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A solid staging from Glasgow's Merchant City prole playhouse. Lots of front of house malarkey, gritty mission statements, new plays and visiting productions, as well as the all-important bar menu delicious fishcakes and Belgian trappist monk beer. More! More! More!
Apparently one of Richard (of Richard and Judy fame) Maddeley's unfullfilled ambitions is to play the Michael Crawford Phantom role in The Phantom of the Opera. It's true. Of course it doesn't tell you the above information on this site, it's just something you either know or you don't. What this does do is tell you all the terribly interesting things you might like to learn about Andrew Lloyd Webber, his Really Useful Company and his shows. Many a starstruck, impressionable youngster attending lessons at the local tap dancing school has hankered after the hoo-hah of being the next Joseph or the next Darren Day. Disappointingly, this lacks the inspirational limelight and theatricality of all those dreams. Instead it offers another outlet for Mr Webber's overworked PR machine - really useful information on Cats, Evita, Aspects, Jospeh, Starlight Express and Sunset, no less, including current cast lists, what the critics said, a history of each production and other sundry bits and bobs.The latest news is posted in a press room that includes details of things like the new production of Jesus Chris Superstar that is due to reopen the Lyceum theatre in London in November 1996. There's also a chance to win tickets to an ALW production anywhere in the world by answering questions like 'Name the author of the novel upon which Aspects of Love is based'. The site is largely Stateside-focused but includes detailed listings of every production playing globally under the headings Asia, Australia, Canada and Europe, which is handy. All Really Useful recordings are catalogued along with other merchandise, which can be ordered online, and lastly there's a company profile and illustrated biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber himself. That's all very well but where is the stardust and glitter?
Long live salsa and the spoken word! From the borderland taco shops of Southern California come these cultural guerillas, a posse of Mexican/Americans who've converted taco shops into temporary cultural centres for music, poetry, prose, and ritual. These new meeting places, trading under handles like The Steamed Bean and Chacos of San Jose, offer online samplings from works such as The Fish, Mr Boom Boom, Senoritas, and Fuck It. More content than form, but worth a detour to keep cross-culture alive.
Link | multiple.insertions.com
Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theatre created in the early 17th century by Okuni, a shrine maiden who brought her unique dance style to the dry river beds of the ancient capital of Kyoto, and over the next 300 years it developed into a sophisticated, highly stylised dramatic form. This I have learned from the Kabuki for Everyone site. Kabuki may seem a somewhat esoteric topic but the way these pages are put together makes it accessible and fascinating. There are articles on its history, summaries of major plays, an index of related books and films, pictures of the costumes, sound files of the instruments used and video clips of performances. Although invented by a woman, all roles are played by men and female impersonators are referred to as 'onnagata'. One of the highlights is watching how an onnagata transforms himself into a beautiful woman. There is a Japanese language version of the site, too.
The English National Ballet site needs a lesson in choreography. Image and ease of navigation are relegated to the chorus while pages of text take the leading roles and falter. Intriguing clickables to ballet news, school programmes, supporters, personnel, performance schedules and the ballets themselves, but each click takes ages to load dull pix and words. There's some good historical and background stuff, but no pizzazz. Come back Nureyev, all is forgiven!
Details of current tours and productions from the Hull Truck stable and the prolific pen of John Godber Shakers, Blood, Sweat and Tears and Lucky Sods. A brief synopsis of each play (sadly no cast info), plus all the names, dates and telephone numbers of every arts centre and theatre they're playing. Worth checking your local venue for a punchy, full on, live night out.
Dynamic-looking pages from one of the most innovative opera companies out there, noted for its radical dramatics and frequent nudity. There's heaps of warbly stuff about productions, touring, ticket bookings and tales from the rehearsal room.
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