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A rundown of two one-person shows and the
current Boz Scaggs tour.
SLEEPWALK WITH ME -- Mike Birbiglia is a
comic whose new solo show -- Sleepwalk With
Me -- is currently playing in downtown New York
City at the Bleecker Street Theatre. It falls
somewhere between the pure monologues ofSpalding Gray and the brilliant, idiosyncratic butclearly stand-up of Eddie Izzard. Birbiglia spinsstories of his battles with sleepwalking, whichrange in intensity from vivid dreams in which a
hyena-like creature hovers above him about to strike all the way to jumping out a second storywindow in a hotel because he believed a missile was about to strike. But the deeper tale is about hisnascent career, failed relationships (with some very understanding girlfriends, it must be said) anda wlecome late in life understanding of Birbiglia's father. Is it more than stand-up? Less than aplay? Who cares? Shows like this are far more common in the UK, where stand-up is more vibrantand people with solid success start playing small theaters for limited runs. Not all of them shape anevening with quite the skill that Birgbiglia brings to his modest story. But if it's funny, it's funnyand no one worries too much about what to call it. Birbiglia is funny. I'm not necessarily clamoringto hear what he'll come up with next, but I am intrigued enough to keep him in mind. Anyone whocan wring laughs out of the low-key repetition of the phrase "I know" has a gift for aligning anaudience with his own slanted view of things. Too bad, however, that he didn't don pajamas for theperformance, as in the poster for the show. For a guy who readily embraces an unflatteringdescription of himself, Birbiglia sure looks sweet in his jammies. Just make certain he's wrapped
up tight in his sleeping bag before you doze off: you do not want a loose Birbiglia in the house.
The New York Times' Neil Genzlinger said: "Mike Birbiglia's pacing is simply perfect in "Sleepwalk
With Me," his funny, appealing one-man show."Variety's Sam Thielman said: "Birbiglia's delivery is terrific -- his not-that-bright everyman routine
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Michael Giltz: Theater/Music: Sleepwalking, Seafaring and Scaggs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/theatermusic-sleepwalking_b_145061.html [4/5/2009 1:03:02 PM]should strike a chord with anyone who's ever tripped for no reason or gotten someone's gender
wrong. But his writing is deceptively clever, keeping salient points at the forefront as the showmoves forward. This technique doesn't always work to Birbiglia's advantage: "Sleepwalk With Me"ends too abruptly, and some of the jokes are less interesting than the story at its center. But withso much to recommend the show, these reservations feel stingy."
The New York Post's Frank Scheck gave it three out of four stars and said: "At times, the stand-up
roots show through too blatantly. But under Seth Barrish's capable direction, Birbiglia manages to
pull the thematic elements together by, among other things, framing the evening with stories abouthis relationship with his emotionally reserved father."
The AP's Peter Santilli said: "During the 90-minute performance, it gradually becomes clear
"Sleepwalk With Me" is something greater than simply good standup comedy. Birbiglia displays an
uncanny ability to be hilarious, terrifying and poignant -- all in the same breath."
Theatermania's David Finkle said: "As he digresses to talk about turning off cell phones, his slow
sexual development, his cautious father and gregarious mother, his hypochondria, an actual
cancerous tumor in the bladder caught in time and other subjects that could be called ephemeral,he recalls Woody Allen's nebbishy persona, Steven Wright's cerebral musings, and even the mannerin which Sam Levenson giggled at his own jokes."
