It goes without saying, but this time it bears pointing out: Great concerts are nothing like great albums. Great albums – of which Iceland’s internationally adored avant-garde diva Bjцrk has made at least three – often demand repeated plays and lengthy consideration before their pleasures truly reveal themselves.
So Mr. Bergdoll, the country s most entertaining John Travolta impersonator, as his Web site, briantravolta.com , has it, hustled down 40th Street in Manhattan, his white bell-bottoms flashing beneath his trench coat. He was scheduled to perform at a Christmas party in Caldwell, N.J., on Saturday at 6:55 p.m. The bus was leaving [...]
In the show, Jackie is Mrs. O.R. Ganize, an obsessive/compulsive type who organizes a Christmas show with help from her aerobics instructor Babbette LeJoie ( Elizabeth Masters ), an 80s New Jersey type who David describes as over-the-top bubbly. Dell Arte vet Tyler Olsen plays Mr. S.K. Rooge IX, who, as you might guess, [...]
Now it is time for a bit of personal confession. I can see the Landers Theater from my bedroom window but I have not attended a theater production there for, well, too long. I can see the lights on the marquee of the Gillioz Theater when I step out of the front door of my [...]
The Limerick Panto Society will stage its 23rd annual production ‘Goldilocks The Circus Panto’ at the University Concert Hall, Limerick, from Friday, December 28th to Sunday, January 6th. This year’s story line is based broadly on the children’s classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears although there will be a circus feel right through the [...]
‘The Christmas Offering’ this weekend NORTH COUNTY —- The 50-voice North County Adventist Choir, under the direction of Brenda Jones, will perform “The Christmas Offering” at two North County locations. At 7 p.m. today, the free cantata will be at San Marcos Seventh-day Adventist Church, 363 Woodland Parkway. Call (760) 744-9777. At 4:30 p.m. [...]
TARJA TURUNEN, the exceptionally gifted Finnish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who rose to worldwide prominence as the voice and face of chart-topping, multi-platinum, symphonic metal band Nightwish, is set to unveil her wildly-anticipated solo debut My Winter Storm. An ambitious, adventurous musical foray, My Winter Storm sees TARJA zealously interfuse the worlds of metal / [...]
When the Music Exchange came into existence some 10 years ago, it bore no resemblance to the all-female pop chorus group that exists today. For starters, there were males. But after a series of scheduling problems with most of the men in the group, the chorus went strictly X-chromosome. However, the biggest difference between [...]
Paul Morgenroth, alto sax strapped to his neck, is looking around the room, hoping to find a brave soul to take an improv solo. It’s one thing for these junior high musicians to play off the printed page, and another for them to just play what the spirit moves them ‘” preferably in the [...]
— St. Peter the Apostle, 5130 Rattlesnake Hammock Road, Naples, 774-3337. 4:30 p.m. children’s concert and pageant; 5 p.m. children’s Mass; 9 p.m. midnight Mass, English; 10:30 p.m. midnight Mass, Polish; and 12 a.m. Mass, Spanish, Dec. 24. Christmas Day services: 8 and 10 a.m. and noon, English; 1:30 p.m. Spanish and 4 p.m. [...]