Wednesday MidDay Medley
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Marion Merritt’s Musical Discoveries!
+ Mayhem at The Uptown + Spinning Tree Theatre’s “The Fantasticks”

Marion Merritt is the co-creator of the blog: a2-m3.com providing information about: Music, Film, Art, Books, Television, Technology, with links, downloads, and articles keeping us current with the latest musical and film news.

1. Dorothy Ashby – “Soul Vibrations”
from: Afro Harping / Verve / 1968, (2003 Reissue)

2. Dorothy Ashby – “Come Live With Me”
from: Afro Harping / Verve / 1968, (2003 Reissue)

3. Alice Coltrane – “Journey in Satchidananda”
from: The Impulse Story: Alice Coltrane / Impulse / 2006

4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Stairway To The Best Party”
from: Aufheben / A Records / 2012

5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “I Wanna Hold Your Other Hand”
from: Aufheben / A Records / 2012

6. The Dilettantes – “Brightly Lit New Dark Ages”
from: 101 Tambourines / Happy Parts / 2007

10:34 – Underwriting

10:35 – Interview with Courtney Perry, Vi Tran and Korey Childs

Courtney Perry is a local designer from House of Cochon. She is also the Director of Fashion on the Fringe for The Kansas City Fringe Festival. Korey Childs is a producer who works with Courtney bringing his experience in fashion, art and theatre. Vi Tran is a critically acclaimed Kansas City based musician and actor. Courtney, Vi and Korey join us to discuss Mayhem at the Uptown: Fashion, Art & Music, a Benefit for KC Fringe & 90.1 FM KKFI, Friday, May 11, at 7:00 pm, at The Valentine Room of The Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, Kansas City, MO.

MayHem at The Uptown Theatre, is a benefit for KC Fringe and 90.1 FM KKFI

A night of Fashion, Art and Music Extravaganza in The Valentine Room

VIP opens at 7:00PM – General Admission begins at 8:00PM – Show starts at 8:30PM

VIP – $25 presale/$30 at door (VIP includes food and drink tickets)
General Admission – $15 presale/$20 at door.

Designers, Boutiques and Performers coming together.

Boutiques:
It’s a Beautiful Day –
Frankly Basic –
Bogatte –
Wonderland

Designers:
WM Couture –
House of Cochon
Jamie Santomasso
Lee Satterwhite
Ginger Bow Tie
Tara Kloeppel
Inner Hippie –
Winner of Panache (Penn Valley Community College student showcase)

Performers:
DJ Dan
Voler: Thieves of Flight –
Rhythmic Flames –
Hot Caution

Hosted By Katie Gilchrist

Mayhem at the Uptown: Fashion, Art & Music, a Benefit for KC Fringe & 90.1 FM KKFI, Friday, May 11, at 7:00 pm, at The Valentine Room of The Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, Kansas City, MO. More info at kcfringe.org

10:50 – Underwriting

7. The Dandy Warhols – “The Autumn Carnival”
from: This Machine / The End / 2012

8. Father John Misty – “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
from: Fear Fun / Sub Pop / 2012

11:02

9. Michael Kiwanuka – “Rest”
from: Home Again / Polydor UK / 2012

10. Michael Kiwanuka – “Home Again”
from: Home Again / Polydor UK / 2012

11. Billy Swan – “Don’t Be Cruel”
from: The Best of Billy Swan / Sony / 1993

12. Big Mama Thornton – “Hound Dog”
from: In Europe / Arhoolie / 1965

11:18 – Interview with Kip Niven & Julie Shaw

Kip Niven recently appeared in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s production of August: Osage County. He has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, in regional theatres,, features films, network television and comercials. In Kansas City he has appeared at Starlight Theatre, New Theatre Restaurant, The Coterie Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, Musical Theatre Heritage, and Kansas City Actor’s Theatre. Kip is projext coordinator for EARTh, Equity Actors Readers Theatre, and serves as vice president of Equity’s Kansas City Area Liasion Committee. Kip Niven plays Henry in Spinning Tree Theatre’s new production of “The Fantasticks.”

Julie Shaw is know for brinbging down the house in musical numbers performed at The Quality Hill Playhouse. She has worked on stage in productions at The Unicorn Theatre, Chestnut Fine Arts Center, Musical Theatre Heritage, The Coterie and The Folly. This summer Julie will star in The Coterie Theatre’s production of “Once Upon A Mattress.” Julie Shaw plays Hucklebee in Spinning Tree Theatre’s new production of “The Fantasticks” running May 10 thru 27, Thursdays, Friday, Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Sundays at 2:00 PM, at Crown Center Off Center Theatre (Level 3) 2450 Grand Blvd. KCMO. More info at: spinningtreetheatre.com.

The Fantasticks premiered at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, a small off-Broadway theatre in New York City’s Greenwich Village, on May 3, 1960. The production closed on January 13, 2002, after 17,162 performances. It is the world’s longest-running musical and the longest-running uninterrupted show of any kind in the United States. Does it feel like theatrical royalty being part of this little show. 42 years is a long run, to what do you credit to the long life of this show?

With music by Harvey Schmidt, lyrics by Tom Jones, The Spinning Tree Theatre’s production features Jakob Wozniak as the pianist and Associate Musical Director, Peggy Friesen on Harp, w/ Krista Lang Blackwood as Musical Director, Resident M.D. of Spinning Tree Theatre. Most know the song, “Try To Remember.”

The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play “The Romancers” (“Les Romanesques”) by Edmond Rostand, concerning two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud and erecting a wall between their houses. The fathers then hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa, settling the supposed feud and securing their fathers’ blessings (which the young lovers have really had all along). When the children discover the deception, they reject the arranged love match and separate. Each then gains disillusioning experiences of the real world, seen in parallel fantasy sequences. They return to each other bruised but enlightened, and they renew their vows with more maturity.
Elements of the play are also drawn from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore.

Director Michal Grayman – Andy Parkhurst – The Spinning Tree Theatre.

Kip Niven talked about EARTh, Equity Actors Readers Theatre

This summer Julie Shaw will be in the The Coterie Theatre’s production of “Once Upon A Mattress.”

Spinning Tree Theatre’s new production of “The Fantasticks” running May 10 thru 27, Thursdays, Friday, Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Sundays at 2:00 PM, at Crown Center Off Center Theatre (Level 3) 2450 Grand Blvd. KCMO. More info you can call (816) 842-9999 or visit spinningtreetheatre.com.

11:35 – Underwriting

13. MV & EE – “Too Far To See”
from: Space Homestead / Woodsist / May 15, 2011

14. Lower Dens – “Propagation”
from: Nootropics / Ribbon / 2012

15. Willis Earl Beal – “Away My Silent Lover”
from: Acousmatic Sorcery / XL / 2012

16. Willis Earl Beal – “Take Me Away”
from: Acousmatic Sorcery / XL / 2012

17. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

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