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Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More #548

Mondays 10am EST bombshellradio.com bombshellradio.com Archival Shows: bombshellradiopodcasts.com #IceCreamManPowerPopAndMore #PowerPop #Mod #NorthernSoul #Punk#60sClassics #Ska #60sGarage #Surf#Itunes#BombshellRadio #recordcollector #musiclover#powerpopgrunge #powerpopgirls #newmusic #rocknroll The Candyskins - Dig It Deep (Fun LP)  Michael Slawter - I Got Lost (The Plastic Years EP)  Stephen Lawrenson - Once Upon A Time (Chants Of A Lifetime LP)  The Amplifier Heads - Space Cadette (Songs From They Came To Rock LP)  The Mockers - Real Enough For Me (The Lonesome Death Of Electric Campfire LP)  Mad Ones - Last Summer (What It Takes LP)  Flying Ant Day - Crystal Tips (Biff! Baff!! Boeuf!!! LP) The Stands - Outside Your Door (All Years Leaving LP)  Bebe Gallini - She Hulk (Single)  Little Richie - Just Another Heartache (Single) Metts Ryan Collins - Can’t Stop Feeling This Way (No Days Wasted LP) Christopher Peifer - Nowhere Fast (Sacred And Profane LP) The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (Single) Flying Ant Day - Katy’s Choice (Biff! Baff!! Bouef!!! LP) The Singles - I’m In Love With You (Better Than Before LP) Sparkle Jets UK - Till We Meet Again (Best Of Friends LP) The Jam - Going Underground (Single) Debuted at number 1, 1980 first Of Four number 1’s Tony Marisco - Sleepwalker (Sleepwalker EP) James Sullivan - It’s Good To Be Wrong (Vital Signs LP) Gene Pool And The Shallows - Norwegian Wood (Benefit Of Mr. Kitesurfer LP) Read the full article

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by Macey Levin

Two lonely people adrift in private worlds filled with conflict and confusion proceed to build an improbable friendship.  Their story unfolds in David Auburn’s sweet and affecting play Lost Lake, beautifully directed by Daisy Walker at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA.

Veronica (Lynnette R. Freeman) a Manhattan nurse practitioner, rents a ramshackle cottage on an upstate New York lake for a week’s summer vacation for her two young children from Hogan (Quentin Mare) a self-proclaimed handyman who isn’t very handy.  She is strong and direct while he prevaricates and offers promises that will not be fulfilled.

Visiting in the spring to look over the cottage, she discovers it needs cleaning, has to have the water burner fixed, the land-line telephone turned on, an extra bed, the dock in the lake must be repaired and a loose shutter has to be secured.  Having  been his home for the last year, Hogan promises his clothes and personal possessions will be gone when Veronica and the kids arrive.  After some haggling about financial details, she gives him a deposit based on his guarantees. When she arrives in mid-August nothing has been done.

Veronica, a young black woman, has been widowed for two years and has found the strength and ingenuity to support her family.  However, a misstep has created an intense crisis for her.  Despite her problems she lives up to the promises she made to her children.  Hogan is a boy in a man’s body still holding onto some of the sweetness and charm of youth.   But his life is an extended series of mistakes and self-inflicted problems.  Divorced, his daughter changes her email address without informing him; he battles with his sister-in-law and is at odds with his younger brother.  Responsibility and he are strangers as he admits to having been fired from 20 or 30 jobs.  We watch the two attempt to solve their private problems as they learn to trust each other.

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It is not unreasonable to expect this to turn into an inter-racial love story. But, fortunately,  Auburn doesn’t take that turn.  He focuses on Veronica and Hogan as individuals who slowly reach out to one another.  The dialogue is realistic and director Walker has created a tone and pace so that the audience feels it is eavesdropping on the lives of two people in pain. Both the intimate conversations and the pitch of Veronica’s and Hogan’s disagreements and arguments ring with honesty.  Walker’s direction is controlled; her actors avoid high-strung, artificial emotions and sentimentality.

