We surf. We discover.
Boarding Area. A new portal for the business traveller, leading to some of the best websites and voices in business travel. http://boardingarea.com
Coach Class. Jeanne LeBlanc used to write for The Hartford Courant. Now she's travel blogging, and she's a great information source. I first found her blog when surfing for information on Bradley international Airport. http://coachclassblog.com/
Who knew there was an award for America's Best Restroom ? Jeanne LeBlanc scooped this one. I wonder if the Larry Craig Rest Room at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport has been rated on amenities as opposed to its tourist attraction status. http://www.bestrestroom.com/
Ketzel Uprooted. Ketzel Levine was the doyenne of dirt with her gardening spots on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. The offbeat gardening guru and radio producer/host of many a unique tale finished a series on people laid off for NPR, when she was laid off herself. Her blog runs the gamut from what's in bloom to Ketzelisms. (I produced an appearance by Ketzel for WFCR. She was a charmer). http://www.ketzel.com/
Friday, June 5, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Now this Boy Can Text !
A couple of months ago, Iwas looking at I-Phones and Blackberry devices. The Verizon sales rep looked up my account and told me I'd text-messaged but twice in the last 18 months. He then asked if I "was ready for a big boy phone".
Thanks to my pool buddy Chris Bizon who taught me Text Messaging 101 over Memorial Day Weekend and a high school kid that gave me a Texting Tutorial at Gate D4 at the New Orleans Airport, I'm proud to say I can both send and respond to text messages. (slowly, I might add)
In a month or so, when my Verizon contract expires, I'll be ready for a Big Boy Phone.
Thanks to my pool buddy Chris Bizon who taught me Text Messaging 101 over Memorial Day Weekend and a high school kid that gave me a Texting Tutorial at Gate D4 at the New Orleans Airport, I'm proud to say I can both send and respond to text messages. (slowly, I might add)
In a month or so, when my Verizon contract expires, I'll be ready for a Big Boy Phone.
Musings on Being Wired
Musings on Being Wired (and not from caffeine)
On a snow day last winter, I succumbed to the lure of Facebook--Partially, because I'm my high school class secretary; Partially, because I know it has marketing opportunities for my clients; Partially, because I was getting pressure from friends and colleagues. One of my clients used Facebook to promote a performance given by another client. Another client promoted a series of performances to its Facebook network. I was also able to connect fellow classmates and gather information for class notes.
Then, I joined Linked-In. I was able to post my company's profile and my resume, connect with current contacts and reconnect with others.
In both instances, it's been a good tool for making contacts, restablishing contacts, and networking. In both cases, one must be savvy with their status reports. I realise that 96% of my status reports on Facebook involve references to caffeine, the condo pool, tanning, and showtunes.
I'm too exhausted from both to consider other networks. AOL, my occasional client, dropped member profiles for Bebo, yet another networking site. Twitter has become the network-du-jour.
I ask myself: "Why not be old-fashioned and email someone for a coffee date and meet face-to-face ?"
On a snow day last winter, I succumbed to the lure of Facebook--Partially, because I'm my high school class secretary; Partially, because I know it has marketing opportunities for my clients; Partially, because I was getting pressure from friends and colleagues. One of my clients used Facebook to promote a performance given by another client. Another client promoted a series of performances to its Facebook network. I was also able to connect fellow classmates and gather information for class notes.
Then, I joined Linked-In. I was able to post my company's profile and my resume, connect with current contacts and reconnect with others.
In both instances, it's been a good tool for making contacts, restablishing contacts, and networking. In both cases, one must be savvy with their status reports. I realise that 96% of my status reports on Facebook involve references to caffeine, the condo pool, tanning, and showtunes.
I'm too exhausted from both to consider other networks. AOL, my occasional client, dropped member profiles for Bebo, yet another networking site. Twitter has become the network-du-jour.
I ask myself: "Why not be old-fashioned and email someone for a coffee date and meet face-to-face ?"
Upcoming Client Events and Programs:
***Cross-Culture Journeys has a great 15 day/14 night trip to Egypt and The Nile on a cruise through antiquities. Next departure: October 27. For information: www.ccjourneys.com.
***The Capitol Steps bring their new touring show, "Obama-Mia" to Orlando's Plaza Theatre on Friday, June 5th. For information: http://www.theplazatheatre.com/0809_showdetail.asp?EventID=53
***Says You! comes to Nashville for two performances on August 22-23 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center/Polk Theatre, presented by WPLN, Nashville Public Radio. For further information: www.saysyou.net
***The Capitol Steps bring their new touring show, "Obama-Mia" to Orlando's Plaza Theatre on Friday, June 5th. For information: http://www.theplazatheatre.com/0809_showdetail.asp?EventID=53
***Says You! comes to Nashville for two performances on August 22-23 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center/Polk Theatre, presented by WPLN, Nashville Public Radio. For further information: www.saysyou.net
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
"Falsettos" Ticket Discounts This Weekend May 8-10
There are several ticket discounts in place for the P.A.C.E. production of "Falsettos" this weekend at The Academy of Music in Northampton, MA. You can see copies of the Falsettos press releases on this blog.
