tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83675327103368818632024-03-18T03:54:51.645-07:00The David Desk 2david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.comBlogger695125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-40988636692196886802024-03-17T13:19:00.000-07:002024-03-17T16:23:37.956-07:00Binging on John Ford: Part 3: St. Patrick's Day Irish Movies<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzxmT8mu6jTf0RSZ9zYv1EAdci426RwS8eOpvjZGl_8F0-yUqWR4B9-vPi6PrDTOV8-s5Cox-wM4T3U2adW_eTep7JKhyphenhyphen2Qft-f9YU9_mUslQMfGBNNjIIZzNR_lHCNifEdKtCup0q5R9UIe4ODBRCJQNKf_RzXUT4w687RZ8Iu5UuPWWYYSh6UEUvgrm/s2000/the-quiet-man.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="2000" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzxmT8mu6jTf0RSZ9zYv1EAdci426RwS8eOpvjZGl_8F0-yUqWR4B9-vPi6PrDTOV8-s5Cox-wM4T3U2adW_eTep7JKhyphenhyphen2Qft-f9YU9_mUslQMfGBNNjIIZzNR_lHCNifEdKtCup0q5R9UIe4ODBRCJQNKf_RzXUT4w687RZ8Iu5UuPWWYYSh6UEUvgrm/s320/the-quiet-man.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne in<br /><i>The Quiet Man</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table>In honor of St. Patrick's Day, here's a continuation of my consideration of John Ford's cinematic oeuvre, focusing on his Gaelic efforts. The director had an affinity for his ancestral home and two of his Oscars were for pix set in the Emerald Isle. <i>The Quiet Man</i> (1952) is lushly beautiful, gorgeously capturing the colorful scenery. Winton Hoch rightfully also won an Oscar for his cinematography. However, it lost Best Picture to Cecil B. DeMille's extravagant and schmaltzy <i>The Greatest Show on Earth</i>, probably for CB's model train wreck (Steven Speilberg pays tribute to this sequence in his autobiographical pic <i>The Fabelmans</i>). But Ford was no slouch when it came to schmaltz. The New Yorker's critic Philip Hamburger sneered, <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">"If am to believe what I saw in John Ford's sentimental new film, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">The Quiet Man</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">, practically everybody in Ireland is just as cute as a button....Mr. Ford's scenes of the Irish countryside are often breathtaking ... but the master who made </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Informer_(1935_film)" style="background: none; color: #795cb2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Informer (1935 film)">The Informer</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> appears to have fallen into a vat of treacle."</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Wooden-faced John Wayne stars as an American former boxer returning to the land of his forebears to reclaim his inheritance. He falls in love with a high-spirited lassie (Maureen O'Hara) eager to get out from under the thumb of her bullying brother (Victor McLaglen). Wayne, like Montgomery Clift in <i>From Here to Eternity, </i>is reluctant to take up the boxing gloves because he killed an opponent in the ring. After much leprechaun charm from the likes of Barry Fitzgerald, Jack MacGowran, and Ward Bond (who was in almost every John Ford picture) and some quiet dignity from Mildred Natwick, the film culminates in an epic brawl between Wayne and McLaglen over O'Hara's dowry. The marathon punch-arama is accompanied by spritely Irish music as if the combatants were dancing a jig. Even the Irish term for an epic brawl--donnybrook--sounds more like a picnic than a celebration of violence. (The flop Broadway musical version of the film was called<i> Donnybrook</i>.) Once again, Ford defines masculinity as fisticuffs. The money doesn't really matter since Wayne throws it in the fire once he acquires it from McLaglen.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Ilmcd0jBLRD02DQiTIhMGSLTLtcNuXWhvXe7VTZe4Y4q9u8nuI1_XzdeSlUQmekcF5mUG196V71uTtWg8vEJkvkZviwlMV7IOJXKhkHrQM1TRvUxE5hAww9cJDgSGDDn8ajILuPKtVPSeBGbUeg40GEIpxKThGE49BKOEgOhNpQf5lJ_rrnXqkQ1t5mk/s1272/V14informer01.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1272" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Ilmcd0jBLRD02DQiTIhMGSLTLtcNuXWhvXe7VTZe4Y4q9u8nuI1_XzdeSlUQmekcF5mUG196V71uTtWg8vEJkvkZviwlMV7IOJXKhkHrQM1TRvUxE5hAww9cJDgSGDDn8ajILuPKtVPSeBGbUeg40GEIpxKThGE49BKOEgOhNpQf5lJ_rrnXqkQ1t5mk/s320/V14informer01.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victor McLaglen in<br /><i>The Informer</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">As always, Wayne shows little emotion and his passion for O'Hara is less important than his honor. I didn't believe he had any feelings for O'Hara. McLaglen on the other hand is a much better actor and displays his stubbornness and pride to greater effect. In Ford's other Irish Oscar winner, <i>The Informer</i>, McLaglen plays Gypo Nolan, a brutish drifter in 1922 Dublin who sells out his best friend to the occupying British for 20 pounds. <i>The Informer</i> (1935) is the dark night compared to the bright, beautiful day of <i>The Quiet Man</i>. It's a darker, more honest portrait than the sweet valentine to the quirky country folk of <i>Quite Man</i>. Shot in black and white and set in the gloomy urban streets far from the bucolic paradise of <i>Man</i>, <i>Informer </i>follows McLaglen as he drunkenly spends the reward money in bars and sporting houses before he is ultimately found out and executed by his comrades in the Irish Republican Army. Ford's shots and camera angles created a claustrophobic world as the noose of guilt tightens around Gypo--similar to the dark nightmare of the later <i>Fugitive </i>(1947). McLaglen won Best Actor for his fierce child-like Gypo, much more complex than any of Wayne's stiff-upper-lip heroes. Donald Meek, who would later stand out in Ford's <i>Stagecoach</i>, is amazingly detailed and real as a timid tailor wrongfully accused of Gypo's crime. The two Hollywood-ish young lovers (the dead man's sister and the local leader of the IRA) are even stiffer than Wayne.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ford's did not finish his final Irish film, <i>Young Cassidy </i>(1965), a biography of playwright Sean O'Casey, played by hairy-chested, two-fisted brawler Rod Taylor. The legendary director took sick two weeks into production and was replaced by Jack Cardiff. In addition to Taylor's magnificent chest, we get a glimpse of Julie Christie, Flora Robson, Maggie Smith, Dame Edith Evans, Sir Michael Redgrave, Sian Philips, Jack MacGowran (again) and Donal Donnelly.</span></span></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-45844247635938758672024-03-16T08:43:00.000-07:002024-03-16T08:43:24.481-07:00Return to 2022 Oscar Nominees<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ__UFyco_mj2g9gfJGn_2Uf57Wuod-cape44Ui981pUkguHQvL9vOlQPX8VVeEUiRgei4Blebv9F-eAFgxngYp3BKkhuCCOYKS3FpVsb9_GEVs3lhs2nQb2Or_3wh7pU864L2IO0hBR9ogA_u8r0NeRDeakxapgGYjcSDqP5Nxg0932OSbj-kVI49tMmh/s681/Blonde-Ana-de-Armas-Still-1-Netflix-Publicity-H-2022.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ__UFyco_mj2g9gfJGn_2Uf57Wuod-cape44Ui981pUkguHQvL9vOlQPX8VVeEUiRgei4Blebv9F-eAFgxngYp3BKkhuCCOYKS3FpVsb9_GEVs3lhs2nQb2Or_3wh7pU864L2IO0hBR9ogA_u8r0NeRDeakxapgGYjcSDqP5Nxg0932OSbj-kVI49tMmh/s320/Blonde-Ana-de-Armas-Still-1-Netflix-Publicity-H-2022.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ana de Armas in <i>Blonde</i><br />Credit: Netflix</td></tr></tbody></table>Now that the 2024 Oscars are over, I can return to catching up on nominated films from previous years. Recently viewed on Netflix were <i>Blonde</i>, the bizarre adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' massive novel based on the turbulent life and career of Marilyn Monroe which earned Ana de Armas a Best Actress nomination and Animated Featured nominee <i>Marcel the Shell with Shoes On</i>. Ironically, <i>Blonde</i> also won Worst Picture and Screenplay from the Golden Raspberry Awards. It was also nominated for Worst Director and Worst Supporting Actor for Evan Williams and Xavier Samuels who played Charlie Chaplin Jr. and Edward G. Robinson Jr. The film switched from black and white to color. The cinematography was beautiful, creating the look of black and white photography of the 1950s and the super saturated color of the era. de Armas gives a heartfelt performance, but the film is exploitative while condemning the exploitation of Marilyn. There are numerous gratuitous topless scenes.<div><br /></div><div><i>Marcel</i> was cute as the dickens and very sweet. Mixing animation and live action, Marcel depicts the relationship between a documentary filmmaker and a one-inch shell whose family has disappeared. Sentimental without being cloying.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lLgJKm02NTPx056zdLxX5kVBPevC2NBOSnxqOXKp-0pjF7BEXw_g1FdO8ZUSsqyzpEuQK3rw4rXZY8bpWK_W1gniimeZ_nvNWda0laGNUYq54T7NF0YytdlmYBoMHUvDsZ2rJRc5pQEsPn70s6m88N7Ed2-dKJIjjMu0VPCevgyvpZsJXx9jZdzCne8Y/s635/Marcel-the-Shell.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="635" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lLgJKm02NTPx056zdLxX5kVBPevC2NBOSnxqOXKp-0pjF7BEXw_g1FdO8ZUSsqyzpEuQK3rw4rXZY8bpWK_W1gniimeZ_nvNWda0laGNUYq54T7NF0YytdlmYBoMHUvDsZ2rJRc5pQEsPn70s6m88N7Ed2-dKJIjjMu0VPCevgyvpZsJXx9jZdzCne8Y/s320/Marcel-the-Shell.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Marcel the Shell with Shoes on</i><br />Credit: A24</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Updated List of </b><b>2022 Oscar/Other Award Nominated Pictures Seen:<br /></b>All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)<br />The Banshees of Inisherin (Amazon)<br />Elvis (HBO Max)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Everything Everywhere All at Once (Amazon)<br />The Fablemans (Amazon)<br />Tar (an actual movie theater--Kaufman Astoria Studios)</div><div><div>Triangle of Sadness (Hulu)<br />Women Talking (Amazon)</div><div>Till (Amazon)<br />To Leslie (Amazon)--surprisingly moving little indie film with a great lead performance by Andrea Riseborough as an alcoholic ex-Lottery winner (also loved Allison Janney as usual)</div><div>Aftersun (Amazon)</div><div>Living (Amazon)<br />The Whale (Amazon)</div><div>Causeway (Apple TV+)</div><div>EO (Lufthansa Flight 0404--Frankfurt to JFK)<br />Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)<br />All the Beauty and Bloodshed (Amazon)<br />Navalny (HBO Max)</div><div>Fire of Love (Disney +)</div><div>Pinocchio (Netflix)</div><div>Puss in Boots 2 (watched half of it on Amazon)</div><div>Blonde (Netflix)</div><div>Marcel the Shell with Shoes on (Netflix)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Nominated Short Films:<br /></b>The Flying Sailor (YouTube)<br />The Ice Merchants (YouTube)<br />My Year of D**ks (Hulu)<br />An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (Vimeo)--I liked this one best. Very funny satire on stop-motion animation.<br />The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Apple TV+)<br />The Elephant Whisperers (Netflix)<br />Haulout (YouTube)<br />The Martha Mitchell Effect (Netflix)<br />Stranger at the Gate (YouTube)--Very moving story about a former Marine who plans to bomb a mosque, but ends up converting to Islam after meeting the people there.<br />Nightride (YouTube)<br />La Pupille (Disney +)</div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-32932951476687890712024-03-14T08:19:00.000-07:002024-03-15T20:27:14.069-07:00Book Review: Thank You, Mr. Nixon<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZDXzKVmMr7Tirtjo79Kdv8GqNGMPvlFmHZ4AEBJAsUNmAtt-DnXN9Bw7GuyXXiqKhBvJTggn6yL4ae6lMMDy3o0WyL-ofzFIRUwJNhIDi5PZQBd8XzLereFvwXlYaLtFS4m2SqWOpjZJzmwNJTMARb-PZ-sgKNVo0VfNCpwM-eefq5uOFIm2H0OH2pct/s1500/81rlrnYqi9L._SL1500_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1022" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ZDXzKVmMr7Tirtjo79Kdv8GqNGMPvlFmHZ4AEBJAsUNmAtt-DnXN9Bw7GuyXXiqKhBvJTggn6yL4ae6lMMDy3o0WyL-ofzFIRUwJNhIDi5PZQBd8XzLereFvwXlYaLtFS4m2SqWOpjZJzmwNJTMARb-PZ-sgKNVo0VfNCpwM-eefq5uOFIm2H0OH2pct/s320/81rlrnYqi9L._SL1500_.jpg" width="218" /></a></div>(Downloaded from my Kindle for $5.95. Read mostly on my I-phone) I was intrigued by the first story in this collection where a Chinese girl writes a letter to the late president who opened up relations between her country and the US. In the first line she says she's sorry he's in hell while she's in heaven. That's a grabber. What follows is a series of interconnected tales of Chinese people in China, America, and Hong Kong and how they deal with cultural displacement. "No politics, just make money," says Tina Ko whose three daughters each react differently to China's authoritarian regime. That advice reverberates through the stories as the characters' choices have great impact. "Rothko, Rothko" was probably my favorite. As a side hustle, an English Literature professor in NYC commissions an artist to create an imitation Rothko for Tina and her husband Johnson. Meanwhile he has to report a favorite student for using AI on her paper on Middlemarch. When is it best to be totally honest? He tries to help the artist whose mother is sick in China and relies on her daughter for financial help but must report the student who will certainly be suspended. The conflict are fascinating.<p></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-23104244618691136852024-03-11T18:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T18:30:47.663-07:00Book Review: My Name Is Barbra<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9X9f5zHGX0DAaYHmkmHRUI23-TZL8PNxhrL3_7o0g9yYI9HxXhdmTQewJyh7J7Bgw2QHLXVZXpzUYOBJuRskjzDRp0YPA_kIGSn17NCyKsyv1RsQjKX9yNl7Vh6WcG4XK10AGBMOgUXW_4H2SmOjbVUi4oa_SG7i2_OMgkmpzzQOfvEMVprg6Xyg_X5S-/s1500/71musw9bJWL._SL1500_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="987" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9X9f5zHGX0DAaYHmkmHRUI23-TZL8PNxhrL3_7o0g9yYI9HxXhdmTQewJyh7J7Bgw2QHLXVZXpzUYOBJuRskjzDRp0YPA_kIGSn17NCyKsyv1RsQjKX9yNl7Vh6WcG4XK10AGBMOgUXW_4H2SmOjbVUi4oa_SG7i2_OMgkmpzzQOfvEMVprg6Xyg_X5S-/s320/71musw9bJWL._SL1500_.jpg" width="211" /></a></div>(A Christmas present. Finally finished two and a half months later) As I was reading this door-stopper of an autobiography on the subway, a woman said to me as she was exiting, "I admire you, sir." I was startled and said, "Why, because I'm reading this huge book?" She laughed and nodded her head. The sheer size of Streisand's enormous tome is not surprising when you start reading it and how she relies every detail of every experience she's every had. Some would call her obsessed or controlling. If she were a man, she would be labelled commanding and thorough. But despite the meticulousness, <i>My Name Is Barbra </i>is an engrossing account of one of the most unique and talented entertainers of her time, certainly the best singer and among the best actresses. <p></p><div>From the decoration of her dressing rooms to the sound mixing of her albums to directorial decisions, Streisand leaves nothing out. If you want to know how to launch a career, put together a TV special, mount a concert tour, deal with difficult studio heads, furnish a home, or process an insanely jealous mother--Babs will let you know how. We learn so much about Broadway, Hollywood, political activism and the music biz, it's like a college seminar. The personal side is not neglected with honest appraisals of her two marriages (to Elliot Gould--they were both too young--and James Brolin--he arrived in her life at exactly the right time) as well her many extended relationships and dalliances. There are also the tragic might-have-been projects such as The Normal Heart, a remake of Gypsy and a sequel to The Way We Were. A fat, juicy lovefest for Streisand fans--of which I am one.</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-7123982757578343332024-03-09T07:50:00.000-08:002024-03-09T07:50:09.587-08:00Final Oscar Predictions<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvMWyRPg2p8l8gG5RrA4i7VIGASA57THq_o8c6h4cBoys1PddcxC58cufJz4XA5T-CQ0VEzvkEerjrN3xhuW3LZxxP6n3ZNr250DT_6_rfX3VLxf3J1CNPKQzOYofTGxr3Dvr7K3Cguo4qT86U9zYBBmxEI9tAadFeA1A5yvNHsSfYh0eGyKVrKE1KQ2D/s1581/LEAD.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1581" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvMWyRPg2p8l8gG5RrA4i7VIGASA57THq_o8c6h4cBoys1PddcxC58cufJz4XA5T-CQ0VEzvkEerjrN3xhuW3LZxxP6n3ZNr250DT_6_rfX3VLxf3J1CNPKQzOYofTGxr3Dvr7K3Cguo4qT86U9zYBBmxEI9tAadFeA1A5yvNHsSfYh0eGyKVrKE1KQ2D/s320/LEAD.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Lily Gladstone,<br />Cillian Murphy</td></tr></tbody></table>With the viewing of The Color Purple on Max, I've seen all the Oscar acting nominees, plus the Best Picture candidates and almost all those in the running for the major categories. (I tried to watch Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning on Paramount +, but I was bored out of my mind after 30 minutes. I couldn't bring myself to care about any of these people.) Here are my predictions for the winners which will be handed out tomorrow night.<div><br /></div><div><b>Best Picture</b>: Oppenheimer</div><div><b>Best Actor</b>: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer</div><div><b>Best Actress</b>: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon</div><div><b>Best Supporting Actor</b>: Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer</div><div><b>Best Supporting Actress</b>: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers</div><div><b>Best Director</b>: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer</div><div><b>Best Original Screenplay</b>: Anatomy of a Fall (Though I would vote for Past Lives)</div><div><b>Best Adapted Screenplay</b>: Barbie (a consolation prize from Greta Gerwig being snubbed in the Director Category)</div><div><b>Best International Feature</b>: The Zone of Interest</div><div><b>Best Documentary Feature</b>: 20 Days in Mariupol</div><div><b>Best Animated Feature</b>: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (I would go with The Boy and the Heron, but Spidey is getting more buzz including winning at the Annie Awards)</div><div><b>Best Editing, Sound, Cinematography, Original Score</b>: Oppenheimer</div><div><b>Best Costume Design, Production Design</b>: Barbie</div><div><b>Best Original Song</b>: "What Was I Made For?" from Barbie</div><div><b>Best Make-up and Hairstyling</b>: Maestro</div><div><b>Best Visual Effects</b>: Godzilla Minus One (This is the only one in the category I haven't seen yet--apart from the remaining two hours and ten mins. of Mission Impossible. But everyone seems to be predicting the Japanese monster to roll over the competition.)</div><div><b>Best Live-Action Short</b>: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</div><div><b>Best Animated Short</b>: War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (My preference is Ninety-Five Senses but this cloying pacifist message short won at the Annie Awards.) </div><div><b>Best Documentary Short</b>: The ABCs of Book Banning (This one sends the proper liberal message, but it's kinda dull. If I were voting, I'd go with The Last Repair Shop or Nai Nai and Wai Po)</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">2023 Potential Oscar Nominated Films Seen So Far<br /></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Oppenheimer (34th Street AMC and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Barbie (Regal Union Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Asteroid City (Angelika)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Golda (County Theater, Doylestown, PA)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Killers of the Flower Moon (Regal Kaufman Astoria)</span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Rustin (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Killer (Netflix)--Tilda Swinton could nab a Supporting Actress nod<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Maestro (Paris Cinema mezzanine and again on Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">May December (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Past Lives (Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Poor Things (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Holdovers (Regal Union Square--and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Fiction (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Anatomy of a Fall (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nyad (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Napoleon (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Society of the Snow (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Zone of Interest (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Perfect Days (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">El Conde (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Creator (Hulu)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Still: A Michael J. Fox Film (Apple TV +)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Les Menus Plaisir--Les Troisgros (Film Forum)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">20 Days in Mariupol (Frontline/PBS/Watched on the Passport app)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Symphony (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Beyond Utopia (Independent Lens/PBS)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Eternal Memory (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Bobi Wine: The People's President (National Geographic/Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Four Daughters (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Elemental (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Boy and the Heron (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nimona (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Color Purple (Max)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">All of Us Strangers (Hulu) (BAFTA, Golden Globe, Film Independent Spirit nominated, National Society of Film Critic winner for Best Actor--Andrew Scott)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Short Films<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Live Action<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The After (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Yellow (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Knight of Fortune (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Red White and Blue (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*The Shepherd (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Invincible (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Animated<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Boom (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Pachyderm (YouTube, again at IFC)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Once Upon a Studio (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Pete (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Letter to a Pig (YouTube, again at IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Eeva (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Our Uniform (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Ninety-Five Senses (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Wild Summons (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*I'm Hip (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Documentary</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*How We Get Free (Max)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Island in Between (NY Times/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Deciding Vote (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Last Repair Shop (LA Times/Searchlight/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis (Independent Lens/PBS/watched on the Passport app)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Between Earth and Sky (POV/PBS website)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The Barber of Little Rock (New Yorker/YouTube)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Camp Courage (Netflix)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The ABCs of Book Banning (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Last Song from Kabul (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (ESPN +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Nai Nai and Wai Po (Disney +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*short-listed but not nominated</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">I'm starting to think about next year's Oscars--so I should probably see Dune 2, a shoe-in for Visual Effects and Sound.