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Post by sonnygirl on Feb 2, 2012 7:18:06 GMT -5
'The Secret Circle's' Gale Harold Reveals 7 Spoilers for Rest of Seasonwww.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/secret-circle-spoilers-gale-harold-cw-286516'Secret Circle' Star Shelley Hennig Teases Diana Letting Loose On Devil's Spirit And More! source: hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2012/02/01/secret-circle-shelley-hennig-2/?xrs=share_fb[...Whether he's her biological father or not, Charles is Diana's daddy right now. While nothing is on the horizon for the immediate future, Shelley seemed sure that sooner or later, the writers will explore their relationship even further. "I have the best father on television, don't I? Badass! "You've seen Charles feeling remorse after he's killed people. I think it's inevitable for [the writers] to explore more about that. Is Diana ever going to find out that her father killed Cassie's mother? My fingers are crossed for them to explore that more!" ]The Secret Circle Scoop: Diana's New Love, John Blackwell's Arrival and the Balcoin Child source: www.tvguide.com/news/secret-circle-shelley-hennig-cw-1042674.aspx[....Will Diana ever figure out what her dad, Charles (Gale Harold), is up to? He's taken evil to a new level since the show returned. Hennig: Yes. This is what I'm trying to figure out. This is all about your bloodline, right? So is there more Diana in Charles or is there more Charles in Diana? That's what I hope they explore. And obviously, I hope there's more Charles in Diana, because it will be way more interesting. ...]
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Post by galenut on Feb 3, 2012 9:52:24 GMT -5
has anyone tried this site? i have tried for two days to get tickets and the only thing i get is the calendar, then when i click on the date and time nothing happens. i am going to call the theather but i would really like to see the seating before i buy the tickets. hope eberyone is having a good day.
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Post by emelwhy on Feb 3, 2012 12:46:19 GMT -5
www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2012/02/randy_harrisons_experience_pla.htmlRandy Harrison's experience playing visual artists should help him in 'Red' Published: Friday, February 03, 2012, 7:04 AM By Peter Filichia/For The Star-Ledger Is Randy Harrison getting typecast? For the third time in his professional career, he’ll portray a visual artist. This time, he’s Ken, a fictional assistant to famous painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970). He’s at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, co-starring in “Red,” the John Logan-written drama that won the 2010 Tony Award for best play. In 2000, Harrison began his stint as Justin Taylor on the Showtime cable series “Queer as Folk.” During the five seasons, he saw his character go from a moody teenager to a visual artist. Then, in 2009, Harrison portrayed Andy Warhol in a musical called “Pop” at Yale Rep. “I do like pop art,” he says. “I understand it as a reaction to abstract expressionism.” There’s good reason why Harrison sounds a bit more erudite than the average person when speaking about art. “I’m a big fan,” he says. “Just for fun, a couple of years ago, I took a contemporary art course at the Museum of Modern Art. And as soon as we finish here, before we move the play to Cleveland, I’ve decided that I’m going to Washington, D.C., to the National Gallery to see a Rothko there.” He stops to smile and shrug. “And yet, there’s something funny about my playing a visual artist,” he says. “I have no talent in that area at all. Zero. None. I can’t even draw a straight line. My talent in this area is limited to appreciation and support.” Not that Harrison has to do much with a brush in “Red.” He’s on hand to help Rothko, who’s been commissioned by the Four Seasons restaurant to come up with dramatic and eye-catching work. As time goes on, Ken is not above criticizing what the master is painting. Says Harrison: “We’ve all had parents, teachers and mentors that we’ve loved. That doesn’t mean, though, that we don’t reach a point where we feel compelled to express our opinions. Sometimes they go very much against those people who nurtured us, and sometimes we have the need to move beyond.” However, Harrison still has great regard for his teachers at Pace Academy in Atlanta. “As a young boy, I’d done some community theater when my family was living in New Hampshire: Winthrop in ‘The Music Man,’ Oliver in ‘Oliver!’ I was taken away from it when I was 11, when we moved to Georgia. I had three ‘non-theater’ years for reasons I can’t explain. Then when I got to Pace, the teachers were so amazing. Not many high schools have their kids reading ‘Waiting for Godot’ and acting in plays by Tom Stoppard.” Yet Harrison originally pursued musical theater. He attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, which features its students in a showcase for agents each spring. One who saw him there told him that an upcoming series called “Queer as Folk” needed a young man to play a teen. Although Harrison was 22, he was cast. He remains, however, a theater actor. “I miss being on a set a little bit,” he says. “There’s a sense of community from seeing the same people every day.” Harrison slowly shakes his head. “But I love rehearsing and really examining a script. And in TV, you’re sometimes given new lines 20 minutes before filming, and you’re suddenly facing someone you’ve never met before, let alone rehearsed with.” So look for more theater work from Harrison. “I love working with Anders Cato,” he says, citing the director of “Red.” “This is our fourth show together — one of which was ‘Waiting for Godot.’ I’d wanted to do that once since high school. ‘Queer as Folk’ helped that happen.” Red Where: George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick When: Through Feb. 26. Tuesdays through Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and selected Thursdays at 2 and 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. How much: $33.50 to $63.50; call (732) 246-7717 or visit gsponline.org.
