Alexandra Silber's Blog, page 28
July 2, 2017
NPR: All Things Considered
July 1, 2017, 5:34 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
Michel Martin
If you know any musicals at all, then you probably know the beloved Fiddler on the Roof. It tells the story of the dairy man Tevye and his family, and it's set in the town of Anatevka in czarist Russia.
In the musical, and second eldest daughter, Hodel, makes the bold decision to leave her family and everything she knows to find her fiancé, who has been sent to a labor camp in Siberia. As she boards the train, Hodel says...
June 30, 2017
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The...
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The...
June 27, 2017
"She Enters The Room" from After Anatevka in Concert
Ryan Silverman"She Enters the Room" from AFTER ANATEVKA in CONCERTbased on the novel AFTER ANATEVKA read and written by Alexandra Silber
Music by Joe Thalken
Lyrics by Joseph Amodio
Performed by Ryan Silverman (Dmitri)
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Chapter 44: The Book of Dmitri
Dmitri Pavlovich Petrovsky had been born with twines of music lodged tight about his heart. Like a rusted barbed-wire, it clutched at him and the harder he struggled, the deeper the barbs would cut. The wounds festered,...
June 20, 2017
ASK AL: Best Acting Books
Dear Al, What are some standard acting books everyone should read?
David S.
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Dear David,
Wonderful question!
Of course acting books, like all books, are very subjective. Sometimes one can read a certain book and get very little out of it, whilst someone else can read the exact same book and have their perspective changed forever.
The lesson – you have to peruse them all.
Often, the exact same person can return to a text at a different place in their life, and have a mind-explosion they could...
June 6, 2017
Ask Al: Vocal Health Part 3: HEALING
Silly sicky bear. Shoulda taken his Airborne.Dear Al, Following up on your Vocal Protection and Vocal Maintenance posts, I’m wondering what you do once you are sick or under the weather,, your voice is damaged or in crisis without too much worry?
Sincerely,
Jonathan
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Dear Jonathan,
Fantastic follow up question!
Before delving in to any tips and trick, I will begin here [by *healthily* yelling]:
&nbs...
June 2, 2017
"Let Love In" from After Anatevka in Concert
Ron Raines"Let Love In" by Matthew Sklar and Amanda Green Based on Alexandra Silber's AFTER ANATEVKA from Pegasus Books
Read by John Cullum and sung by Ron Raines (Chekhov)
at Symphony Space, NYC,
2017
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Chapter 29, The Man in the Bar
Perchik had always been driven by other forces, just as he had in the winter of 1903 when he stumbled into Moscow before he ever met Hodel.
University was not the dreamworld Perchik had imagined, and thus, he had unceremoniousl...
May 31, 2017
‘The Journey’ by Mary Oliver
‘THE JOURNEY’ by Mary Oliver
from New and Selected Poems, Volume 2
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road fu...
from New and Selected Poems, Volume 2
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road fu...
May 29, 2017
The Death Bed
(7 weeks on)
A week or so after the incident with the cat Grey headed home for Thanksgiving, slated to return to his creative den as soon as possible to continue work on his model for NIDA[1] .
Left alone to our own devices, Kent suggested it might be time to start thinking about changing The Death Room— to look forward.
“A new bed, for sure” he said, “perhaps some paint, a little classic Cath-ay DIY?”
“Great idea” Mom said, and three hours later, Kent and I...
A week or so after the incident with the cat Grey headed home for Thanksgiving, slated to return to his creative den as soon as possible to continue work on his model for NIDA[1] .
Left alone to our own devices, Kent suggested it might be time to start thinking about changing The Death Room— to look forward.
“A new bed, for sure” he said, “perhaps some paint, a little classic Cath-ay DIY?”
“Great idea” Mom said, and three hours later, Kent and I...
May 26, 2017
#LoveList - Stuff I Love (& actually use) - LIFESTYLE
1. THINX - @shethinxNow don’t freak out: but menstruation has long been a taboo subject in society, yet, it is one of the oldest and most natural things in the history of the world. Long has “the period” been the butt of terrible jokes, totally normal hormonal fluctuations blamed for totally unreasonable female insanity, and the very practical, natural, and totally universal ins and outs of the PERIOD approached with disgust, embarrassment and taboo.
No longer. Not according to Th...
May 24, 2017
Seeing the final book for the very first time...
The final hardback copy of AFTER ANATEVKA arrived today from Pegasus Books.Dear Hard-working dreamers everywhere,
Dreams come true.
Keep dreaming.
Don't wait for permission.
Work Hard.
Above all?
...Keep going.
