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DIE: ROLL TO PROCEED</div>
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Director's Notes on creating Theater of the Absurd</div>
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By Christian De Gré</div>
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“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — G. K. Chesterton </div>
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The greatest theater of the absurd is not the one that simply illustrates the ridiculous nature of man, nor is it the one that just pits odd-ball characters against unrealistic circumstances for the sake of humor. Rather, it is the one that through the use of satire, farce, burlesque, clowning, and surrealism comments on issues greater than itself, the one that illustrates some hidden meaning that we don’t immediately recognize. As we sit and laugh at the sheer ridiculousness of what we are witnessing, we are unaware that there are multiple layers bubbling underneath, that we are connecting to the weird in an unconscious way and are being moved by hidden forces working their surreal magic under a superficial exterior. </div>
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This is what DIE: Roll to Proceed is about. In the vein of Shockheaded Peter, The Royal Tenenbaums, Nightmare Before Christmas, the majority of Christopher Durang’s work, and even Family Guy, we lead you through a series of misadventures that might read simply as ridiculous and hilarious on a surface level. But ask yourself, do we not often use laughter to mask our deepest fears? DIE invites us to dig deeper, past the poop jokes and the drag landladies, to peer into the lives of six people trapped in a contemporary world of unfortunate circumstance. Here we glimpse people who are so unloved by the society around them that they turn to their animals for their only comfort; people with such childhood trauma that they have no option but to distract themselves with the world of comic book fantasy and board games where the lines bleed between reality and the escape; people living in relationships who, through years of miscommunication, develop self-defense mechanisms that only drive them further apart and into an excruciatingly long game of power-play chess; people so deeply obsessed with past mistakes, guilt, self-pity, and regret that they can no longer perform. </div>
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DIE is about that moment we’ve all experienced of being pushed into a corner by the forces around us with no easy way out. It’s about the choices we make when we are forced into said corner and the instantaneous realization that we must do something, anything, as life cannot stand still. How do we react? Do we succumb to our misery? Do we look for ways to escape it? Do we accept our reasons for being there in the first place and resign ourselves to a life of repentance? Or do we, as George does, abandon all responsibility and leave our fate to the gods. How often do we seek a higher force to save us from ourselves? Could it be possible that it is just a mere convenience to blame our actions on a higher power? </div>
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Tonight I ask you to look past the “funny”—past cartoon props that might falsely make you feel safe as you rekindle memories of a simpler childhood past; past plasma rifles, ghost rats, torturing aliens, and goat syphilis. I challenge you to look at your own choices in life and the powers that have influenced them. Ask yourself what roles do religion, law, relationships, government, the American dream, love, loss, friendship, fate, death, choice, and destiny play in your own life? Are you really Master of your own destiny, or is your life simply following the path pre-determined by the universe at your birth? Is it really all up to you, or is your life just a game of happenstance randomly decided by the great old Die? </div>
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But worry no more for the time being. Put your troubles aside, for tonight you can at least feel what it’s like to be the power of Fate. Tonight you get to relish in the sheer pleasure of making someone else’s choices for them with no consequences whatsoever to yourself. Our characters tonight rely on you to decide their destiny. So cast off the pressures of your own life choices and play someone else’s game. Tonight it’s their fate… your hands… Roll the Die. </div>
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“Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.” — Lucius A. Seneca </div>
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Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-13157494437477064552011-04-02T07:13:00.000-07:002011-04-02T07:36:29.780-07:00The Review Are Rolling In!<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b>Amazing new play!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">- American Cheerleader Magazine</span></b></span></p></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I trudged out into the rainy night to go see the opening of a new off-off-Broadway play in NYC yesterday evening. And even though it was blistery outside, inside the studio where <em>The Timing of a Day</em> was showing, things were heating up. Now, being that most of my boyfriends’ friends are actors and the circle he runs in all seem to come back to entertainment, I’ve been dragged to a LOT of off-Broadway productions. I’m not going to say any of them were horrible, but none of them really caught my attention—until last night.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><em>The Timing of a Day</em> is a play written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Joey Brenneman. The cast is a small one, comprised of one girl and three guys, all playing mid-20s young people living in NYC. In the show, the audience follows the lives of three roommates, Doug (played by Nik Kourtis), Paige (played by R. Elizabeth Woodard) and Josh (played by Miguel Govea) who are all sharing a tiny apartment in Harlem. After a tragic series of events, two of the characters are left to question their own relationships with each other as well as that with their former roommate. As the actors take us back in time to show us how their lives became so entangled, we start to realize where and how they each fell in love, got off track and began to ignore the things that were right in front of them.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Though it sounds a bit serious, and at times it does deal with serious situations, the play itself was very enjoyable and entertaining. The writing was clever and <em>real</em>, and the situations the playwright put the characters in were totally believable. Nik Kourits‘ portrayal of a flamboyantly gay guy who’s just beginning to admit to everyone around him just exactly who he is, was genius, endearing and a joy to watch. From his mannerisms to the inflection in his voice and wicked dance moves, you can’t help but fall in love with him.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >R. Elizabeth Woodard showcases a compelling yet realistic character, often saying and acting the way I could see myself reacting if put in the same situations. Though tiny in stature, Elizabeth’s presence is huge and she has no problem letting her emotions rip through the venue. Miguel Govea did a good job playing a guy just wanting to find love; everyone can identify with being in love with someone who has no clue how they feel. And watching him work through certain scenes was just heartbreaking (in a good way). And though Matty (played by Justin Anselmi) weaves in and out of the main characters’ lives briefly, Justin manages to leave a lasting impression when he’s through.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I really loved the way they used the stage and created a space where the audience can see the whole apartment. Also, the way the actors moved around the room, picking stuff up and moving furniture to give the viewer a sense that we were changing time, too was very effective. It was done in a seamless way that wasn’t distracting and actually added to the feeling of the show.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >All in all, I was pleasantly surprised with <em>The Timing of a Day</em> and would wholeheartedly suggest you go see it if you’re in NYC the next few weeks. Tickets are only $18 which is a total steal for the performance that you get. Lots of thanks to assistant director David “Cougar” Williams for putting this show on my radar—I can’t think of a better way to spend a night out!</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Cheers,</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Brittany</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "> </p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u>The Timing of a Day<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> by Susan Horowitz (aka Dr. Sue)</span></u></span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“The Timing of a Day” is a slice of 20’s life (that’s age, not era) in the big city. The rent is due - which pressure cooks two post-adolescent male roommates - gay Doug (Nik Kourtis) and straight Josh (Miguel Govea) - into inviting Paige (R. Elizabeth Woodard), a fresh-faced, fresh-mouthed female to share their pad, while extracting a promise of that nothing “weird” (aka sexual) is going to happen. Hormones, loneliness, and love in its myriad complexities, including Paige’s semi-boyfriend Matty (Justin Anselmi), complicate matters and provide a fast-paced, entertaining, touching comedy of modern manners. Playwright Owen Panitierri has an ear for snappy dialogue and engaging characters; actors deliver the lines and react with a improvisational flair and emotional honesty, and director Joey Brenneman keeps the emotions raw, the performers on their toes, and the audience alert to swift scene and time changes. Producer Ariana Paganetti (Mind The Art Entertainment) joins forces with Intimation Productions for a show that lives up to its title as “Outstanding New Play for the 2010 Summer Festival Season” at the NY Fringe Festival.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></p><p style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >- Susan Horowitz, Ph.D. (aka Dr. Sue) Theatre Critic</span></p><p style="font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >For four in their twenties, it’s all in the timing</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><em><span class="Apple-style-span" >Playwright Panettieri on Obama and other bitter pills</span></em></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >BY JERRY TALLMER</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "> </p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >The apartment in which “The Timing of a Day” takes place is in Harlem, near Morningside Park — and the three twentysomething roommates who are its occupants are ill-tempered Josh (Miguel Govea), temperate Doug (Nik Kourtis), and spunky, spiky, uptight Paige (R. Elizabeth Woodard).</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Also on the scene is Matty (Justin Anselmi), Paige’s occasional visiting bedmate and fulltime bore, who in the play’s most mortifying moment bursts out into the living room to scrounge a couple of condoms from the Josh who is, so to speak, Paige’s official lover. As for Doug, who also loves Paige (and vice versa), it has taken him 20 years to work up the gumption to reveal his homosexuality to his suburbanite parents.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >If all the above is beginning to sound like a Hemingway short story, well, so much more to the credit of the young writer who won several top awards for this same play in last year’s installment of FringeNYC.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Almost before you’re settled in your seat and have gotten to know those three roommates, one of them, Doug (who has shaken off a bang on the head from a fall on the ice in Morningside Park), collapses and dies across the all-purpose dining table just after Josh and Paige have gone off to work that morning.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >There is a wise-guy adolescent’s game called 52 Pickup, in which ordinary playing cards are dropped one by one at random upon the floor. “The Timing of a Day” would seem to have been written that way — except of course it wasn’t. Its eight scenes come to us in non-chronological fashion, jumping back and forth before and after Doug’s death on January 13, 2009. Two weeks later comes the passage, and the line, that made me realize we had a real talent here with something to say and a way to say it:</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Josh and Paige are, so to speak (thank you, Horton Foote) dividing the estate. Doug’s parents have already come and gone, taking almost everything of their late son’s with them.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“They took the table?” Paige asks.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“Um, no,” says Josh. “I just kinda left it out on the street. It was gone in 15 minutes….I didn’t wanna keep it. I mean, there wasn’t really anything wrong with it.”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Paige: “Except our friend died on it.”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >It is lines like that, and emotions like that — undertones and overtones — that zing all the way through “The Timing of a Day.” And though it’s set in Harlem, color has nothing to do with it.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Well, that’s not true either. Though all four of these people are what is called “white,” at least three of them — I don’t know about Matty — had had a deep emotional stake in the advancement of Barack Obama to the presidency. This morning-after scene late in the play — the day after Election Day 2008, a bare two months before Doug’s collapse and blackout at that table — has its fine haze of exhausted exhilaration shot through with disillusion over Proposition 8, the sidebar California vote against gay marriages.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I went to high school — the Lincoln School of Teachers’ College — on the northern edge of Morningside Park, 425 West 123rd Street. Even back then, somewhat before Owen Panettieri was born, we kids knew better than to go into that park by daylight much less dark.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Not so, Owen Panettieri.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“When I was living up there,” he says, “just a couple of blocks away, I’d wandered through the park at night, by myself.”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Pause.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“I wouldn’t recommend it, though.”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >It was at that same Lincoln School, incidentally, that the senior class two or three years ahead of us put on a play — Sutton Vane’s 1923 “Outward Bound” — that, for its fatality and kismet and linkages (a ship at sea, a barking dog) would affect the whole rest of my imaginative and theatergoing life, up to and including the work under consideration right here. And would do so, be it said, under a somewhat less wooly, more precisioned (and no less poetic) title. </span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >In “The Timing of a Day” the girl named Paige, an aspiring actress, has a day job — as did aspiring playwright Owen — with the NiteStar Health Education Program that goes out into the five boroughs from its base at St. Luke’s Hospital, 114th Street and Amsterdam.