CATALPA -- Another one-man show, Catalpa tells the daring, true story of the rescue of six Irish
prisoners in 1875 ( here's a NYTimes article from the period ) from under the nose of the British by
a crew that sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts to a penal colony in Australia. Actor Donal
O'Kelly holds the Irish Arts Center stage easily, just like he reportedly did some 20 years ago when
he firs appeared in New York at the same location. O'Kelly jokes that's less of a career arc and moreof a horizontal line, but there's something inspiring about a talented actor simply doing the work.The work in question is unnecessarily framed -- very briefly -- as a movie pitch. O'Kelly impliesHollywood executives proved uninterested in this thrilling story and he gets his revenge by actingout the script, occasionally tossing in ideas (like which movie star could play the female lead) butmostly giving himself the easy, uninteresting option of using film script language ("a wideshot thatmoves in swiftly on a ship that..." is sort of typical). While this lets O'Kelly indulge in some broadbrushstrokes quite effectively for some characters, it mostly just keeps the story at an emotionaldistance. It also constrasts sharply with his playful use of word and sound he delights in; therichest moments are when O'Kelly makes a song out of someone's name or repeats a syllable overand over until you can almost see the roiling waves of the ocean. Frankly, I'd rather hear the showstripped of its movie script conventions and recorded as a radio play. Maybe the Hollywood suitswere right after all.
Variety's Sam Thielman said: "All in all, it's an improbably beautiful show, especially considering
O'Kelly has only a white sheet hanging from a pipe and Ronan Fingleton's lights to paint a picture.
The really gorgeous visuals of "Catalpa" take place in our heads, with the singing, declaiming,
gesticulating O'Kelly the touchstone."
Theatermania's Patrick Lee said: "Donal O'Kelly seems to rejoice in the musicality of spoken words
and in their capacity to paint visual pictures. This infectious love of language fills the two-hour
show with precisely chosen words that paint visual pictures for the audience. Unfortunately O'Kellyhas far more success rendering these little pictures than with painting the big one: the story getsaway from him."
BOZ SCAGGS AT THE BLUE NOTE -- Somebody mentioned famous singers who have tackled
standards, listing Rod Stewart and Boz Scaggs together, which is enough to depress any serious
vocalist. Though pop singers can become accomplished in tackling the American Songbook, few
have done it with such immediate grace and insight as Scaggs, who first delivered an album ofstandards five years ago with the impeccable But Beautiful. His new Decca release Speak Low is
just as sublime, this time adding more ambitious arrangements to the quiet intimacy it's nosurprise he gravitated to. Scaggs came to the Blue Note recently, one of the few remaining tinyclubs in New York where you can see a show with a serious audience that pays attention. Despitetranscendent versions of classics like "Harbor Lights," my only quibble is that I would havepreferred a set much longer and solely devoted to the classics (as opposed to his classics). When
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for a subtly different sort of vocalizing. By all means, see him live and buy his new album, one ofthe best of the year.
The New York Times' Stephen Holden said: "Mr. Scaggs's most successful music has shrewdly
contrasted the rough and the smooth, the voice careering unsteadily over polished grooves like a
rogue on a bender. By removing the cushions supporting Mr. Scaggs's unruly singing, Mr.
Goldstein's deglamorized arrangements exposed his vocal quirks: a continually wavering sense of
pitch, jarring shifts in timbre from moment to moment and unsteady phrasing."
Variety said: "Scaggs was ably abetted by the tasteful reedmen Bob Sheppard and Paul McCandless,
each of whom moved fluidly between instruments, most notably on a subtly abstracted version of
"Save Your Love for Me." Thanks to their collective light touch -- as well as the singer's own easy
mien -- a vibrant buoyancy permeated just about every groove of a breezy set that positively flew
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Standards , Mike Birbiglia , Sleepwalking , Entertainment News
A rundown of two one-person shows and the
current Boz Scaggs tour.
