#alice savitsky

[chiisanaka]

Since ArtFight is already coming to an end, I will show you my attacks for this year!

character cr: iced_vaneella (Instagram)

character cr: @ttangel333

character cr: @we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono

character cr: kalenya (Telegram)

character 1 design cr: bug_biog1rl_art (VK)

character 2 cr: iced_vaneella (Instagram)

character cr: patiencespiral (Instagram)

character cr: Rabid_Plushy (Linktree)

character cr: KHEVIZY (ArtFight)

character cr: sharky_colmillos_ (Instagram)

And, of course, revenges on me!

art cr: huck23333 (Instagram)

art cr: kalenya (Telegram)

Alice Savitsky's design cr: @kingstonlink

There was also an attack from @we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono, but I already reposted it here, so I don't see the point in adding it again. You can find the repost itself on my wall! ^-^

Honestly, I realized that participation in ArtFight is like a kind of practice for me, and I think this month I have discovered something new for myself here.

I think that if I don't do anything bad to myself, and I have the desire and time, I'll also take part next year. It's even cool, haha.

[papermoonloveslucy]

ROBERTA

March 8, 1935

Directed by William A. Seiter Produced by Pandro S. Berman Screenplay by Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz, and Allan Scott, based on the play Roberta by Jerome Kern and Otto A. Harbach, from the novel Gown’s by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller

Filmed at RKO Studios

World Premiere March 7, 1935 in New York City

Released wide on March 8, 1935

PRINCIPAL CAST

Irene Dunne (Stephanie) was nominated for five Oscars between 1931 and 1949. In 1938 she appeared with Lucille Ball in Joy of Living. 

Fred Astaire (Huck Haines) received an honorary Oscar in 1950, and won a competitive Oscar in 1975. He appeared with Lucille Ball in Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936) and Ziegfeld Follies (1945).  

Ginger Rogers (Countess Scharwenka / Lizzie Gatz) did five films with Lucille Ball. In 1971 she appeared as herself on the “Here's Lucy” episode “Ginger Rogers Comes to Tea” (HL S4;E11), filmed during an actors strike. 

Randolph Crane Scott (John Kent) also appeared with Lucile Ball, Astaire and Rogers in Follow The Fleet (1936). 

Helen Westley (Roberta, Aunt Minnie) also appeared with Lucille Ball in 1934′s Moulin Rouge. 

Victor Varconi (Ladislaw) was a Hungarian-born actor making his only appearance with Lucille Ball. 

Claire Dodd (Sophie) was born the same year as Lucille Ball. This is their only film together. 

Luis Alberni (Voyda) was a Spanish-born actor making his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Ferdinand Munier (Lord Delves) did six films with Lucille Ball between 1933 and 1936. 

Torben Meyer (Albert) was seen with Lucille Ball in The Farmer and the Dell (1936) and played the German Bandleader in “Lucy in the Swiss Alps” (S5;E21 ~ March 26, 1956).

Adrian Rosley (Professor) is a Romanian-born actor making his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Bodil Rosing (Fernande) is a Danish-born actress making her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

UNCREDITED CAST

Fashion Models

Lucille Ball makes her 21st film since coming to Hollywood in 1933.

Virginia Carroll

Diane Cook

Lynne Carver

Lorraine DeSart

Betty Dumbries

Maxine Jennings

Myrna Low

Margaret McChrystal

Marie Osborne

Wanda Perry

Donna Mae Roberts 

Kay Sutton

Wabash Indianians 

Hal Borne

Halbert Brown

Candy Candido

William Carey

Phil Cuthbert

Delmond Davis

Ivan Dow

William R. Dunn 

Howard Lally

Muzzy Marcellino

Phil McLarind

Charles Sharpe

Gene Sheldon

Cossacks

Mike Tellegen 

Sam Savitsky 

Dale Van Sickel

Others

Anna De Linsky

Judith Vosselli

Chris Marie Meeker 

Charlotte Russell

Zena Savina 

Mike Lally (Bar Patron)

Michael Visaroff (Waiter)

William B. Davidson (Purser)

Mary Forbes (Mrs. Teal)

Rita Gould 

Grace Hayle (Miss Jones, Reporter)

Jane Hamilton

Synopsis ~  Football player John Kent tags along as Huck Haines and the Wabash Indianians travel to an engagement in Paris, only to lose the gig immediately. John and company visit his aunt, owner of a posh fashion house run by her assistant, Stephanie. There they meet the singer Scharwenka (alias Huck's old friend Lizzie), who gets the band a job. Meanwhile, Madame Roberta passes away and leaves the business to John and he goes into partnership with Stephanie.

