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://bruceschultz.blogspot.com/2009/10/dream-of-marionettes.html
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dream-of-the-Marionettes/155555594663
Thanks to @SepiaChord for the recommendation. This collection looks fantastic!
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EMP Store – Waltzes, Glitches & Brass: The New Sounds of Solace
Vaudeville, Music Hall, Freak Shows, Concert Saloons, Minstrelsy, Dime Museums, and Burlesque; all major forms of entertainment in the late 1800s/ early 1900s. A time where costuming and stagecraft was paramount, and a certain warped fascination with the bizarre and freakish, spliced with titillation and risqué humor, was the order of the day. Here the spirit of this evocative era is fused with dark waltz melodies, glitch electronic sounds, salacious burlesque, and gypsy brass for one of the most unique and lovingly crafted compilations you’re likely to hear this or any other year.
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.)
Such a sweet little documentary!
The sisters are on tour now, you know. This is one show you don’t want to miss!
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!
-ag
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YouTube – Dirty Martini and The New Burlesque-TEASER
Multiple voices chime in to answer the question at this March 2008 School of Burlesque blog post.
Good stuff.
-a
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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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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.
-ag
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