#Eric Paice

[mariocki]

Pathfinders to Mars (ABC, 1960 - 1961)

"You know, Henderson, the progress of true science depends not only on the cold, calculating types, but also on the adventurers and dreamers. There's a place for all of us under the sun."

"Yes... as long as we don't get too close to it."

[rolandrockover]

Underwired Stars

So, what was that again with Under the Gun? Eric Carr and Paul were jamming until Paul created the main riff from a drum sequence Eric came up with, right?

Does anyone here have the slightest doubt that Paul must have thought of Deep Purple's Highway Star in the process, and definitely also somehow of Live Wire by Mötley Crüe, because they were quite hip at the time, and they even played this song on their joint tour with Kiss in '83? Me neither.

But after all, Eric got a credit for it.

Highway Star is highlighted:

Under the Gun (1984)

Live Wire (1981)

Highway Star (1972)

[kevrocksicehouse]

Mike Hodges 

(1932-2022) 

In 1970 Mike Hodges, a TV director with a couple of films under his belt, was asked to make a version of Ted Lewis’ potboiler Jack’s Return Home. Get Carter wasn’t the first great English gangster film (that was probably John Boulting’s Brighton Rock) but it was the most hard-boiled and unsentimental look at the British underworld following tough-as-nails mobster Jack Carter (Michael Caine channeling the thugs and yobs he met growing up) diving deeper into Newcastle’s criminal depths to find his brother’s killer without knowing or caring the consequences. In it’s jaundiced nihilism (Carter) to backstabbing rival Eric Paice: “I’d forgotten what your eyes looked like – piss holes in the snow”) and unrelieved pessimism (the film didn’t even try to suggest Carter would survive) it presaged films like Sexy Beast, The Long Good Friday, The Hit and Mona Lisa, not to mention the careers of Guy Ritchie, Martin McDonagh and Ben Wheatley. The career Hodges opened up for himself was all over the place that included Flash Gordon and Damien: Omen II, as well as superb crime dramas like 1998’s Croupier and I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead but the next time you hear a cockney accent sardonically threaten violence it’ll be an echo of his game-changer. RIP.

[goodtobegeeking]

The Pathfinders Of Space Trilogy (1960) (DVD TV series review)

The Pathfinders Of Space Trilogy (1960) (DVD TV series review)

Now this really is a quirky TV multi-series from independent company ABC back in 1960-61, produced by Sydney Newman and written by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice. The British are preparing to launch two rockets to the Moon from Buchan Island in Scotland, the first manned and the second to be an unmanned vessel carrying food and air supplies. When the second rocket has a malfunction, reporter Conway…

[quadraphonictypewriter]

According to Bob Adcock, who was the road manager for Cream at this time, it's not entirely factual that Deep Purple were knocked off the Cream Farewell Tour for being too strong as an opening band.

I'm paraphrasing comments I've seen on Bob's Facebook, but here's what he says (and I am inclined to believe him, since he was involved in the booking of dates and venues)

Cream was never afraid to follow anyone on stage, at any time in their career. Deep Purple's record company was only willing to pay the (very handsome) price for the LA date, so that's all they got. It doesn't come as a surprise that their record company later went bankrupt, when they booked six limousines for a support act.

Also, in contrast to Purple's fleet of limos, Bob himself drove the Cream trio to the gig in a rented Mercury station wagon!

[brn1029]

It was on this date…in music history….

June 3rd

1953 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley graduated from J.C. Hulmes High School in Memphis; his graduation photo shows him to have a split curl in the middle of his forehead, later to become his trademark. He was the first member of his family to graduate high school.

1964 - Ringo Starr

During a photo session Ringo Starr was taken ill suffering from tonsillitis and pharyngitis, days before a world tour was about to start. After a last-minute phone call from George Martin, session drummer Jimmy Nichol rushed over to EMI Studios, where he and The Beatles ran through six songs from their tour repertoire in a quick rehearsal. Nichol replaced Ringo and became a Beatle for eleven days.

1967 - Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin went to No.1 on the US singles chart with her version of the Otis Redding hit 'Respect'. A No.10 hit on the UK chart. Aretha scored her first UK No.1 20 years later with a duet with George Michael 'I Knew You Were Waiting'.

1967 - The Doors

The Doors 'Light My Fire' was released in the US, where it went on to be No.1 on the singles chart two months later. When The Doors were booked to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show they were asked to change the line "girl, we couldn't get much higher", as the sponsors were uncomfortable with the possible reference to drug-taking. The band agreed to do so, and did a rehearsal using the amended lyrics; however, during the live performance, lead singer Jim Morrison sang the original lyric, after which they were informed they would never appear on the Ed Sullivan show again.

1968 - Andy Warhol

Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol's studio in New York City. Solanas had been to see Warhol after asking for the return of a script which had apparently, been misplaced. Warhol was seriously wounded in the attack and barely survived.

1970 - Deep Purple

Deep Purple released their fourth studio album 'Deep Purple In Rock'. This was the first album to feature the classic Mk II lineup of - Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.

1970 - Ray Davies

The Kinks Ray Davies was forced to make a 6,000 mile round trip from New York to London to record one word in a song. Davies had to change the word 'Coca- Cola' to 'Cherry Cola' on the bands forthcoming single 'Lola' due to an advertising ban at BBC Radio.

1983 - Jim Gordon

US session drummer Jim Gordon, murdered his mother by pounding her head with a hammer. A diagnosed schizophrenic, it was not until his trial in 1984 that he was properly diagnosed. Due to the fact that his attorney was unable to use the insanity defense, Gordon was sentenced to sixteen years-to-life in prison in 1984. A Grammy Award winner for co-writing Layla with Eric Clapton, Gordon worked with The Beach Boys, John Lennon, George Harrison Frank Zappa and many other artists.

1995 - Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman' Taken from the film 'Don Juan De Marco' it became Adams third US solo No.1, a No.4 hit in the UK.

2000 - Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw were arrested in Buffalo, New York after Chesney ran away with a Mounted Reserve deputy's horse, and McGraw attacked deputies that tried to corral him. Chesney asked to sit on the horse outside Ralph Wilson Stadium and the daughter of the deputy gave him permission to do so. Then Chesney mounted the horse and rode away. He was told to stop, but ignored the orders from the other deputies, the deputies were then attacked by McGraw and members of his entourage. Chesney was charged with disorderly conduct and released on bail. McGraw was charged with second-degree assault, obstructing governmental administration, menacing and resisting arrest. He was released on $2,500 bail….(this is a country song just waiting to be written….)

2002 - Ozzy Osbourne

Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Ozzy Osbourne, The Corrs, Will Young, Atomic Kitten and S Club 7 all appeared at The Queen's Jubilee concert at Buckingham Palace, London.

2003 - Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow suffered a broken nose after he accidentally walked into a wall at his home in Palm Springs, California and knocked himself unconscious. Although he passed out for four hours, he didn't endure any lasting effects as doctors determined that surgery was not necessary.