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Post by galenut on Feb 3, 2012 17:59:24 GMT -5
olivia thanks for the info. it worked.
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Post by randysgirl on Feb 3, 2012 18:15:50 GMT -5
I am so excited that Randy is doing well and sounds happy about the production. My only request would be if it is a traveling production, please oh please could it travel somewhere, anywhere on the West Coast, please?!! I feel like I am at such a disadvantage in terms of seeing Randy perform out here. I would love to move East and love New York, maybe I need to look into that. Anyone that talks to Randy can you just remind him that he has fans out here too, that would love to see him perform. Thanks. MK, I hope all is well, I miss our chats.
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Post by emelwhy on Feb 4, 2012 9:00:04 GMT -5
Blog post about an upcoming TV interview with Randy and Bob Ari, by Emmy Award winner John Bathke - an entertainment and cultural arts journalist, lecturer and educator and founding host and producer of the television magazine program “ON THE SCENE”. johnbathke.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/interviewing-the-cast-of-red/Interviewing The Cast of “Red” February 3, 2012 I’m seeing a lot of red this week. Red as in the color of so many of Mark Rothko’s paintings that I have been looking at and “Red” as in the play about Rothko that is now running at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Tonight I interviewed both cast members, Bob Ari who plays Rothko and Randy Harrison who plays Ken, an assistant hired by Rothko to help him as he paints the Seagrams murals, one of the abstract expressionist’s famous commissions. I’m expecting the segment we put together will be ready to roll next weekend for the next ON THE SCENE, but since we just shot tonight I’ll have to let you know for sure next week. “Red” debuted on Broadway in 2010 starring Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, who won a Tony Award for his performance. It’s an intense, complex drama about the creation of an artist, about an established albeit tortured artist mentoring an emerging talent. A lot of viewers remember Randy Harrison for his role as “Justin” on “Queer As Folk.” We also talked about the series and that part of our conversation will be a web bonus feature for ON THE SCENE viewers. Stay tuned…more to come about the interviews next week.
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Post by emelwhy on Feb 4, 2012 13:14:35 GMT -5
From the George Street Plahouse Facebook page:
George Street Playhouse stay tuned on Monday for the release of our video trailer for "Red"!
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Post by emelwhy on Feb 4, 2012 19:51:55 GMT -5
Blog post about an upcoming TV interview with Randy and Bob Ari, by Emmy Award winner John Bathke - an entertainment and cultural arts journalist, lecturer and educator and founding host and producer of the television magazine program “ON THE SCENE”. johnbathke.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/interviewing-the-cast-of-red/Interviewing The Cast of “Red” February 3, 2012 I’m seeing a lot of red this week. Red as in the color of so many of Mark Rothko’s paintings that I have been looking at and “Red” as in the play about Rothko that is now running at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Tonight I interviewed both cast members, Bob Ari who plays Rothko and Randy Harrison who plays Ken, an assistant hired by Rothko to help him as he paints the Seagrams murals, one of the abstract expressionist’s famous commissions. I’m expecting the segment we put together will be ready to roll next weekend for the next ON THE SCENE, but since we just shot tonight I’ll have to let you know for sure next week. “Red” debuted on Broadway in 2010 starring Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, who won a Tony Award for his performance. It’s an intense, complex drama about the creation of an artist, about an established albeit tortured artist mentoring an emerging talent. A lot of viewers remember Randy Harrison for his role as “Justin” on “Queer As Folk.” We also talked about the series and that part of our conversation will be a web bonus feature for ON THE SCENE viewers. Stay tuned…more to come about the interviews next week. Here is more about John Bathke's interview with Randy “Red” With Randy Harrison February 4, 2012 Here’s more about my interview Thursday evening with Randy Harrison, now appearing in “Red” at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He plays a studio assistant to abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (played by Bob Ari). Harrison’s role of “Ken” was originated on Broadway by Tony Award winner, Eddie Redmayne.
