Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

Two short articles appeared in Variety last week and they caught my attention. The first drew an audible HUH! from my mouth as I read it on the subway:

Seth MacFarlane‘s “Family Guy” stage show is headed to Carnegie Hall, with two dates booked for next month.

“Family Guy Sings!,” set for Nov. 24-25, will feature the cast of Fox’s animated hit in a live perf of two uncensored episodes of the show, along with musical numbers from various episodes and bonus material
that never made it to the air.

Thesps will be accompanied by a 40-piece orchestra led by “Family Guy” composer Walter Murphy. The perf will also include a preview of “The Cleveland Show,” the. spinoff series bound for Fox next year.

The live stagings of segs from the 20th Century Fox TV-produced laffer were a big hit at Montreal’s Just for Laughs comedy fest in 2004 and 2007. Similar live shows have been mounted for limited runs in L.A., Gotham and Chicago during the past three years.

The Carnegie Hall shows will be the most elaborate yet for the troupe of MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and Mike Henry. “We hope the good people at the hall are ready for a barrage of masturbation jokes that’ll make Igor Stravinsky’s ‘Concerto No. 69′ look like George Gershwin’s ‘Clean Wholesome Hugs,’” MacFarlane said.

The “Family Guy Sings!” Carnegie dates will be presented by Just for Laughs and producers David J. Foster and Jared Geller.

What else can be said? Is Broadway next? Looks like I won’t be able to make it to this show.

The second article was of more interest:

Acad touts Canuck toons
Canuck animated shorts will be feted in Washington on Oct. 27, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences delivers “A Salute to the National Film Board of Canada.”

Hosted by animation critic and historian Charles Solomon, the event will celebrate more than five decades of the NFB’s Oscar-nominated and winning pics with screenings of “Neighbours” (1952), “Walking” (1969), “Bob’s Birthday” (1993), “Ryan” (2004) and “The Danish Poet” (2006). The show will be followed by a panel discussion with NFB chair and government film commissioner Tom Perlmutter, NFB animation producer Marcy Page and Torill Kove, who directed Oscar winner “The Danish Poet.”

Event takes place in the William G. McGowan Theater at the National Archives in D.C. Tickets are free.

I actually wondered whether I could make it to the show. . . I can’t.

The NYTimes, today, has an extensive review of the Blu Ray disc of Sleeping Beauty.
O, Prince! How Clear You Are on Blu-ray Nice coverage.

There’s a new animation magazine on the market called GOmotion MAGAZINE. You can see a sample on line here. It’s predominantly oriented to cgi users.

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