HowWasTheShow/Minneapoliscast CD Reviews for December 2007 on 12/14/07

By: Jen Paulson, Jon Behm, Andrea Swensson, Stacy Schwartz, David de Young, Pat O'Brien
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  This month we bring you a special holiday edition of the HowWasTheShow/Minneapoliscast CD Review show featuring 8 guests and 9 songs. Special guests this month include Jason Nagel, formerly of Cities 97’s Minnesota Music program and Mei Young, formerly of Drive 105 Homegrown. As well as selected writers from Reveille Magazine and HowWasTheShow.com. Hosted by David de Young of HowWasTheShow...

The Sound of Music at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on 12/14/07

By: Jon Behm
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For someone who doesn’t really like musicals, I somehow end up seeing a lot of them. Most recently The Sound of Music, the Rogers and Hammerstein Broadway classic which has been revived for the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts’ stage under the direction of Wendy Knox. Whether you love Rogers and Hammerstein, or they just make you want to gag, everyone should at least be able to agree that the Ordway performance was spectacularly well done.   The Sound of Music is th...

Gospel Gossip CD Release w/ Maps of Norway and MC/VL at 7th Street Entry on 12/13/07

By: David de Young
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Vicious Lee of MC/VL - Photo by Stacy Schwartz MC/VL Arriving to the Entry just shy of 10PM, we missed opening band Dragons Power Up, but we were in time for “the homeboys we came to see”, Mighty Clyde and Vicious Lee, better known as MC/VL. Though I hated these guys when I first heard them on the radio a couple years ago, thinking they were an amateurish and kitschy novelty act, my esteem for ...

Sweet William, devised and performed by Michael Pennington at The Guthrie Theater on 12/11/07

By: David de Young
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Photo by Laurance Burns If you’re not a Shakespeare fan, Sweet William is not the show for you. But if you are, whether of the academic, armchair or thespian sort, this show makes for an educational and enjoyable night on the town.  English actor Michael Pennington, perhaps best known by the American general public for his portrayal of Moff Jerjerrord in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jed...

Richard Hawley with Ferraby Lionheart at 400 Bar on 12/6/07

By: Jon Behm
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Ferraby Lionheart - Photo by Jon Behm I can hardly blame anyone for not making it to the 400 Bar last Thursday night for Richard Hawley. It was one of those nights where the wind was so cold that walking down the street felt like you were getting gunned down by Mr. Freeze. Those who made the arctic journey though were rewarded by an evening of excellent music.  Ferraby Lionheart and his band were the night...

Roma di Luna and A Night In The Box at Acadia Café on 12/1/07

By: Carl Atiya Swanson
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Roma di Luna - Photo from their MySpace It’s a pity that the Acadia Café on Nicollet and Franklin will be pulling up stakes and moving to the West Bank on January 1st, 2008. Its new location (kitty-corner from the 400 Bar in the old Riverview Café) will not have the separate theater area that made the Acadia so infuriatingly charming. The Nicollet space gets a bad rap; the sound mix...

Sol y Luna, a Zorongo Flamenco Dance Company production at Southern Theater on 11/29/07

By: Jon Behm
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Domingo Ortega - Photo by Jim Smith The Southern Theater was temporarily transferred to Southern Spain last night. While the audience remained firmly planted in their seats, The Zorongo Flamenco Dance Company’s Sol y Luna took us down a tour of Sevilla’s Barrio Santa Cruz’s mazelike streets, into hot cafes and Gitano enclaves. With only a little sweet red Spanish wine and a roomful of cigarette...

Barbara Field's adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at The Guthrie Theater on 11/25/07

By: David de Young
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Raye Birk as Ebenezer Scrooge - Photo by Michal Daniel "The Goose is on the Loose" I’ll make a concerted effort to say as little as possible about my choice of subtitles for this review, but if you’ve seen the show you know what I mean. And if you choose to attend, you’ll find out soon enough. It’s been years since I attended a production of A Christmas Carol at the Gut...

Between the Worlds, an Interact Center production at Mixed Blood Theatre on 11/23/07

By: Carl Atiya Swanson
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  The excitement was palpable in the lobby of the Mixed Blood Theatre for the gala opening of Interact Center’s Between the Worlds. It helped that the tiny lobby was packed to the rafters with nowhere to stand or turn that wasn’t in line for the food and wine. This is what happens when you have a cast of 45 and a reputation for courageous theatre: people come in droves.    ...

Ed Ackerson Interview and Performance on 11/21/07

By: David de Young
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The cover of Ed Ackerson's self-titled solo album On Friday night, November 23rd at the Varsity Theater, Ed Ackerson (of 27 Various, The Dig and Polara) will release his debut self-titled solo album on his own Susstones record label. At the show Ed will be joined by a band featuring Peter Anderson (drums), Marc Perlman (bass), Tim Osseau (keyboards), and Eric Lovold of the Alarmist...