ENTERTAINMENT

Reviews – July 2011

THEATRE

SHREK THE MUSICAL
The Pantages Theatre
July 12-31, 2011

SHREK THE MUSICAL, based on the Oscar®-winning DreamWorks film that started it all, brings the hilarious story of everyone’s favorite ogre to life the stage. Featuring a terrific score of 19 all-new songs, big laughs, great dancing and breathtaking scenery. SHREK THE MUSICAL is part romance, part twisted fairy tale and all irreverent fun for everyone!
http://www.broadwayla.org/production/show.info.asp?ID=38

BOOKS

The Big Penis Book 3D
Author: Dian Hanson
TASCHEN
Hardcover with 3D glasses, 28 x 28 cm (11 x 11 in.), 220 pages
$ 39.99

This 220-page, 28 by 28 cm special edition includes 96 images from the original book, plus 8 new bonus photos, transformed into eye-popping 3-D by Jon Schnitzer and The Brain Factory.
Unlike other 3D pictures you may have seen, the photos in The Big Penis Book 3D do not look distorted when viewed without the glasses. The Brain Factory’s technique is so subtle it’s hard to even detect the red/blue tint in many of the black and white photos, but when you put on your glasses the parts of interest leap from the page, not in flat layers as in old-style 3D, but as thick, fully rounded, touchable contours.
www.taschen.com

CONCERTS

SARAH MCLACHLAN WITH THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ORCHESTRA
July 15 & 16
Hollywood Bowl
(Map/Directions) 

On her first-ever tour with orchestra, multi-Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan makes her Hollywood Bowl debut. With over 40 million records sold, Sarah celebrates her recent release, Laws of Illusion, which highlights her dreamy ballads and lilting vocals.
www.hollywoodbowl.com

CDs

Natalia Jiménez
Sony Music Latin

Luego del éxito alcanzado con La Quinta Estación, la española Natalia Jiménez inicia su carrera como solista con este su primer disco homónimo, del cual se desprende el primer sencillo “Por Ser Tu Mujer”. El video de Por Ser Tu Mujer fue grabado en el monasterio español de Miami. El video muestra a Natalia representando a la novia convencional vestida de blanco y la novia que nunca llega al altar.

DVDs

Children of God
TLA Releasing

Johnny is an art student in Nassau whose technique is perfect, but he’s creatively blocked. His teacher sends him off to the rural island of Eleuthera where he meets Romeo, a hot musician. They begin a clumsy dance of attraction and romance. Romeo has a fiancé and is identified as straight, but he’s been known to play with the boys on the side secretly. An intense drama of love, family and secrets.