TRIVIA

Lucille Ball, who appears uncredited in this film as a fashion model, would later buy RKO, the studio that made this film. At the height of their success during “I Love Lucy”, she and Desi Arnaz purchased it and renamed it Desilu Studios.

Lucille Ball decided to try out for this film when she heard RKO was looking for girls who had worked as models at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. She had not actually been employed by Bergdorf, but had participated in a fashion show a promoter had put on there, so she applied and got the job.

The original 1933 Broadway production of Roberta featured Bob Hope and Fred MacMurray, both of whom played themselves on Lucille Ball sitcoms. Chorus member Leon Alton was a background artist on many episodes of “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.”

A 24 year-old Lucille Ball, decked out in white-blonde hair, white furs and wearing a white gown, appears at 1:37:30 in the fashion show sequence. Lucille Ball originally had dialogue that was later deleted.

In the 1971 “Here's Lucy” episode “Ginger Rogers Comes to Tea” (HL S4;E11) Lucy adds a sugar cube to Ginger's tea for the title of each of her favorite films.   When Lucy realizes she’s put six lumps of sugar in Ginger’s tea, Rogers says she only wanted Top Hat and Roberta (two lumps).  

Clips of the film were included in “Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story: A Woman's Lot” (July 17, 1987). Lucille Ball is also interviewed in the episode. 

Fashion Shows were the subject of several Lucille Ball sitcoms: Lucy Ricardo models a Don Loper original; Lucy Carmichael did an impromptu fashion show in a restaurant to get close to Danny Kaye; Lucy Carter did the same thing to help out her daughter Kim, who got her first job at a fashion boutique.

Roberta earned Lucille Ball a promotion at RKO: from clothes horse to actress!  Little did Maxine Jennings (red head) know Lucille Ball would eventually steel her thunder as a carrot top! 

Some theatre managers took the bold step of offering patrons a money-back guarantee! 

[mastcomm]

11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater.

Previews & Openings

‘ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS’ at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space (previews start on Feb. 6; opens on Feb. 24). May the Padmé Amidala be with you. In C.A. Johnson’s magical realist play, a young queer woman, Keyonna, leads an active fantasy life with her muse, Natalie Portman. Then reality impinges. Kate Whoriskey directs; Kara Young stars as Keyonna, with Joshua Boone as her brother Samuel and Elise Kibler as Natalie. 212-727-7722, mcctheater.org

‘ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE’ at the Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater (previews start on Feb. 1; opens on Feb. 18). Alice Birch (“Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”) wants to know if trauma can be inherited. In this triptych, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, she organizes a grandmother, a mother and a daughter in conjoined stories across seven decades or so. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a cast that includes Carla Gugino, Celeste Arias and Gabby Beans. 866-811-4111, atlantictheater.org

‘BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY’ at Theater Row (previews start on Feb. 4; opens on Feb. 18). The Keen Company presents the long-delayed New York premiere of Pearl Cleage’s ensemble drama, set among a group of artists in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. Alfie Fuller stars, as the lounge singer Angel, alongside Jasminn Johnson, John-Andrew Morrison, Khiry Walker and Sheldon Woodley. LA Williams directs. 212-239-6200, keencompany.org

‘BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (in previews; opens on Feb. 4). What the world needs now is love, sweet love, and also a musical adaptation of the 1969 Paul Mazursky film. For the New Group, Scott Elliott directs Jonathan Marc Sherman’s book about the sexual revolution and its noncombatants. The cast includes Jennifer Damiano, Ana Nogueira, Joél Pérez, Michael Zegen and Suzanne Vega, with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik. 917-935-4242, thenewgroup.org

