As the Cardinal Flies

It's time to make the music....

2021-02-09T20:34:14Z

Herewith a heads-up from my friends-list, as I'm pretty sure I have at least a few fellow theater junkies in the gallery here.

Specifically, it's an endorsement of the streaming series Encore, available on Disney+. (FWIW, in this case they have me for Pippin, but there is almost certainly a revival from nearly anyone's bucket list among the dozen re-staged in this exercise.)

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"Pardon me, sir, did you see what happened?"

2015-08-11T09:35:46Z

It's no secret that I'm a theater buff, and that there are at least two or three other theater buffs in my immediate circle-slash-friends-list. But there's a regional division between the East Coast theater crowd and those of us out here on the other coast, and for that reason I'm going to point the whole gallery at one particular post from my reading page, namely a review (sort of) of something called Head Over Heels, presently in mid-run down at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Between that post, the official Web page for the show, and what I've been picking up in person now that my field reporter is back from his trip, I have to conclude that this production must be unusual even by OSF standards....

I am told that, my title for this post notwithstanding, that there was no streaking. There was, however, evidently cross-dressing, emergence from ~~chamberpots~~ closets, onstage not-exactly-adultery, same-sex marriage, lion-wrestling, blatant disregard for the the existence of fourth walls, and a whole lot of Go-Gos music.

It sounds...exuberant.

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Sense and sensibility (but no Austen)

2010-06-14T18:07:07Z

In the wake of several pro authors' posts over the last couple of months in which said authors are mystified and/or badly confused by the fanfic itch, we've now got a post from a pro author who has brought immense amounts of common sense to the table.

Jim Hines displays much wisdom, in this matter and in many others. And he writes good books, too.

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