| To: vocalist From: Bryant Christenson Subject: Hooray for Hoolywood..and Milwaukee Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Dear Listers: Thank you for your response to my inquiries about a trip to Milwaukee. What a fine city, and very alive with the arts.
I was fortunate to pick out a performance of Hooray For Hollywood ( a musical revue of movie musicals from the Jazz Singer up to the Lion King) at the Broadway Baby Dinner Theater and found out our list's Jeremiah Shaw is the Production Stage Manager but found it out after I went as he did not tip me off to what was up at his theater. If you are close to Milwaukee, do take the chance and go. It is cheap, $30, and that includes a wonderful meal (at a dinner theater??) of prime rib or 4 other entrees plus the revue on a Friday or Saturday night. This is the small, community, semiprofessional and professional endeavor that you should take note of. Supported by ticket sales and donations and on a real shoe string. if I am not mistaken the follow spot was made from a large can and a bulb. But, it worked as well as the one we have in our theater!
This vocal abilities of almost all the cast are amazingly well suited to this type of show. You will be surprised when they move into four part arrangements. You will kill for their accompanist. And, the show was written by a cast member. I have seen worse, and eaten much worse, in a larger theater and on a more professional level. And, never have I seen Dueling Striesands before.
Sometimes I forget how hard and how wonderful the productions can be that are not associated with an established, full-time professional theater. More and more, even in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I go to the smaller. less commercial stages for a fine night at a realistic price.
Enough for now. if you get a chance...go.
Respectfully, Bryant Christenson Isle, MN.
PS. Now let's here what I am getting into when I travel to Palm Springs in February. Anything to see out there as far as a live performance? --
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