LOVE Elaine Stritch. I would love to see her do this live. Viktor owes a debt.
Elaine Stritch to Revive At Liberty at Cafe Carlyle
Elaine Stritch plans to revive her Tony-winning one-woman show, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, at the Cafe Carlyle. Stritch will perform the show for three weeks, January 1-19, 2008, at the Carlyle Hotel's cabaret space, with music director Rob Bowman conducting an orchestra.
A limited run of At Liberty, co-written by Stritch and John Lahr, played for 69 performances at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre in 2002, directed by George C. Wolfe. It won a 2002 Tony for Best Special Theatrical Event, and a televised version later won an Emmy Award. The show mixes Stritch's reminiscences of her long theatrical career (including roles in Company, The Little Foxes, Bus Stop, A Delicate Balance, Sail Away and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) with 19 songs, including numbers by her friend Noel Coward and Sondheim classics such as "The Ladies Who Lunch," "I'm Still Here" and "The Little Things You Do Together." Stritch, now 82, will perform At Liberty in its entirety.
-- Broadway.com, 7/25/2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Friday, July 27, 2007
The Libertine Ball
Still flying high on a truly scrumptious performance in Philadelphia. Officially our second performance ever, we didn't have a lot of time to get ready, but we pulled it together extremely well. We were invited through Deb at SalonCon and by extension Ms. Kitty, a country & blues vampire singer. How awesome does that sound?! Oh, yes, the event! It was the prestigious Libertine Ball! Admittedly, my personal BDSM event knowledge is limited, but we were completely game.
Genevieve actually spoke to me with this exact point of view, "We can't do this, right?" Not that we didn't want to (we've been dying to get our feet wet again during the endless wait of our biggest opportunity yet, SalonCon '07); quite the opposite. We just didn't want to get our hopes up. But after some frantic e-mails and calls, we got together a cast and decided early on, "Let's not go crazy--let's do an encore performance of 3 of the songs from SalonCon '06." Not a problem. Ok, problem.
The "Candyman" (Christina Aguilera) choreography and concept was written with Jordana, Lauren, and myself in mind. Lauren was going to be in Florida, so she was out. Ok, we'll try Dani, who worked in a different number at SalonCon '06 but had given me a heads-up she was totally down with doing "Candyman" at some point as well. Ok, no good; she's out, too! Fortunately, Danielle was available already for an entirely different musical number ("I Want You" by Rachael Yamagata) and was on hand for a last minute replacement, so she was doing 2 numbers of the 3.
Sarah and Regina confirmed and they reprised "Wicked Woman, Foolish Man"--a charming and obscure track by August Darnell that he did for the Dick Tracy soundtrack in 1990--and Danielle and Genevieve were good with "I Want You" at this point, having created the choreography for that on their own in first place.
Admittedly, I was nervous. An entirely new crowd, more intimate space than SalonCon, and well, I didn't know what to expect. I loved the building, everyone was extremely friendly (I guess if you're gonna let semi-strangers flog you, you're gonna be friendly), and we had a really great, responsive audience. I was able to crack some jokes that were setting appropriate ("In my home country, when you want to dance with a girl, you have to ask their daddy. I am glad that here it's pretty much the same.") and the dance numbers went flawlessly. I was even able to cement the "Tickle Tango" from Zumanity as my theme with two dance partners, and we introduced the gypsy-punk-dance-party that is Gogol Bordello's "Mishto!" as our finale.
As it turns out, we not only had a great time, we were able to effectively network. We already have a job offer in Edison, NJ. It looks potentially expensive (I won't name the event 'til it's confirmed) but if we are able to work that out (starving artists, all that) it looks like a similarly fabulous time. It comes before SalonCon '07, so we may be able to workshop at least one number planned for that, and try some others that wouldn't be appropriate.
Trust me, Genevieve and I are glowing.
Check back soon for details.
--George
Genevieve actually spoke to me with this exact point of view, "We can't do this, right?" Not that we didn't want to (we've been dying to get our feet wet again during the endless wait of our biggest opportunity yet, SalonCon '07); quite the opposite. We just didn't want to get our hopes up. But after some frantic e-mails and calls, we got together a cast and decided early on, "Let's not go crazy--let's do an encore performance of 3 of the songs from SalonCon '06." Not a problem. Ok, problem.
The "Candyman" (Christina Aguilera) choreography and concept was written with Jordana, Lauren, and myself in mind. Lauren was going to be in Florida, so she was out. Ok, we'll try Dani, who worked in a different number at SalonCon '06 but had given me a heads-up she was totally down with doing "Candyman" at some point as well. Ok, no good; she's out, too! Fortunately, Danielle was available already for an entirely different musical number ("I Want You" by Rachael Yamagata) and was on hand for a last minute replacement, so she was doing 2 numbers of the 3.
Sarah and Regina confirmed and they reprised "Wicked Woman, Foolish Man"--a charming and obscure track by August Darnell that he did for the Dick Tracy soundtrack in 1990--and Danielle and Genevieve were good with "I Want You" at this point, having created the choreography for that on their own in first place.
Admittedly, I was nervous. An entirely new crowd, more intimate space than SalonCon, and well, I didn't know what to expect. I loved the building, everyone was extremely friendly (I guess if you're gonna let semi-strangers flog you, you're gonna be friendly), and we had a really great, responsive audience. I was able to crack some jokes that were setting appropriate ("In my home country, when you want to dance with a girl, you have to ask their daddy. I am glad that here it's pretty much the same.") and the dance numbers went flawlessly. I was even able to cement the "Tickle Tango" from Zumanity as my theme with two dance partners, and we introduced the gypsy-punk-dance-party that is Gogol Bordello's "Mishto!" as our finale.
As it turns out, we not only had a great time, we were able to effectively network. We already have a job offer in Edison, NJ. It looks potentially expensive (I won't name the event 'til it's confirmed) but if we are able to work that out (starving artists, all that) it looks like a similarly fabulous time. It comes before SalonCon '07, so we may be able to workshop at least one number planned for that, and try some others that wouldn't be appropriate.
Trust me, Genevieve and I are glowing.
Check back soon for details.
--George
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Purpose
The purpose of this blog is for select members of the Society to be able to share some thoughts, links, ideas, etc. Anything from "Hey, we just came back from this show," or "I was listening to this piece of music and thought our audience would love it, too" is appropriate and what can be expected here. Feel free to comment; one of us we'll get back to you!
Additionally, any mail that we get will be posted here with a response.
The writers of this blog are the actors behind the Society; there will be no IC posts in this blog.
Additionally, any mail that we get will be posted here with a response.
The writers of this blog are the actors behind the Society; there will be no IC posts in this blog.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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