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The New Standards Holiday Show at The Fitzgerald Theatre

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The New Standards played their annual holiday show at The Fitzgerald Theater on Saturday, December 5th. Guests included Gary Louris of The Jayhawks, Jeremy Messersmith, Adam Levy, Janey Winterbauer, Prudence Johnson, Kristen Mooney, Eric Heywood, Dan Wilson, and quite a few others. Jazz interpretations of pop hits ran the spectrum: Hey Yeah by Outkast (dated but still entertaining), Do You Realize? by the Flaming Lips, Toxic by Britney Spears (a real highlight), I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick. These songs were interspersed with traditional holiday songs. My highlight of the night was “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. The song made me feel like a child at Christmas, and that’s not an easy emotion to capture.

Janey Winterbauer & Gary Louris

The Fitzgerald

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Don't Crush Our Heart! @ Ritz Theater

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Moon Island, the twee pop band in Don’t Crush Our Heart! is on Myspace. Go, be a friend to them. Joshua, Jessica and Drummer are sad.

PREMIER: SATURDAY SEPT 20, 8PM, $15
REPRISE: SATURDAY OCT 18, 8PM, $15
THE BEAUTIFUL RITZ THEATER, 345 13TH AVE NE
NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS!
FOR TICKETS: CALL THE RITZ BOX OFFICE 612.436.1129
OR BUY ONLINE RIGHT HERE*

In an old brick warehouse room, down in the Armitage Heights Munitions District, Joshua and Jessica of the young band Moon Island, smile, strum and make powerfully pretty pop music.

Meanwhile, across the hood, sitting at a desk in his sad-lit office, Councilman Sherman listens to an MP3 of Moon Island, the very same band, and dreams of luring an Urban Outfitter, a Pei Wei Asian fusion restaurant, and a giant U2 outdoor iPod ad to his district. Could Joshua, Jessica — this Moon Island — be the key? They sing so beautiful… Yessss…

The next morning, after good sleep, Sherman hears the news on the blogs and the twitters: “Moon Island to relocate to Brooklyn, NY!” Sherman shouts: “Somebody call the City Attorney, STAT. These kids can’t leave!” And thus begins the greatest Urban Planning, Pretty Pop Music, Radio-style, Court Room Dramedy, Cautionary Musical Tale EVER KNOWN!

With: Herbach and Mary Everest as Moon Island. Andy Sturdevant as Sid, the hardest-boiled pop music journalist. Jenny Adams as Marisha, administrative assistant and mega-fan. Sam Osterhout as the Honorable Alderman from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. P. Chris Bierbrauer as Councilman Sherman. Steph Ash as 80s rocker Strawberry Cox. Brady Bergeson as Judge Mathis. And, Kurt Froehlich as the prosecuting attorney.

Original music from Dave Salmela and the Electric Arc band.