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You get a "bonus" issue this month - sort of. You see, because Memorial Day is always on a Monday, our issue went out on Tuesday the 1st of June, and the final issue this month goes out on the 28th (next Monday) making 9 issues this time around. Just a special advance warning: The 4th of July is celebrated on Monday, the 5th, so that means the issue that week will go out on the 6th - which happens to be my 71st Birthday. The Thursday issue will probably go out on Friday, therefor.
The heat wave continues here in NYC, and I keep forgetting that it is actually winter in Australia, where the 10th Annual Adelaide Cabaret Festival is drawing to a close (it runs through Saturday, the 26th). We received Frank Ford's report on the second week of the festival overnight, and posted it this morning on both the CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE website and blog before starting this issue. Mr. Ford is truly a gem of a correspondant (he was one of the founders of the festival) and his enthusiasm for the art and artists of cabaret is probably even greater than my own! Be sure to read both reports currently running - we expect the final report to come in early next week.
Another Cabaret Festival also draws to a close this weekend: The 5-week San Francisco SOMETHING C.O.O.L. - THE SUMMER CABARET FESTIVAL being presented at THE EUREKA THEATER which runs through Sunday, the 27th. Centerpiece of the celebration was singer and recording artist Russ Lorenson, and his award winning "Benedetto/ Blessed: A Tribute to the Life and Music of Tony Bennett". Details in the listings below. By the way, there's a $20 discount for members of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE for Russ' show! I believe that's the largest discount ever offered by a performer!
While California-based director Tim Nelson prepares a co-production of Brigadoon for it's weekend at The CABARET AT FORT SALEM THEATER (11 East Broadway, Salem, NY - 518-854-9200 - ) to run July 2nd through 4th, Fort Salem's artistic director, Jay Kerr, has traveled to Vincennes, Indiana, to musical direct his score for the World Premiere of Alice of Old Vincennes: A Musical, at the RED SKELTON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (0 Red Skelton Boulevard, Vincennes, IN - 812-888-4039 - ). Both Skelton and Alice resided in Vincennes, a small city in the southwestern corner of Indiana, on the banks of the Wabash River. Skelton caught the eye of comedian Ed Wynn when Wynn was at performing at the local vaudeville house, and was then and there encouraged to go to Hollywood and make his mark. Alice is a fictitious character created in the 1901 novel, Alice of Old Vincennes, by then popular novelist Maurice Thompson, who also lived there.
At the suggestion of Rick Holen, a performer with Kerr in Special Services in Vietnam and then a professor at Vincennes University, Kerr was commissioned to provide a musical score in a project guided by the university musical theater department. Lyrics were written by Vincennes poet and university English professor, Dr. Laurel Smith, with a book by theater chair, Dr. James Spurrier. The performance in Vincennes runs the Friday through Sunday, June 25th through 27th and is billed a Concert Staged Reading, with a cast of fifteen portraying the thirty-some roles in the show. After this year's concert reading, the show will enjoy an annual full-scale pageant production during Indiana's tourist-heavy summers.
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