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-76172754640401777302024-03-06T10:21:00.000-08:002024-03-09T08:54:14.147-08:00B'way Update: Washington and Gyllenhaal to Star in Othello<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxTRpKl-t8h2yxi3BE0PzzjMuQZJQO765v9tvsrDrsoNEfrRtnjk_bfWyzJYQYSYczhrNaWdSAaUuZbekR1Sl7MdYpibnpFmKRbtvHbKLVKxFZgdjreXCtuzOVxU23GBusUgciAATGYRaK4Aa86RBYBK6hiAY48qAL-iFjghTfdb41f29lYrLaJYPaCB-1/s1200/denzel.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxTRpKl-t8h2yxi3BE0PzzjMuQZJQO765v9tvsrDrsoNEfrRtnjk_bfWyzJYQYSYczhrNaWdSAaUuZbekR1Sl7MdYpibnpFmKRbtvHbKLVKxFZgdjreXCtuzOVxU23GBusUgciAATGYRaK4Aa86RBYBK6hiAY48qAL-iFjghTfdb41f29lYrLaJYPaCB-1/s320/denzel.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denzel Washington</td></tr></tbody></table>Get ready for the highest-profile star casting in several years, if not decades. Oscar and Tony winner Denzel Washington (<i>Training Day, Fences</i>) and Tony and Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (<i>Sea Wall/A Life, Brokeback Mountain</i>) will co-star in a revival of Shakespeare's Othello, set to open in Spring 2025. To add to the marquee value, the play will be directed by Tony winner Kenny Leon (<i>A Raisin in the Sun</i>) who will also be staging a new production of <i>Our Town</i> during the same 2024-25 season. Leon directed Washington in <i>The Iceman Cometh, Raisin</i>, and <i>Fences</i>. Further casting is to be announced.<p></p><p>This will be the 22nd production of <i>Othello </i>on Broadway. The most recent was in 1982 with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. The most famous was probably in 1943 with Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen. Recent Off-Broadway productions have starred Raul Julia and Christopher Walken, David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig, John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier have played the jealousy-ridden Moor on screen.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBtUs4pNPy2Obo_3zB5NEK6L8xfAwFFIc-7AD35gwHTlMc8RDMpJcbSjPo5qMIKQuQRR_xUaz6R8nCUPeaQ8-2CSj_wD1gzliXv7JdM_tA4Nb0zWnAcQjK1wHOtAiXtngrcgo5CzgIHT9xJKfVJv8N79sH4SA8m6FbqKzTzBP1ZM6-1zMx0zROQB0VqIn/s969/jake_gyllenhaal.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrBtUs4pNPy2Obo_3zB5NEK6L8xfAwFFIc-7AD35gwHTlMc8RDMpJcbSjPo5qMIKQuQRR_xUaz6R8nCUPeaQ8-2CSj_wD1gzliXv7JdM_tA4Nb0zWnAcQjK1wHOtAiXtngrcgo5CzgIHT9xJKfVJv8N79sH4SA8m6FbqKzTzBP1ZM6-1zMx0zROQB0VqIn/s320/jake_gyllenhaal.jpg" width="254" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jake Gyllenhaal<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><span><!--more--></span>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar (and Beyond)<br /></b><b>Spring 2024<br /></b>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)<br />March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)<br />March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)<br />March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)<br />March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)<br />March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)<br />March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)<br />March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)<br />March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)<br />March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)<br />March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)<br />March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)<br />March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)<br />April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)<br />April 1--Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club)<br />April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)<br />April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) <br />April 4--Lortel Award nominees announced<br />April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)<br />April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)<br />April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)<br />April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)<br />April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)<br />April 15--MAC Awards (Peter Norton Symphony Space)<br />April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)<br />April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)<br />April 18--Suffs (Music Box)<br />April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)<br />April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)<br />April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)<br />April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)<br />April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)<br />April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced<br />April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)<br />April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) <br />April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)<br />April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)<br />April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)<br />April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced<br />April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced<br />April 30--Tony Nominations Announced<br />April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)<br />May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)<br />May 5--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)<br />May 13--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)<br />May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced<br />May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)<br />May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)<br />May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><p></p><div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 10--Theater World Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June 20--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div>Aug. 15--Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (Hayes)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)</div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>Othello</div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-91445924850703938102024-03-03T12:43:00.000-08:002024-03-05T12:57:07.148-08:00Estelle Parsons' Weird Semi-Exit from The Conners<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYMs63MhFBWSaFSnvbkPcHAUfT2IbCsZWXWYBtoFs105kyIxM4mA9olULuQ74MsGeqdo4xhIf6pDQa6JG4JeMqtjtuwY2w1xeCtBPHdCMMDx8xOBEYm6_mkSd1RyW9Nj7gYO3cQySXbu98My0FdDM9Zb4E1fT1DRAOe7uUXEnwgcjvu8j92aN-2xHINGO/s640/theconners_estelle_abc.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipYMs63MhFBWSaFSnvbkPcHAUfT2IbCsZWXWYBtoFs105kyIxM4mA9olULuQ74MsGeqdo4xhIf6pDQa6JG4JeMqtjtuwY2w1xeCtBPHdCMMDx8xOBEYm6_mkSd1RyW9Nj7gYO3cQySXbu98My0FdDM9Zb4E1fT1DRAOe7uUXEnwgcjvu8j92aN-2xHINGO/s320/theconners_estelle_abc.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laurie Metcalf and Estelle Parsons <br />in <i>The Conners</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Episode 3 of Season 6 of <i>The Conners</i> (aired Feb. 21) featured a weird semi-exit from the series for 96-year-old Estelle Parsons. Her character Bev (mother of the late Roseanne and her sister Jackie) was on an experimental drug trial that improved her cognitive functions, lessened her dementia and brightened her mood. In this new state of being, Bev proposes she and Jackie (the brilliant Laurie Metcalf) spend a day together in Chicago for some long overdue mother-daughter bonding. <p></p><p>At Union Station in the Windy City, Bev reveals she plans to go on a "great adventure" while she still has her wits about her and to board a train headed eastwards. She has no specific destination in mind and only one small bag of her belongings. She hugs Jackie and apologizes for her belittling behavior. (She wanted to have one perfect day with her daughter before losing her mind.) Jackie protests but lets her go. If only real life could be this simple--letting your nearly century-old mother on a train with no clear plan or means of support. You say goodbye and go on about your life.</p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>The practical reason behind this strange leave-taking are clear. The writers needed an excuse to end Bev's storyline so they can concentrate on Dan, Darlene, and Becky. Earlier there had been announcements that the show was ending after this sixth season, but more recent reports indicate ratings are good enough to renew the series for a seventh. So Bev may be back.<p></p><p>In the meantime, will Bev return or will she join Conner sibling DJ and his daughter Mary in Lanford Limbo?</p><p>I've been able to watch almost all of <i>The Conners</i>. But I missed most of Season Five (I had stored the episodes on the cable DVR but lost them when I had to turn the cable box in when we switched to streaming on Hulu Plus Live TV.) </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xN302dhpKC8SuEnwGl5EkXBUFok65hGNiGzYhccA5IoPqnLJvCYtXh2MEO87-gPYbJslKM3biapOdF8cYsJr8IE5_61s2Nb6uw9TzCehhwJnA0wMMMPolDMIuVC-Kr40V4JED_WesShUyFlShgWp4WU7-0Le-rOLuqmLy9qTjgD2gWkAmpKlH67hZ2dT/s612/velocity-of-autumn-01-9b0f0fa579ef4338bf96452657b9c3b4.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-xN302dhpKC8SuEnwGl5EkXBUFok65hGNiGzYhccA5IoPqnLJvCYtXh2MEO87-gPYbJslKM3biapOdF8cYsJr8IE5_61s2Nb6uw9TzCehhwJnA0wMMMPolDMIuVC-Kr40V4JED_WesShUyFlShgWp4WU7-0Le-rOLuqmLy9qTjgD2gWkAmpKlH67hZ2dT/s320/velocity-of-autumn-01-9b0f0fa579ef4338bf96452657b9c3b4.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella in<br /><i>The Velocity of Autumn.</i><br />Credit: Joan Marcus</td></tr></tbody></table>I've seen Parsons on stage for many years including the pre-Broadway Philadelphia try-outs of <i>Mert and Phil </i>and<i> Ladies at the Alamo</i>, on Broadway in <i>The Pirates of Penzance, Miss Margarida's Way, Shimada, The Shadow Box, Morning's at Seven, Good People, Nice Work If You Can Get It</i>, and <i>The Velocity of Autumn</i>; Off-Broadway in a one-character play at LaMaMa (I forget the title but she was an ordinary housewife just doing chores for 90 minutes and it somehow worked), <i>The Day Emily Married</i>, <i>The Last of the Thorntons</i> (my favorite Horton Foote play), <i>Grace and Glorie</i>, and <i>A Bright Room Called Day.</i> I saw her staged-reading production of <i>Salome </i>with Al Pacino, Dianne Wiest and Marisa Tomei. <p></p><p>In film, she won an Oscar for <i>Bonnie and Clyde </i>and was nominated for <i>Rachel, Rachel</i>. On TV, she was memorable in <i>The UFO Incident</i>. The breadth of her career is astonishing. She began reporting on <i>The Today Show, </i>appeared with Ethel Merman<i> </i>in<i> Happy Hunting </i>and then went on to varied roles including a recurring guest spot on <i>All in the Family </i>and as Bess Truman in <i>Backstairs at the White House. </i>She </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9e_2UdOGSK8Q6AV1q5ZGFSCJs4Vn62yIoAh2I2GkAUMy-T8AjCz7V6Aj-lN48ZS955WhX6TL4QKOEqdVO93bwBK5F4ubt853bYZ30hMNwsA0N8H0pAbGboki8sg81AoRsIdTbdLFsnPY14hzmzzCWzkaYrGm3SV87AcF91tXOPxcyy9HweYtMfjtc-Gk/s1110/231018091723-02-barney-betty-hill-ufo-abduction.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="1110" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9e_2UdOGSK8Q6AV1q5ZGFSCJs4Vn62yIoAh2I2GkAUMy-T8AjCz7V6Aj-lN48ZS955WhX6TL4QKOEqdVO93bwBK5F4ubt853bYZ30hMNwsA0N8H0pAbGboki8sg81AoRsIdTbdLFsnPY14hzmzzCWzkaYrGm3SV87AcF91tXOPxcyy9HweYtMfjtc-Gk/s320/231018091723-02-barney-betty-hill-ufo-abduction.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Estelle Parsons, James Earl Jones and<br />friends in <i>The UFO Incident</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />always brought such a depth of reality to each role. Bev went through many changes on Roseanne and then The Conners. She come out as alcoholic and then lesbian in the bizarre final season of Roseanne which seems to have been just forgotten on <i>The Conners</i>. I hope <i>The Conners</i> continues for at least another season and Parsons returns. It's the only broadcast sitcom I follow with any degree of regularity.<p></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-55391526010845529182024-02-29T18:31:00.000-08:002024-02-29T18:31:45.579-08:00B'way Update: Forbidden B'way Finally Makes It to B'way<p><i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqEiya1XB1HD2c_3uRjYJc697y8yHRmDXDZp-L1HehAHtSCxDbxesV3_-9DbJUH8ikHiRM_stGY_mrjcvKVGVnEO7vF5ba57EeprBuboEC0Lx_w2DXkCipD5gfkHf4rrA5kdBKcTtxnMtx8Ri_n4Z3Zapk32j3_7HGE56vIt9BnMfpovxCrnX1QMR79Tc/s1470/127498-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1470" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqEiya1XB1HD2c_3uRjYJc697y8yHRmDXDZp-L1HehAHtSCxDbxesV3_-9DbJUH8ikHiRM_stGY_mrjcvKVGVnEO7vF5ba57EeprBuboEC0Lx_w2DXkCipD5gfkHf4rrA5kdBKcTtxnMtx8Ri_n4Z3Zapk32j3_7HGE56vIt9BnMfpovxCrnX1QMR79Tc/s320/127498-23.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cast of the London edition of<br /><i>Forbidden Broadway</i>.<br />Credit: Alistair Muir</td></tr></tbody></table>Forbidden Broadway</i> is finally making it to Broadway. The latest iteration of the long-running parody series--<i>Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song </i>will begin previews at the Hayes Theater on July 29 with an opening set for Aug. 15. The limited engagement will play through Nov. 1. The five-person cast (including an onstage pianist) will be announced at a later date. There will also be special weekly guest stars appearing throughout the run.</p><p>The first edition of <i>Forbidden Broadway</i> opened in 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club and ran for 2,332 performances. Various editions have played over 200 US cities as well as in London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney. Titles of the Off-Broadway versions include <i>Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back, FB Goes to Rehab, FB 2001: A Spoof Odyssey, FB: Special Victims Unit,</i> and <i>FB: The Next Generation.</i> </p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5g-xQFihXvdBB-7QIRNnzLn7nzDZmjnoezqQShYsvVwWiOvGi9iV0J8IUgyZ1c2cbmA1b_Bd-B1znz_mqH9RUcu7q5_V4HhUHa9cjFSrWwtyk_K8RT0GouOi-qKbh8pH_JdsKQrQswDFuZXzsLxki8eDcauIuBi3QEXOpxe7voTh6JL6oUiOqxbeK5-G/s681/forbidden-broadway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5g-xQFihXvdBB-7QIRNnzLn7nzDZmjnoezqQShYsvVwWiOvGi9iV0J8IUgyZ1c2cbmA1b_Bd-B1znz_mqH9RUcu7q5_V4HhUHa9cjFSrWwtyk_K8RT0GouOi-qKbh8pH_JdsKQrQswDFuZXzsLxki8eDcauIuBi3QEXOpxe7voTh6JL6oUiOqxbeK5-G/s320/forbidden-broadway.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging</i><br />(2014)</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The show’s creator and director Gerard Alessandrini said, “I’d never have believed that Forbidden Broadway would end up on the street that we love - and love to lampoon.” For his work on the various versions of Forbidden Broadway, Alessandrini has won a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater, an Obie Award and two Drama Desk Awards for his lyrics. The show has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue three times.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;"><i>Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song </i>will be created around the current and recent seasons of Broadway and will include spoofs of the new and upcoming Broadway musicals and plays like <i>The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, Water for Elephants, Hell’s Kitchen</i> and <i>Back to the Future</i>, as well as current and recent Sondheim revivals like<i> Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company</i> and <i>Merrily We Roll Along.</i></span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;" /></span></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar (and Beyond)<br /></b><b>Spring 2024<br /></b>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)<br />March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)<br />March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)<br />March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)<br />March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)<br />March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)<br />March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)<br />March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)<br />March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)<br />March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)<br />March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)<br />March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)<br />March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)<br />April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)<br />April 1--Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club)<br />April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)<br />April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) <br />April 4--Lortel Award nominees announced<br />April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)<br />April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)<br />April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)<br />April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)<br />April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)<br />April 15--MAC Awards (Peter Norton Symphony Space)<br />April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)<br />April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)<br />April 18--Suffs (Music Box)<br />April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)<br />April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)<br />April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)<br />April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)<br />April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)<br />April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced<br />April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)<br />April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) <br />April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)<br />April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)<br />April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)<br />April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced<br />April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced<br />April 30--Tony Nominations Announced<br />April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)<br />May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)<br />May 5--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)<br />May 13--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)<br />May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced<br />May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)<br />May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)<br />May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><p></p><div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 10--Theater World Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June 20--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div>Aug. 15--Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (Hayes)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)</div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div><br /></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-67869122324289873312024-02-28T15:24:00.000-08:002024-02-28T19:13:21.401-08:00Shocker: Biden Eats Ice Cream!<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi56EJgPvJL2xKxl3L1BGK7may1WMgoBzHbk1j5Hxu-bGD-husPXeKIRdJdAy1JH12nTW1CL8YbpZ_gOWqO1tCimYpQ4TG4PWsZhHzFIWyrQMAxkdBu3C24k4haqkW8OR3xBFUOSJiL4aDPVMTDTlqxZpWvKlbh5xQ1cM3lsDAIVnOqt-vs5CIco2h-OXdO/s1200/apjoebidenx1200.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi56EJgPvJL2xKxl3L1BGK7may1WMgoBzHbk1j5Hxu-bGD-husPXeKIRdJdAy1JH12nTW1CL8YbpZ_gOWqO1tCimYpQ4TG4PWsZhHzFIWyrQMAxkdBu3C24k4haqkW8OR3xBFUOSJiL4aDPVMTDTlqxZpWvKlbh5xQ1cM3lsDAIVnOqt-vs5CIco2h-OXdO/s320/apjoebidenx1200.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe Biden eats ice cream. How dare he!</td></tr></tbody></table>At brunch today with a group of friends in Queens, we were discussing Biden's precarious position with Israel. The waitress was taking our orders as the confab began and she said she was concerned that Biden was eating ice cream while discussing the Gaza situation. She expressed dissatisfaction with his seemingly casual attitude while holding forth on matters of international concern. I immediately leapt in with "So you'd rather have Trump? A man who was found liable of sexually assaulting a woman and then lying about it, fomenting an insurrection, trying to overthrow our democracy, committing business fraud, screwing up the government's response to the COVID pandemic, paying off a porn star, etc. etc." The waitress said she wasn't thinking about that, she just wanted to criticize Biden (not in those words, but she didn't even appear to consider Trump's many flaws in comparison with Biden's minor ones.)<p></p><p>I said, "This is the choice--Biden or Trump. That's it. I would rather have a 1 Biden eating ice cream, than 1,000 Donald Trumps eating hamburgers and throwing them against the wall." I could see I was getting nowhere and cut the talk with her short. I did leave a nice tip.</p><p>There were also shrieks of despair from Dems over the "Uncommitted" protest votes in the Michigan primary from voters unhappy with Biden's stance on aiding Israel and not pushing hard enough for a ceasefire. Yes, Michigan has a large Moslem-American population and they are unhappy about Biden's apparently unconditional support of Netanyahu. But will they really vote for Trump in November--or just as bad, stay home on election day? Trump's even more pro-Israel than Biden. Will they forget about his Moslem ban? </p><p>Biden's in am impossible position. If he doesn't push for a ceasefire the left will dessert him. If stops aide to Israel, the Jews will be furious. Hopefully he can force Netanyahu to commit to a ceasefire. Unfortunately, Netanyahu will probably not concede to a two-state solution which looks like the only way to solve this situation in the long term. </p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-37246696479642854032024-02-28T11:15:00.000-08:002024-02-28T11:29:22.963-08:00B'way Update: Louis Armstrong Musical to Open at Studio 54<p><b></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSt3dd3MUyrGz6A3en9j_K3JZ6w3h5HK6_vGuNWuEsRX6OUrfM7Ktm_DSx_OsgAzsfho5l32YbzxBXhCNE8qotRHg3NPxH3vht667L2U_a6YOmyCScFJHDviuPoegPGRIWsrucO_Bo_MZCwekvhVrqOJ5h48lcRXKkW8CuotrNR2YwuBQxan2eAuUzTzL/s1440/WonderfuleWord_Credit_JeremyDanielPhotography.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSt3dd3MUyrGz6A3en9j_K3JZ6w3h5HK6_vGuNWuEsRX6OUrfM7Ktm_DSx_OsgAzsfho5l32YbzxBXhCNE8qotRHg3NPxH3vht667L2U_a6YOmyCScFJHDviuPoegPGRIWsrucO_Bo_MZCwekvhVrqOJ5h48lcRXKkW8CuotrNR2YwuBQxan2eAuUzTzL/s320/WonderfuleWord_Credit_JeremyDanielPhotography.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Monroe Iglehart in<br /><i>What a Wonderful World:<br />The Louis Armstrong Musical</i><br />Credit: Jeremy Daniel</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">After runs in Chicago and New Orleans, Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin) will star on Broadway in <i>What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical</i>, beginning previews on Oct. 16 and opening Nov. 11 at Studio 54. The show is presented in association with Roundabout Theatre Company and will be part of the company's subscription series.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">This musical bio of the legendary jazz musician and singer features a book by Aurin Squire (<i>This Is Us, The Good Fight</i>). The score is made up of songs immortalized by Armstrong and the direction is by Drama Desk winner and Tony nominee Christopher Renshaw (<i>The King and I, Taboo</i>).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">“I am so excited to bring this wonderful brand-new musical to Broadway,” James Monroe Iglehart commented. “American music wouldn’t be what it is today without Louis Armstrong and what is Broadway if not American music? ‘Pops’ doesn’t get enough credit for his contribution to our entertainment industry or our country. I know I have never studied, researched, or prepared for anything as much in my career as I have for this role. I feel such a strong connection and an obligation to bring his voice, his music, and his story to the one place where it can be presented in all its glory – Broadway! I can’t wait for you all to become a part of </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">A Wonderful World</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;">.”