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opened Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, Post Street Theatre
For fans only: One-man `Star Wars’ has major dork appeal
three stars Geek mythology

Charles Ross is saving the galaxy one geek at a time. I use the word “geek” with love. It takes one to know one.
Ross goes so far as to call himself a “professional geek,” and it’s [...]

The ‘Grease’ curse

Archived in the category: Grease, backstage, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Feb 07 - 1 Comment

As if that terrible TV show “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” wasn’t enough to prove that the musical Grease has run out of gas, check out this story from Holland.
During a production of Grease, the two stars — Danny and Sandy (right) — were in a stage car (presumably during the drive-in scene), [...]

Evan Pappas injured

Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Feb 07 - 0 Comments

Daly City native Evan Pappas, who directed Seven Brides for Seven Brothers last year for San Mateo’s Broadway by the Bay, was seriously injured in a car accident Feb. 19 while in Phoenix, Az., a tour stop for the production of On Golden Pond in which he played dentist Bill Ray.
Playbill.com reports that the 48-year-old [...]

The real ‘Cats’

Archived in the category: Moscow Cats Theatre, backstage, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Feb 07 - 1 Comment

There will be no singing of “Memory” when these cats perform.
Forgive those of us who aren’t exactly cat people for not jumping up and down, but the Moscow Cats Theatre is heading for San Francisco.
Some 30 feline thespians — yes real cats — and two dogs and (ugh) six clowns will perform routines such as [...]

The Academy Awards came and went without making much impression. Ellen DeGeneres was fun, just as you’d expect.
The nicest surprise to me was the best foreign film winner, The Lives of Others. Fantastic movie. Deserves every prize there is.
Enjoyed watching best supporting actress winner Jennifer Hudson wipe the floor with Miss Beyonce during the Dreamgirls [...]

As the song says, “When you got it, flaunt it.” But when you don’t got it, close it. That’s the advice the producers of Broadway’s The Producers are following.
After six years and 2,502 performances, Mel Brooks’ mischievous, merry musical will ring down the curtain April 22 at New York’s St. James Theatre.
When the musical opened [...]

Here at Theater Dogs, we zip from one subject to the next — from the dark cynicism of American $uicide to the zip of a light saber with One-Man Star Wars Trilogy.

Well, imagine how hard it must have been for director Les Waters (above) to go from the child torture and murder of The Pillowman [...]

Light sabers up!

Archived in the category: Star Wars, backstage, local theater, movies, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Feb 07 - 3 Comments

He doesn’t live in a galaxy far, far away, but he does live on an island somewhat far away.
Charles Ross, the man behind One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, lives in Victoria, British Columbia, a picturesque hamlet on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
“It’s a nice, little, secret place in a lot of ways,” Ross says on the phone. “And [...]

Greasing the Arrow, etc.

Archived in the category: Grease, Slings & Arrows, TV, backstage
Posted by Chad Jones on 19 Feb 07 - 0 Comments

True to my word, I didn’t watch the oily reality TV sludge known as “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” on Sunday night, even though it’s a long holiday weekend with nothing better to do. I did catch up with some Monday morning quarterbacking on the previous night’s episode, and it seems that Jason [...]

Sling this arrow

Archived in the category: Slings & Arrows, TV, backstage
Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Feb 07 - 2 Comments

Great news for theater dogs who also love some good TV. The Canadian-import series “Slings and Arrows” arrives for a third season on Sunday (Feb. 18) on the Sundance Channel.

If the first two seasons are any indication, season 3 will be a hoot as we return to the New Burbage Theatre Festival (which bears a [...]