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“A friend I worked with,” says Panettieri, “was a woman whose roommate — a man — was hit by a police car and killed, just like that, right in the neighborhood near Morningside.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“This was in the winter of 2005. It was really traumatizing for her. I didn’t know him at all, but I couldn’t get it out of my head, just the idea of being cut down by a freak accident in the prime of your life — or just having your whole life shift,” says the Owen Panettieri who’d been in the prime of his own mid-20s five years ago.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Panettieri was also deeply affected by the delayed-action brain damage death of actress Natasha Richardson from a hit on the head in a 2009 skiing spill up in the Laurentian Mountains.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Is Doug (the sensitive one) really you, the playwright is asked.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“They’re all me,” Panettieri answers, thus preserving his Every Playwright’s Cliché License. “And after the death of my friend’s roommate, the next big thing that put the story into context for me was the election of 2008.”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >In the play, gleeful post-election Paige says: “What do you think his [Obama’s] first big change is gonna be?”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“I don’t know. Gitmo, I guess,” says Doug — shorthand for Obama’s promised closing of the Guantanamo detention camp.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“Probably,” Paige says. “And then Don’t Ask Don’t Tell….”</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >With a sorry smile, Panettieri says: “We don’t get to hear about Gitmo any longer. When I wrote that line it wasn’t meant to be ironic, just a fact. For me, the play is about the errors of timing in our lives, the differences between expectation and actuality. The things we thought were just a dream that we’d never see happen” — e.g., a black American president — “do come true, do happen, while other, smaller things that we just assume will happen in our own lives often do not happen. When you’re approaching 30…” says Wesleyan University graduate Owen Panettieri, whose own father’s life as an air-traffic controller was blown away by Ronald Reagan.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >“Well, I wrote that line, and here we are, two years later and it’s just the reverse” — with Don’t Ask wiped out but Gitmo still in place.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >And you know what? The “bitter pill” of Proposition 8 may also be reversed — or coughed up — one of these days. It’s all a matter of timing.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-style: normal; "><br /></p></span></i></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-8619400002794002272011-04-01T15:19:00.000-07:002011-04-01T15:25:46.806-07:00PLAYBILL Covers Our Benefit Gala and Talkback!<a href="http://www.playbill.com/images/photo/t/i/timingopen1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 460px; height: 341px;" src="http://www.playbill.com/images/photo/t/i/timingopen1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Rachel Esterday</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><div class="leadtitle" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="http://www.playbill.com/news/article/149442-PHOTO-CALL-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Moderates-Opening-Night-Talkback-at-Timing-of-a-Day">PHOTO CALL: Lin-Manuel Miranda Moderates Opening-Night Talkback at <i>Timing of a Day</i></a></div><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">By <a href="mailto:mblank@playbill.com" class="base" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; "><i>Matthew Blank</i></a><br />01 Apr 2011<br /></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Mind The Art Entertainment in association with Intimation Productions presents a limited engagement of <i>The Timing of a Day,</i> the award-winning 2010 Fringe Festival production written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Joey Brenneman. Lin-Manuel Miranda was on hand March 30 to moderate a talkback.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "></span></p><div class="main-content spaced" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 6px; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><i>The Timing of a Day</i>, according to press notes, "follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, and the unpleasant question of where their adult lives are taking them, when an unforeseeable tragedy rips them from the ordinary and changes the course of their lives and friendships forever. What follows is the reshuffled story of their time living together viewed over the course of a single day. Slices of their future, present, and past weave together in new ways, illustrating what it is that really draws these three people together, as well as what pulls them apart. While examining life, love, and loss from one sunrise to the next, each individual is forced to question if there really is such a thing as 'perfect timing' or if all timing is just perfectly flawed."</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Tickets are priced $18 in advance, $20 at the door, $13 students. Visit www.MindTheArtEntertainment.com.</p><div><br /></div></div></span><p></p></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-64461130250704591132011-03-27T11:54:00.000-07:002011-03-27T14:35:32.054-07:00We are now accepting submissions for: Mind The Art Shorts Festival<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBsivZ71rk4TL16zOq_8P-t8X7mVhzJL0-bmpnDZ50XF1sKs4JKXWi5hJe_SX_YUFGOIrwBMNuGMOnr7DlH-MRWc3FClEi207ZqT48xnZHFYnpYR5MZjASeQtDg2EWv9WdIG6Bsuu3i2GT/s400/Logo_4.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 98px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588836420020987890" /></div> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trajan Pro'; font-size: 13px; ">Celebrating the creative forces behind short </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trajan Pro'; font-size: 13px; ">plays, films, & musicals</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro"">April 18th – May 8th @ Center Stage, NY (<st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">48 West 21st Street</st1:address></st1:street>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p> </o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; ">If you have a short film, short play, or short musical, then submit your work and be a part of this incredible festival. Your piece will have two showcasing opportunities and a chance to win one of the following prizes!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro"">Winner of Best Short Film will receive:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro"">$250 Cash Prize & A Festival Distribution Package!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 13px; ">A Festival Distribution Package is an opportunity for the winners to have their short film submitted to film festivals around the world. Mind The Art Entertainment will, at our expense, create an individual custom-made package for your film to showcase it internationally. Under the guidance of our Filmmaking and Production Divisions, your film will undergo a year-long development and marketing analysis and will be submitted to film festivals around the world that are suited to your film. You will also be granted the opportunity to work with our Filmmaking Division and attend networking events, screenings, and industry gatherings.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro"">Winner of Best Short Play or Musical will receive:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro"">$250 Cash Prize & A Production Development Package!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro""><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 13px; ">A Production Development Package is a producing opportunity in which Mind The Art Entertainment will take a full-length play or musical by the winning playwright and begin a series of intensive workshops to refine it en route to constructing a full-scale production. The ultimate goal is to produce the piece within the next year in a theater in NYC for a three week run with a fully professional creative team. The winner of this package need not already have full length material written but can develop a piece from scratch with Mind The Art Entertainment.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Trajan Pro"">How do I apply?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style"">It's easy! You can apply online or by mail, and the submission fee is only $20. We are looking for short material that can be easily showcased. If you are selected to participate in either the film or theater segments of the festival, you will be given two public screenings/performances. It is important to note that we are not producing the short play or musical for you; rather, you will get 2 time slots, and it will be up to you to present your material as best as possible. You will be given a tech time slot before your performances to set and rehearse simple cues in the performance space. We are seeking material that is innovative, original, highly creative, and rich in artistry. The winners will join our ranks as resident artists of the company as we develop their projects over the coming year. Films will be showcased between April 18th and May 1st. Theatrical pieces will be showcased between April 29th and May 8th.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"">For Film, the online deadline is April 8th at 11:59pm.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style""> First, pay your submission fee of $20 at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html">www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html</a></span>.</b> Then email a link to your movie to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">projects@mindtheartentertainment.com</b> with your contact info and the billing name you used to pay your submission fee. Do not include trailers, cover letters, resumes, long bios, production stills, etc. Only include the link to your film, your contact info, and the name used for billing so we can verify payment. Anything else will not be considered. We are looking at the artistry of the submitted film and that film alone.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"">For Theater (Play or Musical), the online deadline is April 8th at 11:59pm.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style""> First, pay your submission fee of $20 at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> <span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html">www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html</a></span>.</b> Then email a script (for musicals please also include at least one song) to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">projects@mindtheartentertainment.com</b> with your contact info and the billing name you used to pay your submission fee. Do not include posters, cover letters, resumes, long bios, production stills, etc. Only include the script (and at least one song, recorded or sheet music, for musicals), your contact info, and the name used for billing so we can verify payment. Anything else will not be considered.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 13px; ">If you do not have a link to your film online or your script or music isn’t available online, please pay your submission fee online and then mail a DVD of your film or for theater a hard copy of your script (and a CD or sheet music of at least one song for musicals), along with your contact info and the billing name used to pay your submission fee, postmarked no later than April 6th, to: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 13px; ">Christian De Gré / Mind The Art, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; font-size: 13px; ">346 Gates Avenue #C2, </span><st1:city st="on"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; ">Brooklyn</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; ">, <st1:state st="on">NY</st1:state> <st1:postalcode st="on">11216.</st1:postalcode></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style"">That's it! We will email you a confirmation of your submission, and the participants of the festival will be announced on our website and Facebook page on April 11th.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Bookman Old Style"">Once accepted into the festival, 5 finalists will be selected in each category (Film & Theater). These will be chosen based on an audience ballot. The grand prize winner in each category will be chosen by the Board of Mind The Art Entertainment and a panel of industry professionals. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Be a part of this festival and enter for the chance to have your work showcased! Get your work out there for people to see!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Trajan Pro""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro"">Win this festival and you will not only join our ranks as a Resident Artist, but will also have your work developed, marketed, produced, and supported by an award-winning production company!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Trajan Pro""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trajan Pro"">For more info or to Apply please go to:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trajan Pro""><span style="color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html">www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Festivals.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Trajan Pro""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Trajan Pro"">For an example of our work come see Mind The Art’s acclaimed production of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The Timing of a Day</b>, playing April 1<sup>st</sup>-17<sup>th </sup>at Center Stage, NY. Tickets at <u><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com">www.mindtheartentertainment.com</a></u><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Trajan Pro""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Trajan Pro""><br /></span></p>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-22650269867011066812011-03-22T10:07:00.000-07:002011-03-22T10:11:49.508-07:00The Timing of a Day Gala!