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roysexton · 3 years

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Todd Haynes wept: Ringwald’s Murder She Podcast ... Baby One More Crime

Todd Haynes wept: Ringwald’s Murder She Podcast … Baby One More Crime

Richard Payton as Jessica Fletcher “Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.” “Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. It doesn’t argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art (and life) a different—a supplementary—set of standards.” “The connoisseur of Camp [finds pleasure] in the…

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roysexton · 3 years

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“Sometimes joy has a terrible cost.” Theatre NOVA & The Ringwald Theatre’s filmed co-production of A New Brain

A NEW BRAIN by William Finn and James Lapine, produced by Theatre NOVA in collaboration with The Ringwald Theatre, via Broadway on Demand in June 2021. Artwork by Bob Hank. A New Brain by William Finn (Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and James Lapine (Falsettos, Into the Woods, Passion) is one of those musicals held in rapturous, nay obsessive esteem by the theater…

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roysexton · 4 years

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Beyond the Ghostlight: Horror Movie Panel Discussion for The Ibis

View here: https://www.facebook.com/shadowoftheibis/videos/615911629083442/?vh=e&extid=0&d=

What a delightful hour to spend. I love talking about movies, but don’t get as many opportunities these days as I used to. I had a ball with Nick and Luna and Brandy Joe tonight chatting for The Ibis. We are even garbed in various stages of costumery!

We talk about what gives us chills in film…

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roysexton · 5 years

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“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” The Ringwald Theatre's production of Disney's High School Musical

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” The Ringwald Theatre’s production of Disney’s High School Musical

Collage swiped from The Ringwald’s Facebook page

Sick to the stuff you know If you want to be cool Follow one simple rule Don’t mess with the flow, no no Stick to the status quo No, no, no Stick to the stuff you know It is better by far To keep things as they are Don’t mess with the flow, no no Stick to the status Stick to the status Stick to the status quo – “Stick to the Status Quo,” High School Musical

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roysexton · 6 years

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“We don’t grow children like that here.” The Ringwald’s production of The Laramie Project - plus, quick notes on Crazy Rich Asians, Blaine Fowler's America, and yours truly being interviewed on Freeman Means Business

“We don’t grow children like that here.” The Ringwald’s production of The Laramie Project – plus, quick notes on Crazy Rich Asians, Blaine Fowler’s America, and yours truly being interviewed on Freeman Means Business

Laramie Project review originally published by Encore Michigan here.

[Image Source: The Ringwald’s Facebook page]The Ringwald Theatre’s 2018-19 season opener The Laramie Project is not a production that needs to be reviewed. It is a production that needs to be viewed. It is a production that essentially illustrates (beyond question) that the most impactful theatre requires very little: words,…

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roysexton · 6 years

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Of freak flags and time warps: The Ringwald’s production of The Rocky Horror Show

Originally published by EncoreMichigan.com

[Jacokes – image source: The Ringwald]Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Showis a bit of an artifact of its time, when queer culture and camp were avant garde, subversive, and downright frightening to most of America. Mike Pence notwithstanding, today we’ve seen such a mainstreaming of O’Brien’s core shock tactics (gender fluidity, B-movie tropes taken…

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roysexton · 5 years

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My review of The Ringwald Theatre’s production of Disney’s High School Musical - excerpt: The Ringwald’s production, populated as it is by a cast who, for the most part, would have been in elementary school when High School Musical debuted in 2006, is pleasantly reverential to the material, while not taking any of it too damn seriously. It’s a high wire act that I found, quite frankly, refreshing. Playing double duty as director and actor (“Coach Jack Bolton”), Brandy Joe Plambeck takes a breezy, frothy approach to the material, aided and abetted by his real-life husband Joe Bailey in the role of Sharpay. In Bailey’s hands, Sharpay is both comic and poignant, never shrill, and just the right side of arch. Bailey knows that a middle-aged man playing a heartbreakingly spoiled high school theatre diva is pretty damn funny in and of itself and that layering on any meta commentary or turning up his nose at the material would sink the show and his performance. It’s smart and it’s fun, and Bailey alongside his “brother” Ryan (Christopher Ross-Dybash exuding sunshine) are a hoot. Read the rest: https://reelroyreviews.com/2019/08/25/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover-that-your-high-school-class-is-running-the-country-the-ringwald-theatres-production-of-disneys-high-school-musical/ #disney #musical #theatre #highschoolmusical #ringwald #michigan #ferndale @theringwald (at The Ringwald Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nAXgnlvkn/?igshid=sahc5x4asyuf

#disney #musical #theatre #highschoolmusical #ringwald #michigan #ferndale

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roysexton · 5 years

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My review of The Ringwald Theatre’s production of Disney’s High School Musical - excerpt:

