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Talking about More than music | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser

 

This sounds very intriguing. I’d love to hear some samples from the score and get an idea of the book’s strength beyond this 30-sec. YouTube clip.

 

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More than music | theadvertiser.com | The Advertiser
Dream of the Marionettes, an original burlesque-inspired musical, is the featured theatrical event this year. Using and updating the burlesque form to tell a cheeky story of a band of marionettes who liberate themselves from a harsh puppetmaster, Dream features an original musical score and performances by a cast of local actors and singers.

 

Some other links picked up in a quick google search:

http://ultoday.com/node/1048

http://bruceschultz.blogspot.com/2009/10/dream-of-marionettes.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dream-of-the-Marionettes/155555594663

 

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A Journey to Beulahland

 
 
Our good friends at Pictures Moved by Strings are presenting a special Earth Day show at the Afa Gallery in Scranton on Thursday at 7 p.m.
 
A Journey to BeulahlandL Our Song for the Earth has been described as "a fable about the struggle between the forces of good and evil." It focuses on "fermented citizens corrupted by the ecstasy of nature."
 
The AFA Gallery is located at 514 Lackawanna Ave. (570-969-1040.)
 
Last week, ringleader John Bromberg told me that the troupe’s recent performance at Moscow Clayworks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5wYKqWBgk) was just a teaser of sorts for this week’s grand performance.
He’s working with a group of new puppeteers, each of whom has created "their own song on their own instrument" for this show.

 

If you can’t make it … perhaps because you’ll be attending The Jason Miller Playwrights’ Project staged reading of Steve Corbett’s Paddy, We Hardly Knew Ye (http://subverseaphrodesia.com/productions.aspx)… a second performance will be offered on Saturday at the Vintage Theater on Penn Avenue in Scranton as part of The Midnight Mixer: An late evening of theater in downtown Scranton. Performances that night don’t start until 10 p.m. (doors open at 9 p.m.) and include:
 *Here We Are In Spain (a local improv troupe)
*Run Away With Me (from the musical The Unauthorized Biography of Samantha Brown) performed by Sean Patrick  Gibbons and Devon McFadden
*Scenes from The Mousetrap (2010 Ghostlight Production)
*and Pictures Moved By String: Our Song To The Earth (a combination of experimental music, larger than life size puppet theater with a message of current social relevance)

Tickets are only $10 and include Complimentary Appetizers and Drinks (Wine for those of proper age and identification.) 

 
 
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The next Steamtown Vaudeville show?

We had a brainstorming meeting at the Vintage Theater in Scranton on Thursday to discuss the possibilities of presenting Steamtown Vaudeville’s second event at the all-ages performance venue & cafe.
 
While we initially thought we were going to shy away from the invite, we ended up talking ourselves into using the venue’s advantages to design an event quite different from our first cabaret show while in keeping with the variety concept.
 
A tentative date of Saturday, Aug. 7 has been set for a sort of VagabondGlam costume party, a "razzle dazzle hobo hoodang," if you will.
 
We’re looking to feature live neo-traditional folk, gypsy and/or steampunk music from the 570 and beyond, a renegade ringmaster, a dancer or two, and as many more mystical acts as we can afford.
 
More information to come … Interested performers are welcome to apply: info@subverseaphrodesia.com
 
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Talking about YouTube – Dirty Martini and The New Burlesque-TEASER

 

Is it my imagination or are all these documentaries about the new burlesque scene coming out with in months of each other?

Gotta love Dirty, regardless!

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YouTube – Dirty Martini and The New Burlesque-TEASER
 

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Talking about Daily Burlesque: What’s the Diff? Request Your Input!

 

Multiple voices chime in to answer the question at this March 2008 School of Burlesque blog post.

Good stuff.

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Daily Burlesque: What’s the Diff? Request Your Input!
‘What is the difference between burlesque and striptease?

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Talking about The Moisture Festival « Travalanche

 

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The Moisture Festival « Travalanche
Trav SD cites Seattle’s Moisture Festival, running March 11 through April 4 as "the pre-eminent variety arts festival in the country right now."

This year’s line-up, he says, "includes scores of vaudeville, circus and burlesque acts, and even some films."

There are apparently lectures and workshops, too. What a dream! Hope it carries on long enough to work into a vacation one of these years.

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Allentown Freak Out

Received news in the day job email today about a new fringe festival launching in Allentown, Pa.
The inaugural event appears to be sponsored in part by Allentown Public Theatre and will be held at multiple venues June 18-19.
According to the press announcement, this event "showcasing performers and artwork outside the mainstream" will feature: fire arts performers, hula-hoopers, art exhibits, indie musicians, drum circle, vintage film screening, theatrical performances, and more.
 
To get an idea of what they’ve already got on tap, visit http://www.AllentownFreakOut.com. The preliminary line-up is not breathtaking (at least in print), but as anyone who’s ever launched an event knows, you’ve got to start with a vision and sketch it out with whatever resources you can scrape together. It’s often only after the community experiences the manifestation of your vision that they’ll get on board, and help build the future. 
No word if they’re accepting inquiries from acts outside the Lehigh Valley who’d like to perform. If you find out, let us know.
 
The organizers are currently seeking fundraising assistance, donations, performer sponsorships, and volunteers. Contact info@allentownfreakout.com for more information.
 
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Behind the Burly Q

 

According to the description at YouTube, director Leslie Zemeckis and producer Sheri Hellard "traveled extensively across the country from the Bayous of post-Katrina Mississippi, to New Jersey, Florida to …record dozens of interviews with little-known performers to the last of the living legends of burlesque."

The documentary is scheduled to open April 23, 2010 at the Quad Cinema in New York City.

Among tthose interviewed are former musicians, strippers, novelty acts, club owners, funny men and women, authors and historians.

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A Hot Toddy Success Story!

 
As fortune and perhaps good dharma bestowed it, Steamtown Vaudeville’s inaugural production was a huge success. We officially sold out two days before the show and after the willing squeezed into standing room in order to be part of this once in a a lifetime experience, we had to turn people away.
 
The goal was to produce an experience — for it truly was more than just a show — so wonderful that people would be begging us for more and we would have no choice but to do it again.
 
At this point in time, it appears that there will be another show of some sort. It will be different. It will, hopefully, be just as special even if it lacks that raw adreneline rush of "the first time."
 
In the meantime, please enjoy our photos of event. We’ll be back with video soon.
 
 
 
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