SLEEPWALK WITH ME -- Mike Birbiglia is a
comic whose new solo show -- Sleepwalk With
Me -- is currently playing in downtown New York
City at the Bleecker Street Theatre. It falls
somewhere between the pure monologues ofSpalding Gray and the brilliant, idiosyncratic butclearly stand-up of Eddie Izzard. Birbiglia spinsstories of his battles with sleepwalking, whichrange in intensity from vivid dreams in which a
hyena-like creature hovers above him about to strike all the way to jumping out a second storywindow in a hotel because he believed a missile was about to strike. But the deeper tale is about hisnascent career, failed relationships (with some very understanding girlfriends, it must be said) anda wlecome late in life understanding of Birbiglia's father. Is it more than stand-up? Less than aplay? Who cares? Shows like this are far more common in the UK, where stand-up is more vibrantand people with solid success start playing small theaters for limited runs. Not all of them shape anevening with quite the skill that Birgbiglia brings to his modest story. But if it's funny, it's funnyand no one worries too much about what to call it. Birbiglia is funny. I'm not necessarily clamoringto hear what he'll come up with next, but I am intrigued enough to keep him in mind. Anyone whocan wring laughs out of the low-key repetition of the phrase "I know" has a gift for aligning anaudience with his own slanted view of things. Too bad, however, that he didn't don pajamas for theperformance, as in the poster for the show. For a guy who readily embraces an unflatteringdescription of himself, Birbiglia sure looks sweet in his jammies. Just make certain he's wrapped
up tight in his sleeping bag before you doze off: you do not want a loose Birbiglia in the house.
The New York Times' Neil Genzlinger said: "Mike Birbiglia's pacing is simply perfect in "Sleepwalk
With Me," his funny, appealing one-man show."Variety's Sam Thielman said: "Birbiglia's delivery is terrific -- his not-that-bright everyman routine
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Michael Giltz: Theater/Music: Sleepwalking, Seafaring and Scaggs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/theatermusic-sleepwalking_b_145061.html [4/5/2009 1:03:02 PM]should strike a chord with anyone who's ever tripped for no reason or gotten someone's gender
wrong. But his writing is deceptively clever, keeping salient points at the forefront as the showmoves forward. This technique doesn't always work to Birbiglia's advantage: "Sleepwalk With Me"ends too abruptly, and some of the jokes are less interesting than the story at its center. But withso much to recommend the show, these reservations feel stingy."
The New York Post's Frank Scheck gave it three out of four stars and said: "At times, the stand-up
roots show through too blatantly. But under Seth Barrish's capable direction, Birbiglia manages to
pull the thematic elements together by, among other things, framing the evening with stories abouthis relationship with his emotionally reserved father."
The AP's Peter Santilli said: "During the 90-minute performance, it gradually becomes clear
"Sleepwalk With Me" is something greater than simply good standup comedy. Birbiglia displays an
uncanny ability to be hilarious, terrifying and poignant -- all in the same breath."
Theatermania's David Finkle said: "As he digresses to talk about turning off cell phones, his slow
sexual development, his cautious father and gregarious mother, his hypochondria, an actual
cancerous tumor in the bladder caught in time and other subjects that could be called ephemeral,he recalls Woody Allen's nebbishy persona, Steven Wright's cerebral musings, and even the mannerin which Sam Levenson giggled at his own jokes."
CATALPA -- Another one-man show, Catalpa tells the daring, true story of the rescue of six Irish
prisoners in 1875 ( here's a NYTimes article from the period ) from under the nose of the British by
a crew that sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts to a penal colony in Australia. Actor Donal
O'Kelly holds the Irish Arts Center stage easily, just like he reportedly did some 20 years ago when
he firs appeared in New York at the same location. O'Kelly jokes that's less of a career arc and moreof a horizontal line, but there's something inspiring about a talented actor simply doing the work.The work in question is unnecessarily framed -- very briefly -- as a movie pitch. O'Kelly impliesHollywood executives proved uninterested in this thrilling story and he gets his revenge by actingout the script, occasionally tossing in ideas (like which movie star could play the female lead) butmostly giving himself the easy, uninteresting option of using film script language ("a wideshot thatmoves in swiftly on a ship that..." is sort of typical). While this lets O'Kelly indulge in some broadbrushstrokes quite effectively for some characters, it mostly just keeps the story at an emotionaldistance. It also constrasts sharply with his playful use of word and sound he delights in; therichest moments are when O'Kelly makes a song out of someone's name or repeats a syllable overand over until you can almost see the roiling waves of the ocean. Frankly, I'd rather hear the showstripped of its movie script conventions and recorded as a radio play. Maybe the Hollywood suitswere right after all.
