuBWKb_MAHjjiChryOgwnZqHUmWiPXFka-W_Mdqs6QTuqC5S0UEWd8yhfgPIb5ZKdRKhPQe9tObZqk_y25oFmONK-SZyYsTueU9QH8SMm3" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2" width="400" height="288"><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">"Every Thursday we have date night downtown," said cheery Esther Bayle, sitting at the long bar of the Hub Restaurant and Creamery, 266 E. Congress St., with her smiling husband Greg. "We always go to different places."</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">"We love the ambiance at Proper," said Greg. "It reminds her of the bay area. It's so great to see all these places downtown."</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">"We love the martinis at the Playground," added Esther. "And the infused vodka and garlic parmesan fries at Elliott's."</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Newest kid on this refurbished block is the Saint House Rum Bar, 256 E. Congress, with an ever-expanding list of rums and rum drinks. There must be a dozen variations on the traditional daiquiri alone.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">The Saint House joins the Hub, Playground, 278 E. Congress St. and Proper Restaurant, 300 E. Congress St. in its preference for taking existing buildings on Congress and modernizing the inside while keeping the old brick charm and outside appearance.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">At Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink, 101 E. Pennington St., it's the same story, but more so. For many decades, this building was a solemn funeral parlor. The outside is virtually unchanged from those times.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">But inside….ahhhhh! Ample wood finishes, warm tones and an impressive chandelier create a cozy ambiance for meaningful chats with special friends over truly gourmet pizza and tastefully adult beverages. Other Italian staples are also on the menu.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br> </span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: blue;">ANYTHING GOES ON 2nd SATURDAYS</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_3" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/MGDgs2HYsGDiLM_L9rkp7D0th3vafQzEHuy1ss2mdj3cSjxcJbCZrqrvRB4PNSyNX6xY9eoY6bEYtLUaccBirFAy_ZCj-qKp3xBQnbhDlO_TMKrUj58pmc00" style='width:300pt;height:190.5pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Chuck1\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg" o:title="MGDgs2HYsGDiLM_L9rkp7D0th3vafQzEHuy1ss2mdj3cSjxcJbCZrqrvRB4PNSyNX6xY9eoY6bEYtLUaccBirFAy_ZCj-qKp3xBQnbhDlO_TMKrUj58pmc00"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Chuck1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image006.jpg" alt="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/MGDgs2HYsGDiLM_L9rkp7D0th3vafQzEHuy1ss2mdj3cSjxcJbCZrqrvRB4PNSyNX6xY9eoY6bEYtLUaccBirFAy_ZCj-qKp3xBQnbhDlO_TMKrUj58pmc00" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_3" width="400" height="254"><!--[endif]--></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">For the maximum energized downtown experience, join in each month's city-sponsored 2nd Saturday when special events and street performers fill Congress and its adjoining streets with happy visitors – some of them looking exceptionally arty in painted faces and imaginative clothing.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 2pt; line-height: normal;"><a name="TOC-While-this-daily-resurrection-of-the"></a><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">While this daily resurrection of the Congress/Broadway corridor grows stronger, don't forget about the loyal and longstanding restaurants that have stood resolutely through the hard times.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 2pt; line-height: normal;"><a name="TOC-Traditional-favorites-such-as-the-Cu"></a><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: black;">Traditional favorites such as the Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, 198 W. Cushing St., have kept the faith and deserve to be rewarded. Jazz on Saturday evenings has been an honored tradition here for years, another way of mixing the old and the new --Tucson style.</span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-86817385238979492992013-09-27T12:33:00.001-07:002013-09-27T12:33:52.114-07:00THERESE loft movie sept 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="6"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"THERESE"</span> PACKS A MENTAL PUNCH</span></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/film/THERESE%20french%20film%20sept%202013.jpg.1379628646686.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/_/rsrc/1379628647453/home/film/THERESE%20french%20film%20sept%202013.jpg.1379628646686.jpg" border="0"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><font size="5">Audrey Tautou stays sullen in "Therese."<br><br></font></span></span></i></b></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The message is a good one and the French film "Therese" directed by Claude Miller, now playing at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E.Speedway Blvd., is certainly sincere. But the casting of our bubbly innocent Audrey Tautou in the title role was a mistake. An actress with a doleful face and basset hound eyes would have been much better.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Of course Tautou would like to be known for doing more challenging roles in her career. What great artist wouldn't? </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Remember 10 years ago when Charlize Theron turned her strikingly beautiful appearance way down to portray the frustrated and depressed serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster?" </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The transformation was jaw-dropping. But was it really necessary? There are plenty of great actresses who are already ugly. Just get one of them to play the role.