p.s. your cat is dead!

Wonderful adaption of James Kirkwoods novel/play 

By IMDB-thepetshopboy 

17.07.2002 

Just saw a screening of this at Outfest. Despite it being based on one of my favorite novels (Kirkwood also wrote A Chorus Line) I was a bit disturbed to see 80's cheeseball actor Steve Guttenberg (he of Police Academy fame) as the director and star. Let me be the first to say I was pleasantly surprised. Not only was the film wonderful but Guttenberg's against type portrayal of a down-on-his luck actor who begins to doubt his heterosexuality in the face of tragedy managed to completely make me reevaluate his acting prowess. His hissy fit in the scene where he finds out his girlfriend is leaving him for another man is absolutely hilarious as are his comic interactions with his burglar/prisoner (Lombardo Boyar) which are both touching and funny. All in all a very good adaption of a very good book...one of the better independent films of the year from Steve Guttenberg of all people...who would have thought it? Howard Stern fans keep on the lookout for one-time Howard sidekick/E! Scandals host/NY Gossip Columnist AJ Benza in a over-the-top turn as a gay hairdresser who tries to rape Guttenberg...LOL... hilarious!

 

 

VIDEO - P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD! - 2002 - 9/10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245341/

el rey que rabió, ruperto chapí

Madrid. Teatro de la Zarzuela. 

 3-VI-2021 Chapí. 

El rey que rabió. Enrique Ferrer, Rocío Ignacio, María José Suárez, Rubén Amoretti, José Manuel Zapata, Carlos Cosías, Igor Peral, José Julián Frontal, Sandro Cordero, Pep Molina, Ruth González Mesa, Alberto Frías, Antonio Buendía. Coro Titular del Teatro de la Zarzuela. Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid. Director musical: Iván López Reynoso. Directora de escena: Bárbara Lluch y con Juan Guillermo Nova para la escenografia.

 

 

VIDEO - EL REY QUE RABIÓ - 2021 - 9/10 - Teatro de la Zarzuela

de la gran via al paral.lel

Homenatge al Paral•lel i al Mestre Juan de la Prada 

 Durant la temporada de reposició de Cómeme el Coco, Negro al Teatre Coliseum de Barcelona vam organitzar un homenatge al Paral•lel i al Mestre de la Prada que portava per subtítol De la Gran Via al Paral•lel. Perquè ho vam fer? El motiu és ben senzill: els ho devíem a tots dos. Per una banda el Mestre Juan de la Prada és l’autor de la majoria de cançons del “Coco”, i justament havia mort uns dies abans d’estrenar-se la versió anglesa de Cómeme el Coco, Negro (Nuts Coco Nuts) al Festival d’Edinburgh, on moltes de les seves cançons havien estat traduïdes a l’anglès. Per altra banda, quan La Cubana va crear l’espectacle l’any 1989, ho havia fet inspirant-se en el Paral•lel i en tota la gent del món de les varietats que en aquells moments encara existia a Barcelona. Després de dinou anys, quan la companyia celebrava el seu vint-i-cinquè aniversari amb la reposició de Cómeme el Coco, Negro es troba que el Mestre de la Prada ja no hi és i que el gènere teatral que havia servit de font d’inspiració també havia desaparegut: havia desaparegut del Paral•lel i de tota la ciutat al gener del 1996, sense fer quasi soroll i sense poder-lo acomiadar com cal. Va ser tot un èxit: Es va fer un acte molt festiu i emotiu, però gens nostàlgic. Es van repartir 2.000 invitacions, de les quals 1.300 es van donar a les primeres persones que van anar a fer cua aquell mateix dia a les taquilles del Teatre Coliseum de la Gran Via de Barcelona. Aprofitant l’escenografia del “Coco” es va muntar un espectacle especial, on a part dels components de La Cubana d’aquell moment, hi van participar artistes del Paral•lel de totes les èpoques i amants del gènere, com ara: Lita Claver “La Maña”, Pirondello, Merche Mar, Israel, Doña Soledad (Josep Ferré), Pastora Reyes, Amparo Moreno, Annabel Totusaus, Toni Torres, Pierrot, Lidia Moreno, Núria Feliu, Eva Sorel, Ondina, Christine, Carmen de Mairena, Regina do Santos i Sara Montiel, que van interpretar cançons del Mestre Juan de la Prada majoritàriament.

 

TV - DE LA GRAN VIA AL PARAL.LEL - 2008 - 10/10 - TV3 - La Cubana & amics.

mary lou, season 1 (Tamid oto chalom)

If Glee and Abba Had A Love Child.... 

 By IMDB-lynnfriedman 

 02/06/2012 

 The love child of Glee & Abba is living in Israel and her name is Mary Lou. This film is a wonderful romp with great music on the inside, serious messages on the inside. Mary Lou was originally created as an award winning four part Israeli television series in 2010. If you are one of those people who get catchy songs stuck in your head, consider yourself warned. This musical tells the story of young Meir Levi who shares his mom Miriam's love of the Israeli rock star Svika Pick. Pick even makes a cameo appearance in one scene. His music has an infectious 70′s beat with raw emotions and a touch of the exotic thanks to the melodic Hebrew lyrics. With Miriam singing Pick's tunes my mind drifted off to a parallel universe with Doris Day singing Kurt Cobain's depressingly raw lyrics with her signature sunny disposition. Meir and his mother Miriam are living a hum drum life in rural Israel. The opening scene has them dusting in matching head scarfs, our first hint that this young boy might grow up to bat for the other team. My favorite quote from the film is spoken by Miriam as she explains that "it's easier to defeat dust than sadness." Mom mysteriously leaves town during Meir's tenth birthday party. As a slightly built bleached blond teen of flamboyantly non-hetero appearance, Meir suffers through the stereotypical high school taunting. If you have watched enough Glee you already know that the worst tormentors are acting out of fear of their own sexual identity issues. Meir's beautiful gal pal Shuli makes life worth living as his trusted confidant and protector. (Shuli is played by Dana Frider, who was discovered on the Israeli version of "So You Think You Can Dance.") Enter Gabriel, the impossibly handsome dark skinned love interest of both Meir and Shuli. Shuli forms a relationship with Gabi and the heartbroken Meir moves to the big city of Tel Aviv. His quest is to find the famous Svika Pick, whom he has woven an elaborate fantasy involving his mother having run off to sing in Pick's band. Along this journey he is befriended by Ori who introduces him to the world of drag performing. Meir eventually becomes a cast member of "The Holly Wigs" and transforms himself into "Mary Lou", a character in one of his mother's favorite Svika Pick songs. Meir and his friends learn universal coming of age lessons and all arrive at their own version of adulthood by the end of the film. You also get to find out what happened to Miriam. Get to know Mary Lou, you'll be blown away.

 

 

VIDEO - MARY LOU, Season 1 (Tamid oto chalom) - 2009 - 9/10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1852598/