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSPpi6TluA9K5FRXkMbwO1hZQ8EYpj7YURxOABUjr-6pD26fUjTpDDmFJielCBiPUo4PQNMBds4KRlfAUdIiSgkRwVFGgQIp23FVI4J5cRUdY9UdeZKBeA9GTTLD6w3TDmVHlY2MS4SW2/s1600/192107_194671643889152_158464607509856_560512_2553637_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSPpi6TluA9K5FRXkMbwO1hZQ8EYpj7YURxOABUjr-6pD26fUjTpDDmFJielCBiPUo4PQNMBds4KRlfAUdIiSgkRwVFGgQIp23FVI4J5cRUdY9UdeZKBeA9GTTLD6w3TDmVHlY2MS4SW2/s400/192107_194671643889152_158464607509856_560512_2553637_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586952999952852082" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJ6RC6MjeOAFdO62_lT6gtMdanpCQr1ZOI9n0EXbkThjGDOqHvHcskIsCTjrzth7Gg4jz82TIbgZ9-9Ljw4eBlZZFll4XuYYzN4yL81Q16KgjrF6rOA_Cg_mOi2Yyk7qN0aXlhZBcprbt/s1600/172349_193131754043141_158464607509856_549998_8220302_o.jpg"><br /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; " ><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span">We're currently offering a buy-one-get-one deal for Gala tickets- email studios@mindtheartentertainment.com with the subject line PROMOGALA to take advantage of this great price!</span></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">The</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "> <span>Timing of a Day,</span></span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "> the award-winning <b>2010 Fringe Festival</b> production written by <b>Owen Panettieri</b> and directed by <b>Joey Brenneman</b>, will be presented by </span><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">Mind The Art Entertainment</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "> in association with <b>Intimation Productions</b></span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "> at <b>Center Stage NY </b>for 18-performances engagement from<b>March 30 through April 17 2011</b>. The cast includes (in alphabetical order): <b>Justin Anselmi</b>, <b>Miguel Govea</b>, <b>Nik Kourtis</b> and<span> </span><b>R. Elizabeth Woodard</b>. All, except Govea, were in the Fringe production.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">The engagement will begin with a <b>Benefit Gala</b> on <b>Wednesday, March 30 at 8 PM</b> which will include a <b>Talk Back</b> with the playwright, director and cast, moderated by <b>Lin-Manuel Miranda </b><span>(Broadway's <i>In the Heights</i>), and a cocktail reception following the performance. <b>The</b> <b>Opening night Benefit tickets are $100.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">To reserve Benefit tickets, visit <span> </span><a href="mailto:studios@mindtheartentertainment.com" target="_blank">studios@<wbr>mindtheartentertainment.com</a> or make a $100 tax deductible contribution at <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/253" target="_blank">https://www.fracturedatlas.<wbr>org/s/campaign/253</a> (in the "contribute" section).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">Following a Press Preview on Thursday, March 31, at 8 PM, regular performances will take place Friday, April 2 through Sunday, April 17 as follows:<span> </span>Wed – Fri at 8 PM; <span> </span>Sat at 2 PM & 8 PM; and Sun at 3 PM. Tickets: $18 in advance </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Symbol; "><span>½</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "> $20 at the door </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Symbol; "><span>½</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">$13 Students. To purchase tickets for<b><i>The Timing of a Day</i></b> and to learn more about the play and other <b><i>Mind The Art Entertainment</i></b> productions, projects, and divisions, please visit<a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/" target="_blank">www.MindTheArtEntertainment.<wbr>com</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">The Timing of the Day </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; ">follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, and the unpleasant question of where their adult lives are taking them, when an unforeseeable tragedy rips them from the ordinary and changes the course of their lives and friendships forever. What follows is the reshuffled story of their time living together viewed over the course of a single day. Slices of their future, present, and past weave together in new ways, illustrating what it is that really draws these three people together, as well as what pulls them apart. While examining life, love, and loss from one sunrise to the next, each individual is forced to question if there really is such a thing as “perfect timing” or if all timing is just perfectly flawed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mind The Art Entertainment<i> </i></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">is a New York City based collaborative arts & entertainment company whose mission is to promote, enhance, workshop, and produce new work and talent in the arts. It is a company firm on the belief that the modern arts, in all their varieties, should be used not just to entertain but also to inspire, teach, reach out, and enhance their own art forms.</span></p></span>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-75869675804462652782011-03-21T05:22:00.000-07:002011-03-21T05:30:52.635-07:00Winner Announced!<div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8586031850427389" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The judges voted on the Top 5 People's Choice Finalists for the Timing of a Day Haiku Contest, and a winner has been selected!</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8586031850427389" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8586031850427389" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Winner- Vincent Marano</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">She takes the covers</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">So gently during the night</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I hardly feel cold.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The remaining finalists in random order:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Honorable Mention #1- Shawn Barnes</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">This is a haiku</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">It's written by me for you</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">...and I'm moving out.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Honorable Mention #2- Hillary Browne</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I know your back bends</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I know your sigh translations</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Every hair, breath, bone</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Honorable Mention #3- Harry Barandes</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">she's talking to me</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">i barely pay attention</span><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">in bed our toes touch</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Honorable Mention #4- Caley Vickerman</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">bright cereal bowls,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">left-open-drawers, fresh earth scent</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">phantom trail of you.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Thank you to all who participated! Don't forget to visit: <a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/">www.mindtheartentertainment.com</a> to get your tickets to <i>The Timing of A Day</i> or visit our <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Timing-of-a-Day">IndieGoGo page to support this fantastic show</a>!</b></span></span></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-32491857921273299922011-03-15T18:58:00.000-07:002011-03-15T18:59:27.338-07:00Support Indie Theatre!<iframe src="http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/20507?a=105241" width="210px" height="400px" frameborder="1" scrolling="no"></iframe>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-51437248661473030402011-03-08T16:36:00.000-08:002011-03-08T16:38:47.587-08:00The Timing of a Day Haiku Contest!<div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span id="internal-source-marker_0.22789331735111773" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">To celebrate the upcoming extension of our award-winning play, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The Timing of a Day</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, Mind The Art Entertainment is sponsoring a haiku contest. It's free, and the winner gets four tickets to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The Timing of a Day </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">or any other upcoming MTAE production. The winning haiku will be included in the program for </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The Timing of a Day</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">, and the winning haiku and three honorable mentions will be published on Mind The Art Entertainment’s website.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">How to enter:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Write a haiku about </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">living with someone</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">. A haiku is composed of </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">three lines: the first consisting of five syllables, the second consisting of seven syllables, and the third consisting of five syllables.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Email submissions to: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Keelie.A.Sheridan@gmail.com</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> by 11:59pm EST on Friday, March 11th. Our panel of judges will select the Top Twenty Semi-Finalists, which will be posted on Monday, March 14th on Mind The Art Entertainment’s Facebook page. Public voting will take place through 11:59pm on Friday, March 18th. The five haikus with the most “likes” on our Facebook page will advance to the finals, and the winner will be selected by our judges and announced on Monday, March 21st.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">It's that simple! Write a haiku to win free tickets to a Mind The Art Entertainment production!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">And don't forget to come see </span><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The Timing of a Day...</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br />Written by Owen Panettieri</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Directed By Joey Brenneman</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br />Starring Justin Anselmi, Miguel Govea, Nik Kourtis, and R. Elizabeth Woodard</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br />Performances April 1-17, 2011 at Center Stage, NY (48 W. 21st St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10010)</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br />Wednesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br />Purchase tickets at</span><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Tickets.html"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">www.MindTheArtEntertainment.com/Tickets.html</span></a></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169167079802671">C</a>heck it out on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169167079802671">Facebook</a>.</span>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-7979500583725085502011-03-03T17:59:00.000-08:002011-03-03T18:06:09.431-08:00Help keep NYC Indie Theatre Alive!<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 75px;" src="http://www.indiegogo.com/images/IGG_logo.PNG?1296784794" border="0" alt="" /><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFQp6R4eWAXD6LYT3xbCME5opMhCqIQKI-QeJhNmVAFucQN-HuXlhZkdQkv2vbJQ60aVW-tPWmOu41BzmHoVwjaVVPU-FO1w9a9gaRVjNDNxUtQrspWfm6hYL-8AFmAd973ppnB7x-Uz2M/s1600/192107_194671643889152_158464607509856_560512_2553637_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFQp6R4eWAXD6LYT3xbCME5opMhCqIQKI-QeJhNmVAFucQN-HuXlhZkdQkv2vbJQ60aVW-tPWmOu41BzmHoVwjaVVPU-FO1w9a9gaRVjNDNxUtQrspWfm6hYL-8AFmAd973ppnB7x-Uz2M/s400/192107_194671643889152_158464607509856_560512_2553637_o.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580039369828129842" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><i><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">Theatre in NYC is vibrant, edgy, and thought provoking. NYC is the center of the highest quality theatrical entertainment in the world, but in order to survive and continue providing top-level productions, we need your help! Costs are rising everywhere, but this is especially true in Off- and Off-Off-Broadway Theatre, where disappearing grants and dwindling government funding, coupled with greater competition from high-end, formerly Broadway producers who are booking up some of the smaller theaters upon which we rely, have driven up the costs for us little guys. At the same time, landlords have raised rents far out of pace with a venue’s ability to book space or a theatrical production’s ability to earn ticket revenue. This has resulted in the closing and/or bankruptcy of scores of small theaters across the country, more than half of these in NYC alone!<a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Timing-of-a-Day"> Help us maintain the vitality of the arts in NYC by supporting our production of an outstanding theatrical journey: <i>The Timing of a Day</i></a><span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-style: normal; ">.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">Written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Joey Brenneman, <i>The Timing of a Day</i> follows three New York City roommates who share a loving (if cramped) Harlem apartment and a similarly loving (if cramped) triangular friendship. As the play opens, the three find themselves navigating the regular ups and downs of city life, when an unforeseeable tragedy rips them from the ordinary and changes the course of their lives and friendships forever. What follows is the reshuffled story of their time living together viewed over the course of a single day. Slices of their future, present, and past weave together in new ways, illustrating what it is that really draws these three people together, as well as what pulls them apart. While examining life, love, and loss from one sunrise to the next, each individual is forced to question if there really is such a thing as “perfect timing” or if all timing is just perfectly flawed…</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">Following critical acclaim at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, <i>The Timing of a Day</i> will open at Center Stage, NY, for a full three-week extension from Wednesday, March 30th, through Sunday, April 17th, 2011. A special Gala Benefit Performance is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30th, followed by an invitation-only Press & Industry Preview on Thursday, March 31st. Official Opening Night is Friday, April 1st.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><i>The Timing of a Day</i> opened on August 18, 2010, to rave reviews and went on to receive various honors. The play won FringeNYC's “Overall Excellence in Ensemble” award, was named “Outstanding New Play for the 2010 Summer Festival Season” by Talkin' Broadway, and was cited “20 Best of Fest” by NYCFringeGuide.com.