Monthly Archives: January 2009
“Patti Lupone, she gonna beat you”
I’ve been meaning to write about the incredible experience of being in the audience at the performance of Gypsy in which Patti Lupone battered the fourth wall into tiny, tiny, tiny pieces, but I haven’t had the time to collect my thoughts—or really, to recover. I do hope to detail the extraordinary command performance, but [...]
Posted in Female performers, Music Tagged Female performers, Gypsy, Music, Patti Lupone, Rose's Turn, the fourth wall 1 Comment
The old school and the new school are on the dance floor
Wyclef Jean and the cast of The Electric Company sing “Electric City.” The Los Angeles Times reports that “beat-boxing, it turns out, is a surprisingly effective tool for repeating consonant and vowel sounds.” There’s much more at the new school Electric Company headquarters and here’s an old school lesson from Easy Reader.
Posted in Literary, Music Tagged childhood, Electric Company, literacy, Literary, Morgan Freeman, Music, online video 1 Comment
good or not to be a famous?