Archive for July, 2009
Opening and Closing this week
show openings
The Adventures of Nervous Boy - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Diva! Diva! Divas! – Northwestern University Theater
Jinx - Appetite Theatre
The Siren Song of Stephan Jay Gould - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Juno and the Paycock - The Artistic Home
Savage/Love - The Viaduct Theater
A Walk in the Woods - Redtwist Theatre
show closings
The 9/11 Report - La Red Music Theatre
Battleprov - ComedySportz
The Bucktown Stand-Up Show Down - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Dead Wrong - The Factory Theater
Get Comfortable, a Night of Shorts - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Girls vs. Boys - American Music Theatre Project and The House Theatre of Chicago
The Great American Nudie Spectacular! - Theatre Building Chicago
The Hollow Lands - Steep Theatre
Never the Sinner - Project 891 Theatre
Scientology! The Unauthorized Musical - Annoyance Theatre
Sodomites!!! A Musical of Biblical Proportions - Annoyance Theatre
Somewhere in Texas - Dream Theatre
Steel Mags - Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
Storybox - Piven Theatre
Two Spoons - Bailiwick Repertory
Walker and Dunn - Gorilla Tango Theatre
White Rainbows - Gorilla Tango Theatre
Extensions – “Million Dollar Quartet” “El Grito del Bronx” and “Black Crooners”
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Black Ensemble Theater
Wednesday Wordplay: Writer’s Crap and Irving Berlin
Urban Dictionary
Writer’s Crap
Derived from ‘writer’s cramp’, writer’s crap refers to a stage when one is only capable of writing utter crap.
‘That story was horrible, i think she’s got a bad case of writer’s crap.
Quotations
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.
— Irving Berlin, 1958
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
— Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
Theater Thursday: New Colony’s “Tupperware: An American Musical Fable”
Thursday, July 30
Tupperware: An American Musical Fable
The New Colony at LaCosta Theatre, 3931 N. Elston, Chicago
Come to La Costa before the show for delicious and still-fresh leftovers, lemonade, and Gertie Minor’s Famous Peach Dump. Stay for The New Colony‘s world-premiere season closer Tupperware: An American Musical Fable. Participate in a Q&A with the cast and director. Dolores, a young widow in 1950 longing for her independence, is disrupted from her plans to move from Florida when opportunity knocks at her front door. Literally. Suddenly, Dolores finds herself selling a few hours of independence to the women on her cul de sac in the form of Tupperware. As her success spirals out of control, it gives birth to heated neighborhood politics, the loss of her own freedom to the empire she is helping build, and a movement that changed the face of the American dinner table forever.
Event begins at 6:30 p.m. Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
TICKETS ONLY $20
For reservations call 1.800.838.3006 or buy online at www.thenewcolony.org.
Think Fast: Cleveland Playhouse, All State Arena, Harlem Summer Shakespeare, Lincoln Park Arts Festival
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SONIA DADA LIVE IN SANTA MONICA,CA…………..
Blago donates his over-sized hairbrush to Second City show
From Chicago Trubune writer Chris Jones’ excellent theater blog:
“Convinced that the legendary comedy theater’s representation of the infamous implement used to tame the indicted former Illinois Gov’s famous coif was inadequately sized, the showbiz-loving Blagojevich has sent along the actual brush for use as an historic artifact in the show, Rod Blagojevich Superstar, ongoing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier.”
The show is being produced by Second City.
Read more here.
picture courtesy of Chicago Tribune.
Sunday Night Sondheim: “My Bride” from “Forum”
Here’s "My Bride" from Stephen Sondheim’s Something Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Mental Health Break: don’t sleep and drive!
This is 3 year old, Ashton, driving his Jeep while asleep at the wheel! Good thing it’s just a toy truck!!
This week’s Chicago theater show openings/closings
show openings
The 9/11 Report - La Red Music Theatre
Bikerman and the Jewish Avenger - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
Bye Bye Birdie - Northwestern University Theater
Ching, Chong, Chinaman - Silk Road Theatre Project
Fun O’Clock: A Very Special “That’s Weird Grandma” - Barrel of Monkeys
Honest - Steppenwolf Theatre
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - St. Celestine Theatre
Lies and Liars – Theatre Seven of Chicago
Lorita and Other Dances - Theatre Building Chicago
The Mistress Cycle - Apple Tree Theatre
Sex with Strangers - Steppenwolf Theatre
Six Degrees of Separation - Eclipse Theatre
Ski Dubai - Steppenwolf Theatre
Waiting for Godot - Redtwist Theatre
show closings
Anti-Social Darwinism and High School Musical 4: Come Hell or Heil Water - Donny’s Skybox
Boleros for the Disenchanted - Goodman Theatre
Busman’s Honeymoon - Lifeline Theatre
Cloclo - Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
The Conduct of Life - The Viaduct
Consume - Gorilla Tango Theatre
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble
Death Roast - Annoyance Theatre
Hedda Gabler - Raven Theatre
Hitched! - Donny’s Skybox
Posers - Donny’s Skybox
A Song for Coretta - Eclipse Theatre
Super Happy Fun Show - Corn Productions
Uncle Vanya - TUTA Theatre Chicago
Wanted - Gorilla Tango Theatre
What We May Be - Gorilla Tango Theatre
special ticket offers
$15 tickets to The Great American Nudie Spectacular! by Scratch Media at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 W. Belmont. TBC is offering a limited number of discount tickets for the following performances: Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25, both at 10:30 p.m. The discount is available for these two performances only. Call the box office at 773-327-5252 and mention this offer.
Wednesday Wordplay: Quotes by Bette Davis (and others)
Lots of great quotes:
I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
— George Burns
I can resist anything but temptation.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
— Cecil B. DeMille
Fresh clean sheets are one of life’s small joys.
— Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
This became a credo of mine…attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
— Bette Davis
