Beauty Love Truth
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A revolving cast of some of the best improvisers come to improvise a play inspired in the moment by the guest musician. That’s Beauty Love Truth!Next show: Thursday Sept 27 at 8pm at PIT with Stephan Said and Matt Koff (Last one at the PIT!)
Thursday, Sept 27, 8pm at The PIT 123 E 24th BTW Park & Lex (new location!) MORE INFO
Musical guest STEPHAN SAID will play his music to inspire improvised scenes. Nothing is planned; it’s all improvised. You will never see this show again!
Featuring an INTRODUCTION by MATT KOFF who will speak on the subject of Beauty Love AND/OR Truth.
This month’s IMPROVISERS include:
Angela DeManti (The Weird Sisters, Magnet)
Matt Higgins (Centralia, Burn Manhattan)
Bradford Jordan (Story Pirates, PIT)
Nick Kanellis (Trike, Story Pirates)
Roy Koshy (Yes Andersens, Magnet, PIT)
Shannon Manning (Second City, IO, UCB, “Conan”)
Doug Moe (“Doug Moe is a Bad Dad,” UCB’s MOTHER, “30 Rock,” “Conan”)
Louie Pearlman (Story Pirates, The Spidey Project, Buckshot N Benny)Read BLT Q&A with Stephan Said by Kaitlin Fontana here.
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Stephan Said is tonight’s guest for Beauty Love Truth
TAKE A STAND - Lyrics:
Here comes the cacophony polyphony the great big symphony
Bright light shining through the night of misery
Song ringing ‘round the world about unity
in hip-op-folk-rap-rock-punk-country
We all know that we’re all one family
Couple billion leaves growin’ on the same tree
All we ever wanted was to be free
Can someone please help me with some harmony
‘Cause I wrote a little song you can sing along
With words so easy it won’t take you long
No matter how you sing you can’t go wrong
Cause the melody’s easy and the backbeat’s strong
It’s ok, it’s ok
We’re gonna make it to the day together
Take a Stand, Take A Stand, Take a Stand!
In every land, ‘cause we all want the same thing!
Just to be free!
So take my hand and Take A Stand, Take a stand!
This one’s going out to my brother’s in the hood
My brother’s in the hood ‘cause I always knew you would
This one’s going out to my family in Iraq
Holding out hope while the big bomb’s drop
Going out to my blood in Israel
We’ll never get to heaven through the gates of hell
Argentina Venezuela Mexico
Todos Santos in Bahia Samba Ranchero
To my West Virginia home in the hills so high
I hope I’m in your arms on the day I die
Africa America Europe Asia-Australia
Let the spirit start flowing into you
It’s alright, it’s alright
We’re gonna make it through the night
Take a Stand, Take A Stand, Take a Stand!
In every land, ‘cause we all want the same thing!
Just to be free!
So take my hand and Take A Stand, Take a stand!
When I got up this morning I was feeling so free
That all I want to do is go and sing ad sing
About how we could all live happily
Would someone please tell me what’s got into me?
cacophony polyphony the great big symphony
Bright light shining through the night of misery
Song ringing ‘round the world about unity in hip-op-folk-rap-rock-punk-country
A little ditty you can sing along
with words so easy it won’t take you long
No matter how you sing you can’t go wrong
Cause the melody’s easy and the back beat’s strong -
tonight’s guest for Beauty Love Truth is Stephan Said, who did this great Arab Spring piece with our filmmaker friend Matt Kohn.
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tonight’s guest for Beauty Love Truth is Stephan Said, who did this moving anti-Iraq war protest song with Pete Seeger and Dean Ween.
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A revolving cast of some of the best improvisers come to improvise a play inspired in the moment by the guest musician. That’s Beauty Love Truth!
Next show: Thursday Sept 27 at 8pm at PIT with Stephan Said and Matt Koff (Last one at the PIT!)
Thursday, Sept 27, 8pm at The PIT 123 E 24th BTW Park & Lex (new location!) MORE INFO
Musical guest STEPHAN SAID will play his music to inspire improvised scenes. Nothing is planned; it’s all improvised. You will never see this show again!
Featuring an INTRODUCTION by MATT KOFF who will speak on the subject of Beauty Love AND/OR Truth.
This month’s IMPROVISERS include:
Angela DeManti (The Weird Sisters, Magnet)
Matt Higgins (Centralia, Burn Manhattan)
Bradford Jordan (Story Pirates, PIT)
Nick Kanellis (Trike, Story Pirates)
Roy Koshy (Yes Andersens, Magnet, PIT)
Shannon Manning (Second City, IO, UCB, “Conan”)
Doug Moe (“Doug Moe is a Bad Dad,” UCB’s MOTHER, “30 Rock,” “Conan”)
Louie Pearlman (Story Pirates, The Spidey Project, Buckshot N Benny)Read BLT Q&A with Stephan Said by Kaitlin Fontana here.
JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT
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Photo reblogged from Immutable/Inscrutable
And now without shame and devoid of irony I present some improv-comedy dressing-room inspiration. (Taken with Instagram at The People’s Improv Theater (PIT))
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Beauty Love Truth returns Thursday with musical guests Ko-Lition, opener Mike Doughty and a cast including John Murray (30 Rock), Matt Weir (Cool Cars and Science) and our featured cast member today - Betsy Todd. Get to know her better below:
3 things you have done, invented and/or thought!
1. THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT LIKE MIME ARE MIMES.
2. INVITED AMY SEDARIS UP TO MY OFFICE AFTER SEEING HER ON THE STREET (SHE ACCEPTED)
3. SEEN MOUNTAIN GORILLAS IN THE WILD
3 things in the future (immediate or far) that you’re looking forward to:
1. THE BLT SHOW ON THURSDAY!
2. OYSTERS
3. LIVING ON PLANET OF THE APES
What springs to mind when you hear:
1. BEAUTY! WATER
2. LOVE! CATS
3. TRUTH! MORNING
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The BLT Q&A: Ko-Lition
By Kaitlin Fontana
This coming Thursday’s BLT performance will be a history making one; it’s the first time that the musical performers will be a hip hop group. In this case, the Brooklyn-bred brother duo known as Ko-Lition, whose influences run the gamut from hip hop to jazz to electro and back again, and whose production company, See It Live, encompasses not only their independent spirit but also their mantra: all music is better live. Fitting, then, to have them take to the stage at BLT.
No doubt this change in musicality will effect everything from the scenework to the tone of the show in ways that are exciting even to think about. And that’s really hip hop at its best: when we get excited about it, when it’s a vital, refreshing art form. Rock stopped being new a long time ago—when we get excited about it it’s usually because it sounds so like something we loved before. Hip hop still has a great capacity for surprise, and that’s why having Ko-Lition take the stage at Beauty Love Truth will be a unique experience. You should probably be there.
Tell us a truth from your lyrics.
BLT sat down with Ko-Lition for a chat.
Our song “Blindsided” has a lyric which says “Mom said show your heart let her see/Pops said never wear your heart on ya sleeve/So we’ve always struggled with love both giving and receiving…”
What’s your first memory of something beautiful?
Us coming up with a dance routine to perform in front of our family and the look of approval they all had.
What’s something/someone you love that it would surprise people?
Broadway plays. What’s good is good—you can’t fight it.
Tell us something true.
Faith is useless without works.
What’s one thing in your life that is beautiful, you love and is true?
Madeline Johnson, our Nana. Beautiful and true.
The aliens have landed and one asks you to explain beauty/love/truth [choose one]. How do you explain it to them?
We tell them beauty is subjective and undeniable.
You have a new album called Love Jazz Robotz. What is a love jazz robot?
Love Jazz Robotz is a representation of our start in the music industry thus far. It tells stories, makes love, and represents that stagnant feeling you get when you’re told to do music the way everyone else does—like a robot.
You’re brothers. What’s hard about being brothers that work together? What’s easy about it?
Well, we’re two different people so creative ideas are always flowing and don’t always mesh. But because we’re brothers we don’t have to worry about conflicts. At the end of it all, it’s us pushing each other to be better artists and people.
Catch Ko-Lition live at Beauty Love Truth, this Thursday August 30, 8pm at the PIT (123 E 24th Avenue).
(Please help us spread the word via the Facebook event, and link to Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, Tumblr, or your preferred buttons below.)
Kaitllin Fontana is a Beauty Love Truther who is also the author of “Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records,” out now on ECW Press.
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On the last Thursday of every month a revolving cast of some of the best improvisers come to improvise a play inspired in the moment by the guest musician. That’s Beauty Love Truth!
Next Show: Thursday, August 30 at 8pm with Ko-Lition at PIT 123 E 24th BTW Park & Lex (click for more info)
Check out their new album on iTunes
TICKETS
Featuring an INTRODUCTION by MIKE DOUGHTY who will speak AND/OR sing on the subject of Beauty Love AND/OR Truth.
This month’s IMPROVISERS include:
Kaitlin Fontana (Buckshot ‘n’ Benny, CTV’s “The Party“)
Shannon Manning (Second City, IO, UCB, “Conan”)
John Murray (“30 Rock” UCB: Death By Roo Roo)
Louie Pearlman (Story Pirates, The Spidey Project, Buckshot N Benny)
Natasha Rothwell (UCB, PIT, Just for Laughs, Story Pirates)
Erik Tanouye (“BP Spills Coffee”, Onion News Network, UCB: Curfew, Neighbor Boy)
Betsy Todd (UCB, Magnet, “Battle of the Bozos”)
Matt B. Weir (Cool Cars and Science, We’re Matt Weir)JOIN THE FACEBOOK EVENT
Next show after that:
→ THURS, SEPTEMBER 27 at 8pm with musical guest Stephan Said and intro by Starlee Kine (NPR)
Check out recent radio program Cat Radio Cafe with Janet Coleman and David Dozer on WBAI.
PART II mp3 download or listen online (starts at 5 minutes in.) -
Hello Beauty Love Truthers! Our show with Bob Dorough (Schoolhouse Rock!) at The PIT is only two days away! Here is a Q&A from Lauren Sharpe, a new player with Beauty Love Truth. Enjoy, and get tickets to the show here!3 things you have done, invented and/or thought!
1. In grade school I created a very realistic Marie Curie puppet for a presentation and insisted on doing all subsequent projects that year on her life.
2. I once rode in a boat pulled by dolphins during a show at SeaWorld.
3. I have yet to invent anything of note yet, but when I do, I know the protocol. I’ll write down the idea and send it to myself via USPS or something.
3 things in the future (immediate or far) that you’re looking forward to:
1. I’m always looking forward to my next meal. Always.
2. It’s strange, but even as I appreciate moving through this summer, I’m already having pangs of longing for autumn weather.
3. I hope to have an exciting overseas adventure very, very soon. To where, I’m not sure, but somewhere green.
What springs to mind when you hear:
1. BEAUTY! - an open field
2. LOVE! - a hand on my back
3. TRUTH! - hearts exploding (in a good way)
Anything else you want to share with your adoring public?
See you this week!
