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Snow Spears and the Seven Dwarves (Unexpected Musicals) — PattyCake Productions music video

There's an element of fantasy and fairy tales in modern pop culture stardom. Celebrities can be plucked out of obscurity and thrust into positions of power they're unprepared for, or toppled from their pedestals for superficial reasons.

When the guys of PattyCake Productions were considering how to make their debut / proof of concept to the world, they leaned into their greatest strengths — music and visual storytelling. Layne and Tony built on their experience with VoicePlay's musical medleys and expanded that idea into a full story arc. Blending the music of one of the biggest singers of the late 90s with a timeless childhood narrative (not to mention incredible costumes, sets, and a wealth of talent from among their theme park friends) resulted in this incredibly fun reimagining of a Disney classic.

Details:

title: Unexpected Musicals – Snow Spears and the Seven Dwarves

performers: Olivia Adkins (Snow White); Michelle Knight (Queen); Layne Stein (magic mirror); Tony Wakim (huntsman); Jason Tibbs (Prince); Jen Vargas, Tymisha Harris, Robin Buda, Kathy Castellucci, Jose Rodriguez, Tina Fleming, & Charlie Crook (dwarves)

original songs / performer: all songs by Britney Spears — "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman"; [1:20] "I'm A Slave 4 U"; [1:45] "Boys"; [2:12] "Till the World Ends"; [2:45] "Toxic"; [3:45] "Hold It Against Me"

written by: "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" by Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, & Dido Armstrong; "I'm A Slave 4 U" by Chad Hugo & Pharrell Williams; "Boys" by Chad Hugo & Pharrell Williams; "Till the World Ends" by Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Alexander Kronlund, Max Martin, & Kesha Sebert; "Toxic" by Cathy Dennis, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, & Henrik Jonback; "Hold It Against Me" by Max Martin, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, & Bonnie McKee

arranged by: Layne Stein & Tony Wakim

release date: 29 August 2016

My favorite bits:

the flute trills in the "Not A Girl" orchestration to emulate Snow's songbird friends so that they didn't have to show them on screen

Snow harmonizing with the echo in the well

bassy Layne as the magic mirror & Tony's cameo as the huntsman

the dwarves' jaunty whistling à la "Heigh Ho" during "Boys" (and the fact that most of them are women)

using "Toxic" to underscore the Evil Queen's poisoned apple machinations 🍎

Michelle switching between two different timbres for the Queen and the Hag

the slightly spicier tone of the Prince's introduction due to the choice of "Hold It Against Me"

also, the screen-accurate costuming — Holy moly, Tony.

Trivia:

The final scene had to be filmed over the course of four days in order to get consistent lighting in the outdoor location.

Olivia later reprised her role as Snow White in several other Unexpected Musical videos, and in the Princess Academy series.

Michelle has reprised her role as the Evil Queen for many episodes of their Villains Lair series. When she appears, the visual effect of Layne's face as the magic mirror is often reused in the background.

Michelle has also played Snow White in a satirical musical called Disenchanted! that began at the 2011 Orlando Fringe Festival and had an off-Broadway run a few years later.

#PattyCake Productions #series: Unexpected Musicals #music video #jukebox musical #music medley #music #video

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Show business royalty: ‘Josie & Grace’ explores friendship between Baker and Kelly.

In September 2020, the Morris Museum mounted an outdoor production of “Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play,” starring Tymisha Harris as singer, dancer, actress and activist Josephine Baker. And this weekend — producing an indoor play for the first time since the start of the pandemic, at its Bickford Theatre — the museum is once again presenting Harris as Baker, in “Josie & Grace: A Mostly Historical Cabaret Dream Play.”

This isn’t a prequel or a sequel. “Josie & Grace” offers a complementary view of Harris, focusing on her longtime friendship with Grace Kelly, the Academy Award-winning actress who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco and became a princess. While the first play told the story of Baker’s entire life, from childhood, this one shows her only from the early ’50s (when she was already an established star) through the end of her life in the mid-’70s. But like that play, it gives a sense of her struggles and triumphs, and showcases Harris’ ability to sing in a commanding, Baker-esque style.