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">CAST: Justin Anselmi, Miguel Govea, Nik Kourtis, R. Elizabeth Woodard</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">PERFORMANCES will be held Wednesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm.</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">TICKETS are $18 in advance or $20 at the door; $13 tickets available for students and seniors. To purchase tickets for <i>The Timing of a Day</i>, please visit <i><i></i></i></p><i><i><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; "><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Tickets.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 87); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/Tickets....</a>. </p></i></i></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><i><i><i><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; "><br /></p></i></i></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><i><i><i><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; ">If you would like to attend the Gala Benefit Performance on Wednesday, March 30th, please visit <a href="https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/253" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 87); text-decoration: none; ">https://www.fracturedatlas.org/s/campaign/253</a>.</p></i></i></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><i><i><i><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; display: inline !important; "></p></i></i><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">REVIEWS from 2010 FringeNYC Production:</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">“Powerful and clever… four outstanding performances.” ~ Blake Ross, Playbill</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">“Mr. Panettieri’s ear for dialogue is remarkable.” ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda, Manhattan Times</p><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">“Caring and committed direction… lovely.” ~ Robert Windeler, Backstage.com (Critic’s Pick)</p><div><br /></div></i></span><br /></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-79698919455322072572011-02-12T08:55:00.000-08:002011-02-12T09:02:12.110-08:00Storytime with Mr. Buttermen Returns!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNm6qFg1SQhw5jNg8EJICulvXd1Bpkljli0e0YPYf42QonY6e1Ja057URXXHUYVbQ2EdW5xHDPksZrvfkvtk4avVsyADwFER78QC7i26t7giVRJrV523GtTE153vwdxGsWfC8lQZAj3zdW/s1600/Storytime-+Postcard+Front.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNm6qFg1SQhw5jNg8EJICulvXd1Bpkljli0e0YPYf42QonY6e1Ja057URXXHUYVbQ2EdW5xHDPksZrvfkvtk4avVsyADwFER78QC7i26t7giVRJrV523GtTE153vwdxGsWfC8lQZAj3zdW/s400/Storytime-+Postcard+Front.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572848892462093122" /></a><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Mind The Art Entertainment announces that they will be extending their acclaimed La MaMa E.T.C. production of <b>Story Time With Mr. Buttermen, </b><span>a part of this year’s <i>La MaMa E.TC. Presents: A Mind The Art Anthology</i><b>, </b></span> at <i>Center Stage, NY</i></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">, </span></i></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Feb 18<sup>th</sup>-20<sup>th</sup>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma; color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">A multi arts performance of original fables for adults from Mind The Art’s poetry book by the same title, it features cast members, David Williams, Ashley C. Williams, Joe Kurtz, Justin Anselmi, Ariana Paganetti, Joseph Reese Anderson, Christian De Gré, Manny Simone and Aaron Butler and includes some of the original writers. The show is a fusion of art forms and includes work by Mind The Art’s Poetry, Acting, Playwriting, Visual Arts, Music, Musical Theater and Production divisions and has been directed by Christian De Gré, Artistic Director of </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Mind The Art Entertainment.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt: 13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Story Time with Mr. Buttermen <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">(the</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">disturbed</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"> </span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">man that lives in your park)</span></i></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt: 13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">Fables for Adults Living in a Modern World</span></b></span><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Conceived & Directed by Christian De Gré</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Written by Mind The Art Entertainment's Poetry Division</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">@ Center Stage NY<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">48 West 21<sup>st</sup> Street<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">February 18<sup>th</sup> & 19<sup>th</sup> @ 8pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:13.5pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">February 20<sup>th</sup> @ 5pm </span></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Join the class of the beloved Mr. Buttermen (a wonderfully disturbed man that lives in the park) as he leads us on a journey of learning. His Fables teach us the importance of being a moral adult in the modern world with classic stories such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Petey the Impotent Rabbit</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Girl Who Cried Rape</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Tortoise and the Gin.</i> Don’t miss the opportunity to once again giggle as a school child. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">(Note: Peeing your pants in the auditorium is frowned upon)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Tickets include FREE BEER and are $18 general admission/$13 for students/Seniors and are available at </span><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">www.MindTheArtEntertainment.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br /></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-75904770769067156422011-01-13T11:07:00.000-08:002011-01-13T11:20:29.851-08:00Ellen Stewart, we honor and celebrate you!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiC1jmqiw3hZgoTb8UnbJKY9gpnAmr3gk7zMy5jKIJdkBkKhn4MrTs7k8fs55s98LStnaA6RRJpICOTrkTWHHXZmyE8Y6Uguh_4OUJraUOutw98SNl8oe138QNqsPJy_Mk-gn9VplVqNWn/s1600/Ellen-in-Spoleto.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiC1jmqiw3hZgoTb8UnbJKY9gpnAmr3gk7zMy5jKIJdkBkKhn4MrTs7k8fs55s98LStnaA6RRJpICOTrkTWHHXZmyE8Y6Uguh_4OUJraUOutw98SNl8oe138QNqsPJy_Mk-gn9VplVqNWn/s320/Ellen-in-Spoleto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561750837310254770" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">(picture from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><a href="www.lamama.org" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-decoration: underline; ">www.lamama.org</a>)</span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiC1jmqiw3hZgoTb8UnbJKY9gpnAmr3gk7zMy5jKIJdkBkKhn4MrTs7k8fs55s98LStnaA6RRJpICOTrkTWHHXZmyE8Y6Uguh_4OUJraUOutw98SNl8oe138QNqsPJy_Mk-gn9VplVqNWn/s1600/Ellen-in-Spoleto.jpg"></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><u><br /></u></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiC1jmqiw3hZgoTb8UnbJKY9gpnAmr3gk7zMy5jKIJdkBkKhn4MrTs7k8fs55s98LStnaA6RRJpICOTrkTWHHXZmyE8Y6Uguh_4OUJraUOutw98SNl8oe138QNqsPJy_Mk-gn9VplVqNWn/s1600/Ellen-in-Spoleto.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div style="text-align: justify;">Dear Mind The Art family, friends and readers, </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you probably now know, the great Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa E.T.C. passed away this morning. We were just there last night, right below her apartment, rehearsing for our Anthology as her life began to fade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mind The Art has two shows there next week and it's because of La MaMa that we are who and where we are today. Because of Ellen's passion to allow new artists to create and explore we have had the opportunity to showcase: A Mind The Art Anthology Vol. I & Vol. II, What If?, Die, TE'A's Under The Veil, Spellbound- A Musical Adventure, A Woman In Progress & Story Time with Mr. Buttermen: Fables for Adults Living in a Modern World. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let us honor and celebrate this incredible woman today. We as artists owe her much.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below is what I have sent to La MaMa's staff on Mind The Art's behalf:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>"Dear La MaMa family,</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Mind The Art Entertainment would like to offer our condolences for this great loss today. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Ellen Stewart was a force beyond comparison and we all loved her dearly. We celebrate her incredible life and her bravery. We honor the obstacles that she overcame and her passion to support new work.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We would not be even a shadow of who we are if it wasn't for La MaMa E.T.C. and we cannot honor, thank and celebrate Ellen enough. She has given our artists a unique voice and we are just a few of the thousands of dreamers that have walked through those great doors.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>We mourn and celebrate with you. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Thank you Ellen and the incredible family you have created for allowing us the chance to make our dreams become a reality, you will never be forgotten."</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Kindest Regards,</div><div>Christian De Gré</div><div>President & Artistic Director- Mind The Art Entertainment</div><div>www.MindTheArtEntertainment.com</div></span></div></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-3977986049888681412010-12-07T15:31:00.000-08:002010-12-07T15:37:37.962-08:00The Gathering!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_XhhsC8zXMNw2Od4sEdA9jwqDnsJz2Ax8PUbOOHuNt9DZhJXgulHjsaxprgql70IYc_axr0fwxytW9xqsc0di8Ho0pfoZIjH6l31AO1O1-VdtmwN5_jL78Sxzio1r05Bh_pS7lZFrf-3q/s1600/The+Gathering-+Dec+17th+%2540+Center+Stage.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_XhhsC8zXMNw2Od4sEdA9jwqDnsJz2Ax8PUbOOHuNt9DZhJXgulHjsaxprgql70IYc_axr0fwxytW9xqsc0di8Ho0pfoZIjH6l31AO1O1-VdtmwN5_jL78Sxzio1r05Bh_pS7lZFrf-3q/s320/The+Gathering-+Dec+17th+%2540+Center+Stage.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548088626806757714" /></a>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-33506987011435465842010-11-11T08:21:00.000-08:002010-11-11T08:51:15.407-08:00"The Timing of a Day" & "Holiday In Hell" find an Off-Broadway home<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The Timing of a Day </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">&</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Holiday In Hell</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">Mind The Art Entertainment has </span>finalized a contract for these two plays for an Off-Broadway three week run each in Spring 2011 at Center Stage NY</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The Timing of a Day by Owen Panettieri & Directed by Joey </span>Brenneman was a hit at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, winning the critics award as best Acting Ensemble. The sold-out play garnered rave reviews from NyTheater, Backstage & Playbill and is excited to move into an extension Off-Broadway.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Holiday In Hell by Charles O'Hara and Directed by Jackie Bartone & Christian De Gré will be having its world premiere. Charles O'Hara is a respected playwright with a voice that cannot be equaled, with works that simultaneously deal with sensitive subjects as well as comedic philosophies. Jackie Bartone, a legendary acting teacher and director at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts has trained some of today's best actors and will be co-directing along with Christian De Gré, Artistic Director of Mind The Art Entertainment, and former student of Mrs. Bartone.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG6e39ZmEoyYXgwT_kYgDZ0jruinIss-YSjWeUTEIJn7hVds-ZgQbbA8tBtF3IyIaUuXE0XC8KK30Wh1-PGX3nfVHontVd1hQMI5vn9Gmivu_VHWK2AEg5Gg5KL-uuS7gjlJNAqaD2Qb3/s320/TheTimingofaDayPostcard.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538335595995918386" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-89095640262949815322010-11-02T12:53:00.001-07:002010-11-03T12:41:03.841-07:00Responsible critic, et tu Brute? (Vol. 1)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">by Christian De Gré, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Artistic Director of Mind The Art Entertainment</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Warning: The following article contains creative rantings and ramblings that may offend pretentious critics.</span></span></i></span></p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiIcbHOpQqYONeTeUslD36n25KtCTgYedSmutSdSBr18eIdq00CqskMmzxDbgR9hHBY-pVDjIZaRpnAqZpmJbLld0i9i8YTbHvqYlDjnAo_wFPDlqdeXPDSn41fNvJCKGUmLu-MyOtVMY/s320/The+Critic.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 320px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535410506940528754" /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">So I just finished composing the music for the renowned theater director Dario D'Ambrosi's new work <i>Bong Bong Bong against the Walls, Ting Ting Ting in our Heads</i> at La MaMa E.T.C.'s 2010 Puppet Festival. It was an incredible project that told the story of the genius of mentally handicapped children in a fairy tale puppet musical fashion. I was thrilled to be working on this piece and once we opened I was looking forward to seeing what the critics thought of this genius work directed by a man who has spent 30 years working with this subject matter. I couldn't have been more naive.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To not get into the gross details I will simply share the highlights of my experience reading these reviews. One reviewer, in the New York Times no less, forgot to mention that there was music in the piece, ignoring that he sat through a one hour musical of which 40 minutes were completely filled with songs and instrumental music. Another reviewer dared say that Mr. D'Ambrosi, who is recognized internationally as the leading authority on theater for the disabled, lacked perspective and insight in his subject matter. (Errr) Another reviewer presumed to build connections between the musical structure and aesthetic choices </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">of the piece </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">that he felt he had a great ear for but anyone with any musical knowledge would know he had no idea of what he was talking about. However the one that wins the award as the most irresponsible and lazy critique must go to the Village Voice who decided that they would publish, in a major city-wide publication, a review in BULLET POINTS with such creative insights as </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">'the origami frogs appear to be very well folded.'