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Read moreMasks As Theater
Hey there! Mr. Covid will be annoyed if you aren’t on camera without your masks. Better hurry! This is how leaders act when they know the cameras are off—and how they act when they are on: Translation from French to English: “The outgoing LR president of the Paca region was widely re-elected in the regional…
Read moreDie While You’re Alive – A Parable
A traveler from India went to Africa to acquire some local products and animals, and while in the jungle, he saw thousands of beautiful multicolored talking parrots. So he decided to capture a talking parrot and take it back as a pet. At home, he kept his parrot in a cage and fed him wonderful…
Read moreEPIC DRUMMER STUDIO SETUP 2021 | Kenny Aronoff (studio tour)
Broadway Profiles Show Spotlight: Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations
“Get Ready,” BROADWAY PROFILES WITH TAMSEN FADAL has another installment of the new SHOW SPOTLIGHT series ready to take center stage. In honor of Black History Month, Tamsen highlights the 2019 Tony Award®-nominated Best Musical AIN’T TOO PROUD – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS. Broadway’s current fab five shares what future audiences…
Read moreChef
I’ve been watching some interesting movies with my daughter this week. She had me check this out because it’s her favorite food-related movie-right behind 100 Foot Journey and Julie and Julia. After seeing this movie, it made me hungry. It also made me want to travel again. When I was on the show Footloose 21…
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“Black People Are Not Dark-Skinned White People” -Tom Burrell
From Encyclopedia.com: “A major figure in American marketing and advertising, Thomas Burrell heads a leading marketing communications firm that provides advertising, public relations, consumer promotions, and direct marketing services for many top American companies. In 1996 Black Enterprise ranked Burrell Communications as sixteenth on its annual listing of the Top 100 Black Businesses in the…
Read moreMoving The Goalposts – Again
Candidate Biden: wear masks for 100 days. President Biden: wear masks throughout the year. Candidate Biden: kids back in school first 100 days. President Biden: kids back in school at least 1 day/week. Fauci: masks not needed, masks work, wear one mask, one is not enough—wear TWO! Two COVID shots? Nope! THREE!: ”All…
Read moreThe Best Producers On Broadway!
I’ve been involved in five musicals over the past 20 years as the drum position’s chair holder—three Broadway and two off-broadway shows. I started to figure out the producer’s role when I was at my second, Altar Boyz. When I booked my third musical and first Broadway show, Memphis The Musical, back in 2009, I…
Read moreBroadway Producers Want Union Concessions Before Reopening
“There have been general conversations [with unions] about what the contracts might look like, what might be changed,” Broadway League President Charlotte St. Martin said during the final day of The TheaterMakers Summit. “We’ll have to get to the changes, if any, toward wages and work rules and all of that to get open, because…
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