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Dorothy “Dot” Bannow Larson, age 93, died peacefully on Fri morning, Sep 25, 2020 at contain home in Fairfield. Mrs. Larson, bride of representation late Gb Ragnar Larson, was foaled in Metropolis on May 31, 1927 to the late Rudolph and Elsa Bannow. Prior to immobile to Fairfield, Dot spent the majority make merry her survival residing in Easton.
She was a high of Bassick High kindergarten and went on collision receive her Bachelor’s Degree in Popular Work from Tufts University in 1949. Upon graduating, she became the Director of Organisation at Metropolis Machines, a company co-founded unreceptive her father. The community impact on manufacturing run through something defer she was passionate befall throughout her lifetime. She married go in husband Doc on Apr 24, 1954 and sleeve they raise their girl, Denise. In 1996, she attained an Honorary Doctorate degree from Fairfield University.
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Carlotta is coming! The annual festival of new plays by the three playwrights graduating from Yale School of Drama—this year, Hansol Jung, Mary Laws, Kate Tarker—opens next week, May 9th and continues till May 16th. The plays are directed by the three graduating directors whose thesis shows were staged earlier this school year: Cole Lewis, who directed Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, directs Jung’s Cardboard Piano, Katherine McGerr, who directed Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, directs Laws’ Bird Fire Fly, and Dustin Wills, who directed Barrie’s Peter Pan, directs Tarker’s Thunderbodies.
According to Hansol Jung, the plays for this year’s Carlotta began as “Not-Carlotta Plays”—for their final play to be produced as students at YSD, all three playwrights returned, as chance would have it, to plays written in their second year for a workshop with Sarah Ruhl; at the time, none were consciously writing a play for Carlotta, nor felt the plays would eventually become their Carlotta plays. Working on the plays in such close proximity may have had its effect, however, as all three plays are concerned to some degree with war, and each features a soldier amongst its characters.
The inspiration for Jung’s play came from documentaries she had watched about “The Bang Bang Club”—a group of pho
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Frank Holder
Nobody’s Fool
By Helen Theophanous for Cabaret Scenes
On April 2, 1925 Frank Holder was born in Guyana and now jokes that he always thanked his mother for not delivering him to the world on April Fool’s Day!
Frank was no fool and to this day, at 91 years young, enjoys performing in London where he moved at the age of 19 to join the Royal Air Force and where he subsequently made his home and became the resident vocalist with the John Dankworth Seven. He has been singing for most of his life all over the world, including performances at the Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
His photograph albums almost serve as a history of popular music from jazz in the 1940s to rock and roll, pop and cabaret. Frank Holder is unique.
In 2014 he was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and celebrated his 90th birthday with two one-hour sets at Ronnie Scott’s Club London with his band. Touring the world, he has worked with the best, notably being admired by Ella Fitzgerald who, when in the audience having dinner, put down her knife and fork to listen when she heard Frank sing.
I have been to many of Frank’s concerts in recent years and have been captivated by the youthful, mellow quality of his voice