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Theron, of course, has big box office muscle. So does Tautou…but still. </span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The Audrey we see in "Therese" is not the Audrey we loved instantly in "Amelie." In fact, she is just the opposite in this adaptation of the 1927 novel (considered scandalous at the time) by François Mauriac. Much of the scandal came from the author's portrayal of two families of fine French citizens as having very little character to admire.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">That valuable lesson begins with Therese feeling superior because of her exceptional intelligence. She resents having to stifle all the thoughts that keep filling her head.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But being a responsible person who wanted to do the right thing, she not only quenched her desire for more knowledge but also agreed to marry Bernard (Gilles Lellouche), the handsome son of the millionaire property owner next door – thus combining the fortunes of both families and controlling a sizable portion of France itself.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Alas, this is where the tragic lesson begins. Therese's lovely face becomes a sullen mask from which no emotion escapes. Implied in her refusal to respond to anyone is the emotional time bomb building inside her.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">As this conflict keeps seething, Miller the director seems to linger more on the outside propriety of actions and fashions that surround Therese: the elaborate costumes both male and female, the elegant furnishing, the servants' attention to detail so that nothing is ever out of place.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Within this picture perfect home on a lovely estate famous for its pine forests, Therese's personality is crumbling away. So when the opportunity comes along purely by chance to poison Bernard, she can't resist.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">But that isn't the end of the story. Nor will it be the end of Therese's suffering.</span></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="5"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div></div></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-79594195930199028572013-09-25T14:02:00.001-07:002013-09-25T14:02:43.048-07:00BRINGING JAZZ BACK TO TOHONO CHUL<div class=WordSection1><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'> SwanRise Productions is pleased to announce that it will once again bring jazz to the gardens of Tohono Chul Park this fall and next spring. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span>The concert series, titled<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>Rhythm Nights at Tohono Chul Park</i>, features two distinct concerts for the fall and three will be presented in the spring of 2014.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666154'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>The first concert,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><i>Blues is Jazz</i>, takes place on Friday, September 27<sup>th</sup><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and includes top local blues musicians continuing the SwanRise focus on featuring musical talent from the Tucson area. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span>The concerts will also feature nonperishable food item collections for the Southern Arizona Food Bank in order to fulfill their commitment to raise funds for the local community. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666154'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/music/LISA%20OTEY%20singing.jpg?attredirects=0"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#8DA1AD;text-decoration:none'><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvM_wUGb9AwHg8dlFExqYbTn8ExslOzYYKmK88pZ_Mp1vNvbwrsFL2MVSq2v-2Z_20KiXHLu9n-kwkpgSORPx57NqvOWoUvMNgsz2-q-PIDOcl-VROj6JfyqGC9snwRzvDshWeXnD-vo/s1600/image001-763048.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvM_wUGb9AwHg8dlFExqYbTn8ExslOzYYKmK88pZ_Mp1vNvbwrsFL2MVSq2v-2Z_20KiXHLu9n-kwkpgSORPx57NqvOWoUvMNgsz2-q-PIDOcl-VROj6JfyqGC9snwRzvDshWeXnD-vo/s320/image001-763048.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5927668894114253634" /></a></span></a><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#666154'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Lisa Otey</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666154'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt;background:white;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>Blues is Jazz</span></i><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>brings together Tucson’s finest for a night of Blues you won’t forget. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Heather Hardy, Lisa Otey and Diane Van Deurzen, Grams and Kreiger, Ed Delucia and Pete Swan will be performing solo, duos, trios and quartets leading up to a large ensemble finale in a show that has never before been presented in Southern Arizona. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666154'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:27.0pt'><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lettheshowbegin/home/music/HEATHER%20HARDY%20sizzling%20summer%20sounds%202011.jpg?attredirects=0"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#8DA1AD;background:white;text-decoration:none'><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVLzql3wbyZIELPYxvC-QYLJDeP_qtu-GdrWJ4xqY3GtwL_Ylc6tUuh7vnfZZyw-gxNzL0jf5VF3fKL1rGoVHMBHZy9TkUEEEG5NVIuYn70qUC8J6aFKgATJxb9dqlMb2gUKdubdS56D8/s1600/image002-765252.