</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Well,</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">thank you</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Village</st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Voice for your incredible journalism skills. It is because of this wondrous critical experience that I have decided that it might be time for us artists to question those who question us.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To those who do not know, theater survives largely because of reviews. The shows that make it to Broadway (usually after a painstaking 8 year journey) arrive because along the way someone gave them a star review in a major publication. If a piece gets a bad review it is almost impossible to recover, and ticket sales plunge if a major publication looks down on your work. Because we live in an information obsessed and media saturated society the people look to reviews to choose from the plethora of activities at their fingertips what they should do. They trust these reviews, put faith that these professionals know what they are talking about and then proceed to follow their advice. As artists we recognize the power that the press holds over our careers and futures. To quote the Artistic Director of La MaMa E.T.C. </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"you get a positive New York Times Review and you get to eat for three years."</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> It is because of this fact that we, as artists and producers, become obsessed with getting press to our shows. So we embark upon a journey, we woo and bribe, we spend thousands of dollars on a pricey PR Manager and a Publicist, we dress up, we walk them to their seat, we almost literally do anything they want but prostitute ourselves (hopefully) in order to get them to our shows and do whatever is in our power to make them happy. These "journalists" then proceed to "evaluate" our piece and then share with the "common" people of the world, who are in theory much more limited in creative endeavors having not made a career of this, their views and recommend what people should or should not spend their hard working money on. We artists then sit ALL DAY and NIGHT by a computer and a newsstand, with coffee, whiskey and cigarettes in hand, waiting anxiously to see what these "trained professionals" have to say about our art. This is an excruciating affair, painful for all involved. Finally we see the listings pop up on Google and in print and we gasp, fear and excitement coursing through our veins, and we read. We read what these "great minds," who make quite a bit of money with the major papers, have to say about our bohemian poverty stricken creative endeavors. This moment for us in a culmination of not just however many years we have worked on a piece, or how many things we have sacrificed to make it come to fruition, but is a culmination of all our dreams and struggles since we were a fetus with a vision. And then we read... What do we get more often than not? We get rewarded with a half assed review written two weeks after they saw the show that talks about nothing in our piece but how well-folded the ORIGAMI FROGS ARE? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Surely this must be a one off event. This can't be the norm can it? Well, let us take another example. I spent 9 years of my life with my good friend and co-writer Paul Deakin, creating a musical </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Spellbound- A Musical Adventure.</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> We opened this summer at the </span></span></span></span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ellen</span></span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <st1:placename st="on">Stewart</st1:placename> <st1:placename st="on">Theater</st1:placename></span></span></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival and the show was produced with the Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards, Robert R. Blume with a Broadway cast. I have spent more than a third of my life on this piece and Paul, Robert, Mind The Art and I gave everything we had to the success of the show. We then, of course, proceeded to seek reviewers to evaluate the piece so we could move forward with our baby. At this time we were also locking an Investor who was willing to give us $25,000 to help cover the ever mounting Fringe Productions costs as well as put aside some future development money... Then the first review came out... The review, which tore the piece apart, was written by what I can only assume is a very bitter man. Now understand I have no problem if you hate my show, if you don’t like it, then don’t, that’s fine, write about it as the objective third party you claim to be and let me see through your eyes what I really have. What this man did however was an insult to art and social etiquette. The review written was nasty, mean, offensive and outright cruel to everyone working on the show. It was not enough to say that he didn’t like the piece or some performances, no it was necessary for him to tear it apart offensively, call some performances </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"nothing more than a wicked audition,"</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and compare the piece to ridiculous and unrelated things like </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Mountain Dew"</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> (this last reference I still fail to comprehend, and I co-wrote the thing.) Well I was very angry at not this man's take on our piece but in the way that he "elegantly expressed" his opinion. I thought to myself, "W</span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ho is this beacon of knowledge that has the audacity to tear down actors as if they were community theater amateurs even though they have been in 6 Broadway shows? Who is this great thinker that has the balls to write in the most condescending manner available in the English language?"</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> So I looked him up. First thing I see on his webpage is his face, blown up to fill the entire screen, in a pretentious looking sweater by a river. His head is tilted back arrogantly laughing at his surroundings. I kid you not he looked like a classic Disney Villain. Next I see his bio, and I quote </span></span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"(Reviewer name) has been a frustrated out of work actor for the last 6 years. As a playwright his work has been on a number of regional stages and he now spends his time as a reviewer for (publication) where he also serves as their Human Resources Manager."</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">Surely this must be in jest. I cannot conceive that I am having my life's work reviewed by a Human </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">Resources</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "> Manager who hasn't worked creatively in 6 years. I have done 13 productions in the last year working in all aspects of the arts and I am being judged by someone who hasn't landed a job in 6 years?!? This is the highly skilled aesthetic eye that is evaluating my work. Well the story gets better. After I provided our Investor the account information for the wire transfer we are chatting and he suddenly says </span></span></span><i style="font-size: large; ">"I just looked up your show, and look here is a review..."</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; "><span class="Apple-style-span"> Well after much useless pleading and reasoning on my part I could not convince this Wall Street Tycoon that this reviewer was not an entirely objective, impartial and reasonable journalist. Mr. Investor, or as we call them in our artist meetings this "Food Stamp</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Angel," pulled his money and left us because of this Disney Villains’ take on our piece. We now face a $16,000 deficit on the piece thanks to this sweater wearing laughing man by the river. Wonderful, thank you for your help Mr. Reviewer.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So these horror stories, and I have hundreds, are just the beginning of a larger set of questions. What does it take to be a reviewer? I have been asked by two publications if I would like to review, and while I now see that I am probably more qualified (I actually work in the arts) to do so I have declined because I don't see myself as a "responsible, trained and qualified objective journalist." Also what has happened in our modern day and age that we have given so much power to the reviewer? Why did we do this? Why must art be funded based upon the opinion of those who have more of an inclination to write a satirical or unnecessarily mean review over a proper critical analysis? Now there are a few responsible ones out there, of course, but even the best of them fall to this exaggerated hyperbolized tabloid style of writing quite often. My favorite quotes from these fine, established fellows include </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"the cast often performs with disillusion, as if they are attending a terrible Halloween party, dressed only in straightjackets and are forced to stay against their wishes,"</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and "</span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">you could go down to your basement, eat two packs of cheese puffs in darkness and vomit, or you could watch this piece, the end result would be the same"</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and my favorite from the great Ben Brantley </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"You will have the occasion to learn that Romeo is not circumcised."</span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Bravo! Is this the responsible, objective journalism we have all been waiting for? No! It's irony, satire, comedy, vulgarity and scandalized explosive commentary meant to amuse rather than inform. The great Joe Papp, founder of the Public Theater, comes to mind, screaming down the phone at a reviewer of <i>A Chorus Line</i> decades ago </span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Are you trying to fuck me? Why are you doing this? You will never set foot in my theater again, you pretentious dick! You fuck me again and I'll kill you."</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So what is to be done? Is it too much to hope for someone to attend my show and see things objectively and whether they like it or not write appropriate thought out criticism? I guess it is. Meanwhile I guess I have no choice but to keep feeding the machine and keep searching for my New York Times Review that will feed me for 3 years. I suppose I just have to keep gambling and throwing up shows and eventually I'll get lucky. As you see I have realized it’s just a matter of luck, seeing as I see no logical way to put art up and expect constructive feedback in this modern age.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hmmm... maybe if I give them cheese puffs and mountain dew at their seats they'll like my work more.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; border-collapse: collapse; "><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; border-collapse: collapse; "><i>“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs”- John Osborne (Playwright/Producer)</i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Georgia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><b style="font-size: x-large; text-decoration: underline; "><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></div><div> </div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-57634576022100246562010-10-27T11:39:00.000-07:002010-11-03T10:01:47.308-07:00The Board of Mind The Art Announces their upcoming Season!<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><u></u></b></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><u><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mind The Art Entertainment Proudly Announces</span></span></span></u></b></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><!--?xml:namespace prefix = o /--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></u></b></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2011-2012 Season Plan </span></span></span></u></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">as approved by the Board<!--?xml:namespace prefix = u1 /--><u1:p></u1:p> on Oct 25th, 2010</span></span></span></u></b></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><o:p><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></o:p></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">December 2010</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A Thousand Words Part 3</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Created by R. Patrick Alberty & Free-Write NYC<b style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"> </b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Literary Project)</span></span></i></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; "></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">January 2011</span></span></span></span></u></i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A Mind The Art Anthology</span></span></b></span><b><span style="color:#99ccff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Featuring:</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A Woman in Progress</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By Keelie Sheridan</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(One Woman play)</span></span></i></span><i style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: nonefont-size:16;" class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><u></u></span></span></span></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Directed by Alessio Cappelletti</span></span></span></span></span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(204,255,204)" class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">&</span></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Story Time with Mr. Buttermen </span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(that </span></span></b></span><span style="font-weight: 800; " class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">disturbed</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> man that lives in the park):</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fables for Adults Living in a Modern World</span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Conceived & Directed by Christian De Gré </span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Written by Mind The Art's Poetry Division</span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Performance Art Poetry Show)</span></span></i></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">@ La MaMa E.T.C.