Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
This entry is 8th in a series that begins here. For the full effect, click on “Continue Reading” below, find the music player, and play the song while reading the lyrics.
Story Background: Here we see the Wizard’s softer side, and learn that he got swept up (like Glinda) in the glamor of attention. We learn that in his own way, he had (at least in part) noble intentions to help the citizens of Oz. Along w/ the allure of power and security, it’s clear he felt that the ends somewhat justified the means. Thus the deception of the veil.
The program notes also claim, “He holds out the promise to Elphaba that, with him, she can fulfill her subconscious longing to be accepted by a fatherly figure.” I can’t necessarily relate to that part of it, but maybe some of you can.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
This entry is 7th in a series that begins here. For the full effect, click on “Continue Reading” below, find the music player, and play the song while reading the lyrics.
Story Background: Glinda (she got renamed) would like to see Elphaba conform and also realize her dream as expressed in “The Wizard and I.” But when Elphaba discovers that the Wizard is behind the mistreatment of animals, she must change her dream. She takes a stand. This is her moment when she resolves to follow her new conviction based on her inner moral sense and care for Dr. Dillamond, even though it means social rejection.
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
This entry is 4th in a series that begins here. or the full effect, click on “Continue Reading” below, find the music player, and play the song while reading the lyrics.
Story Background: This song is 100% plain, pure fun. After the big dance, Elphaba and Galinda become friends. One evening, Galinda offers to help make Elphaba more “popular.” As you may gather, Galinda is a tad bit self-absorbed, and prideful. This scene sets up Elphaba’s eventual rejection of popularity for the sake of principles.
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
This entry is 3rd in a series that begins here. For the full effect, click on “Continue Reading” below, find the music player, and play the song while reading the lyrics.
Story Background: A flunk-out from various other colleges, Prince Fiyero struts his stuff when he shows up at Shiz and introduces his philosophy “Dancing Through Life.” In this song sequence, we are introduced to parts of the love triangles in the story: Nessarose (Elphaba’s handicapped sister) longs for the attention of the munchkin Boq (pronounced “Buck”), who himself has been stricken with the charm of the unreachable Galinda (who calls him Bick, Bock…anything but Buck).
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Looks like Carol Lynn Pearson (author, poet, playwright) has started a new blog! Check it out here, and please wish her well.
Also, it looks as though her new play about suicide and coping among Gay LDS church members and their families will have a 2 week Broadway run in New York, as well as a run in San Francisco.
Congratulations to Carl Lynn and the cast/crew of Facing East! This is an important story for our community. So much is at stake.
Please support if you can.
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
This entry is 2nd in a series that begins here. For the full effect, click on “Continue Reading” below, find the music player, and play the song while reading the lyrics.
Story Background: Galinda is the most beautiful, rich and popular girl at Shiz (she also becomes Glinda the “Good” witch at the end of Wicked). Anyway, due to a series of unfortunate events, Galinda is assigned Elphaba as a roommate. They basically represent polar opposites. Galinda is about appearance, popularity–and shallowness. Elphaba represents intelligence, “truth to power”, and the unpopular. This song is about how they felt when they first met. More background on the writing of the song here.
Parallels to My Story: In many ways, I was Elphaba growing up. Because of the divorce, we didn’t have much money, so I could never compete on clothes and appearance. I was super tall and skinny, and not very fashionable to say the least. Also, growing up Mormon in a heavily baptist town isn’t very helpful (the local Baptist church held an annual seminar called “Mormons and other cults)”. I know–”Boo hoo.” Anyway, I also possessed a very high degree of righteous indignation for the “Wicked” around me–those who drank, smoked, did drugs and had sex….and who weren’t Mormon. I truly felt myself superior to them, and in many ways, pitied them. All of them.
Anyway, it’s a stretch, but if anything, this will help you some w/ character development of the relationship between Galinda and Elphaba. It’s also too fun a song to not include. 
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Hey all!
Tom Grover was kind enough to invite me to guest host his radio program tonight: KVNU’s “For the People” (though I’m thinking he may be regretting it a bit now).
I commented about this topic briefly on a recent BCC post here, basically thanking Mr. Sullivan for helping us get out into the open things that have been hidden and suppressed (privately and publicly) for far too long.
Anyway, the main topic of discussion was Andrew Sullivan’s recent blogging research/antics regarding Mormonism and Mitt Romney’s candidacy for U.S. President. In a little under a week, Sullivan has covered:
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
From my good friend Jana Remy (on behalf of a friend of hers). Please support if you are so inclined.
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Hi Folks,
Some of you may know that our son Thomas Barrett is a budding musician. He recently submitted an original song to an international competition called “The Next Big Thing” that is sponsored by the BBC. He found out this week that he was selected as one of 20 semi-finalists in the contest out of 1100 entries. His song and a brief bio are posted on the BBC World Service website. The competition is now open to public internet voting and so I am sending out the following link to friends, colleagues and family and asking them to go online and vote for Thomas!!
Anyway, here’s the link. You can listen to his song by clicking on the nominees (he is nominee # 20) and/or vote by clicking on the VOTE icon. The public may vote through November 28, 2006.
Thanks and feel free to pass the link on to all your friends, family and colleagues!!
Martha Barrett
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Very interesting interview in Christianity Today of Richard Dutcher.
A few things that were very interesting to me….
- He admits being inactive.
- He makes this statement, “But I don’t believe that Mormons have any special claim to God. I don’t believe that Mormonism has any special doorway to heaven.”
- And one final statement, “I have zero interest in making any more Mormons in the world. And I have zero interest in making any fewer Mormons in the world.”
This guy is one of my heroes. Open. Honest. Sincere. Bold. Wants to change the world.
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