Here is the link to the auction page where you can check out all the stuff that’s available. Looks like alot of great items and we will take a look at some of the winning bids next week. The two most intriguing items to Eddie are listed under the “one of a kind” tab.

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The Scot Bruce Up Close and Personal package includes four premium house seats to Elvis: The Early Years starring Scot Bruce at ASF on August 16, 2010. This sure-to-be-sold-out concert is actually on the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death 33 years ago! You and your guests will also enjoy getting up close and personal with Scot and the band during an intimate backstage cocktail dinner and photo op before the The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll takes the stage.

The concert is August 16, 2010.  Dinner is at 6:30pm and the concert begins at 7:30pm.

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Step on stage! Win a walk-on role in ASF’s 2010 holiday show. You’ll give one star-making performance after a little rehearsal time with the cast and crew.

Good for ASF’s 2010 holiday play only

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Harriet’s Return is a one woman show based upon the life of Harriet Tubman.

It will be playing at ASF  from  Fri Feb 05 to Sun Feb 28

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue over seventy slaves[1] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women’s suffrage.

Karen Jones Meadows is a mega talent and we will have an exclusive interview with her  sometime next week.

In the meantime check out her website and see what people are saying about the show.

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Updated 15 Feb 2010

We would like to thank the very gracious staff at the King Parsonage Museum for allowing us the opportunity to film there. Karen was very excited  about being there and that enthusiasm helped   inspire some of the great footage that we obtained.

Eddie saw the show last weekend and it didnt disappoint. Because a full exclusive  review will appear in the next issue of RSVP Magazine we will keep this short. The show was awesome and a

Marvel in Modern Day Storytelling

The stage version of the play will be performed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival now through 24  December 2009.

Get your tickets at ASF.net

Here is a GreatNews Video edited using some original footage mashed with an official ASF  commerical. This video also appears on a sidebar channel

This is our Jib-Jab created version of the show staring Eddieographer, Meg Lewis, Jt and Leanne and Scot Bruce

Hopefully we will have a chance to see the show soon.

In the meantime here is a killer  review from Michael Howley of TheatreMontgomery Blog.

– “What do you want for Christmas?”
– “..a legendary official Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action range model air rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built into the stock.”
– “You’ll shoot your eye out!”

These lines are repeated frequently in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s delightful production of Jean Shepherd’s “A Christmas Story” adapted for the stage by Philip Grecian, and brought to life under Geoffrey Sherman’s clever direction by a company of professional actors and local students recruited from many Montgomery schools.

Anyone who has seen the television movie version — and there were plenty in the audience for its sold out opening performance — anticipates this dialogue and many of the signal moments in the life of nine-year-old Ralphie Parker: his imaginative adventures as a cowboy, his school friends and the local bully, the friend who gets his tongue stuck to an icy lamppost, the delivery of a leg lamp, an outrageous pink bunny pajama set, the unchanging meat-loaf and red cabbage dinner, and numerous exploits and anticipation on the way to Christmas morning’s opening of presents.

And we see all of this through the lens of the grown up Ralphie reminiscing on his childhood in Depression Era Indiana, as he vividly conjurs his family, friends, teachers, and local characters for us to see…but more on this later.

The young student ensemble is top notch: from Hailey Covington’s unnerving depiction of Helen — the science wiz who can also fight like a boy; to MaryKathryn Samelson as Ralphie’s younger brother Randy who always “has to go wee-wee” and hides in the most unlikely places; to Jackson Massey’s bully, Scut Farcas, who gets his comeuppance in right good fashion; to Riley Segars’ portrayal of Flick — the bully’s victim; to Claudia Hubbard’s always patient Esther Jane, and to Schwartz [Nathan Looney], Sarah [Helen Taylor], and Bob [Matthew Sailors] who participate fully in each scene.

But attention must be paid to Seth Meriwether as Ralphie. No stranger to the ASF stage [he has appeared in "A Christmas Carol: the Musical", and made a significant impression in both "Over the Tavern" and "Richard III"], this young actor is in the process of mastering a comic technique and complex characterizations and already exhibits a high degree of proficiency and maturity. — In “A Christmas Story”, he is so natural in the role, and such a likeable personality, that we are continually engaged in his dilemmas and cheer him on to success.

