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I’m with the Band: My Life in the Slammer!

Started by tomwatson · 11 months ago

Slammer! is a new musical about women in prison written by Chan Chandler and Steve Adams which premiered Monday night, the 20th of August, at the FringeNYC theater festival.
My participation in the birth of Slammer! began two years ago when Chan walked into Smoke and Mirrors with a song ca ... Continue reading »

5 comments

  • Tony Alva

    1 year ago

    Man, I wish I could've been there! Good luck to you guys and please tell me someone is taping the thing.
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  • Tom Watson

    1 year ago

    Very cool - we need more art for art's sake, more experimentation in this town. It's become too much like Vegas for my taste, though perhaps it's just age and life-stage in my case (like having time to experiment).
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  • Ted Wilson

    1 year ago

    Much like I feel that we should give Buffalo to Canada, I think Mid-Town should be it's own state, lik ethe Vatican, so the rest of NYC isn't associated with the crap they put in those theaters, mostly crap that is....
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  • fred wilson

    1 year ago

    i think there are great theater companies in NYC like Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage, and several others. We subscribe to the whole season and see most of what they put on.

    It's not nearly as raw as the Fringe Festival, which I agree is amazing, but it's also not the sanitized hollywood-ized stuff that Ted is calling "crap".

    Fred
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  • Ted Wilson

    1 year ago

    What he said.
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