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Thrillpeddlers sadly announces that soon after an astounding record-breaking 22 month run, its award-winning production of PEARLS Over SHANGHAI, San Francisco's longest-running Cockettes Musical Hit will close on Sat. April 9, 2011 (remaining functionality schedule' see beneath). What started as a two-month limited engagement in June 2009 will have played for nearly TWO YEARS! PEARLS has unanimously received rave evaluations from critics and audience alike. It's a phenomenon that keeps on expanding. PEARLS More than SHANGHAI plays Fri. and Sat. at 8 pm in February, March & April (thru April 9, 2011). Thrillpeddlers' Hypnodrome Theatre is located at 575 10th Street, in SF. (Bryant & Division Sts.) Tickets are $30 gen. admission or $35 for 'Shock Boxes' and 'Turkish Lounges'*** and are available at or by calling 800/ 838- 3006
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The final performance (Sat. April 9) will be a special Gala with a post-performance reception with the Cast & Crew. Many performers who have been in Pearls will be in attendance. Tickets for the April 9 functionality are $100 each.
2011 Remaining dates for PEARLS Over SHANGHAI are:
March (Fri. 8 pm / Sat. 8 pm) March 11/12, 18/19, 25/26
April (Fri. 8 pm / Sat. 8 pm) April 1/2, 8/9
Composer Scrumbly Koldewyn plays piano for all PEARLS performances in the guise of Ilse, the propriortess of the whore house. San Francisco favorites Veronica Klaus and Katya Smirnoff-Skyy are the local divas alternating in the role of Petrushka, first created by disco diva Sylvester in the original productions. Notable local performers in cast rotation are, Arturo Galster, Steven Satyricon, Jef Valentine, Birdie-Bob Watt, Leigh Crow, Flynn DeMarco, and director Russell Blackwood as the hilarious Mother Fu.
NEWS FLASH: VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical coming to Hypnodrome ' April 22 ' July 31, 2011.
Thrillpeddlers is in rehearsal with composer Scrumbly Koldewyn's revival of the gothic horror
extravaganza VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical. First performed during Halloween in 1972, VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical reunited DIVINE with other members of the recently disbanded troupe, The Cockettes and legions of their drug-crazed fans for a last hoorah on stage at The Palace Theatre in North Beach. VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical is based on Edgar Allen Poe's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (or more precisely the hallucinatory film version starring Vincent Price). In Thrillpeddlers full-length version of VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical, Scrumbly has retained and expanded much of the original score and incorporated hits from The Cockette repertoire along with several new songs. VICE PALACE:
The Last Cockettes Musical opens at The Hypnodrome April 22 ' July 31, 2011.
PEARLS More than SHANGHAI
An original musical by Link Martin (book/lyrics) and Scrumbly Koldewyn (music), PEARLS Over SHANGHAI is the centerpiece of Thrillpeddlers' 2nd annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, and marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Cockettes, a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated this show, but exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies to glitter rock stars (such as David Bowie and the New York Dolls) and their outrageous fashions. PEARLS is a psychedelic musical inspired bysin-soaked Old Shanghai and Busby Berkeley movie musicals from Hollywood's Golden Age.
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The final performance (Sat. April 9) will be a special Gala with a post-performance reception with the Cast & Crew. Many performers who have been in Pearls will be in attendance. Tickets for the April 9 functionality are $100 each.
2011 Remaining dates for PEARLS Over SHANGHAI are:
March (Fri. 8 pm / Sat. 8 pm) March 11/12, 18/19, 25/26
April (Fri. 8 pm / Sat. 8 pm) April 1/2, 8/9
Composer Scrumbly Koldewyn plays piano for all PEARLS performances in the guise of Ilse, the propriortess of the whore house. San Francisco favorites Veronica Klaus and Katya Smirnoff-Skyy are the local divas alternating in the role of Petrushka, first created by disco diva Sylvester in the original productions. Notable local performers in cast rotation are, Arturo Galster, Steven Satyricon, Jef Valentine, Birdie-Bob Watt, Leigh Crow, Flynn DeMarco, and director Russell Blackwood as the hilarious Mother Fu.
NEWS FLASH: VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical coming to Hypnodrome ' April 22 ' July 31, 2011.
Thrillpeddlers is in rehearsal with composer Scrumbly Koldewyn's revival of the gothic horror
extravaganza VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical. First performed during Halloween in 1972, VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical reunited DIVINE with other members of the recently disbanded troupe, The Cockettes and legions of their drug-crazed fans for a last hoorah on stage at The Palace Theatre in North Beach. VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical is based on Edgar Allen Poe's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (or more precisely the hallucinatory film version starring Vincent Price). In Thrillpeddlers full-length version of VICE PALACE: The Last Cockettes Musical, Scrumbly has retained and expanded much of the original score and incorporated hits from The Cockette repertoire along with several new songs. VICE PALACE:
The Last Cockettes Musical opens at The Hypnodrome April 22 ' July 31, 2011.
PEARLS More than SHANGHAI
An original musical by Link Martin (book/lyrics) and Scrumbly Koldewyn (music), PEARLS Over SHANGHAI is the centerpiece of Thrillpeddlers' 2nd annual Theatre of the Ridiculous Revival, and marks the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Cockettes, a gender-bending theatrical troupe who not only originated this show, but exerted a profound influence on the culture of our times, from the phenomenon of midnight movies to glitter rock stars (such as David Bowie and the New York Dolls) and their outrageous fashions. PEARLS is a psychedelic musical inspired bysin-soaked Old Shanghai and Busby Berkeley movie musicals from Hollywood's Golden Age.
