Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Tuckaberry Productions A great Brooklyn-based children's theatre that I've worked with.
Bourbon Make-outs UCB Theatre Eddie Izzard Bill Bailey Flat Caps Ukulele Guinness Jazz Showtunes Cajun Food Nyquil X-Box Vintage Dresses Homestar Runner Archery Algonquin Roundtable Night
Resume - Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
I'd like to meet:
Someone who can drink Guinness on Saturday night and still make it to church Sunday morning.
Review by Peter Haas, Cabaret Scenes.
"This is a lovely way to spend an evening" is more than a song title: it's also an emphatic recommendation to visit for an hour with Margaret Cross as she performs her show, I've Got To Be There, at Rose's Turn, Sundays at 7 in September. A young lady with striking beauty, charm, a delightful sense of fun, and one of the absolutely loveliest voices in all of cabaret, Margaret is a find. Her program is a varied one, ranging from comic sure-fires ( To Keep My Love Alive and Vodka ) to novelty numbers ( Superman/That's Him ) to romantic songs ( I Concentrate on You , the haunting Blame It On Summer Night in combination with The Girls of Summer , and the ever-exquisite If Love Were All ), this latter group sung in transportingly beautiful style. Superb musical accompaniment and vocal assist, both with a fine, restrained touch, are provided by Jad Bernardo, with direction by Michael Dale.
September 10, 2006 www.cabaretscenes.com
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Music:
Jeff Buckley Adam Guettel Tom Waits Stephen Sondheim David Bowie Morphine Doves Ben Folds Editors Arcade Fire TMBG Bobby Short Joy Division Keane The Clash New Order The Smiths Miles Davis Chet Baker Thomas Tallis Oscar Petersen Pet Shop Boys Talking Heads Slowdive The Cure Noel Coward Interpol Rufus Wainwright Ella Fitzgerald Dawn Upshaw Beatles Nick Cave Jellyfish Jayhawks Coldplay Elbow Elvis Costello The Kinks Kander and Ebb Nick Drake Early Genesis The Strokes Tortoise Labradford Rodgers and Hart Irving Berlin The Black Keys John Lee Hooker The The And many mooooore....
Movies:
Hayao Miyazaki Wes Anderson P.T. Anderson Akira Kurosawa John Ford Frank Capra Cohen Brothers Christopher Guest Sam Raimi
William Powell Myrna Loy Gregory Peck Cary Grant Humphrey Bogart Katherine Hepburn The Marx Brothers Gene Kelly Rita Hayworth Astaire and Rodgers Jason Robards Jack Lemmon Greer Garson Maureen O'Hara
The Straight Story The Commitments The Lion in Winter Shaun of the Dead The Petrified Forest American Movie The Giant Behemoth The Thin Man How Green Was My Valley A Thousand Clowns
What's on Turner Classic?
Television:
Justice League Unlimited The Daily Show X Play Anthony Bourdain [adult swim] Dirty Jobs Never Mind the Buzzcocks Arrested Development MST3K Alton Brown Feasting On Asphalt Futurama Deadwood Craig Ferguson Cowboy Bebop The Riches Mythbusters QI (Quite Interesting) House M.D. Black Books Doctor Who
Books:
Comic books: Preacher Transmetropolitan Fables Y the Last Man Runaways Top Ten Green Arrow JLA JSA Shadowpact Batman The Goon Dork Tower Concrete Box Office Poison Tramps Like Us (Kimi Wa Pet) The Spirit She-Hulk Birds Of Prey OWLY Deadpool Booster Gold Blue Monday
Keith Giffen Alan Moore Garth Ennis Brad Meltzer Warren Ellis Brian K. Vaughn Grant Morrison Darwyn Cooke Bill Willingham Wizard Magazine Toyfare Magazine DC Comics
Biographies, Plays, Old Hollywood, Vaudeville, Theatre History
George S. Kaufman Moss Hart Tom Stoppard Dorothy Parker Neal Stephenson David Sedaris Douglas Adams Bruce Campbell Sarah Vowell
Eugene O'Neill
Heroes:
""No book is really worth reading at age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty...Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a timetable."
-C.S. Lewis
"Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. "
-Sarah Vowell
"A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do."
- Ella Fitzgerald
"I'd rather have a bottle in front 'a me than a frontal lobotamy."
-Tom Waits, after Dorothy Parker
Sarah Vowell, will you be my best friend?
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adopt your own virtual pet!
The Four Yorkshiremen, From "The Last Of The 1948 Show", featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Marty Feldman.
The Remake of The Four Yorkshiremen, From Amnesty International, with Harry Enfield, Alan Rickman, Eddie Izzard, and Vic Reeves
