Lover of life, theater, song, style and typeface, and New York City in all its seasons, energy and many faces.
WATCHMAGIC, magic and comedy with Oz Pearlman, Saturdays at 5 p.m. through March 27 at the Joyous Life Theater, 119 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, (212) 35212101.
A surprising number of senior managers have always championed the hiring of young people who seem unlikely candidates for corporate life: theater majors, for instance, or campus activists with mediocre grades, or eccentric computer prodigies with few social skills.
"WATCHMAGIC," a show of magic and comedy with Oz Pearlman, Saturdays at 5 p.m., through June 26, at the Joyous Life Theater, 119 West 23rd Street, seventh floor, Chelsea.
But what may be most intriguing are the performers' mash-ups, interweavings of Shakespearean lines with rap riffs, as in this variation on a famous speech from "As You Like It": All the world's a stage, The men and women merely players: A life theater — played in many layers.
Or try this: "Everyone is calling for the Joy of Life; theater managers demand we write farces, as if the Joy of Life resided in being ridiculous; we must paint human beings as if they are all suffering from St. Vitus' dance or idiocy".
