Friday, January 30, 2009

Please come back, next week

Hello dear readers:

It's been awhile, I know. I hope to get back in the saddle next week, I've survived being snow bound with the kids, kids with the flu, a show opening, my own bout with a head cold and now the arrival of my parental units. All of these things = stress in my life.... And while I have literally started 4 blog posts I have been unable to finish a single one. But my show closes Sunday (see shameless plug below) and my head cold will soon be gone. My parents can only stress me out as much as I allow them to, so I'm going to nip that in the bud too.

SO look for a lovely piece on the joys of being Two starring Ms. L or a piece on cabin fever, starring me! Or maybe both.

Meanwhile enjoy the sun!

VITRIOL AND VIOLETS

Music & Lyrics by: Dave FrishbergBook by: Shelly Lipkin, Louanne Moldovan, Sherry Lamoreaux
Directors: Louanne Moldovan & Shelly LipkinMusical Director: Bill Wells

Vitriol & Violets celebrates the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers and their friends who gathered daily in the 1920s at the Algonquin Hotel. During the course of their “ten-year lunch,” table associates Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Edna Ferber, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Harpo Marx and Jane Grant gained fame and fortune as much for their widely quoted bon mots as for their significant achievements. The stage play, which Cygnet Productions premiered at Russell Street Theatre, won an Oregon Book Award (2004) and has been rewritten as a musical in collaboration with Dave Frishberg, one of the nation's foremost jazz composers (and a Portland resident).

The ensemble cast includes Lauren Bair, Adair Chappell, Rae Kraemer, Isaac Lamb, Mark Schwahn, Ted Roisum, James Sullivan, Michael Teufel and Joe Theissen.

Vitriol & Violets is produced by Rainy Day Productions and presented by Artists Repertory Theatre as part of Fertile Ground: The City-Wide Festival of New Works presented by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (PATA).
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Tickets are available through the Artists Rep Box Office at 503-241-1278

Read more about Artists Rep's other festival entry, Gracie and the Atom.