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The Great Flannel Way: "Jagged Little Pill" On Broadway

Details: Parent Category: Film and the Arts; Category: Previews; Published on Monday, 11 November 2013 16:36; Written by Renzo Adler

Nostalgia is a strange thing. It comes and goes in waves, but it is ever present. Through much of the late 90’s and early 00’s, there was a glut of 80’s nostalgia in the form of cartoon revivals, covers of popular songs, and so on. But 90’s nostalgia has stayed somewhat low key. Until now. Alanis Morissette, that Gen-X songsmith of perfectly unkempt locks, is now treading ground on the Great White Way.

Alanis’ 1995 album, Jagged Little Pill, will become Broadway musical, in the vein of Green Day’s American Idiot (which blazed the trail for this endeavor). Let’s let the press release take it away (emphasis mine):

“Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette will take her 1995 hit album, Jagged Little Pill, to the Broadway stage debuting a workshop production of the piece in 2014. The musical, also called “Jagged Little Pill,” will include the full song list from the album as well as tracks from the rest of her body of work and some new, original songs that she will compose specially for the stage production. Two-time Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt (“Next To Normal”, Green Day’s “American Idiot”) has signed on to provide orchestrations and arrangements.

“...Jagged Little Pill” will be produced by veteran Broadway producer Vivek J. Tiwary, who saw success with a similar venture, Green Day’s “American Idiot,” and British-Malaysian producer Arvind Ethan David.”

Now if you excuse me, I have to go pitch a musical about 4 Non Blondes.

Japan Society Honors The God of Manga

Details: Parent Category: Film and the Arts; Category: Previews; Published on Tuesday, 05 November 2013 17:47; Written by Renzo Adler

In 1989, two very important Japanese people passed away; Emperor Hirohito and comic book author and animator Osamu Tezuka, best known for creating Astro Boy, a sort of cybernetic Pinnocchio. Anecdotally it has been said that Tezuka’s death was considered a much larger and more tragic event. While relatively unknown in the US, Osamu Tezuka has been dubbed “the god of manga” for his contribution to the sequential arts and animation. His body of work ranges wildly and includes adventure stories for kids (Metropolis), psychological thrillers (Message to Adolf), religous epics (Buddha), and even blending animation with live action footage decades before Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vampire).

On November 7, 2013, the Japan Society (333 east 47th St.) will be looking back on Tezuka’s illustrious career. The Life & Words of Osamu Tezuka, conducted by The New Yorker contributing writer and author of Japanimerica, Roland Kelts, and moderated by cartoonist Katie Skelly ,author of Nurse Nurse, covers Tezuka’s unique creations and analyzes them in a modern cultural context.

Along with the lecture will be a reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres, and a raffle for books by Tezuka, Skelly, and Kelts.

To learn more, go to: https://www.japansociety.org/

The Life & Works of Osamu Tezuka
November 7, 2013

The Japan Society
333 East 47th St.
New York, NY 10017

Alamo Drafthouse Announces Fantastic Fest Encore

Details: Parent Category: Film and the Arts; Category: Previews; Published on Saturday, 02 November 2013 23:11; Written by Kyle Sittig

Alamo Draft House will continue its streak of making every northern film nerd jealous, by showing films from the annual Fantastic Fest, over three weekends in November. The Fantastic Fest aspires to bring independent and cult films to a wider audience. Unless you have your finger on the pulse of global independent cinema, you are unlikely to be familiar with most of the films being screened.

Off-Broadway Preview: Eric Bogosian Returns

Details: Parent Category: Film and the Arts; Category: Previews; Published on Tuesday, 08 October 2013 23:04; Written by Kevin Filipski

Eric Bogosian: (100) Monologues

Performances through October 25, 2013

Eric Bogosian (photo: Monique Carboni)

As a monologist, Eric Bogosian currently has no peer. For two decades (from 1980 to 2000), in seminal shows like Sex Drugs and Rock’n’Roll, Pounding Nails in My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Bogosian created and inhabited many varied and compellingly original characters: a homeless man on a subway, a divorced father with anger issues, a drug dealer a little too enthusiastic about sharing his stash with a customer, a self-help guru who insists that the way to eternal happiness is becoming filthy rich.

Although he also wrote the full-length plays Suburbia and Talk Radio, Bogosian will always be thought of—even more so than Anna Deavere Smith and Spalding Gray—as a solo performer whom audiences are entertained and enlightened by, even as he uncovers the darker side of the American psyche.

In celebration of his new book, a collection of his work titled (100) Monologues, Bogosian returns to the stage to do what he does best: he will read from and perform an assortment of his “greatest hits”—the selections change from show to show—in a special limited engagement at the Bank Street Theater. Although he has become a terrific actor in movies and on television, Bogosian back onstage alone is always a good thing.

Eric Bogosian: (100) Monologues

Bank Street Theater, 155 Bank Street, New York, NY

Labyrinth Theater Company/labtheater.org

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