MEMPHIS on Broadway

The cast of Memphis / photo by Kevin Berne

I saw the show Memphis starring Chad Kimball and Montego Glover today with my family and ... what can I say? In select words: An explosive, emotional, alive, and referential period musical. We sat in the front row (my first time for a Broadway show) and it was an entirely different experience -- seeing and hearing the performers' chests rise and fall thunderously from exertion, being close enough to touch each other (and definitely close enough to be inadvertently spit on) forms a whole other level of connection with the characters and devotion to the storyline. The show delivered all the razzle dazzle promised by a 44th Street address. Memphis reacquainted me with the magic of Broadway, and reminded me how much I love live shows. I want to see more shows now!

J. Bernard Calloway as Delray Jones and Montego Glover as Felicia Farrell in Memphis.

I can confidently say it's my favorite musical-type show I've seen on Broadway up until now. It made me wish I were a performer like them. Highly recommended, see Memphis if you can!

 Chad Kimball as Huey Calhoun and Montego Glover as Felicia Farrell in Memphis

 

Chad Kimball as Huey Calhoun in Memphis.

 James Monroe Iglehart as Bobby and cast in Memphis.

Animal

I'm obsessed with this song right now. How have I never heard this before? I feel weird. Am I obsessed with music? And fashion? I also don't want to listen to more songs by Miike Snow because what if they're not as good as this song?

There was a time when my world was filled with darkness, darkness, darkness

And I stopped dreaming now I'm supposed to fill it up with something, something , something

In your eyes I see the eyes of somebody I knew before long long long ago

But I'm still trying to make my mind up

Am I free or am I tied up

I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still, I'm still an animal

Nobody knows it but me when I slip yeah I slip

I'm still an animal

There is a hole and I tried to fill it up with money, money , money

But it gets bigger to your hopes is always

Running, running, running

In your eyes I see the eyes of somebody who could be strong

Tell me if I'm wrong

And now I'm pulling your disguise up

Or you free or are you tied up

I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still I'm still an animal

Nobody knows it but me when I slip

I'm still an animal

I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still I'm still an animal

Nobody knows it but me when I slip yeah I slip

I'm still an animal

I change shapes just to hide in this place but I'm still I'm still an animal

Nobody knows it but me when I slip yeah I slip

I'm still an animal x2

Comment on the Youtube video link:

loafie622 (22 hours ago) 

he looks like the love child of Jared Leto and Jesus

Avatar

I hated the trailer when I saw it this summer.

Yes, some of it was cliche (I guess a lot of it? Imperialism, love, bad guys, flying) but the way it was presented was just mind-blowing.

Mind. Blowing.

It was absolutely breathtaking and I'm still working through how I actually feel about the film. It's that glowing feeling you have when you have a crush on someone, except in this case the someone is the feeling of escapism and faith. I'm in love.

Georgina, don't make fun of me if you go see this movie and you don't like it as much as me. I am the one, after all, who made avatars on Second Life for her machinima class.

Ahhhh it was genius! The fact that it was digitally made is completely consistent with the fantasy of digital avatars--Pandora is simultaneously reality and imagined, and for someone with an incredibly impressionable mind like me, I am completely dazzled by its ability to rest as a real place in my imagination. I can't get my thoughts out clearly, but I just want to say that Cameron is a master of making audiences emote.

Oh, and the Sigourney Weaver part was perfect. She basically had to be in this film as the culmination (?) of her career in sci-fi with the director.

Ok I'm going to go see it again like 5 times before I go back to Hanover, which is basically the opposite of Pandora. Ughhhhhhhh I am writing like a 4th grader right now. Signing off,

Fay

La Roux x2

It's a different song than last time, but same hauntingly good lyrics and voice and sound.

HOLY SHEET

OMG HOW HAVE I NOT HEARD OF THIS UNTIL NOW??
WHY HAVEN'T MY GEEKIER FRIENDS TOLD ME YET??

Reader response to Fay's post/comment:
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From: Friend
Date: 19 Jun 2009 15:35:30 -0400
Subject: Re: styles section online
To: Georgina

also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACt9R9z37U

someone on my team is working on this

speaking of wall-e...

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