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Blog Entries by David Finkle from 06/2010

Easy Reader: James Lord's My Queer War on Gays in the WWII Military

| Posted 06.10.2010 | Books
Read More: Guantanamo, Boston, James Lord, Armed Forces, Abu Ghraib, Foyle's War, Farrar Straus Giroux, Don't Ask Don't Tell, England, France, Paris, My Queer War, Homosexuality, Pows, Washington D. C., Albert Giacometti, Bronze Star, Pablo Picasso, Memoir, Gertrude Stein, World War II, Books News

James Lord's memoir, My Queer War, recounts his experiences in the World War II years following his 1942 enlistment as a naïve 19-year-old homosexual.

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First Nighter: Cabaret Thrushes Stacey Kent, Karen Oberlin Flying High and Low

| Posted 06.10.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: 'Heart & Soul: A Centenary Celebration of Frank Loesser, Birdland, Stacey Kent, Frank Loesser, Jon Weber, Betty Huttonf, Gordy Johnson, Gene Lees, Jean-Luc Godard, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Jim Tomlinson, Breathless, Karen Oberlin, Blue Note, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Art Hirahara, Jean Seberg, Entertainment News

Joy infuses everything that Stacey Kent sings with a vocal zing -- which she's showing off this week as part of her current stateside tour.

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First Nighter: Polly Stenham's That Face Hard to Face

| Posted 06.15.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Noel Coward, David Zinn, That Face, Polly Stenham, Broadway, Broadway Plays, Manhattan Theater Club Stage 1, Entertainment News

Handed Stenham's outlandish manuscript for That Face, helmer Sarah Benson and ensemble don't have much choice but to fling themselves into it body and soul -- mostly body.

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First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster

| Posted 06.18.2010 | New York
Read More: Angela Lansbury, Annie, Paul McCartneyMichael Rafter, Little Women, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked, Bebe Neuwirth, Patti LuPone, Noel Coward, "An Evening With Sutton Foster, Elaine Stritch, Christine Lavin, Kevin Kuhn, Stephen Sondheim, The Addams Family, Mark Waldrop, Bernadette Peters, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Lennon, " Cafe Carlyle, The Drowsy Chaperone, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Young Frankenstein, Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster, Jeff Blumenthal, Shrek the Musical, New York News

If you had to pinpoint the leading leading-lady in musicals today, you'd have to say there's no contest: It's Sutton Foster.

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First-Nighter: Tammy Grimes Remains Unsinkable at The Metropolitan Room

| Posted 06.29.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bob Hope, The Metropolitan Room, Harry Warren, Noel Coward, Winter Garden, Cole Porter, Tammy Grimes, Harve Presnell, Truman Capote, Look After Lulu, Private Lives, Roddy McDowell, Entertainment News

It's important for me to keep things in perspective when writing about Tammy Grimes, who's just finishing up a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Room. After all, she's 76 now. And yet, and yet: She's still enchanting.

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