Two shows make for interesting dynamics!

We have two shows of very different themes running currently at the Ordway. The show in our main hall is "Whistle Down the Wind" which has a sort of Christian theme to it. The other in our smaller cabaret theatre is "The Rocky Horror Show." It amuses me, and my staff, to see the audience of both shows converge, since they have the same start time. One audience is a lot of church ladies, the other is a more "goth" crowd, with audience members dressing up as characters in the show. Can you guess which is which? :) Here are a couple of photos of the difference between the two shows' audiences. (the one from Rocky Horror is the actual cast we have).

New Favorite TV Program

I enjoy trying to catch the new fall TV programs, and to find something that really really grabs me and reigns me in. "Alias" had done that, "Six Feet Under" had done that. My new favorite show this fall is on ABC and called "Pushing Daisies." For one thing, it has a narration by the incomparable Jim Dale, a British "voice" who recorded/read all the Harry Potter books for CDs and Book on Tapes. The cinematography is very cool, the script is really fun and smart. It's about a man named Ned, who discovers as a small boy that he can "raise the dead" by touching them. BUT for only one minute, if longer that "being" will stay alive, but someone else will die. It's not morbid or sad, it's very intriguing and thoughtful and funny. And it has Kristen Chenoweth! Gotta love that! She sings in episode two! Hurrah! Try it out if you haven't yet. Then switch to NBC for "Bionic Woman", and then back to ABC for Peter Krause in "Dirty Sexy Money." Ahhh, television.... (the photo is from "Pushing Daisies" Ned runs a pie shop called, very humourously, The Pie Hole - how clever is that!)