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York Productions.
on Broadway in 2012,
the London West End
Morna Murphy Martell
production was filmed
live for worldwide distribution. In case you
missed the movie version, it’s about a
young boy from a coal mining village in
We mindfully publish a England who wants to become a ballet
unique newspaper for dancer. This is during the 1980’s miner’s
smart & savvy strike that created tension and poverty
adults with the BOYS IN THE BAND (1968, Off throughout the country. As his coal-miner
forethought to enhance Broadway) Dad is against the idea, the boy takes his
our lifestyle through boxing lessons money and uses it secretly
information, education & Once regarded as shocking, this play for dancing lessons. Realizing that Billy is a
inspiration. is about a group of gay men in
Manhattan who get together for a prodigy, his dancing teacher gets him an
PO Box 722, birthday party and spend much of the audition with The Royal Ballet School in
Brea, CA 92822 evening hacking away at London. The
ENTERTAINING each other’s submerged confrontation
Pinks’ Weekly OURSELVES emotional truths. When each with his
one is challenged to phone
Television Show some-one they once loved, disapproving
father, and the
SAFE AT HOME THINGS TO DO the results are sad, revealing outcome of the
1. Clear out and clean clutter. Lay out a and sometimes hilarious. contest, makes
towel on your bed. Take a drawer at a Laurence Luckinbill is a for a highly
time and just dump it out on the bed. schoolteacher who, when he emotional yet
Then go through each item - toss it, save it, realized he was homosexual, persuasively
or give it away. left his wife and family; Cliff Gorman honest revelation about artistic passion and
2. Contact three people a day. In order is a flamboyant interior designer who family love that will bring tears to your
to keep our psycho-social needs, either flings campy jibes at Reuben Greene, eyes. On BroadwayHD, Google Play and
call, text, or email someone you know. It a soft-spoken book-store clerk. iTunes.
can be family, close friend, old friends to Frederick Coombs, (who was on
Broadway in “A Taste of Honey” and
reconnect, or even a business associate. I toured with in that show) is Donald, LES MISERABLES IN CONCERT: THE
TH
3. Watch reruns. So many treasured a self-described “underachiever” who 25 ANNIVERSARY (2010, London)
WE INVITE YOU TO stories on television now. Dragnet, Wagon has fled New York. The party is On the anniversary of the original West
Train, The Fugitive, etc. The clothes, the thrown into turmoil when sexy End production of this dynamic musical,
ENJOY cars, the ‘bad’ acting - make it fun. “Cowboy” Robert La Tourneaux based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, an
ensemble of over 300 performers and
4. Call the shredding service. Since
PINK LADY COVID the free ones aren’t available. We arrives as a present for the Birthday musicians, that had appeared in its various
Boy!
incarnations worldwide, came together to
PRESENTS found a mobile shredder that will pick up The play was never recorded, but in perform. Tenor Alfie Boe is the noble Jean
1970 William Friedkin directed a
and take 10 boxes for $125.00.
5. Play games like solitaire, crossword movie version that stays true to the Valjean; Norm Lewis is the relentless
Javert, and Lea Salonga is the tragic Fantine.
Every Sunday Evening puzzles, slot machines - all available on original production. With screenplay For a surprise encore, four stars sing “Bring
by original playwright Mart
KSCI TV Channel 18 the internet. Crowley, this film conveys with Him Home” – Colm Wilkinson from the
original London and Broadway cast; John
Monthly Screening changed format singular brilliance the way “Boys” Owen-Jones from the touring company;
played on stage. The nine actors in
5 PM Morna Murphy Martell on the web: the film, who by then had performed Simon Bowman from the current London
www.theatrespokenhere.blogspot.com together onstage a thousand times, cast, and Boe. Producer Cameron
(In Orange County - Channel 118) give performances so bold and Mackintosh introduces composer Claude-
The JFS/West Hollywood fearless that it captures the original Michel Schönberg and librettist/lyricist
For more information Comprehensive Service Center dynamic that I remember from so Alain Boublil. The concert was shown live
PinkLady7@earthlink.net or Pink Lady Theater Historian and former Hollywood long ago. On You Tube: https:// across the UK, Ireland and around the
(818) 606-6679 Reporter, TV, Film and Broadway Critic, fando.trosck.com/ywmi3sq and world, and, on March 6, 2011, aired on
Amazon.
Stay in regular contact with loved Morna M. Martell is a lecturer on “The United States television as a PBS special.
Available on BroadwayHD and DVD.
ones, even if it’s over the phone or the Impact of Yiddish Theatre on American
internet, look out for each other. Stay Theatre’ with bookings in Pasadena, Not Born Yesterday! continues to be dedicated to
safe out there and check in often. Manhattan Beach, and West Hollywood. For providing information, education & inspiration
info, email dramatist2006@yahoo.com
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