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Brandon Maslan and Jennifer K. Hill speak with the co-founder of The Transcendence Theater Company, Amy Miller. They discuss how to manifest the 2021 of your dreams using practical tools. Amy offers the three following take-aways to step into 2021 ready to embrace receiving everything you want personally and professionally: 1. Take 4 deep breaths to be more present 2. Go on your "magic walk" and feel what it feels like if everything you want in 2021 has come through. Feel how you want to be (dream/have gratitude!). 3. Get out your journal, and write down what is important in your life, what connections and people are most important to you. transcendencetheatre.org
In the Travel News, restaurants and tourism attractions are opening all over the country, and some of us hold our collective breaths. Las Vegas casinos are rolling the dice, and we get an update on when the lights might be back on Broadway. The TSA has made some changes to how you’ll pass through security at the airport. No more handing your boarding pass to the TSA staff, among other changes. But missing from the new security list is temperature monitoring, which many people expected to be part of the new procedures. (We will have Sid Thrift and Dale Hanna, our local TSA guys, on with us next Sunday to discuss the changes.) Theater companies all over the country are out of business for the summer. Some are getting very creative on giving you virtual performances. We highlight two today: The Transcendence Theater Company in Sonoma is offering concerts from ten years of Broadway shows under the stars (donations); and Broadway itself is offering you the chance to see the premiere of a new show, “Allegiance,“starring George Takei, premieres Friday night and you can watch it ($15 charge). Just One Man’s Opinion highlights Memorial Day and why it’s important right now to acknowledge its meaning.
Wine Road: The Wine, When, and Where of Northern Sonoma County.
Wine Road Episode 27- Wine, food and preforming art…who could ask for anything more. In this episode our special guest Stephan Stubbins, co-Executive Producer of Transcendence Theater Company discuss performing arts in Sonoma County with Millie and Dj Bethy Beth. They taste the Wine of the Day from Zialena while Bethy Beth introduces us to this new winery from our recent “field trip”. Millie brags about her recent experience at the Sonoma County Barrel Auction. Wrap up the show with a reminder about the upcoming Magical Mystery Tours along the Wine Road. Then hold on to your potatoes!!! The last 1:30 of the podcast will give you goosebumps!! Wine Road provides the Wine, When and Where of Northern Sonoma County with news on events, wineries, wines, dining options, activities, and places to stay. Wine Road — https://www.wineroad.com Jack London State Park - Transcendence Theater Company Show Notes: 0:30 Stephan Stubbins, Transcendence Theater Company 1:04 Theaters Along the Wine Road 2:05 Best Night Ever - Transcendence Theater Preformances 9:30 Wine of the Day - Zialena Winery 12:45 Sonoma County Barrel Auction 16:25 Wine Road Magical Mystery Tour 18:00 Sonoma Song Live! Links: • Transcendence Theater Company • Sonoma County Barrel Auction • Magical Mystery Tours • Zialena Winery • Cloverdale Arts Alliance • Raven Theater Healdsburg • Cinnabar Theater Petaluma • Sebastopol Center for the Arts • Spreckels Performing Arts Center Rohnert Park • Luther Burbank Center for the Arts • Santa Rosa Junior College Theater Arts • Sonoma County Top Theaters List • Vintners Inn Credits: The Wine Road podcast is recorded, mixed, and mastered at: Threshold Studios Sebastopol, CA.