</span></span></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="color: #202020;"><br /></span><div><span style="color: #202020;">Armstrong did appear on Broadway as a performer in two shows--<i>Hot Chocolates</i> (1929), a revue and <i>Swingin' the Dream</i> (1939), a jazz version of Shakespeare's <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>. His music was featured in <i>Uptown...It's Hot, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom</i>, and <i>Black and Blue</i>.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar (and Beyond)<br /></b><b>Spring 2024<br /></b>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)<br />March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)<br />March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)<br />March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)<br />March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)<br />March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)<br />March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)<br />March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)<br />March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)<br />March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)<br />March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)<br />March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)<br />March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)<br />April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)<br />April 1--Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club)<br />April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)<br />April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) <br />April 4--Lortel Award nominees announced<br />April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)<br />April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)<br />April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)<br />April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)<br />April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)<br />April 15--MAC Awards (Peter Norton Symphony Space)<br />April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)<br />April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)<br />April 18--Suffs (Music Box)<br />April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)<br />April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)<br />April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)<br />April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)<br />April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)<br />April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced<br />April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)<br />April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) <br />April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)<br />April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)<br />April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)<br />April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced<br />April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced<br />April 30--Tony Nominations Announced<br />April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)<br />May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)<br />May 5--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)<br />May 13--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)<br />May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced<br />May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)<br />May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)<br />May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><p></p><div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 10--Theater World Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June 20--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)</div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div><br /></div></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-24305984821426180792024-02-26T12:17:00.000-08:002024-02-27T02:42:42.088-08:00Film Independent Spirit Awards<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRyg-WuLEvyf_FdiH8rQ3FzCbTcWQ2vx73JFD7rShodac2dyCvSYXGN-P_dCD_YHnKB_UTzGR8TH4h4QdMqJRbiEWywesalyqMbHo7zBl7FNS9EOvMv-sJyd6huYuMok2NXGZU7NJxMV1kXd_2-kQ1jUcqNfM-H-fvjRrGF3EN8E0IGSNZQci-21XZDBgj/s1200/FIlm-Independent-Spirit-Awards-2024-Far-Out-Magazine.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRyg-WuLEvyf_FdiH8rQ3FzCbTcWQ2vx73JFD7rShodac2dyCvSYXGN-P_dCD_YHnKB_UTzGR8TH4h4QdMqJRbiEWywesalyqMbHo7zBl7FNS9EOvMv-sJyd6huYuMok2NXGZU7NJxMV1kXd_2-kQ1jUcqNfM-H-fvjRrGF3EN8E0IGSNZQci-21XZDBgj/s320/FIlm-Independent-Spirit-Awards-2024-Far-Out-Magazine.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This must have been a busy weekend for award nominees. After flying back from London for the BAFTAs on Monday, everybody had to get ready for the SAGs on Saturday night. From there they had to change quickly and head to the beach in Santa Monica for the Film Independent Spirit Awards (also for TV this year) in the afternoon on Sunday. No time for dinner because the PGAs (Producers Guild Awards) were that night. They now have two weeks to recover and prepare for the big night of the Oscars on March 10. <p></p><p>The Indie awards were live streamed on YouTube, hosted by Aidy Bryant. Big budget blockbusters such as <i>Oppenheimer, Barbie</i> and <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i> were ineligible so these awards were slightly different from the SAGs, BAFTA, Critics Choices where the same winners keep marching up to the stage. Celine Song's <i>Past Lives</i> won two major categories--Best Feature and Director. <i>American Fiction</i> took Best Lead Performance for Jeffrey Wright and for Cord Jefferson's Screenplay. The Indies started giving out gender-neutral performance awards last year so there are a lot of nominees. Da'Vine Joy Randolph continued her winning streak by taking the Supporting Performance category for her moving performance as the grieving cook in <i>The Holdovers</i>. <i>Beef</i> also took home prizes after picking up awards at the SAG, Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Emmys. So I guess I should try it out on Netflix.</p><p>Protestors outsider the tent loudly chanted pro-Palestinian slogans during the show. I think they may have been preaching to the choir.</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYuLcYgxg1d82gusKFP6dNOwuMy9R-SYLZpspT8vpO8S-wNb1QzEA2frB83yE312_-WL1t1ZFsgeXVddRrXhV2VJ4AbFG_Ar1v0xKGbC7maYf5HACaz_SLmVEPVSrrw8sGvc8Gu_1A-1KjJ0Q9HVw8UB4YQOMoNdHScVxcNN1cSfHdEO30vi47lCTrZ0PA/s1000/all-of-us-strangers-092023-1-c041802f4e7c415db571ef8c3c1b537a.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYuLcYgxg1d82gusKFP6dNOwuMy9R-SYLZpspT8vpO8S-wNb1QzEA2frB83yE312_-WL1t1ZFsgeXVddRrXhV2VJ4AbFG_Ar1v0xKGbC7maYf5HACaz_SLmVEPVSrrw8sGvc8Gu_1A-1KjJ0Q9HVw8UB4YQOMoNdHScVxcNN1cSfHdEO30vi47lCTrZ0PA/s320/all-of-us-strangers-092023-1-c041802f4e7c415db571ef8c3c1b537a.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott in<br />All of Us Strangers.<br />Credit: Searchlight Pictures</td></tr></tbody></table>I did catch up with one Indie nominated film which did not show up on Oscar's nominee list. <i>All of Us Strangers </i>(on Hulu) is a strangely beautiful combination ghost story and gay acceptance tale. Andrew Scott gives a sensitive, heart-wrenching performance as a gay screenwriter whose parents were killed when he was a boy, so they never got to know him as a gay adult. He goes to their old house and finds them there just as they were, frozen in time. It was weird seeing Jamie Bell and Claire Foy as the still-young parents since I still picture them as Billy Elliott and Queen Elizabeth. <p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif;">Spirit Awards 2024: The full list of winners:</span></p><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-12" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Feature’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>All of Us Strangers</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>American Fiction</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>May December</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Passages</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>Past Lives</em> – <em>WINNER</em></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>We Grown Now</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-15" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Director’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Andrew Haigh, <em>All of Us Strangers</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Todd Haynes, <em>May December</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">William Oldroyd, <em>Eileen</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Ira Sachs, <em>Passages</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Celine Song, <em>Past Lives</em></span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-18" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best First Feature’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Chronicles of a Wandering Saint</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Earth Mama</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>A Thousand and One</em></span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Upon Entry</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-21" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Lead Performance’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jessica Chastain, <em>Memory</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Greta Lee, <em>Past Lives</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Trace Lysette, <em>Monica</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Natalie Portman, <em>May December</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Judy Reyes, <em>Birth/Rebirth</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Franz Rogowski, <em>Passages</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Andrew Scott, <em>All of Us Strangers</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Teyana Taylor, <em>A Thousand and One</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Jeffrey Wright, <em>American Fiction</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Teo Yoo, <em>Past Lives</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-24" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Supporting Performance’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Erika Alexander, <em>American Fiction</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Sterling K. Brown, <em>American Fiction</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Noah Galvin, <em>Theater Camp</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Anne Hathaway, <em>Eileen</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Glenn Howerton, <em>BlackBerry</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Marin Ireland, <em>Eileen</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Charles Melton, <em>May December</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Da’Vine Joy Randolph, <em>The Holdovers</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Catalina Saavedra, <em>Rotting in the Sun</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Ben Whishaw, <em>Passages</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-27" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Breakthrough Performance’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Marshawn Lynch, <em>Bottoms</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Atibon Nazaire, <em>Mountains</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Tia Nomore, <em>Earth Mama</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Dominic Sessa, <em>The Holdovers</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Anaita Wali Zada, <em>Fremont</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-30" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Screenplay’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">David Hemingson, <em>The Holdovers</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Cord Jefferson, </span><em><span style="font-weight: bolder;">American Fiction</span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Laura Moss, Brendan J. O’Brien, <em>Birth/Rebirth</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, <em>Bottoms</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Celine Song, <em>Past Lives</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-33" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best First Screenplay’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik, <em>May December</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt, <em>Theater Camp</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Tomás Gómez Bustillo, <em>Chronicles of a Wandering Saint</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Laurel Parmet, <em>The Starling Girl</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez, <em>Upon Entry</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-36" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Cinematography’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Katelin Arizmendi, <em>Monica</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Eigil Bryld, <em>The Holdovers</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jomo Fray, <em>All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Pablo Lozano, <em>Chronicles of a Wandering Saint</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Pat Scola, <em>We Grown Now</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-39" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Editing’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Santiago Cendejas, Gabriel Díaz, Sofía Subercaseaux, <em>Rotting in the Sun</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Stephanie Filo, <em>We Grown Now</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Daniel Garber, <em>How to Blow Up a Pipeline</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jon Philpot, <em>Theater Camp</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Emanuele Tiziani, <em>Upon Entry</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-42" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Documentary’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Bye Bye Tiberia</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Four Daughters</span></em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Kokomo City</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>The Mother of All Lies</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-45" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best International Film’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>Anatomy of a Fall</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Godland</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Mami Wata</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Tótem</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>The Zone of Interest</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-48" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Robert Altman Award’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>Showing Up <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></em></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Director: Kelly Reichardt</li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Casting Director: Gayle Keller</li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Ensemble Cast: André Benjamin, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, John Magaro, Matt Malloy, Amanda Plummer, Maryann Plunkett, Denzel Rodriguez, Michelle Williams</li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-51" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Someone to Watch Award’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Joanna Arnow, Director of <em>The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Laura Moss, Director of <em>Birth/Rebirth</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Monica Sorelle, Director of <em>Mountains</em></span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-54" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Truer Than Fiction Award’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Set Hernandez, Director of <em>unseen</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jesse Short Bull, Laura Tomaselli, Director of <em>Lakota Nation vs. United States</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Sierra Urich, Director of <em>Joonam</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-57" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘John Cassavetes Award’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>The Artifice Girl</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Cadejo Blanco</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>Fremont</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Rotting in the Sun</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>The Unknown Country</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-60" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Producers Award’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Rachael Fung</li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Graham Swon</li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Monique Walton</span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-64" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best New Scripted Series’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Beef</span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Dreaming Whilst Black</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>I’m a Virgo</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Jury Duty</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Slip</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-67" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>Dear Mama</em></span> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Murder in Big Horn</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><em>Wrestlers</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-70" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Emma Corrin, <em>A Murder at the End of the World</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Dominique Fishback, <em>Swarm</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Betty Gilpin, <em>Mrs. Davis</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jharrel Jerome, <em>I’m a Virgo</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Zoe Lister-Jones, <em>Slip</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Bel Powley, <em>A Small Light</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Bella Ramsey, <em>The Last of Us</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Ramón Rodríguez, <em>Will Trent</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Ali Wong, <em>Beef</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Steven Yeun, <em>Beef</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-73" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Murray Bartlett, <em>The Last of Us</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Billie Eilish, <em>Swarm</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jack Farthing, <em>Rain Dogs</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Nick Offerman, <em>The Last of Us</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Adina Porter, <em>The Changeling</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Lewis Pullman, <em>Lessons in Chemistry</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Benny Safdie, <em>The Curse</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Luke Tennie, <em>Shrinking</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Olivia Washington, <em>I’m a Virgo</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Jessica Williams, <em>Shrinking</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-76" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series’</span></h3><ul class="inline-links multi" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin: 2em 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Clark Backo, <em>The Changeling</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Aria Mia Loberti, <em>All the Light We Cannot See</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Adjani Salmon, <em>Dreaming Whilst Black</em></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;">Keivonn Montreal Woodard, <em>The Last of Us</em> <span style="font-weight: bolder;">– WINNER</span></span></li><li style="list-style: initial; margin: 1em; padding: 0px;">Kara Young, <em>I’m a Virgo</em></li></ul><h3 id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-79" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Brawler, serif; line-height: 1.3; margin: 2em 0px 1.2em; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: small;">‘Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series’</span></h3><p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-80" style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><em>Jury Duty</em> – WINNER</span><br />Ensemble Cast: Alan Barinholtz, Susan Berger, Cassandra Blair, David Brown, Kirk Fox, Ross Kimball, Pramode Kumar, Trisha LaFache, Mekki Leeper, James Marsden, Edy Modica, Kerry O’Neill, Rashida Olayiwola, Whitney Rice, Maria Russell, Ishmel Sahid, Ben Seaward, Ron Song, Evan Williams</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-5492916315008633832024-02-25T08:22:00.000-08:002024-02-25T14:14:18.547-08:00SAG and BAFTA Aftermath<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3KD_T3nDG2JTqL7Ow7mbj7Ns2FtxagKhHfNxbY2o-ryZs_GP_H0YoUB9v7bnOquh-KZUslI4H1BY7dIPH8mlauE1z67lTY234YDvbIdwJN_Yg9sUofzQFAw0g5iZ7wo7jbNYvGnZRZsa575ibTJUSUzpbZ6ffoeyqOX86QlDR9GoMckyQU8DAty7Ey1q/s2048/baftaawardvray3dmodel001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3KD_T3nDG2JTqL7Ow7mbj7Ns2FtxagKhHfNxbY2o-ryZs_GP_H0YoUB9v7bnOquh-KZUslI4H1BY7dIPH8mlauE1z67lTY234YDvbIdwJN_Yg9sUofzQFAw0g5iZ7wo7jbNYvGnZRZsa575ibTJUSUzpbZ6ffoeyqOX86QlDR9GoMckyQU8DAty7Ey1q/s320/baftaawardvray3dmodel001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The SAG (Feb. 24) and BAFTA Awards (Feb. 18) were pretty much in agreement in almost every major category--except Best Actress. Both prizes honored Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey, Jr. and Da'Vine Joy Randolph. But the SAG went to Lily Gladstone of Killers of the Flower Moon and the BAFTA was delivered to Emma Stone of Poor Things. Stone was playing a British character so that may have earned her Brit votes for the BAFTA, plus Lily wasn't even nominated for the BAFTA. I think Gladstone is still the favorite for the Oscar since she will be the first Native American to win one. <p></p><p>BTW, the People's Choice Awards were on the same day as the BAFTAs and Oppenheimer actually won both at the BAFTAs and in the Drama Film category at the People's Choice, which otherwise went big for Barbie. The People Choice Award has changed shapes over the years and now looks like a giant lipstick cylinder with a rubber ball stuck in the middle.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHuJ-wlJiJK6YH9T2CPOgQMHjaOvltXXjfXh2W4oPYGbSO4Di755cIMV5k7trS2Pkbgr1_B_YLRL16KgtdBLaI52v-UH9nMcPGX88Op9lhNhG13OLKZT7ORT3nGCE-yGoO3VMNk5gl7lRfNsB2ivsocr9i23AibioKzfkMrTBFPrIaPrsytjIhY5PtZoS/s620/sag-award-trophy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="620" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfHuJ-wlJiJK6YH9T2CPOgQMHjaOvltXXjfXh2W4oPYGbSO4Di755cIMV5k7trS2Pkbgr1_B_YLRL16KgtdBLaI52v-UH9nMcPGX88Op9lhNhG13OLKZT7ORT3nGCE-yGoO3VMNk5gl7lRfNsB2ivsocr9i23AibioKzfkMrTBFPrIaPrsytjIhY5PtZoS/s320/sag-award-trophy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0AD6IXUiO9U0E7BpU-hcDIAc0nPG6VBYzWpRsuUlzyK25ByQrLEr6yTTDlRMcVSC73C8_uS1yE5LcZ__pXgFm7LzWBGBjPfdw7ho4IQePcwJot_vrj_JvvhwY-2h54YAzOMdGsZXW56_9VcKCyDv43LwoQ-3m0FsrDXVygcTfEvGuKU8V30bRRL26d7W/s1024/rs_634x1024-181025101039-634-.