by Karen Tortora-Lee on March 5, 2010
Congratulations to the winner of our Soup Show Giveaway — Nancy Cohen!
Nancy was randomly chosen from those who correctly answered our trivia question. (Q: Who is the director for The Soup Show? A: Lauren Sharpe)
Nancy won a pair of tickets to The Soup Show playing at HERE Arts Center. (For more information check out the official site.)
Thanks to everyone who participated and check back each month as we give away more tickets to more great shows!
by Antonio Miniño on March 1, 2010
New York Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis & Erica Livingston serve up a cure for what ails you in this Neo-Medicine show, performing in and around a giant pot of self-made soup. Bottling this soup, as well as a series of elixirs, potions, tonics and products, they heal and reveal the female experience live, honest and in the flesh.
Incorporating ingredients from interviews, living newspaper, personal stories, circus acts and freak shows, the women of The Soup Show ultimately feed their audiences with a question “How far has the women’s movement moved us?” The fierce trio honor the 30th Anniversary of Women’s History Month, and show you why the readers of the Village Voice named The New York Neo-Futurists “The 2009 Best Performance Artists in New York.”
ADVISORY: adult language and nudity.
One lucky grand prize winner will receive:
- A pair of tickets to The Soup Show at HERE Arts Center, for Sunday, March 7th at 7:00 pm
To enter, correctly answer the following question:
Q. Who is the director for The Soup Show?
(Wanna cheat? The answer is at www.nyneofuturists.org/site/index.php?/site/soupshow )
Email us your answer with your first and last name to giveaways@thehappiestmedium.com, all entries must be received by Friday, March 5th at 10am.
Click here for contest guidelines.
Good luck!
by Karen Tortora-Lee on April 6, 2009
In the Fall you’ll be able to feast on all the goodness that is the Crown Point Festival: a three week multi-media arts event that incorporates Film, Theatre and Music happenings all over the Lower East Side. But for now, just like when you do a tasting for your wedding, The CPF is having a Spring Sampler that will feature a little bit of this, a little bit of that … just enough to whet your appetite and get you excited for the big event in the Fall.
I hope to do a more in-depth interview in the upcoming months with Festival director Jesse Soursourian to get a real feel for what the Fall Crown Point Festival has in store, but for now I’ll be making my way to the Lower East Side on Tuesday, April 7th to get a taste of some of our city’s young, emerging talent.
Think that YOU’VE got what it takes to be in the festival and want to submit? Then check out the FAQs and the Applications page for more information on that as well, and maybe the next great thing we’re checking out this Fall is YOU!
RSVP to get on the list for $20.00 tickets with jesse@crownpointfestival.org. Entry at the door without RSVP is $25.00. Must be 21 or older to enter.
by Karen Tortora-Lee on February 25, 2009
Gosh, it’s cold outside. Like, tried-to-dial-my-cell-phone-so-took-off-my-glove-and-immediately-regretted-it-because-my-fingers-froze-into-a-claw type of cold. But does it have to be frigid inside too?
According to this festival … yes it does! With January ‘09 having the sad distinction of being the month that saw the close of such long running hits as Hairspray, Spamalot and Spring Awakening, as well as other fine productions (such as All My Sons, Boeing-Boeing, Dividing The Estate, Grease, Gypsy, and Young Frankenstein), 2009 is already turning into a sorry year for Broadway. But don’t let it get you down! Go catch one or two or five of these great shows at any or all of these cozy theatres: The Kraine Theatre, The Red Room or Under St. Marks. (And yes, I used “cozy” euphemistically the way those people do when they’re trying to get you to rent their “cozy extra bedroom” … come on, folks it’s obviously a closet!).
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by Karen Tortora-Lee on February 3, 2009
For those who know their Broadway Show history, I Can Get It for You Wholesale is the 1962 musical responsible for bringing a teen-aged Barbra Streisand to the New York stage; she not only debuted to critical acclaim, but she sang her way into a Tony Nomination as well for her role as Miss Marmelstein. (For those who know their Karen Tortora [sans Lee] history, the Miss Marmelstein song was in very heavy rotation during the Spring/Summer season of Karen’s Basement Follies of 1982. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I’m an only child who, alas, garnered no such critical acclaim).
In any case, today “I can get if for you wholesale” is more than just a link you can click while you’re reading your way through my column. Today it’s also a very clever pun because I, I … can help get you a ticket to a Broadway (okay, off-Broadway) show for what will feel like wholesale. And these days, that’s saying a lot.
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