Category Archives: LGBTQ Alphabet Soup

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P&P – DAY 9 – The Day the Hair Went Bye-Bye!

Posted on September 14, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Alt Title: The Day the Hair Got Snipped, Shorn and Shaved Off! The announcement, take one (with AD Charlotte Purser): Day 9 in the 10 days shooting “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” was fully devoted to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Poe Musicabres | Tagged bald, Beard, Charlotte Purser, Ed Elder, Edgar Allan Poe, Hair, Hair We Share, Han Jang Houston, Henry Borriello, Jimmy McCoy, Kojak, musicabre, Queer Eye, Sami Eddy, shave, Telly Savalas | Leave a comment

The Art of Pompeii

Posted on September 11, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Part 4 of the Pompeii Series Plenty of ancient Roman art was on display in the first three posts of the streets and homes of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But much more art dug up by the archeologists – sculptures and … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged amphitheatre, Ancient Rome, art, brass, brothels, erotica, Herculaneum, maenad, mythology, Naples, nymph, Pompeii, portraiture, pottery, religion, satyr, sculpture, sensuality, still life, wall paintings | Leave a comment

MANHATTAN PRIDE ’23

Posted on June 26, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Up Close at the 2023 New York City Pride Parade – Watching and Marching – Getting ready at home (my head still wet from the shower)… She said we were a “cute couple”… Our vantage point for the first three … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing | Tagged 5th ave, bisexual, Buddhists, Cheer, costumes, drag queens, Drag Race, Empire State Building, Flaggots, Gay, Lea DeLaria, lesbian, Manhattan, New York, Parade, Pride, Quakers, Rainbow, Symone, transgender, World Trade Center | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN PRIDE 2023

Posted on June 11, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged 5th Avenue, brooklyn, Cheer, drag queen, Dykes on Bikes, Gay, Gotham, Herstory, Human Rights, lesbian, New York, Parade, Park Slope, Pride, Rainbow, Scouts, soap bubbles, Trans Rights | Leave a comment

Rosenkavalier Remembrances and Ruminations

Posted on April 8, 2023 by dannyashkenasi

Childhood Anecdote and Queer Cornucopia Last Tuesday I attended “Der Rosenkavalier” for the first time. Or rather I attended all three acts of Richard Strauss’ opera “Der Rosenkavalier” for the first time. Family lore has it that I attended Act … Continue reading →

Posted in Beginnings, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On | Tagged Baron Ochs, Catherine Gayer, Cherubino, Der Rosenkavalier, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Erin Morley, Günther Groissböck, Hansel and Gretel, Hofmannsthal, Hosenpartie, Marschallin, Met, Octavian, Opera, Richard Strauss, Samantha Hankey, Sophie, soprano, Victor/Victoria | 1 Comment

P&P ART IS ALIVE NOMINATIONS

Posted on December 19, 2022 by dannyashkenasi

ART IS ALIVE FILM FESTIVAL announced 4 nominations for THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM – A MUSICABRE Best Action/Adventure Short Film Best Male Actor in a Short Film Best Director – Action/Adventure Short Film Best Cinematography – Action/Adventure Short Film … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Action Adventure, actor, Art is Alive, Award, cinematography, director, Edward Elder, festival, film, Henry Borriello, musicabre, nomination, short film, Stolis Hadjicharalambous, The Pit and the Pendulum | Leave a comment

BROOKLYN PRIDE 2022

Posted on June 12, 2022 by dannyashkenasi

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged Attorney General, Batala, Berkeley Carroll, Bill de Blasio, brooklyn, Cheer, City Council, drumline, Eric Adams, friends, Gay, GMHC, Gotham, Herstory, lesbian, Letitia James, LGBTQ, Mayor, New York, NYC, Officers Action League, Parade, Park Slope, Pride, school, Trans Rights | Leave a comment

Impressions from ASSEMBLY

Posted on February 24, 2022 by dannyashkenasi

Fierce and Fabulous If I was allowed just two words to describe the fantastic performance of Rashaad Newsome’s “Assembly” I enjoyed last night at the Park Avenue Armory, those would be the two. Given more words to describe the experience, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage | Tagged Armory, Assembly, black, dance, Drill Hall, Fabulous, Fierce, Get Your Life Pods, installation, Jessica Silverman, Park Avenue, photography, Rashaad Newsome, trans, Visual Arts, Vogue, Wrapped Tied & Tangled | Leave a comment