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="634" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM0AD6IXUiO9U0E7BpU-hcDIAc0nPG6VBYzWpRsuUlzyK25ByQrLEr6yTTDlRMcVSC73C8_uS1yE5LcZ__pXgFm7LzWBGBjPfdw7ho4IQePcwJot_vrj_JvvhwY-2h54YAzOMdGsZXW56_9VcKCyDv43LwoQ-3m0FsrDXVygcTfEvGuKU8V30bRRL26d7W/s320/rs_634x1024-181025101039-634-.webp" width="198" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The SAG and<br />People's Choice Awards</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />SAG and BAFTA winners list follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a>SAG Winners<p></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">FILM</h3><p id="5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outstanding Cast</strong></p><p id="6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Oppenheimer’</p><p id="7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actor in a Lead Role</strong></p><p id="8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cillian Murphy, ‘Oppenheimer’</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actress in a Lead Role</strong></p><p id="10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lily Gladstone, ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’</p><p id="11" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actor in a Supporting Role</strong></p><p id="12" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Robert Downey Jr., ‘Oppenheimer’</p><p id="13" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actress in a Supporting Role</strong></p><p id="14" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ‘The Holdovers’</p><p id="15" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stunt Ensemble in a Movie</strong></p><p id="16" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’</p><h3 id="17" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">TELEVISION</strong></h3><p id="18" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ensemble in a Drama Series</strong></p><p id="19" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘Succession’</p><div class="checktheseout2" id="checktheseout2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ensemble in a Comedy Series</strong></p><p id="25" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘The Bear’</p><p id="26" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actor in a Drama Series</strong></p><p id="27" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pedro Pascal, ‘The Last of Us’</p><p id="28" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actress in a Drama Series</strong></p><p id="29" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Elizabeth Debicki, ‘The Crown’</p><p id="30" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actor in a Comedy Series</strong></p><p id="31" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremy Allen White, ‘The Bear’</p><p id="32" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actress in a Comedy Series</strong></p><p id="33" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ayo Edebiri, ‘The Bear’</p><p id="34" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actor in a TV, Movie or Limited Series</strong></p><p id="35" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Steven Yeun, ‘Beef'</p><p id="36" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Actress in a TV, Movie or Limited Series</strong></p><p id="37" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ali Wong, ‘Beef’</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stunt Ensemble in a TV Series</strong></p><p id="39" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">‘The Last of Us’</p><p id="39" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p id="39" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Rubik, helvatica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: var(--storyparagap); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;">BAFTA Winners</p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BEST FILM</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Oppenheimer” — Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DIRECTOR </span><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SUPPORTING ACTRESS</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SUPPORTING ACTOR</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer” — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LEADING ACTRESS </span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Emma Stone, “Poor Things” — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">LEADING ACTOR</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">RISING STAR AWARD</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mia McKenna-Bruce — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Anatomy of a Fall” — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari – WINNER</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ADAPTED SCREENPLAY</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“American Fiction,” Cord Jefferson — WINNER</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“The Zone of Interest” — Jonathan Glazer — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ANIMATED FILM</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“The Boy and the Heron” — Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki – WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DOCUMENTARY</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“20 Days in Mariupol” — Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson Rath — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“The Zone of Interest” — Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Earth Mama” — Savanah Leaf (Writer, Director, Producer), Shirley O’Connor (Producer), Medb Riordan (Producer) — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CASTING</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“The Holdovers” — Susan Shopmaker — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CINEMATOGRAPHY</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Oppenheimer,” Hoyte van Hoytema — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">EDITING</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“Oppenheimer,” Jennifer Lame — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">COSTUME</span><em style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"> </em><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">DESIGN</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Poor Things,” Holly Waddington — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MAKE UP & HAIR</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“Poor Things” — Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier, Josh Weston — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ORIGINAL SCORE</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“Oppenheimer,” Ludwig Göransson — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">PRODUCTION DESIGN</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“Poor Things” — Shona Heath, James Price, Zsuzsa Mihalek — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SOUND</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“The Zone of Interest” — Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers — WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;">“Poor Things” — </span><em style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-family-secondary-fancy); font-weight: 700;">Simon Hughes</em><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="font-weight: 700;"> – WINNER</span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Crab Day” — Ross Stringer, Bartosz Stanislawek, Aleksandra Sykulak — WINNER </span></p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BRITISH SHORT FILM</span> </p><p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m" style="background-color: white; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "IBM Plex Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span face="var(--font-family-secondary-fancy)" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“Jellyfish and Lobster” — Yasmin Afifi, Elizabeth Rufai — WINNER</span></p><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; height: 1199px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1170px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc((100% - 600px) / 2); padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40" id="link-197aa" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-primary,#121212); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 35px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></h2><h2 class="css-kypbrf eoo0vm40" id="link-197aa" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-primary,#121212); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 35px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><br /></h2></div></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-50712822133046880762024-02-23T07:45:00.000-08:002024-02-24T08:59:14.098-08:00Lortel, Bistro, MAC Award Dates Announced<p><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaN1GdVhG8TZdw67aaHZdnYNjTXccD1K_SXSVnq80-GOAM6EausTfZ3NyqpwGtP8ek-iMyYGCWkOqYNiK-Uca6uyvc98ZJRfKdcyhsvcuaWf40l-UuZI0pavKPcUFvaOE5rEEoO0RFarveVWB8v7Sr5ES4nZ6B2j6yOpi7pWBTEWBRnMwpLP1Ta9qc0sA/s584/315828ab06f748052f5650fee616a525-rubensantiago200.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="410" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqaN1GdVhG8TZdw67aaHZdnYNjTXccD1K_SXSVnq80-GOAM6EausTfZ3NyqpwGtP8ek-iMyYGCWkOqYNiK-Uca6uyvc98ZJRfKdcyhsvcuaWf40l-UuZI0pavKPcUFvaOE5rEEoO0RFarveVWB8v7Sr5ES4nZ6B2j6yOpi7pWBTEWBRnMwpLP1Ta9qc0sA/s320/315828ab06f748052f5650fee616a525-rubensantiago200.jpg" width="225" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruben Santiago-Hudson<br />will receive a Lifetime Achievement<br />Award at the Lortels</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards – honoring excellence in the Off-Broadway theater – will be handed out in the annual ceremony on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at 7PM at NYU Skirball. Special Award recipients for 2024 have also been announced. The Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by TDF.</span></span><p></p><p>Special Award honorees include actor-director Ruben Santiago-Hudson (<i>Lackawanna Blues, Jitney</i>) for Lifetime Achievement; Dominique Morriseau (<i>Skeleton Crew, Sunset Baby</i>) will receive the Playwrights Sidewalk Honor outside the Lucille Lortel Theater; and Ars Nova for Outstanding Body of Work. </p><p>Nominees for the Lortels will be announced on April 4 and there will be a Nominees Breakfast on April 17. The Lortels are presented for Off-Broadway work from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024. . Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity
Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, United Scenic Artists, the Lucille Lortel Theatre,
in addition to theatre journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals, serve on the Voting Committee (though no members' names are listed in the press release or on the Lortels' website.)</p><p>The event will, as always, be open to the public, with
tickets available for purchase beginning April 4 at tickets.nyu.edu or at the NYU Skirball box office Tuesday
– Saturday 12pm–6pm. As always, the Lortel Awards is a benefit for the Entertainment Community Fund
and fans are encouraged to make donations at LortelAwards.org.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><b></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOoN7k4rXpmKe0ZvcDioQoZEXebiCX34XBN7pZUMqWM-RBaoJSNPFnQbIcj8xSGSEChBqVptIiw-c0K-KIfOUIjzFQnFeBoQnlNsNbtjyJ3USQYolyDpSUmMeTmB8iMemzmYP8Z_Luqa7p0nyqf7aeM49oDJ_vHZ5nWQ_9SQywLBKtyJzGPGh1srG-04x/s800/StevenHayes_Studio_AU.webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOoN7k4rXpmKe0ZvcDioQoZEXebiCX34XBN7pZUMqWM-RBaoJSNPFnQbIcj8xSGSEChBqVptIiw-c0K-KIfOUIjzFQnFeBoQnlNsNbtjyJ3USQYolyDpSUmMeTmB8iMemzmYP8Z_Luqa7p0nyqf7aeM49oDJ_vHZ5nWQ_9SQywLBKtyJzGPGh1srG-04x/s320/StevenHayes_Studio_AU.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve Hayes of <i>Tired Old Queen at the Movies</i><br />will host the Bistro Awards</td></tr></tbody></table><b>Bistro Awards</b>: In other award news, the Bistro Awards for excellence in cabaret will be handed out on April 1 at the Gotham Comedy Club in a ceremony hosted by Steve Hayes of the long-running YouTube series <i>Tired Old Queen at the Movies</i> (which I absolutely love.)<p></p><p>Comedian Robert Klein (Grace's father on <i>Will and Grace, The Sisters Rosensweig, They're Playing Our Song</i>) will be presented with the Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award. Klein starred on a now-forgotten summer replacement CBS series in the late 1960s called <i>Comedy Tonight</i> which also featured Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle and Judy Graubart. Julie Gold will be given a special award for being an Iconic Singer-Songwriter-Raconteur. </p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Other Bistro winners include Amber Gray, Tony Yazbeck, Karen Mack, Wendy Scherl, Jason Henderson, Margaret Curry, Roberto Araujo, Elvira Tortora, Lisa Vroman, David Dean Bottrell, Jason Henderson, Maud Hixson, and Linda Kahn. Tickets are available to the general public at BistroAwards.com.</span></p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The April 1 gala which will include performances by the honorees will be directed by Gerry Geddes for the third time, with Daryl Kojak to serve as musical director. The evening will also feature Ritt Henn on bass and Rex Benincasa on drums.<em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" /></em></span></p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Bistro Awards ceremony is produced by Sherry Eaker, with Mark Dundas Wood serving as associate producer and Mary Lahti as assistant producer. </span></p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcLfkoZfMDUnmeTLaWYJLAEFqSXdBUdlqHXdV4uA7vndm_KPC8pBEWOpd5YYivsbXZekWvfnpr_srv8B-sFIIAi1qtZ8JMgbgaiRjpAbVk2-teqO5myRmjfqgNPlHuN-xGAo0d3o2nMj0-BZ4BjsA-DUbzT0lnl_1zoiePj60b84Y9KgFpO0e1dVPYdEn/s450/e0f79d62e13e1ad4a1daae71c4280155-Vivian-Reed.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="362" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcLfkoZfMDUnmeTLaWYJLAEFqSXdBUdlqHXdV4uA7vndm_KPC8pBEWOpd5YYivsbXZekWvfnpr_srv8B-sFIIAi1qtZ8JMgbgaiRjpAbVk2-teqO5myRmjfqgNPlHuN-xGAo0d3o2nMj0-BZ4BjsA-DUbzT0lnl_1zoiePj60b84Y9KgFpO0e1dVPYdEn/s320/e0f79d62e13e1ad4a1daae71c4280155-Vivian-Reed.jpg" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivian Reed will receive<br />a Lifetime Achievement Award<br />at the MAC Awards</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-size: 16px;">MAC Awards</b>: Speaking of awards for cabaret, the MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) Awards will take place on April 15 at 7pm at the Peter Norton Symphony Space.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the event, MAC will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to three industry luminaries: Broadway theater veteran, cabaret artist, and educator Vivian Reed (<i>Marie Christine, Sophisticated Ladies, Bubbling Brown Sugar</i>); Broadway star, director, and cabaret artist Lee Roy Reams (<i>Applause, 42nd Street</i>); and multi-award-winning sound and lighting designer Jean-Pierre Perreaux.</span></span><p></p><p style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; line-height: 1.5; margin-block: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;">The MAC Awards show is produced by Julie Miller and directed by Amy Wolk. The musical director and leader of the MAC Awards Band will be Dan Pardo.</span><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;" /><br style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;" /><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;">Tickets are available at https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-the-38th-annual-mac-awards</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Theater Awards Schedule and Beyond<br /></b><b>Winter 2023-24</b><br />Feb. 26--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)<br />Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)<br />Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)</div><div>Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Spring 2024</b></div><div>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)</div><div>March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)</div><div>March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)</div><div>March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)</div><div>March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)</div><div>March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)</div><div>March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)</div><div>March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)</div><div>March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)</div><div>March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)</div><div>March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)</div><div>April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)</div><div>April 1--Bistro Awards (Gotham Comedy Club)</div><div>April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) </div><div>April 4--Lortel Award nominees announced</div><div>April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)</div><div>April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)</div><div>April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)</div><div>April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)</div><div>April 15--MAC Awards (Peter Norton Symphony Space)</div><div>April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)</div><div>April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)</div><div>April 18--Suffs (Music Box)</div><div>April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)</div><div>April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)</div><div>April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)</div><div>April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)</div><div>April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)</div><div>April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced</div><div>April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)</div><div>April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) </div><div>April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)</div><div>April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)</div><div>April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)</div><div>April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced</div><div>April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced</div><div>April 30--Tony Nominations Announced</div><div>April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)</div><div>May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)</div><div>May 5--Lortel Awards (NYU Skirball)</div><div>May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced</div><div>May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)</div><div>May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)</div><div>May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 10--Theater World Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June 20--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div><br /></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-74350236352763576712024-02-22T07:35:00.000-08:002024-03-18T03:46:26.701-07:00Animation Feature Oscar: Spider Vs. Heron<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6r8CBnbjQO-0SHqiE3-dvFGsiqICtlWOOG5n72VizRZ_Fnla_TUHLMbrPD9Jc_dTKsbgFp84XUk2rVxkGQ22qX9ZtSyjI1ou9hsNPAOwrOCc7cVMiLEbr0NkDza3cLGxZwNETT-ZAzNofRZdhgqo2ZTKvu-SpkaGzIFopVcaoPnFR_UjLWaCFQeylA6T/s1536/05262023_Spider_151902.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="1536" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6r8CBnbjQO-0SHqiE3-dvFGsiqICtlWOOG5n72VizRZ_Fnla_TUHLMbrPD9Jc_dTKsbgFp84XUk2rVxkGQ22qX9ZtSyjI1ou9hsNPAOwrOCc7cVMiLEbr0NkDza3cLGxZwNETT-ZAzNofRZdhgqo2ZTKvu-SpkaGzIFopVcaoPnFR_UjLWaCFQeylA6T/s320/05262023_Spider_151902.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</i><br />Credit: Sony Animation</td></tr></tbody></table><i>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse </i>won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for 2018. Its sequel <i>Across the Spider-Verse</i> is a front-runner for the same award this year. The race is between <i>Spider-Verse</i> and Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece <i>The Boy and the Heron</i>. Miyazaki has won in this category for <i>Spirited Away</i> (2001) and is regarded as a master in the field, so he may be primed for a second Golden Guy. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a tough choice. I watched <i>Spider-Verse</i> on Netflix and was totally stunned. There was so much happening in every frame, it was overwhelming. I did not see the 2018 film, so at first the plot was kinda confusing. But gradually we can figure out that we're in an alternate universe where Spider-Man is not Peter Parker, but Miles Morales, the son of an African-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. In this world, there is also a spider-powered version of Gwen Stacy--or is she from yet another world? Evidently, there are an infinite number of universes, each with their own Spider-Man or Woman. For reasons not immediately clear, Miles is taken to a Spider- World where EVERYBODY has Spider powers. The plot is not as important as the action which is jam-packed and the multiple Spider heroes are fun. There's even a Spider-kitty and a Spider-dinosaur.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Boy and the Heron</i> has won almost every major pre-Oscar Award including the New York Film Critics Circle, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Los Angeles Film Critics Assoc. But <i>Spider-Verse</i> has taken the top prize and six others from the Annie Awards, the Oscars of the animation field. I liked both films, but I would vote for the beauty of <i>Heron</i> over the hyper-action of <i>Spider-Verse</i>. Plus the Academy voters may want to award Miyazaki over the Spider feature because the previous film won only a few years ago.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;">Now I've seen all the nominees in this category except <i>Robot Dreams </i>which doesn't seem to be available anywhere. I have only a few films left to see--<i>The Color Purple</i> and the <i>Mission: Impossible</i> film--in order to catch up with all the Oscar nominees</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifq6LPNF6nukWgf3Z_w6yuKK21bgU0T30gzNOHZl2Es94kHvRG1PGZtZ5qM7FNjK01gWYCMuOfJSIfJoSDImLk7NG9447dsIXIuCBHMy98GQsjGL-zUlaHColP2-WrmzJaIV6rdbpeN9mn0C-OMvCggLI7BIoohMaxPvzPRm4t8D0xCMYktXY_Krvkl2pi/s920/HERON_img_7.0.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="920" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifq6LPNF6nukWgf3Z_w6yuKK21bgU0T30gzNOHZl2Es94kHvRG1PGZtZ5qM7FNjK01gWYCMuOfJSIfJoSDImLk7NG9447dsIXIuCBHMy98GQsjGL-zUlaHColP2-WrmzJaIV6rdbpeN9mn0C-OMvCggLI7BIoohMaxPvzPRm4t8D0xCMYktXY_Krvkl2pi/s320/HERON_img_7.0.