PAST SHOWS/WORKSHOPS

ABOUT THE SHOW:

The Drowsy Chaperone recently was produced on Broadway, where it won Tony awards for Best Book and Best Score, and is a loving tribute as well as a hilarious satire of Broadway musicals from the jazz age. The show was written by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and debuted on Broadway in 2006, where it showcased the talents of Sutton Foster, Georgette Engel, and Joanne Worley during its two-year run. The play is narrated by the "Man in Chair," a mousy Broadway fanatic who is seeking to cure the blues by listening to a recording of a fictional 1928 musical called The Drowsy Chaperone. As he listens to the recording, he transports the audience into the musical, as the characters appear in his dingy apartment, which is gradually transformed into a lavish twenties Broadway set. The play within a play tells the story of a showgirl planning her wedding to a dashing oil tycoon, and features all the elements of a typical Broadway show, including a ditzy blonde, dancing gangsters, a wacky producer, a Latin lothario, and the Drowsy Chaperone, an over-the-top nightmarish cross between Liza Minelli and Ethel Merman.

Explore a process in which you tap into your creative subconscious. Guided by demonstrations, prepare and complete two paintings, with a 30–minute group discussion at the end of the course. We will be using acrylic paint on wood panels.

From this class, one piece you produce will be included in the gallery exhibition, Spectrum, on view at UFORGE Gallery during the month of July 2012.

This class takes place at UFORGE Gallery, 767 Centre St, Jamaica Plain

Exhibition - Spectrum | July 2012

This assignment will challenge you to make use of the colors of the spectrum, the range of colors observed when light is dispersed through a prism. Your challenge as a participating artist is to choose your subject matter while using these colors; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet (ROY G BIV) through 2D (painting, photography, graphic or assemblage) or 3D (sculpture). Find your inspiration at the end of a rainbow.

4 Wednesdays, 7–9:30pm, May 30–June 20, 2012

$170 plus $35 gallery fee payable in class. Register at www.eliotschool.org

Come see the Footlight Club's upcoming production of Andrew Lippa's, "Wild Party" beginning Friday, March 30th.

ABOUT THE SHOW:

Music, Lyrics and Book by Andrew Lippa
Based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March
Directed & Choreographed by Chad Flahive
Musical Directon by Mario Cruz

Adapted from a book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties, Andrew Lippa's WILD PARTY tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie and Burrs, a vaudeville dancer and a vaudeville clown. In a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness (mirroring the time in which they live), they decide to throw a party to end all parties.

As the guests arrive, we meet an assortment of people living on the edge. Queenie and Burrs set out to make each other jealous, but Queenie begins to fall in love with her conquest named Black. After a long night of decadence, Burrs' jealousy erupts and he comes to a violent end at Black's hand. In the stark light of a new day, Queenie moves out into a brighter world, although not necessarily a brighter future, leaving the passed-out revelers in her wake.

Tickets are on sale now! www.footlight.org

On view: March 1-25

Gallery Hours: Thursday/Friday, 5-8pm & Saturday/Sunday, 10am-7pm or by appointment, 617-553-4480