</span></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gods & Dolls<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">By Luis Cordero</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Short Film Distribution)</span></span></i></span><i style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1<sup>st</sup></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Submission to International Film Festivals</span></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; "></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span style="color: purple; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span style="color: purple; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">February 2011</span></span></span></u></i></span><i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><!--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /--><st1:place st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><st1:place st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Holiday</span></st1:place></st1:place></span></b></span></st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Hell</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By Charles O’Hara </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Play)</span></span></i></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: nonefont-size:16;" class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><u></u></span></span></span></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Directed by Jackie Bartone & Christian De Gré</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">World Premiere</span></span></span></i></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; "></span></span></i></span><i><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">March 2011</span></span></span></u></i></span><i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pup</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:#99ccff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><st1:place st="on"><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Written and Directed by Phillip James</span></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></st1:state></st1:place></st1:place></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span><i>(Short Film Partnership with ‘Gypsy Caravan Productions’)<u><o:p></o:p></u></i></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">North Carolina</span></span></span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Shoot</span></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mind The Art Visual Arts Exhibit<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="apple-style-span"><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fountain Art Fair</span></span></span></b></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Art Exhibit)</span></span></i></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); "><st1:place st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><st1:city st="on"></st1:city></span></st1:place></st1:place></span></i></span><i><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span style="color: purple; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span style="color: purple; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">April 2011</span></span></span></u></i></span><i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Timing Of A Day</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By Owen Panettieri </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Play)</span></span></i></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Directed</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> by Joey Brenneman</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Off Broadway Extension of Fringe 2010Award winning Production</span></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; "></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">May 2011</span></span></span></u></i></span><i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What If?- The Band Series</span></span></b></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Musical Theater & Music Concert)</span></span></i></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Created by Christian De Gré</span></span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; "></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">June 2011</span></span></span></u></i></span><i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mind The Art begins conversion of a warehouse into a theater</span></span></b></span><b><span style="color:#99ccff;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><st1:city st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><st1:city st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Williamsburg,</span></span></st1:city></st1:city></span></span></st1:city><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <st1:place st="on"></st1:place></span></span></span></span><st1:place st="on"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Brooklyn</span></span></span></span></st1:place><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; "></span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></u></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><u><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">July 2011</span></span></span></u></i></span><i><span style="color:purple;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mind The Art Opens New Theater <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Die</span></span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By Joe Kurtz </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Existential Comedy)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-WEIGHT: normalfont-size:16;" class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Directed by Christian De Gré</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: rgb(204, 255, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Year Long Multi Arts Festival Officially Launches <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">with Photography Exhibit</span></span></b></span><b><span style="color:#99ccff;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></span><p></p>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-5545550328628631752010-10-26T13:14:00.000-07:002010-10-26T13:40:03.188-07:0045 Bleecker Street Theater- A great loss to Off-Off Broadway<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(In a letter to the Operations Manager of 45 Bleecker St. Theater, Christian De Gré, President & Artistic Director of Mind The Art Entertainment wrote the following on October 20th, 2010)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i></i></span></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Dear Ms. Gagnon,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It is with great sadness that we hear news of your theater. 45 Bleecker Street is an important cultural symbol in the Off Broadway community and it is very disconcerting that you have been faced with these problems.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I would like to offer our full support in any way that we can to help your organization keep its doors open. If there is anything we can do please do not hesitate to ask. If there were to be a fundraiser of some kind or a petition, etc, we will gladly throw the weight of our members in support. <b>Theater must survive these hardships, and artists, in all mediums, must unite to overcome these struggles.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I hope that some good news come soon but in the meantime I am at your disposal should you require anything.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Our support goes out to you.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">- Mind The Art Entertainment and its 300 working artists, producers, designers, administrators and its Board.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Kindest Regards,</span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Christian De Gré</span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">President & Artistic Director- Mind The Art Entertainment</span></span></span></span></i></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.mindtheartentertainment.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">www.MindTheArtEntertainment.<wbr>com</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></div></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">(Then in a letter to the creative staff of Mind the Art Entertainment, Christian De Gré wrote the following)</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The sad news came to us today and I just wanted to share them. Mind The Art was in negotiations with the 45 Bleecker street theater to take over part of their bookings for our productions in their late night slots. As you can see in this article below from the New York Times, the theater is dying. Its a very horrible state of events that also follows the fall of 6 other Off-Bway theaters this Summer & Fall including the fall of the Cheery Lane's structure and support. <b>Let us be reminded how difficult it is to support art in an expensive metropolitan city and also learn the lessons of these great organizations that have now fallen.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Please take a moment to read and do share your thoughts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/a-theater-is-shuttered-and-the-shows-wont-go-on/?scp=1&sq=45%20Bleecker&st=cse"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.<wbr>com/2010/10/14/a-theater-is-<wbr>shuttered-and-the-shows-wont-<wbr>go-on/?scp=1&sq=45%20Bleecker&<wbr>st=cse</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Our correspondence with them ended with this unfortunate statement.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">f we do not find or create an entity to take over </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">the lease here, we will dismantle the two theatres down to the four walls. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In closing, if you or your colleagues have any ideas or input, we are </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">listening to everyone and anyone at this point. "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is very sad indeed.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">We must remember that this is not 45 Bleecker's problem alone but a problem for all working Artists in New York. Arts Venues are closing left and right and it is in this time that we must unite on our common goal, to create art. Only in number's can we all survive these struggles. I leave you with our Mission to contemplate, and remember this is a fight that we are all in together.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"</span></span></span></span></span></b></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Art is, and must remain, a collaborative and ever evolving medium. In order to truly fulfill ones own potential, one must surround him or herself with like minded individuals. Only then, with meticulous tenacity and an ability to work together can an artist and his/her colleagues grow, inspire and ultimately succeed."</span></span></span></span></span></b></i></span></span></span></span></div></span></div></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-53451868356656430712010-10-26T13:00:00.001-07:002010-10-26T13:08:32.713-07:00Why I Do What I Do<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Why I Do What I Do by Ariana Paganetti, Projects Manager, Mind The Art Entertainment, Oct 11th, 2011</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b></b></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">I am reminded everyday why I do what I do. I have to tell you. I would be alright with a little less reminders. Today I read an article about a young man who took his own life due to cyber bullying. This bullying was in relation to his sexual orientation. In the past two weeks he is the fifth human being between the ages of 13 and 18 who has decided to take his own life due to homosexual related bullying in the United States alone. I am heartbroken for these young men and those that loved them. I am even more heartbroken for our society. These five deaths are tragic, but every day another five children think they are all alone in this world and have no other option. Every day someone hears a word that defines who they are attached with a negative connotation. It doesn't matter what you believe, or whose side of the debate you are on, no one should feel like their existence isn't valid.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">There are times when I struggle with my decisions in life. I chose a life in the arts, more often in social theatre, and sometimes that makes life a little more unconventional and difficult. I began my day this morning feeling financially and creatively dejected, and then I read this article. I was inflamed with active anger, and passion and a need to stand up. I believe that theatre can elicit change. If not change in action, at least a change in thought. If not a change in thought, at least a change in perspective. If not in a change of perspective at least it provides that opportunity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">When our modern society began, theatre was a venue for community forum. It was where the ancient Greeks discussed politics, community leaders, fiscal and industrialized change and the effects of various human emotions on the basic fabric of society. We haven't strayed to far from that original goal, but the message has changed. We now live in a world where entertainment and information is instantaneously available. Our entertainment is universally open for everyone and anyone to create and distribute. This is a wonderful thing, it can help in sparking the necessary conversations, but at the risk of sounding cliche a brilliant man once wrote that "with great power comes great responsibility." We have given our children, ourselves this amazing power but we haven't taught the lessons.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">We have forgotten that there are people involved in these conversations. We look at our little silver boxes,our hand held communication meccas and feel detached. Anything we do on this technology is null and void of consequences. We have taken the humanity out of art. We have replaced humanity with a scary sense of invincibility. The result of which is bullying that can reach the world in the beat of a heart. Instead of using this technology to make art more readily available, we have made hate more readily available.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">I am aware that there are artists out there trying to change this. I am not saying that technology is bad for art, in fact I think multi-media is one of the most exciting aspects to modern theatre. My friends at Better Left Unsaid are wonderful examples of using life stream media effectively in theatre. I see them using technology to engage an audience in a conversation. We need to teach our children this. We need to talk to them. They have forgotten to talk to each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">Proposition 8 is shaping my generation. It is our call to arms. It is one of the final unprotected human rights. I feel that gay marriage should be legal, but that isn't the point here. Healthy debate is what charges this country. Needing to fight and struggle for something is what gives us as human beings the drive to change something. It is our medicine for apathy. I do not tolerate hate though. I have heard people tell me that homosexuality is socially acceptable now, yet I hear tales about teens being disowned, beaten and mocked. Not every homosexual male likes to dress like a woman. Not every heterosexual male doesn't. There is no excuse for making someone feel like their right to a lifestyle or privacy is null. This is why I will continue to hold a mirror up to ourselves. This is why we need a catalyst that can compete with YouTube and MTV to spark conversation. We need to get our youth talking to each other.