Friday, 27 June 2008
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Mango
Artist: Mango
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Ti Porto in Africa
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Disincanto
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
I Grandi Successi CD-1
Year: 2001
Tracks: 10
Visto Cosi
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
Credo
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Dove Vai: Live
Year: 1995
Tracks: 13
Come L'acqua
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Sirtaki
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Inseguengo L'aquila
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Adesso
Year: 1987
Tracks: 12
Odissea
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
Australia
Year: 1985
Tracks: 9
La Mia Ragazza Un Gran Caldo
Year: 1982
Tracks: 9
Arlecchino
Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
Pino Mango - E' Pericoloso Sporgersi
Year:
Tracks: 9
 
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Paul Sills, founder of the famed "The Second City" comedy group, dies at 80
CHICAGO - Paul Sills, one of the founders of the improvisational comedy group "The Second City," which has turned out some of North America's best-known comedians, died Monday. He was 80.
Sills died at his home in Baileys Harbor, Wis., of complications from pneumonia, said his daughter, Aretha Amelia Sills.
The troupe said in a statement on its website Monday that "the influence of Paul Sills on the American Theatre can not be exaggerated."
Sills helped found the comedy institution in 1959, along with its precursor "The Compass Players." Second City helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Stephen Colbert and Mike Myers.
"Somehow he ended up making the careers of dozens and hundreds of other people," said Jeffrey Sweet, who interviewed Sills in his book "Something Wonderful Right Away: An Oral History of The Second City and The Compass Players." "Not a year has gone by that somebody coming out of (Second City) hasn't achieved major stardom."
Even though Sills was not looking for commercial or financial success, Sweet said, he found it in Second City. The group celebrates its 50th anniversary next year with stages in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Las Vegas and Canada and has a reputation for training actors who go on to NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and Hollywood.
"I don't think he even particularly wanted it to happen," Sweet said. "He was never interested in product. He was always interested in the journey."
Sills was inspired by his late mother, Viola Spolin, who created hundreds of improvisational games used to train generations of actors. Sills followed in her footsteps and was known as a guru of improvisation.
He also created the New Actors Workshop in New York in 1987 along with director Mike Nichols and colleague George Morrison.
Sills' play, "Story Theatre," was nominated for a Tony Award in 1971 and he published a book in 2000, "Paul Sills' Story Theater: Four Shows."
"It was always this vision that he had that he was trying to reach for," Sweet said. "He's probably the most influential person in the theatre that general people don't know about."
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On the Net:
The Second City: http://www.secondcity.com/
See Also
Monday, 2 June 2008
Taraf De Haidouks
Artist: Taraf De Haidouks
Genre(s):
Folk
Retro
Discography:
Band of Gypsies
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Musique Des Tziganes De Rouman
Year: 1991
Tracks: 15
Honourable Brigands, Magic Ho..
Year:
Tracks: 16