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Friday, August 3, 2007
Hospitalized Nash hopes to make ‘Tripping Forward’ screening
Movies: Austin native Marcus Nash, pictured here playing the young Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” will screen his directorial debut, “Tripping Forward,” 7 p.m. Monday at the Alamo South. Marcus’ brother, man-everywhere Robert Nash (the publicist and developer, not the comedian) calls the show a “somewhat raunchy, and offensively funny buddy romp.” He adds that it’s definitely not for children. RSVP for the free showing at trippingforwardmovie.com.
Back story: 2 a.m. Aug. 1, Marcus checked into the Seton emergency room for a rush appendectomy. His expected hospital stay nudges the Monday screening time, so sister Jennifer Nash, who also appeared on “Next Generation” (here with Patrick Stewart) and who hailed originally from Austin, is taking care of the pre-screening business. What an Austin family! Maybe worth a group profile some day?
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Shaken by ‘Assassins’
Arts: Taking a break from recollections of France, let me share an intense theatrical experience: Summer Stock Austin’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins.” At St. Edward’s University, a tender cast overcame a shaky start to dig deep into this serious treatment of American obsessions with fame, entitlement, alienation and, yes, even the viability of freedom, as related to presidential assassinations.
David Gallagher and Daniel Adams triumph as John Wilkes Booth and the show’s balladeer. What will St. Ed’s do without these talents, who have lifted local shows since their freshman debuts in “Honk”? Unless they self-destruct, as artists often do, both will enjoy long careers in the performing arts. Among other minor miracles observed: Christopher Smith, Clay Cartland, Brian Egelhoff, Laurie Urban, Ben Ferguson and, especially, newcomer Shannon Locke, accurately creepy as Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.
And I have to tell you: The Kennedy stuff shook me up. That assassination was my generation’s 9/11, and its invocation through an imaginary conversation between Gallagher’s Booth and Ferguson’s Lee Harvey Oswald chilled. Repeat praise for stage and music director Michael McKelvey and his gang of blossoming talents.
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