VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Thanks to permisson from Kathleen Russo (Estate of Spalding Gray)
and in cooperation with www.sideshowworld.com and John Robinson,
I am extremely pleased that we will be posting the complete text of
In Search of the Monkey Girl, photos by Randal Levenson, www.randallevenson.com.
The book is quite rare ($50 minimum)
and if you purchase it, please use our affiliates.
First installment at
www.sideshowworld.com/thstgod-RL-SG-SearchMonkeyGirl.html
(all copyrights are maintained by Estate of Spalding Gray and Randal Levenson)
Shawn Watson brings back Swimming to Cambodia
Swimming to Cambodia
LONG’S HILL THEATRE, Victoria, BC, Canada
by Spalding Gray / Performed by Shawn Watson
Victoria, BC
Monologue • 85 mins • $9
http://www.intrepidtheatre.com/fringe2008/venue7.html
Written over 20 years ago by the late maverick monologist
Spalding Gray, Swimming uses Gray’s small role in the film
The Killing Fields
to discuss global instability, social injustice, genocide, the cold war, politics, sex, drugs, relationships, travel,
and the quest for perfect moments.
This excellent new production, directed by Graham McDonald, is fresh, funny, original, intelligent, and aware.
TIMES: Fri Aug.22,2008 7:00
• Sun 24,2008 9:00
• Mon 25,2008 7:00
• Thu 28,2008,8:45
• Sat 30,2008, 6:15
• Sun 31,2008 6:00
Facebook Bans James Braly Ad!!!
During National Breast Feeding Week,
James Braly's producer Anna Becker, brought out the following ad for Life in a Marital Institution,
which was then BANNED by Facebook, casting shame on Facebook and giving James free publicity.
The following picture, used with Mr. Braly's permission, is entiled "GOT BREASTMILK?"
www.jamesbraly.com
Interview with James:
www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/08/19/segments/106263
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PERFORMANCE RIGHTS
Performance rights for
most of Spalding's well known monologues are now available:
Please have people contact
Dramatic Publishing at 815-338-7170.
They can also
apply for rights at our website,
www.dramaticpublishing.com.
Other Monologists
Updates:
1) by
request (and he deserves it as reviews have been Excellent):
We would like to
invite fans of Spalding Gray to see James Braly appear as a monologuist
in Life in a Marital Institution: 20 years of monogamy in one terrifying
hour
at the Soho Playhouse in New York City.
The show is beginning
previews June 26th and runs until August 31,2008
For a discounted
$25-$40 ticket (regularly $55),
visit www.lifeinamaritalinstitution.com
and use code SEB
Venue name and address:
SoHo Playhouse
15 Vandam Street,
NYC (212) 691-1555
(off 6th Ave., 1 block north of Spring)
1 block north
of Spring Street stop (C & E train),
3 blocks south of Houston Street
stop (#1 train)
Also see www.jamesbraly.com
2) Also,
Mike Daisey's national tour of the very important
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING
SAY SOMETHING,
a monologue about the secret history of the Department
of Homeland Security.
SANTA FE
Lensic Performing
Arts Center
June 26th to 28th,2008
WASHINGTON DC
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company
July 11th to 20th,2008
PORTLAND, OR
Time-Based Art Festival
September 11th to
14th,2008
MAINE
Colby College
October 3rd,2008
CHICAGO
Museum of Contemporary
Art
October 10th to 12th,2008
NEW YORK
The Public Theater
October 15th to November
30th,2008
Further details at
www.mikedaisey.com
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
- Box Set of "all"
Spalding's Monologues
to be released soon after
premiere of Soderbergh
Documentary on Spalding opens
at Toronto Film Festival,
September 2008.
Kathleen Russo - new
Producer for NPR,
Southhampton, NY - WLIU
88.3 FM/WPBX-FM - give a listen,
she produces the morning
show (DO
IT! - good musical
contrast to Forrest!!!
LOL...)
Kathleen Russo -
guest
of honor along with Al Styron at NY Hospital on Jan. 30,2008 at 5:30pm
to discuss living with depression.
(no
further details available)
Forrest
Gray - The TOO BUSY BEING BORED Band
- mentored and produced
by Blue Men Group
- playing sold out shows,
among there fans...the Strokes
and Jim Carroll
- music and video at
above link - check it out!!!
