Molly’s Girls
Fed up with trying to score a male companion at a singles night event, Molly rolls up to a bar and stumbles upon gay marriage activist Mercedes, who was recently dumped. DVD short.
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Narrated by Joel Grey, showcases legends such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim. DVD short.
Les Misérables
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, and Russell Crowe star in this adaptation of the epic musical phenomenon. DVD short.
Parental Guidance
Old-school grandparents Artie (Billy Crystal) and Diane (Bette Midler) get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-A daughter’s (Marisa Tomei) overprotected kids. DVD short.
‘Mystery’ Solved
An interview with singer/ songwriter Spencer Day about his new disc The Mystery of You, a powerful and accessible song cycle about love and loss.
Houston Area Events — May
Film • Performing Arts • Art/Photography • Galas & Parties • Radio • And Other Things • Save the Date • Ongoing • HIV Testing. Plus Hot Ticket at Theater Suburbia.
Vicious & Delicious
There are loud, politically provocative comedians, and then there’s this comedian. When it comes to pushing the envelope of political correctness in America, it doesn’t get much more vicious (or delicious) than Lisa Lampanelli.
Spamalot
In last year’s Broadway Bares/Equity Fights AIDS calendar, Spamalot star Michaeljon Slinger stripped down to just a red velvet ribbon tied in a bow, displaying the chiseled physique he’s earned since beginning his dance training at age five in Queensland, Australia.
Holocaust Day of Remembrance
A few films worth viewing to honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commences on the evening of April 7.
The ‘Trocks’
For more than thirty years Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has been giving serious balletomanes heartburn, bringing dance masterworks to the brink of travesty, performing “en travesti” and on pointe. This all-male troupe, having toured five hundred cities, claims Houston as a favorite destination.
