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An Evening with composer/lyricist Adam Gwon

featuring Sarah Lark, Christopher Ragland, the London cast of Ordinary Days

and Stanley Bahorek

St.Paul's Knightsbridge

Saturday, November 1st

8:00 pm

for tickets click here

more info click here

SEEKING: Vice President (skills needed; ability to reinvigorate the KKK base of voters, general rebel rousing - with emphasis on jingoism)

"Ms. Palin, in particular, revels in the attack. Her campaign rallies have become spectacles of anger and insult. Obama, she says, “sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” Her demagoguery has elicited some frightening, intolerable responses. A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled “kill him!” as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 8th, 2008
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08wed1.html)

Really? Who was it that recently encouraged people to shout epithets at black people and incited people to the point of homicide? I can't remember. Was it William Joseph Simmons?

Or is that included in the job description for the Vice President of the United States?

Remember Magic Eye?

If you stare at this VEN DIAGRAM image, --->
and sort of relax your eyes... let them cross a little bit. Slowly bring your nose away from your computer screen...
And you will see THE TRUTH in the middle.
...Or maybe you will see a ship...or an old lady.

Look.

There are many opinions.
Two sides to many things.
Many perspectives.
There are two major parties.

Sometimes it is about right and wrong.

But often it is about seeing through the spin,
and the two-sidedness,
and seeing the middle of the ven diagram.
Compromise in the midst of crisis.


Couldn't we all try to agree on the good,
logical, ethical, sensible truth
at the core of most anything?

"We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination."

-BARACK OBAMA


Barack Obama believes in that. And I believe in that.
I want a leader who speaks about underlying truths and understands them.
Therefore, I believe Barack Obama is a great choice for President.

What does David Mamet have to say...?

"Politics is, in effect, a more strictly structured drama than most of those found upon the stage...Politics sticks closer to traditional drama than does The Stage itself. A problem is stated, the play begins, the hero (candidate) offers herself as the protagonist who will find a solution, and an audience gives its attention. Like the more traditional drama, the problem is politics is notably imaginary - that is, something which either does not in fact exist or that cannot be erradicated by political action (homosexuals will continue their sexual practices in spite of legislation - just as hetero sexuals always have). ... And legitimate political concerns - the environment, health care - go begging for an audience because they are not dramatic." - David Mamet (excerpt from Three Uses of the Knife, 1998)

FRANK RICH titles article with word COINED BY COLBERT

"Truthiness Stages a Comeback" NEW YORK TIMES Sunday Sept.21, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

"If you doubt that the big lies are sticking, look at the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll. Half of voters now believe in the daily McCain refrain that Obama will raise their taxes. In fact, Obama proposes raising taxes only on the 1.9 percent of households that make more than $250,000 a year and cutting them for nearly everyone else..."

"The twin-pronged strategy of truculence and propaganda that sold Bush and his war could yet work for McCain. Even now his campaign has kept the “filter” from learning the very basics about his fitness to serve as president — his finances and his health. The McCain multihousehold’s multimillion-dollar mother lode is buried in Cindy McCain’s still-unreleased complete tax returns. John McCain’s full medical records, our sole index to the odds of an imminent Palin presidency, also remain locked away. The McCain campaign instead invited 20 chosen reporters to speed-read through 1,173 pages of medical history for a mere three hours on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. No photocopying was permitted.
This is the same tactic of selective document release that the Bush White House used to bamboozle Congress and the press about Saddam’s nonexistent W.M.D. As truthiness repeats itself, so may history, and not as farce."

BROADWAY IN SOUTH AFRICA

In january 2009 i will be travelling to south africa to teach underprivileged kids and perform.
i'm thrilled.

On october 6th, 2008, there will be a benefit concert to raise money for this project.

We need to raise thousands of dollars to make this not-for-profit dream come true. Please click here (then click on the image on the left) and consider donating to this cause. or buy a ticket to the concert - all of the proceeds will go directly to Broadway In South Africa.

Children and art...

As we strolled through the Arts Fair here on the campus of Penn State we marvelled at the plethora of unappealing pottery and then came upon two true works of art... this painting (see photo)... and another painting by a second or third grader, which pictured a red and brown rectangular building representing a popular dining establishment.

Finger painted in bright red atop this building...

HOOTERS

"Children and art..." -S. Sondheim

news on the broadway sites

Click HERE HERE and HERE to see articles about ORDINARY DAYS

Check out www.playbill.com www.theatremania.com and www.broadwayworld.com today!

ORDINARY DAYS

ORDINARY DAYS a new musical by Adam Gwon
World Premiere at Pennsylvania Center Stage
http://www.pacentrestage.psu.edu/
directed by Matt Toronto
starring Stanley Bahorek, Jared Gertner, Leah Horowitz, and Jordan Toronto
July 23-August 9
go to the link above for more information or click here for tickets!

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