2006 - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers were at No.1 on the UK and US album charts with Stadium Arcadium the bands ninth studio album.

2011 - Andrew Gold

American singer, songwriter Andrew Gold died in his sleep aged 59 from a heart attack. Had the 1977 US No.7 single 'Lonely Boy', 1978 UK No.5 single 'Never Let Her Slip Away' and as a member of Wax the 1987 UK No.12 single 'Bridge To Your Heart'.

2016 - Dave Swarbrick

English folk musician and singer-songwriter Dave Swarbrick died aged 75. His work for the group Fairport Convention from 1969 has been credited with leading them to produce their seminal album Liege & Lief (1969) which initiated the electric folk movement.

[latenightcinephile]

#727, 'Get Carter', dir. Mike Hodges, 1971.

What an uncompromisingly bleak and grimy film Get Carter is, seemingly constructed to shock and alienate the audience at every turn. While it's an acquired taste, I really enjoyed most of this, especially with regards to the finer details of things like the film's sound design. I can easily see its processes, even though its plot is absurdly convoluted - I can see why it was made and appreciate its nihilistic view of the world as the tragedy Hodges intended it to be. So let's get right to it, shall we? Curtain up on Newcastle.

Jack Carter (Michael Caine) is a gangster in the employ of the Fletchers, two brothers high up in the world of organised crime. Jack suspects that the death of his brother, at home in Newcastle, might be related to the activity of his former gangster acquaintances, so he returns to the city to investigate. Before long he's deeply embroiled in the competing interests of the Fletchers, Cyril Kinnear (John Osborne, the playwright), and Cliff Brumby, a local businessman (Bryan Mosley). Jack is also seemingly unable to stop seducing the women around him, no matter how influential or dangerous their current lovers are, but discovers that some of them are involved in a pornography ring that is preying on his family members. Avenging his brother's death winds up in a confrontation with Eric Paice (Ian Hendry) on the windy, overcast shores of England, where Jack's savagery almost results in a happy ending for him. These final moments reward those few viewers that were paying attention during a throwaway shot in the opening credits.

The sheer number of double-crosses and conflicting interests makes the plot of the film difficult to follow at first: characters are frequently introduced through context, with their names not mentioned until halfway through a scene, and the viewer is regularly left to theorise about how characters are connected and what their true motivations are. This is definitely one of those films that was aided by having a plot summary open for referring to after each scene. This complexity, though, definitely does enhance the scenes where Jack comes to some kind of deep realisation, as the slow dawning of just what he's walking into mimics our experience as well.

The difficulty involved in following the plot might make Get Carter alienating to some, but what I found more difficult to endure was the way all the women in the film are treated. I get that this was typically true to life: the experiences of women who ally themselves with British gangsters, largely out of self-preservation, weren't a fun time at all. Most British gangster films treat their female characters in the same way. The early 1970s were the period of exploitation films, however, and it's this that squicks me out a little bit. Every major female character in this film bar one gets her tits out; these women are consistently killed more slowly than the men, and in ways which fetishise the fear they feel. This sort of thing is palatable only because it's part of the genre (and the wider scope of British cinema of the time), but even then, barely so.

Michael Caine's performance in Get Carter was a deliberate choice by the actor to diversify his roles: following the success of romantic roles in films such as Alfie (1966), Caine wanted to contrast that with an incredibly unlikeable character. This film is in some ways a development of his earlier roles: he'd played criminals and spies before, but Get Carter was a kind of penance as well. Caine spoke freely about how the life of someone like Jack Carter was an equally feasible option for him, and indicated that he wanted to undercut the previous depictions of British gangsters as bumbling comic figures.This "ghost of Michael Caine", as he called it, is mostly enjoyable as a protagonist because he's pitted against something even more appalling - not only the pornography ring, which is appropriately grimy-feeling, but also the dead-end world of Newcastle. It's easy to see how Caine felt that crime was a possible choice for his alternate life. Even the successful businessman, Brumby, is working on opening a cafe at the top of a brutal-looking disused multi-story car park. The view from it might be the best in Newcastle... but that's not high praise, exactly. While the city does have some nice vistas, Mike Hodges steadfastly refuses to look at them, showing us only rain, coal mines and sleazy bingo halls.

Although the locations Hodges chooses are normally unappealing subjects for a cinematographer, the work done by Wolfgang Suschitzky is assured and poetic. It doesn't make any place in Get Carter look 'nice', but it treats the locations with respect rather than employing some of the techniques of exploitation films that make them feel far more disposable. Suschitzky and Hodges clearly consider the most interesting and engaging ways to place the camera and frame the shots, especially employing height to give the audience a wider view of particular scenes. The visuals are one of the main unadulterated pleasures of the film.

Also effective in giving the film its grimy texture is the sound design. Jim Atkinson, the sound designer, was described by Hodges as "obsessive", often recreating entire soundscapes to further elicit the feeling of a particular scene. One of the things I most noticed about Atkinson's sound design here is just how noisy Newcastle becomes, and how much of that noise is technological in origin. Every phone call in the film echoes slightly in that vacant way that old phones had. Electric razors are plugged into light sockets; slide projectors and film projectors click and rattle and are frequently and alarmingly pointed straight at the camera. The end effect is one of constant surveillance. It's the same sort of noise you get in a film like The Conversation with many of the same themes. This theme of surveillance is also relevant when you get to the end of the film and discover that a particular character (so mysterious that he doesn't even get a proper name) has been introduced more than once before.

Generally speaking, Get Carter is a hard film to love, but an easy one to appreciate. Somewhere along the line, Michael Caine's typical role began to carry hints of Jack Carter - that current of underlying violence that marked a truly capable British character. Get Carter would spawn an atrocious remake, but more importantly it would give Guy Ritchie and Steven Soderbergh some of their most fertile inspiration. Few films of the genre ever took such an unflinching view of the realities of the gangster lifestyle, though, or portrayed them with such an absence of romanticism.

[watusichris]

You Oughta “Get Carter”

Another old Night Flight piece, tied to a Turner Classic Movies airing, about a movie I never tire of watching. (Unfortunately, the Krays film “Legend” turned out to be not so good.) ********** The English gangster movie has proven an enduring genre to this day. The 1971 picture that jumpstarted the long-lived cycle, Get Carter, Mike Hodges’ bracing, brutal tale of a mobster’s revenge, screens late Thursday on TCM as part of a day-long tribute to Michael Caine, who stars as the film’s titular anti-hero.

We won’t have to wait long for the next high-profile Brit-mob saga: October will see the premiere of Brian Helgeland’s Legend, a new feature starring Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Dark Knight Rises, Locke) in a tour de force dual role as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the legendarily murderous identical twin gangleaders who terrorized London in the ‘60s. The violent exploits of the Krays mesmerized Fleet Street’s journalists and the British populace until the brothers and most of the top members of their “firm” were arrested in 1968.