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVLzql3wbyZIELPYxvC-QYLJDeP_qtu-GdrWJ4xqY3GtwL_Ylc6tUuh7vnfZZyw-gxNzL0jf5VF3fKL1rGoVHMBHZy9TkUEEEG5NVIuYn70qUC8J6aFKgATJxb9dqlMb2gUKdubdS56D8/s320/image002-765252.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5927668900599507186" /></a></span></a><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;background:white'> <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>Heather Hardy</b></span></i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;background:white'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>The concert begins at 7:00 PM and doors will open at 6:00 PM. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Food and beverages are available for purchase at the concert. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666154'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-line-height-alt:14.25pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>More information about the concert and the second fall concert on October 25, 2013 is available at<a href="http://www.rhythmnights.com/"><span style='color:#8DA1AD'>www.rhythmnights.com</span></a>.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666154'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div>TucsonStage.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458564035576045395noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-12479719289748542262013-09-24T19:34:00.001-07:002013-09-24T19:34:36.487-07:00MICHAEL TRENI BIG BAND pop-culture blues cd 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="6">MICHAEL TRENI BIG BAND</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="6"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Pop-Culture Blues"</span></font><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ry1AXBI5SwTi7sLqLEroSXfoxMmNaYKXeT61b6OTZEYuGB6rAeQ6uD-CtGgqMBmt4BnoZeKiTGV0D7CbjcYM1LMszvfyDUXFjSADa44vgQAGC7ucKAPNhrUCg" style="display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center;" width="400" height="356"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muscular<br> big band punch fills this new release, a collection of 10 expressive <br>tracks written and arranged by Michael Treni. The shortest is the title <br>track at 4:20 minutes. The longest is "Blues in Triplicate" expressing <br>itself for nine minutes and four seconds.</span></font></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What<br> makes these generous recording times so nice is that even after the <br>horn sections have flexed their chops on some convincing section work, <br>all the soloists still receive a spacious showcase and a propulsive beat<br> to ride like an old school surfer hanging ten on a very big board.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And because each track has "blues" in the title, you know exactly what to expect.</span></font></p><font size="5"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The<br> only exception is the lead track "One for Duke" -- still the blues, but<br> with a little more symphonic treatment. Especially tasty are the <br>multiple tenor solos by Jerry Bergonzi.</span></font></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lengthy<br> liner notes describe this recording as a "suite in 10 parts that <br>presents the development of the blues within the jazz idiom by utilizing<br> the changing compositional styles prevalent from the late 1950s to <br>today."</span></font></p><font size="5"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But<br> don't be frightened. Every one of these 10 parts is a vigorous <br>rendering of its theme and variations. Nobody agonizes in atonal chaos <br>or goes asperger on us, repeating the same chromatic sequence over and <br>over.</span></font></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are big city blues and Treni goes for the beef every time. Toast him with a properly chilled martini.</span></font></p><font size="4"><font size="5"><br><br></font><br></font></span></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-26250125599977639952013-09-24T19:33:00.001-07:002013-09-24T19:33:06.414-07:00BOB MOVER my heart tells me cd 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="6">OLD SCHOOL THE NEW COOL</font></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><span><p style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The<br> sound is softly swinging and richly pliant. Veteran reedman Bob Most <br>has his arsenal of saxophones stacked up, and a double-CD release </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conveniently packaged in two distinct settings.</span></p></span></font></div><font size="5"><span><br></span></font><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That<br> rhythm section on both CDs is led by Kenny Barron with bassist Bob <br>Crenshaw. Drummer duties are shared by Steve Williams and Victor Lewis.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/J1nKTPcgCWPnb5t_ESiZ4yb5_hEZKXeDiKVO3QG8cZMpoxBJEffo4lfnaEdXuBw3IlI13kMJ30KiIul_aV0IXOaRwDDNlVClFJ_m15dJc8C0rOwLgWgON3Vt" style="color: rgb(102, 97, 84); font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center;" width="400" height="336"><font size="5">The<br> first has Most with a standard rhythm section. The second recording has<br> Most's quartet augmented by tenor man Steve Hall and trumpet player <br>Josh Evans.</font></span></p></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adding<br> intimacy are Most's very personal vocals on several standards, the kind<br> of singing that always feels genuine even when the melodies get <br>scarcely more than a kind caress in passing.</span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><br><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However,<br> it is the horn sounds that make this release so special. No matter if <br>he is playing tenor, alto or soprano, Most draws a distinctive tone from<br> each horn. His tenor recalls the Lester Young/ Ben Webster era of macho<br> warmth, his rhythms sensual as the smoky, dark leather nightclubs they <br>recall.