The reason for sending Dallas Morning News theater critic Lawson Taitte to last Thursday’s Green Day concert was that the punk-pop band has turned their album American Idiot into a Broadway musical. But who needs an excuse for the cross-genre critiquing? Taitte needs to go to more shows:
You can’t get any more theatrical than [Bille Joe] Armstrong himself. During the three-hour set he played many parts: foul-mouthed fallen cherub, Bart Simpson after getting into Marge’s eye makeup, a college cheerleader who majors in drama and can’t decide if his ideal role is Puck or Cabaret’s M.C. Most of all he’s playing a rock star.
2. Last week we pointed you to a few pieces that showed how 20 years after the death of legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, local fans are still looking to claim the legendary guitarist as Dallas and Oak Cliff’s own. On Gather, Bryce Westervelt reports on the failed efforts of some Cliff Dwellers to erect a memorial in SRV’s honor. Jeff Castro petitioned the city for a statue of Vaughan in an Oak Cliff park, but was turned down.
“I just don’t think (city leaders) realize how big he was.” says Castro. That’s a difficult statement to argue.
3. Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries is the third largest auction house in the world, and they are expanding. Earlier this year the company opened a Beverly Hills office, and now they have made the leap into the Big Apple. The first New York auction Heritage will hold will feature works by Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, Gil Elvgren, J.C. Levendecker, and Garth Williams’ drawing that became the cover of E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web.