Student rush tickets are $10.00 each at the door before performances on Friday and Saturday at 8PM and Sunday at 2PM.
Moms get in for half price on Mother's Day. there's a 2PM matinee.
For details: www.pacetheater.com.
Student rush tickets are $10.00 each at the door before performances on Friday and Saturday at 8PM and Sunday at 2PM.
Moms get in for half price on Mother's Day. there's a 2PM matinee.
For details: www.pacetheater.com.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Current and Upcoming Client Events
***PACE, Performing Arts Center of Easthampton, presents the William Finn and James Lapine musical "Falsettos" at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA through May 10. For tickets: www.pacetheater.com
***"Says You!" performs in San Francisco at the Presentation Theatre, on the University of San Francisco campus on May 15-17. For tickets: www.saysyou.net.
***The Mike Thornton Agency is producing a performance of The Capitol Steps on Friday, June 5th at the Plaza Theatre in downtown Orlando, FL. The program will be based on their latest CD, "Obama-Mia". For tickets: 407-228-1220 or www.theplazatheatre.com.
***"Says You!" performs in San Francisco at the Presentation Theatre, on the University of San Francisco campus on May 15-17. For tickets: www.saysyou.net.
***The Mike Thornton Agency is producing a performance of The Capitol Steps on Friday, June 5th at the Plaza Theatre in downtown Orlando, FL. The program will be based on their latest CD, "Obama-Mia". For tickets: 407-228-1220 or www.theplazatheatre.com.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Press Release: PACE presents "Falsettos"
DATELINE: April 5, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS:
David Fried Oppenheim
P.A.C.E.
413-320-5422
david@pioneerarts.org
Mark G. Auerbach
Public Relations
413-733-7095
mgauerbachpubrel@aol.com
P.A.C.E. PRESENTS THE WILLIAM FINN & JAMES LAPINE MUSICAL "FALSETTOS" ON MAY 1-10 AT NORTHAMPTON'S ACADEMY OF MUSIC THEATRE
Easthampton, MA--P.A.C.E./Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton, presents the musical
Falsettos with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine for six performances on Fridays through Sundays, May 1-3 and May 8-10 at The Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA. Friday and Saturday evening performances are at 8PM. Sunday matinee performances are at 2PM.
Falsettos is directed by David Fried Oppenheim. Musical Director is Marnen Laibow-Koser and musical staging is by Joseph Rich. Vocal coaching is by Dan Inglis.
Falsettos is two one-act musical tragicomedies from "The Marvin Trilogy" by William Finn with James Lapine. The first one-act, "March of The Falsettos", opened Off-Broadway in the 1980-81 season. The second, "Falsettoland" (where Lapine collaborated), opened Off-Broadway a decade later. They were combined into one evening at Hartford Stage; that revision, with a different cast and director, moved to Broadway in 1992, where the musical won two Tony Awards. It ran on Broadway for over 480 performances and toured nationally.
Composer/lyricist William Finn grew up in Natick, MA and majored in music at Williams College. In addition to Falsettos, he's known for his autobiographical musical "A New Brain" (about a man's dealing with a brain tumor); the Tony Award-winning "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (which premiered at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires); his "Elegies: A Song Cycle" commemorating lost friends and loved ones, performed at Lincoln Center with Betty Buckley; "Make Me A Song" a revue of his music which launched at TheaterWorks in Hartford.
Collaborator James Lapine, a frequent theatre partner with Finn, won the Pulitzer Prize for "Sunday in The Park With George", his collaboration with Stephen Sondheim. Lapine won Tony Awards for that production, his other Sondheim musical "Passion", and Falsettos.
Both tragicomic musicals in Falsettos deal with the same characters: Marvin, a gay Jewish man (played by Michael Holt of Westfield, MA); his ex-wife, Trina (played by Nikki Wadleigh of Holyoke, MA); their pre-teen son, Jason (played by Noah Loving of Amherst MA (with Sam Lev of Florence, MA as understudy); Mendel, the family therapist (played by Ed Ryan of Westhampton, MA), Marvin's lover Whizzer (played by Andrew Gilbert of Springfield, MA); and Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia, the lesbians next door( played by Stephanie Devine of Springfield, MA and Rebecca Rose-Langston of Florence, MA). Marvin and his unconventional extended family and friends are planning Jason's Bar Mitzvah, as Whizzer deals with HIV/AIDS (which is never mentioned by name in Falsettos).
Tickets, priced from $20-$40, are currently on sale at Pride & Joy, Crafts Avenue, Northampton, MA and PACE, 41 Union Street, Easthampton, MA; by telephone at 800-595-4TIX and online at: www.pacetheater.com. Student, senior citizen, and P.A.C.E. member and Group (10+) discounts are available.