Daniel Weidlein is a versatile young musician originally hailing from Boulder, Colorado. A recent graduate from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, Weidlein now resides in Los Angeles and works professionally as a saxophonist, composer, producer, singer, and educator. ? As a performer, Weidlein has played with jazz luminaries such as Frank Wess, Bob Mintzer, and Joshua Redman, and has made commercial appearances including on the television show "Glee," in the Academy Award-winning film "Whiplash," and on the third season of NBC's primetime show "The Sing Off." He also works regularly as a studio musician on saxophone, flute, vocals, and keyboards and has recorded on film scores, hip-hop tracks, and world music albums as well as jazz recordings. One such jazz recording entitled "Fourteen Channels" on the Tapestry Records label cracked the top 50 on the US Billboard jazz charts and featured Weidlein's improvisational work as well as his composition "An Ounce of Hope." ? Weidlein's own band, The Vintage Modernists, released its debut album "Cityscape" to very positive reviews and can be heard on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else the mouse can click. His other pursuits include work as a composer where he has written everything from large group jazz pieces to film scores to a recently completed full length musical called "The Grifters." ? Additionally, Weidlein owns The B(e)at Cave recording studio and has produced numerous projects including albums for hip-hop sensation Clive Aden, jazz musicians such as Bob Mintzer and Greg Johnson, singer/songwriter Axel Mansor, Katie Ohh from NBC's The Winner Is, the Transcendence Theater Company, and an award winning A Cappella EP for his collegiate singing group, The Trojan Men. Daniel is also a highly regarded music educator in both the Los Angeles and Colorado communities. Along with teaching privately, he has taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop as a Jazz Mentor Fellow, has formerly directed the middle school jazz bands at the Foshay Learning Center in South Central LA and taught group improvisation classes at the C's in the Summer jazz camp in Lafayette, CO. Save Her: http://ryanamador.bandcamp.com/track/save-her/ Where Do YOU Fall on the "Spectrum" of Sexuality? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fec19hB1QE/ "What's Going On?" (Marvin Gaye Cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8nYh55pjU0/
Daniel Weidlein is a versatile young musician originally hailing from Boulder, Colorado. A recent graduate from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, Weidlein now resides in Los Angeles and works professionally as a saxophonist, composer, producer, singer, and educator. ? As a performer, Weidlein has played with jazz luminaries such as Frank Wess, Bob Mintzer, and Joshua Redman, and has made commercial appearances including on the television show "Glee," in the Academy Award-winning film "Whiplash," and on the third season of NBC's primetime show "The Sing Off." He also works regularly as a studio musician on saxophone, flute, vocals, and keyboards and has recorded on film scores, hip-hop tracks, and world music albums as well as jazz recordings. One such jazz recording entitled "Fourteen Channels" on the Tapestry Records label cracked the top 50 on the US Billboard jazz charts and featured Weidlein's improvisational work as well as his composition "An Ounce of Hope." ? Weidlein's own band, The Vintage Modernists, released its debut album "Cityscape" to very positive reviews and can be heard on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else the mouse can click. His other pursuits include work as a composer where he has written everything from large group jazz pieces to film scores to a recently completed full length musical called "The Grifters." ? Additionally, Weidlein owns The B(e)at Cave recording studio and has produced numerous projects including albums for hip-hop sensation Clive Aden, jazz musicians such as Bob Mintzer and Greg Johnson, singer/songwriter Axel Mansor, Katie Ohh from NBC's The Winner Is, the Transcendence Theater Company, and an award winning A Cappella EP for his collegiate singing group, The Trojan Men. Daniel is also a highly regarded music educator in both the Los Angeles and Colorado communities. Along with teaching privately, he has taught at the Stanford Jazz Workshop as a Jazz Mentor Fellow, has formerly directed the middle school jazz bands at the Foshay Learning Center in South Central LA and taught group improvisation classes at the C's in the Summer jazz camp in Lafayette, CO. Save Her: http://ryanamador.bandcamp.com/track/save-her/ Where Do YOU Fall on the "Spectrum" of Sexuality? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fec19hB1QE/ "What's Going On?" (Marvin Gaye Cover): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8nYh55pjU0/
