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The Gilded Age's Broadway Divas: Miss Armstrong (Debra Monk)
Sometimes, a work family is a German mother and her Irish daughter, an English father and his clockmaking son, and a mean old spinster aunt who's only invited to the family holiday parties because she'd bitch for weeks if she wasn't. Miss Armstrong is Agnes's nasty lady's maid who has said exactly one (1) nice thing all season. And I love her.
At seventy-four, Debra Monk is the oldest woman on The Gilded Age, and the only one with the appropriate hair color to show it. As cantankerous as her mistress with none of the charm, Armstrong is nothing like her fantastic actress. Debra Monk is one of theatre's comedy greats. Much like Katie Finneran, Debra is playing against type. Us theatre buffs know her from Pump Boys and Dinettes (co-author, director, and actress), Company (Joanne), and the ill-fated Nick & Nora alongside Christine Baranski.
An absolute delight of a human being, Deb Monk is a wise-cracking mile-a-minute, raunchy, jokester and deserves praise and recognition for her work.
#1: "Everybody's Girl," (Steel Pier) - My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (1998)
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Almost every stalwart theatre Diva has her signature song. "Everybody's Girl" is Debra Monk's pride and joy, and she sings it to this day. At her raunchiest yet, she serenades a gleeful audience with her sexual exploits whilst dressed in a black dress and corset that Armstrong would have a coronary over.
The clever lyrics are perfectly paired with her comedic chops. The whole performance is just a delight from start to finish. That exit has me screaming every time. Her performance in the stage show the song originated from netted her a third Tony nomination.
If we do not get a clip of Debra Monk in full Armstrong drag singing this song, what is the point anymore?
#2: "The Ladies Who Lunch," Company (1995)
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Before there was Patti LuPone, but after the great Elaine Stritch, there was Debra Monk as Joanne in the 1995 first Broadway revival of Company. Yes, another Stephen Sondheim. Often forgotten in the Company conversation, this production had a tough act to follow. Nominated for just two Tonys (Best Revival and Best Featured Actress--Veanne Cox, hello, I love you), there's not much that can be said about the 1995 production. It lasted two months, and no one can point me in the direction of any footage with Debra, so here we are.
#3: Debra Monk's Birthday Bash: Totally Hot and a Little Dirty (2014)
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For her 65th birthday, Debra performed in a raucous and raunchy concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. The concert raised an impressive $140,355 for the charity, and featured a eclectic mix of rock 'n' roll, church music, and debauchery. Well, what else would you expect from Debra Monk?
As comfortable flirting with younger men as she is grinding up against scantily clad fellow comedienne Andrea Martin and Company co-star Charlotte d'Amboise, Debra is a riot from start to finish.
The entire show is available on DVD from BC/EFA, and I need it.
#4: "Ohio Afternoon," Oil City Symphony (1987)
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Performed as part of the "If It Only Runs a Minute" series that highlights really obscure shows that barely had a life, Debra reprised her drum-playing role in 2012. As if she didn't have enough talents. Only she could take drums and make it peak comedy.
#5: Game Night at Seth Rudetsky's Place
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No explanation needed. Hello, Andrea Martin. Love you.
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Steel Pier, Atlantic City, 1953.
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AMONG THE MARRIED
1927 / 1929
Among the Married (formerly The Conflict) is a play by Vincent Lawrence. It was originally produced by Sam H. Harris and later by Philip Goodman. It was directed by Mr. Lawrence.
The story tears the veil from a troubled week in the placid, uneventful life of a young couple of country club persuasion. Ethel Mills, the wife, spurns the advances of William Minot, though he Is attentive, and comes with a peculiar temptation of golf instruction. When she discovers sundry infidelities of her husband and he insists, in some detail, that she has "his whole love, but not his whole passion," she revenges herself with that complete abandon of which only women in love are capable. Their relations are finally resolved, if not logically, at least happily.
Among the Married opened in Atlantic City at the Apollo Theatre on July 11, 1927. It featured Louis Calhern, Helen Flint, William David, Warren William, Kathryn Givney, and Milano Tilden. From Atlantic City, the play moved up the Jersey coast to Asbury Park.
