Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2026

Quips and Quotations (Price of Admission Edition)

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  The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. --Oscar Wilde The theater is a communal ...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Quips and Quotations (Bass Player Edition)

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  1931-2024 Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. --James Earl Jones  The Great White Hope (1970,...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Quips and Quotations (Footlights Forever Edition)

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  1933-2024 Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for th...
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Saturday, January 6, 2024

Quips and Quotations (Making Her Entrance Again with Her Usual Flair Edition)

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1923-2024 In classical theatre in Europe, everybody plays all kinds of parts. Juliets go on to play the Nurses; they don't want to play ...
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Friday, May 19, 2023

Vital Viewing (What Happens to a Dream Deferred Edition)

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  Now, just what the hell is that monstrosity? An early Mac? Maybe some postwar PC that ran on Windows 0000000.1? Could it be a protype lapt...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022

Vital Viewing (How to Succeed in Show Business Without Really Trying Edition)

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 Actor Charles Nelson Reilly was born on this day in 1931. He died in 2007, but, as he relates in this excerpt from his autobiographical one...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Under the Radar: Norman Lloyd

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  I'm sure most of you recognize the man on the right, the now-legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, but you ordinarily wouldn't kno...