Freeman and Mare give life to these two people.  Their physical and facial reactions lend depth to their respective personalities and Auburn’s dialogue.  Though the play has serious and disconcerting elements weaving through it, it also has its share of laugh lines which the actors simply touch rather than belt. They work beautifully together and are continually in sync using their acting intuition and the craft of their art.

Randall Parson’s set of the dilapidated rustic cottage with its extended wooden roof beams and sun porch has signs of its past comfort. Little touches indicate that the house was once loved.  Patricia M. Nichols lighting allows for summer light to come in through the windows and Scott Killian utilizes summer sounds from crickets to the kids playing in the lake.

This play will touch your heart.  It is a gem.

Lost Lake by David Auburn; Directed by Daisy Walker; Cast:  Lynnette R. Freeman (Veronica) Quentin Mare (Hogan); Scene design: Randall Parsons; Costume design: Hunter Kaczorowski; Lighting design: Patricia M. Nichols; Sound design/Resident composer Scott Killian; Assistant sound designer: Christopher Peifer Stage Manager: Corey S. Cavanaugh; Running Time: ninety minutes; no intermission; Berkshire Theatre Group, Unicorn Theatre, Stockbridge, MA; From 9/28/17; closing 10/22/17  https://www.berkshiretheatregroup.org/

  REVIEW: “Lost Lake” at the Berkshire Theatre Group by Macey Levin Two lonely people adrift in private worlds filled with conflict and confusion proceed to build an improbable friendship. 

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Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More #516

Mondays 10am EST bombshellradio.com bombshellradio.com #IceCreamManPowerPopAndMore #PowerPop #Mod #NorthernSoul #Punk#60sClassics #Ska #60sGarage #Surf#Itunes#BombshellRadio #recordcollector #musiclover#powerpopgrunge #powerpopgirls #newmusic #rocknroll Velvet Crush - Hold Me Up (Single) Couchboy - Treason (Summer LP) 65MPH - All Angels Fall (Single) Husker Du - Could You Be The One? ( Warehouse Songs and Stories LP) Christopher Peifer - Sacred and Profane (Sacred and Profane LP) Kurt Baker - She Don’t Wanna Be Alone (Rock N Roll Club LP) The Poravinas - 3 Month Situation (Single) The Rubinoos - Phaedra (From Home LP) 2019 Graham Parker And The Gold Tops - The Music Of The Devil (Last Chance To Learn The Twist LP)  Redd Kross - Mess Around (Show World LP) Tamar Berk - Sunday Driving (Tiny Injuries LP) Magpie - She Knows Where I Live (Picasso On A Log LP) The Royal Playboys - Arabia (Single) The Rooftop Screamers - Another Life (Single) The Ormidales - Strangers After All (Single) Marc Valentine - Jinx Of Finchley Road (Single) Geoff Palmer - Give It Up (Single) Kid Gulliver - Kiss And Tell (Kiss and Tell EP/Mini LP) The Jam - Boy About Town (Sound Affects LP) Read the full article

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Shakespeare & Company Adds Additional Performance Dates to "Intimate Apparel"

Shakespeare & Company Adds Additional Performance Dates to “Intimate Apparel”

  Additionally, an Actor Change is Announced (Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company adds two more performances to its Intimate Apparel run. Written by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and directed by long-time Company member Daniela Varon, the performances have been selling out, similarly to their production of 4000 Miles last month. With two additional matinee performances…

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by Roseann Cane

 As noted by director Daniela Varon, Lynn Nottage’s play Intimate Apparel takes place in 1905, the same year that Edith Wharton published The House of Mirth. Both works are richly detailed, insightful studies of women, men, and class distinctions in and around New York at the turn of the last century, but while Wharton’s novel examined the more “visible” world of white society, Nottage explores a world that is far less familiar to most of us: that of the disenfranchised, the immigrants, the African-Americans.