The siblings both died in prison after receiving life sentences. They’ve been the subjects of several English TV documentaries and a 1990 feature starring Martin and Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet. However, the Krays and their seamy milieu may have had their greatest impact in fictional form, via the durable figure of Jack Carter, the creation of a shy, alcoholic graphic artist, animator, and fiction writer named Ted Lewis, the man now recognized by many as “the father of British noir.”

Born in 1940 in a Manchester suburb, Lewis was raised in the small town of Barton-upon-Humber in the dank English midlands. A sickly child, he became engrossed with art, the movies, and writing. The product of an English art school in nearby Hull, he wrote his first, unsuccessful novel, a semi-autobiographical piece of “kitchen sink” realism called All the Way Home and All the Night Through, in 1965.

He soon moved sideways into movie animation, serving as clean-up supervisor on George Dunning’s Beatles feature Yellow Submarine (1968). However, now married with a couple of children, he decided to return to writing with an eye to crafting a commercial hit, and in 1970 he published a startling, ultra-hardboiled novel titled Jack’s Return Home.

British fiction had never produced anything quite like the book’s protagonist Jack Carter. He is the enforcer for a pair of London gangsters, Gerald and Les Fletcher, who bear more than a passing resemblance to the Krays. At the outset of the book, recounted in the first person, Carter travels by train to an unnamed city in the British midlands (modeled after the city of Scunthorpe near Lewis’ hometown) to bury his brother Frank, who has died in an alleged drunk driving accident.

Carter instantly susses that his brother was murdered, and he sets about sorting out a hierarchy of low-end midlands criminals (all of whom he knew in his early days as a budding hoodlum) responsible for the crime, investigating the act with a gun in his hand and a heart filled with hate. He’s no Sam Spade or Phillip Marlowe bound by a moral code – in fact, he once bedded Frank’s wife, and is now sleeping with his boss Gerald’s spouse. He’s a sociopathic career criminal and professional killer – a “villain,” in the English term -- who will use any means at his disposal to secure his revenge.

Carter’s pursuit of rough justice for his brother, and for a despoiled niece, attracts the attention of the Fletchers, whose business relationships with the Northern mob are being disrupted by their lieutenant’s campaign of vengeance. As Carter leaves behind a trail of corpses and homes in on the last of his quarry, the hunter has become the hunted, and Jack’s Return Home climaxes with scenes of bloodletting worthy of a Jacobean tragedy, or of Grand Guignol.

Before its publication, Lewis’ grimy, violent book attracted the attention of Michael Klinger, who had produced Roman Polanski’s stunning ‘60s features Repulsion and Cul-de-Sac. Klinger acquired film rights to the novel before its publication in 1970, and sent a galley copy to Mike Hodges, then a U.K. TV director with no feature credits.

Hodges, who immediately signed on as director and screenwriter of Klinger’s feature – which was retitled Get Carter -- was not only drawn to the taut, fierce action, but also by the opportunity to peel away the veneer of propriety that still lingered in British society and culture. As he noted in his 2000 commentary for the U.S. DVD release of the film, “You cannot deny that [in England], like anywhere else, corruption is endemic.”

Casting was key to the potential box office prospects of the feature, and Klinger and Hodges’ masterstroke was securing Michael Caine to play Jack Carter. By 1970, Caine had become an international star, portraying spy novelist Len Deighton’s agent Harry Palmer in three pictures and garnering raves as the eponymous philanderer in Alfie.

Caine had himself known some hard cases in his London neighborhood; in his own DVD commentary, he says that his dead-eyed, terrifyingly reserved Carter was “an amalgam of people I grew up with – I’d known them all my life.” Hodges notes of Caine’s Carter, “There’s a ruthlessness about him, and I would have been foolish not to use it to the advantage of the film.”

Playing what he knew, Caine gave the performance of a lifetime – a study in steely cool, punctuated by sudden outbursts of unfettered fury. The actor summarizes his character on the DVD: “Here was a dastardly man coming as the savior of a lady’s honor. It’s the knight saving the damsel in distress, except this knight is not a very noble or gallant one. It’s the villain as hero.”

The supporting players were cast with equal skill. Ian Hendry, who was originally considered for the role of Carter, ultimately portrayed the hit man’s principal nemesis and target Eric Paice. Caine and Hendry’s first faceoff in the film, an economical conversation at a local racetrack, seethes with unfeigned tension and unease – Caine was wary of Hendry, whose deep alcoholism made the production a difficult one, while Hendry was jealous of the leading man’s greater success.

For Northern mob kingpin Cyril Kinnear, Hodges recruited John Osborne, then best known in Great Britain as the writer of the hugely successfully 1956 play Look Back in Anger, Laurence Olivier’s screen and stage triumph The Entertainer, and Tony Richardson’s period comedy Tom Jones, for which he won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Osborne, a skilled actor before he found fame as a writer, brings subdued, purring menace to the part.

Though her part was far smaller than those of such other supporting actresses as Geraldine Moffat, Rosemarie Dunham, and Dorothy White, Brit sex bomb Britt Ekland received third billing as Anna, Gerald Fletcher’s wife and Carter’s mistress. Her marquee prominence is somewhat justified by an eye-popping sequence in which she engages in a few minutes of steamy phone sex with Caine.

Some small roles were populated by real British villains. George Sewell, who plays the Fletchers’ minion Con McCarty, was a familiar of the Krays’ older brother Charlie, and introduced the elder mobster to Carry On comedy series actress Barbara Windsor, who subsequently married another member of the Kray firm. John Bindon, who appears briefly as the younger Fletcher sibling, was a hood and racketeer who later stood trial for murder; a notorious womanizer, he romanced Princess Margaret, whose clandestine relationship with Bindon later became a key plot turn in the 2008 Jason Strathan gangster vehicle The Bank Job.

Verisimilitude was everything for Hodges, who shot nearly all of the film on grimly realistic locations in Newcastle, the down-at-the-heel coal-mining town on England’s northeastern coast. The director vibrantly employs interiors of the city’s seedy pubs, rooming houses, nightclubs and betting parlors. In one inspired bit of local color, he uses an appearance by a local girl’s marching band, the Pelaw Hussars, to drolly enliven a scene in which a nude, shotgun-toting Carter backs down the Fletchers’ gunmen.

The film’s relentless action was perfectly framed by director of photography Wolfgang Suchitzky, whose experience as a cameraman for documentarian Paul Rotha is put to excellent use. Some sequences are masterfully shot with available light; the movie’s most brutal murder plays out at night by a car’s headlights. The breathtakingly staged final showdown between Carter and Paice is shot under lowering skies against the grey backdrop of a North Sea coal slag dump.

Tough, uncompromising, and utterly unprecedented in English cinema, Get Carter was a hit in the U.K. It fared poorly in the U.S., where its distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dumped it on the market as the lower half of a double bill with the Frank Sinatra Western spoof Dirty Dingus Magee. In his DVD commentary, Caine notes that it was only after Ted Turner acquired MGM’s catalog and broadcast the film on his cable networks that the movie developed a cult audience in the States.