Lets talk about inspiration. Inspiration is often likened to lightning striking, or an electric bulb popping on over our heads. Metaphorically, when light suddenly appears, when lightning suddenly strikes, it means we have been inspired, either with a new idea or with a new sense of energy and excitement. Theater has long been in the business of inspiration. It feeds off of it, and also causes it, in a remarkable endless loop of creativity. Which brings me to the Transcendence Theater Company, and Broadway Under the Stars. Continuing their own mysterious knack for making lightning strike over and over, Transcendence Theater has just kicked off its third full season of Broadway Under the Stars shows, with yet another toe-tapping, soul-pleasing, one-hundred-percent inspiring, music-and-dance extravaganza designed to lift our spirits and raise some money for the gorgeous local treasure, the Jack London State Park. "Oh, What a Night!" - the first of several shows performed outside at Jack London and elsewhere this summer - is a wonderful, witty collection of songs and dance numbers, borrowed from big and little Broadway shows and from the world of pop music. One might ask the question, how often can these folks keep making the same thing work, assembling songs into shows that don’t just entertain and keep our attention, but also send us home wondering what we might do to make the world a happier place. Under the artistic direction of Amy Miller, the Transcendence people show no signs of stopping or soon ending their lightning strike record. By blending top-tier talent, endlessly clever ideas, brilliant programming, and a persistent sense of professional polish and contagious enthusiasm, they just keep turning these shows into something special. Think of it as part concert, part dance party, part master class, and good part old-fashioned tent revival. "Oh What a Night!" runs for two more weekends out at Jack London, and for one-night-only tonight, at 7:30, at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. Transcendence will follow it up with a whole bunch of other shows, large and small, spread out over the rest of the summer, with a special one-night-only appearance in July by Megan Hilty. Highlights of "Oh What a Night!" include Leslie McDonel’s gorgeously slinky interpretation of Summertime (from Porgy and Bess), a lovely duet of Say it Somehow (from A Light in the Piazza) performed Julie Craig and Michael Mahaney, and a pair of stunningly funny songs by Lexy Fridell - Miss Byrd, in which she dances with an office chair, and In My Car, in which she does things with her face and voice you have to see to believe, Fridell teams up later with Stephan Stubbins for a clever condensation of West Side Story, singing all of its songs, and telling the story, in just six minutes. Another crowd-pleasing medley brings to life the manic-depressive emotions of a typical high school prom, with half-a-dozen classic dance tunes acted out and sung by the cast. Ultimately, the show is more than just another presentation of the patented Transcendence Theater magic, it’s an event, deliberately and admittedly aimed at inspiring us all to go out and make our own magic in the world. Even the port-a-potties are inspiring, festooned inside with uplifting quotes from great minds. Whether outside at Jack London or indoors at Wells Fargo, "Oh What a Night" lives up to its name. "Oh! What a Night!" runs tonight, June 24 at Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, and then continues weekends through July 3 at Jack London State Park. www.broadwayjacklondon.com has all the info on this summer’s Transcendence shows. Check it out. I’m David Templeton, Second Row Center, for KRCB.
The Transcendence Theatre company is curentally producing a 2012 Theatre Festival to play a part in preserving Jack London State Historic Park in Sonoma, CA. Jack London State Park was one of 70 California State Parks slated to close due to budget cuts. To donate to the campaign please visit http://www.transcendencetheatre.org The Transcendence Theatre Company (TTC) is a professional regional theatre company in Sonoma, California that specializes in producing Broadway Concerts and Musicals in the majestic open-air ruins of a historic winery in Jack London State Historic Park. The company is made up of musical theatre artists with Broadway, National Tour, International Tour, Film, and Television credits. TTC's Inaugural 2012 Summer Festival will include a series of “Broadway Under The Stars” Concerts along with community service, engagement, and education programs throughout the entire Sonoma Valley. Through an innovative arts + parks partnership, TTC is partnering with a nonprofit park operator, the Valley of the Moon Natural History Association, to bring live theater and cultural education programming into Jack London State Historic Park, while saving it from slated closure as result of state budget cuts. The TTC summer season will play a vital role in keeping the park thriving. The Transcendence Theatre Company's core commitments are to art, community, health, and the environment