rakemag Ce weekend, la: Nautilus Music-Theater’s production of Carousel opens at the Southern, and I wouldn’t even be mentioning the silly clambake song or the slap that “felt like a kiss” if not for the standup crew involved in putting this thing together–not just Nautilus mastermind Ben Krywosz, but also great local singers like Bradley Greenwald … Read more
A couple weeks back at a Minnesota Orchestra concert, when the band was playing 1812 Overture, some Brahms, and a Cello Concerto by Antal Dorai, word has it that a completely sloshed woman showed up and eventually had to be hauled out–and right in the middle of that Dorati concerto! According to an anonymous source … Read more
A couple good-lookin’ rock concerts to consider: 331‘s (free) Jackson’s Juke Joint show with Tom Hunter, chubby-cheeked Ron Sexsmith at the Varsity, the New Congress at Babalu, and the best new bands of 2006 showcase at First Ave. If you don’t care for a full-fledged concert but still got that hankering to hear great music, … Read more
This is how Peter Schilling and Brad Zellar really feel about today’s arts and entertainment happenings: On the film Notes on a Scandal, which Schilling deemed “damn good”: On the Lyle Lovett-John Hiatt-Joe Ely-Guy Clark show:
(See notes below) My friend Adam and I were musing, while en route to this party, that our tax accountant is probably the only such one who can get rock stars and top artists to show up at his party. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that his new digs double as an art gallery. And … Read more
Skipping all the way to Sunday, not because I want to wish away my weekend but because there’s a concert I’ve long looked forward to: Vocalist Christine Rosholt, a woman of excellent taste who was once a featured reader in our magazine (sorry, no link; it’s not online), is leading a tribute to Harold Arlen, … Read more
Tonight: The second week of my second-favorite theater festival begins. This Lone Twin show doesn’t scream of being a sure-thing, at least not in the way Cynthia Hopkins’s show did. (And I can’t be alone in saying that Hopkins put on the hippest night of theater I’ve seen in a long while.) But we here … Read more
At last night’s Raking Through Books event, Michael Korie and Ricky Ian Gordon had me completely convinced that they had done the right thing in adapting Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath to the operatic form. “This is an opera in the way that Porgy and Bess is an opera,” said Korie. And I became giddy … Read more
For the few (probably very few?) of you sharing my obsession with modern American opera: tonight’s Raking Through Books event features composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie, the folks responsible for adapting the Minnesota Opera‘s world premiere of the Grapes of Wrath opera, opening early next month. At first, I thought this seemed … Read more
Two things: First, The Rake’s free screening of the film Letters from Iwo Jima is tonight; pick up your comps at Cafe Brenda (they’re probably gone) or here at Rake headquarters (we have a few). Second, Walking Shadow Theatre Company is presenting an evening of music and storytelling by Sxip Shirey, a composer and performer … Read more