Seattle Gay News
Issue 11, Volume 39, March 18, 2011
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT SGN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The Lincoln Lawyer author Michael Connelly You gotta have Faith SGN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
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Michael Connelly
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN Contributing Writer
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by Eric Andrews-Katz SGN A&E Writer Billy Elliot The Musical March 22 through April 3 Paramount Theatre Faith Prince has performed many roles on Broadway: an octopus sea witch, a jazz club chorine, the wife of a Gay man, and a stripper, among numerous others. Her talent is undisputable, earning her several Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critic Award nominations and wins. She has appeared with the Seattle Men’s Chorus, as well as the Boston and Philadelphia Pops. It is as Mrs. Wilkenson, the ballet teacher from Billy Elliot The Musical that brings Ms. Prince back to Seattle. Eric Andrews-Katz: What started your interest in musical theatre? Faith Prince: I have to say it was probably seeing Peter Pan at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, when I was a kid. I went with a see faith page 33
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If author Michael Connelly isn’t a household name, it isn’t for lack of effort. The writer of over 20 successful pulp thrillers, 16 of them revolving around hardened investigator Harry Bosch, his works have sold over 42 million copies worldwide and been translated into 35 lan-
An interview with Billy Elliot ’s Faith Prince
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guages. He’s had numerous New York Times #1 bestsellers, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992, and saw his book Blood Work turned into a major motion picture by none other than director and star Clint Eastwood in 2002. In short, he’s a busy and highly successful guy, and even if his name is unfamiliar chances are many of his characters probably are not. Connelly was in Seattle to chat about the adaptation of his novel The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey as fast-talking Los Angeles defense attorney Mickey “Mick” Holler. It is the second of his works to make it to the big screen, and even though the author is extremely pleased
Faith Prince
by Milton W. Hamlin SGN A&E Writer
Jenny Graham.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival opened its 76th season (“the first of the next 75 years”) late last month with four solid productions that ranged from an audience-pleasing production of To Kill A Mockingbird to a witty updating of a Moliere classic to a controversial rethinking of a Shakespeare “problem play.” Ticket sales for the 2011 season are seven percent ahead of the record-breaking 75th anniversary season, and contributed income is even higher than last year. Things are looking good for the beloved theater festival in the tiny town of Ashland in southern Oregon.
Scout (Kaya Van Dyke) and Atticus (Mark Murphey) in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Hollywood stars ask Obama to legalize starts 76th year with four same-sex marriage new productions
week asking him to make marriage equality a reality for the American people. The letter read:
Dear Mr. President: In February, you made a powerful statement about the law. Invoking guarantees enshrined in the Constitution, you and the attorney general determined that federal discrimination against Gay and Lesbian Rev. Peter Morales, couples in marres, ene DeG tia Por and n Elle brities who signed riage is unconstiand Mya were among 32 cele nt tutional. Thank a letter to Preside Obama you for taking a principled by Shaun Knittel stance and an important step toSGN Associate Editor ward equal protection under the law for all Americans. In conjunction with Freedom Today we ask you to take the to Marry’s “Say I Do” campaign, next step and join the majority Hollywood stars sent a letter to President Barack Obama this see letter page 32