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Boy and the Heron</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">2023 Potential Oscar Nominated Films Seen So Far<br /></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Oppenheimer (34th Street AMC and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Barbie (Regal Union Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Asteroid City (Angelika)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Golda (County Theater, Doylestown, PA)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Killers of the Flower Moon (Regal Kaufman Astoria)</span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Rustin (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Killer (Netflix)--Tilda Swinton could nab a Supporting Actress nod<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Maestro (Paris Cinema mezzanine and again on Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">May December (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Past Lives (Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Poor Things (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Holdovers (Regal Union Square--and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Fiction (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Anatomy of a Fall (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nyad (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Napoleon (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Society of the Snow (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Zone of Interest (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Perfect Days (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">El Conde (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Creator (Hulu)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Still: A Michael J. Fox Film (Apple TV +)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Les Menus Plaisir--Les Troisgros (Film Forum)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">20 Days in Mariupol (Frontline/PBS/Watched on the Passport app)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Symphony (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Beyond Utopia (Independent Lens/PBS)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Eternal Memory (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Bobi Wine: The People's President (National Geographic/Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Four Daughters (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Elemental (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Boy and the Heron (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nimona (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Short Films<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Live Action<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The After (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Yellow (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Knight of Fortune (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Red White and Blue (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*The Shepherd (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Invincible (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Animated<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Boom (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Pachyderm (YouTube, again at IFC)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Once Upon a Studio (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Pete (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Letter to a Pig (YouTube, again at IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Eeva (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Our Uniform (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Ninety-Five Senses (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Wild Summons (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*I'm Hip (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Documentary</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*How We Get Free (Max)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Island in Between (NY Times/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Deciding Vote (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Last Repair Shop (LA Times/Searchlight/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis (Independent Lens/PBS/watched on the Passport app)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Between Earth and Sky (POV/PBS website)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The Barber of Little Rock (New Yorker/YouTube)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Camp Courage (Netflix)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The ABCs of Book Banning (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Last Song from Kabul (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (ESPN +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Nai Nai and Wai Po (Disney +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*short-listed but not nominated</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-2120682655271042712024-02-17T13:37:00.000-08:002024-02-18T06:59:05.955-08:00Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On a whim, I decided to jump on the subway and catch the Oscar nominated shorts at the IFC Center. I have seen all the live action and documentary shorts, but only two of the animated ones (those were the only ones on YouTube). Every year, the IFC screens the nominated shorts, giving a leg up to Award show fans in their party betting pools. As I have related before, I've actually been at Oscar viewing parties where people objected to allowing me to bet in the pool because I had the unfair advantage of seeing all the films in these categories, even though they were open to the public and playing only a few blocks away. This year's animated shorts are high-caliber and it's difficult to pick a favorite, but here are some thoughts:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizHeOKiH14nYqZB6gluvgtZClhS-isNjIoGSQQl13rT2NWyfVjgWV2Z6CTCu81c2LRCQWJpriaahc3UU6OBf06E1ZySNneYiRLFRUK4X8UW48oQdpuoelUwbV0Fo8XhYIbA5l1QYr2w8N90NdaKt8e1EjGycyYRNMg1t0WHG5gIzjoGi-8jBzcwlPTvWs/s1200/OurUniform-1200x675.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizHeOKiH14nYqZB6gluvgtZClhS-isNjIoGSQQl13rT2NWyfVjgWV2Z6CTCu81c2LRCQWJpriaahc3UU6OBf06E1ZySNneYiRLFRUK4X8UW48oQdpuoelUwbV0Fo8XhYIbA5l1QYr2w8N90NdaKt8e1EjGycyYRNMg1t0WHG5gIzjoGi-8jBzcwlPTvWs/s320/OurUniform-1200x675.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Our Uniform</b></td></tr></tbody></table>Our Uniform (Iran)</b>: Yegane Moghanddam cleverly uses clothes as a backdrop for her ruminations on attending an all-girls school in Iran where the students had to wear the hijab, even though there were no males present. "Who were we covering up from," she asks in her voice-over narration. She says she learned to be a female in Iran, but nothing else, not a doctor or soccer player, just a female. She examines attitudes about the dress codes women must adhere to as figures move along dresses, slacks, jeans, and the hijab itself.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZLDRDmk4Fsm4WLWl2XN3CZggMrfgFEodKbO8WdsXolOy1v7ksT8Q8Vi7SzOJgInucFag4VEeDdot2p5F_8VNnyHrPp74BqoAq_-MvR0fcVBcUGBfiDqlf0ZG5FCpspOChtXj6kjTpBOWOHcStJ4FcjnYEjULmwDNyeqXtZlMcCY7JRbcVj8PVhEK76C0/s1200/LettertoaPig-1200x675.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZLDRDmk4Fsm4WLWl2XN3CZggMrfgFEodKbO8WdsXolOy1v7ksT8Q8Vi7SzOJgInucFag4VEeDdot2p5F_8VNnyHrPp74BqoAq_-MvR0fcVBcUGBfiDqlf0ZG5FCpspOChtXj6kjTpBOWOHcStJ4FcjnYEjULmwDNyeqXtZlMcCY7JRbcVj8PVhEK76C0/s320/LettertoaPig-1200x675.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Letter to a Pig</b></td></tr></tbody></table>Letter to a Pig</b> (France/Israel): Previously seen on YouTube. In an Israeli middle school class, a Holocaust survivor relates his experiences hiding from the Nazis in a sty where a pig saves him by hiding him from view. One girl student imagines herself in a frightening dreamscape where the pig at first symbolizes the forces of antisemitism and then shrinks and becomes a tiny innocent piglet. Pencil drawings over live-action footage transforms the characters into semi-animals.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Pachyderme</b> <b>(France) </b>A surrealist memory piece of a Frenchwoman recalling a bizarre summer spent with her grandparents. Difficult to decipher. The floorboards creak at night. An elephant tusk hangs at the top of the stairs. Grandpa says it's okay for the little girl to swim in just her underwear with no top. Was she molested? Why does it snow in the summertime? What is the drowned lady in the lake meant to represent?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOykTmnSebujYNLinxAEB9SOuh9wto9nlrHwNxg_G-NTggtHImtEfwtyD-VKbqKgXogRDdAhskcL9-F2KuUvEzg36f2brhSIGo2djI2xGTnGCOjAnXEjXCiIV4uXC1NGBA2zIWa8wP4Ej7CKf2em2ajQSQ8hUgcUvPlB6q-2NRCz9ghjSEwWN-H-MyC6fF/s1000/Ninety-five-Senses.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="1000" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOykTmnSebujYNLinxAEB9SOuh9wto9nlrHwNxg_G-NTggtHImtEfwtyD-VKbqKgXogRDdAhskcL9-F2KuUvEzg36f2brhSIGo2djI2xGTnGCOjAnXEjXCiIV4uXC1NGBA2zIWa8wP4Ej7CKf2em2ajQSQ8hUgcUvPlB6q-2NRCz9ghjSEwWN-H-MyC6fF/s320/Ninety-five-Senses.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ninety-five Senses</b></td></tr></tbody></table>Ninety-Five Senses (USA):</b> Directed by Jerusha and Jared Hess, creators of the cult film Napoleon Dynamite. This is my choice for best of the lot. This beautiful featurette combines imaginative animation which poignant, detail-rich storytelling. An elderly man (voiced by Tim Blake Nelson) relates his life story in terms of each of the five senses and we gradually learn he is facing his imminent demise. Each sense evokes a different set of memories--smell connotes his grandma's visits to the beauty parlor, hearing his dad's blasting Anne Murray records because his job at a saw mill made him practically deaf, taste is the narrator's last meal, and touch tells of his unrealized dreams and regrets in terms of being unable to touch people physically or emotionally. The story was very real, like reading a short story. I got a sense of the narrator, the father, the grandma, and the other characters.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtovp4Bb_4EUMAdVmtC0aDyFK8_Se0JsaS2ITonyRUJdY9kRytMZ6a9AKOGG3ZKyuhTu92ujHxJYQgiHy1wdPTT_z0juGaXuL3zUZkU-GnXk83uvRbJG2PHMb7DHJy9FnA5br4boKSgAloY44uW43nUofYkoHXoLQA5tyeXCkrbAf1JLX4nZ485-KMDDvb/s1200/WarIsOver-1200x675.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtovp4Bb_4EUMAdVmtC0aDyFK8_Se0JsaS2ITonyRUJdY9kRytMZ6a9AKOGG3ZKyuhTu92ujHxJYQgiHy1wdPTT_z0juGaXuL3zUZkU-GnXk83uvRbJG2PHMb7DHJy9FnA5br4boKSgAloY44uW43nUofYkoHXoLQA5tyeXCkrbAf1JLX4nZ485-KMDDvb/s320/WarIsOver-1200x675.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>War Is Over! <br />Inspired by the Music of John& Ono</b></td></tr></tbody></table>War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Ono</b> (USA): Kind of obvious and preachy, but beautifully drawn. Enemy soldiers relay chess moves through a carrier pigeon. They meet on the battlefield (of course). I don't have to tell you what happens to the beloved bird just as peace is declared. Then Lennon's Christmas song bursts onto the soundtrack and the opposite forces embrace amid the dead bodies.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The program also included two short-listed but not nominated films, identified as "highly commended." It's not clear how these two were chosen out of the remaining 10 on the short list to be tacked on at the end. I haven't tracked down all the other short-listed films, but it was surprising they did not include the Disney short--Once Upon a Studio which features just about every Disney character ever.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Wild Summon</b>: Fascinating satire of nature films with miniature female human scuba divers replacing salmon as they encounter predators, fishing boats and an untamed open sea in their journey to their home spawning grounds. Singer-actress Marianne Faithful narrates, sounding like a female David Attenborough.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I'm Hip</b>: A very funny short conclusion to the program with a feline singing about his cool credentials to the title song by Dave Frishberg (vocals) and Bob Dorough (initially recorded by Blossom Dearie). He encounters numerous humans who do not share his good opinion and kick him out of a series of nightclubs, restaurants, and cinemas. This was a riot and my favorite of the entire program. Directed by John Musker, co-director of Disney films such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXca2Q8cSIqZDLoqv9YQWL935zjpWv17Iqlczx-OKGyka_pdWY4xX3VcIxttOrH8JAi-N4NL5fOWv21k1AUy-Sr9SO1lehxsPFj5WNXUX92AZc9o4eN9ABckrn6-WkyXdkNtRpaHnWsFlOwDz97IXqOKjpK62IiAWua_-Zan2nOlRqsmTuYN2AK9UvV3F/s2500/imhip_musker_h.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="2500" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXca2Q8cSIqZDLoqv9YQWL935zjpWv17Iqlczx-OKGyka_pdWY4xX3VcIxttOrH8JAi-N4NL5fOWv21k1AUy-Sr9SO1lehxsPFj5WNXUX92AZc9o4eN9ABckrn6-WkyXdkNtRpaHnWsFlOwDz97IXqOKjpK62IiAWua_-Zan2nOlRqsmTuYN2AK9UvV3F/s320/imhip_musker_h.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>I'm Hip</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">2023 Potential Oscar Nominated Films Seen So Far</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Oppenheimer (34th Street AMC and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Barbie (Regal Union Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Asteroid City (Angelika)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Golda (County Theater, Doylestown, PA)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Killers of the Flower Moon (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Rustin (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Killer (Netflix)--Tilda Swinton could nab a Supporting Actress nod<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Maestro (Paris Cinema mezzanine and again on Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">May December (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Past Lives (Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Poor Things (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Holdovers (Regal Union Square--and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Fiction (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Anatomy of a Fall (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nyad (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Napoleon (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Society of the Snow (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Zone of Interest (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Perfect Days (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">El Conde (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Creator (Hulu)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Still: A Michael J. Fox Film (Apple TV +)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Les Menus Plaisir--Les Troisgros (Film Forum)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">20 Days in Mariupol (Frontline/PBS/Watched on the Passport app)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Symphony (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Beyond Utopia (Independent Lens/PBS)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Eternal Memory (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Bobi Wine: The People's President (National Geographic/Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Four Daughters (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Elemental (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Boy and the Heron (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nimona (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Short Films<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Live Action<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The After (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Yellow (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Knight of Fortune (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Red White and Blue (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*The Shepherd (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Invincible (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Animated<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Boom (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Pachyderm (YouTube, again at IFC)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Once Upon a Studio (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Pete (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Letter to a Pig (YouTube, again at IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Eeva (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Our Uniform (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Ninety-Five Senses (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Wild Summons (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*I'm Hip (IFC)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Documentary</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*How We Get Free (Max)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Island in Between (NY Times/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Deciding Vote (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Last Repair Shop (LA Times/Searchlight/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis (Independent Lens/PBS/watched on the Passport app)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Between Earth and Sky (POV/PBS website)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The Barber of Little Rock (New Yorker/YouTube)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Camp Courage (Netflix)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The ABCs of Book Banning (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Last Song from Kabul (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (ESPN +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Nai Nai and Wai Po (Disney +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*short-listed but not nominated</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-42341872657972190212024-02-15T20:39:00.000-08:002024-02-17T13:51:54.893-08:00Super Bowl Commercials<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7ubt9HGbqkUpe2xzotdX-NX1PDmKcz22ZwJM9zFMkWAxceUC1nRYEhwVKCQaIvcIyLYpicc4Wv0QnsIa4__11UTtUT1088vc0oSwGq069EL8sO7mK85Rcz0SJPgKL4NZTDvuUPTap2kxr_fepSNH6imJ_11Ua02fcFAgxkNpDoEG6wAIs0FtjdDALrPT/s700/MMs-2024-700x432.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="700" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7ubt9HGbqkUpe2xzotdX-NX1PDmKcz22ZwJM9zFMkWAxceUC1nRYEhwVKCQaIvcIyLYpicc4Wv0QnsIa4__11UTtUT1088vc0oSwGq069EL8sO7mK85Rcz0SJPgKL4NZTDvuUPTap2kxr_fepSNH6imJ_11Ua02fcFAgxkNpDoEG6wAIs0FtjdDALrPT/s320/MMs-2024-700x432.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does Scarlett Johansson need money?</td></tr></tbody></table>I reverse-DVRed the Super Bowl, meaning I fast-forwarded past the game so I could watch only the commercials and the half-time show which were very telling about the state of the country. Not only were they selling beer, cars, travel services and websites, but also ideas and religions. There was more than one ad selling Jesus and another promoting Scientology as something you should check out. Never mind all those horror stories about it being a cult and mind-control, drop in and be greeted by a smiling young person. The Christian ads were advising viewers to wash the feet of someone you disagree with. There was even a campaign ad for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In a bizarre twist, they used footage of a commercial for RFK Jr's uncle's 1960 Presidential campaign and imposed his photo over JFK. (RFK Jr. later apologized for the ad's bad taste, explaining he had nothing to do with it. It was paid for by a Super PAC supporting his third party candidacy.) Film and TV stars like Christopher Walken, Tina Fey, Glenn Close, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Patrick Stewart and Arnold Schwarzenegger must need money for new wings of their houses since they appeared in spots. Also the <i>Wicked </i>movie looks cool. <p></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-58894733333268482862024-02-13T07:20:00.000-08:002024-02-20T09:12:10.066-08:00B'way Update: Appropriate Moves, Etc.<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1-b-MgLEG4vsljMV3X_OAwJFcWtWEg9a1HbNTfwNXHorDM24DOWiv5sYyQnf5BgfDfb9NiLtG6CPCzTjOeXczxPqtIarmmJWLaZwiRUaFsXLsvDM3KnoiTC4uA0a2F0kUVrfuWLRcXAK0ld1yUqDvcfoDCkPUmmXGs-EqvNURlYkwDUAVgL3wNAo53UW/s970/Michael-Esper-Corey-Stoll-and-Sarah-Paulson-in-Appropriate.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="970" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1-b-MgLEG4vsljMV3X_OAwJFcWtWEg9a1HbNTfwNXHorDM24DOWiv5sYyQnf5BgfDfb9NiLtG6CPCzTjOeXczxPqtIarmmJWLaZwiRUaFsXLsvDM3KnoiTC4uA0a2F0kUVrfuWLRcXAK0ld1yUqDvcfoDCkPUmmXGs-EqvNURlYkwDUAVgL3wNAo53UW/s320/Michael-Esper-Corey-Stoll-and-Sarah-Paulson-in-Appropriate.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Esper, Corey Stoll and Sarah Paulsen<br />in <i>Appropriate.</i><br />Credit: Joan Marcus</td></tr></tbody></table>As predicted in a previous post, the Second Stage revival of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' <i>Appropriate </i>will be moving from the Hayes Theater (to make room for Paula Vogel's <i>Mother Play</i>) to a limited run at the now-vacant Belasco Theater (after <i>How to Dance in Ohio</i> closed) from March 25 to June 23. The entire company will repeating their roles, except for Elle Fanning who has a scheduling conflict. Her replacement for the role of River will be announced in the coming weeks. The transfer will increase the play's chances at the Tony Awards. There still has not been a ruling if the production is a revival or a new play since the work was previously seen Off-Broadway at the Signature Theater in 2014 where it won an Obie Award. The Tonys only consider Broadway shows.<p></p><p>This means all the theaters on Broadway will be occupied at the end of the season--expect one. The Lyceum has no prospective tenant since <i>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</i>, Rob Madge's autobiographical solo show from the West End, has postponed its Broadway run there. The piece is expected to open during the 2024-25 season. </p><p><b></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoF8yy6_CDB5_qCuigA0cPzKwDkkd5m2AMug32-nmXj-QMtB1j4rKEL-rZUlqd7l7aTKNp503AYYgy1TtC2NyEN1OtATNMWvLWabh-2lhWslf4-CytbE9ftV3f3cPQsUzI1oMUXir73ep2cBvD7hghRIpJ5FyIyzpRtLMykqr-CboNu3vvLUtfCN4wT-F/s402/kristen-chenoweth-20631919-1-402.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="402" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoF8yy6_CDB5_qCuigA0cPzKwDkkd5m2AMug32-nmXj-QMtB1j4rKEL-rZUlqd7l7aTKNp503AYYgy1TtC2NyEN1OtATNMWvLWabh-2lhWslf4-CytbE9ftV3f3cPQsUzI1oMUXir73ep2cBvD7hghRIpJ5FyIyzpRtLMykqr-CboNu3vvLUtfCN4wT-F/s320/kristen-chenoweth-20631919-1-402.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin Chenoweth</td></tr></tbody></table><b>Queen of Versailles Musical</b>: Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth will reunite with her <i>Wicked </i>composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz in the new Broadway-bound musical, <i>Queen of Versailles</i>, based on Lauren Greenfield's 2012 documentary on socialite Jacqueline "Jackie" Siegel and her quest to build the largest private home in America. <i>Queen of Versailles</i> begins performances at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theater on July 16 to play through Aug. 18. Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (<i>Amadeus, The White Lotus</i>) will play Jackie's husband, "Timeshare" king David Siegel. <p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">Featuring a book by </span><a data-crosslink="" data-module-id="luhcm1-Crosslink" href="https://playbill.com/person/lindsey-ferrentino" rel="external" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">Lindsey Ferrentino</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;"> (</span><em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">Ugly Lies the Bone</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">, </span><em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">Amy and the Orphans</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">) and direction by Tony nominee </span><a data-crosslink="" data-module-id="xaf3xs-Crosslink" href="https://playbill.com/person/michael-arden-vault-0000019233" rel="external" style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700;">Michael Arden</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;"> (</span><em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">Parade</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">,</span><em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;"> Once on This Island</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">)</span><em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">, </em><em style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: rgba(252,252,252,var(--tw-border-opacity)); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;">The Queen of Versailles</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 16px;"> will explore the cost of fame, fortune, and family.