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Friday Geek Out: Wonderfalls

How would you feel if one day a stuffed animal spoke to you? Jaye Tyler thinks she must be going insane. Over the course of the 13 Wonderfalls episodes, Jaye is given directions to help people from an array of inanimate animals. A sampling: From the wind-up penguin:...

Friday Geek Out: Bonnie Tyler: “Tire Tracks & Broken Hearts”

Sometimes the Geek Outs are planned in advance, and sometimes they just kind of hit me out of nowhere. This is one of those out of nowhere ones. This song has lived on my iPod for a long time. It’s been a favorite since I saw the Andrew Lloyd Webber – The...

Friday Geek Out: Rent

Tuesday night this week was fantastic. I saw Rent for the first time in nearly three years (it was my 11th time to see the show). The last time I was at the Nederlander Theater was Thanksgiving 2004 when Drew Lachey was playing Mark (and he was pretty good too). This...

Friday Geek Out: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

I’ve Geeked Out on a previous Gerry Anderson TV show a few months ago with Space: 1999. This show, from 1967, was shot in Anderson’s trademark Super-Marionation, which many U.S. fans remember most from Thunderbirds. Captain Scarlet focuses on Spectrum, Earth’s...

Friday Geek Out: Beauty & The Beast

One of my favorite 80s shows has shown up on DVD this year. Beauty & The Beast Season 1 hit stores just in time for Valentine’s Day and Season 2 was released just last week. It has been wonderful revisiting this series, which I was a faithful viewer of...

Friday Geek Out: “Defying Gravity” from Wicked

There are moments in theatre (too few, honestly) that can cause goosebumps. One of those moments comes at the end of the first act of Wicked, the musical about what was going on in Oz before Dorothy arrived. The set up is pretty simple, Elphaba discovers that the...