EVENT - November
15th - 17th
Interviewing
The Audience
Photos:
Stories Left To Tell, The Final Bow
Spalding
Gray: Stories Left to Tell to Close June 26
by Andrew Gans
The Second Spalding Gray Award
Goes to The National Theater of the United
States of America
Now on DVD: Heavy
Petting - A Film by Obie
Benz
View
Spalding Gray Clip
Photo
Flash: Steven Soderbergh at Spalding Gray Screening
by Mark Rupp
"It's
Just Good Storytelling"
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
discusses Gray's Anatomy
by Chris Willard
Soderbergh
on Gray's Anatomy
Charles
Busch Joins Stories Left to Tell Cast, May 23-June 3
Photo
Coverage: Whoopi Goldberg in Stories Left to Tell
Goldberg
Set for Stories Left to Tell Birthday Performance
Anthony
Rapp to Join Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
Ain
Gordon: Two Time Winner of Obie Award
EVENT
THE
LAST DAYS OF DESMOND NANI REESE: A Stripper’s History of the World
Written and performed by Heather
Woodbury
Winner of the first Spalding
Gray Award
Kron
Steps in for Chalfant in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
By Andrew Gans
One
of a kind Spalding Gray item for sale at eBay: T- shirt signed at Stories
Left To Tell wrap party, Los Angeles June 2006
Daisey
Show Aftermath
Monologuist
Mike Daisey's Work Attacked
No, on second thought, not a
group of Paris Hilton aficionados,
nor New York tourism activists,
but
a Christian force whose mission was to attack ideas and words and notepaper.
It's getting so an artist can't
sit behind a table
--- with ideas, a microphone, paper, pen and a glass
of water.
Oh no! He said the fuck word!
If the group in question wants
a listening/protesting experience,
perhaps they should direct their attention
to Bush administration communiques.
Now THAT's obscene.
Stories
Left To Tell Extends Off-Broadway Run; Dratch Will Guest Star
by Andrew Gans
Josh
Lucas Will Guest Star in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell Beginning
March 20
Broadway.com
Stories
Left To Tell: The Kathie Russo Interview at Austin 360
by Brad Buchholz
Shades of Gray
Sarah
Maxfield interviews Kathie
Russo
atCulturebot
EVENT
Stories
Left To Tell
February 20 - May 13
2007 at the Minetta
Lane Theater
The Minetta Lane CAST
UPDATES
August
2006
Musical
artist Bob Egan presents Spalding's Lament.
The Spalding
Gray website is updated with a new
emphasis
upon
fundraising.
Artistic
Web Design writes . . .
2006
LOS ANGELES EVENT
UCLALIVE
concludes it's 2005-2006 Spoken Word series with
Leftover
Stories to Tell
A Tribute
to Spalding Gray
The Unpublished
Works
Wed-Sat,
Jun 14 -17 at 8pm
Sun, Jun
18 at 7pm
Tickets: $45 ($15 UCLA students)
310.825.2101
www.uclalive.org
Cast to
date includes:
Brooke
Adams
Margaret
Cho
Frances
Conroy
Teri
Garr
Gina
Gershon
Ain
Gordon
Bob
Holman
Miranda
July
Alice
Sebold
Tony
Shaloub
Roger
Guenveur Smith
Loudon
Wainwright III
Kerry
Washington
Paul
Zaloom
2006 NEW
YORK EVENT
May 31
- June 4 - 2006
Leftover
Stories to Tell
Directed by Kathy Russo and
Lucy Sexton at Performance Space 122
Tickets
are $50 and may be purchased by calling Theatermania at 212-352-3101
or online
at www.theatermania.com. For information call P.S.122 at 212-477-5288
or visit
www.ps122.org
2007 EVENT
March
30 and 31
The Edison
Theater at Washington University
Leftover
Stories to Tell: A Tribute to Spalding Gray
.
. . And The First Spalding Gray Award Goes TO . . . Heather Woodbury
Spalding
Commemorated in Tompkins Square Park
EVENT
Thanks to Alex Sylvia and the
East Austin Studio Tour
chocolatemedia.com
presents:
russ c. smith • beauty-devotion-power
• photographic exhibit
the seventh exhibition of the
tour
Saturday
19th & Sunday 20th of November 2005
Cesar A. Sylva Studio
1402 E. Second
Austin TX
633-9728
Also featuring the passionate
paintings of Alex Sylvia.
NEW!
The Spalding Gray Group at Google. Join us . . .
Request a G mail invitation
by emailing here or here.
Magnolia
Pictures announces it's Magnolia Home Entertainment
division;
titles to be released include Steven Soderbergh's
Spalding
Gray, The Last Monologue
Life
Interrupted: Exit Talking
Playbill
News: Life Interrupted is published by Crown
(Purchase)
LETTER FROM KATHIE; EVENT
Dear Friends:
For the second year in
a row, the Hampton
Film Festival
will dedicate a category
in Spalding's name called "Gray
Matter." The festival
runs October 19-23. The category entries
are seen by the committee
as those films dedicated to innovative,
risk-taking cinema.
"In life, new visions
surround us constantly, it is always just a matter
of perspective. These
are a few that took us to a place we hadn't
expected to go, challenged
our notions of truth and opened new
avenues of thought .
