Happy Memorial Day weekend, Dogs. A family member in Reno tipped me off to the following column by Reno-Gazette Journal columnist Siobhan McAndrew that ran in today’s paper. The gist of it is that after a speaking engagement, Moreno — the Bay Area’s own diva — reportedly dropped a casual invitation to the writer and [...]
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Lovely Rita
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 May 07 - 1 Comment
Wonder Woman sings!
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Apr 07 - 2 Comments
Lynda Carter and I are bonding over the phone. I tell her that for my 11th birthday, my parents took me to the Sahara Reno (no longer there) for a big show. The maitre d’, knowing it was a big day, took us to a table right next to the stage, and we settled in [...]
Oh, joy — it’s JudyCast!
Posted by Chad Jones on 05 Feb 07 - 2 Comments
The stage isn’t the only place for theater these days. And as a wise man named Peter Allen once said, “Everything old is new again.” It seems radio has been reborn in the form of podcasts, and no one is exploiting the form quite as brilliantly as 25-year-old New Yorker Bill Phair, the one-man wonder [...]
Like buttah
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Nov 06 - 1 Comment
Read our music critic Jim Harrington’s excellent review of the Streisand concert here. At first, Barbra Streisand was the kooky kid with the voice. Then she was an Academy Award winner and a box-office sensation. By the time she was a mother, feminist, activist and superstar, Streisand was already a legend. But what does a [...]
More Barbra love
Posted by Chad Jones on 10 Nov 06 - 0 Comments
While I’m at it, I thought I’d share with you this treat from the folks at YouTube.com and SimplyStreisand.com. It’s a live recording session of La Streisand singing “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide. I have no idea why this beauty has never been released. And there are others on YouTube. Look for Streisand singing [...]
Full-on Barbra love
Posted by Chad Jones on 08 Nov 06 - 1 Comment
On Monday (Nov. 13) I will be one of thousands making the trek to San Jose’s HP Pavilion to see Barbra Streisand say farewell to live performance (again). I’m admitting it here, in public, amidst my Dogs, that I am a lifelong lover of BS. I’ve been with her through it all, including good taste [...]
Visiting Tennessee
Posted by Chad Jones on 06 Nov 06 - 0 Comments
This weekend, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco opens a Tennessee Williams film festival sure to excite cats on hot tin roofs everywhere. The fest begins Sunday (Nov. 12) with Marlon Brando in a tight T-shirt (wouldn’t he have looked good in a forthcoming Theater Dogs T-shirt?) in A Streetcar Named Desire, probably the best [...]
Cherry bare-y
Archived in the category: Broadway, Cherry Jones, Icons, John Patrick Shanley, backstage, local theater
Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Nov 06 - 2 Comments
The great Cherry Jones is coming to the Bay Area at long last! The two-time Tony Award-winner makes her Bay Area performance debut at the Golden Gate Theatre when Best of Broadway hosts the national tour of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt. The show opens Nov. 7 and continues through Dec. 3. Check out [...]
Legally Sedaris?
Posted by Chad Jones on 31 Oct 06 - 1 Comment
I’ve been reading Amy Sedaris’ I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, her hilarious guide to home entertaining, and that started me thinking. I adore Amy Sedaris (and I hear her recent appearance at San Francisco’s City Arts & Lectures was a hoot) and crave her kooky sense of humor. I’ve memorized the entire “Strangers [...]
Kathy & Mo & Escape
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Sep 06 - 1 Comment
The thought of a theater blog seems frivolous to me sometimes, especially on days when crazy men take hostages in a school. Or bombs fall in the Middle East. Or homicide rates ratchet up to 112 in cities where life should be better. I guess it seems frivolous a lot of the time in this [...]
