The Escort...Hilarious Hit @ Geffen closes May 8th! Catch it!



It's been a great ride - for the actors and the audiences - even the playright Jane Anderson.

But, that's show biz!

The world-premiere production of the hit stage comedy - The Escort - is slated to close May 8th.

Imagine that, a play about a call girl, who never exposes any seductive flesh under the floodlights!

According to the talented playwrite, the underlying theme has been facilitated in the past for the purposes of expressing lyrical, political, and erotic symbology.

In "The Escort", the writer has orchestrated a relationship featuring a prostitute and her gynecologist in order to challenge long-held beliefs about morality, family, and class.

The opening scene is a shocker!

Charlotte - the main character drops her robe during the course of a monologue - and urges ticket-holders to either relax or take advantage of the shadows to get aroused!

Essentially, the well-crafted play is all about a high-class call girl, who tests the liberal mores of her doctor as their relationship gets personal and complicated.

Strictly taboo!

The cast stars Maggie Siff  as Charlotte (Sons of Anarchy), Polly Draper as Rhona (thirtysomething), James Eckhouse as Howard (90210), and Gabriel Sunday as Lewis/Matthew (My Suicide).

Lisa Peterson directs the show.

"The Escort" has been garnering rave reviews - even from tough critics - I dare say!

“Beautifully staged. Wiill propel heated chat out of the kitchen up into the bedroom, and into the shower the next morning," enthused a critic at Variety.

The Huntington Post also raved.

“A brilliant new work ... provocative, stimulating … destined to live in our minds and hearts for a long, long time.”

Why did Anderson pen "The Escort"?

“I’m pretty conservative in my sexual tastes,” Anderson fessed up.

“That’s why I needed to write the play. Being a liberal woman who grew up in the ’70s, I was part of the sexual revolution and witnessed it. But because I’m monogamous and we also have a 16-year-old son, I can only go so far. I wanted to find out why I was built my way and why other people are able to be very sexually free.”

MISSION: ACCOMPLISHED!

TICKETS

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Stomp...auditions in New York City! April 25th! Break a leg!

 



 

The successful stage production - STOMP - is holding open auditions in New York City on April 25th.

The try-outs will be held at The Orpheum Theatre.

STOMP, is an exciting night of dazzling entertainment which features a unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy.

After a 10 year collaboration, the creators - Steve McNicholas & Luke Cresswell - crafted a stage show that has been packing houses around the globe since its first inception in the summer of 1991.

The original cast of STOMP recorded music for the "Tank Girl" film soundtrack and also contributed to the Quincy Jones album "Q’s Jook Joint".

A soundtrack recorded by Cresswell and McNicholas for the Showtime Movie - “Riot" - was released in the Spring of ’97.

STOMP has also been featured in slick eye-popping commercials which include a handful for Coca-Cola’s Ice Pick, Target stores in the US, Toyota in Japan, and "Seat" in Europe.

More recently, STOMP was commissioned to create and produce the "Lost and Found Orchestra" which took the ideas behind Stomp to a symphonic level (in celebration of 40 years of the Brighton Festival).

The LFO performed at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Sydney Festival early in 2007 and at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

The show was reworked and renamed for a US tour in 2010 and titled:

Pandemonium: the Lost and Found Orchestra

Audition Information

www.StompOnline.com/auditions

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Susan Boyle..."The Gift" No. 1 seller on Billboard!

Susan Boyle has alot to celebrate about this Yuletide season!

Billboard has just reported that her new album - "The Gift" - has topped their charts to soar into the No. 1 spot for the fourth time in the past few weeks (243,000 units snapped up).

To date, total sales now stand at a whopping $1.43 million smackeroos!

Undoubtedly, Boyle's fans have forgiven the English canteuse for the off-color note she sourly hit, while performing a Christmas ditty on Barbara Walter's "The View" last week.

That little glitch in her vocals reminded me of an incident with went down with legendary Judy Garland many moons ago!

Ms. Garland was standing near the edge of a stairwell upstage during a live concert when she suddenly choked - then unexpectedly fell down and went boom - as fans watched on in horror below the floodlights.

Because LA JUDY was known to imbibe a tad - and able to drink the best of 'em under the table - it was speculated (at first glance) that theWizard of Oz legend had been a bit tipsy during the performance.

However, Ms. Garland was adamant - swore up-and-down, in fact - that the nasty rumors were simply not true.

According to Judy Judy Judy - when she threw her mouth open to belt out the chorus - a fly flitted inside her mouth and took her off-guard!

Uh-huh!

No word on what caused Ms. Boyle's fall from Grace, however.

News at 11!

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