Dress rehearsal — Harps and Angels
Dress rehearsal tonight for CTG staff and friends and family…. I’m nervous but I take solace in knowing the cast and crew of Harps and Angels are fuckin NINJAS! SINGING Ninjas. People will be like, “Wow, where’s that beautiful singing coming from?” And we’ll be like “HI-YAA!” And rip their faces off… artistically speaking.
xoStorm
Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels
Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels | Nov 10 – Dec 22, 2010
Four-time Tony winner Jerry Zaks is coming to Los Angeles where he will collaborate with Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman on a new musical production. More at LATimes.com
The music and lyrics of one of America’s most beloved songwriters, will be featured in the world premiere of Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels, which has music and lyrics by Randy Newman, and is conceived by Jack Viertel. Randy Newman’s witty, complex, bittersweet and often satirical songbook is at the heart of this new work, in which the personal and the socio-political entwine creating a compelling, honest and humorous commentary on what it is like to be born, grow up, fall in love, and live and die in America.
Katey Sagal, Michael McKean and Storm Large are members of an outstanding cast.
The cast of Randy Newman’s “Harps and Angels” features (in alphabetical order) Ryder Bach, Storm Large, Adriane Lenox, Michael McKean, Katey Sagal and Matthew Saldivar.
More Details: CenterTheatreGroup.org/Harps
Center Theater Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CTGLA
Cooking Up a Storm
| Storm Large improvises in the kitchen |
The sexy singer who belted out rock anthems on the reality TV show “Rock Star: Supernova,” and wrote and starred in her autobiographical one-woman show, cannot color inside the lines.
“I’m kind of a dork — I don’t really measure anything,” says Storm Large, pouring water from a teakettle into a pan of crackling-hot quinoa grains. “I probably should.”
Instead, she riffs. Yams — one of her favorite vegetables — are simmered with shallots until soft, then puréed with blood orange juice. “God was drunk when he made blood oranges. And Megan Fox,” she says appreciatively, squeezing the fruit and watching its vermilion-colored juice drip into a bowl.
Minutes later she opens the blender jar, bends to smell the deep auburn soup, spoons out a taste and pauses to consider her creation. “It’s gonna be weird. It’s gonna be awesome. No — you’re gonna thank me.”
She moves to the stove to tend to Part II of the midday meal, a pan of simmering quinoa, cooked grains she will toss with roasted brussels sprouts and carrots, turkey bacon and mushrooms, and a garlicky vinaigrette. As Edith Piaf’s voice soars through the kitchen speakers, Large grabs a bottle of Bragg Liquid Aminos and pours a glug into the vinegar-oil mixture. The flavor booster, popular with vegetarians, adds a nice, fat mouth feel, she says, “like soy sauce but better for you.”
The 6-foot singer, barefoot and in yoga pants and a T-shirt, says she’s addicted to organic vegetables, loves salads and currently has a thing for Green & Black’s bittersweet chocolate. She started cooking school in Portland before being pulled away by a regular gig at Dante’s nightclub. So it makes sense that in her bungalow kitchen, shallots — not onions — sit on her cutting board, real (organic) butter is in the refrigerator, and black lava sea salt and reduced balsamic vinegar sit on the shelf. “I always add vinegar (to roasted vegetables) because it totally brings out the bright.”
There’s not a recipe in sight — just a few nice knives, some heavy-bottomed saucepans, lots of fresh vegetables.
That’s really all she needs.
Good ingredients. An appetite. And her imagination.
Read more at OregonLive.com
The Nervous Breakdown
Great interview on The Nervous Breakdown. My friend Q designs all my CD Covers and is a phenomenal writer (she’s a regular contributor to TNB) and set me up with the lovely Gloria Harrison. It was a great day with some weapons grade female brains…and tacos.
PART I
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/
PART II
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/
xoStorm
Edinburgh Festival
“Storm Large is one of the finest performers I have seen in Edinburgh.” source
“Had my mind blown by Storm Large tonight. She sang, made me laugh, then cry.” source
“Storm Large at The Underbelly is phenomenal – like watching a live concept album and she’s the concept” source
“My fav Edinburgh show: Storm Large at the Underbelly. Deranged and glorious and moving US singer.” source
That’s just a sample of some of the reviews coming in. Check out the links below for more reviews and interviews from Storm’s trip to Edinburgh Festival, and click here for event times and tickets.
5 Star Review From The Scotsman
5 Star Review From EdinburghGuide.com
News of the World: Storm Large reigns at the Fringe
A musical memoir with bawdy tales
Skip This Post If You’re Easily Offended
10 Questions: An Interview with Storm Large
Are you Crazy Enough for Storm Large?
Edinburgh Tonight Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkGII5EY5s#t=11m35sThe Edinburgh Fringe Show 2010 #7 – Is It Better To Have Loved and Lost?
(audio interview starts at 33:01)Storm Large is Crazy Enough to wow the Fringe and everything else
Video Interview With Neal B.
Neal B. of NealB.tv sits with Storm to discuss the first song she wrote, her influences, her parents reaction to pursuing a musical career and more in this two part interview exclusively from WTBL TV (Willing To Be Lucky TV)
Portland Sings For Haiti
James, Scotty Weddle and I performed a couple of songs in support of the CD “Portland Sings For Haiti” (all proceeds going to Mercy Corps). The show is called “Keep It Local” (videos below).
Besides my terribly huge sweater that makes me look like my water’s about to break… it sounds pretty good. xoStorm
Why Marriage Matters
“Marriage Matters To Me is a grassroots campaign to get Oregonians talking to each other about marriage equality. The most important and influential conversations we have are with the people we know and care about. For the many Oregonians who believe that extending civil marriage to same sex couples is a matter of basic fairness and respect, Marriage Matters To Me is an easy and powerful way to start that conversation.” Learn more at the websites below-
http://marriagemattersoregon.org/takeaction.html
http://www.basicrights.org/
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