Our conversation covered two areas: this play and the role for which he is best known, “Justin” on the television series “Queer As Folk.” When I asked him about QAF Harrison said, “It’s strange to be remembered for something that’s been off the air for seven years. It’s really a time capsule, now.” Not that he’s turning his back on the early success QAF brought him. But when I asked if he looks back on tapes of his performance I was surprised by his answer: “No, after the first two seasons I stopped watching. I found it was distracting me.” It was his first time doing work on camera so he wanted to see how the show looked, then decided watching made him too self conscious about the performance. It wasn’t until the past year when he was putting together a compilation reel of his work that he saw later episodes, he said.
It’s been twelve years since QAF went on the air, so audiences might wonder if Harrison is still suitable to be cast as the “young apprentice” which he plays in “Red.” He is, indeed, impossibly youthful looking to this day. But I’ve watched two performances and sat through part of a rehearsal of “Red” and there’s a seriousness and maturity in his performance that’s no doubt developed during the abundant stage work he’s done since the series ended.
Harrison says he did not see “Red” on Broadway in 2010 but read the play soon after and wanted to do this part. One, because it’s a two actor play which Harrison has never done before (a two-hander is the industry term for it) and secondly it was an opportunity for him to reunite with director Anders Cato.
Speaking of Cato, I met him for the first time Thursday while we shot footage of rehearsal. I had seen a show he directed at George Street Playhouse several years ago, “I Am My Own Wife,” which I also had done a piece about for ON THE SCENE. Shortly before curtain on Thursday we ran into each other and had a conversation about mentors which is a central theme of “Red.’ Cato pointed out what a complicated relationship it can become when the mentor we hold in high esteem peels back the layers and reveals the real person within. I also realized through talking to him how many mentors I’ve had whom I have never met…the television journalists I watched in the early years who had a tremendous influence on my own performance. Cato made me realize that, too, is a form of mentorship, virtual as it may be.
The deeper I get into a play by interviewing the cast or creatives, the more interesting it becomes to me. And I will be spending hours watching, writing about, and working with an editor as we put together the Randy Harrison and Bob Ari interviews next week.
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Post by emelwhy on Feb 5, 2012 23:32:56 GMT -5
Blog post about an upcoming TV interview with Randy and Bob Ari, by Emmy Award winner John Bathke - an entertainment and cultural arts journalist, lecturer and educator and founding host and producer of the television magazine program “ON THE SCENE”. johnbathke.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/interviewing-the-cast-of-red/Interviewing The Cast of “Red” February 3, 2012 I’m seeing a lot of red this week. Red as in the color of so many of Mark Rothko’s paintings that I have been looking at and “Red” as in the play about Rothko that is now running at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Tonight I interviewed both cast members, Bob Ari who plays Rothko and Randy Harrison who plays Ken, an assistant hired by Rothko to help him as he paints the Seagrams murals, one of the abstract expressionist’s famous commissions. I’m expecting the segment we put together will be ready to roll next weekend for the next ON THE SCENE, but since we just shot tonight I’ll have to let you know for sure next week. “Red” debuted on Broadway in 2010 starring Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne, who won a Tony Award for his performance. It’s an intense, complex drama about the creation of an artist, about an established albeit tortured artist mentoring an emerging talent. A lot of viewers remember Randy Harrison for his role as “Justin” on “Queer As Folk.” We also talked about the series and that part of our conversation will be a web bonus feature for ON THE SCENE viewers. Stay tuned…more to come about the interviews next week. Here is more about John Bathke's interview with Randy “Red” With Randy Harrison February 4, 2012 Here’s more about my interview Thursday evening with Randy Harrison, now appearing in “Red” at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He plays a studio assistant to abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (played by Bob Ari). Harrison’s role of “Ken” was originated on Broadway by Tony Award winner, Eddie Redmayne.
Our conversation covered two areas: this play and the role for which he is best known, “Justin” on the television series “Queer As Folk.” When I asked him about QAF Harrison said, “It’s strange to be remembered for something that’s been off the air for seven years. It’s really a time capsule, now.” Not that he’s turning his back on the early success QAF brought him. But when I asked if he looks back on tapes of his performance I was surprised by his answer: “No, after the first two seasons I stopped watching. I found it was distracting me.” It was his first time doing work on camera so he wanted to see how the show looked, then decided watching made him too self conscious about the performance. It wasn’t until the past year when he was putting together a compilation reel of his work that he saw later episodes, he said.
