Carrollwood Players Power2Give Fundraising Drive

The Carrollwood Players in Tampa is doing a fundraising drive to get up the money to do "Little Shop of Horrors. The goal is $3,500.00. Here is how the money will be spent.

Budget

Rental cost for puppets which includes (4) specialized "Audrey II" Puppets, in increasing sizes. Smallest puppet is hand-held, largest is capable of "eating" multiple adults and at least 8 feet in size (valued at $35,000) : $3,000

power2give hosting, admin, and credit card fees: $409

Project Total: $3,409

You can donate by going to the Carrollwood Players Power2Give website.

Jobsite Rocks: Benefit for Jobsite Theater

Jobsite is hosting their yearly Jobsite Rocks. The benefit concert, social event and raffle will raise funds for Jobsite Theater's next season.

8pm doors, 9pm show

Sat., Dec. 1, 2012

Single Tickets: $8 at the door

New World Brewery, Ybor City

Musical guests include Poetry N Lotion, TYPES (featuring Scott Harrell) and Karaoke Jockey Extraordinaire, and Stevan Polansky.

If you're real nice you might get David Jenkins to do Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips again. Unlike Coyne, don't expect David to be packing a grenade.

My Junk

The song My Junk from the musical Spring Awakening.

Totally F**ked

Totally Fucked – Spring Awakening

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The song is from the musical Spring Awakening. The song sounds closer to So-Cal punk than a traditional musical.

Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind From Spring Awakening

This is from the final Broadway performance of Spring Awakening. I think it is back on Broadway now. Don't ask me why I started watching rock musicals on Youtube.

Jennifer Damiano - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You

Jennifer Damiano is in the Tony award and Pulitzer prize-winning musical Next to Normal. The play deals with bipolar disorder, drug abuse and a dysfunctional family. Needless to say, no one will confuse the adult themes and rock score of N2N with Carousel.

The song Nothing Ever Hurt Like You is not from N2N. It is a cover of a James Morrison song. I have heard both versions and found Damiano's rendition more soulful.

Confessions of a Tooth Fairy

This is a video of an old Groundlings Theater skit. Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig and Melinda Hill play tooth fairies who are bad at their job.

Great Acting Moments: Brando & Leigh

A Streetcar Named Desire took a toll on Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. Brando hated the long Broadway run and never did another play. Brando broke his nose boxing during the run and was happy for the layoff.

Leigh was manic depressive and her stunt doing the West End production and film version of Streetcar wore her down.

"I had nine months in the theatre of Blanche DuBois. Now she's in command of me," Leigh said.

This is the infamous rape scene. It is a credit to Brando and Leigh that they can make such vile people so watchable. Their is nothing redeeming about Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois.

Embedded

Tampa's Jobsite Theater will be performing Tim Robbins' Embedded. The performances will be in in Aug. of 2008. The play is about the Iraq war.

Jobsite will let political activists and candidates speak before the show and have talkbacks with the audience.

Shout Out to Mustang Bobby

Go over to Bark Bark Woof Woof and congratulate Mustang Bobby. His play Can't Live Without You was performed Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City.