Get Carter has received two American remakes. The first, George Armitage’s oft-risible 1972 blaxploitation adaptation Hit Man, starred Bernie Casey as Carter’s African-American counterpart Tyrone Tackett. It is notable for a spectacularly undraped appearance by Pam Grier, whose character meets a hilarious demise that is somewhat spoiled by the picture’s amusing trailer. (Casey and Keenan Ivory Wayans later lampooned the film in the 1988 blaxploitation parody I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.)

Hodges’ film was drearily Americanized and relocated to Seattle in Stephen Kay’s like-titled 2000 Sylvester Stallone vehicle. It’s a sluggish, misbegotten venture, about which the less that is said the better. Michael Caine’s presence in the cast as villain Cliff Brumby (played in the original by Brian Mosley) only serves to remind viewers that they are watching a vastly inferior rendering of a classic.

Ted Lewis wrote seven more novels after Jack’s Return Home, and returned to Jack Carter for two prequels. The first of them, Jack Carter’s Law (1970), an almost equally intense installment in which Carter ferrets out a “grass” – an informer – in the Fletchers’ organization, is a deep passage through the London underworld of the ‘60s, full of warring gangsters and venal, dishonest coppers.

The final episode in the trilogy, Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon (1977), was a sad swan song for British noir’s most memorable bad man. In it, Carter travels to the Mediterranean island of Majorca on a Fletchers-funded “holiday,” only to discover that he has actually been dispatched to guard a jittery American mobster hiding out at the gang’s villa. It’s a flabby, obvious, and needlessly discursive book; Lewis’ exhaustion is apparent in his desperate re-use of a plot point central to the action of the first Carter novel.

Curiously, the locale and setup of Mafia Pigeon appear to be derived from Pulp, the 1975 film that reunited director Hodges and actor Caine. In it, the actor plays a writer of sleazy paperback thrillers who travels to the Mediterranean isle of Malta to pen the memoirs of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney), a Hollywood actor with gangland connections. Hilarity and mayhem ensue.

All of Lewis’ characters consume enough alcohol to put down an elephant, and Lewis himself succumbed to alcoholism in 1982, at the age of 42. Virtually unemployable, he had moved back home to Barton-upon-Humber, where lived with his parents.

He went out with a bang, however: In 1980, he published his final and finest book, the truly explosive mob thriller GBH (the British abbreviation for “grievous bodily harm”). The novel focuses on the last days of vice lord George Fowler, a sadist in the grand Krays manner, whose empire is being toppled by internal treachery. Using a unique time-shifting structure that darts back and forth between “the smoke” (London) and “the sea” (Fowler’s oceanside hideout), it reaches a finale of infernal, hallucinatory intensity.

After Lewis’ death, his work fell into obscurity, and his novels were unavailable in America for decades. Happily, Soho Press reissued the Carter trilogy in paperback in 2014 and republished GBH in hardback earlier this year. Now U.S. readers have the opportunity to read the books that influenced an entire school of English noir writers, including such Lewis disciples and venerators as Derek Raymond, David Peace, and Jake Arnott.

Echoes of GBH can be heard in The Long Good Friday, another esteemed English gangster film starring Bob Hoskins as the arrogant and impetuous chief of a collapsing London firm. Released the same year as Lewis’ last novel, the John Mackenzie-directed feature is only one of a succession of outstanding movies – The Limey, The Hit, Layer Cake, Sexy Beast, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels among them – that owe a debt to Get Carter, the daddy of them all.

[lovely-menza]

4, 23, 25?

4. Name a great band you recently discovered

A great band... recently... the Headpins!

23. Favourite singer (only for voice?) and favourite drummer/guitarist/bassist (only for playing their instrument)

Singer: Bon Scott, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Eddie Vedder, Jack Bruce, John Lennon, James Hetfield, Roger Daltrey, Jim Morrison, Freddie Mercury, Yvonne Elliman, Bruce Dickinson, big etc.

Drummer: Nick Menza, Jim Gordon, Clive Burr, Carl Palmer, Ian Paice, Ginger Baker, Dave Grohl, Gar Samuelson, Keith Moon, Steven Adler, Lars Ulrich, Hector "Pomo" Lorenzo, John Bonham, Ringo Starr, Mitch Mitchell.

Guitarist: David Gilmour, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Kirk Hammett, David Lebón, Dave Mustaine, Jerry Cantrell, Ritchie Blackmore, Brian Jones, Tony Iommy, Mick Ronson, Andy Summers, Dave Murray.

Bassist: John Paul Jones, again Jack Bruce, Cliff Burton, John Entwistle, Jason Newsted, Paul McCartney, Geddy Lee, Duff McKagan, David Ellefson, Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Greg Lake, Carlos "Machi" Rufino, I literally play bass and brain stopped working™

25. Somebody you absolutely adore as both a musician and a person

Oh god oh fuck, oh god oh f-

Dave Grohl

and Cliff Burton as well

[gringo60s]

The Maze ‘In’Special Danse Discoteque / french EP Vogue INT 18136, 1967.

Uk mod soul band

Rod Evans - vocals Chris Banham - organ Eric Keene - bass Roger Lewis - guitar Ian Paice - drums

[mariocki]

Pathfinders to Venus (ABC, 1961)

"What a paradise this place is. The way Earth must have been before man spoiled it with sprawling towns and filthy machines."

"If it hadn't been for man's filthy machines we wouldn't be here."

"That's true. And the pity of it is that after us will come rocket after rocket to ravage this planet. They'll gouge the minerals out of the earth, destroy the forests and eventually they'll go to war over it."

[vaudevillefuntimes-blog]

Dixon of Dock Green (Full Episode) “Jig-saw” 1971 HD...Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. The central character was a mature and sympathetic police constable, George Dixon, played by Jack Warner . More on my playlist shortly at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuf1VnRv5teZHtXpkyu-83QsuMtsMJYe-

[cultfaction]

Target Luna

Target Luna was a British television serial broadcast in 1960. It was written by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice, directed by Adrian Brown and produced by Sydney Newman who went on to co-create Doctor Who for the BBC. It featured Frank Finlay as Conway Henderson and Michael Craze as Geoffrey Wedgewood.

