We at Ageless North Shore are avid readers of the local press. In fact, we subscribe to many publications. One such publication isSheridan Road. Apparently we subscribe under the name RESIDENT.
For those of you strapped for time we have reviewed the 118 glossy pages of the current issue and can give you a glimpse of “The People and Lifestyles that make up Chicago’s most luxurious and exclusive address—The North Shore.”
Want to leave a major carbon footprint? Looking for some personal transportation? How about a Learjet 31A? It flies at over 500 MPH with a range of 1,500 statute miles at 43,000 feet. You might be thinking, gosh, is this the right time to buy? Has the “pre-owned jet” market bottomed? Well, prices are apparently stabilizing and going higher, so the time to buy is now.
August 11 and 12, the North Shore’s newest theater company La Red Music Theatre performed a theatrical feat, creating four 15-minute musicals, Famous Last Words, written, composed, rehearsed and produced in just 48 hours. Jessica Redish, founder and artistic director of La Red, chose quotes at random from a book of “famous last words,” read them to the composers, told them who their actors would be, and 48 hours later four mini-musicals came to life on the stage of the Highland Park Community House.
Even if our minds hadn’t been boggled by the speed of this process, we would have been delighted by the results: witty, sweet, poignant, funny stories, sung and acted with professional prowess by a talented cast of singer/dancer/actors, backed up by Keith Harrison on piano and music by six composers. Imagine a very short Broadway musical, a cast of one (or two or three) with the bare-boards aesthetic of a Chicago storefront theater, and you start to get the flavor of La Red’s Famous Last Words.
The concert: Heroes of Woodstock, Genesee Theater, July 31, 2009
Some half million young people converged at Max Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York 40 years ago this month. For this generation, the impact of this event quickly outweighed that of the spectacular moon landing which had transpired just a month earlier.
The concert: Heroes of Woodstock, Genesee Theater, July 31, 2009