Urinetown, something of an intro

Some time ago, someone from the Talon Marks staff told me about the upcoming play, "Urinetown."

I stood in shock for a moment. I couldn't have heard that right. Perhaps it's called "You're in Town?"

No, it's called "Urinetown."

Feb. 5 and 6 are the audition dates at 6 p.m.

All I got from the Cerritos theater page is a list of characters and brief descriptions.

I looked up on Urinetown's Website that it won the following awards:
- three Tony Awards (2002),
- three Outer Critics Circle Awards (2002),
- two Lucille Lortel Awards (2002),
- Drama Desk Awards (2001) and others.

Richard Zoglin, Time Magazine, said it's "Better than The Producers."

According to the Wikipedia entry, it is a satire of capitalism, socialism, bureaucracy, corporate management and small-town politics.

It also parodies Broadway shows such as Les Miserables, Evita, Annie and West Side Story.

Being a fan of parodies, I'll be looking forward to this play.

Reciprocity

reciprocity: (n) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence.

Works of Brian Moss and Sandra de la Loza went on display a couple days ago in the art gallery. I went to the opening reception last night and I have to say, their photography was something eye-catching and unique.

There was one series from each artist that particularly impressed me.

De la Loza's Family Photo Series was really quite interesting.

The photos are portraits with the people in them cut out with a different background in place of them.

I've spent a bit of time trying to understand what she's trying to say. I can't think of anything other than they are unique and interesting photos.

Moss' Durmire (or Where am I when I'm asleep?) series, I thought was really neat.

It is a series of blurry photos with people lying in bed.

It put forth the theme really well and I was able to relate to it a little more (it's art, everyone can interpret it differently) because I wear glasses. I always see blurry when I go to sleep and when I wake up because I don't have my glasses on.

Moss doesn't wear glasses so that's obviously not what he's going for.

These two photo artists' work will be on display until Feb. 19.

Unfortunately, it appears there will not be an artist walkthrough, which I enjoy so much.