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Dacal’s potential as a dancer was important, since Wonderland choreographer Marguerite Derricks is one of the show’s leading assets. Her credits range from flashy Gap ads to the Austin Powers movies to the recent remake of Fame.
“I was inspired by Cyd Charisse for Janet’s character,” Derricks says. “I had all these big ideas, but I didn’t know what she could do. Then she blew us all away with her dancing.”
Dacal went to Coral Park Senior High School in Miami and has a communications degree from Florida International University. Before heading to New York to work in the theater, she was a backup singer for Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada and Luis Enrique in Miami.
Wildhorn likes to shape his shows to the talent. His ex-wife, Linda Eder, played the prostitute Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde, and until they divorced about five years ago, he often called her his muse. He describes Dacal’s singing style as “something like Nora Jones meets Donny Hathaway.”

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… I think I’ve got a lot more comfortable with talking about myself. I couldn’t finish a sentence because I was so concerned about how it was going to sound and I didn’t want to come across insincere about something that I really love to do,” Stewart says. “I realised that instead or refraining from saying things, I should have said, ‘I put my heart and soul into this thing and I love it’ instead of the really logical, over-analytical reasons why I love it.”
Certainly Stewart likes the choices afforded her by Twilight and is too smart to complain about any downside. “It’s easier now to do things I really like, like an independent movie that nobody sees. Now it’ll be: ‘Oh, let’s go see Bella in this stripper movie!’ It’ll be crazy.” She laughs hard, like she’s loving it.
The “stripper movie” in question, Welcome to the Rileys – starring The Sopranos’ James Gandolfini and last year’s surprise Best Actress Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo – is one she terms the “most fruitful life-changing movie experience I’ve ever had. It was the hardest subject-matter. I play a very broken young girl working in a strip club.”

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A man committed suicide from his West End Avenue apartment. The Post reports that cops and neighbors say he jumped from the 16th floor “in front of his horrified daughters.”
KRS-One was volunteering at the Bowery Mission today, “I used to be here. Back in 1986 I ate here. I was homeless for many years, and it was the Bowery Mission in particular that used to feed me, clothe me.”
An East Patchogue couple that faced foreclosure now own their house outright after a judge ruled “to cancel their mortgage because of a bank’s failure to act in good faith in working out a foreclosure alternative.”
And a man in Indiana was arrested when he called the police because he forgot where his tractor-trailer with 5-year-old son was—see, he had left the kid to go to a strip club and got apparently wasted.

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… I don’t necessarily think in commercial terms. That said, I’ve had success with some TV commercials that my music has been used in. But those things more or less fall from the sky. I don’t even see them coming. They’re fun to do, especially if you’re commissioned to do them, but I don’t get anything artistically from them. I’m not a very business-minded lady, which is, I suppose, good. I mean, I’m not stupid about things, either – I can keep myself fed.
“Living in NYC, though, it’s such a struggle for most people. Everyone around me is almost in the same situation, so I don’t really notice. But, then, with music, you’re not supposed to think about stuff like money. It’s all about freeing your mind, isn’t it? I look to culture for that – movies, books, visual art.”
One of the album tracks, Little Miss Holiday , is a perfect example of what Landes is talking about: it was written as a response to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver , and employs a faltering café conversation between the film’s child prostitute, Iris, and the teenage actor who played her – Jodi Foster.

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42051 ★ ‘THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS PART 1 & 2’ Tarell Alvin McCraney’s gorgeous trilogy of poetic plays, about hard lives in the bayou country of Louisiana, are pumped full of a senses-heightening oxygen. Directed by Tina Landau and Robert O’Hara, and acted by a rousingly good ensemble, these interconnected works are the product of that rare and great thing, an original artistic vision. (Part 1 is 2:00; Part 2 is 2:30.) Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village, (212) 967-7555, publictheater.org. (Brantley)
‘CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE/PANTALEÓN Y LAS VISITADORAS’
Peruvian soldiers in the Amazon need female companionship, so Captain Pantoja enlists a whole corps of prostitutes, complete with cute, midriff-baring uniforms. This rousing, sexy and surprisingly sweet new musical could give bawdiness a good name. In Spanish with simultaneous English translation.

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… One of the attractions of being in a city like this is that you can be from wherever you’re from and you can also be a New Yorker. You have this constant whirlwind of millions of stories meeting each other in all sorts of tight and unusual circumstances. It seems to me that New York is an everywhere place.”
The novel, McCann’s fifth, mainly takes place on August 7th, 1974, the day that Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, as immortalised in the Oscar-winning film Man on Wire. A number of New Yorkers walk their own personal tightropes, from Park Avenue matrons to monks working with prostitutes in the Bronx, as McCann re-imagines a very different Big Apple to the one we know today, to draw comparisons between Petit’s walk and the events of 9/11.

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No one can say Kelly Goyette lacks range as an actress. She can bounce from being the wife of a male stripper in the adult-themed comic musical The Full Monty to portraying Mrs. Pugh, the cook at the Warbucks mansion, in the kid-friendly musical Annie.
Even more remarkably, the 1999 graduate of Champlain Valley Union High School can do both more or less at the same time. She spoke about her dual roles recently while in final rehearsals for Lyric Theatres production of The Full Monty, which concluded Nov. 15, just before starting rehearsals for the Broadway National Tour of Annie. That tour, coincidentally, stops Tuesday, Dec. 1 at the Flynn Center, the same stage where Goyette appeared in The Full Monty this month. It is a lot going on, said Goyette, who lives in Williston. A lot going on, of course, is a good thing for an actress, especially one such as Goyette who took awhile to find her way to the professional ranks. Shes a pro …

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NEW YORK — An appearance Wednesday night by former Times Herald-Record reporter Christine Young on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” has been postponed.
Young was to appear with Lebrew Jones, the man she helped get released from prison after 22 years behind bars following his questionable murder conviction.
Producers have not rescheduled an interview date for the live show.
Jones, convicted in the brutal 1987 slaying of a Manhattan prostitute, was released last week on parole, thanks, say lawyers, to Young’s investigative reporting. Her stories raised significant questions about the murder investigation, prompting prosecutors to reopen the case.

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Obviously, it wasn’t Huff’s mediocre, brutal, chronologically challenged two-hander that drew the crowds, but the particular Brit and Aussie on the bill: mega-hunk movie stars Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, who play beat cops Denny and Joey. The two share the minimalist stage for the duration, each unfolding his version of the chain of career- and life-wrecking events that follow from Joey inviting a prostitute to a family dinner.
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“Hugh had trouble with one line in particular. When he goes over to [the prostitute's] house the first time, he would always say, ‘The baby is glommed on to gazunger numba two,’ ”—mixing up the final sounds of the two words. “When I was watching at performances, he’d give me a sign with his finger after that line—point up if he got it right, or make a little ‘no no’ wag if he got it wrong.”

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The City established the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force in 2006, under the Mayor’s Criminal Justice Coordinator’s office. The ensuing years saw the city partnering with social service and human rights entities to ensure that the victims of this practice are protected. This resulted in the passage of the New York State Anti-Trafficking Law in 2007, creating a registry of services, which for New York City, can be accessed by 311.
In the coming weeks there will be a public service campaign, designed to heighten the awareness of the human trafficking in our City. This has special interest for our community board in that three massage parlors were shut down in our area earlier this year. CB 10 is proud to state that it immediately reported information brought to us by residents, to the 45th Precinct, who in turn shut them down. It is important to report any massage parlor or any suspicious entity in your neighborhood to the community board, the 45th Precinct, the elected officials and 311 or 911.

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