‘CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (previews start on Feb. 4; opens on Feb. 24). A rock show, a family tragedy and a historical mystery, Lauren Yee’s prizewinning play finds a California father and daughter meeting again in Cambodia, reinvestigating the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Chay Yew directs a cast that includes Francis Jue, Joe Ngo and Courtney Reed. With music by the real-life Cambodian-American rock band Dengue Fever. 212-244-7529, signaturetheatre.org

‘GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY’ at the Belasco Theater (previews start on Feb. 7; opens on March 5). This Bob Dylan jukebox musical, written and directed by Conor McPherson, now knocks on Broadway’s door. Set in a boardinghouse in Duluth, Minn., in 1934, it centers on various down-at-heart, down-at-heel residents. Ben Brantley wrote, “What’s created, through songs written by Mr. Dylan over half a century, is a climate of feeling, as pervasive and evasive as fog.” 212-239-6200, northcountryonbroadway.com

‘HAMLET’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse (previews start on Feb. 1; opens on Feb. 10). Hamlet’s inky cloak? Ruth Negga is wearing it now. The Ethiopian-Irish actress plays the prince in Yaël Farber’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. “It nearly killed me,” she told The New York Times, describing an earlier run. Guess there’s nothing like a Dane. With Aoife Duffin as Ophelia. 718-254-8779, stannswarehouse.org

‘STEW’ at Walkerspace (in previews; opens on Feb. 1). Page 73 cooks up another debut. In this tragedy from Zora Howard, a Harlem-based playwright, three generations of African-American women meet for a home-cooked meal and a painful revelation. Colette Robert directs a cast that includes Portia, Kristin Dodson, Toni Lachelle Pollitt and Nikkole Salter. page73.org

‘WE’RE GONNA DIE’ at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage Theater (previews start on Feb. 4; opens on Feb. 25). Young Jean Lee’s autobiographical rock almost-musical, written as part of her work with the playwrights’ collective 13P, has a new lease on life. Backed by a five-piece band, Janelle McDermoth discourses on life, death and the arguable usefulness of art. Raja Feather Kelly directs. 212-246-4422, 2st.com

Last Chance

THE BIG APPLE CIRCUS at Damrosch Park (closes on Feb. 2). This popular local circus folds its big tent. The current iteration is sometimes racier than usual, but who can’t help enjoying the Lopez Troupe riding bicycles on a high wire or Jayson Dominguez surviving the Wheel of Death? The real stars: the magnificent Savitsky Cats, balls of fluff with acrobatic chops. 212-257-2330, bigapplecircus.com

‘TIMON OF ATHENS’ at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center (closes on Feb. 9). Fashioned for this age of inequality, Simon Godwin’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s (and Thomas Middleton’s) vexed semitragedy ends its run. Starring Kathryn Hunter as a plutocrat who goes broke, the production adds in fragments from other Shakespeare plays, plus a sonnet. Jesse Green called it an “energetic and somewhat Frankensteined revival.” 866-811-4111, tfana.org

from WordPress https://mastcomm.com/11-plays-and-musicals-to-go-to-in-n-y-c-this-weekend-2/

[mastcomm]

11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater.

Previews & Openings

‘ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS’ at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space (previews start on Feb. 6; opens on Feb. 24). May the Padmé Amidala be with you. In C.A. Johnson’s magical realist play, a young queer woman, Keyonna, leads an active fantasy life with her muse, Natalie Portman. Then reality impinges. Kate Whoriskey directs; Kara Young stars as Keyonna, with Joshua Boone as her brother Samuel and Elise Kibler as Natalie. 212-727-7722, mcctheater.org

‘ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE’ at the Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater (previews start on Feb. 1; opens on Feb. 18). Alice Birch (“Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.”) wants to know if trauma can be inherited. In this triptych, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, she organizes a grandmother, a mother and a daughter in conjoined stories across seven decades or so. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a cast that includes Carla Gugino, Celeste Arias and Gabby Beans. 866-811-4111, atlantictheater.org

