![]() Kendra: Everyone at Footlight loves music, and we are almost all artists of some type. Laura: Pivoting our emerging artist mission to an online model seemed the natural choice. There didn’t seem to be any avenue for bands to safely get on a stage and do what bands are supposed to do, play together. Plus it was rarely an actual band playing. It was great at first but it didn’t take long to be frustrated with sound/video/internet quality. Once the new reality set in, at first we jumped on the Insta-Story show concept and tired of it quickly.Įric: We hosted them for a couple months, I played a few, we all watched plenty. The lack of clarity, the misinformation and the lack of support and direction from the local authorities was disappointing and continues to be alarmingly ineffective. We even had a break in and the ATM was stolen March 13th!!! It was so much to handle I don’t think I have all the words to describe the whirlwind. I couldn’t even get a covid test because there weren’t enough tests in NYC, but I definitely had covid the first week of march and was trying to navigate shutting down the bar without going in and possibly infecting people. It was shocking how quickly it all unraveled. Laura: In March 2020, after the strongest first quarter of business since we opened in 2016, we shut everything down. What’s the background on FLTV-what’s the mission, how did it come to be and what has the process been like? Read up for info, scroll down for an exclusive sneak peek of the show and watch on demand via Vimeo ($7 to rent $12 to buy/download] starting Monday to support the venue and the band and enjoy what’s def the next best thing to the live music experience we’ve all been missing so much -coming at you with a new episode every Monday. Saunders (VJ/On Camera Talent/Interviewer, Marketing Assistant) and Barry Marino (Director/Video Production & Editing)-filled us in on their journey and hopes for the project, and the band told us about the experience that was once again hitting the stage. On Monday, beloved Ridgewood performance-space-turned-virtual-venue The Footlight will debut FLTV -an online series featuring performances and interviews with local bands -with an episode starring The Hell Yeah Babies.Īhead of the launch, the team-Laura Regan (Footlight Owner and Operator), Eric Ryrie (Live Audio Production, Recording & Booking), Kendra L. Earlier this year, I fell instantly in love with the Busby Berkeley-produced musical Gold Diggers of 1933, with its lively cast (including a young Ginger Rogers), unexpectedly oddball sense of humor, and stunning musical set-pieces.Ahead of The Footlight’s FLTV premiere, read up on the new series and its mission + check out an exclusive teaser for the first episode Footlight Parade, also produced by Berkeley but directed by Lloyd Bacon, has many of the same winning ingredients at play - such as Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, and Guy Kibbee- but is sort of a (likable) mess in comparison. James Cagney stars as Chester Kent, an impresario of live entertainment prologues to motion pictures. With his career under pressure due to the change from silent to sound films, Chester devises a scheme to mass-produce these musical prologues, sending himself into a creative frenzy of sleepless labor, culminating in the production of three show-stopping numbers aimed at winning a lucrative contract. There's a lot to like in Footlight Parade. Cagney is great, as is Blondell as his lovelorn assistant. Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell pull out their usual charming cheese-ball tricks, and Guy Kibbee is on-hand to puff his cigar with typical incredulousness. ![]() One of the highlights of the cast, however, is Frank McHugh, as Kent's beleaguered choreographer, who is reluctantly forced to mimic a cat and sing a romantic duet with Powell. ![]() There are three-and-a-half major dance numbers in Footlight Parade, and each one is, at turns, clever, engaging and jaw-dropping. The aquatic number "By a Waterfall" is, by far, the stand-out, full of inventive design and suggestive Pre-Code era eroticism. The problems with Footlight Parade mostly stem from a sense that it, like Kent's many in-movie creations, was thrown together hastily and without a cohesive story or theme to pull its many parts together. Although Berkeley's numbers are always a treat, Footlight Parade doesn't break one out until the 40-minute mark, and even that one is cut-short. ![]()
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