Tartuffe at Fabrefaction Theatre Company!
These days, you can see all the nitty gritty details of a toddler in a tiara hopped up on caffeine and sugar, a “real housewife” throwing a tantrum, or a Kardashian divorce all with a simple flick of a button on your DVR.
Clearly we love a scandal and can’t get enough of the drama. Why not treat yourself to a little classic scandal and drama? That’s exactly what Fabrefaction Theatre Company is promising us with it’s latest production…
March 15 – Sunday March 25 you can enjoy Molière’s classic French farce, Tartuffe!
If you’re not up on your classic French literature, the Q+DD is this: the show is about Tartuffe, a scam artist who preys upon a good-natured family in order to lie, steal, and seduce them out of their fortune. (Scandal: the show was SO controversial that back in the day, the Archbishop of Paris issued an edict threatening excommunication for anyone who watched, performed in, or even read the play. Yowza!)
Fabrefaction is doing it up for us: powdered wigs, neo-classical costumes…and in your face – the show will be performed in the round!
Here’s the BEST part: for you lovely Q+DD readers: ½ price tickets opening weekend if you use the code Q+DD! Get tickets HERE.
This is a limited run… and you can watch a Bachelor Pad contestant self-destruct any ol’ time…so get your tickets now!
xx, L
PS. The other best part? Apparently, “Fabrefaction presents an evening with the French aristocracy, so style and indiscretion (and elaborate hair-do’s) are presumed and encouraged, both on stage and off.” Yuesss.
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Billy Elliot at the Fox Theatre (3/13 – 3/18)
The 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, Billy Elliot, will dance its way to Atlanta next week as part of its U.S. tour!
Hailed by Time Magazine as “the best musical of the decade,” Billy Elliot, written by acclaimed playwright and lyricist Lee Hall with music composed by Sir Elton John, is the triumphant and joyous journey of a boy as he chases his dream of becoming a ballet dancer despite his family’s disapproval and discouragement, and amidst the coal miners’ strike that has hampered the normalcy in Billy, his family, and their community’s lives.
Billy Elliot
I can’t wait to see it!! My tickets are secured for next Tuesday…did you get yours??
TICKET INFO FOR BILLY ELLIOT AT THE FOX THEATRE HERE! And, I’ll see you there! 
xx, L
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Memphis: A New Musical Visits the Fox Theatre!
EXCITING, EXCITING musical news! Memphis is comin’ to Atlanta, y’all!
Never heard of it?? Allow me to enlighten you…
Memphis: A New Musical is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s. She’s a black singer whose career is on the rise, but who can’t break out of the segregated clubs of 1950’s Memphis, Tennessee. He’s a white radio DJ whose love of music transcends race lines and airwaves. When the two collaborate, her soulful music reaches radio audiences everywhere, and the Golden Era of early rock ‘n’ roll takes flight. But as things start to heat up, whether the world is really ready for their music – or their love – is put to the test. Memphis won the Tony Award for “Best Musical,” along with three other awards, at the 2010 Tonys.
Read more about Memphis here: I can’t WAIT to see THIS!
Soooooo, I’ll be there on opening night - what about YOU?
Ticket information here for Memphis’ quick stint at the Fabulous Fox Theatre: Show running from 1/31 – 2/5!
theatres just don't get more magnificent than the fox...
This show is going to be so great! (Now, we just need to work on The Book of Mormon (oh please, oh please!) to travel down south, and I’m pretty. much. set.)
xx, L
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Holidays on Peachtree
Something exciting was going down outside my office last night when I was walking out to my car to head home. CLEARLY, I did not get the memo…
The holidays are here! For the entire month of December, you can find the perfect gifts and enjoy all the holiday experiences that Midtown has to offer!
The kick-off reception was last night (and it looked like fun!), but there’s more!
12/2 + 12/3: Local Gifts + Treats Pop Up Shop at MidCity Lofts (West Peachtree at 6th St. between Tech Square + Renaissance Hotel). Vendors include: Olive, Pieces of Me, Lisa Jill Jewelry, Kristi Hyde, and JuneBug. To compliment your shopping experience, enjoy treats from Sinless Cocktails + Rockin’ Cupcakes!
All Month Long: Midtown’s holiday festivities continue!
- Ice skate in Piedmont Park at Park Tavern
- Visit the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s “Garden Lights - Holiday Nights” installation
- Visit the ”Picasso to Warhol” exhibition at the High Museum of Art
- See “A Christmas Carol” at the Alliance Theatre
- Get tickets for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” at the Fox Theatre
- Revisit the story of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” at the Center for Puppetry Arts
- Hear “Handel’s Messiah” at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
More info below…
December may be 31 days long, but you’ve got A LOT to do. It’s going to fly by!
Happy Holidays from the Q+DD!
xx, L
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MAMMA MIA it's Mamma Mia!
Hey, hey, all you Dancing Queens! (My #1 wedding reception song… Am I right? Am I right??) Mamma Mia is BACK in Atlanta for a very short – and spectacular – stint!
And, at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, no less!
Gorms + I are celebrating completing the 3-Day tonight by dropping by Ecco to say “hello!” to our man, Eric, and then heading to the Fox to get our best Mamma Mia on! Oh yes, there will be dancing.
- yea! yea! yea! we did it!
Here’s the Q+DD on Mamma Mia:
Longing to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly invites a trio of paternal candidates to her upcoming wedding on the small Greek island in which she lives.
Mamma Mia is based on the songs of ABBA – a Swedish pop/ dance group active from 1972–1982. ABBA was one of the most internationally popular pop groups of all time.
Mamma Mia awesomeness below…
Get your Mamma Mia tickets here: SUPER TROUPER!
You have to act fast, though, because the show is only in town from tonight through November 6!
So go…”see that girl/ watch that scene/ diggin’ the dancing queen!”
xx, L
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