SHADOWGRAM OFFICIAL ONLINE DARK SHADOWS NEWS
Update Number 302
December 3, 2013
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS) announces the following key breaking news in this Official DS News Online Update "bulletin."
**** DONNA McKECHNIE IN ONSTAGE INTERVIEW SHOW
**** CHRIS PENNOCK IN NEW PLAY PERFORMANCE
**** DARK SHADOWS' “BARNABAS” SCENE CLIP IN NEW PBS PROGRAM
**** NEW HISTORY OF DAYTIME SOAPS SPECIAL INCLUDES DS
---- DONNA McKECHNIE IN PERFORMANCE & INTERVIEW
Donna (Amanda Harris, Olivia Corey) says, “I'm getting very excited to bring a new show to Birdland, Dec. 9. IN GOOD COMPANY is a variety-interview show with special guest, the Tony-Award winning director of KINKY BOOTS, Mr. Jerry Mitchell. Conversation, stories and a few songs along the way. Maybe I can get him to sing and dance with me! It's a Party, come and enjoy the fun!”
Donna has created a series of autobiographical cabaret shows exploring her life, career, and iconic musical plays, creators, performers, characters, and legacies. She will perform and discuss these at NYC’s Birdland Jazz Club this Friday, 12-9 at 7:00, and again on Mon., 1-6-14 at 6:30.
Birdland Jazz Club, 315 W. 44th St., NYC, NY, 10036.
http://birdlandjazz.com/ Tickets off sale: 212-581-3080 for reservations.
Tickets are $30 with a $10 food or beverage minimum (dinner is available).
For 12-9-13 show:
http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/411123-donna-mckechnie-in-good-new-york/For 1-6-14 show:
http://www.birdlandjazz.com/event/363655-donna-mckechnie-in-good-new-york/ Birdland publicity: The show “brings her conversational skills to the forefront, and provides a stage for unique, 1-time-only musical moments with Broadway’s most celebrated and iconic artists.” Donna is “regarded internationally as one of Broadway’s foremost dancing and singing leading ladies.”
Donna’s cabaret show SAME PLACE, ANOTHER TIME opened 1-3-13 at the 54 Below Club in NYC. A recording of the show is due 1-1-14 on Jay Records.
---- CHRIS PENNOCK ONSTAGE IN NEW SHORT PLAY
Chris (Jeb, Cyrus/John, Sebastian, Gabriel) reports he’s in TOMORROWLAND, a new short play to be presented the weekend of 12-13/15.
Publicity: The Lost Studio is “a teaching theater and one of LA’s leading acting schools. (It) offers intensive training and production workshops for beginning through advanced actors, writers, and directors.”
The Lost Theater is at 130 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles 90036. (323) 933-6944.
http://theloststudio.com https://www.facebook.com/theloststudio Email:
theloststudio@gmail.com ---- “BARNABAS MAKES A CAMEO ON PBS”
The new PBS fund-raising/pledge special CLASSICAL REWIND: MY MUSIC began airing on PBS stations nationwide 11-30 and continues for the next few days at various times and dates in different cities. It also will air in future pledge months such as March, 2014. Please check your local listings.
One segment begins with a scene of Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins from the original DS series, when the character returns to the Old House for the first time in 1967.
The program is “an overview of favorite classical compositions…set to a variety of visual images.” Indications are that the DS scene is approximately 8 minutes into the 1½ -hour show, during the “Bach Toccata & Fugue in D Minor.”
Program press release: CLASSICAL REWIND “takes viewers on an incredible journey to explore the music of the masters. This visual and auditory joyride offers a fanciful look at the classical masterpieces, providing spectacular video…to accompany each composition…. Viewer contributions are an important source of funding, making PBS programs possible. PBS and public television stations offer all Americans from every walk of life the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content.”
--- DS INCLUDED IN NEW HISTORY OF DAYTIME SOAPS SPECIAL
ShadowGram is asked to announce: DS is featured in “a look at the history of daytime soap operas” called WHO SHOT THE DAYTIME SOAPS? The special debuts on the TV Guide Network 12-18 at 8:00pm, with a sneak preview earlier that day at 2:00pm for daytime fans. It includes an interview with Kathryn Leigh Scott.
Thank you.
Marcy Robin
