Are you depressed, like me, about not having any money this holiday season to shell out for fancy tickets to a real live production of The Nutcracker? If so, then Ovation’s “Battle of the Nutcrackers: Grudge Match” just might be what the total global meltdown ordered. Below, find probably one of the best commercials I [...]
I Want My C.C. …
Hey peeps-
I know posts have been few and far between. A number of factors have contributed to the slow down (but why should you suffer, I know!). I’m hoping that once the election’s over, C.C. can donate more of her time to writing than to stressing out and doing laps around the circuit of political [...]
“Can we have a debate about it, Miss?”
In honor of the impending Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, I’m posting one of my favorite all-time political sketch comedy performances, created by none other than the folks at Mad TV. SNL, eat your heart out…
The Soup After My Own Renewed Mind
You know there’s something special going on when your favorite pop culture moment of the week makes it onto E!’s awesome-est TV watchdog, The Soup:
To Do: Shameless Self-Promotion
Ten years after coming out, composer/performer/writer Ryan Tracy has one more thing to come clean about: His songwriting. Since 1998, Ryan has written over a dozen songs that chronicle his pursuit of the big gay life. But for inexplicable reasons, these songs have remained trapped in the closet: Until now!
BIG RELEASE
Original songs by Ryan Tracy [...]
Hot Soup
The folks at New York City Opera were on top of this shit, of course! And they sent us the link the Brokeback Mountain opera bit on The Soup for y’all to enjoy!
So, enjoy!
Opera on E!
As we’ve already said, in one fell swoop, Gerard Mortier–by agreeing to produce Charles Wuorinen’s opera adaptation of Brokeback Mountain–has thrust the New York City Opera, and opera in general, into the national spotlight and the popular consciousness.
Case in point, this weekend, The Soup, E! Entertainment Television’s hilarious show that overviews and skewers the week [...]
YouTube: We Just Can’t Quit You
Lo and behold, Partch’s Delusions of Fury (just review by C.C.) is on YouTube!
This footage apparently comes from an 1968 San Diego TV station’s broadcast of a filmed version of the work, in which Partch was involved. The staging is fitfully more serious, if dated. Oddly enough, the music sounds stranger in the videos [...]
Critics Award of the Day (CAD): Alessandra Stanley on Today
Put down the remote control, and check out Alessandra Stanley’s morning television check-up in The Times. This is Stanley’s second Caddy, the first going to her coverage of Victoria Beckham’s one-night-stand reality ride.
It was really hard to pick a favorite passage from this lampooning of morning television’s feminine consumer-driven lameness. So we’re gonna give you [...]
Gawker Cares
Holy crap. Another critic makes the Gawker gossip spotlight (here’s the first one). This time, it’s hometown theater critic, Charles Isherwood, who apparently tried to tear certain striking playwrights a new hole, and ended up getting his own hole blown out by supposed layabout playwright, Jon Robin Baitz. According to Gawker:
Dreamboat playwright, blogger, and writer [...]
