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BY RACHEL HERGETT FOR THE CHRONICLEBozeman’s Verge Theater moved out of its home on North Seventh Avenue as a cost-saving measure amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In July, the theater found a new home in the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture’s Galleria Hall. The space would be a theater by night and a gallery curated by Kelley Sullivan of Rapscallion Gallery by day, meeting the Verge’s directive to find a home that would “encourage
In the last few months, the gallery space has hosted classes and staged readings, but larger productions went to the larger stage in the Emerson’s Crawford Theater. That is changing this week.
For its first full-length production in the new space, the gallery will transform into Middletown, USA, for a production of Will Eno’s “Middletown,” which “explores the joyful and excruciating human experience of being a regular person in an average American town” according to www.vergetheater.com.
“Ultimately, for me it’s been a joy in trying to figure out how we take an 11 by 17 playing space and make it feel alive and natural and organic to the town and we’ve done that,” director Bradford Rosenbloom said.
In Middletown, we glimpse the lives of the residents. We see a friendship developing between townie John Dodge (Alex Miller) and new arrival Mary Swanson (Kyrie Dawson) through windows and seemingly simple interactions.
“This is what life is like, here, right now,” the cop says. “Looking
into people’s windows at night makes you feel lonely. Lonely, but lonely along with the people in the windows. Along with the people in the whole world, the whole lonely billions. It feels sort of holy, in some screwy way. Fact.”
Through its residents, “Middletown” shows off contrasting and complementing ideals, exploring connections through vignettes that hint at a plot, but remain ephemeral. It’s beautiful in its abstraction.
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Opening reception for a body of work by sculptor Stephanie Revennaugh. Show on display through December. Old Main Gallery & Framing, 129 East Main Street, Bozeman. gallery@old maingallery com, 406-587-8860
Montana State Bobcats Mens Basketball vs Warner Paci�c Knights Mens Basketball
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Celtic Quintet
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Intermediate Country Swing
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Amanda Stewart featuring Kristen Janis and Emma & The Ledge @ 7pm
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The Keith Little Trio
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An Evening with El Wencho on Cat/Griz Eve @ 7:30pm
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Cat/Griz Comedy Showdown: The Brawl of the Smiles!
@ 8pm / $17-$20
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Dead Sky Bozeman, Montana @ 8pm
Armory Music Hall, 24 W Menden‐hall St, Bozeman
Sweet Groovalicious Funk Machine @ 8pm
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The Magic Monster Show at the Rialto
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El Wencho: Bowl Wencho at the Bozeman Bowl! @ 6pm
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Montana's Funniest Human Person-Comedy Competition
@ 10pm / $10
Last Best Comedy's Second An‐nual Comedy Competition! The funniest people in Montana do their best 5 minutes to make you laugh. We will have preliminary rounds with 10 comedians on each night. Last Best Comedy, 321 East Main Street, Bozeman. info@lastbestcomedy.com, 406570-7766
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Desperate Electric @ 7pm
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Bone Dry Comedy Hour
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Brandon Hale and The Dirty Shame: The Shame acoustic trio @ 6pm Bridger Brewing, 1609 S 11th Ave, Bozeman
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NaNoWriMo Check In @ 6:30pm
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International Folk Dancing @ 7pm
Join us for great exercise and community as we enjoy folk dances from around the world!
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Beginner Country Swing
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Fri 11/25
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Storyhill Holiday Concert @ 7:30pm / $26
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Storyhill Holiday Concert
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Bozeman-based, Billboard-chart‐ing folk duo Storyhill plays a spe‐cial hometown show, kicking off their holiday tour and playing songs from their acoustic Christ‐mas album Bethlehem Ellen The‐atre, 17 West Main Street, Boze‐man. ellenboxstaff@gmail com, 406-585 5885
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner adapted her novel for this FX on Hulu drama series that stars Jesse Eisenberg as a newly divorced man enjoying the freedom of app-based dating when his ex-wife disappears and he is forced to juggle the care of their two kids with a career and his new life.
Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brody also star. (ORIGINAL)
Once an icon of 1960s counterculture whose residents included Patti Smith, Janis Joplin and the superstars of Warhol’s Factory, Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel is now under renovation to be turned into a luxury resort. This documentary takes viewers through its storied halls, exploring its living body and the bohemian origins that contributed to its mythical stature. (ORIGINAL)
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“Camp Dread” director B. Harrison Smith took a lighter turn to helm this 2021 holiday comedy about a girl who stumbles upon a Christmas caper involving a fleet of small robots that just might not be the innocent toys they seem. Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Cervantes and Peter Cote head the cast.
