***COMMENTS AT A NEW YORK MAGAZINE Vulture response to this poster suggest it is a fan made poster.
Not to beat a dead horse but — ew.
It looks like A Chorus Line crossed with that groovy poster of Dorothy Dietrich after King Midas went around and touched everything.
I’ll assume there’s something covering Christina’s crotch because that’s the last thing I need popping up in my nightmares right now.
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When I started working on my NeoVaudeville project I figured there was a good chance the movement would be over before I got to share what I had discovered with audiences. If this report from Edinburgh Fringe Fest is any indication, this first decade may just be the start of more.
We’re certainly still continuing to see the shift toward mainstream. Even the new teen drama Pretty Little Liars just offered a carnival theme for its homecoming festivities.
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Edinburgh: the inexorable rise of variety and cabaret | Culture | guardian.co.uk
What interests me is why? And why now? The variety phenomenon is particularly intriguing. The clue might lie partly in the word, as McGregor points out. "It’s partly the eclectic nature of it – people’s attention spans are so short. With variety you get a bit of stand-up, a bit of dance and burlesque, a bit of acrobatics. People like to be constantly entertained." It’s low risk too: you might not like everything on the menu, but there will probably be something – and you won’t have spent good money on an hour and a half of a dud.
The Official BURLESQUE trailer
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Here’s more where that came from! Sweet.
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Again With the Comics: Hillbilly Comics!
Goldurn if’n thar weren’t a hillbilly craze back in the mid-1950’s, an’ goldurn if comics didn’t try to cash in like everyone else! As America emerged from World War II and entered the atomic age, a group of lovable, backwards, shabbily-dressed hill folk were left behind by a combination of poverty and geographic remoteness. Their feudin’ moonshine-drinkin’, cousin-marryin’ ways were pure comedy gold for the country’s burgeoning entertainment industry, and soon the movies, television, and yes, comics had hillbilly fever. For years, the American hillbilly provided his wealthier, more sophisticated countrymen with countless hours of joyful schadenfreude before the fad wore off, and they went back to just being poor people. Anyhow, bite off a chaw o’ tabaccy, have a sip o’ some of this hyar corn likker, dig inta some of maw’s possum pie, and enjoy some good old fashioned, down-home HILLBILLY COMICS:
We’re submersed in all things Hillbilly Chic in preperation for Steamtown Vaudeville’s next production A Razzle Dazzle Hootenanny at The Vintage Theater on Aug, 21. I want this comic so bad it huts!
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Hillbilly Comics! | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log
And April Smith and the Great Picture Show knock one out of the ballpark at the Newport Folk Festival this past weekend. This is one trend that ain’t over folks.
You may have heard her song "Terrible Things" teasing the new season of Weeds on Showtime. Regardless, scoot over to NPR and listen to their archive of the aformentioned performance or the June 2010 concert on Mountain Stage. I’m sure April wouldn’t mind terribly if you bought the album.
While you’re at the store, check out the artwork on her t-shirts. It’s everything we’ve been talking about.
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“Judging from some tracks on her new album ‘Songs for a Sinking Ship,’ Brooklyn singer/songwriter April Smith is quite the burlesque bad girl. Verbally smacking down the competition for her man’s affections (’Dixie Boy’) and confessing to sins apparently too atrocious to mention (’Terrible Things’), Smith takes a ride into the annals of vintage Mason-Dixon pop, packing a sound full of sassy hooks and swinging rhythms.” – Paste
Sounds like a blast. I’m hoping not to miss this one!
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Jim Thorpe Burlesque, Sponsored by Dragontown Corsets
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! "Dragontown Corsets Presents: BOOLESQUE" is slithering its way to the Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe, PA on October 30, 2010! Keep your eyeballs right here for all the news. Tickets will go on sale no later than August 1, 2010.
This is the Steamtown Vaudeville philosophy and exactly why each one of our events is designed to be a distinct, once-in-a-life time event, not to be repeated.
-alicia
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Richard Florida On Designing Musical Experiences | Cr@zyEye Music Services
to succeed, artists have to differentiate themselves from the crowd and give people something they can’t get elsewhere. So then, he asks, what can we give people that is unique? What is not repeatable or copyable? To this, he answers, "A feeling, or an experience."
I’m not a big Counting Crows fan, personally, but this art work sure did catch my eye.
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Counting Crows Traveling Circus & Medicine Show
08/06/10
featuring Augustana, The rock band
Counting Crows’ Traveling Circus & Medicine Show with Augustana kicks off the Sands RiverPlace lineup at Musikfest 2010 with an 8 p.m. show on Friday, Aug. 6. Price range: $25-$52 ($5 service fee per ticket will be added to these base prices)
RiverPlace Garden & Cafe areas include concert ticket & dinner.(Cafe $134 – Garden $164)
Scheduled Concert Time: 8:00 pm Gates open at 6:00 pm
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