Give it up!...for Superman!

Ah! I haven't posted on here in forever! Must do it! Now! Thanks Jess for the arrangement-thingy.

Anyway, the latest I have to give this week about the current season at the Dallas Theatre Center in Dallas, TX. Those silly regional theatres seem to be having a ball with the shows they are performing (including the Yale Repertory Theatre performing POP! in it's world premiere). And included in Dallas' lineup this season is there own world premiere. Give It Up! is about a college and their cheerleading squad's attempt to break the basketball team's 30-year losing curse. Yeah, it's like a weird HSM for adults, (I mean the pictures look like it) but show is backed up by a host of Xanadu alumni, including the director, the playwright for the book, and the leading lady. And Xanadu wasn't the most amazing show to hit the Great White Way, but it's not terrible (and don't say Glory Days was...there is a special place in my heart for that show).

So give it up for Give It Up! to hit the Dallas stage January 15th. Along with the Beauty Plays (The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, and reasons to be pretty) to open in late February, Death of a Salesman opening in mid-April, and finally It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman to close out the season in mid-June. That show is one I would love to see, personally. Superman was a show to satisfy the theatre-goers of the 60's when Superman exploded into the American pastime. The show didn't last long on Broadway...at all...but it is one show that cannot go without a revival. Break a leg, Dallas!

As for myself, the Edge theatre in Rock Hill, South Carolina (a community theatre where I have established roots during my time at Winthrop) is putting on the play, The History Boys February 4-7. It's about a group of boys in who are studying to pass the tests for Oxford and Cambridge as they are graduating in a semester. Oh, and it takes place in England. That means accents for all of us! My character is Posner. For more info, the play was made into a movie in 2006 with the original Broadway cast of the show. It's pretty good, but leaves a lot out of the staged production. The last show I did there, bare: a pop opera went very well with a great review from Creative Loafing in Charlotte. Thanks to everyone who came! Go see The History Boys! Until next time.

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http://www.dallastheatercenter.org/
Dallas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45OsKkHhv90
trailer to The History Boys

http://tinyurl.com/yh79onp
review of bare: a pop opera by Creative Loafing