It was also scheduled to visit nearby Long Branch, but that engagement was cancelled. Plans were for an October production on Broadway. Instead, it played in Baltimore in October, with the goal of opening at Broadway’s Masque Theatre (now the John Golden) on November 1, 1927. A Baltimore critic carped about the play’s propensity to use profanity, especially ones involving the diety.
Among the Married was to be the newly opened Masque’s 5th production. But instead, that honor went to The King Can Do No Wrong starring Lionel Atwill. November came and went with no word of the play’s fate.
Halfway through December 1927, The Daily News mentioned that Lawrence and Sam Harris were collaborating on a new play titled Possessed.
“William Harris, Jr. emphatically denies the rumors that Vincent Lawrence's play, ‘Possessed,’ is the same which was tried out earlier this season as ‘Among the Married.’ Mr. Harris states that ‘Possessed’ is an entirely new play and was never presented before.”
It wasn’t until the first week in September 1929 that it was announced that rehearsals had begun for the new production, produced by Philip Goodman and starring Frank Morgan and Katherine Wilson.
Without the benefit of an out-of-town tryout, the play finally opened on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre (209 West 45th Street) on October 3, 1929, just three weeks before the stock market crash that began the great depression.
About the Venue: The Bijou Theatre was built in 1917. In 1935, it became New York's first all-cartoon cinema, beginning a rotating cycle during which the house alternated between legit and movie presentation (except when it was dark from 1937 to 1943). In 1959, the adjoining Astor was renovated and acquired a large chunk of the Bijou's space. It reopened as an art cinema in 1962. Intermittent legit productions followed until the theatre was demolished in 1982, making room for the Marriott Hotel.
“‘Among the Married’ is funny without straining for effort.” ~ DONALD MULHERN
"Things were said about the Vincent Lawrence comedy, ‘Among the Married,' for example, that led Mr. Lawrence to conclude that certain of the reviewers of his play were as sour as their comment and that they had done him and his opus wrong.” ~ BURNS MANTLE
On October 21, 1929, the play moved to the 49th Street Theatre
About Venue #2: The Shuberts built the 49th Street Theatre in 1921, but lost it during the Depression, when it was briefly rented by the Federal Theatre Project for three productions. In 1940, it was closed and reopened for a brief tenure as a movie house, Cinema 49. It was demolished in December 1940.
The play closed on November 9, 1929 after 44 performances.
A production quickly opened in Hollywood starring Florence Eldridge and Edward Everett Horton.
In 1931 a film version was released under the title of Men Call It Love starring Adolph Menjou and Leila Hyams. The supporting cast featured future gossip maven Hedda Hopper.
The film opened in Atlantic City at the Strand Theatre, across from Steel Pier, on March 27, 1931.
#Among The Married#Men Call it Love#1927#1929#Broadway Play#Broadway#Atlantic City#Apollo Theatre#Steel Pier#Frank Morgan#Edward Everett Horton#Philip Goodman#Katherine Wilson#Vincent Lawrence#Sam Harris
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Just because: airs on a concept
Let’s just say these have ... interesting lyrical variations on what seem like similar concepts. Up to a point, anyway.
Debra Monk, “Everybody’s Girl” (from the musical Steel Pier) (lyrics)
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Tori Amos, “Girl” (lyrics)
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Steel Pier Amusement Park at Atlantic City
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More EBay finds! This is from a show in 1971, in New Jersey. Robin missed a handful of shows around this time because he was in the hospital due to exhaustion. (We’ll never know the real story about that, but apparently he collapsed at a show in Maryland.)
#barry gibb#maurice gibb#bee gees#the bee gees#the brothers gibb#1971#new jersey steel pier#bee gees memorabilia#my collection
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Stile italiano
Pier Paolo Pitacco.Twenty years’ graphic design in italian fashion
a cura di Cristina Morozzi
foto di copertina Giovanni Gastel
Lupetti, Milano 2000,136 pagine, oltre 350 immagini a colori, 24.77 x 29.21 cm, ISBN 9788887058321
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Questo libro presenta alcuni progetti editoriali, di graphic design e di comunicazione realizzati in Italia con l'intento di capire e verificare la realtà dello "stile italiano".
