Cattle Call: Not you, your dog.
Remember when I told you all about the auditions for The Wizard of Oz at the IceHouse Theatre? There’s a part left if you’re interested … and you don’t talk and you’re hairier than Robin Williams and you can lick you’re own butt. Toto is still open! (Of course, if you yourself fit the above…
Fringe review! ‘Me, Ray Charles and Sammy Davis Jr.’
‘Me, Ray Charles and Sammy Davis Jr.’ Movin’ Melvin Brown Silver Venue $10 I first met Movinâ?? Melvin Brown some 15 years ago, when we were both performing in a Canadian Street Performersâ?? Festival. Back then, he carried a small wooden board with him, and whenever and wherever he could find an audience of any…
Fringe review! ‘7 (x1) Samurai’
7 (x1) Samurai David Gaines Orange Venue $10 David Gaines plays more than a dozen characters in his one-man theatrical masterpiece, 7 (x1) Samurai, an affectionate takeoff of Akira Kurosawaâ??s seminal film epic, The Seven Samurai, a movie later remade by Hollywood into the western, The Magnificent Seven. Gaines is a classically trained movement performer…
Fringe review! ‘The Well of Horniness’
‘The Well of Horniness’ TheatreMania Productions Brown Venue $10 Like a fast-moving train with frequent stops for laughs, the five funny women of The Well of Horniness plowed down the tracks of the lesbian murder mystery. Remember their names: Heather Delmotte, Michele Feren, Laura Hodos, Robyn (Pedrero) Kelly and Heather Leonardi. Sensitivity alert: The plot…
Fringe review! ‘Schmicked’
‘Schmicked’ Twisted Sister Comedy Hour Green Venue $10 No one can say I haven’t given Wicked its due, having given the touring company a grudging good review last spring. But it’s high time someone took the overhyped Oz-orgy down a peg; who better to do so than the Parliament House’s favorite faux-female performers? Schmicked doesn’t…
Fringe review! “The Karate Guy”
The Karate Guy KMK Productions Pink Venue $9 Hey, remember the ’80s? KMK Productions (Christian Kelty, Michael Marinaccio, Seth Kubersky) sure does. And as an ode to the Reaganite era, they’ve written The Karate Guy, an updated sequel to … well, if you can’t figure it out, you won’t want to see this. Daniel-san (Marinaccio)…
Cattle Call: Need cattle who moo pretty
Ever wanted to sing for something that “internationally renowned”? Well … Join the internationally renowned Bach Festival Choir The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park is holding auditions for potential new adult Choir members on Monday, May 18 and Monday, August 10. Candidates will be asked to sing scales, match pitch, and do a sight-reading…
God said â??blahâ??
Antimatter and the Catholic Church combine to form forgettable anti-action
Kitsch’n comfort
Chain-quality Italian fare comes to Dr. Phillips
Girlfriend 2000
Entertainment worlds collide in Soderbergh’s 20th
They’re coming to America
Mexican drama shows the risk behind the reward
Puff piece
The cream-puff coma induced by ingesting multiple profiteroles concocted by the bakers at Beard Papa’s is an oh-so-sweet sickness ‘ so sweet that it’s worth the effort to navigate the clogged parking lot at the Prime Outlets Orlando (formerly Prime One, formerly Belz) to sample these baked wonders of fabulousity. The Osaka-based company’s first Florida…
This little underground
Note to OPD: Downtown’s not going to remain welcoming and walkable if officers don’t do more active patrolling — just a friendly reminder. The beat Last summer’s big roster shake-up of local powerhouse the Legendary JC’s kicked up more than a little tongue-wagging on the scene; controversy always sprouts any time founding members depart. The…
Live Active Cultures
(Editor’s note: We’re indulging Seth in his so-called “shameful” self-promotion for his own Fringe show, The Karate Guy, only because his ghostwriter is pretty funny. Read more Fringe by Miyagi on the Culture 2 Go blog at www.orlandoweekly.com.) My favorite annual event on Orlando’s cultural calendar begins Thursday, May 14: the Orlando International Fringe Theatre…
Happytown
Have you heard? Our tall, thin, impeccably suntanned governor (and U.S. Senate candidate) may be a homo. Yeah, well, of course you’ve heard that! It was all over the Internet in 2006, when Charlie Crist galloped into the guv’s mansion with barely a challenge. Bob Norman, the New Times reporter who outed former Rep. Mark…