 Esther (Nehassaiu deGannes), an unmarried 35-year-old African-American seamstress, creates lingerie from the elegant fabrics she buys from a pious Jewish Romanian immigrant, Mr. Marks (Tommy Schrider). Two of Esther’s clients, Mrs. Van Buren (Christianna Nelson) and Mayme (Medina Senghore) seemingly live on opposite ends of the social spectrum, the former a white woman who has married into a rich New York family; the latter, an African-American bordello worker.

 Esther’s landlady, Mrs. Dickson (MaConnia Chesser), cautions her when Esther enters an epistolary romance with a laborer on the Panama Canal, George Armstrong (Lee Edward Colston II). Mrs. Dickson describes the personal compromises she chose to make when she married a man with money. The now-widowed Mrs. Dickson advises Esther to guard her heart, but Esther is lonely, and eagerly accepts the marriage proposal from the man who writes so lovingly.

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Nottage has written a play that is at once well-crafted and deeply felt, and director Varon and her cast do it proud. deGannes offers a performance so nuanced and moving that the audience gasped loudly several times out of fear and concern for Esther. As the no-nonsense, kind landlady, Chesser has a lovely presence and command of her role. Mayme, the prostitute who happens to be a gifted pianist, is expertly embodied by the beautiful Senghore, and as the unhappy socialite, Nelson does a splendid job revealing her despondence at her own disenfranchisement.

The two men in the cast are strikingly good. Schrider’s palpably gentle soul, and the unrealized connection between his and deGannes’s characters, are deeply poignant.

 I loved that we first see Colston behind a scrim, as he recites his letters to Esther. The gauziness enhances the separation and mystery between George and Esther. George is from Barbados, and in the first act I found Colston’s accent a bit over-enunciated so that it didn’t sound natural. But by the second act, his accent seemed pitch-perfect. (I initially had a similar problem with deGannes’s North Carolina twang; for a small portion of the play, she seemed to stray from the accent, but in short order, her accent became authentic.)

 The scene changes are nicely choreographed by Varon, with actors and a few costumed stagehands whisking props away and moving furniture as we hear well-chosen ragtime music. The first act seemed very long, and I’m still uncertain exactly why. I suspect that as the run progresses, dialogue and set changes will speed up, and that problem will resolve itself. Sandra Goldmark’s set is as attractive as it is practical, with a series of lovely, colorful drapes serving as a backdrop. It’s fun to watch the wheeled furniture transform from scene to scene, with one constant: the bed, though seen at different angles, is always in full view as Nottage intended, a vivid reminder of each character’s experience of intimacy.

 Molly Trainer’s costumes are winning and so appealing. I must admit, however, that I found Nelson’s unnatural-looking blonde wig a distraction. Christopher Peifer’s sound design, Scott Killian’s compositions, and James W. Bilnoski’s lighting design enhanced the play seamlessly.

Intimate Apparel is an important, distinctive American play, and I have little doubt that Shakespeare & Company’s production will get the audience it richly deserves. On opening night, I learned that the entire first weekend was sold out, so I would urge you to make reservations posthaste if you want to see this fine show.

Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage, directed by Daniela Varon, runs July 20-August 13, 2017 in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre on the Shakespeare and Company campus, 70 Kemble Street n Lenox, MA. Set designer Sandra Goldmark; lighting designer James W. Bilnoski; costume designer Molly Trainer; sound designer Christopher Peifer; projections designer Natalie Johnsonius Neubert; stage manager Tori Sheehan; composer/music director Scott Killian. CAST: MaConnia Chesser as Mrs. Dickson;Lee Edward Colston II as George; Nehassaiu deGannes as Esther; Christianna Nelson as Mrs. Van Buren;Tommy Schrider as Mr. Marks; and Medina Senghore as Mayme. Tickets for Intimate Apparel are available online at shakespeare.org, or by calling Shakespeare & Company’s box office at (413) 637-3353