The show was successful and spawned three sequels: Pathfinders in Space, Pathfinders to Mars, and 

[krokodile]

Matilda: 

1/11/14 (my master; final show for Bailey Ryon) - Bailey Ryon (Matilda), Ben Thompson* (Miss Trunchbull), Jill Paice (Miss Honey), Betsy Struxness* (Mrs. Wormwood), Gabriel Ebert (Mr. Wormwood), Sean Montgomery* (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Taylor Trensch (Michael), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Thayne Jasperson* (Doctor), Jack Broderick (Bruce), Frenie Acoba (Lavender), Marcus D’Angelo* (Nigel), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Ted Wilson (Eric), Ava DeMary (Alice), Emma Howard (Hortensia), Judah Bellamy (Tommy)

4/19/14 (my master) (Chris Sieber's second show as Miss Trunchbull, Celia's second show as Mrs. Phelps, Ava's second show as Lavender *I think*) - Gabriella Pizzolo (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Jill Paice (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Travis Waldschmidt* (Rudolpho), Taylor Trensch (Michael), Celia Mei Rubin* (Mrs. Phelps), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Ben Thompson (Escapologist), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Ava DeMary* (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Amanda), Heather Tepe* (Hortensia), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Chris Sumpter (Tommy), Marcus D'Angelo* (Eric)

6/6/14 (my master) - Paige Brady (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Jennifer Bowles* (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Celia Mei Rubin* (Acrobat), Taylor Trensch (Michael), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Ted Wilson (Eric), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)  

6/7/14 (my master) (Sawyer Nunes's last show as Tommy) - Ripley Sobo (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbill), Nadine Isenegger* (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Taylor Trensch (Michael), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Ted Wilson (Eric), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Sawyer Nunes* (Tommy)

7/19/14 (my master) - Ava Ulloa (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Jill Paice (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), John Arthur Green (Doctor), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Amanda), Marcus D'Angelo* (Eric), Analise Scarpaci* (Alice), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)  

7/20/14 (my master) - Gabriella Pizzolo (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Jill Paice (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Alex Brightman (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Ted Wilson (Eric), Analise Scarpaci* (Alice), Heather Tepe* (Hortensia), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)  

8/16/14 (my master; Heather covers most of Nigel's track, with Ted only doing the first day of school and schoolyard scenes, otherwise he covers his usual track as Eric; this was before Ted was a swing) - Ripley Sobo (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Jill Paice (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Alex Brightman (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Ted Wilson* (Nigel), Heather Tepe* (Vanessa), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Chris Sumpter (Tommy), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda)

8/30/14 (my master - Ripley Sobo's final show) - Ripley Sobo (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Jill Paice (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Alex Brightman (Michael), Colin Israel* (Doctor), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Marcus D'Angelo* (Nigel), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Analise Scarpaci* (Alice), Chris Sumpter (Tommy), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda)

9/7/14 (my master - Eliza Holland Madore's debut) - Eliza Holland Madore (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Celia Mei Rubin* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Alex Brightman (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Ted Wilson* (Nigel), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Chris Sumpter (Tommy), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Amanda)

9/28/14 (Heather as Vanessa covered most of Nigel's stuff while Chris basically played both Tommy and Nigel!  my master) - Fina Strazza (Matilda), Sean Montgomery* (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Geoff Packard* (Escapologist/Sergei), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Timothy TV Cao* (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Chris Sumpter* (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Heather Tepe* (Vanessa)

10/4/14 (Jonah Halperin's first show back after hiatus, my master) - Brooklyn Shuck (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Cassie Silva* (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Geoff Packard* (Escapologist/Sergei), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Timothy TV Cao* (Tommy)

12/3/14 (my master) - Brooklyn Shuck (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Cassie Silva* (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Geoff Packard* (Escapologist/Doctor), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Chris Sumpter (Tommy), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Ted Wilson* (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Timothy TV Cao* (Bruce)

12/17/14 (my master) - Eliza Holland Madore (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Geoff Packard* (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Colin Israel* (Escapologist/Doctor), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Ted Wilson* (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Timothy TV Cao* (Tommy)

1/7/15 (my master, matinee) - Fina Strazza (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Colin Israel* (Escapologist/Doctor), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Travis Waldschmidt* (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Ava DeMary* (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Heather Tepe* (Hortensia), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)

1/7/15 (my master, evening) - Tori Feinstein (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Alex Brightman (Michael), Colin Israel* (Escapologist/Doctor), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Travis Waldschmidt* (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Lavender), Ted Wilson* (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)

1/27/15 (my master, Marisa Kennedy's first/only [?] show as Mrs. Wormwood) - Fina Strazza (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Marisa Kennedy* (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Scott Difford* (Michael), Colin Israel* (Doctor), Ben Thompson (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Travis Waldschmidt* (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jonah Halperin (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy) 

2/25/15 (matinee, my master) - Brooklyn Shuck (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Ben Thompson (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Colin Israel* (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Ted Wilson* (Nigel), Heather Tepe* (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)

3/1/15 (my master, final show for Ava DeMary, Beatrice Tulchin, Marcus D’Angelo, Analise Scarpaci and Mitchell Sink) - Tori Feinstein (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Celia Mei Rubin* (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Ben Thompson (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Mitchell Sink (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Marcus D’Angelo (Nigel), Ava DeMary (Hortensia), Beatrice Tulchin (Amanda), Analise Scarpaci* (Alice), Ted Wilson* (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)  

3/3/15 (my master, first shows for David Rosenthal, Jack Mullen, GiaNina Paolantonio, Noah Baird, Grace Matwijec, Beada Briglia and Cole Alex Edelstein) - Brooklyn Shuck (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Celia Mei Rubin* (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Ben Thompson (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), David Rosenthal (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), Beada Briglia (Hortensia), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Grace Matwijec* (Alice), Noah Baird* (Eric), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Tommy)  

3/14/15 (my master, poor quality) - Eliza Holland Madore (Matilda), Ben Thompson* (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Cassie Silva* (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Geoff Packard (Escapologist/Doctor), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Timothy TV Cao* (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), Beada Briglia (Hortensia), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)

6/28/15 (Eliza Holland Madore’s last show, my master) -  Eliza Holland Madore (Matilda), Geoff Packard* (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Colin Israel* (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Ryan Steele (Rudolpho), Scott Difford* (Doctor), David Rosenthal (Bruce), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), Grace Matwijec* (Hortensia), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Tommy)

8/15/15 (matinee, my master) - Mattea Conforti (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Geoff Packard* (Doctor), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce), Sofia Roma Rubino* (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), Beada Briglia (Hortensia), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Chris Sumpter (Tommy)

8/18/15 (Amanda LaMotte’s debut as Vanessa, my master) - Mattea Conforti (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Clay Thomson (Michael), Geoff Packard (Escapologist), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), David Rosenthal (Bruce), Grace Capeless (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), Beada Briglia (Hortensia), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Alexa Shae Niziak (Alice), Christian Michael Camporin (Eric), Amanda LaMotte* (Vanessa)

9/1/15 (first shows for Ben Harding, Zoe Manarel, Brooklyn Nelson, Ian Saraceni, Akira Golz, Talia Ryder and Shane Davis.  Also the Ryder sisters’ first show together :)  Amanda LaMotte comes on in Lauralyn McClelland’s track starting during The Smell of Rebellion.  My master.) - Mimi Ryder (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Benjamin Harding (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Noah Baird* (Nigel), Brooklyn Nelson* (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Shane Davis (Tommy)

