Chasing down design inspirations for the raZZle daZZle hOOtenannY… how beautiful is this babe!
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The Patchwork Girl [image 1195×1660 pixels , 93]
The Patchwork Girl, also known as the Queen of Patch, here sports a haughty glower!
There’s a nice review of the ventriloquism documentary I’m No Dummy: Sometimes You Just Need to Vent by Trav S.D. at Travalanche.
I found the following insight particularly powerful. There’s a script in it — or at least a scene — to be sure. And not the cheesy made for TV serial killer story either. Something miles more fabulous. Certainly metaphorical. Possibly uncomfortable to look at. Like the skinny old toupee-topped singer with red circles of blush on his cheeks that looked like a dummy come to life in the opera program I saw Sunday night. Hmmmm….
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I’m No Dummy « Travalanche
Every vent has a Jeckyl and Hyde thing going on; what they do uncomfortably skirts mental illness. (And, still more intriguingly, primitive religion). Maybe I’m a sadist. I want to learn more about the pain driving these people.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this band. http://thedefibulators.com/
Lots of great demo tracks on the MySpace site. Check ’em out.
Yes, another Charisma Artist. Is it any suprise?
What do you think the odds are we can book them from the Razzle Dazzle Hootenanny?
Just heard this one in Flora the Red Menace, but it’s clearly been around forever …
Said Billy Rose to Sally Rand
Why don’t you dance without your fan
So Sally danced without her fan
And Billy Rose while Sally RAN.
Why don’t you dance without your fan
So Sally danced without her fan
And Billy Rose while Sally RAN.
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.
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.)
-ag
Such a sweet little documentary!
The sisters are on tour now, you know. This is one show you don’t want to miss!
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
-ag
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