A Latina Perspective on Entertainment, Lifestyle and Life.
What would the Mad Hatter be without his hat? Edward Scissorhands without his black leather? What would any character be like without their outfits? While I am sure actors like Meryl Streep can pull anything off, a character doesn't become real without the right outfit. This is something that Academy Award Winner Colleen Atwood knows very well. Her costumes are whimsical, with a touch of fantasy … [Read more...]
So how do you take a beloved stage production like Into the Woods and make sure it stays as true as possible to it's original form? Besides taking the music & lyricist with you (like Stephen Sondheim), you make sure you have a skilled Broadway director and a talented Broadway actress leading the charge. With Into The Woods, that came in the form of director Rob Marshall and Anna Kendrick as … [Read more...]
"It takes one to begin, but then once you've begun, It takes two of you." To continue my journey of collecting fabulously talented besties (Ahem: Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman and Christine Baranski), I once again headed back Into the Woods (now playing in theaters, by the way- GO) and got a chance to talk to the amazing James Corden and Emily Blunt. Now, I don't know who started the rumor … [Read more...]
There are three stages of freak out you go through when you are told you are interviewing Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman and Christine Baranski. The first is the squeeeeee moment where you squeal and dance and tell anybody that will listen, and some that don't, that you are interviewing these amazing women. The second is when it dawns on you that you are about to interview legends and you research … [Read more...]
Once upon a time... I was a girl of 15 sitting in the middle of a stage when I was being told "a musical only works when the audience can't tell when you're singing or when you're talking." That was 1994 and our play production class was gearing up to put on a production of "Into the Woods," a fairy tale themed musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (West Side Story, Company, Follies, Gypsy … [Read more...]
