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While the festival included some presentations - one was on the history of underground comix, another featured Art Spiegelman - the publisher's ballrooms are the reason everyone shows up. Because the festival excludes mainstream and "genre" houses, the publishers who concentrate on singular artistic visions get a targeted demographic to die for. Consequently sales for these oftentimes one-woman operations far exceed those at most other conventions. Filled with interesting and often hard-to-find singularities, it becomes the best comicbook store in America for one day. So now it's getting crowded...
Even with more commercial works that play the regionals with one eye on the ultimate prize--Broadway--the audience participates in a more direct way. Last winter Ellen Burstyn played the title role in Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, a one-woman stage adaptation of Allan Gurganus' best-selling novel, which had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. She was still stumbling a bit (engagingly, catching herself with a casual "I mean ...") as she tried to master the demanding part, but audiences had the frisson of being present at the development of what may (when...
...Some reservists who own small businesses have come home to find that their operations have collapsed. Erica Srednicki, 29, hopes that won't happen to her. Srednicki's orders came through in February, just when the Army reservist was getting her one-woman Morgantown, W.Va., catering service off the ground. With only two days' notice, she did some recruiting of her own. Her friend Chris Pigott and her mother Linda Srednicki have stepped in, and so far, it seems to be working. Though Linda lives 2? hours away and has a full-time job, she knew she was her daughter...
Cserny’s ability to step up when Peljto is not carrying the team is an exciting sign for the future. Peljto spearheaded the Crimson offense throughout most of the season. Yet when Harvard faced top-25 opponents like Boston College, Vanderbilt and Minnesota, Peljto’s one-woman show needed supporting actors to rise to the occasion...
...Greek has a good starting point. The movie was, after all, just a long sitcom episode. It was built from a 1996 routine that Nia Vardalos, a graduate of the comedy troupe Second City, did about her Old World family meeting her Hispanic husband. It then evolved into a one-woman play that Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks' wife, saw in 1997. Wilson approached Vardalos and suggested turning the play into a movie. Vardalos was one step head, having already written a screenplay. It took more than four years to get a studio to make and distribute the film, in part...