A belated Happy New Year to all laurenambrose.org visitors!
As the subject headline leads, Lauren is set to take the stage at Joe’s Pub with The Leisure Class once more.
The upcoming show is scheduled on January 21at at 9:30 PM. Tickets are still available and can be purchased directly from the Public Theatre.
We have some Leisure Class related media for you this update. – Thanks to the wonderful Lecia for bringing to my attention not one, but two videos of Lauren visibly having a ball at her previous performance at Joe’s Pub on November last year.
The second video, New York I Love You can be viewed on YouTube. And that’s not all! ReverbNation have a song titled, Don’t Think Twice available to stream (for free) at their dedicated page.
If any additional media is released, you can be sure we will cover all we possibly can!
The calender year as well as laurenambrose.org’s first year online is drawing to a close.
2009 has been one of Lauren’s most eventful years. This year saw Lauren starring in a Broadway production, the release of her first Box Office #1 (yes, it counts) a foray into live music and a sprinkling of indie releases for good measure.
To end our first year online I’ve uploaded a batch of goodies. Some rare, some I’ve foolishly omitted in the past, but all new to the site.
I’ve just heard word on a possible new film project starring Lauren. An Entire Body is, as taken from the official website:
An Entire Body is an unflinching portrait of the daily trials and painful choices confronting America’s working poor. It truthfully dramatizes the experience of the struggling single mother – a segment of the population rarely represented with dignity on-screen – and does so with compassion and without a hint of moralizing. A forceful emotional experience that builds to a shattering climax, An Entire Body seamlessly merges closely-observed realism with taut suspense, resulting in a story that is as important as it is moving.
Based on five days in the life of Angela Jacobs, a single mother in Las Vegas who becomes pressured to give up her eight year old daughter in an under the table adoption.
Lauren is set to play protagonist Angela Jacobs. The film will be shot in Las Vegas and is currently in pre-production.
A nice little treat today! The wonderful Sandra of Chloë Sevigny Online has kindly contributed some beautiful 100×100 icons to our once woeful looking Icons page.
The media section of the site will be getting a load of new additions and features in the near future. Do look out for that!
Where The Wild Things Are (finally) sees its theatrical release date today in the UK.
I myself managed to catch the fist showing at my local theatre. It exceeded even my lofty expectations. One of the most visually stunning and poignant pictures of recent years. – Thank you Spike Jonze!
My apologies for the lack of recent updates. Life has a pesky habit of getting in the way at times. (un)Fortunately we’ve not missed a lot since the last update, but some exciting news to report nonetheless.
Within the last week the 14th Annual Satellite Award nominations were announced. Lauren quite surprisingly was nominated for her role as Leah in Hallmark’s 2009 production, Loving Leah!
Actress In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television
Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens
Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens
Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby
Judy Davis – Diamonds Lauren Ambrose – Loving Leah
Janet McTeer – Into the Storm
Loving Leah is also nominated for best Motion Picture Made For Television. Our sincerest congratulations to Lauren! Our fingers will be crossed for her.
The New Yorker online published their very own interview with Lauren yesterday. Here Lauren discusses how The Leisure Class came about in a little more depth:
How did you meet your bandmates?
I live up here, and I played a little bit with some of these guys in a different configuration, the Blue Ribbon Boys. And then a couple of them were interested in playing more jazz music. It was a little scary for me, but I thought, O.K., cool, let’s do it for the joy of singing and making music. So that’s the idea: it’s just a fun—a leisurely—activity. read full interview…
When it rains, it pours! Interview Magazine’s Culture blog has just published an interview with Lauren shedding some more light on her New York singing debut at Joe’s Pub.
“We’ll play standards and covers of rock ‘n roll songs in our style,” says Ambrose, meaning Ragtime, Louis Armstrong-style jazz. If you can score a ticket to the already sold out show, be sure to listen for the band’s two original songs, “My Love, How Could You?” (”A really beautiful slow jam”) and the “jazzy, old-timey” “Reefer.” If not, no worries–they might be back sometime soon. “These guys are really like gypsies on the road all the time,” she says. “So I guess that’s where the idea of The Leisure Class came about because it’s truly a leisure pursuit.” read full interview…
We have some additional information regarding Lauren’s upcoming performance on November 15 at Joe’s Pub.
Lauren will be performing with The Leisure Class, a 7 piece New Orleans style jazz/swing band. NBC New York reports that she will be drawing from the repertoires of Nina Simone, Fanny Brice, St Vincent among others.
Tickets have all sold out now, but we’ll do our best to provide you with whatever coverage we can.
Many thanks to Alex from Joe’s Pub for filling us in!
Some incredibly exciting news! – Famed performance space Joe’s Pub has announced a revised upcoming line up of event in November and early December. Performers include Lauren Ambrose, Coleman Domingo, Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen, Hair’s Caissie Levy, and more.
Lauren is scheduled to perform on Sunday, November 15 at 9:30. Your guess is as good as ours in what she’ll actually be performing. If you’re interested and available, tickets can be purchased for $15 from the Joe’s Pub site.
We’ll keep you updated if any information regarding the performance becomes available.
The photoshoots category has been updated today. I’ve added some gorgeous promotional shots for Exit The King taken earlier in the year.
Tesla also kindly contributed untagged images from two shoots! An unknown set from 2008, and the Fox Upfront shoot from 2007.
