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Ann Magnuson & Adam Dugas On Saturday, Sept. 22, Adam Dugas and Ann Magnuson musically battle it out with help from harp players Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus. It is going to be a psychedelically sophisticated evening of weird covers, beautiful melodies and a few Bongwater tunes. And plenty o’ surprises! Set list includes tunes by Handel, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, Purcell, Lee Hazlewood, YoHaWha13, Buffy St. Marie, Debussy, Kraftwerk, T. Rex, an anonymous Elizabethan poet and, of course, GeorgeJones & Tammy Wynette! For five years running, Adam Dugas has produced and hosted Chaos & Candy, a raucous, nontraditional Christmas spectacular. He has written theme songs for the independent telenovela Rosa Negra and the cabaret Weimar New York, in which he also appears regularly. In 2004, Adam co-founded The Citizens Band, a collaborative theatrical cabaret, and was a featured performer, composer, writer, producer and director for the shows Je T’Aime, Scumbag; No New Thing Under the Sun; and The Trepanning Opera. Trepanning was subsequently remounted at The Raleigh Hotel in a presentation at the Art Basel Miami Beach in November, 2005. He won raves for his performance as Armand in Charles Ludlam’s Camille at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco and played venues of varying repute in Hollywood, Palm Springs, San Francisco and Manhattan with the trash-rock act The Mike Show. Adam holds a degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is also a producer and director for television and film. Mia Theodoratus plays harp for just about anyone who asks including Adam Dugas, Butch Morris, Baikida Carroll, Fischerspooner, Rashid Bakr and Lorcan Atway. Past teachers include Susy Allen, Alice Chalifoux, Gloria Agastini and Amiyo Dasgupta.
Alexander Rannie is a composer, artist, historian and bouncer who, on occasion, plays the harp. Besides appearing at the Steve Allen with the amazing Ann, Adam and Mia, Alex and his Lyon & Healy Ebony Style 30 Concert Grand Harp can be experienced at Disneyland (Candlelight Ceremony), in numerous LA theaters, on dozens of albums (including Helen Reddy, Petula Clark & Ann Magnuson), live alongside vocalists ranging from Angela Lansbury and Carol Channing to Clay Aiken and Shirley Jones, as well as at the Eagle LA, where, on occasion, he works as a doorman. As a pianist and an organist, Alex has played for tons of silent movies and recently reconstructed Carl Stalling's score for "Plane Crazy," the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, for a live performance by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He's also written music for "Ren & Stimpy," Disney's "Alice Comedies" and "Monster Safari," a stop-motion short created for Nickelodeon by Screen-Novelties. You can catch him on the DVDs of Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "True-Life Adventures" talking about Paul Smith and other unjustly neglected composers of the Disney Studio. In his spare time, Alex is editing and engraving the harp part of "The Fantasticks" for its composer, Harvey Schmidt. While Alex rarely plays weddings or bar mitzvahs these days, he'd be happy to regale you with harp tales in exchange for a drink. ("Did I tell you the one about the time the buffet caught on fire?") Saturday, September 22nd, 8pm |
