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APRIL 13-19, 2017 FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE • WWW.WHATZUP.COM TICKETS ON SALE NOW! TICKETS ON SALE NOW! MORE COWBELL! FROM GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- April 13, 2017 whatzup Volume 21, Number 35 ou may have noticed that we spend a lot of time in this space discussing whatzup.com. There’s a good reason for that. This past Friday, for exam- ple, whatzup.com tallied 3,596 individual visitors, and we’re averaging Ybetter than 2,200 unique visitors per day, up about 50 percent from this time last year. We cannot, at this point, calculate how many people visit the site in a week, but we’re quite certain that it’s substantially more than the number of people who pick up the print version each week. Not that we want to discourage those of you who pick up the print version of whatzup from doing so, but you should check out the website as well. Why? Because we can do stuff on whatzup.com that we cannot do in print – things like providing a complete karaoke and DJ calendar; publishing a movie page that includes all of today’s, or tomorrow’s, or the next day’s movie times at all the movie theaters in the area; providing videos of performances by area bands; pro- viding up to date listings of all the national concerts in the region, not just what fits onto three, four or five printed pages – and that’s just scratching the surface. So sit down with this paper – or with your phone or at your computer – and enjoy this issue of the Fort Wayne area’s one and only free-distribution weekly arts & entertainment publication. You’ll find plenty to keep you interested and enter- tained for the next hour or so. After you’re done, feel free to poke around what- zup.com for a while. 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Till next week ... inside the issue • features ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 14 FLIX ................................................. 20 Going in Style LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS .........................4 Carnivorous Comedy SCREENTIME ................................. 20 Bossy Babies, Beauties & Beasts RECORD STORE DAY .................................5 Preserving Independents ON BOOKS ...................................... 21 The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average PIPPIN ............................................................6 Parenting The Magical Musical Tour FARE WARNING ............................. 23 HAILSHOT ....................................................7 The Trap Door Purveyors of ‘Devil Music’ • columns & reviews • calendars SPINS ................................................8 LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ................. 10 Spoon, Thundercat, Depeche Mode, Hooray for the Riff Raff MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 14 BACKTRACKS ...................................8 ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 18 Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up(1972) ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 21 OUT AND ABOUT ............................ 10 STAGE & DANCE ............................ 22 More RSD Treats to Choose From THINGS TO DO ............................... 23 PICKS ............................................. 12 Todd Barry, RaeLynn, Great Lakes Swimmers Cover by Brandon Jordan April 13, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------ www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: --------------------------Feature • Little Shop of Horrors ------------------------- all for One Productions/A Wrinkle in Time ...........................22 Brandart .................................................................................21 C2G Live .................................................................................20 C2G Music Hall.........................................................................6 Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits ............................10 Columbia Street West .........................................................11 Carnivorous Comedy Cute by Nature Jewelry .......................................................21 By Michele DeVinney eating plant Audrey II taking up a bit of Redman. “The space in our theater is not his attention. See, you won’t find that kind naturally suited to the number of sets in the The CW .......................................................................................7 For many years the most popular and of twist in Oklahoma. The plant is a major show, so we had to find ways to have scenes Decades Rewind .......................................................................3 often performed musicals followed a fairly player in the show (proof of that is that the that take place outside Seymour’s shop.” Dupont Bar & Grill.................................................................10 predictable pattern. The stories and songs voice of Audrey II In addition there’s the matter of accom- of musical theater greats like Rodgers and in the 1986 film modating the plant. After fed, Audrey II Embassy Theatre .....................................................................5 Hammerstein or Lerner and Lowe told was Levi continues to grow, as plants are wont to do. Fort Wayne Civic Theatre/The Little Mermaid ...................22 sweet, sometimes dramatic, sometimes co- Stubbs Making that happen without a fly gallery has medic, but always engaging stories of love. required some nifty tricks in set and light- Fort Wayne Dance Collective ..............................................22 Unlikely love, turbulent love, innocent love ing design. While Redman is reluctant to Fort Wayne Musicians Association ...................................22 – they ran the gamut. But almost always the share too many secrets, thereby giving away stories ended romantically, with the boy some of the plot and production surprises, Fort Wayne Park Dept./Christopher Cross ......................15 winning the girl’s heart and everyone living she does credit the staff and students of her Hamilton House Bar & Grill .................................................11 happily ever after. There were a few clas- department and the young performer who is sics along the way that ended less happily, acting as puppeteer and helping Audrey II IPFW Dept. of Theatre/Little Shop of Horrors...................22 with shows like The King & I and Carou- come to life. Jam Theatricals/Pippin ............................................................9 sel ending in death. But for decades the “One of our students, Cameron Toll- formula to Broadway musical success iver, is our puppeteer for the show, and Latch String Bar & Grill .......................................................11 was to feature a winning couple audi- since we’re renting the plants, he’s had The League/Blues Bash ...........................................................7 ences could love and root for. to work in rehearsals just mimicking Little Shop of Horrors isn’t ex- the actions that he’ll be doing with the The Mersey Beatles .............................................................11 actly that musical. plant. The plant will be stalking people Mitchell’s Sports & Neighborhood Grill ............................10 At its center is a story of boy lov- on stage, so he has to mimic that without ing a girl, that’s true. But the path to the plant until we bring in the plants for the NIGHTLIFE .......................................................................10-13 that love is unique to say the least, and performances. Northside Galleries .................................................................3 the end is out of the ordinary, way, way “One of our faculty, Kate Black, is also Pacific Coast Concerts ................................................... 2, 15 out of the ordinary. a personal trainer and has been working The music reflects a clearly dif- with Cameron because the person in the PERFORMERS DIRECTORY ................................................13 ferent approach than those of the 40s plant has to be strong. It takes a lot of up- Rusty Spur Saloon ..................................................................6 and 50s, instead exploiting the 1970s per body strength and core strength to do it, popularity of rock musicals and tapping and he’s been working hard to get ready for Sweetwater Sound ....................................................... 11, 24 into early rock genres like doo-wop and all of that.” Teds Market ...........................................................................11 merging it with the smooth sounds of One reason students appealed to the Motown. It is an unusual story wrapped faculty to produce this particular play was whatzup Dining Club ...............................................................19 in an unusual soundtrack. the diversity of characters and roles avail- Wooden Nickel Music Stores ......................................... 8, 17 Although the two men who wrote able, and the puppeteer is just one unique as- the music for Little Shop of Horrors pect to the play. The quirkiness of the story WXKE 96.3 ............................................................................20 weren’t as high profile when the show cannot be denied either, and it represents a debuted in 1982, within the next 10 departure from plays earlier this season at years Alan Menken and Howard Ash- IPFW. man were Oscar winners, well-known Next year’s schedule is already set and for providing the music for