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LaBute one act festival, 1/23/19
Alaina, Richard, and I saw a series of three one-act plays by Neil LaBute on 1/23/19. Richard and I are fans of LaBute - - we loved...
ladiesvoices
Jan 29, 20192 min read
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Ryan on the Runway: PRAS season 7, ep 4
Adore Me dot com! Allegedly one of the fastest growing fashion start-ups in the world, and yet has any of us heard of it? The challenge...
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Jan 28, 20192 min read
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Celebrity Death Watch: Michel Legrand
I loved composer Michel Legrand even before I knew his name - - we studied *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* in my high school French class,...
ladiesvoices
Jan 27, 20191 min read
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*Ionesco Suite,* 1/24/19
I saw *Ionesco Suite* at BAM on 1/24/19. It's an assembly of five plays by Eugène Ionesco: *Jack, or The Submission,* *Delirium For...
ladiesvoices
Jan 26, 20192 min read
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Fabulous Friday: "Mack the Knife"
The next song in *Star Dust* is "Mack the Knife," music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. It was popularized in the US by...
ladiesvoices
Jan 25, 20191 min read
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Celebrity Death Watch: Kaye Ballard
I dedicate this Kaye Ballard tribute to the divine David Jay Smith, who told me about the death of Miss Ballard and also Miss Channing! ...
ladiesvoices
Jan 24, 20191 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 1/23/19
My friends Barbara and William are totally into curling. William's team won the U. S. Junior National Championships in 2015 and 2016! ...
ladiesvoices
Jan 23, 20191 min read
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*Adriana Lecouvreur,* 1/16/19
Barbara, Richard, and I saw *Adriana Lecouvreur* at the Met on 1/16/19. I’m seeing seven or eight things at the Met this season and this...
ladiesvoices
Jan 20, 20194 min read
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Ryan on the Runway: PRAS season 7, ep 3
The designers were brought to an airport in deepest, darkest Long Island. They were put on a Southwest airplane, where they were tasked...
ladiesvoices
Jan 18, 20191 min read
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Fabulous Friday: "St. Louis Blues"
The next song in *Star Dust* is "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy. I've got two recordings to share. The first is by Bessie Smith: And...
ladiesvoices
Jan 18, 20191 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 1/16/19
Diva: Figure skating Mensch: Speed skating
ladiesvoices
Jan 16, 20191 min read
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Celebrity Death Watch: Carol Channing
A very sad day indeed! An American original! A Broadway icon! She was 97, so this really WAS a deathwatch, for a few years. I'm going...
ladiesvoices
Jan 15, 201913 min read
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Ryan on the Runway: PRAS season 7, eps 1 & 2
EPISODE ONE Thanks to my dear friend Frank for telling me that PRAS was on! I was totally out of the loop on this one. The PR brand has...
ladiesvoices
Jan 13, 20194 min read
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Fabulous Friday: 12 songs pt 1, "Star Dust"
The best book I read last year was *Stardust Melodies: A Biography of 12 of America's Most Popular Songs* by Will Friedwald. The tells...
ladiesvoices
Jan 11, 20191 min read
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*The Ferryman,* 1/3/19
I saw *The Ferryman* on Broadway on 1/3/19. It’s a new play by Jez Butterworth, come on over from London, directed by Sam Mendes. I had...
ladiesvoices
Jan 10, 20192 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 1/9/19
This week: Diva: Skating Mensch: Sledding
ladiesvoices
Jan 9, 20191 min read
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Fabulous Friday - - Mystery Guest, Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole will be part of a special Fabulous Friday series that starts next week, so I'm featuring him today as a Mystery Guest.
ladiesvoices
Jan 4, 20191 min read
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Celebrity Death Watch: Daryl Dragon
I have to confess that I didn't recognize the name Daryl Dragon when it slid across my TV screen this morning, on the crawl of our local...
ladiesvoices
Jan 3, 20191 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 1/2/19
Continuing with the winter theme, this month I'm going to focus on winter activities: Diva: Throwing snowballs Mensch: Shoveling snow
ladiesvoices
Jan 2, 20191 min read
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Fabulous Friday: "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
I don't know how I became a fan of Lena Horne, but I was from a very young age. Her Christmas album, *Merry From Lena,* was one of my...
ladiesvoices
Dec 28, 20181 min read
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Sybarite5 and Curtis Stewart, Nov 3 2025
I heard Sybarite5 at Music Mondays on Nov 3, 2025. They're a string quintet - - two violins, viola, cello, and bass. I heard them in an online concert during lockdown n 2020. I just read that review and I appeared to enjoy the 2020 concert more than this latest one. Maybe I was more eager for a satisfying cultural experience? Or maybe it was just better. They opened with "Movement and Locations" by The Punch Brothers. It had a great energy but the cello solo at the beginning
ladiesvoices
2 hours ago3 min read
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Fabulous Friday: Aretha Franklin
I had a tribute to Wanda Jackson a few weeks ago. My brother Howard has a signed picture of her in his locker at work! I told him, "That's not Wanda Jackson, that's Lynn Redgrave in a bad wig." Bless her heart. Or in this case, rest her soul! OK now for this week's fierce rock and roll woman: the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, an American treasure. One of a kind, the world would not be the same without her. Can we all agree that this was one of the greatest moments in televi
ladiesvoices
1 day ago1 min read
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