Comments
On second thought … Your article “Pulling strings” `May 7` left me with an unusual uneasiness after reading it. At first reading, it seems like state Rep. Darren Soto’s quasi-crucifixion was mitigated by ample space for him to “defend” himself. Then, upon reflection, the whole article smacks of unseemly, behind-the-scenes string-pullers who are not the…
Police Beat
April 27 (2009-197398) 9:13 a.m.: A suspect smashed a brick through a salon’s window; inside, he or she removed a plasma television and DVDs. (2009-197915) 4:46 p.m.: A woman painted over some graffiti in her neighborhood. A few hours later, someone “kicked and damaged” her garage door. Coincidence? She thinks not. (2009-198229) 9:20 p.m.: So…
Dolla solo
$till Payin’ Due$;Through June 9 at BoldHype; 1844 E. Winter Park Road, Suite A; Free; 407-629-2965;www.boldhype.net In his new solo exhibit, artist Dolla Bill generously shares a part of his collection of stickers, or “peels.” Peels by now are a well-integrated part of street art, and Dolla’s own peel – an iconic face of the…
Festival express
Florida Music Festival more than 250 performances May 13-16 at various venues www.floridamusicfestival.com single-night pass $10-$15; 4-day pass $25 Orange You Glad Fest more than 50 performances May 14-17 at various venues www.orangeyougladfest.com single-night pass $7-$8; 4-day pass $25 World’s Gone Wiggly more than 15 performances, May 15-17 at Crooked Bayou, Vinyl Richie’s Wiggly World…
Adventure MC
Astronautalis with Bleubird, Cracker Jackson for Orange You Glad Fest 9 p.m. Sunday, May 17 Will’s Pub, 407-898-5070 $8 “I am a soldier, baby/Who works just like a slave.” Those are the sing-song, honky-tonk first lines of Pomegranate, the best hip-hop album of last year that wasn’t actually a hip-hop album. The song, titled “The…
Can’t take your eyes off it
Can’t take your eyes off itJersey Boys through May 24 at Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre $32-$74; 407-849-2020 www.orlandovenues.net The opening moments of Jersey Boys offer a terrifying glimpse of everything wrong with entertainment today: unintelligible Europop, ear-raping acoustics, derivative dance moves and cartoonish costumes. The purpose of this pain is to show how the…
How to fringe
Buttons & tickets ; First, buy a Fringe button. And we suggest buying it in advance, which you have to do in person. REPEAT: Buttons must be purchased in person. It’s $8 and is required for entry to all performances, but NOT for Visual Fringe, Kids Fringe, the outdoor stage or the beer tent. Buttons…
Fringe Free-for-all
Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival May 14-26 at Loch Haven Park, Lowndes Shakespeare Center and the Orlando Rep www.orlandofringe.org $8 mandatory button; free-$10 tickets for individual shows Several nights before the official ribbon-cutting, the energy at Fringe zero feels like a tightly wound clock ready to uncoil. Collectives scattered around the lobby of the Shakespeare…
What reality looks like
On May 8, the Florida Legislature passed a $66.5 billion budget, balanced by $3 billion in federal stimulus funds and the trust-fund raids and deep spending cuts to which we’ve grown accustomed in recent years. “It’s reasonable and responsible for the times that we are in,” Miami representative and GOP budget chief Marcelo Llorente told…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19) “Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon,” wrote Alexander Pope. Most of us have been guilty of that sin: jumping to conclusions so quickly that we don’t bother to keep listening for the full revelation. My sense is that this behavior has become even more common…
Blister
There was an early moment there in this Saturday-night flow-chart process of keeping up appearances where I almost turned into a social clot. There I was at Ethos Vegan Kitchen, at a table of disheveled 20-somethings celebrating a visiting friend’s dropping out of college, and all of the sudden my mouth opened and nothing came…
Savage Love
Over the past few years, my husband and I have realized that he has needs that I cannot meet. I do not begrudge him these needs, and I would fill them if I could. I want him to be a happy and satisfied person, not just for him, but for myself as well. We discussed…
