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Force Majeure

You’re headed to New York for a conference that starts Wednesday morning, so you have to be in the city the night before. You decide to catch the opera Tuesday night. Your plane is scheduled to land at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, the opera starts at 7:30:…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on March 9, 2012 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

Lean Forward

Instead of bringing truckloads of scenery, some shows put the burden on you. They ask you to bring copious amounts of imagination to the production.

So it is…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on March 2, 2012 at 7:36am — No Comments

Always Right?

A woman dabs on a bit of perfume for her night out. She and her husband are seeing a show in Popejoy Hall. They arrive at their seats. The man next to them complains to the ushers that the…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on February 24, 2012 at 7:30am — No Comments

Talking Tomorrow

Tomorrow, I’m giving a talk at Bookworks on Rio Grande.

No, I haven’t written a book. Nor am I signing copies of…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on February 17, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

Lessons from a Pro

I love talking to people about theater, especially people who do it on bigger stages than I, so to speak. I got that opportunity last spring when I interviewed Jeff Moss, director for both …

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Added by Terry S. Davis on February 10, 2012 at 7:30am — No Comments

Age Appropriate

When my daughter, Nina, was almost three, her favorite movie was Disney’s Cinderella. She also liked the black and white made-for-TV version starring Leslie Ann Warren. She had learned how to operate the VCR and would play the tapes at…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on February 3, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments

A Prince of Serendip

Some mornings it’s tough to know what business I’m in.

I work in a basement office. I process numbers, edit words, answer phone calls, attend meetings, monitor budgets. How different is that from any other office job?…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on January 27, 2012 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Casting

Sometimes casting is the hardest part of the job.

There’s a show opening locally in a couple of weeks and they have a major part they’re still trying to cast. They’ll get it…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on January 20, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Building Commitment

Tom Popejoy attended symphony concerts in Carnegie Hall with President Franklin Roosevelt and fell in love with the music. He loved it so much, his son said, that Tom Popejoy, Jr., never wants to hear Carmen again, his father played…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on January 13, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Fame

“I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly high.”

People who perform for a living do it for the glory, right? They just want to be…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on January 6, 2012 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

A Holiday Tradition

If two performers meet on Christmas Day — or New Year’s Eve or Thanksgiving — one will certainly ask “Where’s your show tonight?” People in show biz work a lot of holidays.…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on December 23, 2011 at 7:00am — No Comments

Hope

My friend Elizabeth told me she was trying out for Anything Goes. Landmark Musicals holds its auditions…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on December 16, 2011 at 10:34am — No Comments

Joy to Our World

When I first watched the video of Alice Tan Ridley singing on America’s Got Talent, I had the same reaction as the judges: surprise, awe and a shiver of joy. When I…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on December 9, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

Can Do

Last week, I had to find a kid’s choir for the upcoming David Benoit show, A Charlie Brown…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on December 2, 2011 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Local Flavors

The final session of the arts marketing conference let out at noon. We were on our own for lunch in Louisville before we scattered back to the many corners of the country from whence we'd come. I could have chosen any one of a…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on November 18, 2011 at 6:15am — No Comments

Lasting Images

Denise Schultz spent 30 years teaching young directors in UNM's Department of Theatre and Dance. Two weekends ago, she was at it again, this time leading a session on staging for local directors associated with the…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on November 11, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

Heed the Warning

If you want to save your friends money and grief, please share this blog with them.

Since we at Popejoy Hall began bringing shows like Wicked, Les Misérables and…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on November 4, 2011 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Shocking

About 150 years ago in Western cultures, men and women did not touch while dancing. It was considered far too indecent. Then along came the waltz.

Of course, now we consider the waltz to be a very tame dance, but in its origins the idea of a man putting his hand on a woman’s waist or…

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Added by Terry S. Davis on October 28, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

Homemade Art

I was struck a couple of weeks ago by what two people from very different traditions said: Joanie Madden of Cherish the Ladies and Roclan González Chavez of…