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‘Moon Over Buffalo’ big, broad fun with BCT
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BANGOR – There’s no business like show business. And when you have a show about show business? Well – the show must go on. And on. And on…
Bangor Community Theatre is presenting “Moon Over Buffalo,” a comedy by Ken Ludwig, on their home stage at the Bangor Grange Hall. The show – directed by Irene Dennis – runs through Nov. 24.
It’s the story of two aging actors, touring the hinterlands with a pair of classic stage plays in the 1950s. However, when an unexpected opportunity presents the possibility of a return to glory, the pair will do whatever it takes to make it happen – no matter what.
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‘Genuine Fakes’ keeps it real
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What is real? What is fake? What do those terms even mean? Is there some kind of gray area in between? And what about authenticity? Is that the same thing? Can something be real without being authentic? Or authentic without being real?
That idea of what is real is the central tenet of Lydia Pyne’s new book “Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff” (Bloomsbury Sigma, $28). Through an exploration of eight different objects that land somewhere in that blurry place between real and fake, Pyne offers readers a chance to consider what the differences might be.
Too often, we allow ourselves to be conditioned to believe that there are two choices: real and not-real. But the world is far too complex to be governed by that sort of yes/no binary – authenticity depends on one’s perspective.
What Pyne does with “Genuine Fakes” is offer up examples that point up the malleability of authenticity; what is and is not real isn’t always set in stone. And just because something comes to be through methods different than the norm, does that make it fake? Or just a different kind of real? It’s a legitimately fascinating read, well-researched and packed with detail – the sort of book that will surprise and delight the intellectually curious.
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‘Goodness and humor’ celebrated as ‘Sesame Street’ turns 50
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NEW YORK — Fifty years ago, beloved entertainer Carol Burnett appeared on the very first broadcast of a quirky TV program that featured a bunch of furry puppets.
Blink and you might miss it, but Burnett followed a cartoon about a witch called Wanda, which was loaded with words beginning with the letter w.
“Wow, Wanda the Witch is weird,” Burnett commented. And then — poof — she was gone.
That show was “Sesame Street” and Burnett, like a lot of kids, was instantly hooked. She would return to the show multiple times, including visits to demonstrate to pre-school viewers where her nose was and to smooch a rubber duckie.
“I was a big fan. I would have done anything they wanted me to do,” she said. “I loved being exposed to all that goodness and humor.”
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STC’s ‘Evil Dead: The Musical’ a bloody good time
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ORONO – Thanks to one Orono theatre company, the dead are rising … and singing … and dancing.
Some Theatre Company’s production of “Evil Dead: The Musical” – with book and lyrics by George Reinblatt and music by Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla, Christopher Bond and Melissa Morris – is running at the Keith Anderson House in Orono through Nov. 9; the show is directed by Elaine Bard, with musical direction by Jason Wilkes.
It’s based on the Sam Raimi movie series of the same name, a beloved cult favorite that starred Bruce Campbell as an out-of-his-depth guy who winds up thrust into an apocalyptic fight between good and evil that he is not even remotely prepared for. It is gory and visceral while also being winkingly self-aware and wildly funny. And as of 2003 – it’s a musical.
And in the capable hands of the folks at STC, it is a hell of a lot of fun.
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The reporter who routinely infiltrated Hollywood’s celeb party circuit
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The gatecrashing escapades of former Los Angeles Times reporter Adrian Maher should earn props from the most tenacious of paparazzi. Pulling from 25 years of personal experience, interviews and anecdotes, Maher’s new book “Uninvited: Confessions of a Hollywood Party Crasher” is a hilarious chronicle of the reporter’s various adrenaline-fueled capers as part of a select group of dauntless Tinseltown interlopers.
A freelance journalist for UPI, Newsweek, Time and the L.A. Weekly, Maher has also written, directed and produced dozens of programs for Discovery, History, National Geographic, and others. I interviewed him from his home in Santa Monica, California for this Maine Edge profile of ‘Uninvited.’
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