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From director Lindsay Hartley (“Mommy Is a Murderer”) comes this 2022 romancer that stars Jennifer Taylor (“Two and a Half Men”) as Andrea, an ambitious ad executive who realizes what she’s been missing when Santa grants her wish for a Christmas do-over. Roberta Hanlen, Julia Terranova and Emily Roslyn Villarreal also star.
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BY GEORGE DICKIE
What musical artists have inspired you?
Oh man, growing up I listened to a lot of Brian McKnight, Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion. Very soulful singers, some big vocalists, some R&B. And then as I got into high school, it was more like singer/songwriters like Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson. And then at the same time, within all of that I also just grew up listening to the radio and what would come on KISS-FM and things like that. So I’ve been influenced by a lot of different kinds of sounds. And being a vocalist, I have fun kind of playing and singing within several different genres, which is why I think it’s been a journey to try to find sort of my sound and how to incorporate all those different
elements into who I’m going to be as an artist.
Do you see a cross pollination between acting and music, where one helps or augments the other?
I think in some ways, yes. Like obviously from what you have to do, they’re very different worlds. You know, I’m coming into acting and they give me a script and they tell me what to wear and I’m taking on the role of something that’s in someone else’s imagination.
Whereas with music, it’s very therapeutic for me and I’m able to tell my stories and my experiences through my songwriting.
When bad guys step on the little guy, the team steps in to even the playing field and provide leverage. In Season 2, the evildoers include a husband-and-wife team running a multi-level marketing scam, a shipping magnate dumping boatloads of plastic waste and a music producer who abuses his position over vulnerable women. Gina Bellman, Noah Wyle, Beth Riesgraf and Aleyse Shannon are cast returnees. (ORIGINAL)
After breaking up with her fiance, a workaholic ER doctor (Jessica Lowndes, “90210”) has a chance encounter with a handsome barista (Chad Michael Murray, “One Tree Hill”) that leads her to fulfill a Christmas bucket list of fun activities she never would have ventured doing on her own in this 2021 holiday romancer. David Reale also stars.
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From director Ryan White (“The Case Against 8”) comes this documentary that tells the true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years, and the bond between the robot and the humans that serviced it millions of miles away. Angela Bassett narrates. (ORIGINAL)
Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”) has the title role in this 2022 musical as the self-conscious wordsmith whose eloquent love letters dazzle the lovely Roxanne (Haley Bennett, “Hillbilly Elegy”), who thinks they’re the work of the handsome Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr., “Godfather of Harlem”). Ben Mendelsohn, Bashir Salahuddin and Monica Dolan also star.
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By now, you’re probably sick of turkey.
Between turkey bacon, sausage, burgers and the rotisserie turkey breasts sold in supermarkets and delis, the big bird has lost its specialness as it’s become a regular staple of our diets. So making it the centerpiece of a Thanksgiving feast seems almost anticlimactic at this point.
So what to do instead? Well, a lot if you give it a little imagination. The following are a few suggestions for alternative Thanksgiving meals that are guaranteed to wow your holiday diners.
Certainly, filet mignon has to be on anyone’s list. In her “Everyday Italian” segment on YouTube (www.youtube. com/watch?vASJk1pmJjAI), Giada De Laurentiis seers her beautifully marbled cuts in butter in a hot pan before
BY GEORGE DICKIEdrizzling them with balsamic syrup, then melts goat cheese on top. Not exactly for the calorie conscious but then neither is traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Enjoy just the same.
Of course, ham also has to be on the radar. Ree Drummond shows how to do a glazed ham right in this “Pioneer Woman” video (www.youtube.com/ watch?vASpwAKy_Eog). The secret, she says, is in the glaze, which she makes from orange juice, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, grainy brown mustard, grated garlic, the zest of three oranges and spices, then cooks on medium high until thick. She drizzles it over her spiral cut ham and puts it in the oven. What comes out is a caramelized masterpiece. Yum!
