Archive: Arts & Entertainment

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Aurora, New York—Catherine Marshall, Wells College Class of 2011, will direct her senior thesis project, a musical play titled “Accidentally in Wells.” The play presents a humorous parody of campus life through the experiences of two unsuspecting freshmen. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. on November 19 and 20 in Phipps Auditorium in Macmillan Hall. Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend.

The Hangar Theatre continues their Fall CabarETC series with Margaret Wakeley: A Lifetime of Love November 20th and 21st. The Hangar’s new CabarETC series features a fresh mix of New York talent and local favorites for a new entertainment experience.

Based first in Atlanta, then Los Angeles, Seattle and now Ithaca, Margaret Wakeley has entertained audiences across the United States and in Europe with her smooth vocals. In her cabaret show, 'A Lifetime of Love', she will perform a unique blend of jazz standards and contemporary gems that celebrate the different stages of love throughout life.

SMART TALK
by Dr. Molto Breve



INDICATED THAT: Use of indicated that instead of said is another symptom of William F. Buckley Syndrome.  At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, sufferers from this condition include many politicians, educationists, and writers of scholarly articles. 

Patients with Buckley Syndrome can't say cuts and bruises.  It must be lacerations and contusions. They never ask.  They inquire as to whether, or even worse, inquire as to whether or not.

The institute's Alfred Kahn Clinic is searching for an effective treatment.  That sufferers often get respect from the equally pretentious and fatuous gives us fits of frustration.

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The classic children’s book “Harold and the Purple Crayon” comes to life at The State Theatre of Ithaca, Sunday November 21st, and children can attend free just by drawing on their imagination.

Children will receive a free ticket to the show simply by drawing a picture that answers the question, “Where would you go and what would you do if you had Harold’s magical purple crayon?”

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SMART TALK
by Dr. Manda Rynne



BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: Any disease can be more easily cured if detacted early.  At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we know that as well as anybody.  Therefore, we recognize that adding an S to forward, backward, toward, and even upward and downward, is a mild, early symptom of Insidious Englishism Syndrome.

Saying towards may seem like nothing to get your knickers into a twist about, but sufferers - excuse me; survivors; PC, you know - usually regress quickly to early on and try and.

This is veddy serious indeed.  Next, they'll pronouncing aluminum as aluminium. Or pronouncing Argentine as ARE-gen-tyne rather than ARE-gen-teen, and DEPP-oh instead of dee-po.  In these xenophobic times, we want our patients to sound like native-born Americans.



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A long time ago Broadway musicals were light fare with clever books and hummable accessible music that managed to comment on life's tribulations with a wink while taking you away from your troubles for a couple of hours.  It's not that I don't appreciate Sondheim with his dark themes and classic, operatic approach.  Let's face it -- Rogers and Hammerstein's Carousel is one of the darkest musicals in the history of musicals, but it is also light hearted and melodic in a way that requires no cultural reach.

It is also generally true that remakes of silly television series in any medium don't work.  So I figured that the Adaams Family musical would be fun for the nostalgia and the stellar cast, but the musical would be fair on dreadful, missing the feel of the original cartoons and the beloved television series with music stereotypically Broadway/Loyd Webberesque.

I couldn't have guessed more wrong.  The Adaams Family is a delightful romp with its roots firmly planted in 60s musical tradition with a delightful twist of vaudeville.  It beautifully captured the characters from past beloved incarnations without mimicking them.  The musical starts some years after the television series ended.  Wednesday is old enough to have fallen in love and want to get married.  She convinces her parents to invite his parents for dinner.  Of course her finance's family is straight-laced mid-western.  Put New Yorkers in a room with Ohioans, Monsters with humans, and let the merriment begin.

The Brothers Size only runs through November 7 at the Kitchen Theatre. Run, don't walk, to grab a ticket to this amazing show before it sells out.

Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney graduated from a Miami neighborhood of drugs and violence, then from DePaul University with a degree in acting, and from Yale with a playwriting degree. Some say that he has taken up the mantle of his Yale mentor, August Wilson. Unlike Wilson's realism, however, McCraney calls on Yoruba mythology to draw his character's daily struggles into the wider cosmos.

SMART TALK
by Dr. Shirley Glibb



INTENTS AND PURPOSES: Some patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired suffer from the legalese strain of common redundancy syndrome.  Many of them are lawyers, some of whom are full of themselves, while others just don't listen to themselves.  Viva Palaver, our staff psychologist, might disagree, but I pick up at least a little insecurity in these patients, lawyers or not.  A little striving to appear important.

For all intents and purposes, they think they're being totally and completely right and proper. The rules and regulations of clear expression have escaped them, and they often enter treatment with fear and trepidation, just as often doubting our ways and means.

The language will go to rack and ruin if they don't cease and desist.

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