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Tag Archives: Cabaret
30 DAY FILM CHALLENGE
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 →
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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?
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FIRST MAN Takes This Waltz with 2001’s BLUE DANUBE
First Man – Docking Waltz – Justin Hurwitz Ed and I were watching the marvelous, heart-grabbing “First Man” in the next to uppermost row in the huge Upper West Side Imax theater, when we reached the point in the … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2001, A Space Odyssey, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Blue Danube, Cabaret, Damien Chazelle, Docking Waltz, First Man, Imax, Johann Strauss, Justin Hurwitz, La La Land, lunar landing, Neil Armstrong, Richard Strauss, Ryan Gosling, space program, space travel, Stanley Kubrick, theremin, waltz
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WEDDING MUSIC – 25 Years Together, 20 Years Married
“So, where did the two of you meet?” we are often asked. “In the back of a Greyhound bus,” we respond by rote, and await the inevitable follow up question. It was exactly 25 years ago, April 25, 1993, on … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1993, 1998, anniversary, April 25, Cabaret, Cole Porter, Ed Elder, Ella Fitzgerald, Fiddler on the Roof, first dance, From This Moment On, Gay, Greta Keller, greyhound, Heirat, I Could Be Happy With You, Lead Me to the Morning, lesbian, LGBTQ, March on Washington, marriage, marriage equality, Sunrise Sunset, The Boyfriend, wedding, Witches
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“HOT MESS” MALE BISEXUALS “TORCHED” OFF BROADWAY
Hot Mess – Torch Song – Call Me By Your Name – Cabaret – Speakeasy By a quirk of timing I wound up seeing two days in a row the two stage plays currently playing in New York (Off Broadway) … Continue reading →
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage, The Speakeasy Chronicles
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Tagged bi erasure, biphobia, bisexual, bisexuality, Cabaret, Call Me By Your Name, Charles Busch, Colleen Crabtree, Dan Rothenberg, Harvey Fierstein, Hot Mess, LGBTQ, male bisexual, Regretosexual, Speakeasy, Torch Song, Torch Song Trilogy
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Seeing BATTLE OF THE SEXES with the Next Generation
Ed’s and my thorough enjoyment of the movie “Battle of the Sexes” was both enhanced and tempered by the group of preteen girls the theater’s reserved seating placed to my right. Tempered because of the above average distractions I have … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1970's, Alan Cumming, Apollo 100, Battle of the Sexes, Bill Pullman, Billie Jean King, bisexual, Bobby Riggs, Cabaret, children, Crimson and Clover, homosexual, Joan Jett, Jonathan Dayton, Joy, lesbian, Lewis Pullman, LGBT, Linus Sandgren, Manohla Dargis, Margaret Court, movie code of conduct, Nicholas Britell, Tommy James and the Shondells, Valerie Fais
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PRIDE MONTH at Notes from a Composer
The White House in Rainbow Colors. That happened. Specifically that happened in June 2015, after the Supreme Court affirmed Marriage Equality for the United States. But that was the previous administration. This administration won’t even make mention of June being … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Big Apple Corps, bisexual, Cabaret, drag ball, June, LGBT, LGBTQ, logo, March, marriage equality, Pride, Quakers, Queer, Sex addiction, sex on screen, slang, Snow White, Speakeasy, The Handmaiden
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TRUMPIAN PARODY TUNES – Lyrical Agitprop Updates for Cabaret & The Producers
Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle, tinkle little tzar Putin put you where you are Up above the law so high In your penthouse tweeting lies Tinkle, tinkle little tzar Putin put you where you are Last night, at a … Continue reading →
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Tagged agitprop, Cabaret, lyrics, Nasty Woman, parody, resist, songs, Springime for Hitler, The Producers, Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Trump
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LA LA LAND’s Nod to CABARET
“La La Land”, writer/director Damien Chazelle’s widely critically and popularly acclaimed original movie musical currently basking in the glow of 14 Academy Award nominations, is a love letter to romance gained and lost, to Los Angeles and its tribe of … Continue reading →
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Tagged audition, ballet, Benj Pasek, Bob Fosse, Cabaret, Damien Chazelle, dance, Dream Sequence, Justin Hurwitz, Justin Noble Brown, La La Land, Linus Sandgren, Liza Minnelli, New York New York, Oscars, Ryan Gosling
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DAS LILA LIED – THE LAVENDER SONG – “We just happen to be Different from the Others!”
