Archie Drake sang 109 different roles for Seattle Opera in more than 1,000 performances over 39 seasons. He sang the last performance of the company’s “Macbeth” Saturday night, then headed home where he suffered a massive coronary and died. Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins last year described Archie Drake as “the soul of Seattle Opera.”
Tag: 05.27.06
Saatchi – The Empty Cube Online
Charles Saatchi has opened an online gallery. “In creating a site that offers to exhibit exactly the kind of outsider who will have spent the last two decades years reviling Saatchi, the millionaire collector appears to have done something innovative, even generous. But it’s only after, ooh, about ten minutes at Your Gallery that you see the emptiness of the exercise.”
Live-Ad – Come-To-London Comes To Pittsburgh
The live theatrical ad for London comes to the stage of Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre. “We thought it was a joke at first. Then we told them we wouldn’t do it unless they compensated us. They said tell us what you have in mind, we threw out a figure and they said ‘OK.’ They made it worth our while.”The Post-Gazette sent its theater critic to watch a dress rehearsal, and I can report that, at just over five minutes, it feels long, and the acting is better than what you can only call the product placement dramaturgy of the writing.