. " Rajendra Roy, Program Director of the festival,
commenting on the films
chosen for Gray Matter.
In addition to Gray Matter,
we will have a reading of Spalding's recently
published book, "Life
Interrupted" at Book Hampton in East Hampton
on Saturday at 5pm with
Roy Scheider, Bob Balaban, Steven Gaines
and Joe Pintauro reading.
The event is free and we're serving Spalding's
favorite beer and peanuts
in the shell (favorite snack). I hope you can attend.
Just another Spalding
update, more to come . . .
Best,
Kathie
Saturday 10/22 at
5pm
Tribute to Spalding
Gray: Book Reading Event
Join us for a series of
readings from “Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue”
written by the late Spalding
Gray. Roy Scheider, Joe Pintauro, Steven Gaines
and Bob Balaban will
read excerpts from his last book. Gray, a Sag Harbor resident,
was a regular participant
at the festival and this reading will pay tribute (along with
the Gray Matter films
at the Hamptons International Film Festival) to a community
member tremendously missed.
The reading will be followed
by a reception and discussion with the readers led by
Gray's widow, Kathleen
Russo. Russo will also be producing a new film by
Steven Soderbergh exploring
this never-performed monologue by Spalding Gray.
EVENT
MAY 2006
The
New Group (Naked) presents A Spalding Gray Matter ,
exploring the titular star's
tumultuous life. It is performed
by its author Michael
Brandt and directed by Ian Morgan.
FILM
New
Soderbergh project explores a never-performed
monologue
by Spalding Gray; produced by Amy Hobby
and
Kathie Russo, along with Joshua Blum.
LETTER
FROM KATHIE RUSSO; LIFE INTERRUPTED PUBLISHED
OCTOBER
2005 BY CROWN; READING AT BARNES AND NOBLE
OCTOBER
13TH, 2005.
Dear Friends
and Family:
As
promised, I'm trying to keep Spalding's memory alive and am pleased
to inform
you that the last book he was working on "Life Interrupted"
will
be published by Crown this October. A reading will take place at
Barnes
and Noble on Thursday, October 13 at 7pm. Readers will include
Frank
McCourt, Francine Prose, Am Homes and Paul Muldoon. The event is
free
and open to the public.
Also,
this Sunday's NY Times will print Spalding's love letter to New
York
City in a special section dedicated to the anniversary of 9/11.
Again,
thanks to all of you for the warmth and concern you continue to
show
our family and I hope to see you soon.
Best
regards,
Kathie
EVENTS
Josh
Lefkowitz and Abby Browde
Theatre
Building Chicago and Breadline Center,
Tickets:
$20 ($12 students)
Call:
(773) 327-5252 (Theatre Building); (312) 498-3369 (Breadline)
EVENT
Monologuist
Martin Moran in The Tricky Part
August
23rd through September 4th
EVENT
UCB
Theater presents monologuist Brian
Finklestein
September
1st, 8th & 15th
8 PM
EVENT
Posted July 5th, 2005 by jb
http://www.pioneerarts.org
Director David Fried Oppenheim has just informed me that his
small theater company in western Massachusetts, PACE, has
very graciously been granted the first ever performance rights
(after Spalding himself) for several performances of Swimming to
Cambodia. The monologue will be performed by Jason
Rose-Langston, who, aside from being an accomplished actor also
received a Masters in Social Work from Smith College.
Performances are Friday, July 29th to Sunday, July 31st, all at 8 pm.
Tickets can be ordered
at the following web page:
www.pioneerarts.org/onlinestore/category.cfm?Category=61
or phone 413-527-5999 or 877-835-4897.
Thank you, David, for the info.
EVENT
2006
UCLALIVE
concludes it's 2005-2006 Spoken Word series
with
Leftover
Stories to Tell
A Tribute
to Spalding Gray
The Unpublished
Works
Wed-Sat,
Jun 14-17 at 8pm
Sun, Jun
18 at 7pm
Tickets: $45 ($15 UCLA students)
310.825.2101
www.uclalive.org
DVD BOXED
SET
Posted
May 18, 2005
Sources say that negotiations
are taking place
for the release of a box set of Spalding's monologues
not previously released on DVD.
You heard it here first! Visit spaldinggray.com,
your source for the most comprehensive, up-to-date information
on Spalding
and his works
--- and on the people and artists who remain inspired by
him.
EVENT -
May 7, 2005
Nuci's
Space/Athens, GA
Mark Mobley
reads from Monster in a Box.
http://www.nuci.org/
May 27
through June 11, 2005 at the Flamboyan
Theater
A Spalding Gray Matter
is written and performed by Michael Brandt.