</span></p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><br><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His higher pitched alto still has that plaintive quality of yearning hearts<br> adrift in confusion. Even his soprano solos on "You Must Believe in <br>Spring" and "By Myself"' are free of that fish horn penetration we <br>associate with the instrument these days.</span></p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><br><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or just call Mover in this shaded quartet setting the jazz equivalent of George Clooney, making old school the new cool.</span></p></span></font></div><div style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><br><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When those additional horn players get into the studio, Most stops singing <br>and the energy picks up considerably. The boldly bebop chops come out, <br>with Most encouraging everyone to add more notes.</span></p></span></font></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="5"><br></font><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Having so many accomplished musicians involved, with such cleanly written <br>charts, every track (all but one written by Most) becomes a quick witted<br> conversation worthy of repeated listening.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sample the tracks at bobmover.com or motema.com</span></font><br></p></span></div><span><br></span></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4768011824409887135.post-90885511091509268552013-09-22T13:38:00.001-07:002013-09-22T13:38:06.967-07:00MACBETH'S KNIFE beuwulf alley sept 2013<div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><p><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">"MACBETH'S KNIFE"</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(36, 64, 97);"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: rgb(15, 36, 62);">COULD BE SHARPER</span></b></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Despite their best intentions, the Beowulf Alley Theatre Company production of "MacBeth's Knife" is never going to be ready for prime time. The program lists the director as "Nobody."</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">That is unfortunately the truth, because it looks like nobody was in charge of directing this one. Few of the actors have any particular stage presence. While the language belongs to Shakespeare, this particular "Nobody" also takes credit for adapting the Scottish play to emphasize its psychological impact.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">That could be true, but it wasn't clear at a recent performance. Of course, with more acting and less screaming the intention might have worked a little better. "Nobody" and the cast have bought into the notion that powerful emotions can be conveyed by screaming and shouting.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Alas and forsooth, that has never been true of Shakespeare or any other playwright.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There are some good elements that do give the production interesting twists worth developing. In an early scene, MacDuff (Gary Tyrrell) is seen in the background talking on a cell phone. MacDuff, Banquo and MacBeth are dressed in modern soldier gear, as well.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Banquo is played by Sara Jackson in a nice gender surprise, with Aaron Guisinger giving MacBeth a punkster sense of street smarts.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There is a simulated sex scene, but it is between MacBeth and Lady MacBeth (Bree Boyd-Martin), so the MacBeths are married at least.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The most imagination – as is often the case in productions of "MacBeth" – is found in the staging of those scenes with the three witches. Armen Sarrafian makes his witch sexually ambiguous, which feels perfect. Melanie Kersey's witch is a voluptuous bad girl, also an excellent choice.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Shannon Rzucidlo fills her witch with sinister drama that combines seductive intentions and an edgy madness. The kind of beauty you can love while fearing for your own safety.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Nor is there any bubbling cauldron around which these three unholy ghouls famously chant "Double, double, toil and trouble." Instead, this trio of lost souls go slinking about the stage with a threatening hunger, making their devilish recitation particularly ominous.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">When we get to the really bloody parts toward the end, there is lots of stage blood, a couple of knives effectively used and several bouts of hand-to-hand fighting. These action parts work best -- of course – because there is no one speaking required.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Is this enough to justify the ticket price? Deciding that part is up to you.</span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"MacBeth's Knife" continues in repertory with "Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief," adapted from Shakespeare's "Othello," </span></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">through Sept. 22 at Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">"MacBeth's Knive plays at 2:30 p.m. Saturday- Sunday, Sept. 14-15; at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21. </span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Tickets are $20 general admission, $18 for seniors, military and teachers, $10 students. For reservations, 520-882-0555. For details, www.beowulfalley.com</span></span></p></div>Chuck Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811110953143450124noreply@blogger.com0