Lon Bronson All-Star Band to Celebrate 25th Anniversary at Smith Center, 10/17
by Tyler Peterson
- Sep 29, 2015
The Lon Bronson All-Star Band will celebrate a quarter century as Vegas headliners with an homage to the group's storied career one-night only with two shows in Cabaret Jazz at The Smith Center on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. An evening you won't want to miss, many of the band's former members as well as favorite guest stars from the group's legendary 2 a.m. shows at the Riviera to current Smith Center engagements will perform with the iconic horn band.
BWW Review: Yale Rep's THESE PAPER BULLETS Captures 1964 Nostalgia at Geffen
by Don Grigware
- Sep 18, 2015
Commissioned by the Yale Repertory Theatre and premiering there in 2014, These Paper Bullets by Rolin Jones received 4 Connecticut Critics Awards and has been a highly anticipated arrival this fall at the Geffen Playhouse. Now onstage at the Gil Cates Theater through October 18, the show is a huge, if not over produced, endeavor. Subtitled A Modish Ripoff of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, what we get is Shakespeare's plotline meshed with the music of The Quadros, a group that took the world by storm - not unlike the Beatles - in 1964. So, it's some Shakespearean verse rephrased with a Liverpool dialect, music reminiscent of the Beatles - all original music by Billie Joe Armstrong, front man of Green Day - and overblown satire on the pop culture that resulted, namely the crazy fashion trends and sexual escapades that rattled 1964 London and sent it reeling.
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