My recent posts about the Newfest LGBT Film festival included an enthusiastic look at the handsomely restored print of the first known movie to sympathetically portray homosexuality, Germany’s 1919 “Anders als die Andern” (“Different than the Others”). Soon after posting … Continue reading →
NfaC Pride Month Repost: THE NEARLY INVISIBLE BISEXUAL MALE
June is Pride Month. So I thought I should make my first post of the month a post that deals heavily with LGBTQ issues. And although my many posts related to my musical Speakeasy almost invariably deal with LGBTQ issues, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Cumming, Alice in Wonderland, bisexual, bisexuality, Cabaret, coming out, Gay, Kinsey Scale, lesbian, LGBT, LGBTQ, Lissa Moira, musical, omnisexual, Orange in the New Black, pansexual, Pride, Queer, Scarlet Letter, Sense8, Speakeasy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Tim Maner, Torch Song Trilogy, transgender, trisexual
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NfaC Double Repost: BREAKING INTO SONG IN MUSICALS
Time for another Notes from a Composer rerun, or repost, this time a double feature from last April on the convention of breaking into song in musicals, and how cleverly the movie version of Cabaret subverted that convention. This post … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, All That Jazz, Berlin, Bob Fosse, Breaking into song, Busby Berkley, Cabaret, Chicago, Dream, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joel Grey, Kit Kat Club, Liza Minnelli, musical, Speakeasy, The Boyfriend, Through the Looking Glass, Wizard of OZ
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BEST SONG OSCAR SURPRISE? – The movie song I predict will be this year’s stealth surprise Oscar Best Original Song nominee
A few days ago the Academy, aka the people who hand out the Oscars, revealed the list of songs from this year’s movies that are eligible to be nominated as best original song in a motion picture. There are 74 … Continue reading →
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Tagged 50 Shades of Grey, Academy, Academy Awards, Best Song, Blythe Danner, Bond, Brian Wilson, Brokeback Mountain, Cabaret, Chi-Raq, Cold One, Conchita Wurst, Diane Warren, Dreamgirls, Earned It, EmmyLou Harris, Enchanted, Furious 7, Golden Globes, Her, I'll See You in my Dreams, Karen O, Keegan DeWitt, Kris Tapley, Lady Gaga, Love and Mercy, Love Me Like You Do, Meghan Trainor, Meryl Streep, Moulin Rouge, One Kind of Love, Oscars, Paul Dano, Ricki and the Flash, Rise like a Phoenix, See You Again, Shaun the Sheep, Simple Song #3, Spectre, Spy, The Moon Song, Til It Happens to You, Variety, Who Can You Trust, Writing's on the Wall, Youth
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THE NEARLY INVISIBLE BISEXUAL MALE
The director of “Speakeasy”, Lissa Moira, and I were conducting another one of our weekly meetings pouring over the script and discussing staging and production issues, when I mused aloud that in many ways “Speakeasy” is an expression of my … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alan Cumming, Alice in Wonderland, bisexual, bisexuality, Cabaret, coming out, Gay, Kinsey Scale, lesbian, LGBT, Lissa Moira, musical, ominsexual, Orange in the New Black, pansexual, Pride, Queer, Scarlet Letter, Sense8, Speakeasy, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Tim Maner, Torch Song Trilogy, transgender, trisexual
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CHET CHESHIRE, the WONDERLAND M.C. and his feline and real-life inspirations
The musical “Speakeasy” begins in darkness. The overture has concluded, all lights have dimmed, we can’t see anything and all we hear is a chime like tone (on an octave of G). Then a tiny spotlight reveals a debonair smile. … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, Alice in Wonderland, Cabaret, Cheshire Cat, Gene Malin, Lewis Carroll, LGBT, magical realism, musical, Pippin, Roaring Twenties, Speakeasy, The Fantasticks
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Keeping Company with Cocktails & Classics & CABARET
So, Logo is showing “Cabaret” tonight as part of their new “Cocktails & Classics” series. This series started around the same time I launched this blog, and in that short time I have already gone on and on here and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Academy Awards, Bob Fosse, Cabaret, Drew Droege, Joel Grey, Lea DeLaria, Liza Minnelli, logo, Michael Ausiello, Michael Urie, Michael York, musical, Nazis
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SPEAKEASY and the “breaking into song with music out of nowhere” musical trope
Alice goes through the Looking Glass JANE (puts the Drink Me bottle back onto the little table): How much hooch will I have to down before I get to the Wonderland? (singing) WHAT ARE THESE DRINKS THAT I’M DRINKING … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Breaking into song, Cabaret, Dream, musical, Speakeasy, Through the Looking Glass, Wizard of OZ
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Notes from a Composer 