Kelly is first shown as an aspiring, little-known actress, attending a performance by Baker in New York. She is really just a star-struck fan. But after Baker storms out of her after-show dinner at the Stork Club, infuriated because of the poor service she receives as a black woman, Kelly leaves, too, and the two strike up a friendship.

Harris said after the show — onstage, after taking her bows — that the show is still in its workshop phase. Its biggest current flaw, I think, has to do with the next part of the show. Baker and Kelly, in their next scene together, are shown as fast friends. Beyond mentioning that Kelly had become successful as an actress (and had had affairs with some of her leading men), the play doesn’t really show how they got from Phase 1 (Baker’s a star and Kelly, 23 years younger, is a show-business neophyte) to their warm, sisterly Phase 2.

In any event, the good vibes don’t last for long. The relationship is strained when Baker is not invited to Kelly’s royal wedding. They remain estranged for years, writing polite letters but not actually seeing each other.

But they do eventually reconcile, and Kelly explains that since Baker had been “branded” a communist by the press, Rainier couldn’t afford, politically, to invite her. Baker remains suspicious, though, that racism had something to do with it, and is angry at Kelly for not taking a stand.

Kelly notes that she is always sitting back while Baker is always charging forward, which seems about right; Kelly may be a real princess, but it’s Baker who seems like a queen. (On the other hand, Kelly has a bit of a rebellious streak, too, which helps to explain why she idolized Baker in the first place.)

Baker lets bygones stay bygones, though, and they remain friends. Kelly even provides financial support for Baker, who has developed a desperate need for it. Their bond remains strong for the rest of Baker’s life.

As in “Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play,” Harris exudes diva-like charisma as Baker. Joining her and Comeau in the cast is Stephen Lima, who is never seen but is heard as several characters, including Rainier, Alfred Hitchcock (who directed Kelly in three films) and Kelly’s father.

Songs include the anthemic “Non, je ne regrette rien” (“I Regret Nothing”); catchy 20th century gems such as “I’m Feeling Like a Million,” “I Can’t Get Started” and “True Love”; and Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’ ” (which Baker did, in fact, sing, and which was also featured in “Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play”).

Aradhana Tiwari directed, and Michael Marinaccio and Tod Kimbro (who worked on “Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream Play” as well) are credited with the concept, story and script. Kimbro also wrote the play’s two original songs.

In the show’s program, the creative team notes that not much is really known about the friendship between Baker and Kelly beyond that it was deep and long-lasting. To their credit, they have created a play about it that rings true, and certainly seems consistent with everything we know about Baker.

Source: NJ Arts.

Tickets available on this link.

#grace kelly #princess grace #josephine baker #josie & grace #theatre #play #2022

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Every time we get some, here y'all come trying to steal it, putting some blonde hair on it and calling it something different.

Black Girls throughout the Bring It On franchise. - Request

#bring it on #ruinedchildhood #filmedit #movieedit #gabrielle union #solange #christina milian #giovonnie samuels #faune chambers watkins #natina reed #shamari fears #anniese taylor dendy #tymisha harris #gabrielle dennis #meagan holder #gia ré #movies #isis #camille #bynightafangirl #ours #kirresha #lina #chicago #lafred #jenelope #treyvonetta #aeysha #monica #bring it on again

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Orlando's Tushy Elf AKA Tymisha Harris

Orlando’s Tushy Elf AKA Tymisha Harris

Over the years, I’ve been following Orlando-based group Bad Santa and the Angry Elves. The music parodies rock music with raunchy Christmas-themed lyrics.

During a break, I photographed portrait shots.

The following are two pics of Tushy Elf AKA Tymisha Harris. I was hesitant to ask for a booty shot. Yet, she agreed to it.

