Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Why High School Musicals Should Be As Respected As Sports Programs Are
www.theodysseyonline.com: When I was in middle school and high school, I felt like I lived for the musicals that my school orchestrated.
For those of you who don't know, a musical is an onstage performance wherein actors take on roles that involve singing, and often dancing, to progress the plot of the story. While it may sound a little bit nerdy to get up in front of an audience to perform in this manner, this is something you cannot knock until you try it.
How Rodgers And Hammerstein Revolutionized Broadway
NPR: We're going to hear from Todd Purdum, author of the book "Something Wonderful: Rodgers And Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution," which tells the story of their partnership. Purdum loves their music, but he's best known as a political reporter. He covers politics and culture for The Atlantic, is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and senior writer for Politico. We're going to hear some Rodgers and Hammerstein cast recordings. Purdum also selected a couple of Rodgers and Hammerstein interview excerpts that we'll hear.
Comedians and College Students Are Not Enemies
www.vulture.com: I wonder if Jerry Seinfeld knows that when he famously said colleges are too PC for stand-up comedy, he sparked a wholly unnecessary feud between stand-up comics and college students. At least in the comedy world, that’s how it feels. Earlier this month, the fire was stoked with the news of student organizers cutting former SNL writer Nimesh Patel’s set short at a Columbia University event.
50 Years of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Make-Up Artist Magazine: Anybody who had the good fortune of meeting Stuart Freeborn knew he was a born storyteller. Freeborn, who passed away in 2013 at the age of 98, was a frequent visitor to IMATS London, where he was often surrounded by a crowd of spellbound listeners, right up until the moment he was packed into the back of a car to go home.
For actors and other theater workers, minimum wage is often the maximum, too
Datebook: In any other industry, the announcement of an across-the-board, $15 hourly wage wouldn’t be a big deal. Why celebrate a company for paying the legal minimum wage everyone else pays? And how was it ever allowed to pay less?
Yet for many working in the nonprofit theater industry, minimum wage is a welcome change.
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