Falsettos sponsors to date include: Baystate Health, The Valley Advocate, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, WGBY, 88.5FM/WFCR, NPR News and Music for Western New England and 640AM/WNNZ, WFCR's AM Broadcast Station. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst and Northampton Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
The Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton (P.A.C.E.) educates and engages the public in the full life cycle of the creative process in the performing arts from concept through completion. Its mission is to make this process and product accessible to the entire community both as audience and participants; to inspire and encourage artistic expression through education, performance, and craftsmanship; and to broaden the cultural horizon of the individuals and the community. P.A.C.E.'s production of "Falsettos" follows on the heels of their critically acclaimed and hip-hop restaging of "West Side Story" in 2008. For information: www.pacetheater.com
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Additional Background on Falsettos
***For a TIME Magazine backgrounder on composer/lyricist William Finn: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975502,00.html
***For a William Finn website: http://www.falsettos.net/
***For Frank Rich's New York Times review of the Hartford Stage production of "Falsettos": http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDA123FF936A25753C1A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS:
David Fried Oppenheim
P.A.C.E.
413-320-5422
david@pioneerarts.org
Mark G. Auerbach
Public Relations
413-733-7095
mgauerbachpubrel@aol.com
P.A.C.E. PRESENTS THE WILLIAM FINN & JAMES LAPINE MUSICAL "FALSETTOS" ON MAY 1-10 AT NORTHAMPTON'S ACADEMY OF MUSIC THEATRE
Easthampton, MA--P.A.C.E./Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton, presents the musical
Falsettos with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine for six performances on Fridays through Sundays, May 1-3 and May 8-10 at The Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA. Friday and Saturday evening performances are at 8PM. Sunday matinee performances are at 2PM.
Falsettos is directed by David Fried Oppenheim. Musical Director is Marnen Laibow-Koser and musical staging is by Joseph Rich. Vocal coaching is by Dan Inglis.
Falsettos is two one-act musical tragicomedies from "The Marvin Trilogy" by William Finn with James Lapine. The first one-act, "March of The Falsettos", opened Off-Broadway in the 1980-81 season. The second, "Falsettoland" (where Lapine collaborated), opened Off-Broadway a decade later. They were combined into one evening at Hartford Stage; that revision, with a different cast and director, moved to Broadway in 1992, where the musical won two Tony Awards. It ran on Broadway for over 480 performances and toured nationally.
Composer/lyricist William Finn grew up in Natick, MA and majored in music at Williams College. In addition to Falsettos, he's known for his autobiographical musical "A New Brain" (about a man's dealing with a brain tumor); the Tony Award-winning "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (which premiered at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires); his "Elegies: A Song Cycle" commemorating lost friends and loved ones, performed at Lincoln Center with Betty Buckley; "Make Me A Song" a revue of his music which launched at TheaterWorks in Hartford.
Collaborator James Lapine, a frequent theatre partner with Finn, won the Pulitzer Prize for "Sunday in The Park With George", his collaboration with Stephen Sondheim. Lapine won Tony Awards for that production, his other Sondheim musical "Passion", and Falsettos.
Both tragicomic musicals in Falsettos deal with the same characters: Marvin, a gay Jewish man (played by Michael Holt of Westfield, MA); his ex-wife, Trina (played by Nikki Wadleigh of Holyoke, MA); their pre-teen son, Jason (played by Noah Loving of Amherst MA (with Sam Lev of Florence, MA as understudy); Mendel, the family therapist (played by Ed Ryan of Westhampton, MA), Marvin's lover Whizzer (played by Andrew Gilbert of Springfield, MA); and Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia, the lesbians next door( played by Stephanie Devine of Springfield, MA and Rebecca Rose-Langston of Florence, MA). Marvin and his unconventional extended family and friends are planning Jason's Bar Mitzvah, as Whizzer deals with HIV/AIDS (which is never mentioned by name in Falsettos).
Tickets, priced from $20-$40, are currently on sale at Pride & Joy, Crafts Avenue, Northampton, MA and PACE, 41 Union Street, Easthampton, MA; by telephone at 800-595-4TIX and online at: www.pacetheater.com. Student, senior citizen, and P.A.C.E. member and Group (10+) discounts are available.
Falsettos sponsors to date include: Baystate Health, The Valley Advocate, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, WGBY, 88.5FM/WFCR, NPR News and Music for Western New England and 640AM/WNNZ, WFCR's AM Broadcast Station. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Amherst and Northampton Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
The Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton (P.A.C.E.) educates and engages the public in the full life cycle of the creative process in the performing arts from concept through completion. Its mission is to make this process and product accessible to the entire community both as audience and participants; to inspire and encourage artistic expression through education, performance, and craftsmanship; and to broaden the cultural horizon of the individuals and the community. P.A.C.E.'s production of "Falsettos" follows on the heels of their critically acclaimed and hip-hop restaging of "West Side Story" in 2008. For information: www.pacetheater.com
-30-
Additional Background on Falsettos
***For a TIME Magazine backgrounder on composer/lyricist William Finn: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,975502,00.html
***For a William Finn website: http://www.falsettos.net/
***For Frank Rich's New York Times review of the Hartford Stage production of "Falsettos": http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDA123FF936A25753C1A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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