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Stage Matters: Los Pajaros and More on This North Coast Weekend

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Los Pajaros and More on This North Coast Weekend. It's the final weekend (Feb. 12-14) for Los Pajaros. With Mother Teresa as Harpo, Dick Nixon as Groucho, it's the Marx Brothers meet Firesign Theatre, with a Latino edge. The cast of 11 seems even bigger at times, so it's fascinating to recall that before this HSU production, the only performances were by the three members of Culture Clash. So even if local media ...

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Stage Matters: When They Were The Top

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Thursday, February 26, 2015. When They Were The Top. There's a review in a right-wing magazine. Of a new book on American musicals that makes a couple of interesting factual assertions. I believe the first one: the last song from a musical to become "an enduring popular hit" was "Send in the Clowns," written in 1973. The last homegrown musical to be wholeheartedly embraced by audiences and critics alike, made it to Broadway.". Scripts are so...

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Stage Matters: Traffic Circle Purpose Revealed

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Traffic Circle Purpose Revealed. Two crop circle investigators from England arrived in Arcata this week, but they weren’t on the lookout for bent corn. We've gone right off crop circles," Nigel confirmed. "We're onto something new.". Something big," Bruce whispered. Very big," Nigel agreed. Bruce looked both ways before he talked. "Traffic circles," he breathed. "That's why we're here.". Urban areas, for instance?

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Stage Matters: Postscript and Re-Dedication

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Friday, January 2, 2015. A postscript to 2014: My thanks to Joan Schirle and everyone who responded to (or "liked") her thread about Stage Matters on the Humboldt Theater Commmunity Group. On Facebook. And thanks as well to Michael Fields who pointed it out to me in an email. (It also allows me to post this photo of Joan, which I couldn't fit into previous posts.). Happy New Year everyone! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Soul of Star Trek.

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Stage Matters: One Amazing Old Trick to Make Millions!

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Monday, January 5, 2015. One Amazing Old Trick to Make Millions! Shocking Top Ten Made Easy! Andrew Marantz in the New Yorker recently profiled. If that's true it's heading in the direction of manipulation on the order of Orwellian cubed. And theft. Theft is very old news, and apparently very new media. For that seems to be how the Spartz sites make money. They steal the work of others. Or even that his model for success is relentless cynici...

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Stage Matters: Pick Yourself Up

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. My fellow Americans, we too are a strong, tight-knit family. We, too, have made it through some hard times. Fifteen years into this new century, we have picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off, and begun again the work of remaking America.". President Obama, his "defiant" State of the Union 2015 last. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Soul of Star Trek. Trek50: B4Trek- Real War. The Internet of Remembering.

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Stage Matters: Lost

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Thursday, January 29, 2015. It seems that Lost Coast Outpost, which suddenly began linking to this site after the first 8 years of its existence, suddenly stopped this month. Unless it was a one post glitch. Which says something I feel is important about this blog and the Internet in general that doesn't get said very often. Of course if they link to this. Post, as Emily used to say- never mind! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My recent ...

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Stage Matters: Retro Retro

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Thursday, January 22, 2015. A little retrospective on my Stage Matters retrospective: I mentioned that the posts on theatre that make up the bulk of this site often get readers far from the North Coast, and long after the date of the post. Here are some examples from just this past few weeks of January 2015:. This is a very popular subject. Some of the accessed posts were intriguingly local. France found "Jason in Eureka." India was ...Trek5...

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Stage Matters: Lions in Winter

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Here's a treat, though a long one. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart talk about important moments in their stage careers and their lives, as well as their feelings about their film/TV stardom. It's a fascinating 90 minutes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Soul of Star Trek. Trek50: B4Trek- Real War. Captain Future's Dreaming Up Daily. The Donald Chronicles: Rejecting the Hater. The Internet of Remembering. This p...

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Stage Matters: Spalding Gray: Stages of Life

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And other matters, starting from the North Coast of California. Thursday, June 4, 2015. Spalding Gray: Stages of Life. Another post from elsewhere in my blogosphere that ought to be here as well, prompted by this recent New Yorker article. By Oliver Sacks on Spalding Gray's brain injury, referenced in my review of Steven Soderbergh's film on Gray, as follows. And Everything is Going Fine. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Spalding Gray virtually invented the autobiographical monologue, although he preferred...