Reading most arts coverage in print or online nowadays tends to further give the impression that we're living in a monoculture and no one's really trying to be different. One longs for a story about someone committing to a really nutty idea. Well, here's one.
Can an opera work when, for the most part, you can't hear what people are singing? It's an interesting idea. Kind of the ultimate in "less is more." Difficult if not impossible to replicate electronically, which is why I didn't bother embedding a video. There is video about this piece, which workshopped in Chicago a few years ago, but it's just people talking about it.
This is the classic kind of idea where people visiting New York will take in a show and leave shaking their heads, going "I just don't get it." Of course they'd be relatively affluent and there's a good chance the actors and musicians are commuting from New Jersey and/or crashing at the Y. That's the 2018 angle.
Can an opera work when, for the most part, you can't hear what people are singing? It's an interesting idea. Kind of the ultimate in "less is more." Difficult if not impossible to replicate electronically, which is why I didn't bother embedding a video. There is video about this piece, which workshopped in Chicago a few years ago, but it's just people talking about it.
This is the classic kind of idea where people visiting New York will take in a show and leave shaking their heads, going "I just don't get it." Of course they'd be relatively affluent and there's a good chance the actors and musicians are commuting from New Jersey and/or crashing at the Y. That's the 2018 angle.
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I have a strong suspicion this one won't be playing on Broadway for very much longer. Different is fine so long as it's also entertaining and that's something much harder to find these days, at least in the West. Of course, it's dangerous to generalize about such things, isn't it?
We've continued to enjoy watching 10 minutes or so of magic most evenings lately. This guy is very good (and it's completely coincidental he's Canadian).
What the heck - here's his first appearance.
Will it have a long run on Broadway? I wouldn't count on it. But that's not necessarily the point. The composer and crew have at least gone out there and taken their weird stand.
That was a fun clip of the magician Farquhar. Funny line when he said he learned to count through cards and so thought the next number after ten was "Jack." If that wasn't a memory trick with the Holmes book - and it would have taken some memory - I don't know how he did it either. The blank book had raised print you couldn't see? Doubt it.
I didn't know Allyson Hannigan was one of the presenters on Penn and Teller's show either. Not a bad choice. I'll have to put some magic up here one of these days as well.
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