| Everybody loves Sweet Charity
8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, through July 8. Where: Sarofim Hall, Hobby Center, 800 Bagby Tickets: $29-$92; 713-558-8887 Role of a lifetime Renowned film actress Giulietta Masina originated the role of mistreated yet eternally optimistic streetwalker Cabiria in Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning Nights of Cabiria (1956). Broadway legend Gwen Verdon scored perhaps her greatest triumph as Charity Hope Valentine in the 1966 Broadway smash Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse. Shirley MacLaine gave one of her most appealing performances as the bubbly Charity of Fosse's 1969 film version, his screen directing debut. Houston's Debbie Allen boosted her Broadway creds with her well-received Charity in the 1986 revival, a faithful re-creation again directed by Fosse.
Spacey, Redgrave, Angel, Gray and More Set for June 6 Stars in the ...
Among those scheduled to appear are Hairspray's Ashley Parker Angel, Rent's Tamyra Gray, Heartbreak House's Swoosie Kurtz, Chicago's Joey Lawrence, The Year of Magical Thinking's Vanessa Redgrave and A Moon for the Misbegotten's Kevin Spacey. The morning event will feature performances and/or appearances from most every production currently playing on Broadway. Among this year's participating shows are Beauty and the Beast, Chicago, Company, Coram Boy, Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, Frost/Nixon, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, Heartbreak House, Inherit the Wind, Jersey Boys, Journey's End, Legally Blonde The Musical, Les Misrables, The Lion King, The Little Dog Laughed, Mamma Mia!, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Phantom of the Opera, The Pirate Queen, Radio Golf, Rent, Spring Awakening, Talk Radio, Tarzan, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Wicked, Xanadu and The Year of Magical Thinking.
An art nomad finds a home — Gigi Mills
Like the kaleidoscopic and fleeting manifestations of nature, every color and texture in Mills’ paintings seems as if it could change in the blink of an eye. During a recent interview at the gallery Mills opened in September 2006 with painter Nina Tichava, Mills talked about her life. As she spoke, it became apparent that Mills’ fluid compositions reflect her willingness to embrace change — and occasionally to step into the unknown. Mills’ mother was a dancer who moved from England to the United States shortly after World War II to work in the Mills Brothers Circus. Mills’ father was one of the circus’s owners. Gigi grew up hearing her mother’s stories about working in British vaudeville — stories about arriving in new towns almost every week and walking from house to house, searching for cheap lodging.
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