by jvranish1 | Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Okay, so the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera production, Rock of Ages, set me off on a tangent, mining the history of juke-box musicals, where familiar music often spawns the story. The term apparently began in 1969 with the music of Burt Bacharach in the award-winning...
by jvranish1 | Jul 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
Springtime in Washington D.C. means cherry blossoms and the New York City Ballet at Kennedy Center. Arguably the greatest company in the world, NYCB not only brings its dancers, but often its own New York City Ballet Orchestra as well, the better to play some of the...
by Moriah Ella Mason | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
On a warm overcast evening I hustle up a long metallic ramp that runs alongside the factory floor of Carrie Blast Furnace in Rankin. Entering the large repurposed space I see two long rows of folding chairs facing one another and separated by an equally long cardboard...
by jvranish1 | Jul 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Blanket has morphed into so many configurations during its brief Pittsburgh life, but never so more as this year. After one of their rehearsal sessions, this one at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s light-filled and spacious studios, the central figures split off...
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