Golden Guest Stars At MOMI

If you are a muppet fan, and have not been to any of the monthly screenings at The Museum Of The Moving Image, you need to get over whatever obstacles have kept you away, and get to Astoria. Craig Shemin, President of The Jim Henson Legacy, and his lovely wife Stephanie D'Abruzzo put together really rare and wonderful clips which are so exciting to see on the big screen. Today's screening features Oscar winners and nominees who appeared on The Muppet Show, including Liza Minnelli. Now, I really doubt that they will play the entire episode in which she appeared (a film noir parody in which muppets drop to their deaths like so many flocked flies) but I will gleefully and greedily consume whatever they exhibit.

Proceed From Joy

"Be splendid tonight, be focused, have fun, make theater: That's our way of repudiating the bullies, the killjoys, the busybodies and blowhards. We know the secret of making art, while they only know the minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy, they only have their misery." - from Tony Kushner to the staff of the Charlotte Rep, facing possible closure of their production of Angels in America in North Carolina (and as excerpted from The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent Of Angels In America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Cathy Dresden is a "Midtown Moment"

 Was excited to be a "Midtown Moment" with the incredibly charismatic Carolyn Fox, discussing the upcoming March 24th performance of Cathy Dresden: An Old Fashioned Girl at Pangea in the East Village. Tickets available here https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3339050