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span><a name='more'></a></span><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule and Beyond<br /></b><b>Winter 2023-24<br /></b>Feb. 13--The Apiary (Second Stage/Tony Kiser Theater)</div><div>Feb. 14--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)<br /></div><div>Feb. 19--Five: The Musical Parody (Theater 555)</div><div>Feb. 21--Jelly's Last Jam (Encores/City Center)</div><div>Feb. 22--The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--A Sign of the Times (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--Sunset Baby (Signature Theater)</div><div>Feb. 25--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)<br />Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)</div><div>Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)</div><div>Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Spring 2024</b></div><div>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)</div><div>March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)</div><div>March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)</div><div>March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)</div><div>March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)</div><div>March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)</div><div>March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)</div><div>March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)</div><div>March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)</div><div>March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)</div><div>March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)</div><div>April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)</div><div>April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) </div><div>April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)</div><div>April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)</div><div>April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)</div><div>April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)</div><div>April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)</div><div>April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)</div><div>April 18--Suffs (Music Box)</div><div>April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)</div><div>April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)</div><div>April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)</div><div>April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)</div><div>April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)</div><div>April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced</div><div>April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)</div><div>April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) </div><div>April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)</div><div>April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)</div><div>April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)</div><div>April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced</div><div>April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced</div><div>April 30--Tony Nominations Announced</div><div>April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)</div><div>May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)</div><div>May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced</div><div>May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)</div><div>May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)</div><div>May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 10--Theater World Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June 20--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Queen of Versailles; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div><br /></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-19970851495453462782024-02-11T13:24:00.000-08:002024-02-12T05:31:30.417-08:0010 Reasons to Watch Voyage of the Damned on Pluto<p>Here's a list of reasons you should watch Voyage of the Damned (1976) on Pluto: </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZqTJTilDhx8qr2ZpPHvgZjhQsKQMwQCpqIy5twweahnTO9b7OQqUo_ZtEp7LVF8SrwU4i-WFPslkfgOS6LdHTR4slkFXXgR7xA0q2UPiqcw7ujXCNYuf5xv0qAQ1Vi_WE4Je9FYaVCOoDg1-_V2cui6HcQVpTmYMwwBXHzoROoF4WOScWRwR2K55RDlx/s1142/voyag-costumeball.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1142" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZqTJTilDhx8qr2ZpPHvgZjhQsKQMwQCpqIy5twweahnTO9b7OQqUo_ZtEp7LVF8SrwU4i-WFPslkfgOS6LdHTR4slkFXXgR7xA0q2UPiqcw7ujXCNYuf5xv0qAQ1Vi_WE4Je9FYaVCOoDg1-_V2cui6HcQVpTmYMwwBXHzoROoF4WOScWRwR2K55RDlx/s320/voyag-costumeball.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oskar Werner and Faye Dunaway in<br /><i>Voyage of the Damned.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>1. It's free.</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">2.<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> it's stuffed with stars. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3) Lee Grant copped an Oscar nomination for her hair-snipping scene.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">4) it features one of Orson Welles' I-need-cash-to-finance-my-next big-unfinished-movie performances. Welles plays a Cuban financier who haggles with Ben Gazzara over the amount of bribery money it will take to allow the Jewish refugees into Havana. In one of the few spontaneous and off-the-cuff moments of the film, Welles is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage with a slim, attractive young woman (obviously a paid mistress). Victor Spinetti is pleading with Welles for the lives of his two little daughters, stuck on the ship. The mistress is reading a magazine. In the middle of this emotional scene, Welles turns to her and says, "Why don't you wear your glasses?"</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5) Oskar Werner in an obvious toupee and Faye Dunaway wearing a monocle. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6) Julie Harris weeping. She's probably thinking, "I have four Tony Awards and I have to do this crap?" (She hadn't won the fifth one yet. It was for The Belle of Amherst in 1977).</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">7) Wendy Hiller suffering nobly after her husband Luther Adler dies.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">8) James Mason threatening Jose Ferrer</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">9) Katharine Ross as a prostitute. Also the extremely tacky red walls in the Havana brothel. The whole milieu is a riot with someone looking like Hermione Gingold as the madame.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">10) A very young Jonathan Pryce as a former inmate at a concentration camp.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The picture was good for a sloshy, late 70s dish of TV-movie-level melodrama but be ready to tolerate countless commercial interruptions for Alfa Romeos.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTI3szgRC5swRW625Kjp2rJgWIh_8uoGiMbXCRvqLSM8jpo7Qqh37CMq3cA3HuH-44BFSgcSKfW_p64XItYVgNqQVT2Swt0aHHqCU1unZrSIfkRArzwpNrijX_65aHQRqWhDZDKrx3BtxL1q1-uw5qDEEDeW44q69Jlz35BzYA6oKXG-cO_b1Rx7yshPY-/s1024/voyage-of-the-damned.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="676" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTI3szgRC5swRW625Kjp2rJgWIh_8uoGiMbXCRvqLSM8jpo7Qqh37CMq3cA3HuH-44BFSgcSKfW_p64XItYVgNqQVT2Swt0aHHqCU1unZrSIfkRArzwpNrijX_65aHQRqWhDZDKrx3BtxL1q1-uw5qDEEDeW44q69Jlz35BzYA6oKXG-cO_b1Rx7yshPY-/s320/voyage-of-the-damned.jpg" width="211" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><p></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-22015698457571373662024-02-10T13:13:00.000-08:002024-03-18T03:51:46.337-07:00Oscar Nominees: Creator, Guardians, Perfect Days, etc.<p><span style="color: #222222;">In the quest to see all the Oscar-nominated films, I'm down to categories like Visual Effects and Sound (remember when they had a separate category for sound effects editing? What happened to it?) But in these fields, we have mostly action epics which I didn't bother seeing during the summer. When I had a house in upstate NY and before COVID, we used to go to these kinds of pix all the time, just to get out of the house. I do love a good sci-fi or superhero flick and have enjoyed most of the Marvel Universe and Star Wars franchise. (I get Disney + with the Hulu Plus Live TV package so I may as well watch them since I'm paying for it.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><b></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim0lGz4hIwz_WBDQ3LWtVyIvAiSv_FJcAR8ORFw5wvQQv2RsXI-pFvs-9NhfkTbWkfUYUHiVYVKDEPu9CfD4F3JDKgYExUgBwtGFfJQD9SpntXZXLv1MEBmFZjXgtQKP44NR3inU4MM-YLFUgQT6MXANLk2fTeC2Grb1y7lxvda5VXFNykZKT7uSoJl4lg/s681/V1-0048_frm_pull.047-H-2023.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim0lGz4hIwz_WBDQ3LWtVyIvAiSv_FJcAR8ORFw5wvQQv2RsXI-pFvs-9NhfkTbWkfUYUHiVYVKDEPu9CfD4F3JDKgYExUgBwtGFfJQD9SpntXZXLv1MEBmFZjXgtQKP44NR3inU4MM-YLFUgQT6MXANLk2fTeC2Grb1y7lxvda5VXFNykZKT7uSoJl4lg/s320/V1-0048_frm_pull.047-H-2023.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Madeline Yuna Voyles and friend in<br /><i>The Creator</i><br />Credit: 20th Century Studios</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #222222;"><b><i>The Creator</i></b> (Nominated for Sound and Visual Effects/Seen on Hulu): Almost every shot in this massive sci-fi blockbuster contains a visual effect with half the cast being transformed for their roles as simulants or robots. There's also lots of huge spaceships and explosions. The premise has great potential: in the year 2070, AI-powered lifeforms based in Asia are at war with the humans-only West--read imperialist, jingoheaded USA. Parallels to the Vietnam War are obvious. The hero (John David Washington, Denzel's son) has been recruited to seize an AI superweapon which can control all technology and destroy mankind. Turns out the weapon or asset is in the form of a child. The reluctant hero's stake: his wife is somewhere behind enemy lines. The only way he can find her and save humanity to retrieve the sim-kid. The visuals are stunning, but the action gets kinda repetitive after a while. Plus there are continuity issues where the action doesn't make sense. </span><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="color: #222222;">At least this huge summer-type pic provided employment for people I like from the theater such as Allison Janney, Michael Esper (who I just saw in <i>Appropriate</i> on Broadway) and Ken Wantanabe (mainly a movie actor, but a Tony nominee for <i>The King and I</i>). Seeing Janney in a ridiculous role in an expensive piece of hardware-infused fluff made me think about the fact that an Oscar and 7-time Emmy winner has to appear in such silliness to pay the rent.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><i>The Creator </i>also raised issues about AI. The film takes the opposite approach of most similar flicks where artificial intelligence is seen as an existential threat. Here the AI-augmented beings are the victims of Uncle Sam's shock-and-awe campaign, symbolized by Nomad, the West's massive spaceship-arsenal. Spoiler Alert: It gets blown up big time and everybody cheers. In the high school classes I've taught, the kids were just beginning to use AI to cheat on assignments. They were obviously typing in the writing prompt into Chat GPT and copying what the software spit out. I can see the benefits of AI in professional situations, but it will make too many young phone-addicted minds even lazier than they already are now.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKHQjbSkIBrrvcVeim1BKypsNpvjOwSiGmEEzZiZDrP8DwOFSU77GzQR7gHptDCNjuYasyFf0MwxWF48U6lfiPK1iAx6dDakBa5ULK-cxwhgHcY_hREKsGFbJh75Nnbw6qVkOWJPVRjypVJAnY8FcCw59VtEEohOtcPcH629ZuKGsNevYgFmiDTnm2_lG/s1200/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-9.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKHQjbSkIBrrvcVeim1BKypsNpvjOwSiGmEEzZiZDrP8DwOFSU77GzQR7gHptDCNjuYasyFf0MwxWF48U6lfiPK1iAx6dDakBa5ULK-cxwhgHcY_hREKsGFbJh75Nnbw6qVkOWJPVRjypVJAnY8FcCw59VtEEohOtcPcH629ZuKGsNevYgFmiDTnm2_lG/s320/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3</i></b>: (Nominated for Visual Effects/Seen on Disney +): A big comic-book joyride full of spacewalks, mutants and violence. The final chapter in Marvel's trilogy featuring a gonzo band of misfits, constantly hurling insults and loving each other as they risk life and limb to save their scrappy comrade Rocket Raccoon from the clutches of the High Evolutionary. The art direction and special effects are stunning and the screenplay is pretty cool. I loved the giant organic space corporation, the suburbia full of half-animals/half-humans, the talking Soviet dog, the sarcastic byplay between Mantis (girl with anntenae), Nebula (former Doctor Who companion Karen Gillin, unrecognizable with a bald head and covered in green paint) and Dax the Destroyer. Chris Pratt is dryly funny as the hero and plays well off a hard-as-nails Zoe Saldana.</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemah26AHvBABoASwdGaaRLgOPJNSlOTU7hbnFmObGHu6Y7V0eao7LRebgCWFCx1txkS1rCu1jjEd9bkUAfzKYqPvWvicyRY58dK4-jfkoHeXtILSgnDtQs9l_LEykbgQ9rD-pgmNnuWgvUFTQgYYjx1AFgx88nrM1mLydRIldzD0NN_L2eUiIKuxLq6Sv/s1600/brody-guardians3.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1600" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemah26AHvBABoASwdGaaRLgOPJNSlOTU7hbnFmObGHu6Y7V0eao7LRebgCWFCx1txkS1rCu1jjEd9bkUAfzKYqPvWvicyRY58dK4-jfkoHeXtILSgnDtQs9l_LEykbgQ9rD-pgmNnuWgvUFTQgYYjx1AFgx88nrM1mLydRIldzD0NN_L2eUiIKuxLq6Sv/s320/brody-guardians3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3<br /><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><b><i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzCYLryd74yBhW8r2qr9qHZ5zbMeBzQoxV1ICHABR4L-pOkxcgHnpjV3KsA7FuoW4vYu6XmuuXDjpvNU9dSc8WsmXqxQIee0dHYmUSXw9i_Bnng_vQZcXBd29aVrDWpgGec_oe_SI7-16BwNc3-esN-1HjfGlCU0Hm6msBEDiKqZi1kABd6Gj5VrNLjvn/s681/Nai-Nai-WaiPo.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="681" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIzCYLryd74yBhW8r2qr9qHZ5zbMeBzQoxV1ICHABR4L-pOkxcgHnpjV3KsA7FuoW4vYu6XmuuXDjpvNU9dSc8WsmXqxQIee0dHYmUSXw9i_Bnng_vQZcXBd29aVrDWpgGec_oe_SI7-16BwNc3-esN-1HjfGlCU0Hm6msBEDiKqZi1kABd6Gj5VrNLjvn/s320/Nai-Nai-WaiPo.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nai Nai and Wai Po</td></tr></tbody></table>Nai Nai and Wai Po</i></b> (Nominated for Documentary Short/Seen on Disney +): I have now seen all the nominees in this category and it's difficult to predict a winner. This featurette profiles the directors' two Tawainese-American grandmothers who live together. We see them dancing, singing, and talking about farting for 16 minutes. Cute elderly Asian ladies mugging for the camera--How can it miss? </span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><b><i>Perfect Days </i></b>(Nominated for International Film/Seen at the Angelika): Wim Wenders' poetic film chronicles the daily life of Hirayama (Koji Yakusho, Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival), a Tokyo toilet cleaner who finds the beauty in the everyday. He reads books, waters his plants, listens to cassettes of 1970s and 80s <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJP4i0wmeQ3JY3RbjusBqyziG9sk1_fu_36QzDscrmhiUj6NWEO1RcpNLTN9osghxrkgK1ff4SL3ZAkdsIyOj1CWpa-QprqMclau5TPWgV9evP_8z_IIfhIgL0tc6aoTrTY97JJ-c0XK5Qt_UsOmPWKV7hDZVFS1cEN2O7K8hgx8JFzJepCWjrYBXWgsc/s1200/download%20(13).webp" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJP4i0wmeQ3JY3RbjusBqyziG9sk1_fu_36QzDscrmhiUj6NWEO1RcpNLTN9osghxrkgK1ff4SL3ZAkdsIyOj1CWpa-QprqMclau5TPWgV9evP_8z_IIfhIgL0tc6aoTrTY97JJ-c0XK5Qt_UsOmPWKV7hDZVFS1cEN2O7K8hgx8JFzJepCWjrYBXWgsc/s320/download%20(13).webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Koji Yakusho and Arisa Nakano in<br /><i>Perfect Days.</i><br />Credit: Neon</td></tr></tbody></table><br />rock, photographs trees, and does his job meticulously, all while leading a solitary life. Not much happens. His younger colleague tries to date a hip girl who likes Hirayama's taste in music. Hirayama's niece drops in after running away from her affluent home. The hostess at his favorite restaurant receives a visit from her ex-husband. Hirayama's life intersects with these people briefly and he find joy in the encounters as he does in his music, books and photographs. The final shot is a stunning close-up of the protagonist, smiling and crying as Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" plays. Gorgeous and moving.<br /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">2023 Potential Oscar Nominated Films Seen So Far<br /></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Oppenheimer (34th Street AMC and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Barbie (Regal Union Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Asteroid City (Angelika)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Golda (County Theater, Doylestown, PA)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Killers of the Flower Moon (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Rustin (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Killer (Netflix)--Tilda Swinton could nab a Supporting Actress nod<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Maestro (Paris Cinema mezzanine and again on Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">May December (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Past Lives (Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Poor Things (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Holdovers (Regal Union Square--and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Fiction (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Anatomy of a Fall (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nyad (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Napoleon (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Society of the Snow (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Zone of Interest (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Perfect Days (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">El Conde (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Creator (Hulu)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Still: A Michael J. Fox Film (Apple TV +)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Les Menus Plaisir--Les Troisgros (Film Forum)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">20 Days in Mariupol (Frontline/PBS/Watched on the Passport app)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Symphony (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Beyond Utopia (Independent Lens/PBS)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Eternal Memory (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Bobi Wine: The People's President (National Geographic/Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Four Daughters (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Elemental (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Boy and the Heron (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nimona (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Short Films<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Live Action<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The After (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Yellow (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Knight of Fortune (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Red White and Blue (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*The Shepherd (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Invincible (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Animated<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Boom (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Pachyderm (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Once Upon a Studio (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Pete (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Letter to a Pig (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Eeva (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Documentary</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*How We Get Free (Max)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Island in Between (NY Times/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Deciding Vote (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Last Repair Shop (LA Times/Searchlight/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis (Independent Lens/PBS/watched on the Passport app)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Between Earth and Sky (POV/PBS website)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The Barber of Little Rock (New Yorker/YouTube)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Camp Courage (Netflix)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The ABCs of Book Banning (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Last Song from Kabul (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (ESPN +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Nai Nai and Wai Po (Disney +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*short-listed but not nominated</div></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-20762740023863442152024-02-07T12:02:00.000-08:002024-02-07T12:07:28.222-08:00Theater World and Drama Desks on the Same Date!<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1c5WtzQU1ygAUOHptbHc_gBtvazX5iHqPkkGBK8Bv3WXopo0rEQUEvSiltbnIHOcELdOv9ODfUfHFRKE_l6cl1_X20avYljN7e1d6vSQN4M0JhEhpnJpgSciXHNOPdIB0SuRIXIBuAWosINM1W9EOO8X7jv5qTYvWB_uNdCjma67CcNko6eFTjxI7EL8o/s970/a07f21cd327c75e71e3a6b6e4e42a06d-theatre-world-awards.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="970" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1c5WtzQU1ygAUOHptbHc_gBtvazX5iHqPkkGBK8Bv3WXopo0rEQUEvSiltbnIHOcELdOv9ODfUfHFRKE_l6cl1_X20avYljN7e1d6vSQN4M0JhEhpnJpgSciXHNOPdIB0SuRIXIBuAWosINM1W9EOO8X7jv5qTYvWB_uNdCjma67CcNko6eFTjxI7EL8o/s320/a07f21cd327c75e71e3a6b6e4e42a06d-theatre-world-awards.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Uh-oh. Two major NY theater awards will be held on the same date. It was just announced the 78th annual Theater World Awards will be held on Mon. June 10. Yesterday the Drama Desk Awards had announced the same date for their 69th annual accolades. However, the Theater Worlds which are given for outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway debut performances, listed 7PM as their start time. Last year and the year before, the DDs were held in the afternoon, so things may work out for winners who wish to attend both ceremonies. Neither event has listed a venue. Hopefully they will be close to each other so double attendees will have a short trip and time for a bite to eat.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 2024 Honorees for the Theatre World Award for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production, the landmark 15th Annual Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater, the 10th Annual John Willis Award for lifetime achievement, and the theatre venue, will be announced in this spring.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyhKPblPop_p0iaUvlnSj-F5UpluNwZ3azHmqyyaYcKNGiWSmiDDBPBMtncOGqlpYjZX04OSu6NManQ1QjpdDhnyMR708myklNXt4GUarq-a-8BJWOAu7t5luXQZKSYtvcd2lGCMOnz8KsBWDdyQTL4gAx0bRnJZYks-zqulKdxbO-mGGQBIpVK6XviPY/s608/Julie-Benko-as-Fanny-Brice-in-Funny-Girl.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="608" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyhKPblPop_p0iaUvlnSj-F5UpluNwZ3azHmqyyaYcKNGiWSmiDDBPBMtncOGqlpYjZX04OSu6NManQ1QjpdDhnyMR708myklNXt4GUarq-a-8BJWOAu7t5luXQZKSYtvcd2lGCMOnz8KsBWDdyQTL4gAx0bRnJZYks-zqulKdxbO-mGGQBIpVK6XviPY/s320/Julie-Benko-as-Fanny-Brice-in-Funny-Girl.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Benko who won last year's<br />Dorothy Loudon Award for her<br />performance in <i>Funny Girl</i>.</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hosted annually by well-known theater journalist, <strong>Peter Filichia</strong>, the historic <em><strong>78th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony</strong></em> will be produced by <em>Theatre World Awards, Inc.</em> Board of Directors / <strong>Dale Badway</strong>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">The </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"><strong>Theatre World Award</strong></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> honorees are chosen by the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Theatre World Awards Committee</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> which is comprised of </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Linda Armstrong</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(Amsterdam News)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">David Cote</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(The Observer)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Joe Dziemianowicz</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(New York Daily News, Emeritus)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Peter Filichia</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(The Newark Star-Ledger, Emeritus)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">David Finkle</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(New York Stage Review)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Elysa Gardner</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(USA Today, Emeritus)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Harry Haun</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(The Observer</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">), </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Cary Wong</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(Freelance)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">, and </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">Frank Scheck</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">(The Hollywood Reporter)</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit;">. Armstrong and Filichia are also on the Nominating Committee for the Drama Desks.