Pier Paolo Pitacco vive e lavora a Parigi e Milano, dove è stato al centro, già dalla fine degli anni Settanta, dei più importanti avvenimenti editoriali connessi al successo dell’Italian Style. Responsabile della realizzazione artistica di “Uomo Vogue“ dal 1977 al 1979. E’ poi Direttore Artistico di “Elle Italia“ dal 1988 al 1999. Suoi sono i progetti di “Io Donna“, allegato del Corriere della Sera (1996), di “Cartier Art Magazine“(2002) di Vanity Fair Italia (2003), di “Elle Russia“(2007), di “Grazia France“ (2009). Per citare solo i principali.
Ha lavorato come consulente all’immagine delle maggiori aziende italiane e internazionali quali Italseta, Sant’Agostino, Lawrence Steele, interfacciandole con la pubblicità, la moda, il packaging e il corporate design e ha prodotto brochure aziendali per Missoni, Punch, Best Company, Outrage, Barba’s, Cassoli, Swatch, Zegna, Wella
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A sculpture titled 'The Skywheel (Modern Sundials stainless Steel sculpture)' by sculptor Piers Nicholson. In a medium of stainless steel.
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imagine if they brought n back to anipoke *cries*
#already so very grateful for newest anipoke for bringing cynthia lance and steven back TOGETHER#BUT IMAGINE IF THEY BROUGHT N HARMONIA BACK?!! I WOULD FAINT ON THE SPOT#thats the iron deficiency anemia speaking not me--#BUT IMAGINE! WHAT WE COULD HAVE!!#THEY SHOULD TOTALLY BRING N BACK. AND ALSO THE SINNOH ELITE FOUR#we got a tiny little flint appearance which! i am very grateful for#BUT LUCIAN?!! THE LAST TIME WE SAW HIM WAS LIKE. THAT ONE EPISODE IN DIAMOND AND PEARL ANIPOKE ;O;#hyouta too....roark the beloved. the way i cried real tears when i entered oreburgh for the first time in bdsp ;w;#OMG OMG OMG UNOVA ELITE FOUR!!!#GRIMSLEY. GRIM. GIIMA. GRI--#SHAUNTAL?!! I LOVE HER TOO PLS#sad we only got caitlin in best wishes... i love her so that was nice at least#BUT GRIMSLEY?!!!!! ID#im very passionate about any ghost psychic or dark type specialist. is that evident#lets see... lucian grimsley shauntal caitlin will sabrina bede marnie piers... yea h#but but but!!! there are exceptions! LIKE DAIGO WHOS A STEEL TYPE SPECIALIST#i love metagross bc steel and psychic type aka daigos favourite type and my favourite type <3 imsorry#ALSO ALSO WALLACE IS WATER TYPE SPECIALIST#LANCE IS A DRAGON TYPE SPECIALIST#LENORA IS NORMAL TYPE SPECIALIST#ELESA IS ELECTRIC TYPE. ROXIE IS POISON SPECIALIST#THE TRIPLETS ARE FIRE WATER GRASS#yea. yea yeah i have lots of faves#OHOHOH OHOH SUBMAS#im biased bc ingo has a chandelure aka my most favourite pokemon ever#and emmet has elektross one of my favourite gen v pokemon#ok rambling has gotten long again but pokemon is my passion#rambling about stuff#rambling about pokemon
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Inside the (deranged?) mind of a musical theater geek:
Bad - Mashing up two songs from the same show “My Shot” & “Yorktown” from Hamilton
Worse - Mashing up two songs from different but similar shows “My Shot” Hamilton & “Carnaval del Barrio” In the Heights
Worst - Mashing up two songs from completely different shows “Carnaval del Barrio” In the Heights & “Second Chance” Steel Pier
#theater geek#musical theater geek#get to know me?#had a discussion with someone about obscure shows#steel pier fits that#i've actually never seen it#i just know the soundtrack
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Boardwalk shenanigans 1999
"It was the summer after we got Nicky back. We took him to Steele Pier to celebrate. It was a good day. Nicky fell in love with a blue stuffed unicorn that I blew an entire night's worth of tips trying to win. Wyatt made a point out of buying a disposable camera, luckily I was able to get the film out of it before he flung it at a seagull out of anger." - Jared.
