Getting my promotion on over here y’all thanks to my friend Chad Sell, who is way smarter and better at all of this than I. Check out all of his cool work!
In New York? Come to UFest!
3 Oct
The United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC begins in 2 1/2 weeks!
Ufest is a month long theatre festival at Theatre ROW in NYC comprised entirely of original solo shows.
Click the link above to view the full festival line-up.
And don’t forget to get your tickets for The Love Project
Wed Nov 2nd @ 9 p.m.
By Clicking the Telecharge link below, tickets are only $18!
10 Musical Theatre Performances I’m in Love With
2 OctOK, so, sure, yes, right, I’ll admit it, fine, if I have to, here goes, I am, gulp, sigh, shrug, in love with musical theatre. I know, I know, I know what that makes me in your eyes. A show queen.
So what if I am? Stereotypical? Perhaps. Am I ashamed? A little.
Since walking on that gymnasium stage my freshman year of high school in a run down building in the middle of central Illinois as part of the cast of, yup you guessed it, ‘Grease’, I have been in love with musical theatre.
My love for the genre hasn’t wained much in the years since. However, I can no longer appreciate performances simply because they are taking place in a musical. I spent a year of my life bartending in the lobbies of Broadway theaters and I know what a good performance looks like. After watching Marin Mazzie being rehearsed into ‘Spamalot’, Fantasia ripping out her vocal chords 4 shows a week (she called out all the time, mostly due to domestic disputes) in ‘The Color Purple’, and Carolee Carmello making shit material in ‘Mamma Mia’ seem like Shakespeare I know when a performance in a musical is more than just parking and barking. These people are actors, some of the best working in the theatre I would argue, and their voices and vocal pyrotechnics may have gotten them to the top of the heap of musical theatre performers working today, but it’s their ability to interpret the material that keeps them there.
So few singers understand that as an audience member I don’t give a shit what your voice sounds like if you are not performing the life out of whatever you are singing.
So fine call me a show queen. But at least I’m a show queen with taste.
TEN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCES I’M IN LOVE WITH
1. Sutton Foster ’Someone Elses Story’
2. Andrew Rannells ‘I Believe’
3. Jen Colella & Lisa Brescia ‘Who Will Love Me as I Am’
4. Carolee Carmello ‘The Winner Takes it All’
5. Raul Esparza ‘Being Alive’
6. Beth Leavel ‘As We Stumble Along’
7. Christine Ebersole ‘Around The World’
8. Jeffrey Sewell ‘So Much Better’
9. Fantasia ‘I’m Here’
10. Stephanie J. Block ‘Get Out and Stay Out’
Guest Blogger 3: It’s So Easy to Fall in Love
27 Sep
It is very easy to FALL IN LOVE with someone, the infatuation and thrill of the new makes it too easy. But loving someone for all that they are in the long term to me means that that person is your best friend on every level. Your life should be better, and you should be better with that person in your life. After having my partner gone for so long I realize even more than before how much better I am and my life is with him in it, I feel out of sorts everyday that he is gone. When you know your lover so deeply and love and accept them with all that you have there is no distrust, and certainly no need for games, manipulation or dishonesty. Love shouldn’t be a drama filled soap opera where all you bring each other is pain, I think a lot of people love the thrill of this but real love, partnership, is comfortable and easy and makes your life richer, fuller, and happier.
About the Author:
Lauren Beggs is a licensed massage therapist and all around nutritional guru living and working in Las Vegas Nevada. She shares her life with her husband Brandon and dog Sookie.
The Things I’ll Never Say – W4M
24 SepI hate love. Love stinks, but I crave it. Like an addiction. Like my mother. You asked me last night what did I crave. And that’s what it is. Love. Passion. Lust. Not just the sexual act, I mean that is part of it, but the whole act itself. For so long I supressed that craving. Going with the safe bet. Its a foolish craving and you the realist I could never imagine could understand that part of me. I am falling for you. I will never tell you that. And in the off chance that you do read this well then I guess it was meant to be.
Guest Blogger 2: Titular Love
22 Sep
Puppy Love. Baby Love. Teenage Love Affair.
First Love. Young Love. Strange Love.
I feel Love
Is this Love?
I don’t know how to Love Him.
Love Child. Love Fool.
I Want to Know What Love is.
I Think I Love you. Love me Tender.
You Can’t Hurry Love.
I’d do anything for Love (but I won’t do that).
Give me a Little Love. Dream Lover.
Hello, I Love you.
Be my lover. When I fall in love.
What about love?
Secret Love. Hot Love. Modern Love.
Slave to Love.
All I want to do is Make Love to You.
Love is the Drug.
What’s love got to do with it?
You don’t have to say I Love You.
Crown of Love. Tainted Love. Runaway Love.
Too Fast for Love.
Friday I’m in Love.
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Victim of Love. Higher Love. Addicted to Love.
Justify my Love.
That’s the way Love goes.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
Love Rollercoaster. Love Hangover. Love Sick.
That’s how strong my Love is.
Love me two times. Part-Time Love.
Feel like makin’ Love.
Why do fools fall in Love?
About the Author:
Ruth Lantz is a Portland, OR based artist exploring notions of possibility and the ambiguity of perceptual understanding. Lantz holds an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). She has been featured in galleries around the Northwest and the Midwest including Disjecta and Worksound (Portland) as well as Hallway 2 and Pause (Chicago). She was a resident at Anderson Art Ranch in 2005 and a recipient of the CAAP grant for New and Emerging Artist in 2006. She was the co-founder of Emission Studios, an artist-run gallery and studio space in Chicago, from 2005-2008. Her work hangs in the collections of the University of Illinois at Chicago and WJT Mitchell.
Backyard Birthday Party 18 Years Ago – M4W
19 SepI know this is a serious long shot but this is my last resort. 18 years ago you attended a birthday party of a family friend in Jamaica, Queens. It was my birthday. You sent a letter over with your little sister to give me. From the time I saw you, I had to say yes to you. We dated for a little while, we had so much fun together. I know you may be married now but I just want an opportunity to take you out to dinner and just look at your beautiful face again. I don’t want anything more, just to look at you and talk with you, I want to see that smile that used to make me melt. You would not believe how often you popped into my mind these past 18 years, I truly miss you. Your initials were F.A. mine are S.K. Please if you read this, email me.
