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“The Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League (PHAMALY.org) is a theatre group and touring company that performs throughout the greater Denver area. PHAMALY was formed in 1989 when a group of former students of the Boettcher School in Denver, Colorado, grew frustrated with the lack of theatrical opportunities for people living with disabilities, and decided to create a theatre company that would provide individuals with disabilities the opportunity to perform. As a not-for-profit membership organization, PHAMALY is dedicated to producing traditional theatre in nontraditional ways.”

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Quoting a Nov. 22 blurb written by John Moore, the Denver Post’s Theater Critic:

The cast of the handicapped theater company PHAMALY was surprised by the attendance last week of big-time comedian Josh Blue at a performance of their “Vox Phamalia: Re-Dux,” a night of collaborative comedy sketches about living with disabilities. Blue, who has cerebral palsy, was a winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.”

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The sessions—which are free and open to the public—will be moderated by highly-acclaimed journalists Kathryn Gretsinger and Charlie Smith, and the great David Diamond (Headlines Theatre’s trailblazing co-founder and current Artistic Director). They “will get at the nuts and bolts of creating safe, affordable and supportive housing. Each day deals with location, financing and necessary supports and services.”

Moderated panels will be made up of people who have experienced homelessness, Metro Vancouver city councillors and business leaders.

Panelists will each present a short talk on the day’s topic, followed by an open dialogue with the audience.

The ideas discussed at the Sessions will generate an official Community Action Report—designed “to inform policy.” In fact, Headlines Theatre has written agreements from the following organizations to receive the report for their research for national, provincial, regional and local strategies on mental health and homelessness:

• The Mental Health Commission of Canada
• BC Housing
• The City of Vancouver
• The Greater Vancouver Regional Steering Committee on Homelessness
• RainCity Housing
• Coast Mental Health

If you’d like to participate (and you really really should), The Community Dialogue Sessions are being held in Vancouver at the Firehall Arts Centre:

280 E. Cordova Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
November 24, 25 and 26 @ 1:30pm each day
Admission is free and open to the public

For more information call 1-604-871-0508 or email info@headlinestheatre.com.

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Terri White getting made up in the St.James Theater on Broadway. (Photo by Piotr Redlinski)

An overwhelmingly moving story…after the jump!

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In our last post, we said that “We think (Broadway-bound) Abigail Breslin will make a PHENOMENAL Helen Keller, even though she’s neither deaf nor blind.”

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Here’s another truly fascinating perspective >>

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We think Abigail Breslin will make a PHENOMENAL Helen Keller!

(Even though she’s neither deaf nor blind…)

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RELATED: Watch Sight Lines, a 23-minute documentary that examines and demystifies the practice of providing access for blind and visually impaired actors.

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Screengrab of David Roche’s upcoming schedule:

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Quoting David Roche, in an email sent Wednesday, Apr 8, 2009:

“Attached is a piece I am working on that I think will be the opening act of “Catholic Erotica.” It is a performance piece, doesn’t have to do with disability as such, but is written (and will be performed) from the POV of a pre-pubescent Catholic boy in the American Midwest in the 1950s. It is something I like and which works well on stage . . . It’s in the front of my mind and imagination because I am working on it right now.”

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A racy script excerpt…after the jump!

***Warning: Language & themes not suitable for children***

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Music and the Deaf was started 2 decades ago by a remarkable man named Dr. Paul Whittaker. Paul, who has a music degree from Oxford University, has been deaf since birth and profoundly deaf since the age of two. In 2007, he became an Officer of the British Empire. Oh yeah, and he trains choirs in his spare time.

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After we published info on July 1st about Headlines Theatre’s fantastic AFTER HOMELESSNESS… project, we received a very gracious thank you note from Artistic/Managing Director David Diamond. A few days later, we received another email, this one from Headlines’ official publicist Gabriela De Lucca:

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It isn’t often that a distinguished (and paying!) job opportunity comes along specifically targeting “people who have been touched by homelessness.”

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“One of the most central aspects of Circle Stories is that the person sitting for me has control over their imagery, and that the portrait reflect their own honest experience, and as much as possible that I wouldn’t impose my own ideas to the detriment of their own reality.”

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