It’s been twelve years since QAF went on the air, so audiences might wonder if Harrison is still suitable to be cast as the “young apprentice” which he plays in “Red.” He is, indeed, impossibly youthful looking to this day. But I’ve watched two performances and sat through part of a rehearsal of “Red” and there’s a seriousness and maturity in his performance that’s no doubt developed during the abundant stage work he’s done since the series ended.
Harrison says he did not see “Red” on Broadway in 2010 but read the play soon after and wanted to do this part. One, because it’s a two actor play which Harrison has never done before (a two-hander is the industry term for it) and secondly it was an opportunity for him to reunite with director Anders Cato.
Speaking of Cato, I met him for the first time Thursday while we shot footage of rehearsal. I had seen a show he directed at George Street Playhouse several years ago, “I Am My Own Wife,” which I also had done a piece about for ON THE SCENE. Shortly before curtain on Thursday we ran into each other and had a conversation about mentors which is a central theme of “Red.’ Cato pointed out what a complicated relationship it can become when the mentor we hold in high esteem peels back the layers and reveals the real person within. I also realized through talking to him how many mentors I’ve had whom I have never met…the television journalists I watched in the early years who had a tremendous influence on my own performance. Cato made me realize that, too, is a form of mentorship, virtual as it may be.
The deeper I get into a play by interviewing the cast or creatives, the more interesting it becomes to me. And I will be spending hours watching, writing about, and working with an editor as we put together the Randy Harrison and Bob Ari interviews next week. Bathke announces dates for airing of TV interview with Randyjohnbathke.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/on-the-scene-show-times-announced-red-and-peter-max/ ON THE SCENE Show Times Announced: “Red” and Peter MaxFebruary 5, 2012 Here I am this Sunday morning having breakfast with Bob Ari and Randy Harrison. It’s very intimate, just me and the two actors from “Red” whom I’ve been writing about since my recent interviews.
The only thing is, neither of them knows we’re together.
That’s because I’m starting my day sealed in a tiny edit suite at the tv station, coffee at my side, seated in front of a computer and two HD monitors where I’m screening the interviews with Ari and Harrison, the rehearsal footage, and the performance, all of which we shot this past Thursday at George Street Playhouse.
I’m struck by how much thought each actor has put into his role and the connection they seem to feel to Mark Rothko’s paintings. The late abstract expressionist is the subject of “Red.” Ari plays Rothko and Harrison portrays an assistant hired to help him complete a set of murals.
[red]Harrison said to me about his character Ken, “I loved how much he grows, how much the character transforms in the course of the 90 minute play…And I definitely think as a young artist, although I’m not that young anymore, I feel like I’ve gone through very similar experiences in different relationships that I’ve had with different acting teachers and different directors.”[/red]
“Red” is a battle of artistic wills as the younger artist comes into his own, while enduring browbeating and tirades by Rothko. It’s tense, non stop drama as Harrison points out about the two-character play.
“It’s starting to feel like going into a boxing ring…there’s no time for breathing, no time to get off stage.”
As for Ari, he saw the Tony Award winning production and says he immediately wanted to play Rothko. ”I saw this play on Broadway with Alfred Molina and I looked at it and said, ‘this goes on the bucket list.’ This is a part I have to play before I kick.”
But would Ari have liked the man he’s playing? “I wouldn’t have liked to be his assistant but I would have liked to have been a dinner guest or friend. But yes, he’s portrayed as sort of a monster.”
That’s just a taste of what we’ll be talking about next weekend. And in the same show, we’re running my interview with Peter Max, another iconic American painter to emerge in the 20th Century, as Rothko did. (I”ll be writing more about Max in the coming week). So in that way this is truly a special ON THE SCENE.
[red]Please tune in Saturday, February 11th and Sunday, February 12th to News 12 New Jersey at 8:30 AM, 11:30 AM and 4:30 PM both days to catch this episode of ON THE SCENE.[/red]
[red]Also, I’m hearing from Randy Harrison’s devoted fans around the world [/red] and I assure you, video will be posted on johnbathke.com (including his comments about “Queer As Folk”) early in the week following this episode’s debut so you won’t be left out! I’ll announce that on the blog so check back, then. I appreciate your interest.
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