Variety's Sam Thielman said: "All in all, it's an improbably beautiful show, especially considering
O'Kelly has only a white sheet hanging from a pipe and Ronan Fingleton's lights to paint a picture.
The really gorgeous visuals of "Catalpa" take place in our heads, with the singing, declaiming,
gesticulating O'Kelly the touchstone."
Theatermania's Patrick Lee said: "Donal O'Kelly seems to rejoice in the musicality of spoken words
and in their capacity to paint visual pictures. This infectious love of language fills the two-hour
show with precisely chosen words that paint visual pictures for the audience. Unfortunately O'Kellyhas far more success rendering these little pictures than with painting the big one: the story getsaway from him."
BOZ SCAGGS AT THE BLUE NOTE -- Somebody mentioned famous singers who have tackled
standards, listing Rod Stewart and Boz Scaggs together, which is enough to depress any serious
vocalist. Though pop singers can become accomplished in tackling the American Songbook, few
have done it with such immediate grace and insight as Scaggs, who first delivered an album ofstandards five years ago with the impeccable But Beautiful. His new Decca release Speak Low is
just as sublime, this time adding more ambitious arrangements to the quiet intimacy it's nosurprise he gravitated to. Scaggs came to the Blue Note recently, one of the few remaining tinyclubs in New York where you can see a show with a serious audience that pays attention. Despitetranscendent versions of classics like "Harbor Lights," my only quibble is that I would havepreferred a set much longer and solely devoted to the classics (as opposed to his classics). When
Scaggs duetted with the stylish, beautifully restrained backup singer Mone't or played lightly with
"Washington
Unplugged"
Arianna was on CBS'
"Washington...
Alex Leo The "Real
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Most Reject Obama's
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(SLIDESHOW)
STRASBOURG, France
— On the eve of the
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First Lady Fashion At
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Song Hits Radios"This Time, The Dream's On Me," it was thrilling to hear an artist steeped in r&b discover a talent
for a subtly different sort of vocalizing. By all means, see him live and buy his new album, one ofthe best of the year.
The New York Times' Stephen Holden said: "Mr. Scaggs's most successful music has shrewdly
contrasted the rough and the smooth, the voice careering unsteadily over polished grooves like a
rogue on a bender. By removing the cushions supporting Mr. Scaggs's unruly singing, Mr.
Goldstein's deglamorized arrangements exposed his vocal quirks: a continually wavering sense of
pitch, jarring shifts in timbre from moment to moment and unsteady phrasing."
Variety said: "Scaggs was ably abetted by the tasteful reedmen Bob Sheppard and Paul McCandless,
each of whom moved fluidly between instruments, most notably on a subtly abstracted version of
"Save Your Love for Me." Thanks to their collective light touch -- as well as the singer's own easy
mien -- a vibrant buoyancy permeated just about every groove of a breezy set that positively flew
by."
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Another nice piece, Michael. And as long as the subject is solo shows, allow me to plug another worthy
Women's
Rights
Michelle
Obama
Europe
Newspapers
Cars
War Wire
Video
Financial
Crisis
Barack
Obama
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Books by this author
A cabin of one's own: New
England's MacDowellColony celebrates 100years of artistic utopia.And the gay and lesbianartists who prosperedthere celebrate ... (Thenational gay & lesbiannewsmagazine)
by Michael Giltz
Affairs to remember:Farley Granger beddedAva Gardner, ShelleyWinters, and LeonardBernstein. In hisautobiography, IncludeMe Out, Hitchcock's muse... (The national gay &lesbian newsmagazine)
by Michael Giltzlove it for a reason like
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