The adults in Ralphie’s life — his Mother [Sandy York], his Father, the “old man” [Bryant Mason], and his teacher, Miss Shields [Jennifer Lyon] — are more than cut-out versions of adults that children often perceive. Yes, they do have their foibles and peculiarities, yet: Ms. York is so unassuming in the role of the Mother, that we are delighted when she can supply answers to the trivia her husband is attempting to discover, and admire her ability to be the real strength in the family; Ms. Lyon’s magical portrayal of the ever-optimistic teacher is a scene-stealer; and Mr. Mason’s pompous “old man” with his “catalogue of invective…and…lexicon of curses” belies his compassionate treatment of his wife and children.

In a tour de force performance as the narrator — Ralphie’s grown-up self who can “triple-dog-dare you” to not love this show –Rodney Clark pulls out all the stops as the lively and masterful storyteller, a man who realizes the impact his childhood experiences had on him, an understanding of the adults who molded him with their love, an ability to see both the serious and the comic in life’s everyday occurrences, and an actor’s flexibility in developing each of these parts so completely and believably.

Thanks to Shepherd’s [and Grecian's] wonderfully descriptive and insightful and imaginative dialogue, to a design team that provide the illusion of a nostalgic past, and to Sherman’s sense of the comic proportion of this story, the stellar performances usher in a delightful Christmas season in Montgomery.

Joy Lambert of WAKA channel 8 told us that…

ASF’s A Christmas Story was like being a fly on the wall in the classic movie, every moment executed just as you remember it, it really brings you into the story… and really made me want a leg lamp!

A Christmas Story at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival is Great News Montgomery.

Scot Bruce is coming back to perform sooner than expected. His 2 big shows in August had the audience screaming for more and now he is back with John Mueller, the only artist endorsed by the family of the immortal Buddy Holly, in Shake Rattle and Roll.

There will be individual and duo sets.

That should be one heck of a trip down memory lane!

Show is on 23 October 2009. Check ASF.net for details.

Here are a couple more original Scot  Bruce photos from his Elvis-The Early Years show in August. There is also a virtual copy of RSVP Montgomery magazine below with a great review of this show on page 36.

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Monday October 5
FGCA 50th Anniversary Celebration. Please join us in celebrating our Golden Anniversary with the year of families. Special Guest Speaker Mr. Henry Winkler
Tickets: $50
For more information or to purchase by phone call 334.270.4100 or Toll Free: 800.499.6597

The Family Guidance center is a nonprofit organization that has been providing quality services for Alabama’s families since 1959.

Who didnt love Henry Winkler as Arthur Fonzarelli?

IMDB credits him with appearances in over 250 episodes of Happy Days

You all know that Henry Winkler also  starred in movies like The Waterboy and Night Shift but many dont know he is an accomplished children’s book writer as well.

Check out Hank Zipzer

Here are a few pictures from ASF

We will take a in depth look at the upcoming season in the coming weeks. Very curious to see how ASF will market this slate of shows.

If any other Elvis lover is wondering if this guy is the real deal, check out a couple of the better  quality  videos we found on youtube.
Cant help falling in love performed at Disneyland with his  cool cats

and Devil in Disquise

Scot performing “Don’t Be Cruel” at Disneyland.

Click neon Elvis to transport to his site for more pictures

or just stay here and watch some Elvis/Bruce video on this post and sidebar channels

Here are a few pictures from the night and more will be added in time

Margaret Murphy feels the era

Sweet looking ladies pose in front of sweet looking ride

Gone with the Wind collector extraordinaire Saundra Voter and her granddaughter came all the way from Columbus,Ga to see the show.

We are sure they are the Belle Watlings of any Ball they attend

As with all our posts keep checking back for more…

Updated 22 Sept 2009

Check out our review of this great show in the Sept/Oct issue of RSVP Montgomery magazine

Go to page 36 and Find Applause and Appraise in the virtual issue below.

Rsvp and Scot Bruce are Great News Montgomery!

Rsvp and Scot Bruce are Great News Montgomery!