Musical Theatre Newsletter Mayday 2008

From: Kenneth Lyen <musictheater@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Subject: Musical Theatre Newsletter Mayday 2008
To: Kenneth Lyen <kenlyen@yahoo.com>


Hi,

I hope you are having some time off for Labor Day today. Below are some news, articles, video links, DVDs and CDs that might interest you.



1. SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE
Musical Theatre Ltd warmly invites you to attend two evenings of "LoveSongs" featuring different Singapore songwriters on each day.
Time: Tuesday 6th May 8-11 pm, and Thursday 8th May 8-11 pm
Place: The Turquoise Room, 7 Lock Road, Gillman Village
Fees: Nil - you can buy food at 10% Discount
Carpark: Free!
http://singsong-musicals.blogspot.com/
http://foodcraft.blogspot.com/2006/05/turquoise-room.html




2. FIVE FOOT BROADWAY MINI MUSICALS
What do a glass of chendol, an invisible man, a laptop, a perfect nose, a homegrown Singapore boy and fireworks have in common? All of them have inspired 6 brand new 15-minutes musicals. Presenting an evening of original musicals that guarantees to tickle your funny bone and give a tug at your heartstrings.

Directed by
Christina Sergeant, Music Director: Kenny Ngo.
Date: Monday 16 June 2008
Time: Two shows: 7pm, and 9.30pm
Place: Esplanade Theatre Studio
Tickets selling fast... please rush out and buy!
http://www.sistic.com.sg/portal/dt?dt.isPortletRequest=true&dt.action=process&dt.provider=PortletWindowProcessChannel&dt.windowProvider.targetPortletChannel=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar/Event&dt.containerName=JSPTabContainer/sEventsCalendar&dt.windowProvider.currentChannelMode=VIEW&dt.window.portletAction=RENDER&contentCode=mini0608




3. RECENT VIDEO LINKS FOR MUSICAL THEATRE
a) Theatre Clips
http://theatre247.tv/

b) Pest Control: the Musical
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb826374.htm

4. SELECTED ARTICLES AND NEWS
a) Bring Back the Real Musical
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article3506065.ece

b) Is Musical Theatre Writing Sexist?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2008/04/the_boys_club_of_theatre.html

c) Musical Theatre's iPod Moment
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/theatre/2008/04/theatre_needs_an_ipod_moment.html

d) In Defence of the Musical
"Musicals are easy to look down upon"
http://www.cherwell.org/cherwell/content/view/7333/117/

e) Forbidden City West: A new musical
(not by Dick Lee)
http://www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org/

f) The 10 Worst Musicals of All Time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/24/btmusicals124.xml

g) Gone With the Wind: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23480296-details/Can,+my+dear,+Gone+With+The+Wind+survive/article.do
http://www.mercurynews.com/arts/ci_9073111?nclick_check=1

h) I Hate Cats
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/04/27/some_enchanted_evenings/

5. MUSICALS (AND LITERATURE) DVDs OF INTEREST
a) Showbusiness: The Road to Broadway
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BmpSwJsnzP8
http://www.amazon.com/Show-Business-Broadway-Boy-George/dp/B000UAE7NG/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1209617833&sr=8-1

b) Musical to the Max
http://www.dresscircle.co.uk/product.asp?StockID=33606

c) Four Last Songs
I highly recommend this movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmsXdkhGJI
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Last-Songs-Karl-Johnson/dp/B000P296BM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1209479816&sr=1-1

d) Camelot (Broadway Stage Version)
http://www.amazon.com/Camelot-Broadway-Version-Richard-Harris/dp/B000NTM9ZM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1209480118&sr=1-2

e) August Rush
I enjoyed this film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ab6RtA-KE
http://www.amazon.com/August-Rush-Freddie-Highmore/dp/B00133KFGW/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1209478638&sr=8-1

f) The Harmonists
http://www.amazon.com/Harmonists-Ben-Becker/dp/B000065V3C/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1206967557&sr=1-15

g) Sweeney Todd
http://www.amazon.com/Sweeney-Todd-Two-Disc-Special-Collectors/dp/B0013D8LOU/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b

h) Company (Stephen Sondheim)
http://www.amazon.com/Company-Raul-Esparza/dp/B0014IC31G/ref=pd_nr_d_9?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

i) Romance and Cigarettes
http://www.amazon.com/Romance-Cigarettes-Katherine-Borowitz/dp/B0010DM3R4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1209618802&sr=1-1

j) The Jane Austen Book Club
Another film I highly recommend
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/thejaneaustenbookclub/
http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Austen-Book-Club/dp/B000ZS8GW6/ref=pd_sim_d_title_17

k) CD: Tosca: The Rock Musical
Mein Gott, Herr Puccini vill turn in his grave!
http://www.dresscircle.co.uk/product.asp?StockID=33613

6. MISCELLANEOUS
Festival of New American Musicals
http://www.lafestival.org/index.php?mod=born

7. OFF TOPIC
a) Kishore Mahbubani on BBC HardTalk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/08/hardtalk/mahbubani_28apr.ram

b) Mr Brown: Blame it On Somebody, and You Are So Champion
Hey, do you think there a musical bubbling up here?
http://www.mrbrownshow.com/2008/04/28/the-mrbrown-show-blame-it-on-somebody-the-anyhowly-remix/
http://www.mrbrownshow.com/2008/03/24/the-mrbrown-show-you-are-so-champion/

Wishing you a happy May Day!

Please e-mail me if you have some musical theatre news or interesting links. And if you wish to write a musical, please join our musical incubation workshop, which is an ongoing program initiated by Creative Community Singapore, MICA.


Ken
1 May 2008
http://kenlyen.bravejournal.com/
http://musicaltheatrelimited.org/