Copperfield’s Helper Slashed By Giant Fan
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 22, 2008
THE audience waited with bated breath for illusionist David Copperfield to walk through the spinning blades of a 4m-high industrial fan.
But they soon found themselves watching a far more dramatic event.
Before the magician had the chance to perform his trick, his assistant got caught in the giant whirling blades, ending up with a broken arm [...]
Australian Teen Choir To Raise The Red Curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on September 24, 2008
The touring choir performed will perform at a variety of high profile public events in Dublin, Dundalk, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and London before going to Hanoi. The choir will be hosted by and present shared concerts with local school groups and choirs in each destination.
The choir has delighted audiences across Australia and around the world with [...]
It’s the final curtain for Aberdare’s Little Theatre
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 21, 2008
ONE of Aberdare’s most historic buildings is facing demolition to make way for a housing development.
For more than 70 years, local dramatics groups including The Trecynon Amateur dramatic Society and the Aberdare Little Theatre Company have been treading the boards at the town’s Little Theatre.
But now the former engine shed looks set to be knocked [...]
Banks Branded a Phony by Talk Show Audience
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 18, 2008
Model-turned-talk show host Tyra Banks has been branded a “phony” by infuriated audience members who waited more than two hours for her to appear in the “Tyra Banks Show” studio.
The beauty, who won a TV Emmy earlier this year for the series, reportedly ignored fans waiting to film the show on Tuesday in New York [...]
Curtain Call presents ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 9, 2008
Tragedy and true love will take the stage this summer at Shakespeare on the Green in Stamford.
This weekend kicks off Curtain Call’s fifth annual free Shakespeare performance featuring the bard’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet.”
“We played it safe for the past four years it’s about time for a tragedy,” said Lou Ursone, executive director of [...]
PMT curtain call after 18 years
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on June 11, 2008
The Pratt Music Theatre Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the corporation no later than June 30, ending an 18-year run of live theater in the Pratt community.
“This decision has not been reached easily and not without much soul searching and prayerful consideration,†according to a June 3 letter to “PMT friends†from the [...]
Stratford raises another curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 25, 2008
Right Here’s parents were first thrilled by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at its birth when the Bard and all the world and the players and the amazed audience were under a tent.
That amazing tent vanished in the 1950s, but tradition of Shakespeare at Stratford continues this week when the festival’s 2008 season opens tomorrow with [...]
Pudsey singer to bring curtain down at Leeds City Varieties
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
Pudsey’s Lawrie Briggs has played Leeds City Varieties so often she is almost part of its fixtures and fittings.
Now the popular performer says she is proud to be singing at the former music hall for one last time before its multi-million pound refurbishment.
Her Varieties history dates back more than 20 years to when she appeared [...]
Curtain to rise on Spotlight Players South Pacific
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
Temescal Canyon High School Spotlight Players invite Canyon Lakers to spend “Some Enchanted Evening†in Bali Ha’i as the group performs one of the greatest musicals of all times, “South Pacific,†by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Critics have called the Tony-winning musical “South Terrific†and, despite the harsh realities of WWII, audiences are guaranteed to fall in [...]
The West End isn’t facing the final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 14, 2008
This buzzy, caffeine-addicted British impresario ought to be on top of the world. Two of her Broadway productions - Tom Stoppard’s Rock’ n’ Roll and the old farce Boeing-Boeing - have just been nominated for 10 Tony Awards in New York, the US theatre’s equivalent of the Oscars.
A host of other Brits have also been [...]