By the time actor Reid Reimers appeared on the stage of the Wilma Theatre on Friday night, the crowd was already primed for a party. The band was blazing, the lights were swirling, and a phalanx of actors was cavorting around the stage. Still, nothing could prepare those in attendance for the moment when Reimers, his towering, six-foot-six frame pinched into a skimpy black boustier, dropped into the scene on a hydraulic platform atop six-inch platform shoes and began singing about sweet transvestites from Transsexual, Transylvania.
Fishnet stockings, stiletto heels and rock and roll: Friday night’s opening of “The Rocky Horror Show” at the Wilma Theatre was a coming out party for Montana Actors’ Theatre in more ways than one. And in the more typically staid world of local theatre, the raucous cheers from the near-capacity crowds that packed Friday’s first two performances will likely resonate in the local community for a long time to come. [Read More...]
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Local zine queen Debby Florence and painter Jonathan Marquis have started a new arts blog, with an aim of adding more critical dialogue to the scene. Debby sent me a really nice note saying she doesn’t want it to appear that they’re stepping on my toes or territory….But frankly, I’m all about more [...]
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This video is apparently an except from “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” It’s remarkable, not least for the fact that it ran on what I presume is mainstream television. Puts anything I’ve seen on “America’s Got Talent” to shame. Enjoy.
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A couple of months I previewed an interesting event at the PEAS Farm, a live storytelling event called “Eat Our Words.” You can read about it here. A reader alerted me to the fact that a recording of the event has been posted online. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
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Today I spent some time unburying myself from an overflowing inbox, and I came across a press release I received a couple of months ago that was so bizarre, I didn’t know what to do with it. So I’m sharing it, with minimal comment, except to say: This is probably the weirdest back-story to a CD that I’ve seen in my days at the Missoulian. The full press release follows… [Read More...]
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This Saturday is, of course, Halloween; and there are about a billion things going on in town, most of them involving conspicuous costumery. Still, the best costumes won’t be found at the bars; instead, they’ll be on screen at the Roxy Theatre, where the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series continues with Verdi’s “Aida,” the most spectacular of operatic spectaculars… [Read More...]
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And here I thought all those people just happened to live in the same house together by coincidence…MTV has announced a Missoula casting call for its next season of “The Real World.” Come show them how hot and vacuous deep and real you are… [Read More...]
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My old friend Eric from Indiana posted up some important linguistic questions to ponder. I invite you to consider….
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Earlier this week, London Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman penned this deliciously irreverent column about the plague of pretentious actor-speak. Fortunately, around here, I don’t hear many of our local thespians employing such artificially elevated tones when talking about their work. But as the arts writer for the Missoulian, I’ve heard plenty of this [...]
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Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that a coalition of musicians are demanding that the government release the titles of all the songs that were used at Guantanamo Bay “to try to coerce cooperation or as a method of punishment.”
Seriously? I mean, if you’re a musician, do you really want to [...]
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