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• Simon Green Traveling Light

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 13:35 in cabaret; british; england; performing arts; singer; travel show

  “Simon Green Traveling Light" is so thoroughly entertaining and original it was enough to make a happy non-traveler like me ready to pack her bags and head for the airport. Teaming with the gifted David Shrubsole on piano, Green sings of geog...

• A Little Night Music

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 11:04 in musical theatre; performing arts; broadway; sondheim

  I kept wishing someone would send in the clowns. Anything to relieve the boredom of this first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1973 musical A Little Night Music, which is directed by Trevor Nunn and playing at the Walter...

• Race

  Posted on Thursday December 17th, 2009 at 11:20

  My friend Trixy and I left the theatre after seeing the world premiere of David Mamet’s newest play, Race, with lots of questions. Unfortunately they weren’t the good kind provoked by a challenging work. They were the “why did?” and “...

• Virgin and Child

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 14:19 in raphael, madonna and child; jesus christ; christ; prophesy, christianity; faith; incarnation; art

  Several Christmases ago I took Sheriee and Crystal, two 10 year olds from an after-school program in the South Bronx, to see the Neapolitan tree at the Metropolitan Museum. Those children lived in the country’s poorest congressional district and w...

• Henny Youngman

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 08:40 in comedian, vaudeville, jewish humor, stand-up comic

  "I thought about becoming an atheist, but gave it up. There are no holidays."-- Henny YoungmanTo read other blog postings, visit http://uponthesacredstage.blogspot.com Copyright 2009 Retta Blaney...

• Andrea Marcovicci

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 13:30 in sitcom; soap opera; television; cabaret; performing arts

  I always love it when Andrea Marcovicci sings for our Tuesday luncheon group at the National Arts Club. I’ve been a huge fan of hers since I was in high school and she was Betsy on the now long-defunct soap “Love is a Many Splendored Thing....

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