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The Magic has cast goose outlet canada its spell on the bottomline. San Francisco Magic Theatre announced today that it had raised $450,000 in its emergency fundraising campaign, that $100,000 more than its goal and more than enough to keep the beloved new works theater open for its 43rd season. The ensemble famous as the one time home of great American playwright Sam Shepard has struggled in recent years to keep its quality high and its budgets balanced but seems buoyed by the efforts of newartistic director Loretto Greco. On the heels of Shakespeare Santa Cruz successful fundraiser rescue, this is heartening news for theater lovers still reeling from canada goose coats on sale the fact that AMT went bankrupt after 73 years. Another bright spot: negotiations are under way to keep bringing Broadway to San canadian goose jacket Jose.
Dubya exits stage right. SNL alum Will Ferrell bids a canada goose black friday sale fond farewell to his top notch George W. Bush impersonation in his beyond silly solo show Welcome America. A Final Canada Goose Parka Night With George W Bush on Broadway. Almost as funny as Tina Fey Palin imitation, especially if you remember that whole bit about the kitten with the ball of string, Ferrell Dubya routine shows a gravitas that some of his projects ( Brothers anyone?) lack.
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Welcome America. A Final Night With George W Bush opens on Inauguration Day and runs through March 15 at the Cort Theater. Vote early, vote often.
SF Magic Theatre hasn lost its powers. At least not yet. The 42 year old troupe famousas Canada Goose online the one time home ofgreat American playwright Sam Shepard is well on its way towards meeting its emergency fundraising canada goose outlet jackets goal. The new works company announced that it had to raise $350,000 by today or canada goose outlet black friday close its doors. As of Friday,the company had racked up $293,820 and extended its deadline to Monday to make the most of an anonymous challenge grant. The donor promises to double any contributions up to $100,000 that come in now through Monday Jan. 12. Now that enchanting news indeed.
the Heights is still soaring! Despite the doom and gloom clouding the fate of Broadway, not to mention the rest of the economy, producers of the Heights are announcing ab fab news at the box office. Producers of thetuner say they recouped their initial $10 million only 11 months afterthe showbegan previews. In Canada Goose sale the week ending Dec. 28, according to a press release, the musicalhad its best week ever and broke the canada goose outlet toronto factory house record at the Richard Rodgers canada goose outlet Theatre, earning $1.2 million. Set inupper Manhattan, the musical is famous not only for its vibrant depiction of the pulse of life in Washington Heights, but also for helping change the all too homogenous view of America spotlighted on the Great White Way.
In the Capraesque spirit of looking back on last year in search ofbright spots amid the gloom, kudos are in order for Berkeley Rep. This canada goose outlet news just in from our friends at the theater,who are understandably proud of theraves they racked up last year. First off, Mary Zimmerman dulcet fairytale Arabian Nights has sold out and can be extended because theproduction has to hit the road forChicago and other parts east. Secondly, Strange continues to drawacclaim to the adventurous East Bay troupe. The New York Times ranked it in its top 10 for last year andSpike Lees film of the tuner is slated to debut at theSundance Film Festival next Friday, January 16. Attaboy!
WIG OUT! Dahlings, I have huge news in this business we call show. John Cameron Mitchell, the genius behind the glam rock diva drag icon Hedwig, as Canada Goose Coats On Sale in and https://www.londonbc.co.uk the Angry Inch, as in the coolest alt rock musical ever, a show that makes look like She Wrote in the hipness department, is coming to San Francisco for V day weekend for of Love at the Mission Victoria Theatre (home of the kickass 2003 production of JCM very rarely performs the Hedwig score anymore so this is great news for all of us Hedwig heads for whom that tuner remains a mind altering drug capable of inducing euphoria through any iteration. Live on stage. Movie on DVD. CD. No matter. Me, I take my Hedwig fix any way I can get it. Sigh.
Ah, 2008, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Seriously. This is one year when that Dickens lineactually qualifies as anunderstatement. On the upside, Shakespeare Santa Cruz declared victory in its emergency fundraising campaign to save the theater. On the downside, the American Musical Theater of San Jose lost its canada goose outlet battle to keep the theater alive and now San Francisco Magic Theatre is also on the rocks. In times like these, it easy to forget that art isn about number crunching and dialing for dollars. Art is about magic. It about transcendingthe mundane drudgery ofeveryday realityand achieving something pure, something beautiful. On that note, here are some of mytop theater experiencesfor 2008. It not a top 10, because theater (like life) just isn that orderly, and it deeply subjective (so please, no letters). For the record, these plays weren perfect (what is?) but all of themrang out in my memory long after the curtain dropped. Cheers.
It canada goose outlet uk sale deja vu all over again at the Magic Theatre. Fast on the heels of a successful emergency fundraising campaign at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, which raised $416,000 in one week, San Francisco Magic, which is dedicated togiving birth canada goose black friday sale to new plays,is launching a campaign of its own.Theater officialssay theymust raise $350,000 canada goose outlet uk by January 9 or the show won go on. Once the creative home of iconic American playwrights canada goose clearance sale such asSam Shepard, thecompany canada goose outlet store has struggled with finances and artistic quality in recent years. Theater staffers notethey are also cutting the organization $2 million budget down to $1.7 million in the hopes of saving the company.