‘Tis Pity She’s NOT a Whore?

So, in a piece published in the Telegraph, the writer is all chuffed that a stage adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s running in the West End — which is not the musical!  Which long ago was the floppiest of flops! — is not going to present Holly Golightly as ambiguously whorey enough.  So Macy Halford is all, “what makes you so sure she was a pro in the first place?” and digs up an old Playboy interview with Truman Capote, who says this:  “Holly Golightly was not precisely a callgirl. She had no job, but accompanied expense-account men to the best restaurants and night clubs, with the understanding that her escort was obligated to give her some sort of gift, perhaps jewelry or a check … if she felt like it, she might take her escort home for the night. So these girls are the authentic American geishas…”

Or basically like a lot of those ladies under a certain age that moved to New York after imprinting “Sex and the City” onto their frontal lobes?  Because seriously, there is an American geisha glut all up in the Meatpacking District.

Noted & Quoted: Colin Meloy Is Your New Ben Brantley

Speaking about the Decemberists’ concept album/rock opera/folk musical “The Hazards of Love” and his larger musical aspirations, given the current state of Broadway:  “The Broadway musical used to be an art form that was financially viable even on the margins, and there were more people practicing it, more people invested in making it great. Now the musical is a niche that’s only really happening in New York, at least the financially viable stuff, and it’s run by huge corporations catering to tourists. It panders to the lowest common denominator, with schlock music that just gets worse and worse.” Chicago Tribune [via Largehearted Boy]

I Had a Meme, a Meme About You, Baby

To truly succeed now, a thing, or “brand” — however the hell you commodify an entertainment property (or entertainer) — should find a way to infiltrate all avenues of popular culture.  See, for instance,  I Can Has Cheezburger:  The MusicLOL — a meme-cum-website-cum-book-cum-IRL stage show.  There will be following one assumes, what, a documentary and LOLcats on ice?  Because why not and sure go ahead please do!

So then, what else might make for a good night of theater?  Ephemerist has lazily perused the internet to randomly select which other blogs, memes or fads could jump beyond the web (and the book table at Urban Outfitters) and onto the stage. Here’s how they might play out, and how viable they are on a scale of 1 to 10:

Sax & Dixon Offer Up Comedic Wedded Bliss

Two’s company, but John Dixon and Matt Sax create a crowd of  thirty wedding revelers in their new show We Thee Wed, currently running Ars Nova.

Wresting momentarily the nuptial craze from the purview of the reality show bridezillas, the duo present their unique brand of wedding madness, with guests ranging from a widowed father of the groom to a nebbishy priest.  The opening scene takes place near the end of the bachelor party, the groom passed out at a Lazer Tag game, while the best man and the next-to-best man grapple for dominance in everything from jumping contests to rock/paper/scissors tournaments in a display of male ego.

‘Chess in Concert’: One Night on PBS and the World’s Your Oyster

PBS is finally airing the 2008 concert version of Chess, starring Josh Groban.  If the previous sentence means anything to you, congratulations! (I’m sorry?)[Popwatch]