Results tagged “thewho”

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

To get the bad stuff out of the way first, because there's not a lot of it: when you are doing a musical, and your instruments are composed of anything more than an acoustic guitar and/or an upright piano, you need to mic your actors. When your band is playing amplified, electric instruments, that's especially true. Neither of the two singer/actors in were consistently amplified (handheld microphones were reserved for those scenes in which the duo was playing at a venue), and, if I hadn't been sitting about five feet from the stage, I'd imagine I would have been very annoyed with BCKSEET. It's not that the two actors, G DeCandia and Gregg Pica, didn't have powerful voices. It's not even that they weren't loud. It's simply that the unamplified human voice can't really compete with amplified electric instruments, unless they're in another room. I know that renting body mics is expensive—I was in charge of costing them out for the last show I worked on—but it's well worth the expense, in what the audience gets out of them. If BCKSEET is adamantly against or unable to mic the actors, though, it should consider turning the speakers from the pit way, way down.

What's new and/or interesting on television this week.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Thursday post only collects the latest announcements, so definitely check the Tuesday post for any you may have missed.

You know those nights when you know you should go to the gym, but you find that you're looking for any excuse to skip it? And then your friends say, "Hey, we're going for dinner at the bar around the corner from you!" And you know you should say "no" but it's too easy to say "yes"? Yeah... We need to stop saying "yes." But not to the -ist-a-verse. We'll never say no to them.

We haven't been sleeping much lately. But we realize that the internet will still be there in the morning, so we're going to start at least trying for a pre-two a.m. bedtime.

From noon until 8:30 tomorrow, the Center City District is putting on a little outdoor soiree on both 13th Street between Chestnut and Walnut Streets & Sansom Street between 12th and 13th Streets. There will be music, art, books for sale for $1 per pound (woot!) and several local restaurants and business will be out hawking their wares. For more info on the who's and where's, you can visit the Center City District Website.

Bad news, folks: PGW will be raising its rates again. The only positive thing is that it sounds like it probably won't go through until some time next year.

We're not entirely sure who the Fearless Men are, but apparently they're made of plastic and string and visited Philadelphia over the Fourth of July. And they like The Who. And that's good enough for us!

On sale: Today, 10AM, TicketMaster

- It might be bad news for Barbaro (via).

by Jim Genzano