Jun 23 Mon LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III at WESTSIDE THEATER
Jun 16 Mon 8pm Loudon Wainwright “Surviving Twin” at Westside Theater
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SURVIVING TWIN TO DEBUT IN NEW YORK CITY
Loudon Wainwright III debuts his original one-man show, ‘Surviving Twin,’ in NYC with a run of four consecutive Monday performances at the Westside Theatre in June. The 80-minute show combines new material with some of Loudon’s most well known songs & spoken word sections taken from the writing of his late father & esteemed LIFE Magazine columnist, Loudon Wainwright Jr., whose column, The View From Here was featured from 1963-1988.”‘Surviving Twin’ runs June 9, 16, 23, 30 at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd St.), at 8PM. Admission free with reservation. For tickets – email: SurvivingTwin@WestsideTheatre.com with name, number of tickets, and date you’d like to attend. Reservation confirmed upon reply from theatre.
Photo: ♦ SURVIVING TWIN TO DEBUT IN NEW YORK CITY Loudon Wainwright III debuts his original one-man show, ‘Surviving Twin,’ in NYC with a run of four consecutive Monday performances at the Westside Theatre in June. The 80-minute show combines new material with some of Loudon’s most well known songs & spoken word sections taken from the writing of his late father & esteemed LIFE Magazine columnist, Loudon Wainwright Jr., whose column, The View From Here was featured from 1963-1988.”‘Surviving Twin’ runs June 9, 16, 23, 30 at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd St.), at 8PM. Admission free with reservation. For tickets – email: SurvivingTwin@WestsideTheatre.com with name, number of tickets, and date you’d like to attend. Reservation confirmed upon reply from theatre. (Tel is 212 315 2244 for a live person but email is the only way to get a definite answer)
Loudon Wainwright, Jr. (1924-1988) was most widely known as an editor and columnist for LIFE. In 1963 he started the magazine’s first personal column, “The View From Here” which, despite interruptions, he was still writing up until his death. In 1988 Charles Champlin, then The Los Angeles Times Arts Editor wrote, “The column was always a pleasing paradox, a self revealing and even confessional voice, thoughtful, concerned and unpretentious amid the grandeurs of photo journalism.”
Throughout his 40 year career, Loudon Wainwright III (b. 1946) has recorded over 25 albums including the 2010 Grammy winning ‘High, Wide, & Handsome’ and 2012’s ‘Older Than My Old Man Now,’ lauded as one of the most sharp and poignant of his career. As an actor he has appeared on TV (“M.A.S.H.,” “Ally McBeal,” “Undeclared”), in movies (“Big Fish,” “The Aviator,” “Knocked Up”), and on Broadway (“Pump Boys & Dinettes”).
“Mr. Wainwright wrings more truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation”- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
http://www.lw3.com/
http://www.westsidetheatre.com/
Media Contact: For more information please contact Chris Taillie (ctaillie@shorefire.com), Bryant Kitching (bkitching@shorefire.com) or Matt Hanks (mhanks@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire, 718 522 7171.
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HOW IT TURNED OUT
Loudon Wainwright III – dont forget the III ! there are five Wainwrights in the culture now, much to the singer’s chagrin – is as masterful as ever in this preview translated to the stage of his upcoming album Haven’t Got The Blues (Yet), due out September 9th.
Wise, witty, and wonderfully apt in his wordpower, he regularly achieves a profound poetry in seemingly casually turned out encapsulations of the joys and obstacles of family or daily life. What he has patented is the trick of combining robust, amused objectivity in telling of life’s high and low points with great sensitivity to the currents of inner angst beneath the placid surface of WASP and other family conventions.
One of these roiling forces is his hapless jealousy of his father’s fame, which he found both “thrilling and irritating”, but which he now transmutes into the gold of universal reflections on Oedipal tension, along with a full 90 minute program of poignant and penetrating riffs on experiences as life changing as the arrival of a new baby in the household, or as simple as walking his dog.
Interleaved with his own work are numbers where he acts out with vivid emphasis a selection of his father’s columns, including a hilariously accurate telling of being measured by a sniffy Savile Row tailor for a pinstriped three piece which will camouflage his hitherto unrecognized flaws, the main one being a torso too long for his legs.
But the high points are his new and some old songs. Structured by melodies he has long used but which are as serviceable as ever, they are fascinating. amusing and stay-with-you resonating articulations of thoughts and feelings we all have had but which have never quite surfaced as language, or if they have, never been nearly so well phrased – in other words, they are typically classics. What sets them off so brilliantly is Loudon’s ever present sense of wry humor, about himself as well as everything he experiences.
His father shared this same modesty, it seems, at least in his work, which was famously writing personal columns for Life Magazine about the same quotidien events that his son addresses in song. The tender irony of the two battling it out politely for independent recognition is the theme of the son’s review of their relationship, which ended in life when his father died early at 65 of cigarettes and cancer.
