Playhouse on the Square wants Memphis’ theater community to come together and celebrate the life of Laurie Cook McIntosh on Monday, July 13th from 5:30 – 6:30 pm. McIntosh, a professional fundraiser, and award-winning performer passed away on Monday, June 15, after a two decade struggle with cancer.
The memorial will be held at Playhouse on the Square. Beverages will be available 30-minutes before, during, and for 30-minutes after the event.
The Little Dog Laughed is, as anyone who ever chanted a certain nursery rhyme might imagine, a story about laughter, sport, the moon, and dishes running away with spoons. It tells the story of Mitchell (John Moore), a hot but somewhat air-headed film actor on the cusp of stardom. If only he can hide his slight case of homosexuality long enough to play a gay man on the big screen, he’ll be on easy street.
It’s official. Memphis, the rock and soul musical loosely based on the life of Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips will be opening at the Schubert Theatre sometime in the fall of 2009. Memphis is a collaborative effort between Bon Jovi composer and keyboard player David Bryan and Joe DiPietro the author of Over the River and Through the Woods, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
Curtains, the last musical collaboration between John Kander and Fred Ebb is supposed to be a bubbly backstage comedy/romance/murder mystery. Theatre Memphis’ stylish mounting of the show manages to be at least two of those things.
Thou’lt come no
more, never, never, never, never, never!—Shakespeare’s King Lear
Laurie Cook McIntosh took her final curtain call on Monday, June 15. The great actor (who was also a great fundraiser for organizations like LeBonheur Children’s Medical Hospital and Planned Parenthood) was 56 years old. She had been battling cancer for nearly 23 years.
From Sister:
When I asked for a brief “Q&A” with the popular kid’s character Bob the Builder, whose stage show is coming to the Orpheum on June 5th, I thought I’d be the guy asking the questions. I thought I’d finally be able to find out the truth about Muck the bulldozer, Scoop the backhoe, Dizzy the concrete mixer and the rest of the Can-Do-Crew. But in this day of message control that turned out not to be the case. Here’s the prepared interview that showed up in my in-box.
At 83 Angela Lansbury is receiving great notices for her performance in Noel Coward‘s Blithe Spirit. And she recently gave the folks at Theater Talk a fantastic interview.
Voices of the South Artistic Director Jerre Dye on how the Edinburgh Fringe Festival evolved from an in-your-face event into something a bit more family friendly: ” All those fringy edgy people with the piercing and tattoos spinning from the sky and screaming and yelling and covered themselves in pig blood were finding that they happened to have kids.”
Dye made the observation while plugging VOTS’s children’s theater festival on The Inexplicable Dumb Show, a web-based program that applies a morning radio aesthetic to theater chat. Voices of the South’s fourth annual children’s festival opens this weekend at Rhodes College.
Details here.
Dave Landis, Playhouse on the Square’s tireless Jack of all trades has mounted a tasty production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods . In spite of some truly inspired moments it’s still the composer’s most predictable endeavor.