9/6/15 (final shows for Alison Luff, Lesli Margherita, Matt Harrington and Karen Aldridge, my master) - Rileigh McDonald (Matilda), Sean Montgomery* (Miss Trunchbull), Alison Luff (Miss Honey), Matt Harrington (Mr. Wormwood), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Colin Israel* (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Benjamin Harding (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Shane Davis (Tommy)  

9/8/15 (first shows for Allison Case, Amy Spanger, Rick Holmes, and first time as permanent Mrs. Phelps for Natalie Venetia Belcon, my master) - Alexandra Vlachos (Matilda), Sean Montgomery* (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Colin Israel* (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Benjamin Harding (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), Brooklyn Nelson* (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Shane Davis (Tommy)  

10/7/15 (my master, funny moment where Rick’s wig change doesn’t go as planned) - Mattea Conforti (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Jack Mullen (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Shane Davis (Tommy)  

10/18/15 (matinee, my master) - Mimi Ryder (Matilda), Sean Montgomery* (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Lauralyn McClelland* (Mrs. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Benjamin Harding (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Noah Baird* (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Tommy) 

12/20/15 (evening show, John Arthur Greene’s last show, my master) - Mimi Ryder (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Amanda LaMotte* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), John Arthur Greene (Doctor), Benjamin Harding (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Noah Baird* (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Heather Tepe* (Vanessa), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Shane Davis (Tommy)  

2/21/16 (final show for Clay Thomson and Shane Davis, my master) - Rileigh McDonald (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik* (Escapologist/Sergei), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Clay Thomson (Michael), Colin Israel* (Party Entertainer), Benjamin Harding (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), Brooklyn Nelson* (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Shane Davis (Tommy)

3/13/16 (matinee, my master, Heather Tepe doing the full Eric track as Vanessa) - Alexandra Vlachos (Matilda), Geoff Packard* (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Sean Mongtomery* (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Amanda LaMotte* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Colin Israel* (Doctor/Sergei), Scott Difford* (Party Entertainer), Evan Gray (Bruce), Brooklyn Nelson* (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNia Paolantonio (Amanda), Heather Tepe* (Vanessa), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

4/9/16 (act 2 starts at Lavender’s monologe, evening show, my master) - Rileigh McDonald (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Jennifer Bowles* (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Amanda LaMotte* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Evan Gray (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), Brooklyn Nelson* (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Kathryn Zimmer* (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

4/16/16 (evening show, last show for Rileigh McDonald) - Rileigh McDonald (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy  Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Marisa Kennedy* (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Amanda LaMotte* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Evan Gray (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio* (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

4/23/16 (evening show, last show for Mimi Ryder, and the Ryder sisters’ final show together :/   Pretty great moment where the person behind me screams WHAT THE FUCK?! during the Amanda Thripp throw XD  my master) - Mimi Ryder (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Sean Montgomery* (Mr. Wormwood), Marisa Kennedy* (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard  (Doctor), Evan Gray (Bruce), Brooklyn Nelson* (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

4/30/16 (evening show, final show for Alexandra Vlachos, my master) - Alexandra Vlachos (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Jennifer Bowles* (Mrs. Phelps), Colin Israel* (Escapologist/Sergei), Amanda LaMotte* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Scott Difford* (Party Entertainer) Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

5/8/16 (first show for Willow McCarthy, my master) - Willow McCarthy  (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy  Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Marisa Kennedy* (Mrs. Phelps), Colin Israel* (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Scott Difford* (Doctor), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Noah Baird* (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy) 

6/3/16 (my master) - Ava Briglia (Matilda), Christopher Sieber (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Ora Jones (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Celia Mei Rubin* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Kathryn Zimmer* (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

6/12/16 (my master) - Aviva Winick (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Ora Jones (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Evan Gray (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), Brooklyn Nelson* (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

7/9/16 (evening show, second act starts at When I Grow Up, my master) - Aviva Winick (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Jennifer Bowles* (Miss Honey), Wesley Faucher* (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Ora Jones (Mrs. Phelps), Colin Israel* (Escapologist), Ashley Elizabeth Hale* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Sean Montgomery (Docto/Sergei), Scott Difford* (Party Entertainer), Evan Gray (Bruce), Zoe Manarel (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Tommy) 

8/20/16 (matinee, my master) - Aviva Winick (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Scott Difford* (Michael), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Evan Gray (Bruce),Brooklyn Nelson* (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Kathryn Zimmer* (Alice), Talia Ryder  (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

8/20/16 (evening show, my master) - Ava Briglia (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce),Talia Ryder* (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Heather Tepe* (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

9/4/16 (matinee, my master, last show for Cole Alex Edelstein as Tommy; second-to-last shows for Allison Case, Amy Spanger, Zoe Manarel and GiaNina Paolantonio) - Aviva Winick (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Evan Gray (Bruce), Zoe Manael (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Tommy)

9/4/16 (evening show, my master, last shows for Allison Case, Amy Spanger, Zoe Manarel, Cole Alex Edelstein and GiaNina Paolantonio; includes Bryce Ryness’s happy trails speech) - Willow McCarthy  (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Allison Case (Miss Honey), Amy Spanger (Mrs. Wormwood), Rick Holmes (Mr. Wormwood), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Cole Alex Edelstein* (Bruce), Zoe Manael (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), GiaNina Paolantonio (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Akira Golz (Alice), Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

10/8/16 (matinee, my master; Akira Golz plays Amanda in the schoolyard scene; Amanda LaMotte covers the rest of the role) - Aviva Winick (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Jennifer Blood (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), John Sanders (Mr. Wormwood), Jennifer Bowles* (Mrs. Phelps), Sean Montgomery* (Escapologist), Ashley Elizabeth Hale* (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Sean Montgomery (Party Entertainer/Sergei), Evan Gray (Bruce), Serena Quadrato (Lavender), Gavin Swartz (Nigel), Amanda LaMotte/Akira Golz* (Amanda), Noah Baird* (Eric), Kathryn Zimmer* (Alice),Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy)

12/31/16 (final show for Ava Briglia; my master) - Ava Briglia (Matilda), Bryce Ryness (Miss Trunchbull), Jennifer Blood (Miss Honey), Lesli Margherita (Mrs. Wormwood), John Sanders (Mr. Wormwood), Karen Aldridge (Mrs. Phelps), Michael Minarik (Escapologist), Jennifer Bowles (Acrobat), Phillip Spaeth (Rudolpho), Joseph Medeiros (Michael), Geoff Packard (Doctor), Evan Gray (Bruce), Madison Smith* (Lavender), Noah Baird* (Nigel), Brooklyn Nelson (Amanda), Ian Saraceni (Eric), Kathryn Zimmer* (Alice),Talia Ryder (Hortensia), Meliki Hurd (Tommy) 

Shows other than Matilda:

