Tommy Chong tokes up at Mainstreet
One could reasonably say that comedian Tommy Chong has a one-track mind. For the half-Chinese, half-Scotch / Irish half of the dissolved comedy duo of Cheech and Chong, the conversation never strays far from marijuana. And you can be sure that Chong's current stint of three performances at Ann Arbor's Main Street Comedy Showcase will play off variations on this familiar theme.
Grassy Knoll bullets to the top
In the nether world of ambient, acid jazz, fusion style and dub techniques, The Grassy Knoll sounds off a unique yawp above the digitized din. Composer Bob Green summarizes the helter-skelter trials of everyday life through instrumental music that is in constant flux from demanding to soothing.
Valente impresses all at UMS opener
Rarely does one find a performance that encompasses not only technical genius, but the subtlety and emotion only the greatest artists can achieve.
The audience assembled at Rackham last Friday night experienced the enchantment of soprano Benita Valente and equally moving pianist Cythia Raim - an impressive opener for the 118th University Musical Society season.
Moving 'Carousel' triumphs
On the face of American musicals, there is no partnership that has had a greater effect than Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. With the ground-breaking and hugely successful "Oklahoma!," Rodgers and Hammerstein, who began their collaborative efforts in the '40s, wrote musicals in a way that has since often been copied and has rarely, if ever, been eclipsed.
'Politics' turns ordinary into extraordinary
Alchemist. Archeologist. Historian. Storyteller. Meredith Monk transcends the title of artist.
Without distinctions between disciplines, Monk's pieces, fusing movement, music, voice, film and theater, flesh out human issues, connect different layers of reality and give extraordinary meaning to the ordinary.
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