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #555555;"><br /></span><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <em><strong>Theatre World Awards, Inc. Board of Directors</strong></em> is headed by <strong>Dale Badway</strong> <em>(President)</em> with <strong>Tom Lynch</strong> <em>(Vice-President)</em>, <strong>Michael Kostel</strong> <em>(Vice-President)</em>, <strong>Stephen Wilde</strong> <em>(Secretary)</em>, The Honorable <strong>Ilene Zatkin-Butler</strong> <em>(Treasurer)</em>, <strong>James Sheridan</strong>, and <strong>Karen Johnston</strong>.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First presented in 1945, the prestigious <em><strong>Theatre World Awards</strong></em>, founded by John Willis, the Editor-in-Chief of both <em>Theatre World</em> and its companion volume, <em>Screen World</em>, are the oldest awards given for Outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway Debut Performances. The <em>Theatre World Awards</em> are presented annually at the end of the theatre season to six actors and six actresses for their significant, reviewable, debut performances in a Broadway or Off-Broadway production. The ceremony is a private, invitation-only event followed by a party to celebrate the new honorees and welcome them to the Theatre World “family.”</span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In what has become a highly entertaining and often touching tradition, 12 previous winners serve as the presenters, and often relive moments from past ceremonies and share wonderful stories rarely heard at other theatrical awards. </span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="module-4 text-container"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Previous winners who have won the prestigious <em><strong>Theatre World Award</strong></em> at the beginning of their careers include <strong>Meryl Streep, Rosemary Harris, Marlon Brando, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Earl Jones, Liza Minnelli, Alan Alda, Zoe Caldwell, Christopher Walken, Alec Baldwin, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald, Al Pacino, Grace Kelly, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Cynthia Erivo, Danielle Brooks, Lupita Nyong'o, John Krasinski</strong>, and so many more.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule and Beyond<br /></b><b>Winter 2023-24<br /></b>Feb. 8--Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)<br />Feb. 8--Oh, Mary (Lortel)<br />Feb. 9--Where Women Go (HERE)</div><div>Feb. 11--Hamlet (Solo version with Eddie Izzard) (Greenwich House)</div><div>Feb. 13--The Apiary (Second Stage/Tony Kiser Theater)</div><div>Feb. 14--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)<br /></div><div>Feb. 19--Five: The Musical Parody (Theater 555)</div><div>Feb. 21--Jelly's Last Jam (Encores/City Center)</div><div>Feb. 22--The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--A Sign of the Times (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--Sunset Baby (Signature Theater)</div><div>Feb. 25--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)<br />Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)</div><div>Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)</div><div>Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Spring 2024</b></div><div>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)</div><div>March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)</div><div>March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)</div><div>March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)</div><div>March 12--My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Lyceum)</div><div>March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)</div><div>March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)</div><div>March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)</div><div>March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)</div><div>March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)</div><div>March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)</div><div>March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)</div><div>April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)</div><div>April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) </div><div>April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)</div><div>April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)</div><div>April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)</div><div>April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)</div><div>April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)</div><div>April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)</div><div>April 18--Suffs (Music Box)</div><div>April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)</div><div>April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)</div><div>April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)</div><div>April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)</div><div>April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)</div><div>April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced</div><div>April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)</div><div>April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) </div><div>April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)</div><div>April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)</div><div>April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)</div><div>April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced</div><div>April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced</div><div>April 30--Tony Nominations Announced</div><div>April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)</div><div>May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)</div><div>May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced</div><div>May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)</div><div>May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)</div><div>May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 10--Theater World Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-39889276144731885522024-02-06T20:54:00.000-08:002024-02-13T13:04:03.598-08:00B'way Update: Amy Ryan in for Tyne Daly in Doubt<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizY4NniGcAjP5JojhAUFjwQazAm-hp_0v40lXV1LXzOrycq1FJYs6Rf6DFh9TiFuo-ax_vDq5KplKE6uaH62-bibt86HIzWEwVYOzJnofnwWN_rVcwjSI_rTQND3WERiQVtmcbrD_Y-VsLQk4ivQCSjo2k8ld-aF_xuaotXoTDTuJbW69908IAVaApEPr/s679/AmyRyan.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizY4NniGcAjP5JojhAUFjwQazAm-hp_0v40lXV1LXzOrycq1FJYs6Rf6DFh9TiFuo-ax_vDq5KplKE6uaH62-bibt86HIzWEwVYOzJnofnwWN_rVcwjSI_rTQND3WERiQVtmcbrD_Y-VsLQk4ivQCSjo2k8ld-aF_xuaotXoTDTuJbW69908IAVaApEPr/s320/AmyRyan.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amy Ryan will replace<br />an ailing Tyne Daly in<br /><i>Doubt: A Parable</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Oscar nominee Amy Ryan (<i>Gone Baby Gone</i>) will assume the role of Sister Aloysius in Roundabout Theater Company's revival of John Patrick Shanley's <i>Doubt: A Parable. </i>She takes over for Tyne Daly who was hospitalized last Friday and must withdraw from the production while she receives medical care. While Daly's condition was unspecified, it was reported she is expected to make a full recovery. Ryan's first performance will be Tues. Feb. 13 and the opening has been pushed back to March 7. In the interim, Sister Aloysius will be played the understudy, Tony nominee and Drama Desk winner Isabel Keating (<i>The Boy from Oz</i>).<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">“With respect and admiration for Tyne, we wish her the best and a quick recovery. We are grateful that Amy Ryan said yes – in a quick minute – to join our company and take on the role of ‘Sister Aloysius.’ <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We deeply appreciate Isabel Keating, who remarkably stepped in with a day of rehearsal and allowed us to get the production up on its feet during this first week of performances,” </span>notes director <b>Scott Ellis</b>.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: serif, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">The cast of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Doubt: A Parable</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>also stars Tony & SAG Award winner<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Liev Schreiber<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as “Father Flynn,”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Quincy Tyler Bernstine as “Mrs. Muller,” and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Zoe Kazan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as “Sister James.”</p></div><div>Ryan has received a SAG Award as part of the ensemble for <i>Only</i> <i>Murders in the Building</i> and was nominated for Tony Awards for <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> and <i>Uncle</i> <i>Vanya</i>, both Roundabout productions.</div><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule and Beyond</b></div><div><b>Winter 2023-24<br /></b>Feb. 6--The Connector (MCC)<br />Feb. 8--Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)<br />Feb. 8--Oh, Mary (Lortel)<br />Feb. 9--Where Women Go (HERE)<br />Feb. 11--Hamlet (Solo version with Eddie Izzard) (Greenwich House)</div><div>Feb. 13--The Apiary (Second Stage/Tony Kiser Theater)</div><div>Feb. 14--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)<br /></div><div>Feb. 19--Five: The Musical Parody (Theater 555)</div><div>Feb. 21--Jelly's Last Jam (Encores/City Center)</div><div>Feb. 22--The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--A Sign of the Times (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--Sunset Baby (Signature Theater)</div><div>Feb. 25--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)<br />Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)</div><div>Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)</div><div>Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Spring 2024</b></div><div>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)</div><div><div>March 7--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)<br /></div><div>March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)</div></div><div>March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)</div><div>March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)</div><div>March 12--My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Lyceum)</div><div>March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)</div><div>March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)</div><div>March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)</div><div>March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)</div><div>March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)</div><div>March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)</div><div>March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)</div><div>April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)</div><div>April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) </div><div>April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)</div><div>April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)</div><div>April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)</div><div>April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)</div><div>April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)</div><div>April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)</div><div>April 18--Suffs (Music Box)</div><div>April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)</div><div>April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)</div><div>April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)</div><div>April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)</div><div>April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)</div><div>April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced</div><div>April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)</div><div>April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) </div><div>April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)</div><div>April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)</div><div>April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)</div><div>April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced</div><div>April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced</div><div>April 30--Tony Nominations Announced</div><div>April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)</div><div>May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)</div><div>May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced</div><div>May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)</div><div>May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)</div><div>May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-11035534608405574392024-02-06T08:01:00.000-08:002024-02-13T13:13:21.818-08:00B'way Update: Drama Desk Sets Dates for Awards<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWqmlq0s2tiJiklYOYimz2aGGuiyKX9mpmMrQvFW8E4NoSsTY8w1t7QMlVGPsVA7Az_W4fUy17LU6qVTwPVx2SGWLg5uCtAIM_U9wLZbjyE-ybP9cSFhuyTjJYc1YpZmeZ4_1T0bW5VHWuuR6FeMP0Pt670a83TRfZ3s71wJM8-_D7oIBhVWf4QAcyheE/s970/logo-drama-desk-1-copy_2023-04-26-210329_rgdx.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="970" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWqmlq0s2tiJiklYOYimz2aGGuiyKX9mpmMrQvFW8E4NoSsTY8w1t7QMlVGPsVA7Az_W4fUy17LU6qVTwPVx2SGWLg5uCtAIM_U9wLZbjyE-ybP9cSFhuyTjJYc1YpZmeZ4_1T0bW5VHWuuR6FeMP0Pt670a83TRfZ3s71wJM8-_D7oIBhVWf4QAcyheE/s320/logo-drama-desk-1-copy_2023-04-26-210329_rgdx.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The 68th Drama Desk Awards will be presented on Mon. June 10 it was announced by DD Co-Presidents Charles Wright and David Barbour. Nominations will be announced on April 29 (the day before the Tony nominations come out on April 30). Details and venues will be announced in the coming months. Productions must have opened by April 25. The DDs are the only NY-based theater awards to consider Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions in each of its multiple categories.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As was the case last year, the performing categories will be gender-neutral with twice as many candidates as the former gendered categories. Voters, the Drama Desk membership composed of about 100 NY-based theater critics, editors and journalists, will vote for two nominees and there will be two winners in each category. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The ceremony will be produced by Staci Levine, as she did last year. At the 2023 ceremony, the winners were announced in advance.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #2b2b2b;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 2023-2024 Drama Desk Nominating Committee is composed of: Martha Wade Steketee (Chair; freelance: UrbanExcavations.com), Linda Armstrong (New York Amsterdam News), Daniel Dinero (Theater Is Easy), Peter Filichia (Broadway Radio), Kenji Fujishima (freelance: Theatermania), Margaret Hall (Playbill), and Charles Wright, ex-officio.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>2023-24 Broadway/Off-Broadway Schedule and Beyond<br /></b><b>Winter 2023-24<br /></b>Feb. 6--The Connector (MCC)<br />Feb. 8--Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (Vineyard Theater)<br />Feb. 8--Oh, Mary (Lortel)<br />Feb. 9--Where Women Go (HERE)<br />Feb. 11--Hamlet (Solo version with Eddie Izzard) (Greenwich House)</div><div>Feb. 13--The Apiary (Second Stage/Tony Kiser Theater)</div><div>Feb. 14--I Love You So Much I Could Die (NYTW)<br /></div><div>Feb. 19--Five: The Musical Parody (Theater 555)</div><div>Feb. 21--Jelly's Last Jam (Encores/City Center)</div><div>Feb. 22--The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--A Sign of the Times (New World Stages)</div><div>Feb. 22--Sunset Baby (Signature Theater)</div><div>Feb. 25--The Seven Year Disappear (The New Group/Signature Center)<br />Feb. 26--Pericles (CSC)</div><div>Feb. 27--The Ally (Public)</div><div>Feb. 28--Brooklyn Laundry (MTC/City Center Stage I)<br />Feb. 29--Doubt: A Parable (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Spring 2024</b></div><div>March 2--Illinoise (Park Ave. Armory)</div><div>March 7--Tuesdays with Morrie (Sea Dog Theater)</div><div>March 10--Dead Outlaw (Audible/Minetta Lane)</div><div>March 11--Corruption (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)</div><div>March 12--My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Lyceum)</div><div>March 12--Teeth (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>March 13--The Effect (The Shed/Griffin Theater)</div><div>March 14--The Notebook (Schoenfeld)</div><div>March 14--Ibsen's Ghost (Primary Stages/59E59)</div><div>March 18--An Enemy of the People (Circle in the Square)</div><div>March 21--Water for Elephants (Imperial)</div><div>March 24--Philadelphia, Here I Come (IRT)</div><div>March 28--The Who's Tommy (Nederlander)</div><div>April 1--Brynolf & Ljung in Stalker (New World Stages)</div><div>April 2--Orlando (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April 2--Fish (Keen Co./Working Theater/Theater Four) </div><div>April 5--Macbeth (an undoing) (TFANA/Polonsky Center)</div><div>April 11--The Outsiders (Jacobs)</div><div>April 11--Jordans (Public) (previews begin; opening TBA)</div><div>April 12--Staff Meal (previews begin; opening TBA) (Playwrights Horizons)</div><div>April 14--Lempicka (Longacre)</div><div>April 16--Sally & Tom (Public Theater)</div><div>April 17--The Wiz (Marquis)</div><div>April 18--Suffs (Music Box)</div><div>April 19--Stereophonic (Golden)</div><div>April 20--Hell's Kitchen (Shubert)</div><div>April 20/21--Cabaret (August Wilson)</div><div>April 22--The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones)</div><div>April 22--Patriots (Barrymore)</div><div>April 22--Outer Critics Circle nominations announced</div><div>April 22--Drama League nominations announced (NY Library for the Performing Arts)</div><div>April 23--Mary Jane (MTC/Friedman) </div><div>April 24--Uncle Vanya (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)</div><div>April 25--Mother Play (Second Stage/Hayes)</div><div>April 25--The Great Gatsby (Broadway)</div><div>April 26--Chita Rivera Award nominations announced</div><div>April 29--Drama Desk Award nominations announced</div><div>April 30--Tony Nominations Announced</div><div>April 30--Three Houses (previews begin; opening TBA) (Signature Theatre)</div><div>April--Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW)</div><div>May 2--Wine in the Wilderness (previews begin; opening TBA) (CSC)</div><div>May 13--Outer Critics Circle winners announced</div><div>May 17--Drama League Awards (Ziegfeld Ballroom)</div><div>May 20--Chita Rivera Awards Ceremony (NYU Skirball)</div><div>May 23--Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Summer 2024</b></div><div>June 5--Home (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)</div><div>June 10--Drama Desk Awards</div><div>June 12--The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company)</div><div>June 12--Titanic (Encores/City Center)</div><div>June 16--Tony Awards (David Koch Theater/Lincoln Center)</div><div>June--Cats (Perelman Performing Arts Center)</div><div>TBA--All of Me (The New Group/Signature Center)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024</b></div><div>Sunset Boulevard</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fall 2024</b></div><div>The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div>King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)</div><div>Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Winter 2024-25</b></div><div>English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2024-25</b></div><div>Our Town</div><div>Smash</div><div>Tammy Faye</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Spring 2025</b></div><div>The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)</div><div>Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Future</b>--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Black Orpheus; BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Death Becomes Her; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Great Gatsby; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; Pal Joey; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; What a Wonderful World; Working Girl.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>2023-24 Broadway Season Breakdown:<br />New Plays:</b><br />The Cottage<br />Grey House<br />I Need That<br />Jaja's African Hair Braiding<br />Mother Play</div><div>Patriots<br />Prayer for the French Republic<br />The Shark Is Broken</div><div>Stereophonic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>New Musicals:</b></div><div>Back to the Future</div><div>Days of Wine and Roses</div><div>The Great Gatsby</div><div>Harmony</div><div>The Heart of Rock and Roll</div><div>Hell's Kitchen</div><div>How to Dance in Ohio</div><div>Lempicka</div><div>The Notebook</div><div>Once Upon a One More Time</div><div>The Outsiders</div><div>Suffs</div><div>Water for Elephants</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Play Revivals:</b></div><div>Appropriate</div><div>Doubt: A Parable</div><div>An Enemy of the People</div><div>Mary Jane</div><div>Purlie Victorious</div><div>Uncle Vanya</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Musical Revivals:</b></div><div>Cabaret</div><div>Gutenberg! The Musical</div><div>Here Lies Love</div><div>Merrily We Roll Along</div><div>Monty Python's Spamalot</div><div>The Who's Tommy</div><div>The Wiz</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Solos/Specialties:</b></div><div>Alex Edelman: Just for Us</div><div>Melissa Etheridge: My Window</div><div>My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-66198026532763399312024-02-04T08:20:00.000-08:002024-02-04T08:23:47.539-08:00More Oscar Nominated Films<p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are more Oscar nominated films seen in recent days in the eternal quest to view all of them before the big ceremony on March 10. So far I've got most of the major categories covered. The only acting nominee I am missing is Danielle Brooks in the musical version of <i>The Color Purple</i>. But I did see her do the role on Broadway. There are only two films apparently unavailable--Animated Featured <i>Robot Dreams</i> and Documentary Feature <i>To Kill a Tiger</i>. The former might be coming to Hulu soon and you can only see the latter if you sign up for some Canadian streaming platform, but it might pop up somewhere. Here's a rundown of the latest Oscar contenders viewed:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-diApTe0E6Q8VHIv2Iqufx6xMlGRxBqyDpdVHrxRbEkfIMaqiIB-lmcXB57baJH3SMRB42NlyEkJ0D1VIfWqqdYzEnynSaf6h1ytze_WQfgZkIvuxx4XX2LlgitJyWk3nwCZ3zwH4rCnT4I1vCbQriAz2fotGaP29gaAYgI5Nz4QO3id6qJi0UgiPLA23/s2426/Nimona.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="2426" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-diApTe0E6Q8VHIv2Iqufx6xMlGRxBqyDpdVHrxRbEkfIMaqiIB-lmcXB57baJH3SMRB42NlyEkJ0D1VIfWqqdYzEnynSaf6h1ytze_WQfgZkIvuxx4XX2LlgitJyWk3nwCZ3zwH4rCnT4I1vCbQriAz2fotGaP29gaAYgI5Nz4QO3id6qJi0UgiPLA23/s320/Nimona.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nimona</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Nimona</b></i> (Nominated for Animated Feature/Seen on Netflix): At first I was resistant to this sci-fi/fantasy based on a graphic novel. The title character is a shape-shifting teen who comes to the aide of a knight wrongfully accused of killing the queen in a weird futuristic/medieval kingdom. The knight happens to be gay but that doesn't seem to be a bad thing in this fantasy world. The bad thing is the knight is lowly born and not an aristocrat, that's his reason for being an outcast. That and suspicion of regicide or regina-cide. Nimona's outsider status is her weird power. The two unlikely allies bond in a quest to find the real culprit. It struck me as too woke and full of "teachable moments" (Not that I am against woke, but it felt forced here with everyone being totally accepting of the gay aspects of the characters, but not of their class.) It did kinda grow on me. Nimona's character was annoyingly overenthusiastic from the start but as we learn her backstory, she emerges as multidimensional. The animation is fun, particularly as Nimona changes her form and during the chase and battle scenes. <span></span></span></span><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><i><b></b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGa26Bo_1KGbj186XZ0xVj8sy7P2e6OoFAcN8gOHXdFkeKHe3-vRsTLJTOoRezoCY20DGYbBhOoGL7DzW13jTQWCQrfd5RwSP9uDZRu97jzunSyPVwh8fCamEOpQ1Ps91QPh6FAHvyRYV2B9G8ZBYcZW9HnoJUD49BMW9P1fAISLCGrhpu47wVG2O90-1/s1750/BobiWine_OneSheets_27x40.