The Piano's Essential Mechanism System - Component 1
The piano, has a lot in common with other types of musical instruments, of course it has its variations at the same time. It has a lot in common together with the Violin, Harp, Guitar, Zither, Dulcimer, in its becoming stringed. It also resembles the Drum, Triangle, Cymbals, Tambourine, Dulcimer, in its becoming dependent on percussion for the production of its tone; and needless to say you will find similarities for the Organ, Clarinet, Concertina, in its being keyed.
Nevertheless it differs from all of these instruments in the following critical points. Firstly, in its getting dependent around the player's approach of finger push around the crucial for its high quality of tone. Secondly, in its becoming dependent on rapidity of finger push for its quantity of tone and thirdly, in its being dependent on keys for the signifies of producing percussion. The actual mechanism of percussion, namely, the hammers, being reachable only through the pressing in the keys.
It really is almost certainly from a want of appreciation of this final reality, that the piano has come to become regarded as rather as a keyed instrument than as a stringed a single.
The distinctive feature of the piano is, then, the method of its crucial mechanism.
As the seat of tone, the wire, is made to sound only by a series of communication, beginning together with the key, it really is for that reason necessary to understand the method by which this communication is carried out and kept open.
The piano key is, generally, a lever that is lifts the hammer that strikes the string. It really is a lever from the 1st class, its fulcrum, or prop, lying between the energy along with the weight. In the case in the piano, this fulcrum, or centre on which the lever functions, is placed about halfway among its two ends, the hammer (with some little intermediate mechanism) getting the weight, as well as the finger the power acting on it. The extremely restricted location should be noticed inside which the action in the crucial is confined.
The instant aspect of tone would be the hammer. The hammer, by implies of intermediate mechanism, becoming in direct and close contact with all the far end in the important, is raised when the near end is depressed by the finger or any weight; and the force with which the hammer is made to strike the string is in proportion for the speed brought to bear around the piano key by the finger in the moment of the push. Quantity of tone is as a result the result of the quantity of rapidity utilised in putting down the important.
When the string has been struck by the hammer, the hammer falls back instantly, to permit the string to vibrate freely. This fallback on the hammer is, nevertheless, not a return for the position occupied by it ahead of the stroke; it will not fall fully back till the essential is permitted to rise. When the piano key rises, the hammer returns to its original position, and is prepared for the subsequent essential push.
It really is of great importance for the student to don't forget that the hammer is always at some distance in the wire. Except throughout the very quick period of time spent in striking; that following getting struck the wire it leaves it instantaneously to assume the half position described above; and that it's powerless to complete any a lot more function until following the essential has been allowed to rise.
The piano, has a lot in common with other types of musical instruments, of course it has its variations at the same time. It has a lot in common together with the Violin, Harp, Guitar, Zither, Dulcimer, in its becoming stringed. It also resembles the Drum, Triangle, Cymbals, Tambourine, Dulcimer, in its becoming dependent on percussion for the production of its tone; and needless to say you will find similarities for the Organ, Clarinet, Concertina, in its being keyed.
Nevertheless it differs from all of these instruments in the following critical points. Firstly, in its getting dependent around the player's approach of finger push around the crucial for its high quality of tone. Secondly, in its becoming dependent on rapidity of finger push for its quantity of tone and thirdly, in its being dependent on keys for the signifies of producing percussion. The actual mechanism of percussion, namely, the hammers, being reachable only through the pressing in the keys.
It really is almost certainly from a want of appreciation of this final reality, that the piano has come to become regarded as rather as a keyed instrument than as a stringed a single.
The distinctive feature of the piano is, then, the method of its crucial mechanism.
As the seat of tone, the wire, is made to sound only by a series of communication, beginning together with the key, it really is for that reason necessary to understand the method by which this communication is carried out and kept open.
The piano key is, generally, a lever that is lifts the hammer that strikes the string. It really is a lever from the 1st class, its fulcrum, or prop, lying between the energy along with the weight. In the case in the piano, this fulcrum, or centre on which the lever functions, is placed about halfway among its two ends, the hammer (with some little intermediate mechanism) getting the weight, as well as the finger the power acting on it. The extremely restricted location should be noticed inside which the action in the crucial is confined.
The instant aspect of tone would be the hammer. The hammer, by implies of intermediate mechanism, becoming in direct and close contact with all the far end in the important, is raised when the near end is depressed by the finger or any weight; and the force with which the hammer is made to strike the string is in proportion for the speed brought to bear around the piano key by the finger in the moment of the push. Quantity of tone is as a result the result of the quantity of rapidity utilised in putting down the important.
When the string has been struck by the hammer, the hammer falls back instantly, to permit the string to vibrate freely. This fallback on the hammer is, nevertheless, not a return for the position occupied by it ahead of the stroke; it will not fall fully back till the essential is permitted to rise. When the piano key rises, the hammer returns to its original position, and is prepared for the subsequent essential push.
It really is of great importance for the student to don't forget that the hammer is always at some distance in the wire. Except throughout the very quick period of time spent in striking; that following getting struck the wire it leaves it instantaneously to assume the half position described above; and that it's powerless to complete any a lot more function until following the essential has been allowed to rise.
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