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Ryan on the Runway: PR 16, ep 8
I know that looking for logic from the twins is like looking for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie (five points to anyone who identified...
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Oct 8, 20173 min read
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*Crossing,* 10/5/17
I saw *Crossing* at BAM on 10/5/17. It's a new opera by Matthew Aucoin about Walt Whitman, a semi-fictionalized look into his time spent...
ladiesvoices
Oct 7, 20172 min read
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*Return of the Jedi* at NY Phil, 10/4/17
I saw *Return of the Jedi* at the NY Philharmonic on 10/4/17. The highlight of the show was running into my friend Erika in the lobby...
ladiesvoices
Oct 6, 20173 min read
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Fabulous Friday - - *Valley of the Dolls*
What could be more fabulous than the movie *Valley of the Dolls*? Divine trash!
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Oct 6, 20171 min read
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*The Empire Strikes Back* at NY Philharmonic, 9/26/17
I saw *The Empire Strikes Back* (aka *Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back*) at the NY Philharmonic on 9/26/17. I had only seen...
ladiesvoices
Oct 4, 20172 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 10/4/17
I'm using October to honor the groundbreaking sitcoms of Norman Lear. Our first pair is George and Louise Jefferson.
ladiesvoices
Oct 4, 20171 min read
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*For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday,* 9/30/17
David Jay Smith Chang and I went to see *For Peter Pan On Her 70th Birthday* at Playwrights Horizons on 9/30/17. It's a new play by...
ladiesvoices
Oct 2, 20173 min read
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Ryan on the Runway: PR 16, ep 7
My friend Nick warned me that this episode was funny, and it shore was! The reactions were the funniest thing: lots of side-eye,...
ladiesvoices
Oct 1, 20173 min read
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Christopher Dylan Herbert recital, 9/29/17
I went to Juilliard on 9/29/17 and heard a recital by baritone Christopher Dylan Herbert. My friend Jamie van Eyck was singing on the...
ladiesvoices
Sep 30, 20173 min read
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Fabulous Friday - - "I wanna be around"
Happy Friday! Today we have the late great Eydie Gormé singing "I wanna be around" on The Tonight Show in 1996. Everything about this...
ladiesvoices
Sep 29, 20171 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 9/27/17
In the classic comedy pairing of a comic and a straight man (sexual orientation and gender identity don't always transfer in the use of...
ladiesvoices
Sep 27, 20171 min read
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*Les Premiers Adieux de Miss Knife,* 9/20/17
I saw *Les Premiers Adieux de Miss Knife* at BAM on 9/20/17. Here's what BAM said about the piece and Miss Knife: "A beguiling chanteuse...
ladiesvoices
Sep 26, 20176 min read
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Ryan on the Runway: PR 16, ep 6
Brunch for the models - - what a cute idea! In this challenge, the models are also the clients, and the models choose the designers they...
ladiesvoices
Sep 24, 20172 min read
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Fabulous Friday - - "Let go"
I'm renaming this feature - - I decided Video Vendredi was a little too polyglot, even for me. So now I'm calling it Fabulous Friday. ...
ladiesvoices
Sep 22, 20171 min read
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NY Phil gala opening, 9/19/17
Richard and I went to the gala opening concert of the New York Philharmonic season on 9/19/17. We were given comps by our lovely friend...
ladiesvoices
Sep 21, 20173 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 9/20/17
This is the last of Amy Harr's suggestions: Garfield and Opie.
ladiesvoices
Sep 20, 20171 min read
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*Star Wars* at the NY Philharmonic, 9/15/17
I saw a screening of *Star Wars* (aka *Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope*) with the score played live by the New York Philharmonic on...
ladiesvoices
Sep 18, 20174 min read
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Ryan on the Runway: PR 16, ep 5
Richard and I were both disappointed that they didn't have more of a feature on Lyndhurst Castle. What's the point in going all the way...
ladiesvoices
Sep 17, 20173 min read
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New feature: interviews!
I'm launching a new feature at divamensch.com - - I've started doing interviews, mostly with people in the performing arts. I’ve done two...
ladiesvoices
Sep 16, 20171 min read
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Video Vendredi - - "Triplets"
One of the treasures of youtube! The "Triplets" number from *The Band Wagon* - - Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, and Jack Buchanan,...
ladiesvoices
Sep 15, 20171 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 days 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
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3 days ago1 min read
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