A Little Princess, 12/8/14 (54 Below staged reading, my master) - Abigail Shapiro (Sara Crewe), Anthony Warlow (Captain Crewe), Andrew Lippa (Miss Minchin), Alexandra Silber (adult Sara/Miss Amelia/Queen Victoria), Heath Saunders (Pasko), Alicia Hall Moran (Aljana), Emerson Steele (Becky), Mavis Simpson-Ernst (Lavinia), Paige Brady (Lottie), Milly Shapiro (Jessie), Ava Ulloa (Ermengarde)

Amelie, Broadway 5/18/ (my master)- Phillipa Soo (Amelie), Adam Chanler-Berat (Nino), Savvy Crawford (Young Amelie), Maria-Christina Oliveras (Gina), Harriet D. Foy (Suzanne), Alyse Alan Louis (Georgette/Sylvie), Paul Whitty (Joseph/Fluffy), Manoel Felciano (Raphael/Bretodeau), Alison Cimmet (Amandine/Philomene), Randy Blair (Hipolito/Elton John), David Andino (Blind Beggar/Garden Gnome), Tony Sheldon (Collignon/Dufayel)

American Psycho, Broadway 6/5/16 (final matinee, my master) - Benjamin Walker (Patrick Bateman), Jennifer Damiano (Jean), Alice Ripley (Mrs. Bateman), Helene York (Evelyn), full original Broadway cast

Anastasia, Broadway 7/25/17 (my master) - Christy Altomare (Anya), Derek Klana (Dmitry), Ramin Karimloo (Gleb), Caroline O’Connor (Lily), Mary Beth Peil (Dowager Empress), John Bolton (Vlad)

Dear Evan Hansen, Broadway 2/13/18 (my master) - Taylor Trensch (Evan), Rachel Bay Jones (Heidi), Mike Faist (Connor), Laura Dreyfuss (Zoe), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Cynthia), Michael Park (Larry), Will Roland (Jared), Kristolyn Lloyd (Alana)

Fun Home, Broadway 11/28/15 (my master; poor quality, includes BCEFA speech and Gabby’s BCEFA rap XD) - Beth Malone (Alison), Judy Kuhn (Helen), Michael Cerveris (Bruce), Gabriella Pizzolo (Small Alison), Emily Skeggs (Medium Alison), Roberta Colindrez (Joan), Zell Steele Morrow (John), Oscar Williams (Christian)  

Fun Home, Broadway 5/21/16 (my master; evening show; next-to-last shows for Rebecca Luker and Lauren Patten) - Beth Malone (Alison), Michael Cerveris (Bruce), Rebecca Luker (Helen), Lauren Patten (Medium Alison), Gabriella Pizzolo (Small Alison), Cole Grey (Christian), Zell Steele Morrow (John), Roberta Colindrez (Joan)

Fun Home, Broadway 9/10/16 (my master; closing night.  Includes speeches from Lisa Kron and Alison Bechdel, but they aren’t really audible due to mike malfunctions) - Beth Malone (Alison), Michael Cerveris (Bruce), Judy Kuhn (Helen), Emily Skeggs (Medium Alison), Gabriella Pizzolo (Small Alison), Cole Grey (Christian), Zell Steele Morrow (John), Roberta Colindrez (Joan), Joel Perez (Roy)

Hamilton, Broadway 12/16/15 (my master) - Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton), Leslie Odom Jr. (Aaron Burr), Renee Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Daveed Diggs (Thomas Jefferson/Marquis de Lafayette), Okieriete Onaodowan (James Madison/Hercules Mulligan), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Jonathan Groff (King George)

Heathers, Off-Broadway 7/28/14 (my master) - Cait Fairbanks* (Veronica), Jessica Keenan Wynn (Heather Chandler), Elle McLemore (Heather McNamara), Kristolyn Lloyd (Heather Duke), Dave Thomas Brown (JD), Jon Eidson (Ram), Dan Domenech* (Kurt), Katie Ladner (Martha), Molly Hager* (Veronica’s Mom/Mrs. Fleming)

Heathers, Off-Broadway 8/2/14 (my master) - Charissa Hogeland (Veronica), Jessica Keenan Wynn (Heather Chandler), Elle McLemore (Heather McNamara), Kristolyn Lloyd (Heather Duke), Dave Thomas Brown (JD), Jon Eidson (Ram), Evan Todd (Kurt), Katie Ladner (Martha), Molly Hager* (Veronica’s Mom/Mrs. Fleming)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Broadway 1/2/15 (my master) - Michael C. Hall (Hedwig), Lena Hall (Yitzhak)

Kinky Boots, Broadway 5/21/17 (my master) - Killian Donnelly (Charlie), J Harrison Ghee (Lola), Taylor Louderman (Lauren), Blair Goldberg* (Nicola), Daniel Stewart Sherman (Don), Marcus Neville (George), Stephen Berger (Mr. Price), Jake Katzman (Young Charlie), Devin Trey Campbell* (Young Lola), Eugene Barry-Hill (Simon Sr.), Natalie Joy Johnson (Pat), Ross Lekites (Harry), Adinah Alexander* (Trish), Stephane Duret* (Richard Bailey), Gaelen Gilliland* (Milan Stage Manager)

Les Misérables, Broadway 2/19/16 (my master - quality is excellent for the first 3/4s of the show; then there’s a drop in quality when this genius dropped her phone under her seat during Drink With Me.  You will also be treated to my mother’s occasional comments during applause breaks and the FUCKING ASSHOLE WOMAN NEXT TO ME LOUDLY HUMMING THROUGH THE SHOW.  luckily it’s only audible in parts, but still, that’s a thing.  the cast is amazing and alison luff may be the greatest fantine of all time, so i still think it’s worth listening to, but...yeah, stuff gets kinda weird.)  - Alfie Boe (Valjean), Hayden Tee (Javert), Adam Monley (Bishop), Megan Osterhaus (Factory Girl), Alison Luff (Fantine), Eleanor Koski (Young Cosette), Rachel Izen (Mme. Thenardier), Gavin Lee (Thenardier), Sean Reda (Gavroche), Brennyn Lark (Eponine), Alex Finke (Cosette), Chris McCarrell (Marius), Wallace Smith (Enjolras), Joshua Morgan* (Grantaire), Ben Gunderson* (Feuilly)

Les Misérables, Broadway 8/17/16 (evening show, my master) - John Owen-Jones (Valjean), Hayden Tee (Javert), Adam Monley (Bishop), Megan Osterhaus (Factory Girl), Alison Luff (Fantine), Mia Sinclair Jenness (Young Cosette), Rachel Izen (Mme. Thenardier), David Rossmer (Thenardier), Marcus D’Angelo (Gavroche), Brennyn Lark (Eponine), Alex Finke (Cosette), Chris McCarrell (Marius), Mark Uhre (Enjolras), Joseph Spieldanner (Grantaire), Jason Forbach (Feuilly) 

