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Running to Places Productions
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
Running to Places Productions, the exciting non-profit youth theatre company, presents the next show in its inaugural season: Spring Showcase. Sixty of the most dynamic performers in Tompkins County and beyond present Broadway favorites from shows such as Spamalot, Annie, Fiddler, Chicago, Charlie Brown, Drowsy Chaperone, West Side Story, and The Wiz plus sneak peaks from their summer productions of Sweet Charity and Damn Yankees. This high energy show runs June 13 - 15 at the renovated Trumansburg Elementary School Auditorium.
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Ben Veaner
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Jim Evans
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
 SMART TALK
by Dr. Parley
Speake
NATIVE AMERICANS: Some
years ago, R. Carlos Nakai, and inspiring musician and speaker, delivered the
annual Samuel Bacon Lecture on American Language at the Institute for the
Linguistically Impaired.
He asked, "How many of you
are Native Americans?"
A few hands went up.
"How many were born in this
country?"
Most of the audience raised
their hands.
"Aren't you natives,
too? Please! Thinking you're not a native makes you feel as if you're not
responsible for this land.
"And you know what we call
each other at home? Indians!"
What a concise and cogent
revelation of the folly of political correctness run amok. Native refers to birth, as do neonatal,
nativity, and nature. Everyone born
here is, by definition, a native American and must accept responsibility along
with the privilege.
If you fear the wrath of
simple minded PC language police, you can still avoid the racist meaning of
Native American. Just pay attention to
the tribe or nation of the people in the discussion, or ask, and use that, such
as the Zuñi Nation, or Navajos, or Algonquins, and so on,
if it really matters.
Like African American, the term Native
American misleads and demonstrates ignorance.
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Kitchen Theatre
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
 From Ithaca to Beijing to New York City and now back to Ithaca comes Rachel Lampert’s THE SOUP COMES LAST in a limited nine-performance run July 3 to July 13. SOUP is a delightful and hilarious memoir of her 1997 trip to China to stage the first-ever production of WEST SIDE STORY in the Peoples’ Republic. This international backstage story filled with miscommunications and cultural missteps has been a long-time favorite with Ithaca area audiences.
When SOUP played for a month Off-Broadway, the New York Times note, “The trip was a comedy of errors and unmet expectations, and Ms. Lampert shows a deft sense of timing and a keen ability to make you see a scene through mere description. And in a lovely, surprising ending, she gives you a chance to test how good your mind’s eye is against the real thing. That’s when you fully realize jut how good her performance and writing were.”
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