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Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
HMS Christmas Greetings
I had to share this, if this doens't put you in the mood for Christmas nothing will--and BTW the guys well HELLO there gorgous!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
The night before the night before Christmas---poetry
The Night before the night before Christmas
The neighbors had all gathered
To celebrate in style a glorious festive season
The Lynch's had decorated the halls
to the Victorian hilt, nothing standing still was festooned.
The kitchen was a glow with decadent gluten free treats
The appetizers were simply and utterly divine.
Presents came out by the bag
Grandpa Holiday in his Red Christmas
Mistletoe Socks and matching suspenders
Looked ever so handsome and dapper.
With Grandma in her knee high socks and sequined blouse
The socks were striped like big long candy canes.
That children were all a buzz in excitement and joy
To see what their presents beheld.
The wine was a plenty
The merriment was light.
Supper was soon ready
Dished up and served in style
The parlor a glow in white lights
Velvet napkins on every plate.
I sat tonight my heart overflowed
For neighbor's like mine
Who are closer than family.
Who share in my glory's
And suffer in my pain.
Christmas would not be Christmas
Without the night before
the night before Christmas
At the Lynch's!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Washington DC Gay Men's Chorus Re-Imagines Nutcracker
Six years ago, Craig Cipollini was the Nutcracker prince in a Gay Men's Chorus of Washington production. Now, he's the king. That is to say, he's calling the shots as director of the revived and re-imagined Men In Tights: A Pink Nutcracker
''It's a very different production from the last one. It's really fresh, really fun,'' says Cipollini, who also choreographed the revival, to be staged next weekend at Lisner Auditorium. The first half of the show features over 200 singers plus an orchestra performing holiday choral music. The second half focuses on the gay Nutcracker, with 24 cast members and the chorus.
This time around, not only does the lead female role of Clara become Clarence, the tale also becomes ''a gay love story'' between Clarence and the prince. ''The brother Fritz is jealous because he wants the prince for himself," says Cipollini. "That's where the fight ensues from.'
Cipollini has carried over the original production's Sugar Plum Fairy, comically played by a drag queen. ''His looks are along the lines of the Ugly Stepsisters in Cinderella: very garish and over-the-top, larger-than-life,'' Cipollini says. ''Not the prettiest girl you've ever seen.''
''The two leads are really, really phenomenal dancers. They're just going to blow people away,'' says Cipollini, who started dancing when he was a teenager, growing up in the Baltimore area. He recently retired from performing with the DC Cowboys.
After some time as a ''starving actor'' and stage performer -- ''I was usually dancer boy No. 3'' -- he turned to choreography, working with a few theaters in Baltimore until he moved to D.C. seven years ago. And now, in addition to volunteer choreographer by night, he's the chorus's business manager by day.
Cipollini has never actually sung with the chorus. He doesn't plan to, either.
''I'm enjoying the behind-tne-scenes creative process much more than [I did] performing,'' he says.'
A Pink Nutcracker is Friday, Dec. 17, and Saturday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. Also Saturday, Dec. 18, and Sunday, Dec. 19, at 3 p.m. Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $50. Call 202-994-6800 or visit gmwc.org.
''It's a very different production from the last one. It's really fresh, really fun,'' says Cipollini, who also choreographed the revival, to be staged next weekend at Lisner Auditorium. The first half of the show features over 200 singers plus an orchestra performing holiday choral music. The second half focuses on the gay Nutcracker, with 24 cast members and the chorus.
This time around, not only does the lead female role of Clara become Clarence, the tale also becomes ''a gay love story'' between Clarence and the prince. ''The brother Fritz is jealous because he wants the prince for himself," says Cipollini. "That's where the fight ensues from.'
Cipollini has carried over the original production's Sugar Plum Fairy, comically played by a drag queen. ''His looks are along the lines of the Ugly Stepsisters in Cinderella: very garish and over-the-top, larger-than-life,'' Cipollini says. ''Not the prettiest girl you've ever seen.''
''The two leads are really, really phenomenal dancers. They're just going to blow people away,'' says Cipollini, who started dancing when he was a teenager, growing up in the Baltimore area. He recently retired from performing with the DC Cowboys.
After some time as a ''starving actor'' and stage performer -- ''I was usually dancer boy No. 3'' -- he turned to choreography, working with a few theaters in Baltimore until he moved to D.C. seven years ago. And now, in addition to volunteer choreographer by night, he's the chorus's business manager by day.
Cipollini has never actually sung with the chorus. He doesn't plan to, either.
''I'm enjoying the behind-tne-scenes creative process much more than [I did] performing,'' he says.'
A Pink Nutcracker is Friday, Dec. 17, and Saturday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. Also Saturday, Dec. 18, and Sunday, Dec. 19, at 3 p.m. Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $50. Call 202-994-6800 or visit gmwc.org.
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