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/111119
http://www.breedingground.com/SFFspalding.html
http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/news/apr05/5apr05spalding.htm
EVENT -
May 4, 2005
Spalding's
friends and colleagues read from his work:
Bogosian, Holman, Reno, Valk
to Read Work of Spalding Gray at Barnes & Noble
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92516.html
Life
Interrupted : The Unfinished Monologue (Hardcover)
by
SPALDING GRAY
13/04/05 - One year anniversary
of Memorial Service in NYC
One year ago,
I was fortunate
enough to be invited to this memorial service.
We had planned on posting
what people said but one person balked.
I still have an idea cooking for
this.
My whole story and more is on
this site at NYC Diary.
The New Yorker liked it but couldn't fit it in it's niche.
If you haven't
read it, please do.
Since it's all really there,
I thought I'd mark the anniversary by announcing that with the help of
Barlow's blog,
I'm building up a large mailing list for updates.
It will
take time to finish as my shattered ankle still remains 'no weight bearing'
and the arthritic pain is intense.
I did however manage to update the list
of spud films with much greater detail on availability.
Having said all that,
one year
later I still feel the same loss.
David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Dave Gorman
and Nilaja Sun have helped
but the emptiness remains.
I am blessed by being
able to work on this site. Thank you Kathie.
jb (the rev)
Saving Grace by Todd Rundgren
(copyright remains with todd and will be removed if you let me know todd...)
I think I’m gonna love it
I think I’m gonna love it
Because I know someday someone
else will see it my way
And then I’ll know I was not
wrong
I know they won’t believe it
I know they won’t believe it
They think that I’m no good
But I will make myself understood
’cause I believe it all along
I think I’m gonna love it
I know they won’t believe it
When they finally see the saving
grace in me
I know the time is gonna come
When I will mean something to
someone
Until that day I’m hanging on
Playbill News: Steven Soderbergh
to Direct Documentary About Spalding Gray
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91794.html
Welcome to the new web staffer
Stevie
Knicks,
who is of course a Spalding devotee, and hails from New York.
Spalding
Gray webmaster John Boland goes on medical leave . . .
get well soon, Rev!
Actor/writer Nilaja Sun wonderfully
characterizes Spalding Gray in Blues
for a Gray Sun.
01.10.05
On this solemn day, I leave
you this link:
It's a virtual gravesite on the Internet.
Many are "buried"
here.
Many more have left "offerings" of comfort.
For with every breeze
of air that passes by,
I can hear you, Spalding . . . Godspeed to all of
you. --- Stevie.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8485319nbsp
ANNIVERSARY – Special Update
– changes, contest winners and more!
to all spuddies and other members
of the human race:
i'm rev...ed up today:
1) from the kansas city star:
One year ago: North Korea
said it had shown its "nuclear deterrent" to an unofficial U.S. delegation
that visited the disputed Yongbyon nuclear complex.
Michelle Kwan won her
seventh straight title and eighth overall
at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships
in Atlanta;
Johnny Weir skated to his first men's title.
Actor-writer Spalding
Gray, 62,
vanished from his New York apartment
(his body was found two
months later in the East River).
Novelist Alexandra Ripley died in Richmond,
Va., at age 70.
2) it has been quite a year
for me. Highlights are:
- going to NYC for the Memorial
- having the help of AF in web
design
- shattering my ankle and requiring
10 months bed rest with ankle above hip.
3) I miss you spud, I really
do
4) I'm not scared of dying
I don't really care
if it's peace you find in dying
well let the time be near...
just bundle up the coffin
cause it's cold way down there...
crazy cold down there
and when i die
and when I'm gone
there'll be one child
born in a world to carry on
to carry on...
(an excerpt from When I Die
by Laura Nyro written when she was about 15.
Laura died of ovarian cancer
at the age of 49)
5) the contest is over and winner's
are:
a) AJ wins a copy of In Search
of the Monkey Girl (promised to her months ago)
b) there are 3 other prizes:
King of the Hill with Spalding
in an amazing role, amazing movie (only available on VHS)
True Stories on DVD
the Playboy with one obscure
pic of Spud, circa 1968 (?)
- one winner is Stevie,
another
is Russ Smith (chocolaterecords.com)
and Susan DeSocio, who due to illness
could not attend Memorial service.
- Since Russ and Susan are both
MIA,
Stevie gets first choice!
6) this the end of the yahoo
group.
I am going to a mailing list on web page.
Members here have a default
join unless you write me.
Joining is by email to me.
Contributions are
welcome.
Access at the moment is by myself or AF only…
tell your friends! Next contest
may be an all expense trip to NYC
(accommodations not included).
(Transportation for 1 via bus
from Montreal one way only)
(not valid in Quebec and Nevada)
7)
there once
was a fellow named Spalding
who seemed
to have found his calling
some
days he was gray
one day he
drifted away
now we
know he can still hear us calling
(rev jb – c. 2005)
