Showing posts with label times square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label times square. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Let Me Ascertain You: LGBTQ All Out! Part III

Up next is our third podcast of our series "Let Me Ascertain You: LGBTQ All Out!" dedicated to sexuality and gender. For this episode, we've got another interview from a staffer at the Rainbow Heights Club in Brooklyn, an advocacy program for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender emotional recovery and wellness. You can learn more about them at rainbowheights.org. Samira Wiley performs Danee live in New York City at the Barrow Street Theater.

Then, our next performance comes from an interview we did a couple years ago as part of our research for writer Neal Bell's play, Shadow of Himself Actors Matt Maher, Brian Sgambati and Maria Dizzia drove down to rural Pennsylvania to visit Harold and Bob in their home that has number of cages upstairs, locked cells downstairs and something of a small prison camp outside. At the time they were all empty. Matt Maher plays Harold and Brad Heberlee plays Bob.

Since we started this LGBTQ series, we did a concert of the show Times Square by Jill Sobule & Robin Eaton and Jim Lewis. It's a show about two girls who fall in love and discover themselves. To close out the podcast, we share a song for Nicky, one of the two girls at the center of the story. Nicky's a streetwise butch girl and in this song "Cigarette Burn" she's trying out a new song onstage at the Pussycat Palace in the heart of sleazy Times Square. It's sung here by the extraordinary Jill Sobule.

Interviews for this podcast were conducted by Donnetta Lavinia Grays and Matt Maher.


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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

TIMES SQUARE: Upcoming concert performance at Joe's Pub

We're gearing up for TIMES SQUARE a concert performance at Joe's Pub on June 1st and 4th, a new musical based on the cult classic 1980 film of the same name.
Get your tickets now HERE

Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule along with her longtime collaborator Robin Eaton, Tony-nominated writer Jim Lewis and director Steve Cosson are deep in rehearsals right now. 

Check out Jill in rehearsal at Joe's Pub performing "Pretty Monster" below:

TIMES SQUARE tells the story of Nicky Marotta, a volatile street kid with dreams of becoming a musician, and Pamela Pearl, the withdrawn daughter of a wealthy City Commissioner. The two forge an unlikely bond, and through the alchemy of rock and roll, turn their lives inside out and recreate themselves as a proto-Riot Grrl punk duo called The Sleeze Sisters.  Together, they find friendship, love, and music on the rough-and-tumble streets of pre-Disney Times Square.


TIMES  SQUARE 

Concert Performance
Joe's Pub
June 1 and 4, 9:30 pm
Tickets: $20

Get your tickets now HERE

Music and Lyrics by Robin Eaton and Jill Sobule
Book by Jim Lewis
Directed by Steven Cosson


Featuring: 
Alyse Alan Louis – Pamela Pearl
Jo Lampert – Nicky Marotta
Matt Saldivar - Johnny LaGuardia
Christina Sajous – Margot, Bridget, Others
Joseph Melendez – Roberto and Others
Darren Ritchie – Richard Pearl and Others.

Chris Fenwick – Music Director


Band: 

Allison Miller – Drums
Alex Nolan – Guitar
Octavia Romano – Bass 

Check out these videos of  Aylse Alan Louis and Mike Brun  performing two songs from TIMES SQUARE as a sneak peak of the show performed at our "Let Me Ascertain You: LGBTQ All Out!" last month.


"Last Kiss" performed by Alyse Alan Louis and Mike Brun


"Barricade" performed by Alyse Alan Louis and Mike Brun