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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH JAKE – Will it Lead to Sunday in the Cinema with Jake?
When you see a theater production of a piece you know well and love well, after having seen wonderful and celebrated productions of the piece many times before, including the original Broadway production, and watched the dvd of that production … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Live! On Stage, Melodies Linger On
Tagged Annaleigh Ashford, Bernadette Peters, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, Cary Fukunaga, Cyndi Lauper, Finishing the Hat, George Seurat, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kinky Boots, Lapine, Mandy Patinkin, Masters of Sex, movie, musical, NineStories, Riva Marker, Robert Sean Leonard, Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George
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MERYL STREEP SINGS AGAIN – REALLY BADLY THIS TIME! YEAH!
Last August I posted a (lavishly video annotated) piece about Meryl Streep’s musical performances over the years (which you can reread below). I concluded the article with the following: Streep’s movie musical career continues with Florence Foster Jenkins, a movie … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On, Notes in the News
Tagged biopic, Carnegie Hall, Empire, Florence Foster Jenkins, Guardian, Hugh Grant, Meryl Streep, movie, Stephen Frears, Telegraph, U.K., Variety
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“CAROL” & THERESE – “SPEAKEASY” & JANE – stories from the time when lesbian love dared not say its name
I love the movie “Carol”. It is one of the best movies of the year, masterful on all levels. While I was watching it, I kept on thinking: “How exquisitely swoony”. Refined and restrained on the one … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, The Speakeasy Chronicles
Tagged 1930s, 1950s, Alice in Wonderland, Carol, Cate Blanchett, drama, homosexual, Jane Allison, lesbian, magical realism, movie, musical, musical comedy, Rooney Mara, Speakeasy, Therese, Through the Looking Glass
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Catching HALLOWEEN around HALLOWEEN 1978 in a seedy New York theater
My father insists that the movie theater or rather many of the patrons in the theater were scarier than anything that was happening on the screen. Possibly. I was eleven and not world-weary enough to be wary of the pot-smoking … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Cinema Scope, Melodies Linger On
Tagged 1978, American Forces Network, audience reaction, creature feature, Halloween, Hammer, Hitchcock, horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Michael Myers, movie, New York, permissive parenting, Psycho, seedy, The Exorcist, theater, Universal
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An appreciation of E. L. DOCTOROW and RAGTIME, the book and the musical
E. L. Doctorow, one of the giants of contemporary literature has passed. I have read nine of his twelve books, a ratio and record I have equaled in passion and loyalty with only two other contemporary authors, John Irving and … Continue reading