The Ringwald’s production, populated as it is by a cast who, for the most part, would have been in elementary school when High School Musical debuted in 2006, is pleasantly reverential to the material, while not taking any of it too damn seriously. It’s a high wire act that I found, quite frankly, refreshing. Playing double duty as director and actor (“Coach Jack Bolton”), Brandy Joe Plambeck takes a breezy, frothy approach to the material, aided and abetted by his real-life husband Joe Bailey in the role of Sharpay. In Bailey’s hands, Sharpay is both comic and poignant, never shrill, and just the right side of arch. Bailey knows that a middle-aged man playing a heartbreakingly spoiled high school theatre diva is pretty damn funny in and of itself and that layering on any meta commentary or turning up his nose at the material would sink the show and his performance. It’s smart and it’s fun, and Bailey alongside his “brother” Ryan (Christopher Ross-Dybash exuding sunshine) are a hoot.

Read the rest: https://reelroyreviews.com/2019/08/25/true-terror-is-to-wake-up-one-morning-and-discover-that-your-high-school-class-is-running-the-country-the-ringwald-theatres-production-of-disneys-high-school-musical/ #disney #musical #theatre #highschoolmusical #ringwald #michigan #ferndale

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roysexton · 2 years

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#ladygaga #iswitchedbaristas … Enjoyed The Penny Seats’ production tonight of “The Actors” by Ronnie Larsen, a raucous yet poignant comic study on the unpredictability of grief. Kudos to director Joe Bailey and the fab ensemble Brandy Joe Plambeck, Diane Hill, Robert Schorr, David Collins, and Jeffrey Miller for the thoughtful, endlessly entertaining work here. Hats off to the production team as well - Lauren M. London, Jasmine Rose, Jennifer Maiseloff, Kennikki Jones-Jones, TyChi, Tim Pollack, Vince Kelley - for exceptional design, clever use of the Stone Chalet Bed and Breakfast Inn and Event Center space, evocative lighting and costumes, and epic 70s/80s music cues. Don’t miss! Runs through April 23 - www.pennyseats.org P.S. Zach London, Ana Cristina Rojas Hilje, and co., it was such a pleasure seeing you tonight! @pennyseats @hownice4you @brandyjoeplamby @diane.hill.5876 @vincekelley @laurenmlondon @jenmaiseloff @stone.chalet @ladygaga (at Saline, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJ-2vAONjI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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roysexton · 5 years

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*Someone* (cough, John Mola) is pretty damn excited to see Disney's High School Musical at The Ringwald Theatre, after a fab, earth/animal-friendly dinner at Ferndale’s GreenSpace Cafe. Excited to see you, Joe Bailey, Brandy Joe Plambeck, Wendy Jeanette Cave, Matt Wallace, Jordan Gagnon, Kevin Kaminski, Hayley Pulizzi, and all the rest of the Wildcats. “Getcha head in the game.” P.S. Nikki Bagdady Horn, my Backstreet Boys tee is making its inaugural debut tonight! #disney #bsbdnaworldtour #highschoolmusical @disney @theringwald @greenspacecafe @backstreetboys (at The Ringwald Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kqqHNlFmC/?igshid=9bmk27xzhs3e

#disney #bsbdnaworldtour #highschoolmusical

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roysexton · 5 years

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*Someone* (cough, John Mola) is pretty damn excited to see Disney's High School Musical at The Ringwald Theatre, after a fab, earth/animal-friendly dinner at Ferndale’s GreenSpace Cafe. Excited to see you, Joe Bailey, Brandy Joe Plambeck, Wendy Jeanette Cave, Matt Wallace, Jordan Gagnon, Kevin Kaminski, and all the rest of the Wildcats. “Getcha head in the game.” @disney @theringwald (at The Ringwald Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kOM_KFW2e/?igshid=bq6rmhhcis28

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roysexton · 6 years

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My EncoreMichigan review of The Ringwald Theatre's production of #TheLaramieProject - only three more shows, including tonight at 8 pm (with talk back). Don't miss it! Excerpt: "The play written by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project assembles first-person narratives from hundreds of interviews with Laramie townspeople, University of Wyoming faculty members, friends of Matthew’s, and the Tectonic Theater’s actors themselves. ... Director Brandy Joe Plambeck has assembled an empathetic, deep-feeling, yet commanding cast to perform dozens of roles: Joe Bailey, Greg Eldridge, Kelly Komlen, Sydney Lepora, Joel Mitchell, Taylor Johnson Morrow, Gretchen Craven Schock, and Mike Suchyta. Rarely does this stellar group miss a beat, and Plambeck wisely eschews distractingly overt theatricality for a stripped down readers’ theatre approach. The emphasis is quite literally on the words on the page, and, as the details mount, both performers and audience are swept into a hurricane of emotion, of indignation, and of heartbreak."

Read the rest: https://www.encoremichigan.com/2018/09/we-dont-grow-children-like-that-here-the-ringwalds-laramie-project-examines-tragic-death-of-matthew-shepard/

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