‘BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY’ at Theater Row (previews start on Feb. 4; opens on Feb. 18). The Keen Company presents the long-delayed New York premiere of Pearl Cleage’s ensemble drama, set among a group of artists in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. Alfie Fuller stars, as the lounge singer Angel, alongside Jasminn Johnson, John-Andrew Morrison, Khiry Walker and Sheldon Woodley. LA Williams directs. 212-239-6200, keencompany.org

‘BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (in previews; opens on Feb. 4). What the world needs now is love, sweet love, and also a musical adaptation of the 1969 Paul Mazursky film. For the New Group, Scott Elliott directs Jonathan Marc Sherman’s book about the sexual revolution and its noncombatants. The cast includes Jennifer Damiano, Ana Nogueira, Joél Pérez, Michael Zegen and Suzanne Vega, with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik. 917-935-4242, thenewgroup.org

‘CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND’ at the Pershing Square Signature Center (previews start on Feb. 4; opens on Feb. 24). A rock show, a family tragedy and a historical mystery, Lauren Yee’s prizewinning play finds a California father and daughter meeting again in Cambodia, reinvestigating the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Chay Yew directs a cast that includes Francis Jue, Joe Ngo and Courtney Reed. With music by the real-life Cambodian-American rock band Dengue Fever. 212-244-7529, signaturetheatre.org

‘GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY’ at the Belasco Theater (previews start on Feb. 7; opens on March 5). This Bob Dylan jukebox musical, written and directed by Conor McPherson, now knocks on Broadway’s door. Set in a boardinghouse in Duluth, Minn., in 1934, it centers on various down-at-heart, down-at-heel residents. Ben Brantley wrote, “What’s created, through songs written by Mr. Dylan over half a century, is a climate of feeling, as pervasive and evasive as fog.” 212-239-6200, northcountryonbroadway.com

‘HAMLET’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse (previews start on Feb. 1; opens on Feb. 10). Hamlet’s inky cloak? Ruth Negga is wearing it now. The Ethiopian-Irish actress plays the prince in Yaël Farber’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. “It nearly killed me,” she told The New York Times, describing an earlier run. Guess there’s nothing like a Dane. With Aoife Duffin as Ophelia. 718-254-8779, stannswarehouse.org

‘STEW’ at Walkerspace (in previews; opens on Feb. 1). Page 73 cooks up another debut. In this tragedy from Zora Howard, a Harlem-based playwright, three generations of African-American women meet for a home-cooked meal and a painful revelation. Colette Robert directs a cast that includes Portia, Kristin Dodson, Toni Lachelle Pollitt and Nikkole Salter. page73.org

‘WE’RE GONNA DIE’ at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage Theater (previews start on Feb. 4; opens on Feb. 25). Young Jean Lee’s autobiographical rock almost-musical, written as part of her work with the playwrights’ collective 13P, has a new lease on life. Backed by a five-piece band, Janelle McDermoth discourses on life, death and the arguable usefulness of art. Raja Feather Kelly directs. 212-246-4422, 2st.com

Last Chance

THE BIG APPLE CIRCUS at Damrosch Park (closes on Feb. 2). This popular local circus folds its big tent. The current iteration is sometimes racier than usual, but who can’t help enjoying the Lopez Troupe riding bicycles on a high wire or Jayson Dominguez surviving the Wheel of Death? The real stars: the magnificent Savitsky Cats, balls of fluff with acrobatic chops. 212-257-2330, bigapplecircus.com

‘TIMON OF ATHENS’ at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center (closes on Feb. 9). Fashioned for this age of inequality, Simon Godwin’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s (and Thomas Middleton’s) vexed semitragedy ends its run. Starring Kathryn Hunter as a plutocrat who goes broke, the production adds in fragments from other Shakespeare plays, plus a sonnet. Jesse Green called it an “energetic and somewhat Frankensteined revival.” 866-811-4111, tfana.org

from WordPress https://mastcomm.com/11-plays-and-musicals-to-go-to-in-n-y-c-this-weekend-2/