I could've sworn I already posted these but... I guess not???? Oh well.
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In Seattle, WA, door and window problems are often more than just cosmetic issues—they can be indicative of underlying foundation issues. At Seattle Foundation Repair, we specialize in providing comprehensive solutions to address these common problems and restore the functionality and aesthetics of your doors and windows.
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THE DAUNTLESS THREE / THE SPIDER
1920
The Dauntless Three (later known as The Spider) is a four act mystery play by Horace Annesley Vachell and Walter Hackett based on Vachell’s 1916 play Mr. Jubilee Drax. The original production was produced by the Shuberts and staged by William Devereaux starring Robert Warwick and featuring Estelle Winwood.
The story concerns an adventurer in search of a missing blue white diamond. A rich American hires him to find the diamond after it has been stolen from the safe of a South African mining company. The mining company employs a girl detective to look for it, and a company of desperate criminals also joins the search. Together they become known as The Dauntless Three. ln the meantime, the gem is safely hidden in the house of a Levantine merchant. The merchant sells the stone, kills the purchaser, resells the gem, again kills the purchaser. How and why the third purchaser remains untold.
The first act begins with the adventurer telling how the deed was accomplished and the second act takes us back to the actual accomplishment. From there we jump ahead four weeks, and then back two weeks.
The production’s main draw was the return to the stage of Robert Warwick after a five year absence. Warwick had been in Hollywood acting in films to great success. For this reason, ads for the play were careful to stipulate that Warwick was appearing “personally in the spoken drama”.
Robert Warwick (1878-1964) was born Robert Taylor Bien in Sacramento, California. A matinee idol during the Silent film era, he prospered with the introduction of sound to cinema thanks to a rich, resonant voice, evolving into a highly regarded character actor, accruing more than 200 screen appearances. He started acting on Broadway in 1903.
The play opened in Atlantic City at the Globe Theatre on the Boardwalk on October 21, 1920. It played a split week with Sonya, a play featuring Otto Krueger and Violet Hemming.
The usually generous Atlantic City critics were not enthusiastic, although they admired Warwick. From AC, the production went to the Adelphi in Philadelphia.
~ ATLANTIC CITY PRESS, November 18, 1920
“In his haste to quit the Klieg lights for the footlights, Warwick may have been unseemingly hurried... One dreads to consider what ‘The Dauntless Three’ would be without him or someone equally as able.” ~ EARLE DROSEY, THE WASHINGTON HERALD
Philadelphia and DC critics were no more generous than those on the Boardwalk. Undaunted (pardon the pun) the play trooped on to Baltimore and Brooklyn.
In an attempt to shed its poor reputation, in mid-November it was announced that the play would be known as The Spider.
“The name of Robert Warwick's play has been changed. It goes into New York as ‘The Spider,' but the identity of the spider is a puzzle. Does the title describe so unflatteringly the dashing young adventurer, or does it apply to the wily Levantine, who certainly sits in his web and waits for the unwary ones who become his prey? But he plays a comparatively unimportant role. Let them call it ‘The Dauntless Three' or 'The Spider,' however, and it will still remain rattling good melodrama.” ~ KATHERINE MCKINSEY, BALTIMORE SUN
But after Washington, the play called it quits, finally daunted by the negative reviews.
Robert Warwick returned to the screen, appearing in The Family Honor, which opened on December 22, 1920 at Atlantic City’s Criterion Theatre (later called The Strand) on the Boardwalk across from Steel Pier.
#Robert Warwick#The Dauntless Three#The Spider#Broadway Play#Broadway#Atlantic City#Globe Thetre#Criterion Theatre#Steel Pier#Boardwalk#Theatre#Play#Estelle Winwood#1920
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Enclosed Kitchen in Houston
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Carousel at Steel Pier, Atlantic City
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