Just weeks after the New York Yankees took home their World Series pennant, North Central High School students will step back into the 1950s, another era of Yankee dominance.
Published November 13, 2009 02:00 pm - EXTRA!: Play Review: VSU's 'Damn Yankees'VSU hits home run with ‘Damn Yankees’PLAY REVIEWBy Dean PolingThe Valdosta Daily TimesVALDOSTA — Valdosta State University Theatre & Dance earned a well-deserved, opening-night standing ovation for “Damn Yankees.”The musical production scores a home run.Jacque Wheeler, show director, has...
Published November 12, 2009 09:58 pm - Night Moves for Friday, Nov. 13, 2009Here’s what’s happening tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, according to items submitted.Alley Oops: 1832 Hamilton Ave., Jennings, Fla., starts 9 p.m. DJ spins Latin Night.The AmVets: 728 E. Hill Ave., starts 9 p.m. DJ T-Bone spins “Old School.”The Bistro: 132 N. Ashley St. Lillian Luckey, a Valdosta musician,...
Katie Holmes is an actress who grew up in a close-knit Catholic family in Toledo. He was involved in theater for her school for girls and then as Lola in the musical "Damn Yankees". His role in this production from high school prevented him from auditioning for "Dawson's Creek" but the producers wanted for the role and agreed to a rescheduling hearing and subsequently recorded his...
November 11, 2009 11:37 pmNight Moves for Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009Here’s what’s happening tonight, Thursday, Nov. 12, according to items submitted.The AmVets: 728 E. Hill Ave., starts 9 p.m. DJ Killa Groove spins.The Bistro: Downtown Valdosta. Lillian Luckey, a Valdosta performer, plays.“Damn Yankees”: Sawyer Theatre, VSU Fine Arts Building, corner of Oak and Brookwood, show...
**I wrote this yesterday, but couldn't post it because the power went out. The power's back on, so Happy Veteran's Day a day later.** There has become a tendency in American culture to assign the label "hero" to anyone who does the difficult, the frightening, or the unpleasant. Our society has become so hungry for heroes that we give the label to anyone and render it almost a useless word....
Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal have teamed up in the upcoming war drama, ‘Brothers‘. The film follows the lives of a woman, who believes her husband to be dead in the war, and her brother-in-law (Gyllenhaal). Just as Portman’s character begins to move on from the death of her husband (Maguire), she discovers [...] Related posts: Jim Carrey, Jake Gyllenhaal to star...
Actor Nigel Harman plays a celebrity spin doctor in the world premiere of Sam Peter Jackson’s comedy Public Property. Having appeared earlier this year on Shaftesbury Avenue opposite James McAvoy and Lyndsey Marshal in a big-budget production o...
Saturday, November 7th, my half-birthday, the Yomiuri Giants won the Japan Series by beating the Nippon Ham Fighters 2-0 at the Sapporo Dome. Yet again, just as in 1981, the Giants beat the Fighters in the Japan Series 4 games to 2, and for the Giants, this was their 21st Japan Series title, which of course is still almost double the next-highest winning team, the Seibu Lions with 13 titles. If you...
The life of Vince Lombardi, who revived the Green Bay Packers franchise and became the tough-minded icon of coaching success, is the subject of a new play that may come to Broadway.
The life of Vince Lombardi, who revived the Green Bay Packers franchise and became the tough-minded icon of coaching success, is the subject of a new play that may come to Broadway.
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New Line Cinema has attached both Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal to star in a contemporized feature adaptation of the classic musical "Damn Yankees." Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script. more