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Diva / Mensch pair for 5/17/17
Two back-to-back Spielberg classics: *Jurassic Park* and *Schindler's List.*
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May 17, 20171 min read
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*Breakfast at Tiffany's*, 5/12/17
Richard and I saw a screening of *Breakfast at Tiffany's* on 5/12/17, with the score played live by the New York Philharmonic. They do...
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May 13, 20173 min read
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*Six Degrees of Separation,* 5/9/17
I saw *Six Degrees of Separation* on Broadway on 5/9/17. I'm a big fan of the 1993 movie with Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and...
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May 12, 20171 min read
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Flashback Friday - - *What's It All About?*, 2014
It's Burt Bacharach's 89th birthday today! Happy birthday, dear Burt. I am CRAZY for some Burt, you might already know this about me. ...
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May 12, 20173 min read
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*Hedda Gabler,* 5/8/17
Richard and I saw a "live" screening of *Hedda Gabler* from the National Theatre in London on 5/8/17. I put the word "live" in quotes...
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May 11, 20174 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 5/10/17
Gladys Knight and the Pips! My favorite song of theirs is "Heard it through the grapevine." Here are two performances of that song, one...
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May 10, 20171 min read
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Met 50th anniversary gala concert, 5/7/17
Frank and I went to the Metropolitan Opera's 50 Years at Lincoln Center gala on 5/7/17. The NY Times reprinted a photo from opening...
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May 9, 201711 min read
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*The Emperor Jones,* 5/6/17
I saw *The Emperor Jones* at the Irish Repertory Theatre on 5/6/17. This is an essential stop on my perusal through Eugene O'Neill - -...
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May 8, 20172 min read
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*Indecent,* 5/5/17
Karen and I saw *Indecent* on Broadway on 5/5/17. It's a play by Paula Vogel about the play *God of Vengeance* by Sholem Asch. ...
ladiesvoices
May 6, 20172 min read
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Flashback Friday - - *Tristan und Isolde,* Mar 2008
This was a high-drama night at the theatre, all kinds of wonky and strange things going on with the performance. And it was the first...
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May 5, 201710 min read
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Another marathon (I can't believe it)
How does this happen, when will I learn. A few weeks ago I was expressing wonder over the fact that I was about to break my previous...
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May 4, 20171 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 5/3/17
The pair for this week is our second reader-chosen pair, submitted by Jayne Reuter and chosen by our international panel of judges:...
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May 3, 20171 min read
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Walk MS: thank you!
We did Walk MS NYC today and had a great time. Thank you to everyone who made a donation - - for those of you who are still thinking...
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Apr 30, 20171 min read
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Flashback Friday - - Bette Midler concert, June 2015
In honor of seeing La Midler in *Hello, Dolly!*, I'm trotting out my review of her show at The Garden in June 2015. * * * Scott, Richard,...
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Apr 28, 20174 min read
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*Happy Days,* 4/26/17
Before I get to my review, I keep forgetting to mention - - bit by bit I've been taking my past reviews and posting them in my archives...
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Apr 27, 20173 min read
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*Hello, Dolly!*, 4/25/17
Richard, John, David, and I saw *Hello, Dolly!* on Broadway on 4/25/17. It's starring the one and only Bette Midler. This is her first...
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Apr 26, 20175 min read
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Diva / Mensch pair for 4/26/17
Saturday Night Live in 1976 had a fake commercial for a product called Shimmer. Gilda Radner and Dan Akroyd play the bickering married...
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Apr 26, 20171 min read
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*Red Scare on Sunset,* 4/24/17
Frank and I saw *Red Scare on Sunset* on 4/24/17. It was a one-night-only staged reading of the Charles Busch play from 1991. Only the...
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Apr 25, 20172 min read
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*Oslo,* 4/23/17
I saw *Oslo* on Broadway on 4/23/17. It's a new play by J. T. Rogers about the top-secret peace negotiations between Israel and...
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Apr 24, 20172 min read
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*Der Rosenkavalier,* 4/21/17
Richard, Barbara, and I saw a new production of Richard Strauss's *Der Rosenkavalier* at the Met on 4/21/17. Richard and I saw the Met's...
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Apr 23, 20173 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
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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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