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Fabulous Friday - - "Show Off"
This is the best number in one of my favorite shows of the century - - "Show Off" from *The Drowsy Chaperone.* The whole number is...
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Jul 27, 20181 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/25/18
Diva: "The Star-Spangled Banner" Mensch: "America the Beautiful" I remember a lot of talk during the Clinton years about "America the...
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Jul 25, 20181 min read
*The Damned,* 7/20/18
I saw *The Damned* at the Park Avenue Armory on 7/20/18. It's a theatrical adaptation of the 1969 Visconti Nazi epic, starring Ingrid...
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Jul 24, 20183 min read
*Naharin's Virus,* 7/18/18
Karen, Steve, and I saw the Batsheva Dance Company's Young Ensemble on 7/18/18 in *Naharin's Virus,* created by their artistic director,...
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Jul 23, 20181 min read
Fabulous Friday - - "Pihi neito"
I just got back from a trip to San Francisco, visiting my brother Howard and Paul Stoller and Annie Tennant and their sons, who were in...
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Jul 20, 20181 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/18/18
Diva: Land of the free Mensch: Home of the brave Laurie Anderson, love her to death! An American original, to be sure. Here she is...
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Jul 18, 20181 min read
Fabulous Friday - - "Buttons and Bows"
I love Dinah Shore, I think she has one of the most beautiful voices ever recorded, what some call a "phonogenic" voice. And I love...
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Jul 13, 20181 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/11/18
Diva: Oh Mensch: Say I did a youtube search for "national anthem opera singer." I bypassed America's Soprano Renée Fleming, because even...
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Jul 11, 20181 min read
Celebrity Death Watch: Tab Hunter
I was so sad to get up this morning and see the news that Tab Hunter had died. What a dreamboat! His memoir, *Tab Hunter Confidential,*...
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Jul 10, 20181 min read
Fabulous Friday - - Mystery Guest, Doris Day
Hard to imagine, but this was Doris Day's very first appearance on television. And she is so CUTE! Her appearance is at 15:12.
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Jul 6, 20181 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 7/4/18
Of course with Independence Day falling on a Wednesday, I have to give this month a national anthem theme. First: Diva: Stars. Mensch:...
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Jul 4, 20181 min read
*My Fair Lady,* 6/26/18
Richard and I saw *My Fair Lady* on Broadway on 6/26/18. This was the first Broadway show album I bought with my own money, I've loved...
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Jun 30, 20183 min read
Fabulous Friday - - "Something Stupid"
I love this song, it's so cute and catchy. I read online that this song was known to some as "The Incest Song" because it originally...
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Jun 29, 20181 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 6/27/18
We're closing out the food theme with a classic: Diva: Chocolate Mensch: Vanilla
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Jun 27, 20181 min read
*Log Cabin,* 6/22/18
Richard and I saw *Log Cabin* at Playwright’s Horizons on 6/22/18. We had two celebrity sightings in the lobby before the show, Tony...
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Jun 24, 20182 min read
*Forever Linked,* 6/9/18
Richard and I saw *Forever Linked: The Early History of Precision Dance Troupes* at Pace University on 6/9/18. I read about it in the...
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Jun 23, 20183 min read
Fabulous Friday - - Cecilia Sisson
You know how I love Carol Channing. This is one of her most hilarious creations. The dignity of the lady, it just kills me.
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Jun 22, 20181 min read
*Symphonie Fantastique,* 6/15/18
Francesca, Brian, and I saw Basil Twist's *Symphonie Fantastique* on 6/15/18. *SF* is a landmark piece by Hector Berlioz and puppet...
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Jun 21, 20181 min read
Diva / Mensch pair for 6/20/18
Diva: Chicken Mensch: Waffles
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Jun 20, 20181 min read
*Travesties,* 6/14/18
Jere, Dale, and I saw *Travesties* on 6/14/18. It's a play from 1975 by Tom Stoppard, this is the first time it's been revived on...
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Jun 16, 20183 min read
CDA: Catherine O'Hara
Oh my I was not prepared for this one. My brother Howard texted me yesterday to alert me to the death of the extraordinary Catherine O'Hara at the too young age of 71. Like many of my generation I first encountered her on SCTV. My favorite of her characters was Lola Heatherton, a dimly talented nightclub performer, her name pointing us to Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon mainstays Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton. She was delightful in Beetlejuice (1988) but I'm not so into
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4 days ago2 min read
Fabulous Friday: Alanis Morissette
I've asked my friend Jori Hume to write a few Fabulous Fridays in the Rock and Roll Woman series. Jori is a friend from high school, without a doubt the coolest person ever to attend Delavan-Darien High School. I was about to write "ever to graduate from" but I bet there are some cool people who were dropouts! Jori is cooler than any of them. I'll hand the baton to Jori: Do you remember the first time you heard “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette? Picture it: Kansas City.
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5 days ago2 min read
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