Holiday Show Prep

[mlerules]

Starting to get bouncy, peppy, happy 'bout my upcoming week in SoCal. Nearly done w/prep work for this year's Troubie's holiday show. A few weeks back I turned jaylake & the_child onto the movie A Christmas Story. This past weekend I had the good fortune to snag the final seat available for a fine stage production of West Side Story in downtown Portland. Still want to see Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (yes, the DiCaprio/Danes version) sometime in the next several days. Anybody interested in joining me?

All this is so I can more fully appreciate and enjoy the Troubadour Theater Company's holiday show this Saturday night: A Christmas West Side Story. Whee!

I've seen many of the Troubies more standard mash-ups of Shakespeare 'n' pop music (such as Fleetwood MacBeth, Twelfth Dog Night, As U2 Like It, A Midsummer's Saturday Night Fever Dream, Romeo Hall & Juliet Oates, and A Wither's Tale - and more), as well as a mess of their holiday shows, including It's A Stevie Wonderful Life, Little Drummer Bowie, A Charlie James Brown X-mas, Frosty the Snow Manilow, and The First Joel. Always fun, always wacky. One thing to keep in mind: DON'T BE LATE!

Comments

[stacymckenna.livejournal.com]

oo, I love the Luhrmann R&J.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're just upping the #s of folks who say this, hence my interest (finally) in seeing it. I held off at the time, b'c it didn't sound like something I'd like. Now I'm willing to give it a go. :-)

[stacymckenna.livejournal.com]

I categorize it with McKellen's Richard III - done out-of-period but with the original Shakespearean dialog. Beautiful.