Ree Drummond
doesn’t have to be turkey day
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The Emmy-winning South African comic and outgoing host of “The Daily Show” discusses learning German, speaking ill of the dead, judging people in horror movies and ordering Indian food in Scotland in this stand-up performance filmed last month before a live audience at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. (ORIGINAL)
Jenna Ortega (“Jane the Virgin”) has the title role of “The Addams Family’s” Wednesday Addams in this comedy series that charts her years as a student at Nevermore Academy, where she attempts to master her emerging psychic abilities, thwart a monstrous killing spree in town and solve a supernatural mystery involving her parents. (ORIGINAL)
From Dodger Stadium” (Nov. 20)
Decades of the prolific Elton John/Bernie Taupin musical catalogue will be on display in this concert at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles that is the final North American stop on his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour,” which also features appearances by celebrity guests. Preceding the show is a “Countdown to Elton Live” red carpet event. (ORIGINAL)
From National Geographic and director Sara Dosa (“The Seer and the Unseen”) comes this documentary about intrepid scientists and spouses Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing what they love — investigating the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing some of nature’s most explosive imagery. (ORIGINAL)
This sequel to 2007’s “Enchanted” picks up with Giselle and Robert (Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey) getting fed up with city life and moving their growing family to the suburbs. But they find happiness isn’t guaranteed there, either, so she turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Maya Rudolph, Alan Tudyk and James Marsden also star. (ORIGINAL)
From creator Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan,” “Welcome to Earth”) comes this documentary series hosted by action star Chris Hemsworth (“Thor: Love and Thunder”) that explores how we can all unlock our body’s superpowers to fight illness, perform better and even reverse the aging process. (ORIGINAL)
There aren’t many films so big, they require multiple directors, but “How the West Was Won” is one of them. The 1962 epic – a frequent attraction on Turner Classic Movies, which presents it again Friday, Nov. 25, in tribute to the 70th anniversary of the ultra-widescreen Cinerama process – utilized the talents of filmmakers John Ford, Henry Hathaway and George Marshall for different segments.
With Spencer Tracy as its narrator, the truly sprawling saga boasts an all-star cast in weaving its multiple tales of the Old West ... and stunning sequences in a raft ride down a raging river, and a shootout aboard a moving train. Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, John Wayne and Richard Widmark are among the familiar faces on hand over the picture’s nearly three-hour run.
“Notting Hill” (Hulu, streaming): Hugh Grant stays in smitten leading man mode in this marvelous 1999 comedy, playing a London bookstore owner stunned to be courting a movie superstar (Julia Roberts) after they meet in his shop. The screenplay by Richard Curtis (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Love Actually”) takes some amusing shots at show business, especially when Grant’s character poses as a journalist to crash a press junket Roberts is doing.
“The Mechanic” (HDNET Movies, Monday, Nov. 21): Charles Bronson may not have had the widest acting range of any screen star, but what he did, he did quite well ... and he often did it best in the company of action-staple director Michael Winner, as in the original 1972 version of this drama. Bronson is at his most rugged as hit man Arthur Bishop, who makes the acquaintance of Steve (JanMichael Vincent), a callous young man who’s the son of a Bishop connection (Keenan Wynn) ... and who’s also interested in learning the tricks of the killing trade from Bishop.
“How the West Was Won”
Staging “Middletown” for the Verge was the brainchild of Rosenbloom, who moved to Bozeman a few years ago to be with mentor Mary Overlie at the end of her life. Overlie, a choreographer, created the idea of the Six Viewpoints for performance. This system invites the performers to interact with the set, the audience and each other through a form of deconstruction. It asks them to consider their interaction with space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. And in doing so, provides “the promise and knowledge that you are contributing just by being there in the dialogue,” according to www. thesixviewpoints.com.
The production of “Middletown,” Rosenbloom said, pays homage to Overlie and to Bozeman.
“She always wanted high quality beautiful performance to continue to make it into Montana because she always felt that Montanans are special,” Rosenbloom said.
Overlie is featured on stage, in the form of a painting of her dancing, and her philosophy guides much of the production.
“I brought Middletown to Verge with the clear intention that together we would explore what it means to be human, what it feels like to be alive, what are the words coming from our mouths and to intimately articulate the sorrow and sheer joy in love that transcends the human heart,” Rosenbloom stated in a release.
Rosenbloom first encountered “Middletown” as an actor, playing the mechanic in a 2016 production directed by Kevin Coleman of Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. Ultimately, he felt the performance was too literal for a play that is all about subtleties, and wanted to take a more observational, metamodern approach.
“Metamodernism is more than just what would be considered, quote, traditional theater,”
Rosenbloom said. “It’s art and culture and philosophy.”