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: medium; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(153, 255, 153); ">Our society is quickly blurring the line between reality and virtual reality. The ability to determine consequences and actual human emotional responses is quickly fading in our youth. For anyone who thinks the issues of coming out and sexual orientation is a thing of the past needs to be informed. As more people live on their own, and the concept of "community" dwindles before our eyes, we as artists need to continue our work creating opportunities for a forum.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-55105660743411596752010-10-26T12:17:00.000-07:002010-10-26T12:52:19.839-07:00Late Night, New York True Stories 1- "If Tarkovsky were a cabby..."<span class="Apple-style-span"><div class="uiHeader uiHeaderBottomBorder mbm" style="margin-bottom: 10px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding-bottom: 0.5em; "><div class="clearfix uiHeaderTop" style="display: block; zoom: 1; "><div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">By Alessio Cappelletti, Director of Mind The Art Entertainment's Filmmaking Division on Tuesday, October 26, 2010-</span></span></span></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">I just got in. its 2am. I had this in my mind for awhile now, writing down people Ive crossed life paths with, only for a moment, who've touched me on those often late empty surreal streets of the Big City. I think its important. Like strength in numbers. If I write my stories and send them out to people- stories about the magic and mystery of life, about people really reaching out and connecting....maybe more people will believe in it and reach out to and that magic will get stonger. This isn't about practicality, its not about getting in a cab, spitting out a destination and then putting on headphones or burying ones face in their phone....Why is it always the destination that is so important to us....this is about the journey and taking advantage of every moment life gives you. This isn't about me arriving at my apartment...its about the journey, en route to it....that in life, Im slowly realizing, is important.</span></span></h2><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Per usual, I had barely eaten today...why? Most of MTAE and my and roommates could answer that. I often lose myself in my work and the hustle and bustle that is New York City (in terms of Rhode Island pace of life- "Toto, we sure as shit ain't in Kansas anymore"). We had just finished an amazing board meeting with the MTAE (Mind The Art Entertainment Crew- which I am a member of), filled with the silly antics, cut with decisive business planning that is our get togethers. They ate authentic Puerto Rican Food (thank you Authentic Puerto Rican Restaurant on 122nd) and I munched on crackers, and raw cashews, and a shake- I brought in my bag. After words myself, President- Christian De Gre, and VP Ashley Williams decided to stop by a dim little surreal spot in the village for a night cap, catch up, and discuss plans further...It was here, I realized how amazing we had it....for all our struggle and strife, we were doing what we love and making major headway- my feature film, plays we have going up (all of us involved in either-directing, acting, producing,etc.), a bar/theater/ varied entertainment space that we are in the midst of securing, designing, then opening as our own, so many amazing things...Life is good...It aint perfect, It aint ever perfect but it, in that moment, in the company of not just friends but family, talking of fears and dreams, was beautiful...truly...and we came to this conclusion (a conclusion to a question that over my life so far has brought much pain and confusion)...why do we do it all...why? For money, success, fame- why? Why do we kill ourselves, work 50 plus hours a week, risk our social lives, relationships, our mental and physical health...Because we love...with all our heart...not just our projects (those are a means to the end)...we love making people realize that they arent alone, that the pain or joy or fear that is in their hearts, shakes their souls, takes their breath has also been in ours... because we want to touch people, we want to support eachother, we want to connect...we want that for everyone...we want everyone to do that with each other, everywhere.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">We paid the bill, and they helped me find a cab going toward my own part of the universe (the other side of the concrete rainbow)...and when every cab sign seemed dark...Ashley pointed- "Alessio, there's one!"...and there it sat, waiting for me on a perpendicular street. The barely noticeable driver, shrouded in shadows and slashes of light from sleepy street lamps, over head, softly motioned me over.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">After we said our goodbyes and gave our warm hugs, with equally warm beer and whiskey in our bellies...we separated from our paths intersecting to continue into the crisp quiet autumn night on our journeys, alone....</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">I jumped in and slammed the door so he would know that I didnt care if he didnt usually travel to Pluto, we were about to push his rocket ship to its limits and I wasn't about to get out for Jesus Christ, himself.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby (with a gentle accent)- "So where in Brooklyn are we going?"</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me:"....Um...How did you know I was going to Brooklyn?"</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby (tiredly smiles): You look like you live in Brooklyn, where you goin?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>I laughed hard and warm, then gave him my address.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: You know most cabbies dont seem to like to go into deep Brooklyn at 1am.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: I don't see why, it's nice.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>We sat in silence for a few moments and ofcourse my first reaction was to start to reach for my ipod-</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: So how was your night?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>I stopped. Did he just ask me what I think he did? That's strange most cabbys are usually quiet or listening to music or on their phones, speaking languages that I can only imagine are as exotic as the lullabys they are spinning to their sleepy children on the other end. Maybe he was just trying to make small talk in hopes of finding more bills in his hand, when all was said and done. But it didn't feel like that. So I decided to be sincere.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: "It was good...really good. I just got out of a meeting and am tired but am happy...I didn't eat anything all day I got so wound up in my schedule"</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Are you hungry? You wanna stop and get something?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Okay totally unusual...no cabby has ever offered me that but he sincerely did.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: No...but thank you...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">We were quiet for another moment. Then-</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: How many roommates do you have?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me <i>(happily intrigued)</i>: Okay...how do you know I have roommates?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby<i> (Laughs)</i>: Cmon...I know these things, I drive cabs all day. I know people. All night I should say.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Pause.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Do you like it?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby:....Yes....more than day...its quieter and less traffic.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me:....Two...I have two roommates...girls.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>He turned around with a big grin and a raised eyebrow that reminded me of the way Id imagine my uncle would've reacted when annually playing Santa Clause at Christmas as I sat on his lap and told him I'd been a good boy all year. It made me laugh and sad at the same time...because I miss him. But it felt good, we werent just going from one place to another, point A to B, project to profit...we were living...</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Do they have boyfirends?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Me:<i> (Laughing)</i> One does, I dated the other- we're all very close.</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Thats good.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: How about you?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: I live with my family?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Where?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: In New Jersey.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: I don't think I could ever stay in the city, raise a family here, I come from up north- Rhode Island?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Youd be surprised, this city is very addictive and after awhile it gets in your blood changes your way of thinking. How long have you been living here?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: almost 7 years....How about you?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: 20.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Do you like it?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby:...I did the first ten <i>(he laughed hard. As did I)</i>...if I could, Id like to live on an island...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: So you like warm weather? Where are you from?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Russia...I dont know, I like-</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me <i>(completing his thought)</i>: The quiet, the nature...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby <i>(laughed)</i>: Yes...but you get addicted to this place.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me:...I know...I know...Its tough, its a city of industry- Im in the film industry...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Really?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Yeah, Im a writer/Director.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: What Kind of movies?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Dramas, I guess...Im in the midst of trying to get financing for my feature length project...<i>(then I filled him in on my meetings with MTAE and my connection with them)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: But you look young, very young to be doing this stuff....How old are you-27, 28</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: 24, gonna be 25 in November.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: My God...well its all business with those people...everything in life is business...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me:...I know...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>I was getting this weird warm itch. Like, a feeling like I wanted divulge my whole life to this man, we were so much alike and even though that had yet to established...I could feel it...I had two choices, I could hold back and just be a normal passerby...or I could open up with him, try to connect and see hat would happen...be sincere...two guys traveling over a lonesome bridge, both on a journey, both could be dead at any moment or any moment after...whats the risk?</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Ya know, one of my favorite directors come from your country?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby (kind of excited): Who?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Tarkovsky.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Great filmmaker. How about Fellini?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me<i> (Laughin hard)</i>: He's my favorite filmmaker of all time! Him, Bergman, Kurosawa_</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: All amazing. My favorite is Charlie Chaplin. I feel he is the greatest- he is to movies, what the Beatles are to music.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: My father loves Charlie Caplin, he used to show me all his movies when I was a child...its so weird because Charlie Chaplin can be so funny but his films have such heavy messages.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Well, Charlie Chaplin is really not comedy...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Really?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Yes <i>(I see a smile creep across his face n the corner of the rear view)</i>...he is seriousness for people who don't understand seriousness.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">That blew me away I mean, really blew me away. It reminded me of a quote my father used to say, that was published in his </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">articles</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"> on the great Italian playwright, Pirandello and also why he loved Fellini and Chaplin so much- "The greatest tragedies aren't ones that bring us to tears but ones that bring us to laughter."</span></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: So is that what you are passionate about?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">He seemed to understand what I said and looked confused.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: I mean, in your spare time are you passionate about movies, music...do you love to listen or watch them whenb you arent driving.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>After a moment of him pondering and searching, the look on his face changed and became one of deep serious thought- now, looking back, I feel it was the same face I must've made when choosing to open myself to him...but maybe this one was deeper, the risk actually, present.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: No....I have...um <i>(searching for the word)</i>....depression? I can't bring myself to do anything, I work because I have to but, I have no passion. Its the pills I take, they leave me without a want or passion for movies, or music or even women.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>I was floored. I could not believe how open and naked this guy was presenting his soul to me. I didn't know what to say...or I did...but now my risk had presented itself...at a crossroads again, two options:</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: I used to suffer from that too. I was also on the meds and they do that. If you don't mind me asking, why are you depressed?