Tymisha starred in a one woman show as entertainer Josephine…

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#Josephine Baker #Tymisha Harris

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NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!!! ********************************** This is for the 1920's Black Pinups calendar! If you have high quality 1920's photos you can choose which month you want to be featured in! Just email me at [email protected] and tell me the photographer's name and what your pinup name is (if you have one, if not that's okay). 7 months are open. Deadline is October 27, 2019. I can't wait to see your photos! -Candace Model: Tymisha Harris #blackpinupscalendar #blackpinups #pinup #blackpinup https://www.instagram.com/p/B2P-4L6FJvR/?igshid=1tfrqtweby12p

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[mirandaposse]

Day 11 recap

Well we did save the best for last. Josephine was everything we had heard it would be and more. How were we lucky enough to see a show like this at the fringe. This show was dazzling!

I can understand why people see it multiple times. Tymisha Harris has the most amazing stage presence and a voice to rival, well, Josephine Baker. This was a must see show and possibly the best show we've seen in years. We're so glad that our friend Diane was able to see it and the staff at the CULTCH were wonderful.

Next we saw Didn't Hurt. Also a very good show but it went way over time and we ended up running to our next show in the lab. The most massive woman was not our favorite show but they had some stiff competition from the 2 previous shows. We ended the nite with Destiny USA which was the perfect show to end the fringe. It was a great story which hit really close to home. It was funny and emotional and deeply vulnerable. We loved it. And then we had the beautiful full moon shining down on Granville island. Now the countdown begins for next year.

We will be seeing Rocky and Nakota on wed and The ballad of Frank Allen on thurs.

#mirandaposse #vancouverfringe #whattoseeatthevancouverfringe

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Tymisha Harris #Dancer

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Blood of the Tribades - USA, 2016

Blood of the Tribades – USA, 2016

‘The blood is the life.’

Blood of the Tribades is a 2016 American horror feature film produced, written and directed by Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein (Clickbait; Ten). The Launch Over movie stars Chloé Cunha, Mary Widow, Seth Chatfield, Tymisha ‘Tush’ Harris, Kristofer Jenson, Zach Pidgeon and Sindy Katrotic.

Plot:

Two thousand years after the great vampire Bathor established the…

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#2016 #Blood of the Tribades #Chloé Cunha #film #horror #Mary Widow #Michael J. Epstein #movie #review #reviews #Seth Chatfield #Sophia Cacciola #Tymisha &039;Tush&039; Harris #vampires

[where-vali-at]

Wednesday at the Fringe Festival

Singer/dancer/actor Tymisha Harris completely embodies Josephine Baker in this superb one-woman burlesque/cabaret/play. Worth the price of admission just to see her gorgeous fan dance.  One of the best shows I’ve ever seen at the Fringe.

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Theatre Review: Josephine Baker Was A Burlesque Cabaret Dream

Josephine Baker lived a colorful life. She played more roles on earth then she did on film. She was a French Spy, mother of 12, fierce, civil rights activist, exhibitionist, a jazz icon, acclaimed dancer, and shared sexual escapades with the top female and male artists of our time. Frankly, she deserves the title of legend because, as Tymisha Harris proves in Josephine: A Burlesque Cabaret Dream…

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Sally B.'s Dashing Revue returns on Sept. 23!

Sally B.’s Dashing Revue returns on Sept. 23!

Saturday, September 23 SALLY B’S DASHING REVUE SWING THEORY Doors 10:30 PM Live Music Burlesque Show 11 PM

Sally B.’s Dashing Revue is a classy & sassy burlesque show with a live jazz band.

Featuring Performances by: Formaldehyde Flower Tush (Tymisha Harris) Jenna Beth Kissa Von Addams

With your Host Betty Shiraz Featuring Becky Sinn and Live Music by Swing Theory!

Fancy Dress Encouraged!

Ticket…

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