Sleep Fast! We Need the Pillow! Jewish Songs of the 1900s (1900-1909) Taylor Mac Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 8pm JCC Manhattan, 344 Amsterdam Avenue event site [Note: these are musings about an experience, not a review of the product. These comments are a kind of conversation with the work and this magical performer, not … Continue reading
End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter Directed by Terry Johnson Featuring Tracie Bennett, Tom Pelphrey, Jay Russell, Michael Cumpsty The Belasco Theatre, 111 West 44th Street April 2, 2012 — open run production web site Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee March 29, 2012 After a tour through Britain and a stop in a major city in … Continue reading
92YTribeca: Judy: A Legendary Film Career John Fricke presents clips and history Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 12 noon 92YTribeca, 2000 Hudson Street (at Canal) event site “People always expect me to be funny. I was never funny; the writers were funny! Do you know who was really funny? Judy Garland. Judy Garland was naturally … Continue reading
Afternoon Tea and viewing of a pair of Dorothy’s Ruby Slipers Arabelle Restaurant, Hôtel Plaza Athénée, 37 East 64th Street Pre-auction viewing and tea, hosted by Profiles in History Monday, December 5, 2011, 4-6pm There is magic in the faded sequins and the scribbled wardrobe notes and the red painted soles. And on this day, alerted … Continue reading
Mad Women Written and performed by John Fleck Directed by Ric Montejano La MaMa Club (with Katselas Theatre Company), 74A East 4th Street December 2, 2011 — December 11, 2011 production web site Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee December 1, 2011 No one, not one person, is served well in this painfully arch and unrehearsed pantomime. … Continue reading
Funny Girl (1968) Film Society of Lincoln Center: Hollywood’s Jew Wave November 13, 2011 [2nd of two showings during the FSLC series] Francesca BealeTheater, Elinor Bunim Film Center, 144 West 65th Street event web site I attended a screening of Funny Girl for the first time during its first national release in 1968, armed with thorough knowledge … Continue reading
Several years ago on a Garland discussion board I mused about lessons in style and substance contained in the many films of Judy Garland’s career. I adapted those ideas into multiple entries on another blog in late 2009. This musing continued during the summer of 2011 inspired by the Paley Center for Media and Film … Continue reading
Undercurrent (1946) BAMcinématek The Complete Vincente Minnelli October 4, 2011 [festival September 23-November 2, 2011] BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn event web site “You looked like no one I’d ever seen before.” [Alan to Ann] “Love is a formula like anything else. I recognize the formula.” [Dink to Ann] “Mother adored him. He was … Continue reading
At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singing Sondheim Again … Why Not! Musical direction by Rob Bowman Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Cafe Carlyle at the Carlyle, 35 East 76th Street September 13, 2011 — October 8, 2011 http://www.thecarlyle.com/dining/cafe_carlyle/ Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee September 22, 2011 Elaine Stritch, who taught us to call her … Continue reading
When: Thursday, August 11, about 8pm Where: The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street What: Elliot Tiber meets fellow Judy Garland fans And on August 11 at a screening of television appearances ranging from Jack Paar show visits from 1964 and 1967 to a 1968 visit to the Philadelphia-based Mike Douglas show to show … Continue reading
