Final Curtain Players To Open With A Musical
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 19, 2008
Brownsboro High School’s theater department is ready to showcase a high-energy musical number for the Brownsboro Independent School District community. The musical is called Once Upon a Mattress, a comic and offbeat retelling of The Princess and the Pea.
Theater Director David Young said the musical is about a prince, the son of a controlling, overbearing [...]
Final Curtain For Uiq Symbian Interface
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on November 11, 2008
According to a report by Swedish online magazine mobil.se, the Swedish software company UIQ has given notice to all of its 270 employees. UIQ produces one of the two interfaces for the Symbian OS smartphone operating system. Smartphones with this interface were produced by UIQ’s owners Motorola and Sony Ericsson, among others, but both vendors [...]
Anne And Gilbert Faces Threat Of Final Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on November 10, 2008
The popular musical sequel to Anne of Green Gables is facing an uncertain future in Summerside, its home for the last three years.
“To do a production of this scale, that’s celebrated across the country and in Variety and in the Toronto Star, and it’s really kind of the great new Canadian Musical it’s really expensive,” [...]
Final Curtain At Furnishings Firm
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 8, 2008
THE last South Yorkshire branch of Hellaby-based Rosebys soft furnishings group has been closed down by administrators.
The Parkgate store in Rotherham, where nine jobs have been lost, is among 58 stores being shut down. A further 77 stores have been sold to a new owner.
“But in difficult trading conditions the sale of a number of [...]
On The Stump For Barack Obama Until The Final Curtain
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on November 2, 2008
In Democratic Hollywood these days it’s not enough to be the hardest-working act in show business, you’ve also got to be engaged 24/7 in political fundraising, personal campaigning, robocalling, image advising, party planning (and attending) and surrogate appearances in towns without even a single screen, let alone a multiplex.
Whatever the industry’s travails, Hollywood has stepped [...]
On The Stump For Barack Obama Until The Final Curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on October 31, 2008
In Democratic Hollywood these days it’s not enough to be the hardest-working act in show business, you’ve also got to be engaged 24/7 in political fundraising, personal campaigning, robocalling, image advising, party planning and surrogate appearances in towns without even a single screen, let alone a multiplex.
Whatever the industry’s travails, Hollywood has stepped up big [...]
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 [...]
Final curtain for Casselman sound and light show
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 17, 2008
Accolades are pouring in for the Franco-Ontarian sound and light extravaganza L’echo d’un peuple which has announced that last night’s show here would be the final one after five seasons.
Organizers of the historic pageant confirmed L’echo’s demise early last week, a turn of events they blamed on poor ticket sales to the outdoor venue at [...]
Bearden theater grads bring down final curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 7, 2008
The second summer in a row, freshly graduated Bearden theater rats have self-financed a play as a farewell to high school drama days before heading off to college.
There seems to be a fondness for Victorian literary classics at Bearden. Last year’s play was a stage adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel “Little Women.” This [...]
Appetite for Twenty20 is final curtain for Pro40
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 20, 2008
The changes to the structure of English domestic cricket from the start of the 2010 season, put forward for approval this week by the England and Wales Cricket Board, spelled the end for the 40-over competition because of the appetite for yet more Twenty20.
But the future of the competition does not make a difference to [...]