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No business like show business.


Byline: BUZZWORTHY by The Register-Guard

You might want to go easy on the Irish pub songs and hard drinking today if you want to have a shot at landing a role in the Shedd's production of "Annie Get Your Gun."

On Saturday, the Shedd is auditioning for male voices for a summer production of the Irving Berlin Noun 1. Irving Berlin - United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989)
Israel Baline, Berlin
 musical. Auditions, by appointment only, start at 9 a.m. Call 687-6526 for details.

The Shedd is only looking for Looking for

In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with.
 male voices right now, but a representative from the arts organization says anyone can show up. Unless you are "mannish man·nish  
adj.
1. Of, characteristic of, or natural to a man.

2. Resembling, imitative of, or suggestive of a man rather than a woman: a mannish stride. See Synonyms at male.
" you probably don't have a shot.

For those not mannish, it might be fun to engage the fantasy of pretending to be a guy and landing a part, or doing anything guys do. It's a theme played out in many Hollywood movies, most recently in "She's the Man," which opens today.

The plot of the movie is loosely based on William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, Jan. 5, the vigil or eve of Epiphany, so called because it is the 12th night from Christmas, counting Christmas as the first. In England, Twelfth Night has been a great festival marking the end of the Christmas season, and popular masquerading parties ," but it promises to be a silly teen romantic comedy with a sibling switcheroo switch·er·oo  
n. pl. switch·er·oos Slang
An unexpected variation or reversal.



[Alteration of switch.]

Noun 1.
. This year's "Mean Girls"? See for yourself.

Back in the real world of siblings, SONiA & disappear fear disappear fear, an American folk/power pop band, formed in Baltimore in 1987. The original band consisted of sisters Sonia Rutstein and Cindy Frank. Their lyrics often addressed GLBT rights and other progressive political causes.  - a band started in 1987 by sisters CiNDY and SONiA Rutstein - are coming for a Sunday show at Sam's Place.

CiNDY left the band in 1996 to be a mother, and SONiA embarked on a solo career. In 2005, SONiA started the band back up with Laura Cerulli on percussion and vocals, and Angela Edge on bass and trumpet.

SONiA & disappear fear continues in its tradition of acoustic activism that the sisters started and is touring behind the album "DF05 LiVE."

The band will play when Showtime's lesbian-centered drama "The L Word" concludes for a "gay-themed evening," says Nancy Palmquist, the publicist pub·li·cist  
n.
One who publicizes, especially a press or publicity agent.


publicist
Noun

a person, such as a press agent or journalist, who publicizes something

publicist
 for the band.

The band is donating 19 cents to the United Nations' World Food Programme for every song downloaded from its Web site, www .disappearfear.com.
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Date:Mar 17, 2006
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