Month: March 2012
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CULTURE ALERT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!
On March 31, the amazing Anika Noni Rose will join me and a blazing eight-piece band for a one-night-only blowout at the gorgeous BROAD STAGE in Santa Monica! Anika and I did this concert for two sold-out nights in London’s West End, then for three incredible evenings at the Abrons Arts Center in New York…
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PHILADELPHIA SWING
From The Trumpet of the Swan, adapted by Marsha Norman from the novel by E.B. White: NARRATOR And then, on the last day before the boats were taken out of the water for the winter, a Western Union messenger boy arrived with a telegram for Louie. It said: MAN CAN OFFER YOU FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS…
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SO I HAD THIS FRIEND.
So I had this friend. An old girlfriend, actually, who is now (I swear this is true) a Christian missionary who serves mostly in Thailand. And last night she posted, as her Facebook status, a statement supporting Kirk Cameron and his ignorant, hateful anti-gay, anti-gay-marriage rhetoric. It’s not all that surprising, I guess – she’s…
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SET LIST, 3/3/12, WOODLAND CA.
A wild and wacky night at the Woodland Opera House! Apparently all of this traveling is catching up with me – I didn’t put together the set list before the show, so I was just winging it for most of the night, and that turns out not to be the best way to put a…