In this way, the Verge production uses its new shared space to its advantage. The art on the walls of what is a gallery by day and theater by night only adds to the atmosphere. Each aspect is thought through, from lighting and sound design by Julie Seitel and KC Luchsinger, to costumes by Overlie’s sister Debbie White and set pieces crafted by artisan maker Evan Wilmes. Percussionist Chris Naro adds atmosphere throughout, and is a character in his own right.
During a four-hour tech rehearsal on Monday, Rosenbloom told the cast that mastery of the technical element, including “hyper intentional” music, set design and lighting, will aid in the actors’ ability to be present and bring parts of themselves to the characters.
“It will allow you to drop the technique and be messy humans,” he said.
“Middletown” is a modern take on Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” which took its own “meta” approach. “Our Town” opened in 1938 and used the theater itself as a setting, and the stage manager as the narrator to tell the stories of everyday citizens in a fictional small town.
The Bozeman production also fulfills one last request from Overlie.
“She said to me, ‘Bradford, do a play where there are no blackouts,’” Rosenbloom said.
In this “Middletown,” the lights never go out completely. The audience sees how an actor can be performing as a character in one moment, moving the set in the next and going back to their character, in a way that Rosenbloom said mimics how we as people morph in and out of roles all the time.
“To think that a scene just changes and lights come up, no that’s not the case,” he said. “There are people, actual people doing it, so that, especially for this play, time doesn’t stop. It keeps revolving.”
Life continues. There are no blackouts.
“Middletown” is at the Verge Theater, Suite 107 in the Emerson Center’s Galleria Hall on Nov. 18, 19 and 20, and Dec. 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11. Performances on Fridays and Saturday are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday matinees begin at 3 p.m. Tickets are $35 at www. vergetheater.com and at the door. The play is suitable for those 17+.
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TOP: Heather Buck, Ryanne Hostetter, Jaelyn Silvey and Duke Huston form an audience watching a production during a tech rehearsal on Monday.
RIGHT: Sean Hecock as “the mechanic”
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BY GEORGE DICKIE
1) What basketball franchise once had Dan Issel and Artis Gilmore on its roster and ceased to exist in 1976?
2) Brazilian soccer great Pele once played for what North American franchise?
3) Jean Potvin and Wayne Merrick once toiled for this former NHL team. Name it.
4) Julius Erving flew high for this ABA franchise before he found his star in the Big Apple. What was it?
5) Max Zaslofsky led the NBA in scoring in 1948 as a member of what squad?
6) Norm Ferguson and Mike Laughton were among the betterknown players on the roster of this WHA franchise. Can you name it?
7) Jim Kelly started his pro football career with what USFL team?
8) Herschel Walker led the USFL in rushing as a member of this team. Name it.
9) Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield fled the world champion Miami Dolphins for what WFL franchise?
10) Connie Hawkins won the ABA Most Valuable Player award in 1968 as a member of this team. Can you name it?
BY GEORGE DICKIEOn a day when America sits down and gives thanks, Buffalo Bills fans have cause to be grateful for their football team and its star quarterback.
Indeed, Josh Allen is at it once again in Western New York, pulling off exploits that at times seem surreal while leading the Bills to the top of the AFC East.
One came in Week 5 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, when less than 90 seconds in he hit wide receiver Gabe Davis on a 98-yard touchdown pass, the longest in Bills history and as well as the longest scrimmage TD in the first 90 seconds of a game in NFL history.
But he was far from done. He’d connect with Davis again on a 62-yard TD pass in the second quarter plus two others to Stefon Diggs and Khalil Shakir before finishing the half with 348 yards and four touchdowns. When he was pulled in the fourth quarter in favor of back-up Case Keenum, his final stats were 20 of 31 for 424 yards with the four TDs and one interception in what turned out to be a 38-3 Buffalo rout. Had he stayed in, he might have threatened Norm Van Brocklin’s single-game record of 554 yards set in 1951.
Through five games, Allen is again among the league’s top passers, topping the list in yards (1,651) and touchdowns (14). More importantly, he has the Bills faithful thinking 2022 is the year a Super Bowl title might be theirs.
Allen and the Bills can be seen in action Thursday, Nov. 24, on CBS, when they visit the Detroit Lions in the first of three Thanksgiving Day NFL contests. FULL NAME: Joshua Patrick Allen
Second Team All-Pro (2020); Pro Bowl selection (2020); Famous Idaho Potato Bowl MVP (2017); Second Team All-Mountain West (2016)