I had an idea come to me in a dream last night...

...A Midsummer Night's Dream, a la The Rocky Horror Show, with the lovers as Brad and Janet types, and Oberon or Puck as Frank N. Furter.

Picking myself up and dusting off...

Clara Barton Green

appearing in Donna's Late Night Cabaret

Manahattan Repertory Theater
303 W. 42nd St (at 8th Ave.), 3rd Floor.
Upstairs from the Laugh Factory entrance on 42nd Street
212-352-3101

All tickets $10
Tickets available at Theatermania.com

Seven Shows Only:
Friday and Saturday Nights in May
At 10:30 PM

www.themerrymonthofmay.com

A racy, campy, silly pop-broadway-jazz cabaret revue of Shakespeare-influenced songs written by award-winning songwriter Donna Stearns. (No steeenking madrigals!) The program features her songs ripped from the Bard's plays and her critically-acclaimed, "Best-Of-The-Fest" musical All The World's A Stage.

Basically, it's a revue throwing together a bunch of themes and lovers from the well-known comedies (As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Two Gentleman). Some of the songs have Shakespearean text, some are modern. I play Celia--a closeted Celia with a crush on Rosalind--and I have one fantastic torch song ("Come Away, Death") and a great duet with Ros. (I sing other stuff too, but that's the main goods.) My May 6 Rosalind is GREAT--we have great chemistry together and I love working with her. I haven't yet rehearsed with my May 19 Ros but she seems very sweet. Per usual, *some* of the men are, uh, of questionable ability/experience but the women (in my cast) are generally excellent.

The revue runs every Friday and Saturday night in May, but I only perform on May 6 and May 19. Remember that! May 6 and May 19 at 10:30!!

Shallow, Clothes-Oriented Post

Today I pulled out my purple tweed Kenneth Cole skirt--it has a delicious dark purple velvet ribbon at the waist. I paired it with my lilac tight turtleneck and and rhodanite-and-amethyst pendant on the long silver chain. Then, thinking I needed to relieve all of that purple, I decided to add some orange accents--orange hair clip, orange lip gloss, sunflower-face watch with orange polka-dot fabric wrist band and my witchy-toed orange suede CFMs with awesomely spiky heels.