2021 YEAR END POP CULTURE QUIZ

Posted on December 30, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

One point for each correct answer. No googling! – since I didn’t use google to come up with these questions (only to spell check afterwards) – which is a bit of a brag, yes, yet maybe also revealing something questionable … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News | Tagged 2021, Andrew Cuomo, Annette, Aretha Franklin, Brian Kilmeade, Chris cuomo, Commander, Cyrano, Dear Evan Hansen, Don McLean, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, In the Heights, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Stewart, Laura Ingraham, Lil Nas X, Lucille Ball, Mariah Carey, movies, music, musicals, Nicole Kidman, Pete Buttigieg, politics, pop culture, President Biden, Princess Diana, quiz, Sean Hannity, Tammy Faye Bakker, Taylor Swift, Tick Tick Boom, trivia, West Side Story | Leave a comment

Mainstreet Musicals touts FEEDSTORE QUARTET

Posted on December 4, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

“Feedstore Quartet”, a musical created by Jack Hilton Cunningham and myself, has been selected by Mainstreet Musicals, a non-profit that “promotes development opportunities for new musicals throughout regional America”, as a Director’s Choice Award Winner. Jack and I met at … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage, Musicabilia | Tagged Award, Director's Choice, Dramatists Guild, Feedstore Quartet, homosexuality, jack hilton cunningham, Love, Mainstreet Musicals, Mississippi, musical, prejudice, racism, reading, secret love, South | Leave a comment

LOVING – Photographic Treasures from the Nini-Treadwell Collection

Posted on November 13, 2021 by dannyashkenasi

Glimpses at a Photographic History of Men in Love 1850 – 1950 Twenty years ago Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell were browsing through stacks of vintage photographs in a Dallas antique store when they came upon a 1920s photograph of … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged collection, couples, history, homosexuality, Kitbühel, Love, Nini, photography, soldiers, Treadwell, vintage | Leave a comment

The Awards Speech That Would Have Been

Posted on September 20, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

And the PIIF Best Actor winner is … not me. But hey, my acceptance video is cute, so let’s play it anyway! As you might remember… who am I kidding, why would you remember, but I won a Best Actor … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged 2020, annual gala, Awards, Edward Elder, Elmaz Ikovic, Film Festival, indie, International, PIIF, Prague, speech, Tatin Sin, Thank You, video clip | Leave a comment

So last night I received the JUDY GARLAND AWARD

Posted on September 8, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

I could say I’m over the moon… … actually, I’m over the rainbow Last night the Art is Alive Film Festival held its awards ceremony. Just like the festival, it was a virtual affair. Cindy Mich, festival founder, convened a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News, Poe Musicabres | Tagged Another Day in Manhattan, Art is Alive, Award, Brandon C. Lay, ceremony, Cindy Mich, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, Judy Garland, Michael Pharis, musicabre, musical, Musical Soundtrack, Oshkosh B'gosh, over the moon, over the rainbow, Sandeep Kumar, short film, Simple as That, Special Interest, Stonewall, That Old Black Magic, The Rock of Gibraltar, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wizard of OZ, Zoom | 2 Comments

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ED

Posted on July 12, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

My husband turns 61 today. Happy birthday, Ed! And just like every year for the past 27, I composed a viola piano duet for us to play. Each one is called an Evocation. This year’s birthday duet, Evocation XXVII, takes … Continue reading →

Posted in Chamber Works, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged 27, bandit, birthday, coronavirus, duet, Ed Elder, Edward Elder, Evocation, louboutins, manola, music, piano, Rainbow, score, Viola, XXVII | 1 Comment

An HIV Positive Gay Man’s Advice on Living in the Age of Covid

Posted on June 27, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

My friend Tim Cusack posted this on Facebook: “For all the straight white people whining about how wearing masks is inconvenient and uncomfortable, how you miss human contact and all the things you used to be able to do, bemoaning … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Notes in the News | Tagged Aids, community, condom, Covid 19, Facebook, Gay, gratitude, HIV Positive, Hope, masks, mourning, pandemic, plague, Reagan, Republican, Tim Cusack | Leave a comment

30 DAY FILM CHALLENGE

Posted on June 17, 2020 by dannyashkenasi

DAY 1 – the first film you remember watching My memory is tricky here, but it was definitely Disney. I remember being told the first film I saw in the theater (at age 3) was either “Fantasia” or “Pinocchio” (either … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup | Tagged 1917, 2001 A Space Odyssey, 3, 50 Shades of Grey, Alfred Hitchcock, All That Jazz, Amadeus, Ant-Man, Big Eden, Braveheart, Cabaret, Call Me By Your Name, Crazy in Love, Dan in Real Life, Doctor Strange, Fantasia, film, Galaxy Quest, Immortal Beloved, Jesus Christ Superstar, King Kong, Lynn Shelton, Mamma Mia, Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns, Meryl Streep, movies, Pinocchio, Postcards from the Edge, Rear Window, Robin Hood, Some Like It Hot, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Sound of Music, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Tree of Life, To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Tom Tykwer, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? | Leave a comment

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