More free Shakespeare in Central Park

[theeye]

(Book forum seems as good a place as any for this.)

New Yorkers may be interested in the latest production from New York Classical Theatre. (Note: this is not the Shakespeare in the Park, but they do quite a nice job and there's no standing in line for hours hoping to get one of those elusive free tickets. Just show up and enjoy.)

New York Classical Theatre is Proud to Present...

our Second Offering of the 2002 Summer Season...

in Central Park!

The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare

Stephen Burdman, Director
Jessica Gaffney, Production Designer
Gwen Grossman, Lighting Designer
J. David Brimmer, Fight Choreographer

With: Robin Bloodworth*, Jim DiBiasio*, Jeffrey Emerson, Kathleen
Ferman,
Robert Wilson Hancock*, Michael J. Karp*, Garth T. Mark, Suzy Myers,
Michael
Nathanson*, Joris Stuyck*, Andy Waldschmidt, Nikki E. Walker*, and
Evan Zes*
(* member AEA)

August 1st - 25th, 2002
Thursday through Sunday, 7:00pm

Central Park (meet at West 97th Street and Central Park West)
Subway: B or C to 96th Street, Bus: M10, M96, M106

This production is FREE (yes, FREE!)

No ticket nor reservations are required, just show up in your walking
shoes

Please note: this is a Moving Production: as the play moves from
scene-to-scene,
the audience will follow it from place-to-place!

For information, please call: 212.252.4531 or go to
www.newyorkclassical.org

See You in the Park!

Stephen Burdman

[frazzledspice]

Sounds great!

Alas, I'm leaving at noon.

Give them an ovation for me.

BTW, we saw the Philharmonic perform a free program of Dvorak, Bruch, Grieg, Liszt, and Sibelius at Hecksher Park, Islip on Saturday. They have about a half dozen dates left at various locations in NYC, Westchester, and NJ, and they were wonderful.

The Grucci fireworks were spectacular (was surprised to hear that Grucci is now a Long Island Congressman.)

The guest conductor, a Canadian, was an entertaining commentator and the violin soloist was very expressive.

We had a wonderful evening (lots of little ones were enjoying the concert, too, theeye.)

[theeye]

Sounds like fun. Glad you enjoyed your visit.

[AuntieEmma[$]]

And on the left coast ... for those in the Bay Area looking for free outdoor plays -- if you like a heavy dose of leftwing propoganda with your musical theater, there's the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

I saw them yesterday. They're doing "Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan" -- The adminstration decides to bring democracy to Obscuristan, an (obscure, of course) former Soviet republic, in order to show that they're interested in promoting democracy for its own sake, not just because they're trying to get something out of a country. They send Mr. Smith, a fireman, over to monitor the elections because (1) the image of firefighters is that they are heroic and above reproach, and (2) they think that he's dumb. Well, the election is rigged, and the administration secretly knew there was oil in Obscuristan, and Mr. Smith turns out not to be dumb at all, but he is heroic, and saves the day, the election, and Condaleeza Rice's soul ....

I thought it was pretty good, though not as funny as last year's, "1600 Transylvania Avenue," which had Cheny as a vampire.

[Redlass]

And for Midwesterners, you have one more weekend to catch the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. It even features two Eps members: shadow_dream and redlord. And I'm usually somewhere on the grounds for each performance. Usually working behind the table in the concessions tent.

I've seen their shows for the first two weekends and was--as always blown away. They're doing Othello (set in a modern military camp) and Romeo and Juliet (set traditional). I typically despise Romeo and Juliet (nothing I hate more than insipid heroes/heroines), but this production is wonderful. It's got to be the best Juliet I've ever seen.

I'll try to post some links a little later to the reviews they've gotten in Jackson and Ann Arbor.