tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post3616363834728251709..comments2024-03-23T10:31:52.756-04:00Comments on Rick On Theater: Penny Arcade: Two PerformancesRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-50832898322903232732022-01-23T13:12:35.940-05:002022-01-23T13:12:35.940-05:00Rosalia!
It's been so long since we've be...Rosalia!<br /><br />It's been so long since we've been in touch that I assumed you'd moved, changed your e-mail, or just ghosted me. I'm glad to hear from you.<br /><br />You may know that I've posted many, many articles on Leo and his work on this blog. Most recently, in the face of closed theaters or my reluctance to go back after the so-called reopening, I posted "reconstructions" of two Shaliko productions.<br /><br />I published "'Punch!' (Shaliko Company, 1987)" on 4 Sept. 2021, and "'Children of the Gods': Launching The Shaliko Company (1973)" on 19 Nov. Other, older posts go back to the very beginning of ROT (which, as of this morning, has 999 posts).<br /><br />I'm not even including the post in which Leo gets a passing mention! There are probably hundreds of those. If you use Blogger's own search engine for "Shapiro," you'd come up with an unmanageable number of hits!<br /><br />It's great to hear you're still in the same area. If you let me know how to get back in touch, I'd love to contact you again. (I'm at the same e-mail address, or you can leave a contact address here and I'll delete it after I get it so it won't sit around for public access.)<br /><br />~Rick<br /> Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-39582636292382628312022-01-20T21:25:47.143-05:002022-01-20T21:25:47.143-05:00Hi, Rick! I just wrote a long piece about my &quo...Hi, Rick! I just wrote a long piece about my "relationship" (?) with Leo. And then remembered being in La Miseria a year earlier than Blue Heaven! And THEN found this! Anyway, hi from NM!Rosalia Trianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537673964523335680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-18636123997142263592013-11-20T15:21:53.811-05:002013-11-20T15:21:53.811-05:00Kit F--
Actually, I'd heard about the availab...Kit F--<br /><br />Actually, I'd heard about the availability and am planning ot come in to look at the collection soon, probably next month. (I've been working with a Columbia U. professor who's doing her own research on a related topic that overlaps Shapiro and Shaliko, and she told me that the papers were finally available.)<br /><br />Thanks for the acknowledgement and the compliment. I didn't know Leo intimately, but I may know more about his overall career (and some of his life as well) than any living person. (I certainly have more documents in one place--my apartment, as it happens--than anyone except, now, the Billy Rose Archive. I'll bet, though, that I have some things you don't! I have a few pieces I suspect Leo didn't know are extant.)<br /><br />I hope to meet you one of these days soon. I look forward to viewing the papers.<br /><br />~RickRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-77892504274328618182013-11-19T15:19:22.831-05:002013-11-19T15:19:22.831-05:00Hello! Sorry for the off-topic comment. I'm th...Hello! Sorry for the off-topic comment. I'm the NYPL archivist who was assigned to work on the Leonardo Shapiro papers. First, I wanted to thank you -- your articles and blog entries on Shapiro were tremendously helpful to me in contextualizing the materials, and creating the finding aid for the collection.<br /><br />It's my pleasure to inform you that the papers are open to researchers. The finding aid is linked through my name. I hope you're able to come see the collection before too long!Kit F.http://archives.nypl.org/the/22395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5641398182926491003.post-65121658411650458532013-11-15T11:49:00.811-05:002013-11-15T11:49:00.811-05:00On 10 November 2013, Penny Arcade opened in an Off...On 10 November 2013, Penny Arcade opened in an Off-Broadway revival of the Tennessee Williams one-act play 'The Mutilated.' It's the performance artist's first effort as a traditional stage actress and she shares the stage with another unconventional performer, Mink Stole who appeared in John Waters's films. In his review of her legit stage début, the New York Times' Charles Isherwood wrote that Arcade portrays her role, Celeste, "with blazing vitality and a kind of childish glee," and that she and Stole "inhabit the scarred souls of their contrasting characters with an intuitive confidence, bringing these comic grotesques to scabrously funny life." Arcade gives a "big, bold performance" which "radiates a lusty hunger that perfectly captures the character’s essence" in the "boisterous" and "scrappy" revival of a play that flopped on Broadway in 1966 (as part of a two-play bill called 'Slapstick Tragedy'). 'The Mutilated' "casts a spell" at the New Ohio Theatre until 1 December, having been extend a week from its original, short run. <br /><br />~RickRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164037407475532693noreply@blogger.com