Miss Saigon, Broadway 6/29/17 (my master) - Eva Noblezada (Kim), Jon Jon Briones (The Engineer), Alistair Brammer (Chris), Katie Rose Clarke (Ellen), Nicholas Christopher (John), Devin Ilaw (Thuy), Rachelle Ann Go (Gigi)

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Broadway 7/3/17 (debut performance for Ingrid Michaelson, my master) - Denee Benton (Natasha), Dave Malloy (Pierre), Ingrid Michaelson (Sonya), Lucas Steele (Anatole), Gelsey Bell (Mary), Nicholas Belton (Andrey), Nick Choski (Dolokhov), Amber Gray (Helene), Grace McLean (Marya), Paul Pinto (Balaga)

Once, Broadway 12/3/14 (my master, evening show) - Paul Alexander Nolan (Guy), Jessie Fisher (Girl), David Patrick Kelly (Da), Katrina Lenk (Riza), Anne L. Nathan (Baruska), Brandon Ellis* (Svec), Scott Stangland (Eamon), Ryan Vona (Andrej), Paul Whitty (Billy), Laurel Griggs (Ivanka), Andy Taylor (Bank Manager), Erikka Walsh (Ex-Girlfriend)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 5/29/14 (matinee, my master) - Norm Lewis (Phantom), Sierra Boggess (Christine), Jeremy Hays (Raoul), Heather Hill* (Carlotta), Deanna Doyle (Meg Giry)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 6/5/14 (my master) - Norm Lewis (Phantom), Sierra Boggess (Christine), Jeremy Hays (Raoul), Michele McConnell (Carlotta), Polly Baird* (Meg Giry)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 8/19/14 - Norm Lewis (Phantom), Sierra Boggess (Christine), Jeremy Hays (Raoul)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 2/26/15 (matinee, my master) - James Barbour (Phantom), Kaley Ann Voorhees (alt. Christine), Jeremy Hays (Raoul)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 6/14/17 (my master) - James Barbour (Phantom), Kaley Ann Voorhees (alt. Christine), Rodney Ingram (Raoul)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 5/30/18 (my master) - Ben Crawford (Phantom), Kaley Ann Voorhees (alt. Christine), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Raoul), Raquel Suarez Groen (Carlotta), Laird Mackintosh (Andre), Craig Bennett (Firmin), Carlton Moe (Piangi), Kara Klein (Meg Giry)

Phantom of the Opera, Broadway 11/14/18 (my master) -  Ben Crawford (Phantom), Kaley Ann Voorhees (alt. Christine), Jason Forbach* (Raoul), Raquel Suarez Groen (Carlotta), Laird Mackintosh (Andre), Craig Bennett (Firmin), Carlton Moe (Piangi), Jessica Bishop* (Meg Giry)

Pippin, Broadway 6/?/14 (my master, mediocre sound quality, possibly the 24th or the 26th, not 100% sure which) - Kyle Dean Massey (Pippin), Ciara Renee (Leading Player), John Rubinstein (Charles), Molly Tynes* (Fastrada), Rachel Bay Jones (Catherine), Annie Potts (Berthe), Ashton Woerz (Theo)

School of Rock, Broadway 8/8/16 (final show for Sierra Boggess, my master) - Alex Brightman (Dewey Finn), Sierra Boggess (Rosalie Mullins), Spencer Moses (Ned Schneebly), Cassie Okenka* (Patty), Luca Padovan (Billy), Isabella Russo (Summer), Bobbi MacKenzie (Tomika), Raghav Mehrotra (Freddy), Brandon Niederauer (Zack), Evie Dolan (Katie), Emily Cramer (Ms. Sheinkopf), Jesse Swimm* (Gabe Brown/Mr. Sanford/Jeff Sanderson), Patrick O’Neill* (Doug/Mr. Spencer), John Arthur Greene (Theo), Josh Tower (Snake/Mr. Mooneyham), Merritt David Janes (Bob/Mr.  Hamilton), Michael Hartney (Stanley/Mr. Williams), Jaygee Macapugay (Mrs. Hathaway), Carly Gendell (Marcy), Gianna Harris (Shonelle), Shahadi Wright Joseph (Madison), Gavin Kim (Mason), Diego Lucano (Lawrence), Gabby Gutierrez (Sophie), Jersey Sullivan (James)

Violet, Broadway 8/15/14 (my master) - Sutton Foster (Violet) and the rest of the original revival production cast.

*Anything recorded in 2014 is not great quality, as it was before I had an iPhone and had to use a tablet to record.  And occasionally my Phantom audios will have a bonus commentary track from my mother - she’s the Phan in the fam, not me, so I never go without her, and while she doesn’t talk during the show itself, applause breaks are fair game.  

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DEEP PURPLE with Special Guest BLUE OYSTER CULT - FEB 10, 2022 HARD ROCK LIVE, HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA

Deep Purple has sold more than 100 million albums and filled global arenas for decades. In 2016, Deep Purple was given the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

With a body of work spanning seven decades, Deep Purple has helped pioneer and define the rock genre whilst progressively moving into new areas to keep their sound fresh and attract new fans to the legions who have remained loyal since the band’s inception.

Deep Purple has recorded iconic rock classics, including “Speed King” and “Into the Fire” from 1970’s “In Rock;” “Fireball” from the 1971 album with the same name - “Fireball;” “Smoke on the Water” and “Highway Star” from 1972’s “Machine Head;” and “Woman from Tokyo” from 1973’s “Who Do We Think We Are.”

Known as one of the hardest working bands ever, Deep Purple has released six studio albums since 1996. Deep Purple’s latest album “Whoosh!” was released last year to great acclaim as one of the best albums of 2020. “Whoosh!” is the band’s third straight No.1 album in Germany and reached No. 4 in the UK.

Deep Purple is formed of Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Steve Morse and Don Airey.

For more than four decades, Blue Öyster Cult has been thrilling fans of rock worldwide with powerful albums loaded with classic songs.

Upon the release of Blue Öyster Cult's self-titled debut album in 1972, the band was praised for its catchy, heavy music and lyrics that could be provocative, terrifying, funny or ambiguous, often all in the same song. Blue Öyster Cult's catalog includes three stone cold classic songs: The truly haunting "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from 1976's “Agents of Fortune,” the pummeling "Godzilla" from 1977's “Spectres” and the hypnotically melodic "Burnin' for You" from1981's “Fire of Unknown Origin.”

Other notable Blue Öyster Cult songs include "Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll," "Then Came the Last Days of May," "I Love the Night," "In Thee," "Veteran of the Psychic Wars," "Dominance and Submission," "Astronomy," "Black Blade" and "Shooting Shark." Their most recent album “Symbol Remains” was released in October 2020 to rave reviews.

The intense creative vision of Blue Öyster Cult's original core duo of vocalist/lead guitarist Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and vocalist/rhythm guitarist Eric Bloom are complemented by Richie Castellano on guitar and keyboards, and the longtime rhythm section of bass guitarist Danny Miranda and drummer Jules Radino.