Entertainment Overnight -- For Good

Entertainment Overnight -- Birthday Edition

Yes! Happy birthday today to Joel Gray, actor, singer, performer extraordinaire, born this day, April 11, 1932. And thank you so much for all the great music and performances!

Entertainment Overnight -- Excellent Reminder Edition

Remember everyone, especially now, even in the middle of a pandemic...


Good night, y'all.

Sleep well. Be and stay safe and well.

Entertainment Overnight -- "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist"

Everyone needs to see and know and be aware of this. As it says it's from the Broadway play "Avenue Q." Great, great, even fun play. Important subject and subjects.

Song for a Pandemic

It's only for now.

Timely Entertainment Overnight

Yes, money indeed makes the world go 'round.



The lack of it can stop the world, it seems, as we're finding out.

Be careful and well out there, everyone.  And stay home.

Very pertinent links:

It Pays to Be Rich During a Pandemic

Wealthy flock to private jets as pandemic spreads

Private jets flock to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket

The Rich Are Riding Out The Coronavirus Pandemic Very Differently Than The Rest Of Us

Billionaire David Geffen slammed over ‘tone-deaf’ coronavirus post of him self-isolating on $590m superyacht

Too Darn Hot, IV

It's Too Darn Hot, III

It's Too Darn Hot, II

It's Too Darn Hot, I

Too Darn Hot (RAC Mix) - Ella Fitzgerald from Micah Lee on Vimeo.

Entertainment Overnight -- Only Us

From "Dear Evan Hansen"

Entertainment Tonight -- Somewhere

What a fantastic voice, incredible treatment.

Entertainment Overnight -- You Will Be Found

Entertainment Overnight -- Two Friends

...on a perfect day



for forever

525,600 Minutes

How do you measure a year?



Talk about love...

Happy new year.

Entertainment Overnight -- In Memoriam

Rest in peace, Ms. Reynolds.

Incredible Times

I just realized the incredible time in which we're living.

The first Black President of the United States, at the end of his two terms in office, two terms in the White House, against all odds, at the same time this incredible story is told, in incredible, ground-breaking style and fashion.

And we're about to elect the first woman to that same office.

Incredible.

Live and Let Live?

Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames and Messieurs
Ladies and Gentleman
Is it a crime to fall in love?
Can we ever tell where the heart truly leads us?
All we are asking is eine bisschen Verstandnis

Why can't the world leben und leben lassen?
'Live and let live....'

Entertainment Overnight -- Flashback

"Kansas City Choir Boy" hits New York This Week

I hadn't heard anything about this but a new play is to premier in New York later this week--"Kansas City Choir Boy"  with Courtney Love:


Courtney Love has been cast as the star of Todd Almond's "Kansas City Choir Boy", an experimental opera that will premiere at Prototype Festival at the Manhattan Arts Center from January 8 to 17. According to the New York Times, productions at the Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now festival "seek ways to erode the boundaries between opera and pop". 

Then there's this from today's New York Times:

Ditch the Persona, Then Move a Piano

Courtney Love's latest and thoroughly unexpected gig is the music-theater piece "Kansas City Choir Boy."

Singer, songwriter, punk-rocker, actress, fashionista, tabloid bonanza and ... piano mover? That’s part of Courtney Love’s latest and thoroughly unexpected gig. The performer who made her name in the 1990s with her primal rasp and confrontational, straight-from-the-id songs will play the lead in “Kansas City Choir Boy,” a music-theater piece she’s performing with its songwriter, Todd Almond, in the 84-seat South Village performance space Here from Jan. 8-17.

It’s not “Mary Poppins,” but it’s not Grand Guignol either. Billed as a “theatricalized concept album,” “Kansas City Choir Boy” is a song cycle with very little dialogue: the story of a couple pulled apart by ambition. In Kansas City, he’s a nameless musician who composes on his laptop and his piano; she’s a singer, Athena, and they’re teenage sweethearts. He’s content in the Midwest, while she leaves him behind to make it in New York. He tries to follow her and reconnect, but she has been seduced by the siren call of fame.

“Kansas City Choir Boy” is the most immediately eye-catching show in thePrototype festival, which is devoted to contemporary opera and innovative music theater. Prototype had asked its director, Kevin Newbury, to suggest a production, and he had long envisioned “Kansas City Choir Boy” as what he calls “an immersive theater experience.”

The story of “Kansas City Choir Boy,” Mr. Almond said, grew out of a memory. More than a decade ago, he had been hired by the Juilliard School of Music to do a musical adaptation of “The Odyssey.” The actress who played Athena disappeared and was later found murdered; he was watching TV news when her face suddenly came on screen. Some years later, around 2006, he was in a hotel room in Kansas City, Mo., writing music with his laptop when “the face of a missing girl popped up on the news.” It elicited a memory of the woman who had played Athena; he started imagining her as someone who “ran off to the big city to make something of herself, and then she fell into the wrong hands.”

This should be interesting to watch and see how it develops. If at all.