The Stage Whisperer

Michelle Lanz of the Long Beach Press Telegram has written one of the best stories yet on both the Stones tribute band “Satisfaction” and the Beatles tribute band “Revolution” (and, believe us, we’ve read them all).
The two bands will go head to head in a unique “battle of the bands” tonight at Armstrong Theatre, Torrance [...]

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Okay, it’s finally here: The Battle of the Bands begins tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, at 8pm, at the Armstrong Theatre in Torrance, California. Proceeds will benefit the Torrance Cultural Arts Center Foundation, aka TorranceArts, and their endowment. All to keep bringing great acts to the South Bay.

The best Beatles tribute band, Revolution, will compete [...]

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Garry Krinsky balancing a ladder
Let’s save you a few bucks. If you can resist the photo of this weekend’s part of the Super Science Saturday Series, Garry Krinsky’s “Toying With Science,” then take a look at the video. You won’t be able to resist.
It’s this Saturday, March 28, 11am, at Torrance Cultural Arts Center’s Armstrong [...]

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Susan Estrich comes out praising Caesar, uhh, Rush Limbaugh this week, not for his views, of course, but for how well he does radio. She criticizes both the White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for saying that Rush was the spokesman for the Republican Party (which many felt was clever on his [...]

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!Leave it to a Nashville paper to have all the good tidbits about the Celtic Tenors.
For their concert there, the Daily Post Athenian writes up the award-winning group with such bites as, “They continue to ‘re-invent the whole tenor idiom’ (Phil Coulter - composer of “Remember Me”), by pioneering a new style of ‘cool’ never [...]

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If you missed the Academy Awards and the declaration by none other than Hugh Jackman that “the musical is back” (he meant on film, of course), maybe you’ll understand why some people are putting money into musicals.
Eddie Money, that is.

As revealed in Billboard magazine, Eddie Money is putting the finishing touches [...]

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Garry Krinsky and his world-touring show “Toying with Science” is featured in Broadway World magazine this week.
Calling Krinsky “a living cartoon” who combines circus skills, mime, original music and audience involvement, all in the name of getting kids interested in science and “discovery.”
Krinsky brings “Toying with Science” back to the Armstrong Theatre on Saturday, [...]

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