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posted Friday, October 24, 2008 - Volume 36 Issue 43

Arts and Entertainment
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Richard Vida speaks about Drowsy Chaperone
by Miryam Gordon - SGN A&E Writer

Richard Vida is an enthusiastic supporter of The Drowsy Chaperone, where he plays a tap-dancing best man, calling it, "two hours of nonstop laughing." The Drowsy Chaperone dances into the 5th Avenue Theater, October 29-November 16. It's a musical within a play story, about a man who puts on a certain record, when he's down, of hi more

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The Moon Is a Dead World is so alive at Annex
by Miryam Gordon - SGN A&E Writer

The Moon Is a Dead World
Directed by Christopher Comte
Annex Theatre
Through November 15

The Moon Is A Dead World, currently at The Annex Theatre, is Mike Daisey's first full-length scripted play which he does not star in. Not knowing what kind more
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Momix: The Cirque du Soleil of dance
by Rod Parke - SGN A&E Writer

MOMIX
October 17
Meany Hall

So astonishing were the images of nearly all of the pieces by Momix that anyone of any age was apt to be entranced. This program last week filled Meany Hall for three nights, and I doubt that anyone left unsatisfied.

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Treat yourself to early holiday shopping

by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid - SGN A&E Writer

Seattle Weaver's Guild Show and Sale
St. Mark's Cathedral
October 23-25

Last year, and for the last several years, making a visit to the North end of Broadway to attend the annual Weaver's Guild Show and Sale has been the one constant through g more
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See future opera greats before they're famous
by Rod Parke - SGN Contributing Writer

District and Regional Metropolitan Opera Auditions
Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, January 25
Nordstrom Recital Hall and Meany Theater

For the biggest bang for your operatic buck, you can't do better than these competitions to win the coveted f more
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MUSIC LOUNGE

Red, white and tattooed Against Me! rocker, Tom Gabel talks war, playing at Gay weddings for booze
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BITS & BYTES

Taproot scores with rare Susan & God, Seattle Opera opens Electra
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OUTBOUND

Vancouver must-dos during Madonna mania
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WHERE IT'S AT

Madonna faithful head North for sticky, sweet fun
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MOVIE REVIEWS

Great performances save Oliver Stone's uneven W.
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Lame Tru Loved gets points for effort
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SLGFF's final weekend
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Giddy Happy-Go-Lucky an ebullient smash
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German impressionism with feeling
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INSIDE HOLLYWOOD

Deep Inside Hollywood
Broadway's Blithe Spirit Summons Everett
He's skillfully managed the words of Oscar Wilde in several films, and now out actor Rupert Everett will take on that other great Gay Brit wit, Noel Coward. Everett has been cast in the lead role of the Broadway revival of Coward's classic comedy Blithe Spirit. In this hilarious look a more

BOOK MARKS

Book Marks
by Richard Labonte - SGN Contributing Writer

The 19th Wife
by David Ebershoff
(Random House, $26)

The murky history of the Mormons and the abusive reality of polygamy's dark past and its outlaw present constitute the primary storyline of this compelling collage of a novel. But a pow more
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Why do audiences love - and critics hate - Lang Lang?
by Rod Parke - SGN A&E Writer

Pianist Lang Lang
with the Seattle Symphony
October 14
Benaroya Hall

Why is Lang Lang so controversial? Many critics really dislike his playing, yet audiences, like Seattle's, almost invariably love him. What I'm going to suggest might just be as contro more
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2008 Earshot Jazz Festival takes off for its 20th year
by E. Joyce Glasgow - SGN A&E Writer

Earshot Jazz Festival
Various Venues in Seattle, Kirkland, Bellevue and Bothell
Through November 9

The 20th annual Earshot Jazz Festival kicked off its first week on Saturday, October 18, with performances at the Triple Door by the Roosevelt High Sc more
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