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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Three Critiques – Some good, some not so much

June 30, 2013 3 Comments

The primary forms of entertainment for me are theater, reading, watching movies.  And this was a week for all three.

Friday night I saw Honk, the Center on the Square KidStage (sponsored by Land O Frost) summer production. This is a musical adaptation of the story of the Ugly Duckling.  After a month of theater workshop, the kids (grades K-12) were able to show their stuff in a professional-looking performance.  KidStage Kids were the actors and singers and with help they worked on lighting, staging, make-up and costumes.  The result was fantastic. The energy fairly radiated from the stage and if there was a fumble or missed cue, I never saw it.  Five stars for this great show by a bunch of talented young folks.

Land O Frost KidStage is an ongoing program at Center on the Square with classes twice a week during the school year as well as the summer workshop. For more information about KidStage go to www.centeronthesquare.com.

I finished reading John Grisham’s The Summons. I don’t read a lot of Grisham, but found this novel at Goodwill. It looked brand new and it’s shorter than most of his books so I took a shot.  I’ve seen most of his movies and usually enjoy them. While I did finish reading the book, which says something, I’ll have to rate The Summons “meh.”

My latest Netflix movie was Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley.  I was expecting a lightweight chick-flick and was pleasantly surprised by a movie that was both amusing and poignant. Steve Carell is so much better an actor than he gets a chance to be in Office Space. And Kiera Knightley always hold up her end of the deal. I recommend this movie. IMDb.com gives it a score of 6.7 (out of 10). I might rate it a little higher … but that works for me.

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Comments

  1. Pat Laster says

    June 30, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    You certainly put together a good post in the short time you told me about. I answered on email, but since it didn’t come thru’ here (yet?) I’ll comment again. I need to read Grisham’s “The Lone Juror,” according to a male writer friend.

  2. Dorothy Johnson says

    July 1, 2013 at 8:51 am

    I love it that Searcy is so up and coming with the theatre and that Land O Frost sponsors KidStage. The Ugly Duckling was one of my favorite fairy tales. One memory that still tugs at my heart was finding a child in tears as he listened to the story on cassette tape. Being new in town and a little different from the neighborhood kids, he was relating to the story in the way Hans Christian Anderson might I have hoped we all would.

  3. Freedanichols says

    July 4, 2013 at 7:43 am

    What a wonderful opportunity for Searcy area kids to try their talents onstage! I’m now reading Grisham’s “The Client” and so far it’s taking me rapidly along. Impressed,

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