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Apr. 23rd, 2012 06:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disneydream06It was a weekend of theater for me.
Saturday was the stage play High.
I was playing at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis. The Pantages is one of the old theaters that they have reclaimed from ruin. It is really beautiful inside. http://hennepintheatretrust.org/our-theatres/pantages-theatre
The show, High, is out on tour after failing on Broadway. It stars Kathleen Turner as a nun who is forced by her priest to try and help a kid get clean from drugs. The nun is a former/some times still alcoholic who talks like a sailor. lol... She doesn't want to take on this case because she is pretty sure that it's a hopeless one and she jokes(I think) that she doesn't want to ruin her track record.
Throughout the show a lot of truths come out. The boy is actually the nephew of the priest. The nun when a young girl had invited a boy over to her house when her parents were away. He must have drugged her and then went upstairs raped and killed her younger sister. The priest ignored his drug addict sister's call for help shortly before she died. The boy had actually killed the younger boy that was found with him in a hotel room, so he wouldn't leave him.
It was an extremely powerful play. It's sad that the audience was so small and that it failed on Broardway.
If it happens to come to a city/theater near you I highly recommend seeing it.
For a critic, and this is really petty, the actor playing the priest had the theater problem that I have, What to do with your hands. He had a bad case of it and it was quite distracting.
I am so glad I went to see it.
Sunday it was movie theater night and I went to see Chimpanzee.
Chimpanzee is the newest film by Disneynature for Earth Day.
It's the story of a baby chimp, Oscar. May I say ADORABLE. :)
Oscar and his family are living a nice life until a rival group of chimpanzees enters their territory and attack them. Oscar's mother is seperated from Oscar and injured. As night falls his mother is killed by a leapord.
Oscar tries to find a new mother within the family but they all have children of their own. He can't find food or groom himself. Then starts to follow the male leader of the family around copying his actions and one day the leader takes Oscar into his care. It's apparently an unheard of act for a dominant male. With so much of his attention on Oscar the leader neglects watching the boundries of his territory and the rival family comes back again. Oscar's family has no room to run this time and must fight back. They are able to turn back the rival family and life is good.
The movie is BEAUTIFULLY filmed.
And because I went to the movie on opening weekend, Disney is donating a dollar to a chimpanzee relief fund. :)
Saturday was the stage play High.
I was playing at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis. The Pantages is one of the old theaters that they have reclaimed from ruin. It is really beautiful inside. http://hennepintheatretrust.org/our-theatres/pantages-theatre
The show, High, is out on tour after failing on Broadway. It stars Kathleen Turner as a nun who is forced by her priest to try and help a kid get clean from drugs. The nun is a former/some times still alcoholic who talks like a sailor. lol... She doesn't want to take on this case because she is pretty sure that it's a hopeless one and she jokes(I think) that she doesn't want to ruin her track record.
Throughout the show a lot of truths come out. The boy is actually the nephew of the priest. The nun when a young girl had invited a boy over to her house when her parents were away. He must have drugged her and then went upstairs raped and killed her younger sister. The priest ignored his drug addict sister's call for help shortly before she died. The boy had actually killed the younger boy that was found with him in a hotel room, so he wouldn't leave him.
It was an extremely powerful play. It's sad that the audience was so small and that it failed on Broardway.
If it happens to come to a city/theater near you I highly recommend seeing it.
For a critic, and this is really petty, the actor playing the priest had the theater problem that I have, What to do with your hands. He had a bad case of it and it was quite distracting.
I am so glad I went to see it.
Sunday it was movie theater night and I went to see Chimpanzee.
Chimpanzee is the newest film by Disneynature for Earth Day.
It's the story of a baby chimp, Oscar. May I say ADORABLE. :)
Oscar and his family are living a nice life until a rival group of chimpanzees enters their territory and attack them. Oscar's mother is seperated from Oscar and injured. As night falls his mother is killed by a leapord.
Oscar tries to find a new mother within the family but they all have children of their own. He can't find food or groom himself. Then starts to follow the male leader of the family around copying his actions and one day the leader takes Oscar into his care. It's apparently an unheard of act for a dominant male. With so much of his attention on Oscar the leader neglects watching the boundries of his territory and the rival family comes back again. Oscar's family has no room to run this time and must fight back. They are able to turn back the rival family and life is good.
The movie is BEAUTIFULLY filmed.
And because I went to the movie on opening weekend, Disney is donating a dollar to a chimpanzee relief fund. :)