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SURVIVING TWIN TO DEBUT IN NEW YORK CITY
Loudon Wainwright III debuts his original one-man show, ‘Surviving Twin,’ in NYC with a run of four consecutive Monday performances at the Westside Theatre in June. The 80-minute show combines new material with some of Loudon’s most well known songs & spoken word sections taken from the writing of his late father & esteemed LIFE Magazine columnist, Loudon Wainwright Jr., whose column, The View From Here was featured from 1963-1988.”‘Surviving Twin’ runs June 9, 16, 23, 30 at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd St.), at 8PM. Admission free with reservation. For tickets – email: SurvivingTwin@WestsideTheatre.com with name, number of tickets, and date you’d like to attend. Reservation confirmed upon reply from theatre.
Photo: ♦ SURVIVING TWIN TO DEBUT IN NEW YORK CITY Loudon Wainwright III debuts his original one-man show, ‘Surviving Twin,’ in NYC with a run of four consecutive Monday performances at the Westside Theatre in June. The 80-minute show combines new material with some of Loudon’s most well known songs & spoken word sections taken from the writing of his late father & esteemed LIFE Magazine columnist, Loudon Wainwright Jr., whose column, The View From Here was featured from 1963-1988.”‘Surviving Twin’ runs June 9, 16, 23, 30 at Manhattan’s Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd St.), at 8PM. Admission free with reservation. For tickets – email: SurvivingTwin@WestsideTheatre.com with name, number of tickets, and date you’d like to attend. Reservation confirmed upon reply from theatre. (Tel is 212 315 2244 for a live person but email is the only way to get a definite answer)
Loudon Wainwright, Jr. (1924-1988) was most widely known as an editor and columnist for LIFE. In 1963 he started the magazine’s first personal column, “The View From Here” which, despite interruptions, he was still writing up until his death. In 1988 Charles Champlin, then The Los Angeles Times Arts Editor wrote, “The column was always a pleasing paradox, a self revealing and even confessional voice, thoughtful, concerned and unpretentious amid the grandeurs of photo journalism.”
Throughout his 40 year career, Loudon Wainwright III (b. 1946) has recorded over 25 albums including the 2010 Grammy winning ‘High, Wide, & Handsome’ and 2012’s ‘Older Than My Old Man Now,’ lauded as one of the most sharp and poignant of his career. As an actor he has appeared on TV (“M.A.S.H.,” “Ally McBeal,” “Undeclared”), in movies (“Big Fish,” “The Aviator,” “Knocked Up”), and on Broadway (“Pump Boys & Dinettes”).
“Mr. Wainwright wrings more truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation”- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
http://www.lw3.com/
http://www.westsidetheatre.com/
Media Contact: For more information please contact Chris Taillie (ctaillie@shorefire.com), Bryant Kitching (bkitching@shorefire.com) or Matt Hanks (mhanks@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire, 718 522 7171.
————————————————————-
HOW IT TURNED OUT
Loudon Wainwright III – dont forget the III ! there are five Wainwrights in the culture now, much to the singer’s chagrin – is as masterful as ever in this preview translated to the stage of his upcoming album Haven’t Got The Blues (Yet), due out September 9th.
Wise, witty, and wonderfully apt in his wordpower, he regularly achieves a profound poetry in seemingly casually turned out encapsulations of the joys and obstacles of family or daily life. What he has patented is the trick of combining robust, amused objectivity in telling of life’s high and low points with great sensitivity to the currents of inner angst beneath the placid surface of WASP and other family conventions.
One of these roiling forces is his hapless jealousy of his father’s fame, which he found both “thrilling and irritating”, but which he now transmutes into the gold of universal reflections on Oedipal tension, along with a full 90 minute program of poignant and penetrating riffs on experiences as life changing as the arrival of a new baby in the household, or as simple as walking his dog.
Interleaved with his own work are numbers where he acts out with vivid emphasis a selection of his father’s columns, including a hilariously accurate telling of being measured by a sniffy Savile Row tailor for a pinstriped three piece which will camouflage his hitherto unrecognized flaws, the main one being a torso too long for his legs.
But the high points are his new and some old songs. Structured by melodies he has long used but which are as serviceable as ever, they are fascinating. amusing and stay-with-you resonating articulations of thoughts and feelings we all have had but which have never quite surfaced as language, or if they have, never been nearly so well phrased – in other words, they are typically classics. What sets them off so brilliantly is Loudon’s ever present sense of wry humor, about himself as well as everything he experiences.
His father shared this same modesty, it seems, at least in his work, which was famously writing personal columns for Life Magazine about the same quotidien events that his son addresses in song. The tender irony of the two battling it out politely for independent recognition is the theme of the son’s review of their relationship, which ended in life when his father died early at 65 of cigarettes and cancer.