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGa26Bo_1KGbj186XZ0xVj8sy7P2e6OoFAcN8gOHXdFkeKHe3-vRsTLJTOoRezoCY20DGYbBhOoGL7DzW13jTQWCQrfd5RwSP9uDZRu97jzunSyPVwh8fCamEOpQ1Ps91QPh6FAHvyRYV2B9G8ZBYcZW9HnoJUD49BMW9P1fAISLCGrhpu47wVG2O90-1/s320/BobiWine_OneSheets_27x40.jpg" width="216" /></a></b></i></div><i><b><br />Bobi Wine: The People's President</b> </i>(Nominated for Documentary Feature/Seen on Disney +): This detailed doc follows the title pop star/politician on his journey from recording artist to member of parliament to candidate for President of Uganda. The corrupt incumbent arrests him, has him beaten, and arranges for his supporters to be shot at and even killed. The film takes place over several years and ends with Bobi's unsuccessful run at the presidency, thwarted by the dictator's authoritarian tactics. It's a common theme among this year's docs both short and long-form: the rise of totalitarianism in various forms, repeated in the next film I saw.<p></p><p><b><i>Four Daughters</i></b> (Nominated for Documentary Feature/Seen on Amazon Prime for $5.99): A Tunisian mother's family is splintered by jihadist extremism as her two eldest daughters become radicalized and join terrorists in Libya. Her story is enacted through interviews and recreations with actresses playing the missing offspring and the mother when the scenes are too emotional for her to participate. Just as the Ugandan administration crushes opposition, the jihadists oppress anyone who disagrees with them. The film also explores the complex relationship the women have with the hijab.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3nZN45_dyz22gbAPIsYU9XjdxOCQmBjwzHIzGSm7noxhXtFGwRj-4_bpaXrGtnXod3fgOTB9EyxIme1XbJ3mTqvrrfdLTQ1PkA-m7MTV_vpy8ztlC-HoO8NLNaBYz3xs9tVYZCxD9008B5CnxoS3SzCae7Hq_iErkOYgCQVHhVWCXX8HyqdAogrI0ebq/s1900/1799.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1141" data-original-width="1900" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3nZN45_dyz22gbAPIsYU9XjdxOCQmBjwzHIzGSm7noxhXtFGwRj-4_bpaXrGtnXod3fgOTB9EyxIme1XbJ3mTqvrrfdLTQ1PkA-m7MTV_vpy8ztlC-HoO8NLNaBYz3xs9tVYZCxD9008B5CnxoS3SzCae7Hq_iErkOYgCQVHhVWCXX8HyqdAogrI0ebq/s320/1799.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Four Daughters<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b><i><br />El Conde</i></b> (Nominated for Cinematography/Seen on Netflix): A delightfully dark satire imagining Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire sick of life and ready to die. But he cannot </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLPw4Wm1pgpdlKv-QAzGoWYFMCoz7dZqJ5dJJzX9ijXFrlcVlnIv4aYQZty7Jznj6VrBicj2EHlyyQtfzX0LPeK8hN0DsA9__fa29ldYnx78fU2Mb0F1uQ-DfZrhFETBHT9maJWz7_5go4T5HHS3O200EilN0GiD8CDqhyphenhyphen3hGd5U8A2ZC1f1EHfVgZXpU/s1000/elconde.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicLPw4Wm1pgpdlKv-QAzGoWYFMCoz7dZqJ5dJJzX9ijXFrlcVlnIv4aYQZty7Jznj6VrBicj2EHlyyQtfzX0LPeK8hN0DsA9__fa29ldYnx78fU2Mb0F1uQ-DfZrhFETBHT9maJWz7_5go4T5HHS3O200EilN0GiD8CDqhyphenhyphen3hGd5U8A2ZC1f1EHfVgZXpU/s320/elconde.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>El Conde</i><br />Credit: Pablo Larrain/Netflix</td></tr></tbody></table><br />stop killing people, sucking their blood and eating their hearts. His greedy children hire an exorcist nun to pose as an accountant and finish Pop off so they can get their inheritance. It gets even weirder than it sounds and is vastly entertaining. Edward Lachmann's Oscar-nominated black and white cinematography is brilliantly rich. The images of the depraved Pinochet flying over Chilean cities are hauntingly beautiful. <p></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">2023 Potential Oscar Nominated Films Seen So Far<br /></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Oppenheimer (34th Street AMC and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Barbie (Regal Union Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Asteroid City (Angelika)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Golda (County Theater, Doylestown, PA)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Killers of the Flower Moon (Regal Kaufman Astoria)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Rustin (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Killer (Netflix)--Tilda Swinton could nab a Supporting Actress nod<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Maestro (Paris Cinema mezzanine and again on Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">May December (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Past Lives (Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Poor Things (Regal Kaufman Astoria)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Holdovers (Regal Union Square--and again on Amazon Prime)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Fiction (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Anatomy of a Fall (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nyad (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Napoleon (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Society of the Snow (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Zone of Interest (Angelika)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">El Conde (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Still: A Michael J. Fox Film (Apple TV +)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Les Menus Plaisir--Les Troisgros (Film Forum)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">20 Days in Mariupol (Frontline/PBS/Watched on the Passport app)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">American Symphony (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Beyond Utopia (Independent Lens/PBS)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Stamped from the Beginning (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Eternal Memory (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Bobi Wine: The People's President (National Geographic/Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Four Daughters (Amazon Prime)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Elemental (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Boy and the Heron (AMC Empire 25--Times Square)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Nimona (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Short Films<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Live Action<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Netflix)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The After (Netflix)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Yellow (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Knight of Fortune (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Red White and Blue (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*The Shepherd (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Invincible (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Animated<br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Boom (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Pachyderm (YouTube)<br /></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Once Upon a Studio (Disney +)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Pete (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Letter to a Pig (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Eeva (YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><b>Documentary</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*How We Get Free (Max)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Island in Between (NY Times/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">*Deciding Vote (New Yorker/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The Last Repair Shop (LA Times/Searchlight/YouTube)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis (Independent Lens/PBS/watched on the Passport app)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Between Earth and Sky (POV/PBS website)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The Barber of Little Rock (New Yorker/YouTube)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Camp Courage (Netflix)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">The ABCs of Book Banning (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Last Song from Kabul (MTV Documentaries/Paramount +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games (ESPN +)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">*short-listed but not nominated</div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-88622465925211037032024-01-28T07:05:00.000-08:002024-01-28T07:47:59.697-08:00Dark Disabled Stories and Downstate Among 67th Obie Winners<p><i></i></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOc1flr3pl8n2ddhnydMaL30g7KCwpWmDsSsxDxRpyxJcL07z_S2Uw3k1Kf_ezr13qogFWoXmGh45ZtCcIi6TISCY778g8wl7WzN2YT-bsn6i0OishESMQfILfgibqXvwJEL4iDSmu8qpIaraOLbmBEB267jzdPsYnwxoYIt7R1NcjToZ1MqfFtuvIwTvQ/s750/image.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOc1flr3pl8n2ddhnydMaL30g7KCwpWmDsSsxDxRpyxJcL07z_S2Uw3k1Kf_ezr13qogFWoXmGh45ZtCcIi6TISCY778g8wl7WzN2YT-bsn6i0OishESMQfILfgibqXvwJEL4iDSmu8qpIaraOLbmBEB267jzdPsYnwxoYIt7R1NcjToZ1MqfFtuvIwTvQ/s320/image.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Francis Guinan and K. Todd Freeman<br />in <i>Downstate</i>.<br />Credit: Joan Marcus</td></tr></tbody></table><i>Dark Disabled Stories, Downstate</i>, and <i>The Comeuppance</i> were among the winners of the 67th annual Obie Awards, presented by the American Theater Wing on Jan. 27 for excellence in Off and Off-Off-Broadway theater. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;">The official 67</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;"> Obie Awards season includes shows that opened </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;">between September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;">. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This year instead of a live ceremony, the Obies were presented on NY-1's On Stage program. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555353; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In lieu of the annual awards ceremony, the American Theatre Wing dedicated funds to the support and growth of the artists, by bestowing winners with grants ranging from $1,000-5,000.</span></span></p><p><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The winners of</span><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The 67<sup>th</sup> Obie Awards</strong><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">are:</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Ryan J. Haddad, <em>Dark Disabled Stories</em></strong> (The Bushwick Starr | The Public Theater)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><u>PLAYWRITING</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Hansol Jung, <em>Wolf Play</em></strong> (MCC Theater | Soho Rep | Ma-Yi Theater Company)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Bruce Norris, <em>Downstate</em> (</strong>Playwrights Horizons | Steppenwolf Theatre Company |National Theatre)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><u>DIRECTION</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Dustin Wills, <em>Montag</em></strong> (Soho Rep), <strong><em>Wet Brain</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizons and MCC Theater), and <strong><em>Wolf Play</em></strong> (MCC Theater | Soho Rep | Ma-Yi Theater Company)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Shayok Misha Chowdhury, <em>Public Obscenities</em></strong> (Soho Rep | National Asian American Theatre Company)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Faye Driscoll, <em>Weathering</em></strong> (New York Live Arts)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Eric Ting</strong>, <strong><em>The Far Country</em></strong> (Atlantic Theater Company) and <strong><em>The Comeuppance</em></strong> (Signature Theatre Company)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Pam MacKinnon</strong>, <strong><em>Downstate</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizons | Steppenwolf Theatre Company| National Theatre)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><span><a name='more'></a></span> <br /><u>PERFORMANCE</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>William Jackson Harper, <em>Primary Trust</em> (</strong>Roundabout Theatre Company)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Marla Mindelle, <em>Titanique</em></strong> (Eva Price)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Zuleyma Guevara, <em>Sancocho</em></strong> (The Sol Project | Latinx Playwrights Circle | WP Theater)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Maryann Plunkett, <em>Deep Blue Sound</em></strong> (Clubbed Thumb)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT IN PERFORMANCE</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Shannon Tyo</strong>, <strong><em>The Comeuppance</em></strong> (Signature Theatre Company), <strong><em>The Far Country</em></strong> (Atlantic Theater Company), and <strong><em>Regretfully, So The Birds Are</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizons | WP Theater)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>John Douglas Thompson,</strong> <strong><em>Endgame</em></strong> (Irish Repertory Theatre) and <strong><em>Hamlet</em></strong> (The Public Theater)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>K. Todd Freeman,</strong> <strong><em>Downstate</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizons)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>DESIGN</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Enver Chakartash (Costumes), <em>Public Obscenities</em></strong> (Soho Rep | National Asian American Theatre Company), <em>Toros</em> (Second Stage Theater), <strong><em>The Trees</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizons | Page 73), <strong><em>Wolf Play</em></strong> (MCC Theater | Soho Rep | Ma-Yi Theater Company), <strong><em>Catch As Catch Can</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizons), and <strong><em>I’m Revolting</em></strong> (Atlantic Theater Company)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Barbara Samuels (Lights),</strong> <strong><em>Public Obscenities</em></strong> (Soho Rep | National Asian American Theatre Company), <strong><em>Wolf Play</em></strong> (MCC Theater | Soho Rep | Ma-Yi Theater Company), <strong><em>Becky Nurse of Salem</em></strong> (Lincoln Center Theater), and <strong><em>Toros</em></strong> (Second Stage Theater)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT IN DESIGN</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>dots (Sets)</strong> Collective: Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa, <strong><em>Public Obscenities</em></strong> (Soho Rep | National Asian American Theatre Company), <strong><em>Dark Disabled Stories</em></strong> (The Bushwick Starr | The Public Theater), <strong><em>Events</em></strong> (The Hearth Theater Company), <strong><em>Infinite Life</em></strong> (Atlantic Theater Company), <strong><em>Deep Blue Sound</em></strong> (Clubbed Thumb), and <strong><em>Grief Hotel</em></strong> (Clubbed Thumb)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Mikaal Sulaiman (Sound)</strong>, <strong><em>The Half God of Rainfall</em></strong> (New York Theatre Workshop), <strong><em>Primary Trust</em></strong> (Roundabout Theatre), <strong><em>Des Moines</em></strong> (Theatre For A New Audience), <strong><em>Evanston Salt Costs Climbing</em></strong> (The New Group)</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555353; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #555353; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk30uqZyml4qcRnLOHpLZEi0emSaE9d_RDGN1KGNjK6zAtf8D_FOquF0gW4UP9jMULxSP4tlfPpVITRKDXlGSNVWke9QR6_mnfGSgrZD84WVrBLviFjtQEdh6ZrecYmuB1gumunjhhQVWgySt-RUS6tf6zNWpdP_gMJCBaj5y7R0-I7J4RvSk-QgBvqie6/s970/image_92116258721686175862386_1686175864186.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="970" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk30uqZyml4qcRnLOHpLZEi0emSaE9d_RDGN1KGNjK6zAtf8D_FOquF0gW4UP9jMULxSP4tlfPpVITRKDXlGSNVWke9QR6_mnfGSgrZD84WVrBLviFjtQEdh6ZrecYmuB1gumunjhhQVWgySt-RUS6tf6zNWpdP_gMJCBaj5y7R0-I7J4RvSk-QgBvqie6/s320/image_92116258721686175862386_1686175864186.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cast of <i>The Comeuppance</i><br />Credit: Joan Marcus</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>SPECIAL CITATIONS</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Ensemble of <em>Dark Disabled Stories</em></strong> (The Bushwick Starr | The Public Theater) Ryan J. Haddad, Dickie Hearts, and Alejandra Ospina</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Design Team of <em>Wet Brain</em></strong> (Playwrights Horizon | MCC Theater): Kate Noll (Set), Cha See (Lights), Haydee Zelideth Antuñano (Costumes), Tei Blow (Co-Sound), John Gasper (Co-Sound), and Nick Hussong (Projections)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Ensemble of <em>The Comeuppance</em></strong> <em>(</em>Signature Theatre Company) Brittany Bradford, Caleb Eberhardt, Susannah Flood, Bobby Moreno, and Shannon Tyo</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Liza Birkenmeier (Writer)</strong> and <strong>Tara Ahmadinejad (Director)</strong> of <strong><em>Grief Hotel</em></strong> (Clubbed Thumb)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Lead Actors of <em>Montag</em></strong> (Soho Rep) Ariana Venturi and Nadine Malouf</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Intimacy Coordinators of Color and Ann C. James</strong> (Founder and Mentor)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> <br /><u>LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver</strong> (writing and performing duo of Split Britches)</span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Carole Rothman</strong> (Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Second Stage)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><u>THEATRE GRANTS</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Breaking the Binary Theatre Company</strong></span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Dominican Artists Collective (DAC)</strong></span></li><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>The Brick</strong></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><u>ROSS WETZSTEON AWARD</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Under the Radar Festival</strong> (Mark Russell as Founder)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><u>MICHAEL FEINGOLD AWARD</u></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><li style="list-style-position: inside; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Andrew Morrill</strong> for their work as Director of Artistic Sign Language and <strong>Alison Kopit</strong> for Access Dramaturgy of <strong><em>Dark Disabled Stories</em></strong> (The Bushwick Starr | The Public Theater)</span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #555353; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8367532710336881863.post-15351853992598233852024-01-27T09:49:00.000-08:002024-03-18T03:54:20.513-07:00Political Catch-Up: Nikki Haley's History Lesson<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGYxVsibIRUMjhHI7nEy-qDP6EhLcfcti1hypDHrAa35d34b7-6Z9snmNLV5HWwMJi04laIVqQYBJr2nFL585hil0OgPllCngmjn5y8F8v8ZVeF1ELbGjXQfTir1qy1Rt4sK8x3Y3NVSBa_OcHF_AFqbjYK3pfIJ4D7WDyvuAaTOroXnMK55_-PWFYdKF/s750/NikkiHaleyAP.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="750" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGYxVsibIRUMjhHI7nEy-qDP6EhLcfcti1hypDHrAa35d34b7-6Z9snmNLV5HWwMJi04laIVqQYBJr2nFL585hil0OgPllCngmjn5y8F8v8ZVeF1ELbGjXQfTir1qy1Rt4sK8x3Y3NVSBa_OcHF_AFqbjYK3pfIJ4D7WDyvuAaTOroXnMK55_-PWFYdKF/s320/NikkiHaleyAP.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nikki Haley denies history</td></tr></tbody></table>Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, former UN ambassador and still-clinging-on presidential candidate, put her foot in her mouth again earlier this week by saying the US has never been a racist country. Just to repeat--She didn't say it's not a racist country now, but that we had NEVER been a racist country. She made a fine distinction, stating that she herself had faced racism as a woman of color and the daughter of Indian immigrants, but that the country itself was not racist. <p></p><p>Her demure was understandable, but cowardly. Earlier she screwed up by bunting on a softball question at a town hall about the cause of the Civil War and never mentioning slavery. As the governor of a former Confederate state she did not want to risk offending a large swath of potential supporters. With her never-racist answer, she hopes to curry favor with history-deniers and to emphasize America's good points and ignore or minimize its past transgressions. She says that there has been racism in our country, but that we are basically a "good" people at our core and in our founding there was the intent of everybody being treated equally. She is under the mistaken impression that we can all move forward without truly acknowledging our shameful past. </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8B9kzI5WtO2_4cYyNjZXb1_5GqCPRh-PVYpEgm3goTt3Kmyr5vYeXBREeRZHh-Au6RHchR2WPKtOf2G1TTZajB7u-o7nJ9k53jGIeNqOLrE8qljP-GZoQsFmXA6DsnxdA6JwZMvX8urzEG_Wf2v1PiyUPgM62NNvYbfb-PEz-Sip6s9ABGPsLhXOORcp3/s900/1-freedmens-bureau-1868-granger.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="900" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8B9kzI5WtO2_4cYyNjZXb1_5GqCPRh-PVYpEgm3goTt3Kmyr5vYeXBREeRZHh-Au6RHchR2WPKtOf2G1TTZajB7u-o7nJ9k53jGIeNqOLrE8qljP-GZoQsFmXA6DsnxdA6JwZMvX8urzEG_Wf2v1PiyUPgM62NNvYbfb-PEz-Sip6s9ABGPsLhXOORcp3/s320/1-freedmens-bureau-1868-granger.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reconstruction was a brief era of<br />racial justice in the US.</td></tr></tbody></table>We may not have explicitly endorsed racism in Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, but the racist practice of slavery was tolerated and later endorsed with the Dred Scott decision, declaring black people were not legal citizens of the US and therefore need not be treated with the same dignity and respect as their white counterparts. That ruling made racism the official policy of the country. But the whole world, or most of it, was racist at the point. Our founding fathers were men of their time, many of whom owned slaves. From 1619 to 1865, the US government engaged in racist policy regarding slavery. We were not a racist country during Reconstruction (1865-1877) when freed slaves attained positions of power and directed their own destinies. Though we weren't exactly angels to the Native Americans at this point, pushing them off their land (again, this was our policy, not the act of a few hotheaded extremists.) And let's not forget the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.<p></p><p>Returning to Reconstruction, treating black people as equals was just too much for the South--and the rest of the country--and the birth and prevalence of the KKK and instituting of Jim Crow Laws returned the US to a racist status. Even in the North, there was official discrimination. My own grandmother was living in Delaware in the 1930s and made the error of sitting at the back of a crowded streetcar. The conductor stopped the vehicle and told her that area was reserved for black people and she couldn't sit there.</p><p>We did not truly become a non-racist country until the Supreme Court rulings ended legal discrimination and anti-miscegenation laws and the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s. So, we are not now an officially racist nation, but the scourge of racism still exists. It was sleeping until Trump woke it up and made it socially palatable to express such heinous views. (In a web search on Haley, I found an article from her time in Trump's administration where she stated he was healing racial wounds. HA! Ironic, huh?) Elon Musk has made it worse by allowing conspiracy theories and hate speech on X, formerly known as Twitter. Haley would have been a terrible candidate but she might have won against Biden because she's younger and not a monster like her former boss. But she doesn't stand a chance of getting the nomination and we will have to deal with an even worse enemy when Trump steamrolls to the GOP slot.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>david.shewardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520911236058670100noreply@blogger.com0