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Here's your chance to play TAE...

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/tlg/1175310274.html

And just think, they won’t even charge pay you to play him! (Despite the $10-12 ticket prices.)

(Of course, the play may also be raided by the grammar police.)

— MordEth

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Seeking a Thomas Edison for upcoming new play reading (Greenwich Village)

Reply to: [email protected]
Date: 2009-05-17, 1:26PM EDT

Light Comes is a drama that intertwines the history of electricity with the present-day crisis of mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia.

Role:
Thomas Edison/Tom - 45-60. A likeable curmudgeon with a sly sense of humor and wisdom bourne of experience. Powerful, confident and tireless. Always at work, fueled by the lure of useful invention.

Reading: 5/29, 8 p.m.
Rehearsal: 5/27, 5/28, 7-10 p.m.
Actor must be available for all rehearsals

Please reply with headshot, resume and brief statement of interest.

For more information, check out www.nylovesmountains.com

• It’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests.
• Compensation: no pay

PostingID: 1175310274

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Light Comes @ The Philip Coltoff Center, 219 Sullivan St., NYC

Wine reception & reading of Light Comes, an original play written by Sarah Moon
with live music accompaniment by Ben Sollee

7pm Wine reception & live music by acclaimed cellist Ben Sollee
8pm Live reading by the New Mummer Group Theatre Collective of Light Comes, an original play written and directed by Steinberg-Award-winning playwright Sarah Moon, with a cast that includes actress-director Stephanie Pistello, founding artistic director of Headwaters Productions.

Accompanied by acclaimed cellist Ben Sollee, the Light Comes play is epic in scope, and a spellbinding and timely event in contemporary theatre—from the invention of eletricity and Edison’s first coal-fired power plant in lower Manhattan, to today’s ravaged hills and hollows in eastern Kentucky, to the backroom deals on Wall Street, Light Comes untangles the web of our modern-day coal-fired electrical empire. Unpeeling the layers of truth behind why America runs on coal, and why the fathers of electricity never imagined its reckless duration, Light Comes explores the nightmare connection of mountaintop removal coal that fuels the bright lights of New York's big city.

Tickets $10 adv / $12 door

Hmmmm...Greenwich Village? Mountaintop removal in Appalachia? It sounds like nothing more than another case of politically correct brainwashing propaganda aimed at our favorite inventor.

Plus, "the invention of electricity"? I always figured that it was DISCOVERED, not invented.

bbphonoguy wrote:Hmmmm...Greenwich Village? Mountaintop removal in Appalachia? It sounds like nothing more than another case of politically correct brainwashing propaganda aimed at our favorite inventor.

Plus, "the invention of electricity"? I always figured that it was DISCOVERED, not invented.

Please come to Appalachia (or just to southern Indiana and I will drive you) -- where I lived for a number of years -- and I will show you mountaintop removal. Please visit http://appalshop.org/electricityfairy to understand that electricity comes from somewhere and we all pay a cost beyond our electric bill.

"Politically correct"? Read this to learn about the only time in American history that our government dropped bombs on American citizens . . . of course, they were only coal miners attempting to unionize. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

Now, back to phonographs. This isn't Dan Gitmo's old board.

John M

Reading this made me smile, because as a young man Charles Edison owned and managed a small and somewhat avant-garde theater in Greenwich Village.

LOL! That's right -- he was a Bohemian! A hippie! Good call! If it wasn't for his musical tastes, where would DD collectors be today?

John M

Charles definitely had broader tastes than his father, but it's Theodore Edison who we have to thank for the great dance music on the late DD's

estott,

Please expound on that a bit . . . thanx!

John M

By the White Label era Theodore Edison was in charge of approving artists for the popular recordings.

JohnM wrote:

bbphonoguy wrote:Hmmmm...Greenwich Village? Mountaintop removal in Appalachia? It sounds like nothing more than another case of politically correct brainwashing propaganda aimed at our favorite inventor.

Plus, "the invention of electricity"? I always figured that it was DISCOVERED, not invented.

Please come to Appalachia (or just to southern Indiana and I will drive you) -- where I lived for a number of years -- and I will show you mountaintop removal. Please visit http://appalshop.org/electricityfairy to understand that electricity comes from somewhere and we all pay a cost beyond our electric bill.

"Politically correct"? Read this to learn about the only time in American history that our government dropped bombs on American citizens . . . of course, they were only coal miners attempting to unionize. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

Now, back to phonographs. This isn't Dan Gitmo's old board.

John M

Geeesh, don't wet your pants or anything! I was just saying it's probably another attempt to villainize Thomas Edison. I wasn't trying to sound like I'm in favor of mountaintop removal and etc.. Having had the misfortune to spend a lot of time in Greenwich Village I can assure you that they are fairly well down the road to Nutville there. And believe me, if I need enlightening on any subject, artists, poets, actors, and playwrights are the last people I would turn to.