REVIEW: “Intimate Apparel” at Shakespeare & Company by Roseann Cane  As noted by director Daniela Varon, Lynn Nottage’s play Intimate Apparel takes place in 1905, the same year that Edith Wharton published…

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Shakespeare & Company Presents Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel"

Shakespeare & Company Presents Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel”

“Lynn Nottage… a rare, vital, important theatrical voice…” – The New York Times (Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company presents Intimate Apparel, written by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage and directed by long-time company member Daniela Varon. This winner of the 2004 Steinberg New Play Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award runs in the…

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Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More #474

Mondays 10am EST bombshellradio.com  bombshellradio.com#IceCreamManPowerPopAndMore #PowerPop #Mod #NorthernSoul #Punk#60sClassics #Ska #60sGarage #Surf#Itunes#BombshellRadio #recordcollector #musiclover#powerpopgrunge #powerpopgirls #newmusic #rocknroll Baba Brooks Band - Watermelon Man (Single) Go Dog Go - You Got Me Too  (Pleasant Living LP) Muck And The Mires - Beat Revolution (Single)  Kahuna Surfers - Go! Go! Go! (Single) Captain Storm - Bitchy (Pop LP) 65MPH - Didn’t You Know (Single) Richard Turgeon - Without You (Single) Orbis Max with D W Dunphy - Days Back (Single) Christopher Peifer - Best Around (Sacred And Profane LP) The Who - Disguises (A Quick One LP) No Spoiler - Ghosting (Single) How Many Beans Make Five - Grown Up Way (La Di Da …so far 1988 -1991 LP) The Andersons - Heinz Baked Beans (The New Sell Out LP) Peachfuzz - Put The Bean In The Egg (About A Bird LP) Rob Moss and Skin Tight Skin - Red Beans and Gasoline (Now With More Rockets LP) The Ramones - Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La) (Too Tough To Die LP) Richard X Heyman - Crave (67,000 Miles An Hou LP) My Raining Stars - Mirror  (The Life We planned EP) The Hanging Stars - Black Light Night (Hollow Heart LP) Read the full article

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Wassup Rocker Radio #146

WorldFamous #WRRRocks Show is on Tonight at Midnight EST right after my pal Mike Rogers' Show on http://bombshellradio.com #GarageRock, #Punk,#LoudRockNRoll,#NewMusic,#SickSounds 1 Ramblin Rose (MC5 Cover) 2:23 Dynamite Platoon 2 Dead Eyes 1:44 Chain Whip 3 How To Rot 1:46 The Lawrence Arms 4 Guttermilk 1:30 The Bobby Lees 5 Post Accident High 3:17 Moshi Moshi and the Moist Boys 6 Teenage Something 2:22 Supersonic Space Rebels 7 Superiority Complex (Big Noise) 1:34 Illuminati Hotties 8 Humanity 1:36 Scheme 9 Billy Viral - Leaving Town 2:21 Bedroom Demos Compilation in t… Martha Stewart's Prison Cell Comp 10 Designosaur - Cold Shoulder 2:24 Bedroom Demos Compilation in t… Martha Stewart's Prison Cell Comp 11 Not Moving To Mars 3:01 Humos y Desastres Rizoma 12 Senseless 3:59 4 Track 5 Songs The Unbelievers 13 A Cut Above 2:59 Digital Leather 14 Hunger For a Way Out 2:21 Hunger For a Way Out Sweeping Promises 15 Madrid 2:55 Christopher Peifer 16 Basement Parents 2:18 Grin Hound 17 Chadrey Bricha 2:31 Cherdat Bitzua 18 Close Your Eyes 3:39 Moshi Moshi and the Moist Boys 19 Drive 2:53 The Bobby Lees 20 Teenage Kinks 2:03 Chain Whip 21 Coyote Crown 3:35 The Lawrence Arms 22 My Baby Baby Balla Balla (The R… 2:23 Dynamite Platoon Read the full article