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Cabby: Well...<i>(he struggled with this)</i>...you're young 24/ 25....Im 45... I used to smoke, ya know?</p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Marijuana, you-you mean?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Yeah, drink all night, go to clubs, do Ecstasy, go with lots of girls. When you are young, you can stay out all night, drink, do these things and they wont hurt you...you could be out in the cold and the temperature doesnt hurt you...your immune system is fine.. But when you do that for so many years, it fills your body with the- the poison. And so I had to get the poison out of my body.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Finally I understood what we was saying.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: You had to detox...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Yes...and I have to take these pills for depression, ya know. I don't really wanna to go to clubs and dance anymore.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: yes I do...I used to have depression. Sometimes I still get down, Im 25 but sometimes feel like Ive missed out on my youth bec. of all the work Ive put into my career like I'm-</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby <i>(this time he finished my thought)</i>: 45.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">We both smiled.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby:...I read...its the only thing I still have a want to do?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: What kind of books?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Everything...anything...Im reading a lot of books on religion, spirits...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: You mean "spirituality"</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Yes...Thats the weird side of depression, it can make you wanna look for ways to feel better.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: I read a pretty good book on spirituallity- its called "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Whats it about?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Living in the present...Tolle feels all religions are connected and highly unified in message...that they key to peace is living in the the "Now" or the present moment. That all pain comes from fear of the future (which doesn't exist because it hasn't happened yet) or the same for the past (which you can no longer reach cause its gone)...Peace is being here now. And our mind will try to convince us otherwise but the mind is the cause of depression, anxiety (which I suffer from), and if we treat our mind as a machine who's thoughts do not define who we are then thats another way to peace and slowly the mind will quiet.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: I totally agree, I feel there are no real differences in the core message of any religion- they all point at the same things. You should check out Hinduism...thats what Im reading...its also very interesting.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: That's amazing my roommate is Hindu and has taught some about it!...You know what I think...All religion s the same...they have the same meanings.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: Yes, I totally agree.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Well, you understand these great concepts...why are you sad?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">He paused again and this time seemed to really fight with what he was about to say:</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby:...our potential....I feel like we have all this potential if life, to live life and do things but we only use 2%...I only use 2%...and nobody cares...look at all these people on the sidewalk, in 100 years they'll all be dead...in 200 years no one will remember Fellini or Bergman...no one will remember you nor me...so</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me <i>(I finished his sentence)</i>: What's the point?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>He paused then looked in rear-view and nodded at me.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me:...I feel like the point isn't whether their is an after life or not or how successful you are here...we can die at any moment and what car we had, what work we were doing that day, won't matter...what matters is how we use every moment to love and touch people...go out of our way for no personal gain, just to love people...If I can do that everyday, then I feel I am using all of my life's potential in those single acts of kindness...We all come into this world alone and leave alone...but the paradox is that we are all united in how alone we are, so...we're really not alone...</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>He took it all in then nodded. </i></span><i>We pulled up to my apartment. After I paid him:</i></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: Listen, the conversation we had...that was you using a ton of potential and you gotta keep doing that because it touches people- to be reached out to. No cab driver does that, never mind most people-</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: No, it doesnt mean anything...it was ordinary.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: No it wasn't...it was special. What you're doing is making the world a better place.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Cabby: No, Im just a cab driver...that's all.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Me: No...you're a good person, who cares about connecting with another....and thats rare...I will remember you.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>He smiled then turned to reach his hand through the plate glass opening, for me. I smiled and firmly shook it.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Wherever he is, right at this moment, struggling with the feelings in his heart and pain from the restrictions of the body, mouth, and mind's inability to come up with a form of expression to reward him with peace; picking up transient body after transient body- all wearing headphones, all buried in cellphones-till his eyes are heavy and he must wander back to his own point B, his own destination. I pray he finds his potential, his peace. I pray he finds more pick ups that want to hear and speak. I hope if you get anything from this story you get that. Open yourself to another and write about it to others so they can believe that perfect strangers can within minutes become the closest of friends, bearing souls. And if they can do it in a matter of minutes, from a completely different backgrounds, of completely different ages and occupations...why can't the rest of the world? What are we afraid of?</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ill tell you what Im afraid of...wasted time.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">I watched him drive off into that same crisp autumn night...we separated from our paths intersecting to continue on our journeys....</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">...but not alone...connected.</span></p><p style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "> </p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">-Alessio Cappelletti</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Brooklyn, NY</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span">October 26, 2010</span></p></span></div></div></div></span>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-53460709864942806392010-10-05T06:30:00.000-07:002010-10-05T06:50:28.524-07:00Bronx Space Cleanup!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs648.snc4/60850_544471893753_195201346_31422443_5382117_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 720px; height: 540px;" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs648.snc4/60850_544471893753_195201346_31422443_5382117_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">From L to R: Joseph Reese- Financial Officer, Ariana Paganetti- Secretary, David Williams- Head of Poetry Division and Chairman of the Board, Keelie Sheridan- Head of Non-Profit Relations and Member of the Board</span></div><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Recently, a few members of Mind the Art Entertainment got together to do some much needed cleanup/ organization of our Bronx rehearsal/ storage/ workshop space. It was a long, productive day, and we're happy with the results!</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs685.snc4/62574_544471764013_195201346_31422434_8167090_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 540px; height: 720px;" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs685.snc4/62574_544471764013_195201346_31422434_8167090_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ariana Paganetti- Secretary- cleaning up the workshop area.</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs677.snc4/61751_544471649243_195201346_31422428_2654744_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 540px; height: 720px;" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs677.snc4/61751_544471649243_195201346_31422428_2654744_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joe Reese- Financial Officer and David Williams- Chairman of the Board and Head of Poetry Division reassembling set pieces.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs671.snc4/61126_544471564413_195201346_31422423_5138291_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 720px; height: 540px;" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs671.snc4/61126_544471564413_195201346_31422423_5138291_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joe Reese- Financial Officer, and Keelie Sheridan- Head of Non-Profit Relations and Member of the Board: reworking a storage corner.</span></div><div><br /></div></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-81659516549672515862010-08-15T07:25:00.001-07:002010-08-15T07:26:05.652-07:00Timing is Everything: Interview with Adam Shorsten- "The Timing of a Day" NYC Fringe<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DdvoSV2oKHQ?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DdvoSV2oKHQ?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-48524518212468837092010-08-09T05:01:00.000-07:002010-08-11T04:27:05.973-07:00Meet the Artist- Christian DeGre- Spellbound<div style="text-align: center;">Christian DeGre- Co-Writer, Co-Lyricist and Co-Composer of <i>Spellbound: A Musical Adventure</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcH1S6niYtJzSpWgmo8qfdR6-gU0W_zrfWGxx7kGhBjk9-zxKk5IuasdaFNgW9DsnUOy83BWwaGxjTampypVnyRawWA92Gq6Sar_1WhFvXFbe0PNsIlYrXdd81D2Uu7trGUDytMVSjXNn/s1600/Christian.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcH1S6niYtJzSpWgmo8qfdR6-gU0W_zrfWGxx7kGhBjk9-zxKk5IuasdaFNgW9DsnUOy83BWwaGxjTampypVnyRawWA92Gq6Sar_1WhFvXFbe0PNsIlYrXdd81D2Uu7trGUDytMVSjXNn/s320/Christian.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503379320321160546" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF00;">Born in Mexico City, Christian De Gré is a Producer, Director, Actor, Composer, Playwright and Orchestrator currently residing in NYC. He has performed in a number of plays & musicals throughout North America, Grand Cayman, North Africa and Eastern Europe and has been a judge for numerous international festivals. Last year De Gré traveled to Bulgaria and Tunisia to aid in the training and directing of performers from thirty countries as the'Theater for Social Change’ Partner of the United Nations ‘International Y-Peer Network.’ De Gré currently works as a Composer and Musical Director for a number of production companies including the 'NiteStar Program,' 'City at Peace’ and is the creator of the innovative Cabaret series 'What If?' De Gré served as Producer and Assistant Director for the art film ‘Broken Crayons’ and was the Executive Producer of the world premiere of‘May-December with The Nose and Clammy’ at the 2009 NYC International Fringe Festival. De Gré studied acting and theater at the ‘American Academy of Dramatic Arts’(NYC), music at the ‘New England Music Conservatory’ (Maine) and fine arts through ‘Cambridge University’ (Cayman Islands). He is a self taught composer and orchestrator and has written and directed a number of his own productions over the last eight years. Most recently he was the Artistic Director of the La Mama ETC Spring series ‘A Mind The Art Anthology’ featuring ‘What If?,’ ‘Die’ and TEA’s ‘Under The Veil.’ He is currently the Producer for the 2010 International Fringe Festival productions of ‘Timing of a Day’ and his co-written musical fantasy ‘Spellbound- A Musical Adventure’ which is being co-produced with Robert R. Blume.</span></span></span></span></div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2321248317703052798.post-25640094454416578572010-08-08T12:40:00.000-07:002010-08-08T13:01:36.305-07:00Spellbound: A Musical Adventure Photos!<div style="text-align: center;">Pre-Production photos from <i><a href="http://www.spellboundthemusical.com/">Spellbound: A Musical Adventure</a></i>! Thanks to <a href="http://www.briannalaroccophotography.com/index2.php#/home/">Brianna LaRocco Photography</a> for the beautiful shots!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9uwUbelK1AFsWnN4kAgU1qj6rVRV7QWBLJA21hGM5bmUqzFHqYZ0iZO1hrzD0Itecyk937aiI8J8b_v6RAsIzlw4t3ZvmW8j9fZbE5o4jwP_D47Q1ki4IRhLifXYyMQbonVEwjb-g1XF/s1600/DSC_76232.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9uwUbelK1AFsWnN4kAgU1qj6rVRV7QWBLJA21hGM5bmUqzFHqYZ0iZO1hrzD0Itecyk937aiI8J8b_v6RAsIzlw4t3ZvmW8j9fZbE5o4jwP_D47Q1ki4IRhLifXYyMQbonVEwjb-g1XF/s320/DSC_76232.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503129025769858226" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IhPEIGhfuG8eeWMeVZXVtcIn8eG7NlS0j1BofKFsPNu9IRYkpcPb_C17Cw2vzgdKXhkz4JN3iyGjD0DMtaSwz2jvnQF8Nm1_-l6V7yuvzKCC1Sbrxqea_RfIwZdGbtq0byf903yPP9hj/s1600/DSC_74552.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgslnhOJJsV4n8jIRQxVVUtx7xIMspzRlMXtllxGylGJUuoLia_BCI53H3sA5modhYu0qCJorgo5_48qA8Wt9pVeMtCFlL8uIaic_EdGOkRKtgLORUm10ZtZYzu_vPRSBDKFq1d2Llc4A18/s320/Nik+Kourtis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502720417759330962" /></a><div><b>Theater</b> – Black Fox New Play Festival (The Gallery Players); All My Sons (Center Stage Playhouse); Proof (CenterStage Playhouse); Together Alone (Turtle Shell Theater); Measure for Measure (Planet Connections Festival); Absolutes (The Gene Frankel Theater); Charlie Chang and the Mysterious Salami (International Cringe Fest); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Hartwick College); 4.48 Psychosis (Hartwick College); Stop! Kiss (Hartwick College) </div><div><br /></div><div><b>TV/Film</b> – The Adjustment Bureau (2011); Thinly Veiled (Official Selection at the 2010 Outfest Film Festival); Collegehumor TV (MTV)</div><div><br /></div><div>Much Love and Thanks to Joey, Owen, the cast and everyone at Mind the Art Entertainment.</div>Mind The Art Entertainmenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277323811251716424noreply@blogger.com0