OffStage

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Thursday night jazz jams at YJ's

YJ's Third World Snack Cafe at 128 West 18th Street in Kansas City Missouri Hosts a Thursday night Jazz Jam with Hermon Mehari and his group, Diverse. This is a jam that is open to the public where the band reharses new material. People can come in and see the creative process happening and watch many talented musicians refine their chops. The jam happens most Thursday nights, generally from 9 PM to ???? YJ's is open 24 hours Thursdays through Sunday mornings, so the jam could go on until the sun comes up and the morning brunch crowd moves in. This is Kansas City creativity at it's finest.

Ballet Guild photos

The Kansas City Ballet Guild invited new members for coffee on September 1st at the home of Bruce Kay. Monique Block, Melissa Bondon, Lauren LaPointe, Francie Mayer, Kimberlee Ried, Susan Sands, Craig Sole, Ann Sundeen, and Jane Webster, executive board members; had a wonderful time touring the beautiful French style home. New members Ruth Brito, Pamela Bruce, Amy Heithoff, Susan Hangauer, Aimee Hilger, Gretchen Goodman-Jansen, Angeline Marshall, Julie McCann, Angela McClelland, Susan Meehan-Mizer, Joan Miller, Georgette Rose, Suzanne Shank, R.W. Thompson, Lou Thompson, Amy van der Drift, and Judy Wright were introduced and enjoyed the rest of the morning with fellow members.

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Quality Hill "Noel and Gertie" review by Robert Trussell

During intermission at the Wednesday night performance of “Noel and Gertie,” an evocative show depicting the long friendship between Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, a local theater professional I was chatting with confided that he had seen this show when Quality Hill Playhouse staged it the first time in 1998. Same cast, same director. And he remembered very little about it. He echoed my own experience, because I saw that ’98 production too, and the best I could conjure were some pretty hazy memories.

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